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Party Loaded Episode #237 is live! It's our Ultimate Grand Finale episode with loads of #Cyberpunk2077 talk, #TheGameAwards highlights, and the big finish for our 2020 Party Favourites reveals! youtu.be/3g9FV5eu6sc

Been eagerly awaiting this game for a couple of years now since Matt revealed early work on our show and it's finally released! Huge congrats to the EverySecond Studio team. Get in and grab this now to enjoy a quirky puzzler with a great theme and support Aussie game dev!

Mah boy @egCPB nabbing that GoA solo flawless clear & having either an aneurysm or an orgasm. You decide. 👏#Destiny2 #twitchclips clips.twitch.tv/CharmingCalmBa…

The show may be over, but the party lives on! Be sure to catch all the crew on our individual Twitter accounts: Luke - @luke_retallack Christian - @egCPB Matt - @GameDadMatt Adrian - @Baritone_Belly

Finally, some notable omissions that I suspect might have made the list, but I didn’t play enough of to make the call: - Final Fantasy 7 Remake - Yakuza: Like a Dragon - Demon’s Souls Remake

#1 - Persona 5 Royal The contest for my top spot this year was not close. As soon as I wrapped on it, I knew that (failing something insanely good yet to come) P5R was not only my GOTY, but also likely to land high in my all time favourites list. And it has.

#2 - Ghost of Tsushima An utterly stunning game visually, but also managed to capture an incredible feel of exploration across the feudal Japan setting without falling into many of the typical open world bloat traps.

#3 - The Last of Us: Part 2 Wow, what a way to send off the last Playstation generation. This game was an incredible feat in so many ways, but the world building, character development and raw acting talent are the real highlights for me.

#4 - Destiny 2: Beyond Light Technically an expansion and not a full new game, but my list = my rules. It's big enough and awesome enough to warrant a high spot for me, plus - D2 continues to rock.

#5 - Genshin Impact Now we're getting into the GOOD SHIT. I freaking love Genshin Impact. Yes, it's a Gacha game. Yeah, it's blatant weeaboo bait. I don't care, because it's also a lot more than that and actually a super solid game with loads of replay value.

#6 - Spider-Man: Miles Morales This could have easily been more of the same Insomniac Spidey, but it succeeded at being greater than than. Oh damn - the marketing spin got to me!

#7 - DOOM Eternal Ahh, DOOM. The fact that I can put a DOOM game down and it's not in a top 3 spot either means that something went disastrously wrong with it, or something went extremely right with the stuff that beat it. Fortunately, it's more the latter.

#8 - Ori and the Will of the Wisps Despite really loving this game, I don't have a whole bunch more to say about it except for the fact that it was more Ori - which frankly is exactly what I wanted.

#9 - Hades Look, straight up - I need to play more Hades. It has all the ticks for stuff I really jive with. Awesome soundtrack, cool characters, great narrative, rad art, excellent gameplay and systems...

#10 - Animal Crossing: New Horizons Well, ACNH was certainly the game we needed at the time we got it. I feel (like most of the world) that this game was a much bigger hit with me than it would have been without a global pandemic, but still - I can't deny the fun time I had.

With 2020 finally done, I want to put brain to keyboard and bang out my usual summary of personal top 10 games of the year. I did cover my top 3 on our final episode of the Party Loaded Podcast, but consider this a more robust writeup I guess.

I joined the @PartyLoadedShow crew on episode #112, so with our final show being #237 that makes my tenure 125 episodes. Not a bad number! Was a blast and I'll miss it, but it's better to burn out than fade away.

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We're going live in 10 minutes with our final podcast episode EVER! Come join us live over at twitch.tv/partyloaded and celebrate with us as we wrap up 5 years of Party Loaded and bring 2020 to a close in style.

It all goes down tonight! It's the final massive episode of Party Loaded, with pt 2 of our 2020 Party Favourites, the post Game Awards breakdown, and of course - loads of Cyberpunk 2077 to cover! Catch us live for our final ride at 8pm (AWST) on twitch.tv/partyloaded