Does goty sound like a dumb word?
Probably has to be No Man's Sky - even though it was released a long time ago I did a fresh replay this year to see the new updates and had a great time. The Last Campfire was very good too for 2020, but shorter. Satisfactory is great, but I think I played it early access in a prior year though.
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This is a good year for gaming for me, played a bunch of great ones, hard to choose just 1. If I have to choose then gotys are Red Dead Redemption 2 and Persona 5.
Other great games that I played this year: Disco Elysium, Fallout 4, Marvel's Spider-Man, Dead Cells, Dishonored 2
Currently playing Skyrim and it's already a contender for another goty lol
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played a bunch of great ones
You're not lying there.
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I wasn't a fan of CrossCode. Practically every new area, I kept getting told that I was under-leveled, and I didn't have enough money to buy all the latest equipment. This wouldn't be so bad if enemies weren't so fast and precise with such short foreshadow animations and often in such large groups that you're practically guaranteed to take damage each battle (unless there's only one enemy, like in boss fights)...or if you could just dodge more than three times in a row without stalling, which would help when there's 4+ enemies attacking you in a row. This means you can't just ignore armor and beat the game with skill alone, since you WILL take damage (and to add insult to injury, healing items make you stand still for a second to use them). Why can't the difficulty be reasonable without having to grind or to find rare crafting items for slightly stronger equipment?
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I didn't.
While the game is quite challenging at times I never felt underpowered. I did do all the side quests and open all the chests though (quests give a lot of XP and chests hold crafting items, consumables, items you can sell for gold and the trickier ones to reach- equipment). They're all fun to do so I see no point in not doing them and just rushing the main story. Plus, it's an RPG, a genre which is usually balanced around doing at least some of the side content. But, if you wanna rush the main story, those difficulty sliders have you covered, yeah.
(Also you don't need to dodge everything. Blocking helps mitigate damage a lot too. If you block at the right moment you perform a perfect block and mitigate all damage (and depending on the enemy and what attack they were performing you could Break them making them wide open for a counter attack). I don't know how far into the game you got, but both the Fire and Cold elements have a Shield Combat Art which lets you auto-perfect block a single attack, so you don't even need particularly precise timing to do them sometimes.)
I realize I'm kinda not too good at giving advice. So does anything on this page help? ^_^'
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how far into the game you got
I got the bad ending.
By the way, I'll admit I completely forgot about guarding (especially perfect guards), but according to that wiki, you have to push the dash button without holding a direction (plus, you don't really need to do it in the first dungeon, which just helped me to forget it even more). I guess it came across more as a "this is another playstyle" than a "you'll NEED to do this later, so get used to it now." Also, even if you do stun that one enemy, you've still got to deal with all the others in the group, any of which can be about to hit you a split second later.
Honestly, I've never been a fan of blocking mechanics since attacks shouldn't be unavoidable in the first place; CrossCode just tricks you into thinking they might be avoidable.
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If you want to watch the good ending too, the game lets you choose to return to before the final sequence, do the... let's call it a quest, which leads to the good ending, and then skip the ending sequence entirely just to watch the other ending. Just saying.
I'm pretty sure most, if not all, attacks can be avoided. Blocking is just another option, yeah, but it helps if the dodging isn't working out. Here's a video of someone doing all the bosses (at the time) without taking any damage and they only blocked on some occasions. Neat stuff, but definitely something I wouldn't be able to pull off. XD
Anyway, sorry you didn't like it. I guess it just wasn't your type of game. T.T
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Interesting thought now that I'm thinking about it ...
I have finished AC: Origins but I do not like the trend this well established brand took... I prefer original setup with hide n seek elements over Witcher 3-like RPG. I mean Witcher 3 is excellent game, I just don't like AC going the same way. That being said, I play Unity now and that's far away from being GOTY - even when back in 2015 or when was the game released.
I have tried Xcom 2 but struggled with difficulty and abandoned the game quite early.
Therefore I'll probably say CoD: Warzone, I have been playing the game with my friends and it's fun.
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Toss up between Detroit - Become Human & No Man's Sky.
Detroit had an amazing story and I can't believe how far NMS has come since launch!
