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Give me nominations for the best new game you played this year. Didn't have to come out this year, just new to you this year.

Sometime in December I'll run a poll, for fediverse GOTY cacolaugh

@dielan Reynatis was pretty fun, but it isn't finished

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Seriously didn’t have any free time today so I dabbled in Animal Crossing for the first time, actually had some fun.

If Pikmin came out this year I also played that

@dielan https://tamanidamani.itch.io/nijikas-ahoge

ok i lied i played it when it came out last year

@dielan Return to Castle Wolfenstein; Subnautica

But well… I barely play games (sticking to anime/manga/novels instead).

@dielan Balatro

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Wanted: dead
Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend

@dielan Madagascar (2005, PC) 🤣

@dielan >best new game you played this year
>new game
>this year
mfw most of the games i played are from past years

does dlc/expansions count? new game is the one that released in 2024 or new to me?
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@hj if it's new to you it's new


Only suckers exclusively buy new games as they come out

@dielan@shitposter.world games i played this year for the first time:

- throne & liberty - it is an mmo. and i give it 6 /10
- Granblue Fantasy: Relink - third person action rpg. i give it 8 / 10

bonus:
- rediscovered stardew valley. new update makes it a 7 / 10

@kura relink looks so fun but I don't know anything about granblue or where to even start

@dielan Oneshot

@dielan OneShot 💡

@dielan The 0.7 update for Holocure is dropping tonight so that'll be my pic. Everything else I bought or downloaded is an older title.

@dielan Flashback

@dielan my nominations then:
- Cruelty Squad crusPog
- Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore harkinian (that one actually came out in 2024)
- pikayune dreams (dec 2023, close enough)

honorable mention: Halls of Torment
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@dielan@shitposter.world it doesnt really need a connection to anything. it gives you a very brief summary at the start of game, but if you want to learn about the base story, watching the granblue anime is enough to get the gist about the story before relink (basically relink starts where the animation stops).

@kura they made a granblue anime?

@dielan im tied between gran turismo 4 new spec II mod and my first time playing ocarina of time cagli_thonk

for now i think i'll go with gt4 because i've just started oot

@nach GT4 was already a good game and I carried a poggers face when I found out Spec II was released. Wish I knew why the Online Beta disc was significantly smaller than the retail game, I can only speculate there were duplicated assets between GT and Arcade modes.

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@thatbrickster @dielan the only thing i've noticed is the FMVs for the track previews are gone in the beta disc and obviously not present also in spec II, maybe that has something to do with the size difference?

@nach Some of it, but the retail game was nearly 5GB and needed a dual-layer DVD. The Online Beta was around half the size.

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@dielan@shitposter.world @kura@hai.z0ne.social i'm very bad at finishing games, but relink is a pretty good action rpg imo. Didn't regret the purchase.

@dielan ff vii

@vala after all these years?

Old release but new to me: Choro Q Wonderful on the PS1. Absolutely wild game as it keeps going and would recommend.

@dielan my backlog has been growing for a decade now, and it was on sale so it skipped the queue

@dielan @vala Remake was great but I played it in 2022(?) so I can't list it here. I haven't really played any new games other than SH2 and random stuff. I'll come back to this after I've thought for a bit

@graf I hope rebirth comes to PC soon. I played it on ps5 and didnt really like it but its a great foundation and the mods will go crazy @vala

@dielan I had fun with puzzle games, which were the Myst and Riven remakes. There was also Braid Anniversary Edition, but I enjoyed the extra commentary tracks over the game itself. The Riven remake was probably my favorite released this year. Most of the year was just messing with the Steam Deck OLED's features and other stuff since I got it in January, and tinkering with it is a lot more fun than most of the games that I've seen lately.

@berkberkman were you playing Myst or Riven on the deck too?

@dielan I tried once for both, and I ended up just playing on my PC since the game didn't ran perfectly for me on either of them (Riven is still verified though).

@kura @dielan nope, the original 1997 version released for the nintendo switch

@vala @kura did they release a physical copy for that one?

I've been beefing up my physical game collection lately

@dielan @kura not sure, it was on sale for like 7 bucks on the nintendo online store

@vala @kura @dielan That's a European copy though. And I can at least confirm that this twin pack is available in Norway for the equivalent of about 40€