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Looking back over the past year, the crew laments the loss of developers, publishers, and artists as well as examines the titles which defined 2013. Unsurprisingly, a discussion of our favorite games of the year erupts,as well as a debate of what is needed by the industry during coming year. Beyond impressions of Gunpoint and Cat Lady, the team also comes together for another engaging round of gaming trivia. Listen in to find out how to win a copy of Volgarr The Viking; additionally we’re giving away season passes for Cognition. Please note: listeners yearning for installments of Indie Outlook and game impressions will be happy to know that the wait for episode 13-7 will be arriving shortly- expect the show to air next week.
Show Notes
0:00.00-1:46.00 In Memoriam, 2013 In Review, Games of the Year
1:47.00-2:15.00 Impressions, Trivia, Outro
Congratulations to Alexander, Kourtney, ArrenDusk, Skeletor, Matt, Gram, Shawnsig, Croq, Zach H., Matenshi, our Volgarr the Viking winners!
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Wow, it’s been too long. This will be good to listen to tomorrow on my way to work.
XBone bashing in the first 5. Don’t change, everyone! 😉
Promises of “we’ll get to that” unfulfilled.
I was young, and stupid. Mistakes were made. Next show. 😛
Question: For summer travel, do you take the waifu as carry-on or put her in the luggage?
C’mon man. Treat the waifu with respect. Always take her on. You want the baggage guys handling her?
I think she’d get a little defensive if I stamped “Fragile” on her forehead.
My Games of the Year (in no particular order)
Last of Us
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag
Super Mario 3D World
A solid list… that I’ve only played one of the games from! I feel like I really need to give 2013 a second pass to catch the stuff I missed. Because there was a lot of it.
My Game of the Year is Ni No Kuni!!!!
Downloading now. Can’t wait to listen.
That’s another one I have on my pile, ready to go. Just need to pull the trigger. GAH
Do it. So good. Great RPG.
GTA V game of the year. I think people stopped talking about it during the hype of new game/systems/holidays. I think it might pick up again.
It was getting talk when the multiplayer stabilized.
Not to be nit-picky, but there’s a hyphen in Middle-Earth, just like Tech-Gaming.
Also Metro: Last Light GOTY!
I think the “e” in “earth” is lowercase too. But I think the show gets more hits with a capital E.
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How is that possible?
I dunno. Eagles of Manwë?
Thanks for the bio on the man who shares my name. Very touching. You have a very good podcast. I’m going to subscribe.
I’d love to win Volgarr. My pick is Super Mario 3D World.
Good show, I like the host and Sage. Jeremy is good but talks too long. The other one seems disorganized.
It’s been a busy, crazy two months since the last show, so I was a bit out of practice.
By the way, I’m Blue. B-L-U-E. 😉
Sing it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H25lz7gchaw
“Yo listen up: here’s the story
About a little guy
That lives in a blue world
And all day and all night and everything he sees is
Just blue like him inside and outside
Blue his house with a blue little window
And a blue Corvette and everything is blue for
him
And himself and everybody around him
‘Cause he aint got nobody to listen…
I’m blue (If i was
green i would die, if i was green i
would die, if i was green i would
die)
I’m blue (If i was green i would
die, if i was green i would die, if i
was green i would die)”
I’m almost sure the (If i was green i would die, if i was green i
would die, if i was green i would die) is total bullshit. It’s be da da type scatting.
ROFL!!! I have that song on Now (That’s What I Call Music) Volume 4. It’s so bad, but so good. XD
What’s the official podcast schedule?
Also, Jeremy is right about LucasArts
From the Wikipedia: “LucasArts was acquired by The Walt Disney Company through the acquisition of its parent company Lucasfilm in 2012. On April 3, 2013, Disney halted all internal development at LucasArts and laid off most of its staff. However, LucasArts remained open so that it could retain its function as a licensor”
and
“However, LucasArts remained open with a skeleton staff of fewer than ten employees so it could retain its function as a video game licensor.”
I have it on good authority that they went from 170 employees to about six. Its OK to pour one out for old Lucasarts.
Dead “Golden Guy” walking.
OK, that was a stretch.
How do people listen to the show so quickly?
It showed up about 90 minutes ago and it’s a 2 hour and fifteen minute show.
Fast forward through some of Jeremy’s 30 minute monologues.
Pure nonsense, Jeremy is the best one on the show!
Haha, you should have heard the talk before.
JEREMY. 90 SECONDS.
I try, I really do. For about 45 seconds. Then I give up and run with it.
