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kjorteoI will probably make my final decisions and post the winners for my 2017 Gameblogging awards sometime next weekend. In the meantime, two things:
1) There's totally still time to speculate, predict, and discuss who you think will win! Yes I am blatantly fishing for comments here, but what can I say, comments are nice. When a certain sqrlmog did it, I won't give the exact numbers because I don't want to give too much away, but I will say she had at least one prediction that was 100% correct in everything from winner to the exact logic why that one wins, at least one where she was just as completely wrong about everything, and at least one where I was going to pick something else but she made such a good point about why that one's the logical choice that she might have changed my mind. We'll see! A lot of these aren't final yet! Anyway, my point is this is actually a lot of fun and more people should play.
2) Also speaking of sqlrmogs I stole the categories from her award post that she'd added, because those were really good additions and why didn't I think of those.
Trap Devised by Satan award for Game Most Likely Not Done Yet
Backlogs are immense, time is finite, and most games can be crossed off the list and moved on from once completed. However, some games deserve a special mention for their lasting appeal and replay value. This award honors the ones that don't want to be over.
Nominees:
AM2R
Hanano Puzzle 2
Marvin's Mittens
Mega Man Unlimited
Metroid: Samus Returns
Honorable Mentions:
Stair Quest SE
Star Billions Season 3
xyzzysqrl named this after the "Oops you have to beat the entire game again" screen from Ghosts N' Goblins, and the name and category and everything about this are perfect, so I'm taking it.
What games would I be most likely to want to revisit someday? Well, AM2R and Mega Man Unlimited I already played through again (they're the only two entries this year to have gotten more than one COMPLETE post.) Whether that's a positive sign that they have the kind of replay value that helps them here or a negative sign that they already had their turn, I leave as an exercise to your best guessing. Of course, if AM2R is a replayable Metroid 2 remake, so is Samus Returns. Marvin's Mittens is light and breezy, calm and stress-free, and exploration-based, and definitely invites you to come see all the pretty sights and play in the snow and generally have a good time as much as you want. Hanano Puzzle 2... actually, all Qrostar games have this unique near-supernatural ability for the solutions to melt out of my mind. "Wait, how did I do this level again? I know this has to be possible because I did it, but what the hell did I do?" Basically, if I ever need a Hanano Puzzle 3, all I need to do is play Hanano Puzzle 2 again; it may as well be a new experience to me anyway.
Extra Life award for Most Deserving of a Second Chance
Not every played game is completed. Most of the abandoned ones were abandoned for a reason, and quickly forgotten. Could some of them find redemption and a path back onto the active to-do list, though? Maybe these ones could....
Nominees:
Broken Sword: Director's Cut
Chromatron
Last Dream
MANOS: The Hands of Fate
Thanatos Insignia
Honorable Mentions:
(None)
This is the "Restore, Restart, or Quit?" category, but I gave it a shorter name. I love everything about the idea behind this, which is why I took it for my own, except wow do I have a thin bench here. I didn't officially abandon that many games this year, I guess. Let's not kid ourselves: I quit MANOS and Broken Sword for a reason, and they're only here as nominees by default. I try to have up to five nominees and five honorable mentions per category, and since I have exactly five abandoned games this year, here they all are. But it's not going to be those ones, I can promise you.
(I do intend to play Broken Sword 1 again someday, but it would be the original version, which is different enough to not count for purposes of Director's Cut ever getting another chance. And MANOS... yeah, no.)
Between the other three, I do still feel bad about Chromatron having utterly defeated me and would love to avenge myself on it, with the only thing stopping me being the sobering realization that I'm not going to. I did not miraculously get smarter re: quantum laser color bullshit after I quit that game. If I ever picked it up again, the roadblocks that beat me down last time would still be there. The loss does still bother me, though. Meanwhile, Thanatos Insignia is hard, not even my genre, and therefore was not super fun to play for me in the first place. However, it also wasn't very long, I was close, and it was my dumb fault for forgetting to save. Finally, Last Dream got bumped off the to-do list because World Unknown came out, but then World Unknown itself kind of faded in and back out of my wishlist as a more proper full-fledged Last Dream 2 draws closer. There was never anything wrong with this game aside from it being obsolete, though, and I did enjoy it while it lasted.
