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There was one level in particular where you're being chased by a constantly advancing wall of spikes which gave me a massive amount of trouble on the PC and almost made me rage quite entirely, but I blasted through it on Android and it seemed a lot shorter. It seems unlikely but it did make me wonder whether some of the levels had been redesigned slightly for the mobile version?

Bamba wrote:

That's where I got to on the PC version before I turned it off in disgust!

...well, the wall killed me a couple of times and I thought "bah" and went and did something else for a bit, and never came back for some reason. That level just seemed incongruous and out of place compared to the rest of the game up to that point.

Vita or PS4 are the best versions imo. Touchscreen/touchpad for selecting characters makes it a lot easier, while keeping physical controls for moving them about. It really clicked once I played it on PS4.

Cookie197 wrote:

1) Sunset Overdrive (XB1)

2) Wolfenstein: The New Order (XB1)

1) Sunset Overdrive (XB1)
2) Wolfenstein: The New Order (XB1)
3) Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (XB1) - meh. Just more shooting.
4) Monument Valley (DLC)(Android) - I love this game.

Ooh, I'll try and do this all year this time (yeah, right).

1. Nidhogg - the greatest fighting game since bushido blade. Essential same room multiplayer. Even really enjoyed the, very short, single player.
2. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. - Short, sweet campaign and the best in years. The first since MW with a coherent plot, and the robosuits really freshen it up. But the end is a bit of a squib. Enjoyable fluff. (it appears to be Xmas tradition that the wife gets a copy - well done Activision).
3. Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze such a great game. Controls wonderfully, and so differently to mario. The lion king level is a musical masterpiece. Rayman legends gets so much love due to its graphics, but give me something that controls as well as this any day.

I was enjoying the Walking Dead until i found out, around at episode 2/3 that my choices didn't matter one bit. What's the point then? These games have barely any game play, but until that point i was enjoying it as if i was enjoying a fighting fantasy book.

1) Sunset Overdrive (XB1)
2) Wolfenstein: The New Order (XB1)
3) Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (XB1) - meh. Just more shooting.
4) Monument Valley (DLC)(Android) - I love this game.
5) Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
6) Halo 2: Anniversary
7) Halo 3
8 ) Halo 4

Yeah I'm counting some DLC as a completed game, what of it?

Runcle wrote:

Yeah I'm counting some DLC as a completed game, what of it?

Perfectly acceptable.

lasermink wrote:

Runcle wrote:

Yeah I'm counting some DLC as a completed game, what of it?

Perfectly acceptable.

I'm not doing that this year - feels cheap to me.

lasermink wrote:

Runcle wrote:

Yeah I'm counting some DLC as a completed game, what of it?

Perfectly acceptable.

I'm not doing that this year - feels cheap to me.

Future Warrior wrote:

lasermink wrote:

Runcle wrote:

Yeah I'm counting some DLC as a completed game, what of it?

Perfectly acceptable.

I'm not doing that this year - feels cheap to me.

Your mum and so on.

Ooh, I'll try and do this all year this time (yeah, right).

1. Nidhogg Vita/PS4 - the greatest fighting game since bushido blade. Essential same room multiplayer. Even really enjoyed the, very short, single player.
2. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. - PS4 - Short, sweet campaign and the best in years. The first since MW with a coherent plot, and the robosuits really freshen it up. But the end is a bit of a squib. Enjoyable fluff. (it appears to be Xmas tradition that the wife gets a copy - well done Activision).
3. Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze - WiiU such a great game. Controls wonderfully, and so differently to mario. The lion king level is a musical masterpiece. Rayman legends gets so much love due to its graphics, but give me something that controls as well as this any day.
4. Game of Thrones: Episode 1 - PS4 - Not bad at all. Never really got on with Telltale's Walking dead game, but I think that is possibly because I got the whole season at once. Playing this for a couple of hours every other month seems better somehow. Very enjoyable way to 'play an episode'. Excited to find out my partners choices when she plays it as I think she will be appalled at some of my choices.

