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Wow, 2020 was the worst! Luckily, the games were pretty good, and in this episode, we each count down our personal top 10s of the year. From Doom Eternal to Final Fantasy 7 Remake, start off 2021 by capping off the last 12 months of fantastic games.

This week’s music is from the Final Fantasy 7 soundtrack by Nobuo Uematsu and the themes of Destiny 2’s Prophecy dungeon by Michael Sechrist, Skye Lewin, Michael Salvatori and Josh Mosser.

Picks

Samuel

  1. Carrion
  2. Risk of Rain 2
  3. Sea of Thieves
  4. Star Wars: Squadrons
  5. Mafia: Definitive Edition
  6. Final Fantasy 7: Remake
  7. Command and Conquer: Remastered
  8. Doom Eternal
  9. Apex Legends
  10. Destiny 2

Most Disappointing Game

  • Marvel’s Avengers

Pile of Shame Games

  • Ghost of Tsushima
  • The Last of Us Part II
  • 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
  • Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales

2021 best game prediction

  • Deathloop

Matthew

  1. Grindstone
  2. Unto the End
  3. Persona 5 Royal
  4. Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition
  5. Gears Tactics
  6. Yakuza: Like a Dragon
  7. Doom Eternal
  8. Death Stranding
  9. Half-Life: Alyx
  10. Desperados 3

Most Disappointing Game

  • Resident Evil 3 (2020)

Pile of Shame Games

  • Animal Crossing: New Horizons
  • Final Fantasy VII Remake
  • Empire of Sin

2021 best game prediction

  • Hitman 3 or theoretically BOTW2

XL 24 Revisions

Matthew

  • ❌ Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition - Absolutely loved, doesn’t need to be here
  • ❌ Grindstone
  • ❌ Unto the End
  • ✅ The Last of Us Part II
  • ✅ Final Fantasy 7: Remake
  • ✅ Hades
  • ✅？ Paradise Killer

Samuel

  • ❌ Everything except Mafia: Definitive Edition, Final Fantasy 7: Remake, Doom Eternal and Command and Conquer: Remastered
  • ❌ Carrion
  • ❌ Risk of Rain 2
  • ❌ Sea of Thieves
  • ❌ Star Wars: Squadrons
  • ❌ Apex Legends
  • ❌ Destiny 2
  • ✅ 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
  • ✅ Hades
  • ✅ The Last of Us Part II
  • ✅ Ghost of Tsushima
  • ✅ Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales
  • ✅ Cyberpunk 2077
  • ✅？ Yakuza: Like a Dragon
  • ✅ Gears Tactics

Timestamps

  • 00:01:08 - Samuel: “I’m slightly overweight Boba Fett”
  • 0:03:50 - Matthew got ‘shitcanned’ this year, so has had more spare time to play games. First game he played after being made redundant was Assassin’s Creed Syndicate.
  • 00:05:55 - Paris Division 2 press trip. Samuel complained all day about how cold the garage was, and Matthew dealing with heart burn with all the onion pies he was eating.
  • 00:10:12 - Samuel’s second-hand purchases begins. LOTR: The Third Age as it’s a bit like FFX apparently?
  • 00:25:15 - “The big carrion blob monster also has slighty big exhausted Boba Fett energy … it’s probably why it resonates with you”
  • 00:35:13 - Matthew recalls the horror of asking his wife’s parents to buy him Persona 5 Royal for his birthday.
  • 0:37:28 - If Matthew met any of these characters (Persona 5), they’d hate his guts. Might even be a character with a Mind Palace they’d have to cure, themed around heartburn and Rennie.
  • 0:44:25 - Samuel retells a great moment in Sea of Thieves
  • 1:10:54 - If Matthew was in Yakuza: Like a Dragon, his attacks would be using his satchel spin attack. Mean tweets, bad reviews.
  • 1:41:00 - Samuel laments the removal of the moving train and party boat in Apex Legends. It was also the turning point of realising he was in too deep.
  • 1:49:22 - “… basically, ever since Nathan Drake patted that fucking ox” the first ox patting mention! Also leads to Matthew slagging off Crash Bandicoot.