Sqrl's Choice award for XyzzySqrl's Favorite Game This Year
Another silly for-fun category. I pick the nominees for "what would XyzzySqrl's favorite game probably be" (excluding the obvious ones,) and then she picks a winner!
Nominees:
Kirby: Squeak Squad
Marvin's Mittens
Night in the Woods
Stair Quest SE
Thanatos Insignia
Honorable Mentions:
AM2R
Metroid: Samus Returns
Thomas Was Alone
Zeux 2: Caverns of Zeux
Zen Puzzle Garden
I love the idea of these silly for-fun "I pick the nominees you probably would be into I guess? And then you pick your favorite" co-op categories. They can help bring some hidden gems to the surface, mostly because I'm pretty sure we're both house-ruling this to exclude the obvious choices that were already in our actual personal favorites categories, or else we'd both have just fed some near-identical combination of PMD/Ori/Star Billions to each other again. I may have went a bit too far in that I don't think she's even played most of these, but shhh this is fun. We're having fun.
1) There's totally still time to speculate, predict, and discuss who you think will win! Yes I am blatantly fishing for comments here, but what can I say, comments are nice. When a certain sqrlmog did it, I won't give the exact numbers because I don't want to give too much away, but I will say she had at least one prediction that was 100% correct in everything from winner to the exact logic why that one wins, at least one where she was just as completely wrong about everything, and at least one where I was going to pick something else but she made such a good point about why that one's the logical choice that she might have changed my mind. We'll see! A lot of these aren't final yet! Anyway, my point is this is actually a lot of fun and more people should play.
2) Also speaking of sqlrmogs I stole the categories from her award post that she'd added, because those were really good additions and why didn't I think of those.
Trap Devised by Satan award for Game Most Likely Not Done Yet
Backlogs are immense, time is finite, and most games can be crossed off the list and moved on from once completed. However, some games deserve a special mention for their lasting appeal and replay value. This award honors the ones that don't want to be over.
Nominees:
AM2R
Hanano Puzzle 2
Marvin's Mittens
Mega Man Unlimited
Metroid: Samus Returns
Honorable Mentions:
Stair Quest SE
Star Billions Season 3
xyzzysqrl named this after the "Oops you have to beat the entire game again" screen from Ghosts N' Goblins, and the name and category and everything about this are perfect, so I'm taking it.What games would I be most likely to want to revisit someday? Well, AM2R and Mega Man Unlimited I already played through again (they're the only two entries this year to have gotten more than one COMPLETE post.) Whether that's a positive sign that they have the kind of replay value that helps them here or a negative sign that they already had their turn, I leave as an exercise to your best guessing. Of course, if AM2R is a replayable Metroid 2 remake, so is Samus Returns. Marvin's Mittens is light and breezy, calm and stress-free, and exploration-based, and definitely invites you to come see all the pretty sights and play in the snow and generally have a good time as much as you want. Hanano Puzzle 2... actually, all Qrostar games have this unique near-supernatural ability for the solutions to melt out of my mind. "Wait, how did I do this level again? I know this has to be possible because I did it, but what the hell did I do?" Basically, if I ever need a Hanano Puzzle 3, all I need to do is play Hanano Puzzle 2 again; it may as well be a new experience to me anyway.
Extra Life award for Most Deserving of a Second Chance
Not every played game is completed. Most of the abandoned ones were abandoned for a reason, and quickly forgotten. Could some of them find redemption and a path back onto the active to-do list, though? Maybe these ones could....
Nominees:
Broken Sword: Director's Cut
Chromatron
Last Dream
MANOS: The Hands of Fate
Thanatos Insignia
Honorable Mentions:
(None)
This is the "Restore, Restart, or Quit?" category, but I gave it a shorter name. I love everything about the idea behind this, which is why I took it for my own, except wow do I have a thin bench here. I didn't officially abandon that many games this year, I guess. Let's not kid ourselves: I quit MANOS and Broken Sword for a reason, and they're only here as nominees by default. I try to have up to five nominees and five honorable mentions per category, and since I have exactly five abandoned games this year, here they all are. But it's not going to be those ones, I can promise you.
(I do intend to play Broken Sword 1 again someday, but it would be the original version, which is different enough to not count for purposes of Director's Cut ever getting another chance. And MANOS... yeah, no.)