Dr Lave wrote:

Final Fantasy X - Vita The first time I've finished a FF game since VII at release. I thought JRPGs were dead to me. Full of grind and random battles and filler, but in a portable format I loved this. Would never have completed it on a couch, but it's made the last month of commuting a blast. Ignored every side quest and went straight down the path, so was constantly a somewhat low level, which made the combat fascinating, rather than the typically. Hammer-standard-attack-until-you-win style of others. Fell apart at the 3rd to last boss when I had to do X damage in 15 or so turns, and that was impossible with my skill set, so I had to grind to level a character for 2 hours, and then they had an attack that made the rest of the battles boringly easy. Looking forward to X-2.

lasermink wrote:

Runcle wrote:

Yeah I'm counting some DLC as a completed game, what of it?

Perfectly acceptable.

I'm not doing that this year - feels cheap to me.

Grim... wrote:

How about demos?

Depends what you mean by a demo.

Future Warrior wrote:

Grim... wrote:

How about demos?

Depends what you mean by a demo.

Demonstration.

X-2 was a bit of a disappointment, I found. (I liked FFX sufficiently to import the japanese version rather than wait for the eu release. The not-shit dub also helped)

Combat goes back to something a bit less tactical, but more akin to old final fantasys. The tone of the game is also quite different.

Future Warrior wrote:

Grim... wrote:

How about demos?

Depends what you mean by a demo.

Demonstration.

Who are you arguing with here? Given that no one else has brought up money as a factor anywhere.

So I'm positing the question: what is a demo?

Future Warrior wrote:

So I'm positing the question: what is a demo?

Well you started doing that, which is fair enough, then went off on a tangent about cost even though no one else had brought that up.

Author:	Satsuma [ Mon Jan 12, 2015 23:39 ]
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What bit was that?

Author:	myp [ Tue Jan 13, 2015 9:18 ]
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Saturnalian wrote: What bit was that? Did you activate all the singing stones? Walk the entire path? Find the hidden door? Play hide and seek with the fox?

Author:	Morte [ Tue Jan 13, 2015 10:18 ]
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Finishing 52 sounds a bit of a tall order but... [1] Carmageddon I bought into the early access to the new Carmageddon game on the basis that a) It was on sale b) All the previous versions of Carmageddon came bundled with it. The interesting thing is that it's the original that has stood the test of time the best, mowing down hoards of bitmapped pedestrians is much more enjoyable that mowing down primitive 3d models of pedestrians.

Author:	Bamba [ Tue Jan 13, 2015 11:43 ]
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1. The Room 2. The Room 2 3. Monument Valley 4. The Unfinished Swan 5. Flower 6. Age of Zombies 7. P.T. 8. Thomas Was Alone: This was the 'free Amazon Android app of the day' over Christmas so I installed it even though I'd already played it through on the PC and actually ended up enjoying it even more the second time through; probably because the levels are the perfect bite-size for train/bus play. Also, even though the touch screen controls obviously aren't as good as using a keyboard, it seemed even easier the second time around. And not because I was remembering the level solutions or anything because I genuinely didn't. There was one level in particular where you're being chased by a constantly advancing wall of spikes which gave me a massive amount of trouble on the PC and almost made me rage quite entirely, but I blasted through it on Android and it seemed a lot shorter. It seems unlikely but it did make me wonder whether some of the levels had been redesigned slightly for the mobile version?

Author:	myp [ Tue Jan 13, 2015 11:45 ]
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Vita or PS4 are the best versions imo. Touchscreen/touchpad for selecting characters makes it a lot easier, while keeping physical controls for moving them about. It really clicked once I played it on PS4.

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Author:	Trooper [ Tue Jan 13, 2015 11:51 ]
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Bamba wrote: There was one level in particular where you're being chased by a constantly advancing wall of spikes which gave me a massive amount of trouble on the PC and almost made me rage quite entirely, but I blasted through it on Android and it seemed a lot shorter. It seems unlikely but it did make me wonder whether some of the levels had been redesigned slightly for the mobile version? That's where I got to on the PC version before I turned it off in disgust! ...well, the wall killed me a couple of times and I thought "bah" and went and did something else for a bit, and never came back for some reason. That level just seemed incongruous and out of place compared to the rest of the game up to that point.

