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The Nextlander Podcast 031: Alex Narrativaro
🕑 Added 2022-01-06 02:13:00 +0000 UTCOur retrospective on the games of 2021 comes to a close (OR DOES IT??) with a long consideration of the best stories of the year, a perhaps longer effort to arrive at the 10 best games of the year, then a quick rundown of the games we're looking forward to in the coming months. Thanks to everyone for supporting us last year and into the future!
CHAPTERS
(00:00:10) Intro
(00:02:25) Game of the Year recap so far
(00:05:43) There will probably be more spoilers than usual. I've marked the games during best story where we go deeper in the narrative.
(00:06:47) Best Story
(00:09:32) Lost Judgment
(00:16:33) Life is Strange: True Colors
(00:18:43) The Forgotten City
(00:26:06) Unpacking
(00:28:59) Jett: The Far Shore
(00:34:41) Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart
(00:36:36) Guardians of the Galaxy
(00:43:32) Deathloop
(00:47:25) Mass Effect
(00:49:51) Inscryption
(00:55:07) Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye
(00:58:31) Psychonauts 2
(01:06:30) Break
(01:06:33) Making the Best Story list
(01:16:40) Moving into the overall best games of the year
(01:16:57) Nextlander personal Top Ten lists
(01:18:28) Vinny's Top Eleven Games
(01:19:17) Brad's Top Ten Games
(01:20:07) Alex's Top Ten Games
(01:20:50) Cutting out all the games that didn't make it
(01:36:45) And that leaves us with 20 games that made the list
(01:38:00) Making 20 games into 10 games
(02:07:58) Ordering the best 10 games
(02:28:51) Reading the Top Ten
(02:31:52) The full Nextlander 2021 category recap
(02:35:57) The games of the future!
(02:36:29) Dyling Light 2
(02:37:05) Sifu
(02:37:33) Horizon Forbidden West
(02:38:38) Destiny 2: The Witch Queen
(02:39:30) Stalker 2
(02:40:07) Elden Ring
(02:40:11) Saints Row
(02:40:27) Tunic
(02:40:54) Stray
(02:41:20) Redfall
(02:41:41) Far: Changing Tides
(02:42:21) Advance Wars
(02:42:35) Forspoken
(02:42:57) Starfield
(02:45:51) Bayonetta 3
(02:46:00) ARC Raiders
(02:46:47) The next WWE game
(02:47:33) Ghostwire: Tokyo
(02:48:08) Wrapping up and thanks
(02:48:57) Mysterious Benefactor Tier Shoutouts
(02:51:06) Written lists will be posted on Patreon soon
(02:51:56) Thanks and see ya!
