The game Ash of Gods: Redemption is the most blatant ripoff I have ever seen. It looks exactly like the far superior Banner Saga. Here are some screenshots for example:

Ash of Gods: Redemption

The Banner Saga

Turns out dying and being brought back to life ages you a bit. That and 10 years of time passing.

I try to read all of the text documents I come across in games, but I hate them. Reading puts me to sleep, and whenever I have to read more than one or two pages of text in a game I just lose focus and want to get back to the gameplay. But whenever I skip them I feel like I miss out on part of the game, so I try to push myself to read all that I can. However I often get to a point where I just stop caring about the text based lore because there will be like 1 to 3 new things to read in every room. Too frequently the information in these reading materials has been or could be better explained in game, and when I already know what I am reading about it makes it feel twice as useless. Contrary to @El-Shmiablo I quit Control after 8 or 9 hours because there were so goddamn many text things and little videos getting in the way of me having fun playing a 3rd person shooter.

January -2

• Cyberpunk 2077 - Jan 1st
• Crying Suns - Jan 18th

February -4

• Children of Morta - Feb 13th
• Project Warlock - Feb 15th
• For the King - Feb 23rd
• Valfaris - Feb 27th

March-3

• Iris and the Giant - Mar 1st
• Dead Cells - Mar 8th
• Loop Hero - Mar 24th

April-1

• Valkyria Chronicles 4 - Apr 7th

Total-10

Halo Infinite Delay
Outriders 76
Back 4 Blood 81
Psychonauts 2 78
Gotham Knights 80
Gran Turismo 7 86
Ratchet & Clank: A Rift Apart 88
No More Heroes 3 73
Hitman 3 78
Death Loop 82
Kena: Bridge of Spirits 82
Returnal 84
Resident Evil Village 85
Ghostwire: Tokyo 77
Vampire: The Masquerade -- Bloodlines 2 68
Scorn 67
Bravely Default 2 78
Horizon Forbidden West 89
Hogwarts Legacy Delay
Monster Hunter Rise 84
The Medium 73
Scarlet Nexus 72
Chorus 71
God of War 2 (Ragnarok) Delay
It Takes Two 80
Shin Megami Tensei V 88
12 Minutes 85
The Good Life 70
Persona 5 Strikers 77
Sable 74

Wildcard Games:

Lord of the Rings: Gollum 74
Dying Light 2 78
Far Cry 6 80
Skull & Bones 84
Axiom Verge 2 88
Tales of Arise 81
Rainbow Six Quarantine 76
Hollow Knight: Silksong 92
Bayonetta 3 90
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 90

@phbz I just found out how easy it is to break the crafting system. There are several items that disassemble into more components than it takes to make them. Now I just need to find good clothing schematics, which I have found almost none of 55 hours in.

Copied from my post on Discord: I can only do Saturday the 2nd after 9:15 PM PST. The only times that I have free are Monday the 28th all day, Thursday the 31st all day, and Sunday the 3rd after 6:15 PM PST. I work until 9 PM PST all other days. If I am the one odd person out I can just set up an auto draft.

Every now and then my friends and I like to do things similar to the EZA Tiermaker Stream. Usually 2-5 of us rate things (most often the MCU) by making our own Tiermaker lists then sharing pictures of them. We then argue over why someone put something so low or so high. It might be fun to have a Tiermaker topic on the forums here, but I could see things getting out of hand with how much arguing has gone on in the past.

As for other personal rankings of things, I kinda never think about it. I don't really think about what score I would give many games (roguelikes being an exception), or what makes a game enjoyable to me. If someone asks me what my favorite food/movie/game etc. is I never really have a concrete response. The way I come up with definitive rankings for something like the forum GOTYs is to take everything I have enjoyed from that year and put them in a row from favorite to least favorite. Then, I ask myself if I enjoyed a game more than the game above it or less than the game below it and move it up or down according to my gut feeling.

Here is the Community Showcase with Ben and Brandon's reactions.
Youtube Video – [20:15..]

I only got 7, but my tie breaker was 42 which is only off by 2.