Author:	myp [ Tue Jan 13, 2015 11:55 ]
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Trooper wrote: Bamba wrote: There was one level in particular where you're being chased by a constantly advancing wall of spikes which gave me a massive amount of trouble on the PC and almost made me rage quite entirely, but I blasted through it on Android and it seemed a lot shorter. It seems unlikely but it did make me wonder whether some of the levels had been redesigned slightly for the mobile version? That's where I got to on the PC version before I turned it off in disgust! ...well, the wall killed me a couple of times and I thought "bah" and went and did something else for a bit, and never came back for some reason. That level just seemed incongruous and out of place compared to the rest of the game up to that point. It's where I got stuck on the PS3 as well. Came back to it a year later on PS4 and it was really easy. You don't even need to have really quick reflexes, just learn the most efficient way of transporting both characters across...it was pretty simple once I realised.

Author:	Bamba [ Tue Jan 13, 2015 11:58 ]
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Future Warrior wrote: Vita or PS4 are the best versions imo. Touchscreen/touchpad for selecting characters makes it a lot easier, while keeping physical controls for moving them about. It really clicked once I played it on PS4. The touchscreen character selection on Android was quite nice, although the detection was a bit iffy so sometimes it would misinterpret an attempt to select a character as a jump or move. Not enough to ruin it but enough to be an annoyance. It did make me think that being able to select a character by actually touching the character directly (rather than just choosing from the character's representation at the bottom corner of the screen) would've been really useful. Trooper wrote: That's where I got to on the PC version before I turned it off in disgust! ...well, the wall killed me a couple of times and I thought "bah" and went and did something else for a bit, and never came back for some reason. That level just seemed incongruous and out of place compared to the rest of the game up to that point. There are a couple of levels with that theme, but the rising waters ones aren't as bad as that one. It is odd though because when playing on the PC I actually had to look up a YouTube video because I genuinely couldn't see how you'd have enough time to move your characters and there ended up being a specific trick required, but when playing it on my phone it seemed really straightforward and easy. Anyway, I'd encourage checking out a video of the level to see if that helps you get past it because the rest of the game is well worth playing and there's nothing else anywhere near as annoying afterwards so it's not like you'll just hit another wall later on. Also there's free DLC that was subsequently released so there's quite a bit more content waiting for you altogether.

Author:	lasermink [ Tue Jan 13, 2015 19:56 ]
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Crysis (PC) Octodad (PC) Crysis Warhead (PC) Completed on hard. Not as good as the original, some frustrating bits where you need the quick save too much (the train), but also lots of good stuff. The story is a bit rubbish, especially the weak ending, where it seems they ran out of money for the music.

Author:	RuySan [ Tue Jan 13, 2015 22:12 ]
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2.Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Probably the best fighting game I’ve ever played. The boss fights are great (the last on ewas probably the only one that annoyed me a little bit, too much QTE’s on that one). It’s a blast. Even the cutscenes, which is something that I’m allergic to, are fun.

Author:	myp [ Tue Jan 13, 2015 23:40 ]
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1. Proteus (Vita) - finished the game 2. Desert Golfing (iOS) - played 1,000 holes Although it technically goes on forever, you get on the Game Center leaderboards at 1,000 holes so it seems a good place to put this one to bed. A weird sort of life metaphor, this is just one endless sandtrap, with sensory deprivation that would impress those that practice enhanced interrogation techniques. In 2,702 strokes I managed to see two water holes, one boulder and a cactus. The soft plop of ball hitting sand will haunt my dreams for years to come.

Author:	lasermink [ Wed Jan 14, 2015 18:44 ]
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Crysis (PC) Octodad (PC) Crysis Warhead (PC) Tomb Raider: Anniversary (PC) It has some frustrating bits, but when it works – which is most of the time – it is some mighty fine tomb raiding indeed.

Author:	Bamba [ Wed Jan 14, 2015 20:47 ]
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1. The Room 2. The Room 2 3. Monument Valley 4. The Unfinished Swan 5. Flower 6. Age of Zombies 7. P.T. 8. Thomas Was Alone 9. Space Expedition

Author:	TheCookie197 [ Wed Jan 14, 2015 23:13 ]
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Cookie197 wrote: Cookie197 wrote: 1) Sunset Overdrive (XB1) 2) Wolfenstein: The New Order (XB1) 3) Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (XB1) - meh. Just more shooting. 4) Monument Valley (DLC)(Android) - I love this game.

