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  1. Fabulously Olivier
    Dark Deity 2 surprises me honestly given how hard you savaged the first. I've got: Metaphor Re Fantazio Persona 3 Reload Eiyuden Chronicle Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Unicorn Overlord Dragon's Dogma 2 Path of Exile 2 Titan Quest 2 Trails Through Daybreak Ys X Nordics Visions of Mana Helldivers 2 Exodus Avowed
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    There is so, so much I'm looking forward to next year. So much more than my gaming budget. I mean, I have 15 games on my most anticipated list right now, and almost all of them are premium JRPGs.
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    Uh, Gray and Triton are a lot older than 20. And it's really just a difference in art quality. Xenoblade 2 represents the eclectic and transparently pandering art design of a gacha game, and IIRC blades are designed by a bunch of different artists with no cohesive art style. If it was an intentional parody or critique of gacha trash, I'd almost respect it. Almost. But that's giving it way too much credit and it's pretty much just the thing it's mimicking without a paywall. They couldn't even be bothered to iron out the mechanical annoyances of bad gacha pulls. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 heroes are really meant as full extra party members, and most of them really knock it out of the park.
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    So before I start on 2024, here were my 2023 gaming resolutions. So now, onto 2024. I'm not focused on quantity this year, so I'll keep the same easily achievable 20 minimum threshold. I'll probably blow past it again by intention or not. I want to clear an additional route of Triangle Strategy. Any other routes of multi-route games are desirable, but extra. Due to how many excellent (and in some cases extremely long) games I'm tackling, I'm only going to set a goal of one Warriors story mode or postgame completion, and there's a lot of really good options I haven't finished. Like Hyrule Warriors DE, the excellent postgame of Pirate Warriors 3, and Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate. Mostly, I'm focused on clearing many of the huge landmark games I've never beaten or in some cases never even played. These include: The Witcher 3 Mass Effect Legendary Edition Shadow of the Colossus Breath of the Wild Tears of the Kingdom God of War 3 Spiderman Miles Morales Final Fantasy 16 Octopath Traveler 2 Dragon's Dogma Path of Exile (Baldur's Gate 3 was absolutely going to be on there, but I can't guarantee a finish. I'll be playing it gradually on the Xbox, and it'll be competing with Persona 3 Reload and Eiyuden Chronicles on Gamepass.)
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    Her fruits do indeed hang low, yes. If we're being totally real, Fire Emblem's fanservice is tame by JRPG standards, especially compared to that.
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    What I will say is that Xenoblade 1 is only impressive in context. It has a strong narrative by JRPG standards, but it gets as much respect as it does because it was basically a fully fledged single player MMO... on the Wii of all consoles. Viewing even the remaster from a modern lens, the combat is pretty bad, and the quest design is every bit as bland and dull as your average MMO. The same can be said of X. It's only impressive because it was basically trying to be a full MMO on the Wii U. A stupid, brave goal that it is only partially successful at. I respect the ambition. 2 is a cringe factory. 3 is actually so impressive that it dethroned Three Hopes as my GOTY 2022. It takes a lot to overcome that kind of positive bias.
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    So, December was a month that was heavy on plays, light on clears. And that's by design. The OCD part of my brain wants to end the year on a nice milestone number, and it's hard to have a better one than 90. I don't think I, for example, have it in me to do 95. Especially because I lost a few days to a bad flu in there. But I have plenty near-completion that will give me a nice little first month boost in 2024. 86. Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (12/03) 9/10 87. Uncharted Lost Legacy (12/04) 7/10 88. Dragon Age 2 (12/09) 7/10 89. Control (12/10) 8/10 90. Kirby Star Allies 7/10 I am also playing Star Wars Jedi Survivor, Final Fantasy Origin: Stranger of Paradise, Batman Arkham Knight, Alan Wake, A Plague Tale Innocence, Shining Force, Odin Sphere, and Dragon's Crown. And I've put a little time into Warframe and Diablo 3, which are my preferred long term time wasters. I am SO glad to have cross saves now. My Warframe account has been trapped on my 8+ year old computer for a long time now. And that's 2023 wrapped up.
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    I for one think Xenoblade 3 is an S-tier JRPG, but I get why someone might think the franchise isn't great. Xenoblade 2 is absolutely mediocre. A significantly below average JRPG even. Now on the topic of JRPG franchises that aren't that great... Kingdom Hearts. Even at its best, it's B tier, and at its worst, it's just dreadful.
