GNamer Fantasy Games League (And your Year Four winner is...)

JayMoyles wrote:

Hey, don't let me interfere with your strategy! You don't have to follow the rest of us sheep and nab games early. Holding off might be a wise thing to do, to be fair.

Nah, let's peer pressure him into blowing all his slots early! Definitely pick Super Lucky's Tale for Switch, Metroid Prime 4, and Meme Run 2 Jimmers.

The Cappuccino Kid wrote:

Hold off for Bubsy: Paws on Fire, that's my helpful, friendly advice.

It's like you're handing me the league on a silver platter.

I suspect tomorrow will be interesting once the bids come in...

I picked up a respectable 13 points for Metro Exodus - not bad for the last of my initial five picks.

Hahahaha at Andy

Yep, looks like Andy's about to lose points and I think that means Balla will gain some points for his counterpick too!

He'll lose 10 right? If it stays the same.

To be fair, there's only two reviews out on Opencritic right now, both from publications I've never heard of, so I'd hold off on your celebrations there Balla!

May as well celebrate while I can, I’m sure Mas will have reason to laugh at me before long.

Anthem has gone up a little and seems still not a lot have reviewed but from my twitter it doesn't sound a great game.

I only won Super Mario Maker 2 as I lost my bid for Zelda.

Least if something else gets announced or I hear good things, I've got a spot for it.

Maybe I shouldn't have bid £0 for Super Mario Maker 2, in hindsight.

I’d say it’s still too soon for any real anthem reviews considering the type of game it is. You’re not going to be able to tell until after it launches so I’d be expecting quite a few reviews in progress to come out. Fingers crossed anyway...

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Which one of it's four?

masofdas wrote:

I only won Super Mario Maker 2 as I lost my bid for Zelda.

You had the same strategy as me! I was properly shafted as Balla outbid me and you clearly outbid me for SMM2 as well. What did you bid on that in the end?

And I'm assuming you bid $80+ on LA, Balla?

From the looks of things, Andy's done well sneaking away with Astral Chain at a single dollar, from the looks of things.

Still, makes it interesting as I'll need to hold off till the next Direct or E3 for my next picks. That's Balla set for the year, then!

I bid $49 on SMM2 and went $50 on Zelda.

Ah, I would have beaten you on Zelda as I bid $70 on Zelda and $25 on SMM2.

My bids were:

$0 on Ape Out
$99 on Link's Awakening
$1 on BoxBoy and BoxGirl

Any momentary rejoicing I might have had was shut down quickly by (a) the thought that Nintendo will inevitably announce Breath of the Wild 2: Majora's Motorcycle at E3 and (b) somebody off GRcade suggesting that DXM might see a delay to incorporate user feedback. Still, I didn't enjoy the bids and now they're over.

I think DXM still comes out this year, but it could be Nintendo's December game this year.

Wow, you really went all out for Zelda! I had no hope of winning there. Probably a wise choice as that's a guaranteed heap of points there.

I've no idea what I'm going to go all out for with my remaining money...

I basically went, 'Hm, how much did the first Mario Maker average and is it more or less than ALBW... Zelda it is!' and went all in.

Of course, in hindsight I could've bought it for 90 and got Astral Chain for 10...  I actually reckon BoxBoy might be a safer bet though!

Safer, but I think Astral Chain has higher potential, knowing how bloody good Platinum can be.

Astral Chain is a risk, Platinums record isn’t exactly spotless, but boy do I need a risk after Anthem

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Could be worse Andy, I saw Anthem when it had about 25 reviews down in the '50s, I think it's going to settle on 60 which is still a bit of an ouch.

I do think Astral Chain is a risk as for every Bayonetta 2 with it's 91, you have Korra with 53 now sure one is Platinum's own IP another a licenced game Activision likely just wanted to get out. It's not only that, it's studio might have gone under if it wasn't for Nier Automata, they've been working on Granblue for PS4 but Cygames have taken it back in-house, someone has recently left or retired who was rather influential from what I gather and a few other things like that.

Thinking about it Zelda could also be a risk as it's in a post-BotW world, peeps not sure about the art style and the price now those last two are more like the Metro on Epic thing I brought up and shouldn't really affect a review (quality of the game) but you never know.

Many of today's reviewers grew up on Nintendo nerdery. I'm pretty confident about Zelda. More so than I am on flipping DxM at any rate, could be looking at mid-70s there given the mixed reaction to the demo.