Author:	myp [ Sun Jan 25, 2015 17:21 ]
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1. Proteus (Vita) - finished the game 2. Desert Golfing (iOS) - played 1,000 holes 3. Heavy Metal Thunder (iOS) - finished story 4. Driveclub (PS4) - finished Tour with 175/225 stars 5. Peggle Classic (iOS) - finished Adventure Mode with 18m points Really fancied a mobile version of Peggle after becoming addicted to Peggle 2 on the home consoles, but I wasn't going to touch the IAP-riddled freemium Peggle Blitz, so decided to play the original through again, after having originally finished it on the 360. Still as great as ever.

Author:	Grim... [ Thu Jan 15, 2015 0:59 ]
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Advanced Snorefare AMIRITE?

Author:	RuySan [ Sun Jan 18, 2015 23:48 ]
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3 - Trine 2: Even better than the first. The graphics are among the best I’ve ever seen, and the puzzles have a very organic feel to them, since there are many different solutions for most of them.

Author:	Bamba [ Mon Jan 19, 2015 23:27 ]
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1. The Room 2. The Room 2 3. Monument Valley 4. The Unfinished Swan 5. Flower 6. Age of Zombies 7. P.T. 8. Thomas Was Alone 9. Space Expedition 10. Xon episodes one and two (all that are available right now): really fun little Myst-y puzzle game on Android with generally very logical puzzles and a nice atmosphere.

Author:	Mr Russell [ Tue Jan 20, 2015 9:53 ]
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Ooh, I'm off the mark and totally forgot! 1) Broken Sword 2 (iOS)

Author:	myp [ Fri Jan 23, 2015 12:39 ]
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1. Proteus (Vita) - finished the game 2. Desert Golfing (iOS) - played 1,000 holes 3. Heavy Metal Thunder (iOS) - finished story Abysmal. Some of the most cringe-inducing, embarrassingly adolescent male power-fantasy writing I've ever had the misfortune to experience.

Author:	Bamba [ Fri Jan 23, 2015 14:55 ]
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1. The Room 2. The Room 2 3. Monument Valley 4. The Unfinished Swan 5. Flower 6. Age of Zombies 7. P.T. 8. Thomas Was Alone 9. Space Expedition 10. Xon episodes one and two (all that are available right now) 11. Republique episodes one, two and three (all that are available right now)

Author:	Dr Lave [ Sun Jan 25, 2015 3:26 ]
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Dr Lave wrote: Ooh, I'll try and do this all year this time (yeah, right). 1. Nidhogg - the greatest fighting game since bushido blade. Essential same room multiplayer. Even really enjoyed the, very short, single player. 2. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. - Short, sweet campaign and the best in years. The first since MW with a coherent plot, and the robosuits really freshen it up. But the end is a bit of a squib. Enjoyable fluff. (it appears to be Xmas tradition that the wife gets a copy - well done Activision). 3. Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze such a great game. Controls wonderfully, and so differently to mario. The lion king level is a musically masterpiece. Rayman legends gets so much love due to its graphics, but give me something that controls as well as this any day.

Author:	myp [ Sun Jan 25, 2015 16:23 ]
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1. Proteus (Vita) - finished the game 2. Desert Golfing (iOS) - played 1,000 holes 3. Heavy Metal Thunder (iOS) - finished story 4. Driveclub (PS4) - finished Tour with 175/225 stars Really, really good fun. Handling somewhere between PGR 4 and Forza 4 - not as good as the latter, but much better than the former.

Author:	TheCookie197 [ Sun Jan 25, 2015 21:53 ]
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Cookie197 wrote: 1) Sunset Overdrive (XB1) 2) Wolfenstein: The New Order (XB1) 3) Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (XB1) - meh. Just more shooting. 4) Monument Valley (DLC)(Android) - I love this game. 5) Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary 6) Halo 2: Anniversary 7) Halo 3 8 ) Halo 4 (Master Chief Collection) I've decided that I like the Halo games. I didn't think they were that long - I only started on Wednesday. But at the same time, I was up pretty late the last few nights playing it. I really like all of them, but it felt like 4 moved back a bit in a few things.