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    Not especially. I mean, they're good enough games, but I'm not exactly jumping to grab more than the few I've played. They just seem harmless, frankly. Edit: To clarify, I think there's a great deal of difference between liking something and being a fan of it. I like *most* games. I like, say, Darksiders, and Zelda, and Uncharted. I'm not exactly hyped when a new one is announced. I'm not following them. I'm a fan of Fire Emblem and Yakuza. One of them gets announced and I'm screaming.
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    When was the last time a Kirby fan spat in someone's coffee?
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    For the record, I do not consider myself a fan of the series. I consider myself someone who picked up World and considered it objectively impressive. I am familiar with the attitude though. It's everywhere. It doesn't matter if it's a franchise with nothing but banger games. Ratchet and Clank's fandom hates the new ones for no good reason. It also doesn't matter if the franchise is maligned. Even Dynasty Warriors has its weird group of elitist diehards who think 3-5 are the best because they were "literally Dark Souls hard."
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    There is a sliding scale of elitist knobs who smell their own farts.
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    Well, most people want to soften even their hottest takes to not get called out. Then you have me. I'm perfectly happy saying all Dark Souls fans are just the asshole rejects of the Monster Hunter fandom, and that their influence actively makes gaming worse.
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    Absolutely. The only substantial difference is that people like Aonuma aren't putting their names on the game's cover and title screen of every game like some kind of author.
  15. Fabulously Olivier
    Okay, so, the idol worship around Hideo Kojima is obnoxious. OD was THE least interesting announcement at the Game Awards, and it's insulting how long he was given to pitch his pretentious screen test while award winners were rushed off the stage. The man's last game was a glorified walking sim. There's no guarantee his next one will be any good either.
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    They will latch onto any and every little instance of the game satirizing liberal culture to claim that the game is in fact anti-woke. This is extremely predictable.
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    Yeah "Fall" is one devs should probably stop using as it is associated with a lot of shitty games/commercial flops. Redfall, Godfall, Firefall, Babylon's Fall. Just to name a few. I for one think Rise of the Ronin looks cool, but the chances of me picking it up are slim to none since Team Ninja games are just bound to be excessively difficult Souls-like trash.
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    Yeah, that's how "wokespotting" works. You cry out on meaningless criteria, and if it flops and people hate it, it supports the narrative, but if it succeeds and people love it, you must backpedal and claim that it's not "woke" actually because nothing "woke" can be successful. Because it was never about any kind of real belief system. It's all about riling up the absolute lowest common denominator of human being for views.
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    Yep. I'm with you on this one. The Last Jedi is as close to an objectively shitty movie as you'll find, but actually expressing that for completely benign reasons gets you lumped in with the cancer of the internet.
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    Usually politics in review populism is from those who champion user reviews the loudest. Namely, conservative politics. Like, my coworker who goes on about Captain Marvel's critic vs. audience score is being nakedly transparent in his politics.
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    I have a great deal of contempt for video game & movie populism. Like no, I'm sorry. User reviews are not more credible than critic reviews, and the existence of review bombing makes a mockery of the whole process.
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    It's not like Alan Wake 2 was a big open world RPG. It was 20 hours. Plenty of time to get played, especially with review codes.
  23. Fabulously Olivier
    Overall, I wasn't exactly overwhelmed with new announcements. Monster Hunter Wilds is going to be awesome. MH usually is. Metaphor looks better every time I see it. Golden Axe and Streets of Rage reboots are a welcome surprise. Shining Force would have completed that for me, but maybe someday. Visions of Mana is yet another big JRPG in what looks to be the biggest JRPG year of all time. And it looks way better than Trials of Mana Remake. There's a few third person shooters that I'd be very cautiously optimistic about. Mecha Break, The First Descendent, Exodus. Emphasis on cautious. I wasn't especially impressed with The First Descendant's beta due to the lack of ambient music, or dynamic enemy spawns. Those don't sound like hard things to fix though.
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    I reckon Wilds is close enough to World 2 that I'm counting it.
  25. Fabulously Olivier
    I feel, genuinely, that Diablo 2 fanboys got what they deserved with Diablo 4. And they should be heckled endlessly. Diablo 3 was actually great and unique, but we can't have nice things. The series regressed because people were nostalgia-blind for the pre-pre-pre alpha version of Path of Exile. You have Path of Exile. It's great, and it's getting a sequel. Play that. I know I will.
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