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Stardew Valley – Games of 2016
Growing up I was friends with a lot of farm kids, but somehow I avoided working on the farm myself. It always looked like hard and repetitive work with very little daily gratification. You know, the kind of work that wouldn’t make for a fun video game. That’s why it took a lot of convincing…
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Virginia – Games of 2016
I knew as soon as I saw the trailer that I was going to play Virginia. Something in the press about “a very X-Files meets Twin Peaks vibe,” and I’m interested. Go ahead and throw in a ‘narrator’ who was almost immediately recognizable as unreliable (my favorite kind), a MILD SPOILER AHEAD case of the…
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No Man’s Sky – Games of 2016
Unforgettable. What a ride. What a legacy. No Man’s Sky delivered on its promises. I can’t think of a new franchise that has generated this type of passion from its players. It’s all true, but I’m done being cute here. There was a small amount of time where I enjoyed No Man’s Sky in a…
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Mafia III – Games of 2016
Mafia III is a bit of a departure from its predecessors in that you don’t actually play for the Mob. It’s a personal revenge story, one in which a young and slightly gruff African-American man named Lincoln Clay strikes back against some criminal big-shots in the Mardi Gras town of New Bordeaux. Lincoln isn’t dealing…
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2016 Games of the Coop – Podcast
Give this man some demons, ponies, and lots of boss fights and Coop is pretty content gamer. It turns out that game selections of 2016 prioritized fun over trying to play everything. Maybe he’s onto something. Subscribe Horrible Night on SoundCloud RSS Feed iTunes Feed Google Play Stitcher Feed Show Features Games of 2016 Doom…
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XCOM 2 – Games of 2016
The last thing I’d ever want to do when being occupied by a superior alien race is to get up close and personal with them. We’re outnumbered and out-teched so we have outsmart them. I’m not saying I outsmarted any of them, but that didn’t make killing aliens with swords any less satisfying when it…
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Titanfall 2 – Games of 2016
I am not a FPS multiplayer fan, really. While I did play a little multiplayer with some of the Horrible Night crew, my experience with this game rests almost entirely with the single player campaign, and what a single player campaign it is. There is a little bit of a ramp up as far as…
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The Witness – Games of 2016
One of my first non-electronic game memories is sitting on the beach working through word searches. I don’t even think I could read, but I sure could circle things when someone pointed to them. Maybe that’s why The Witness started out feeling like a nice vacation. An island full of puzzles is about as much…
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Orwell – Games of 2016
Orwell is at least as scary as its dystopian inspiration and that’s without rats. I missed 2013’s Papers, Please, but Orwell apparently shares the premise while doing away with any of the whimsy or charm. Utilizing a system that uses a terror event to justify digging into a web of interconnected people’s private lives through…