Author:	Dr Lave [ Mon Jan 26, 2015 17:46 ]
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Dr Lave wrote: Ooh, I'll try and do this all year this time (yeah, right). 1. Nidhogg - the greatest fighting game since bushido blade. Essential same room multiplayer. Even really enjoyed the, very short, single player. 2. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. - Short, sweet campaign and the best in years. The first since MW with a coherent plot, and the robosuits really freshen it up. But the end is a bit of a squib. Enjoyable fluff. (it appears to be Xmas tradition that the wife gets a copy - well done Activision). 3. Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze such a great game. Controls wonderfully, and so differently to mario. The lion king level is a musical masterpiece. Rayman legends gets so much love due to its graphics, but give me something that controls as well as this any day. 4. Game of Thrones: Episode 1 - Not bad at all. Never really got on with Telltale's Walking dead game, but I think that is possibly because I got the whole season at once. Playing this for a couple of hours every other month seems better somehow. Very enjoyable way to 'play an episode'. Excited to find out my partners choices when she plays it as I think she will be appalled at some of my choices.

Author:	RuySan [ Mon Jan 26, 2015 18:12 ]
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I was enjoying the Walking Dead until i found out, around at episode 2/3 that my choices didn't matter one bit. What's the point then? These games have barely any game play, but until that point i was enjoying it as if i was enjoying a fighting fantasy book. I'll probably play GoT eventually though, as it's GoT. The Witcher 2 is a game of much bigger scope that wasn't afraid of a big rupture in half of it, depending on one particular choice

Author:	Grim... [ Mon Jan 26, 2015 19:09 ]
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RuySan wrote: I was enjoying the Walking Dead until i found out, around at episode 2/3 that my choices didn't matter one bit. What's the point then? These games have barely any game play, but until that point i was enjoying it as if i was enjoying a fighting fantasy book. They don't tend to change the outcome, but they change the story quite a lot. Massive spoilers: http://1u88jj3r4db2x4txp44yqfj1.wpengin ... esbeat.jpg

Author:	Bamba [ Mon Feb 02, 2015 18:26 ]
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1. The Room 2. The Room 2 3. Monument Valley 4. The Unfinished Swan 5. Flower 6. Age of Zombies 7. P.T. 8. Thomas Was Alone 9. Space Expedition 10. Xon episodes one and two (all that are available right now) 11. Republique episodes one, two and three (all that are available right now) 12. Gunman Clive

Author:	Grim... [ Mon Feb 02, 2015 18:29 ]
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Oh! 1. Shadow Complex Did it again, on "insane" mode. It's still brilliant. If you haven't played it, try your very best to do so.

Author:	Bamba [ Mon Feb 02, 2015 20:09 ]
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1. The Room 2. The Room 2 3. Monument Valley 4. The Unfinished Swan 5. Flower 6. Age of Zombies 7. P.T. 8. Thomas Was Alone 9. Space Expedition 10. Xon episodes one and two (all that are available right now) 11. Republique episodes one, two and three (all that are available right now) 12. Gunman Clive 13. Pixel Staff

Author:	TheCookie197 [ Mon Feb 02, 2015 20:54 ]
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Cookie197 wrote: 1) Sunset Overdrive (XB1) 2) Wolfenstein: The New Order (XB1) 3) Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (XB1) - meh. Just more shooting. 4) Monument Valley (DLC)(Android) - I love this game. 5) Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary 6) Halo 2: Anniversary 7) Halo 3 8 ) Halo 4 9) State of Decay 10)Scribblenauts Unlimited

Author:	Bamba [ Tue Feb 03, 2015 23:55 ]
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1. The Room 2. The Room 2 3. Monument Valley 4. The Unfinished Swan 5. Flower 6. Age of Zombies 7. P.T. 8. Thomas Was Alone 9. Space Expedition 10. Xon episodes one and two (all that are available right now) 11. Republique episodes one, two and three (all that are available right now) 12. Gunman Clive 13. Pixel Staff 14. Hellraid: The Escape

Author:	Runcle [ Wed Feb 04, 2015 22:45 ]
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1. The Wolf Among Us (PS4) 2. Assassins Creed Unity (PS4) It's alright, it's more Assassins Creed, co-op missions are pretty fun. 3. Assassins Creed Unity: Dead Kings DLC (PS4) Yeah I'm counting some DLC as a completed game, what of it? I did finish this one to 100% though.

Author:	lasermink [ Thu Feb 05, 2015 7:44 ]
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Runcle wrote: Yeah I'm counting some DLC as a completed game, what of it? Perfectly acceptable.

Author:	myp [ Thu Feb 05, 2015 9:11 ]
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lasermink wrote: Runcle wrote: Yeah I'm counting some DLC as a completed game, what of it? Perfectly acceptable. I'm not doing that this year - feels cheap to me.