Run. Jeremy. Run.
And don’t stop to listen to the haters.
JUST KEEPING RUNNING.
Jeremy and Robert seem like cool guys to game with.
Robert is cool. I talk too much on the voice chat and get pwnt.
The in memoriam section was really good, except for the conspiracy theory. I could have done without that.
Pretty good show this week. You all seem a bit more serious that usual.
Nice selfie, Gandalf!
2103 was most definitely the year of the Indie game. If you ask me, they’re one of the best things to happen to the industry, because they bring back genres (like run and gun and shmups) that are ignored, as well as lot of new ideas.
K’Nex are so much better than LEGOs and they don’t have the LEGO tax. 😉
Most of Robert’s GOTY pick were right on the money. JRPG love with Fire Emblem and D2!
Some great trivia this week and great discussion topics!
I’d love to win Volgarr, so my GOTY is TLoU.
This week I finally figured it out.
Eric is most like me. He sounds like he 3 thoughts going on at once. That’s why he’s my favorite.
Jeremy is the ultimate guest. He knows a lot of stuff, is funny, and fun to listen to.
Robert is an all around great host, just like his gaming interests.
Sage is the person I’d love to game with. Cool, funny. Passionate.
Awwww, thanks for the kind words for all of us Amazing Blake. And for the wanting to game–I take that as a big compliment. If you ever want to game over the nets, just let me know what you play! 🙂
My Xbox One is ready, Sage! I just greased it up with Axe, so it’s ready to roll.
😉
Couldn’t resist.
ahahahahaha. Word. Seriously though, I’m still ready to game on the 360 ;p
Thank ya kindly, Blake! 😀
No doubt GTA V should be the game of the year.
I think Volgarr should be game of the decade. I’d love to win it.
Not too bad. I’ve heard better, but also a lot worse.
Great show. Loved it, especially trivia.
LucasArts is deader than Bin Laden.
Listened for the first time and I have to say I liked the podcast. Pretty different from most shows- I like that. I’ll be adding the feed to my phone.
On behalf of the crew, thank you for listening, Jose!
GOTY is easily BioShock: Infinite, IMO. Amazing base game with a WTF ending, and DLC that puts you back in Rapture. You’d have to be the Antichrist to think anything bad about it.
That combat though….
Saint’s Row IV for my Game of the Year. So much fun.
I feel like Saint’s Row IV is one of those “sticks out like a sore thumb more people should have it on their lists but don’t” kind of games.
It’s not on my list. I sorta didn’t play that one either. 🙁
But I recognize that it’s sticking way out there.
My game of the year is definitely Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
My game of the year is Gunpoint
My Game of the Year would definitely have to be the Last of US just for the story line alone.
Papers, Please was my GOTY. Such a great concept.
Mu game of the year is Battlefield 4
Gunpoint was my game of year.
Going to cheat and say Hotline Miami because it came out this year on consoles.
my gotys this year are Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Bioshock infinite and Payday 2. must have for pc 😀
I’d say my GoTY is PayDay 2, playing with friends is so much fun.
Having not played key titles this year, I gotta say ALBW edges out Tomb Raider for my GOTY.
My not 2013 GOTY played in 2013 goes to Uncharted 3 though. Also Blue and I couldnt be anymore on the same wave lengt… bird ;P about Rogue Squadron for the Gamecube, I yearn for an HD rerelease D:
Also thank s for the shout out Robert 🙂
Haha. Wavebird!! Nice GC joke. I won’t explain for the kids.
“Back in my day we got the first reliable wireless gamepad, It didnt have rumble and we liked it that way!” 😛
Mine has outlived most of the controllers that were released after.
Nintendo makes quality!
The Gamecube might as well have been called the “Rogue Squadron II Machine”. It’s about the only thing I really played on it (exaggerating, but not by too much). XD
nothing really interested me this year. think i’m getting jaded. My GoTY is the console version of diablo 3.
don’t starve is the runner up.
My goty this year would be Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
My GOTY would be Tomb Raider. Awesome series reboot!
Just wrapped that up last night. By-and-large, I thought it was great. The island and the mystery surrounding it was a fantastic setting that sucked me right in. I will say that the abuse inflicted on Lara was a bit too much for my liking. It seemed like Crystal Dynamics was trying to use various injuries to show Lara as being more than just a knock-out supermodel tomb raider. The previous Tomb Raider trilogy had PG-13 popcorn action flick violence in it, whereas this one was straight up horror movie. The germaphobe in me was wincing every time something happened to her, especially the part where she SPOILER SPOILER swam in a river of blood SPOILER SPOILER. Aside from that, I really enjoyed it.