Between the other three, I do still feel bad about Chromatron having utterly defeated me and would love to avenge myself on it, with the only thing stopping me being the sobering realization that I'm not going to. I did not miraculously get smarter re: quantum laser color bullshit after I quit that game. If I ever picked it up again, the roadblocks that beat me down last time would still be there. The loss does still bother me, though. Meanwhile, Thanatos Insignia is hard, not even my genre, and therefore was not super fun to play for me in the first place. However, it also wasn't very long, I was close, and it was my dumb fault for forgetting to save. Finally, Last Dream got bumped off the to-do list because World Unknown came out, but then World Unknown itself kind of faded in and back out of my wishlist as a more proper full-fledged Last Dream 2 draws closer. There was never anything wrong with this game aside from it being obsolete, though, and I did enjoy it while it lasted.
Sqrl's Choice award for XyzzySqrl's Favorite Game This Year
Another silly for-fun category. I pick the nominees for "what would XyzzySqrl's favorite game probably be" (excluding the obvious ones,) and then she picks a winner!
Nominees:
Kirby: Squeak Squad
Marvin's Mittens
Night in the Woods
Stair Quest SE
Thanatos Insignia
Honorable Mentions:
AM2R
Metroid: Samus Returns
Thomas Was Alone
Zeux 2: Caverns of Zeux
Zen Puzzle Garden
I love the idea of these silly for-fun "I pick the nominees you probably would be into I guess? And then you pick your favorite" co-op categories. They can help bring some hidden gems to the surface, mostly because I'm pretty sure we're both house-ruling this to exclude the obvious choices that were already in our actual personal favorites categories, or else we'd both have just fed some near-identical combination of PMD/Ori/Star Billions to each other again. I may have went a bit too far in that I don't think she's even played most of these, but shhh this is fun. We're having fun.
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Date: 2017-12-10 04:48 am (UTC)Umihara Kawase if you're interested; it's also on Steam now.
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Date: 2017-12-10 04:52 am (UTC)It's pretty good! I was not pretty good. I was pretty godawful. World's greatest at slingshotting myself over a ledge into the ocean.
Losing is fun, though.
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Date: 2017-12-10 07:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-10 09:18 am (UTC)Tried that version once, hated the controls, went back to the emulator ever since. XP
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Date: 2017-12-10 05:57 pm (UTC)Trap Devised By Satan
You've got the Marvin's Mittens soundtrack for when you have that Urge to be in the snow. AM2R you already futzed with a number of different versions of and replayed once. I'm not sure you really want to blitz MMU again on the regular. Leaves it as a coinflip between Hanono and Samus Returns... and I'm gonna say given your fuzzy memory it's gonna be Hanono Puzzle 2 you load up someday in the future.
Extra Life
In much the same way, I think you'll go back to Chromatron someday. You didn't hate it, you just walked out on it. These things stick under the skin, like iron splinters and the game's a magnetic force and this metaphor is super poetic and would be genius if I'd gotten enough sleep. Trust me.
Nice rename, by the way, although my version fits my personal brand better.
Sqrl's Choice
Sore wa himitsu desu.
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Date: 2017-12-10 06:23 pm (UTC)(−) Okay, I realize that's probably a typo but I keep thinking of that as the sounds a player makes when finishing one level and moving to the next. “Ha! I beat the—*clicky* what's this now? No. Nooooo! o..@”
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Date: 2017-12-10 06:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-10 06:38 pm (UTC)1 *Load next level, take first glance*
2 "Oh what the fuck is this. What the... no. What the fuck. I can't... no. That's... they can't... no!!"
3 "I... but... what do they even want me to do, anyway?"
4 "They... that block has to be there? No, that's clearly impossible."
5 "The only way that even could work is if you..."
6 *3-7 days of fussing with it and Argh*
7 "Okay so first you have to clear this area, then you can move that there... aha... Aha!"
8 "AHAHA YES! OH MY GOD, IT WORKED! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!"
9 GOTO 1
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Date: 2017-12-10 09:02 pm (UTC)"That's a nice bit of hope you have left in your soul. It'd be a shame if something...happened to it."
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Date: 2017-12-10 10:24 pm (UTC)Including the fact that the torture really does feel so good though