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John de Lancie joins us this week to chat about his favorite games like Dishonored, Tales from the Borderlands, Volume, and updates us on his Backlog. Also: Randy sounds like Bob Ross having sex to Jazz music, whilst eating Fig Newtons. Wat.
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Paul and Randy are stuck in Fallout Shelter while D.J. tap dances on somebody’s face in Final Fantasy XIV‘s Frontlines. Also: Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, Mark of the Ninja, Dead Rising 3, and Super Mario Maker.
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BGM Mode is back with volume 2 of the best game music of 2012. Today, we’ve got Paul’s picks.
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10. Deadlight
The folks at Xbox Live usually horde some of their best downloadable titles for their Summer of Arcade campaign. The headliner of 2012’s line-up for me was easily Deadlight, a 2D puzzle-platformer from Spanish developer Tequilaworks. Combining a visual style heavily influenced by LIMBO and gameplay elements reminiscent of Shadow Complex, you play as a survivor of the zombie apocalypse trying to navigate your way through the decimated remains of Seattle. Filled with challenging environmental puzzles and intense “run or die” moments, Deadlight brought a fresh perspective to the zombie survival genre.
9. Journey
What can be said about Journey that hasn’t been said already? It’s a game but it’s not. It features multiplayer but you can’t play it with your friends. It’s surprisingly moving, occasionally frightening, and very, very strange. Most importantly, Journey is an experiment in gaming that succeeds primarily because of the fearlessness of developer thatgamecompany.
8. Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack
The jury’s still out on Sony’s Playstation Vita but most owners agree that its gaming line-up was a bit slight in early 2012. Mutant Blobs Attack was an early Vita release but it remains one of the most fun and original experiences on the system. You play as a one-eyed blob who rolls along absorbing pieces of the environment and growing in size until, eventually, terrorizing the populace and attracting the attention of the military. It’s one of the most laugh-out-loud funny games of the year, filled with 1950’s B-movie tropes and a roster of evolving powers that allow your blob to dominate Earth.
2012 was a huge year for games and we’re discussing just a few of the many contenders for Game of the Year, before finally revealing our personal top five.
6 CommentsCheck it out folks, our latest video review! Paul and Matt get together and chat about their thoughts on Klei Entertainments’ latest game: Mark of…
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We pitch our own amazing sandbox games after being inspired by the bar-raising Sleeping Dogs. We also talk about Klei’s Mark of the Ninja, Terry Cavanagh’s Super Hexagon, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII and Steam’s Big Picture mode.
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