Instead Far Cry 5 turned out to be yet another bland open world Ubi game. With Trump in the White House and a wave of white supremacy washing over the nation's heartlands the game could have provided some sharp and necessary social commentary but luckily someone up high caught wind of ideas that could have lost them a sale and put that poo poo on lockdown. Ubisoft almost got caught up in political controversy as Far Cry 5 traded in the franchise's standard tropical havana location for somewhere in rural America.Video games continued to be a disaster in Hollywood as the Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson-fronted Rampage limped to a sub $100mil performance at the US box office.PUT COOKING MAMA IN SMASH NINTENDO YOU loving COWARDS I DARE YOU.Nintendo also also releasesd the Labo, a cardboard construction kit to build around your Switch for five minutes until you accidentally tread on it and it spends the rest of its short life sitting in your bin.They're even making a movie about it and it looks surprsingly awesome! Nintendo also made a video game about a talking Pikachu that solves crimes.It did look really cool synced up with Immigrant Song though so silver linings and all that. Nintendo killed off Luigi and decided the only way they could top that was killing off everybody else that you have ever loved. Hideo Kojima spent the years hanging out with Mads Mikkelsen and Norman Reedus on Twitter and thinking about maybe making a bit more of Death Stranding at some point possible.Celeste repped hard for indie games all year as this beautiful yet challenging title displayed a raw and emotional look at mental health problems, a theme that players were able to empathise with all too much while they descended into mindless rage over its fiendishly difficult platforming.The start of the year was dominated by Monster Hunter World as the release of the first AAA game of 2018 brought gamers together as they looked on in awe and wonder, unable to believe their eyes at the sight of Capcom making good games again.But before we go over how this is going to work, let's take a quick look back over the biggest haps of 2018! Don't worry though I don't stick around for 40 hours, at least not unless you're providing free food! For the last few years I've been running an end of year top 10 poll in TV IV and I thought it was high time video games got in on the act. It's yo' girl Rarity here to lead you on the first steps of this grand adventure and I'll be your designated tutorial for the evening. Welcome, welcome, friends! Come on in and settle yourselves down comfortably for what is sure to be a nostalgic retrospective of the year that just was.
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