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R5.P1 (#49 Overall) INTERSTATE '76 Format: PC Year of Release: 1997 Developer: Activision Genre: Action / Vehicular Combat Simulation Why I picked it: Art Design and Music Somewhere in the Southwest... It's 1976 and everything has gone sideways, or so the game's intro animation tells...

Death, taxes, and head coaches getting fired. I'll drink to that! :)

Speaking only for myself, I'm just not that aware of games that have come out in the last 10 years or so. As I get older my free time keeps shrinking while the games keep getting longer and as a result I've mostly turned off my antenna for locating new video games to try. I know of Hades because...

Collins and Ingram are low IQ players. Neither of those guys was going to be the answer either. What we needed then and still need now is a guy who shows up every day to do the dirty work that doesn't win you personal accolades and huge contract extensions. A good old fashioned bruiser who just...

For the one season Mike Brown coached the Lakers, do you think Kobe was listening to anyone else but himself about when he was going in or coming out of the game? That guy had more of a green light to do whatever he wanted than any other player in the history of sports at that point in time...

R4.P12 (#48 Overall) DEUS EX (Art Source: reddit post) Format: PC Year of Release: 2000 Developer: Ion Storm Genre: Action-RPG / Stealth Why I picked it: Freedom of Choice Judging by recent kingsfans.com events, I'm sure a number of you will probably have a good chuckle at this choice...

I still don't think anyone is remotely in Thibodeau's league for deciding to leave guys in for 40+ minutes. Domas played a lot because we didn't even have a backup C last season until after Mike Brown was fired. Fox played a lot because he was the last starter standing for almost a month early...

This is a best-case scenario for everyone. The Kings don't have to keep paying for their mistake, Mike Brown has another NBA head coaching job, and the Villa-Knicks get to keep their knees intact with a return to normal starters minutes in their future.

I'm the same way with FPS games. I tried to play Halo on an X-Box once and it was so painful to watch that I'm pretty sure it soured the experience for everyone else in the room. I'm generally into video games more for the story than the gameplay and I'm way more comfortable with a mouse and...

Very nice! I debated taking this one instead of VII -- and probably would have if someone drafted VII first. I do think VI (III) has my favorite story in the whole series and the soundtrack is pretty much tied for #1 too ("Oh! Maria!"). And then there's Amano's character artwork ... I ended up...

Even though I first played a number of the earlier Final Fantasy games on PC (V-VII), there are probably better formats to play them in now. They're meant to be played with a console controller in your hands and I recall the control experience for PC being a little dodgy. I know you can buy a...

R3.P1 (#25 Overall) UNCHARTED 4: A THIEF'S END (Art source: https://www.behance.net/KokeNunezGomez ) Format: PS4 Year of Release: 2016 Developer: Naughty Dog Genre: Action-Adventure Why I picked it: Story and Visuals My first two picks, for all their many virtues, are far from the...

R2.P12 (#24 Overall) FINAL FANTASY VII Format: PS1 Year of Release: 1997 Developer: SquareSoft (Square Co. Ltd) Genre: J-RPG Why I picked it: Characters and Music I'm a little shocked at how this has played out so far. I did not see three Diablo games going in the first two rounds and...

No, I share your feelings about the sequel. The game I'm thinking of isn't made by any of the same folks nor does it share the same theme and only a few of the gameplay mechanics are even similar. But it was made by a design team who loved Chrono Trigger and sought to make their own modern...

Hmm. I suppose if I'd played it I probably would have known that. I only played the demo, though I remember what a huge deal this game was when it came out. It wasn't one of the games I ever went out and bought. And once it became possible to download games I wasn't playing shooters anymore.