MetalCaveman

My final list for 2022: 1-Halo Infinite 2-Dark Souls 2 Scholar of the First Sin 3-Duel Princess 4-Remnant From the Ashes 5-Elden Ring 6-God Eater 2 7-She Will Punish Them 8-Moero Chronicle Hyper 9-The Future You've Been Dreaming Of 10-Prison Princess 11-Aperture Desk Job 12-XCOM Enemy Within 13-Dead Space 14-Dead Space 2 15-Dead Space 3 Awakened Last year it was 24, so down 9, but also last year, 12 of those 24 were Resident Evil games, this year there was a bit more variety in there.

Daemon X Machina I don't want to call this Dollar Store Armored Core, because it is kinda fun,and it does have some cool features, but parts of it do feel like "Armored Core at Home" lol. Still early in the game, but the hangar feels a bit pointless, you can only walk around the main area, and you can't talk to any of the NPCs that are around, looking at your mech is cool, but that's all you can do, the main thing here is just the terminals you use to launch story missions or multiplayer stuff. Combat also feels like it's lacking impact, guns sound too weak and pretty much all bullet type weapons I've used look and sound like BB guns, missiles do look and sound better, but not by much. Characters look weird under certain lighting, this could be the result of this being a Switch port, but there's some odd shenanigans going on with their faces. All that said though, until Fires of Rubicon comes out, this is the closest you'll get to a new AC, and since it was free on EGS, it's not bad.

The army announced they captured Antonio Oseguera, brother of El Mencho, leader of CJNG, apparently in response to the kidnapping of Colonel Jose Isidro Grimaldo by members of CJNG. We're in for some interesting days, Merry Christmas everybody! Last week, Ciro Gomez Leyva, journalist and critic of the AMLO administration was attacked outside his home, survived thanks to his bulletproof vehicle. In his morning conference, the president, doing what he does best, turned himself into the victim, saying that the attack was an attempt from the conservative neoliberal agents to destabilize his government, though first he claimed that the attack has been faked in an attempt to make his presidency look bad. This after he called out Ciro Gomez by name during one of his conferences, saying that listening to him talk "Could give you brain tumours". In 2019 he threatened journalists during one of his conferences:

Also, my album of the year: Wind Rose - Warfront

GOTY: Elden Ring Couldn't have been anything else lol. I already love the Souls games and this one took many of the concepts and gameplay systems from those games and improved on them, it is no exaggeration to say that for me, it completely changed open world games, to the point where I struggle to play many of them due to how bloated their design feels. Hell, it even changed how I feel about some Souls games, trying to go back to the Demon's Souls remake after Elden Ring was quite the experience, so much so that I just gave up on getting the platinum on DS. Looking forward to whatever DLC is released, and I may also get it on PC as well, play it several more times there. Runner-Up: Pokémon Scarlet Is it a technical mess? Yes. Is it missing some features and QoL from previous entries? Yes. Could/should it be better given how much money the franchise makes? Absolutely. Am I having a ton of fun in spite of all the issues? HELL YEAH. Yes, it's a bit of a mess, but it's still quite fun, as someone that buys Pokémon games every once in a while (think I only own Y, Sword and Scarlet lol), there's something about these games that makes you forget some (but definitively not all) of their issues. Feels weird to have it as my runner-up since I haven't finished it yet, but I've been enjoying my time playing enough to put it here. Honorable Mention: Duel Princess One of Qureate's best games, outside of their VNs, fun gameplay, cool art, some MOST EXCELLENT character designs and that "punishment" minigame is a masterpiece.

This could be awesome lol.

HELL FUCKING YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!

Tried a different approach to shading, saw a tutorial on a different technique that I liked and tried to put it to use here, also faffed about with opacity and other stuff to try and create a transparency effect. Wish I could say I learned new techniques, but when it comes time for me to apply them it turns into: "No technique here, only insanity" To paraphrase an AH vid.

Since I ended up saving some money after skipping Callisto Protocol, I decided to get this one, been meaning to get it for a while and it was on sale for $5, so why the hell not lol.

Violent Night First half is a bit slow, but man, once It gets going! Violent, funny, with some pretty good action, and with some genuinely heartfelt moments here and there, an instant classic for me, and one I'll gladly watch over and over every Christmas season lol. If the first half was a bit shorter it'd be one of the best movies ever. David Harbour is awesome as Santa, def would like to see him back for another one lol.

HELL YEAH!!!! \m/ \m/

Progress!! Was meant to be for Halloween, might be done in time for Halloween of 2030.

It's on Game Pass if you want to suffer through it.

Scorn Made it to the first puzzle, and that was enough for me. I know I'm not the sharpest tool in the ted sled shred shed (), but the way the controls feel, the sluggish movement of your character, the unskippable animations and the fact that you can't reset a puzzle if you've fucked something up, just makes things way more annoying and frustrating than they need to be, and this is before you factor in combat and monsters, not to mention that after looking up the solution to the puzzle I was warned that there were even more annoying puzzles in later portions of the game. Visually impressive with a very cool art style, but most definitively not for me.

Amnesiac characters, gacha games in particular LOVE their amnesiac characters. Specially bad when your character doesn't remember who they are, turns out they're the legendary hero/special forces dude/whatever badass title the game gives you, but everyone still treats you as a glorified errand boy because you don't actually remember anything, even after being told who you are. "Ok, so you were leader of the Holy Order of Whatever, cool, anyway I need you to go on some menial quest for me, you can't refuse because... Reasons..."