Yep. I didn’t like the leap from T for Teen to Mature. Felt unnecessary.
My GOTY is definitely Guacamelee! The game has wonderful visuals and a fantastic soundtrack, as well as being a delight to play. A fantastic metroidvania style game and good for a smile with the additional humor it provides.
Mmm, Guac so good.
I suppose my GotY would be GTA V, but I feel like I’m not remembering all of the great games I played this year and that’s just fresh in my mind.
A Cognition season pass sounds great too.
I would say Game Of The Year would obviously be Zork I. But second place would be Zeno Clash II for me.
That is if handhelds don’t count. If they did, Shin Megami Tensei IV all the way!
Zork was GOTY for 1980 already.
This is a story of a man who voted for The Stanley Parable.
My GotY this year is Ni No Kuni hands down. Easily the best JRPG in years and probably second only to Mass Effect last generation.
Fire Emblem GOTD and thats the bottom line.
In it for Volgarr, so here’s my GOTY: Rogue Legacy. Played that game so damn much that it’s not even funny.
GOTY for me is Brothers – A Tale of Two Sons, but Gone Home, Papers, Please, and The Stanley Parable we very good as well.
My GOTY is The Last of Us
Im with Robert (and now PC Gamer) Splunky for GOTY.
I am a pc gamer. I really loved Shadow Warrior. It has really impressive fighting techniques.
My game of the year is probably The Last of Us.
I’d love to win Cognition! 🙂
Out of the stuff I’ve found the time to play, Tomb Raider would be my GOTY. Though I just started playing Rogue Legacy and that seems pretty great.
Surprisingly.. Tomb Raider.
You guys forgot Arkedo Studio!
GOTY:
Last of Us (PS3)
Black Flag (PC – XBOX)
Don’t quite understand the title (“This Star Wars Game Was So Bad They Should Have Made More Of Them”) but Kotaku’s thoughts on Star Wars: Yoda Stories.
“There was no story tying the thing together; you just started playing and were given unrelated quests to complete. To give you an idea of the kind of tone these quests would take, each game starts with Luke landing on Dagobah, circa Empire Strikes Back. Note that he doesn’t crash in a swamp. He just lands, jumps out and says:P
Dagobah! Yoda must be around here somewhere. I better find him and see what’s on his mind…”
Also:
“As you can see in the footage, the game was dreadful. Combat was torture, the dialogue was awful and the repetitive nature of the missions began to grate after around ten minutes. If you ever see a novelty list of the “WORST STAR WARS GAMES EVER”, this game is normally right up there near the top.”
Don’t understand why we need more. I guess the author is a sadist.
LOL, yesss!!
YODA STORIES 2K14 MAKE IT HAPPEN KOTAKU
My personal game of the year would have to be Limbo. I’m especially impressed with the iOS release for both iPhone and iPad, and how well cloud sync worked with it.
Also keenly interested in winning Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller, that looks like quite an interesting game.
Yoda’s Stories is a wart on the ass of Star Wars games. Along with Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi, the dark side was strong in the 90s.
Star Wars: Yoda Stories?
Afraid, are you? You will be. You will be.
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear of a game that my butt cheeks sucks.
The dark side clouds everything. Or this games horrible, horrible graphics.
Your weapons. Need them you will not. Useless and weak your weapons are. Patience only you will need, patience, in order to play through the boring environments. Speak backwards, I do. Play this game, you must not. Rather, play Big Rigs instead. Strong this game is in the force, stronger than this pile of steaming Bantha turd is.
This game not WINNER is. Big Rigs, the Light and the Way is.
Disgrace the Vita not, the system needs quality.
So certain are you. Mm, I sense much doubt.
Long time Fan, 1st time listening to your podcast and I’m gonna stick around to see what the future holds. And E-Swat should make a comeback.
Is that your room? Wow, seriously jealous.
My top games of the year by far are:
Fire Emblem: Awakening
Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD Remix
Ni No Kuni
Bit Trip Runner 2
I just wish I could put the HD remake of FFX.
But I should decide my top GOTY, def Fire Emblem.
My GOTY would probably be The Last of Us because I am a sucker for a good story.
Also I’d love a shot of a copy of Cognition (over Volgarr even! *hinthintnudgenudge*)
Game of the year for me would be Marvel Heroes. They keep improving it and it looks like it will keep getting better.
Also DMC for GOTY. Robert’s cray-cray.
Time for the next show, right?