Another year, another year-end awards, another top ten games of the year podcast! Join Alex Jedraszczak, Paul Franzen, Michael Gray, Anna Bryniarksi, Joseph Martin, and special guest star Saxdude as they just don’t stop talking and keep going on for two hours longer than the edited podcast ended up being about such exciting top-ten-games-of-the-year topics as:
- Fish Files
- Dating sims
- Being hooked on a feeling while eating a burger on the floor
- Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue
- Whoever wrote the song “Don’t Stop“
- Listener mail, after not reading any for the last two podcasts!
- The Top Ten Games of 2012
What, were you expecting me to just list the top ten games in order? I’m afraid you’ll have to listen to the podcast for that! And, no peeking at the tags up at the top.
Fun story:
I spent about an hour and a half talking to one of my teachers after school about Hatoful Boyfriend and how Anghel is just the best bird ever and how it’s more of a murder investigation VN disguised as a dating sim. Things happened…and I helped him buy a pigeon dating sim right then and there.
I got a male teacher to buy a dating sim just by talking almost non-stop from like 3:30 to 5:00. Awesome.
Also, Paul, have you gotten the sequel to Hatoful? Holiday Star? It’s set around Christmas time and I’m going to wait until next Christmas to play it. Though, I have tried the demo. It was really awesome, and crazy.
Michael, there’s already a dating sim with kittens and bunnies as love interests. I played the demo, got frustrated with the gameplay, and stopped.
I can’t believe nobody told me the sequel is out! I’m buying it now; thanks.
Aw, figures I missed the podcast where we talk about one of my favorite gems, Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue.
It’s okay. You probably wouldn’t have gotten a chance to speak, because I didn’t shut up for the entire podcast.
I eagerly await Q&AmeCola: Which Videogame Character Would You Cast in a Modern-day Revival of Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue?
All of them. That way it might actually be good. That’s what the original was missing, Mario and his shrooms.
Wow. I can just picture him saying
“Now listen here kids. Just because my kind of shroom steriods help improve my athletic performance doesn’t mean it will help you. Im special person and you’re not, so don’t be an idiot and eat shrooms. Now, let’s a go!!
Best anti-drug campaign ever.
First-person adventure games: Don’t forget about Myst, or that Portuguese mystery magic game that Christian played for “Speak American.”
Second-person adventure games: Zork, Planetfall, Thy Dungeonman, etc. Someone is telling YOU what YOU are doing. YOU are being eaten by a lurking grue.