Old Gamer’s Almanac
The definitive ranking of all every video game, every week at a time. If you work in the gaming industry, please stop making games while we catch up.
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Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
Today we take a stab at another 2021 release, Daniel Mullins' Inscryption. It received a lot of praise this year, but it's also quite hard to look up much about this game because it's twist and turns are so integral to the experience. So go play it! You don't need us. But we're gonna flap our mouths for about an hour about this game anyways. Enjoy?
Music by nightcorey. https://soundcloud.com/nightcorey
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Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
Sega was doing just fine as a company, but a bunch of executives met in a board room one day and said "Gimme one of them Marios." The mascot race was on, and their answer was...a blue hedgehog that runs very fast. It's hard to understand how anything gets made, but this is definitely up there on the list. Please enjoy our dissection of the birth of Sonic.
Music by nightcorey. https://soundcloud.com/nightcorey
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Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
This is, hopefully, the conclusion of the running joke about Matt really really really liking Hyper Light Drifter. Solar Ash is the follow-up from developer Heart Machine, and while it shares a lot of the same colors, so much of the game is very different. It's a mixed bag of style and tone and it's time to decide if Matt has a new second favorite game.
Music by nightcorey. https://soundcloud.com/nightcorey
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Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
We here in the new year and we have a reignited resentment for this list and how to play this game. That's because we're tasked with ranking Final Fantasy 7 and we cannot imagine a more undesirable job. This game has been talked about to death and is regarded by many as one of the best games of all time...but Matt doesn't understand JRPGs because he's a basically a wet noodle. Will we ever be forgiven for this?
Music by nightcorey. https://soundcloud.com/nightcorey
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Monday Dec 27, 2021
Monday Dec 27, 2021
It's the end of the year and we were too busy celebrating to play any video games. So as a fun beach episode, we present to you three separate rankings and them some stupid hodge-podge super ranking that literally doesn't make any sense. Enjoy this silliness with your grandmother. She'll hate it.
Music by nightcorey. https://soundcloud.com/nightcorey
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Tuesday Dec 21, 2021
Tuesday Dec 21, 2021
Glory to Arstotzka! This week we get to discuss a "game" that definitely doesn't have "anything" to "say" about "life." It's just a fun romp through a fantastical setting. Keep your politics out of my video games, am I right?
Music by nightcorey. https://soundcloud.com/nightcorey
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Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Help. My life has been changed and I'll never be the same again. We're talking about an undeniable triumph of a game: Celeste. I don't know what to do with my hands. I'm shaking. It's so good and the idea of lessening its value by even putting it on our stupid list fills me with unimaginable dread. Will this show ever be the same?
Maddy Thorson on is Madeline canonically trans?
Music by nightcorey. https://soundcloud.com/nightcorey
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Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
Another series in the bag! Well, at least one arc of the Halo franchise. There's plenty more Halo games to eventually cover, but we finished the fight and it's time to evaluate how this trilogy stands up to THE LIST. This is the most polarizing of the Halo games, with a multiplayer we adore but a single player we loathe. What can all of that mean for it's inevitable ranking??
Music by nightcorey. https://soundcloud.com/nightcorey
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