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How is everyone on this site these days? Since the merger between Giant Bomb and CBS I've been visiting the old Gamespot more, mainly for a nostalgic boost, but also to check up on things. I the one thing I've notice, other then the lack of active users on my Friend list/ tracker list, is how stupid Fithteen year-old me was. God, read over my old post is embrassing! Obviously this is the case for most people, and at times I wonder why I haven't storm though these old blogs deleting the posts. Buy hey, it's nostalgic.

I don't know what the point is to what I'm writing. I don't know why I'm writing at the moment...

Well I guess to the last couple of active users on this site, here some stuff! Awesome! - Also side note I realize that people move on and have lives... I sure do.

Game of the Year

I know this is late but I started to write a Game of the Year list of the Hoildays but I had some freelance work on work on for the first of the month. I realize I haven't finished the last couple of years lists, I should rethink how I apporach these list for this year. Anyway... There is a sad twist to this years list. I didn't get to play many games this year that I deem worthy of the title '2013's Game of the Year,' so no XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Asuras Wrath, Sleeping Dogs, Dishonored, Syndicate, or Far Cry 3. Although I do own a lot of these games. Hopefully Ill get around to playing them this year, hopefully I've started to slowly work through 'Sleepy Dogs' (Sleeping Dogs). Anyway on to my top five Games of the Year! Yes sadly only five;

Number Five - K-ON! Houkago Live!! HD Version

I love K-ON! and I realize that I'm obsessed with the IP. Not only do I own the Limited Edition Version of the K-ON! Movie and all the albums, I now own both versions of the game and with good reason. Ignoring the fact that this is part of the K-ON! fanchise, K-ON! Houkago Live!! HD Version is a fun rhythm game in the vein of a Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA. Where players must react to on screen prompts to a song rhythms in order to successfully perform them.

Number Four - FTL: Faster Than Light

Oh, FTL. The was a time durning last year where I was coach surfing for a couple of months, weird time, and late at night when I had nothing to do I would just open up my laptop and play hours of FTL.

Number Three - Tokyo Jungle

Tokyo Jungle you mix my love of Japan with my love of ridiculous things. Name another game where you can play as Polar Bear running around a decimated Shibuya chasing Dinosaurs. I love this game... Oh, I'm going to go and play it now!

Number Two - Journey

Journey had always been on my radar since its announcement at E3 2010. I feel deeply in love with the aesthetic I had no idea what the gameplay was going to be other than taking a Journey. But I never thoguht I would take a Journey... (I'll go now). With all seriousness, I never thought I would encounter a wonderful social experiment that would make me deeply consider how people could interact online. Playing through Journey and experiencing it with another player that I had no, if any, communication with and creating a weird and wonderful bond with this player through only a handful of chirps. And its amazing to think that this bond was strong enough to bum me out when the other play left the game, and its even incredible to think that I cared out another player whos PSN name was xXxSM0K3W33d4L1F3420xXx (Or something alongs thoughs lines).

And the winner...

Number One - The Walking Dead

For someone who doesnt have much or very little interest in the Walking Dead franchise or has never really been big into the zombie genre that has sprung up over the last couple of years. Im surprised that this would be my game of the year, but from the story to the characters, go team Kenny, to the choices the game presents you with I found an though provoking exprence that won't of trade for the world.

At one point in this game I made a decision that I regret so badly for about twenty minutes, I sat at my desk considering restarting the game and changing the decision and after a while I just had to suck it up and push on. I can't talk about this game without spoiling it so I'll stop.

So well done to The Walking Dead you join the ranks of 2009's winner Borderlands, 2010's winner Mass Effect 2 and 2011's winner The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.