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GodisaGeek Game of the Year 2019: Podcast Day One

Adam Cook: "It's time for the annual Game of the Year awards from GodisaGeek.com. Day one is all about best re-release, nicest surprise, and biggest disappointment."

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What The Golf? Review - Thumb Culture

Come check out our What the Golf PS5 Review as the Indie game where everything is golf makes the transition to consoles.

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Apex Legends PC Optimized Settings: Benchmarked for Best Performance (2024)

Apex Legends remains one of the most popular Battle Royale games with over 300K concurrent players on Steam. In this post, we look at the various graphics settings available in the game and figure out which ones are worth the hit.

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The prevalence of parrying: Why is it so popular?

Parrying has been creeping into more games, with almost every high-profile title of the last few years featuring it in some way.  Why?

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phoenixwing36d ago (Edited 36d ago )

i understand the authors frustration i'm not the best at parrying in games. not that i can't complete a game that requires it but it is a definite harder thing for me than other kinds of techniques in games. which might be the main reason it's so heavily added in games nowadays. want to make your game challenging without having to do a lot of work? just add a parry boss. (what i mean by parry boss is a boss you have to beat by parrying such that their attacks will kill you otherwise)

Dudeson36d ago (Edited 36d ago )

I always think it's fine as long as such games also have the roll/dodge panic button. But I understand the will to parry, it seems so cinematic in a fight when you pull it off.