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Tales of Borderlands (PC)


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I've not played a Telltales game before, but watched a few, so I knew pretty much what I was getting into. Oh, and I put a few hundred hours into Borderlands 2 as well. Eep.

In general, Tales has good characters (a couple I really liked quite a lot), the plot is ridiculous but that's what you ge...

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Emily's Away (PC)


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Free to play text... game... Very short. Super retro looking, like... older than windows 3.1 kind of look. Basically you have instant message chats with a crush of yours over the course of college. The interface is 'pick your response, then mash on the keyboard to simulate typing it'. The game is va...

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Undertale (PC)


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Most overrated game of 2015.

Take a crappy bullet-hell style shooter, and mix it with pretty crappy puzzles, a quaint and occasionally amusing RPG and some clever ideas.

I had heard the ending was absolutely magnificent. Perhaps I missed it somehow, because it didn't do much for me, in fact I wa...

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Super Metroid (Super Nintendo)


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Wow. Everyone knows, of course, but it's taken me this long.

Incredible atmosphere. Fantastic controls and gameplay. Masterfully put together. Rewards almost everything you do in the game, whether it be skill-wise, exploration-wise, or just general play. I will admit getting lost a couple of times...

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The Stanley Parable (Steam/PC)


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A first-person... walk around adventure? The 'game' itself is incredibly straight forward, but the real fun comes in going against the 'intended path'. This is a game with real self-awareness, and parodies itself and the entire gaming medium. I laughed out loud several times at the ways it plays wit...

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