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Pajitnov must be laughing his ass off right now.
Actually a better story than Gone Home.Best Story: Scooby Doo
What the fuck?
Best Story: Scooby Doo
What the fuck?
Best Story: Scooby Doo
What the fuck?
Better than Chrono Trigger...
Best Story: Scooby Doo
What the fuck?
Better than Chrono Trigger...
How exactly?
Don't forget Syndicate, whose story amounts to absolutely fuck-all.
Conclusion - Scooby Doo guys had already CHIP and brainwashed the people behind the list. Or just simply bribedAs the world’s multinational corporations grew, their profits began to rival those of small countries. Soon they owned small countries and corporate influence was felt at the highest level of world government. Smaller corporations were swallowed up like plankton in the wake of three behemoth mega-corporations, one U.S.-based, one Europe-based and one based in the Far East. These became the only effective world government, unelected, undemocratic, but controlling the lives of the people through commerce.
Then the European corporation perfected the CHIP. Inserted in the neck, the CHIP stimulated the brain stem to alter your every perception of the outside world. Better than any drug, the CHIP gave hope to millions by numbing their senses to the misery and squalor around them. One CHIP would convince users that the sun shone and the birds sang even as they walked through the constant acid rain drizzle. Another that they were glamorous or handsome – they’d look in the mirror and see a different face – while the rest of the world would see them as they really were.
The CHIP was a technological revolution and sold countless units with the slogan ‘Why change your world when you can change your mind’. It also left the user open to auto-suggestion and gave the corporations the perfect tool for manipulating the populace. Like any new and potent drug, control of the CHIP meant control of the people. Soon the corporations were at war among themselves, desperate to monopolize CHIP manufacture. But the corporations’ thirst for power left them open to infiltration. With money earned through pirating CHIP technology, crime Syndicates bribed and
murdered their way into corporation boardrooms. It wasn’t long before the Syndicates became the controlling force all over the globe, with a finger in the pie of every transaction, criminal or otherwise, worldwide.And in the crime Syndicates of tomorrow those in control don’t need uzis for back up. Teams of custom-built cyborg agents hunt down rivals and traitors, and spread the
influence of the Syndicates across the globe.
These are not choose-your-own-adventure games or fragmented "cut scene, gameplay, cut scene" experiences. These are games that work to make "story" and "play" one and the same. That's my guess as to why they earned the popular vote of Destructoid's staff for this year's awards. Congratulations to the teams at Supergiant Games and Necrophone Games for your wins. Next up, we'll look at games with the best world design of 2014.
Perfect Dark
Light is the new dark.
I can say with full authority that this IS how every game of TF2 goes.
(No, this isn't a Harlem Shuffle take.)
Intro - 00:03
Award list - 2:09
Best Soundtrack - 2:50
Best Thing to come out of Crowdfunding - 8:06
Most interesting Gaming Youtube channel that isn't mine - 16:20
The Stop Preordering Videogames award for Biggest Launch Disaster - 23:14
Most Impressive Aesthetic - 32:39
Best Expansion/DLC - 40:33
Best Mobile Game - 50:35
The game I turned my consoles on for the most this year - 58:08
The game that most surpassed my expectations - 1:06:43
The Sharpened Pitchfork award for dodgiest games company of the year - 1:17:55
The game that most needs to see the light of GabeN - 1:27:57
Outro and thanks - 1:34:41