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Here's my favorite game I've finished this year so far and the review of it I wrote for a forum I do such things for.
Mass Effect 2
Whew! I finished a game I started 3 years ago!
I've long listed Mass Effect as one of my favorite games. Mass Effect 2 was harder for me to get into. But this time I hit my stride and played through the whole thing. And had a blast! It's so much fun. I played a shaved-head femshep who was roughly equal parts renegade and paragon. I recruited all twelve crew members and got loyalty maxed on 10 of them. I got all ship and weapon and other upgrades. I romanced exactly nobody.
It's a shooter on rails with tons of collectibles intercut with choose your own adventure dialogue trees - oh, and then there's mini-games. The shooting is mostly a product of your resource management. If you play the mining minigame you get resources which you spend on upgrades you find by exploring and playing other minigames to unlock containers. If you get enough upgrades, your weapons and armor are plenty for the firefights. If you recruit enough people and up their loyalty by doing more missions, then your people will be plenty strong enough for the firefights. At this point, it becomes a matter of fun which weapons you use: rocket launchers, blue space magic powers, or orange space magic powers. And it's fun to try them all out.
But the main show is the writing: characters, heroism, big-time space opera. And I like it. It's not Tolstoy. It's, oh I don't know, Michael Crichton level sci-fi plus Battlestar Galactica level emo melodrama, plus some Mission Impossible jumping away from explosions.
Don't come looking for an RPG. Don't come looking for a shooter. But if you want enough space opera emotional content to keep a fan-fic forum running for a couple years, you're in the right place.
How many sheps could a femshep ship if a femshep could ship sheps?
8/10 - And I've just installed the 3rd game so I could see if I had all the DLC and make sure I get my save imported correctly.
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My personal TOP 10 - not necessarily released in 2020, but played for the first time in 2020 and not in particular order:
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Mafia: Definitive Edition was a good game in the new releases it had some bugs but it was fine for me
but in the games i have played since i remember.the witcher 3 was the best and i still play it
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they look like random names, i found they are games
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Been enjoying Yakuza: LaD so far. RPG element freshens up the gameplay a bit, and I do enjoy RPGs a lot.
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Upgrading your pc is like unlocking a whole new world of gaming opportunities. Good games you played there with your upgraded pc.
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to me GOTY has to be a game i can jump into anytime and just have fun
so Strategy have unfair advantage, also online games but im a recovering addict
And some sport games for couch play
but the highlight for me this year
Edit: and since its 2020 i forgot i played these this year!
Two point hospital, Phantom doctrine, Evil within
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The Evil Within has so much potential as a franchise. The second game is even better than the first. Hopefully they pick it up and give it another chance.
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we do need more Evil within, but i hated the looting system in the 2nd game
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Probably would say Deponia (all 4 episodes). While not the "best" of what I played this year (XCOM 2 and Dishonored 2 would be the two contenders for that title), but the most memorable for sure. Not to mention, that nowadays its rare to find relatively fresh adventure games with so much production value.
I cant even remember, when was the last time, that I laughed so much during any game. xD Sam and Max was funny, but not on this level! Sure, some jokes were a little off-putting, but I rolled on the floor from the other like 99.8%. Would recommend everyone to give it a chance!
In retrospect, I also had the chance to catch up on some games from my backlog, OG Mirrors Edge and Shadow Warrior 2 and Obduction for eg. But I finally experienced some long-planned indie gems too.
Firewatch, Helltaker, Marie's Room, Missed Messages, Grimm's Hollow. All worthy contenders for anyone's freetime.
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I wish I enjoyed point and click games. There seems to be so many quality games in that genre (like Deponia). I feel like I'm missing out.
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You can always try when you get in the mood. :) I agree, many unforgettable tales await anyone who is up to the adventure genre. They have a certain kind, warm charm. I am a pretty calm, chill person IRL, so the slow pacing is not a problem for me.
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Doesn't need to be released this year. Just a game you played this year and enjoyed.
For me, it was a year with some good contenders, such as Rise of the Tomb Raider and Assassin's Creed Origins. There's still some time to go, but the winner is most likely going to be Cuphead, which I finished 100% just today. That game is just two levels above everything else. It's easily in my top 2 best 2d games I've ever played. What about you?
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