You should totally play the DLC! Hearts of Stone was my favorite portion of the game.

Hard lol @ “blah blah blah. Nice candy cane.”

It is! Though I got it slightly wrong. It’s not a compilation of old games. All the games are by the author, Jared A. Sorensen, and they are a collection that expand on a game he designed in the previous decade, Action Castle. But they are all in the style of the old PC text adventures.

YES RDR2 on a new 55” 4k LED!! That game already looks incredible on my 50” 4k LCD and my OG PS4. Also DQB2 has been on my wishlist (I’ve never played Minecraft or any of its imitators), so let us know what you think of it.

Ok I have to mention something that’s been bugging me. Many people on this website have referred to the difficulty of keeping The Outer Worlds and Outer Wilds straight, but many of you are totally indifferent to which one has the article in the title when referring to their names specifically. I don’t think it’s…

The small text in Control makes the new area names they flash on the screen all the more shocking, which I like.

I’m deep into Control now, so that will be my main game this weekend. I’m starting to burn out on Dragon Quest XI, so I need to ease back on that a bit.

That’s great to hear!  My roommate just gave it to me for Christmas.

I think it’s totally reasonable to put a persistently living game like Fortnite on your year-end list. I look forward to the year that game like that wins several GotY awards years after its initial release.

Your list is most similar to mine among the Kotaku editors so far, as usual. Glad to see DQ Builders 2 on here, which I heard an awful lot of praise for when it came out but I haven’t had time to play beyond the demo, and King of Cards, which extends Shovel Knight’s reign as the best retro platformer around. Both of…

Yes, I agree with this take. I would rather be the first one to unbox and set up my mew console than to be guaranteed to play on Christmas day.

That’s awesome!  Not surprised that they put all of that in every copy of the game.

Booo, long live Soulsbornes! Bring on Sekiro 2!

Hide and Seek in the forest level is honestly some of the most fun I’ve had playing a game.

Ha! Good shit. Best part of this for me is that I’ve read a handful of horrible reviews of this movie, and none of them mentioned broken CGI.  Occasionally they would say the CGI was bad, but no one said anything about it being missing in places.  Because everything else is so horrible, it’s easy not to notice.

Also, since you are so patiently waiting for a remaster of NieR (seriously, you must play NieR: Automata), does that imply that you have special information that makes you more certain than a layperson that that particular remaster is in the works?

Fantastic video, Tim. Although “fantastic” is merely the status quo by now, so I would encourage you to strive for “mindblowing” next time.

According to an email from Nintendo, I played 48 different games over 626 hours on my Switch in 2019.  So yeah, good year to own that console for sure.

Yeah, and a map too, I think.

I would bump Bloodborne to give Sekiro a spot, for the reasons you mention in point d). But I made a list of my games of the decade, and Sekiro was number 6, so there are clearly a number of games on this list that I would put Sekiro ahead of.