By RPS on December 30th, 2010 at 10:40 am.
Looking for something to read? Peruse our calendar of the year’s best PC games!
It’s back! The ultimate Christmas list of games on the PC that were okay, or better: The RPS Advent Christmas Games Calendar Of Games! Yes, it’s the countdown to the origination day of RPS Sponsor Deity, Horace The Endless Bear, the Space God who gave man the gift of video computer systems. Praise him, praise him.
We will be updating the calendar with click functionality day by day. Amazing technology for all.
(And if you just want a list of the games, you’ll find them below…)
Day 1: Battlefield: Bad Company 2.
Day 2: Just Cause 2.
Day 3: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Day 4: Space Funeral.
Day 5: Neptune’s Pride.
Day 6: Dead Rising 2.
Day 7: VVVVVV
Day 8: Digital: A Love Story.
Day 9: Bioshock 2.
Day 10: Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale
Day 11: Plain Sight.
Day 12: Dragon Age: Awakening.
Day 13: Alien Swarm.
Day 14: Metro 2033.
Day 15: Warhammer 40,000 Dawn Of War 2: Chaos Rising
Day 16: Sleep Is Death.
Day 17: Desktop Dungeons.
Day 18: Lara Croft & The Guardian of Light.
Day 19: R.U.S.E.
Day 20: Super Meat Boy.
Day 21: Starcraft II: Wings Of Liberty.
Day 22: Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
Day 23: Mass Effect 2.
Day 24: Minecraft.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and all that.
Hooray for Horace. His infinity is awe inspiring.
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Yay for the advent calendar!
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THE PICTURE WON’T CLICK
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That’s probably because only one window is active. See if you can guess which one it is!
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Hail Horace, bringer of games.
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If Super Meat Boy isn’t hidden in there somewhere I will eat my hat (and someone else’s, for good measure).
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This is SO fancy! Praise Horace.
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Weee! the RPS advent!! awesomeness :D
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Yay! Good drawing John though Alec looks even more like a WoW gnome than usual (love you Alec!) and you’ve made Quinns much hotter than he is IRL.
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I swear I can see one end of Horace, praise be his name.
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One End? The only end! But in Horacial
UrsinismArctolatry we prefer the term “the Beginning” so as to keep all this “endless” thing afloat.report
As I believe I argued last year, Horace has a beginning but no end.
And yes, when he shits, he shits in all woods.
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This is a fine comment
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John Walker: The Official Messenger of Horace. May his games not contain quick time events.
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So just how infinite is Horace?
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Well, he definitely goes all the way up that chimney.
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The question becomes “How long is the chimney?”
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Surely no chimney can be long enough to contain all of Horace’s bountiful infiniteness!
I think the presence of the chimney serves the allegorical nature of the picture. We can only see Horace’s head and shoulders poking out of the fireplace, echoing the fact that, though we may see a little of Horace, the vastness of his infinite being cannot be grasped by our meagre human minds and therefore remains hidden. For, while Horace extends forever, we are constrained by the laws of the universe, being, comparatively, as 2-dimensional faces trapped behind glass.
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He’s only infinite when you look at him.
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Perhaps it’s the chimney of City 17′s Citadel?
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Ahah, awesome. I was just thinking earlier today that I hope you do another one of these. It was actually around this time last year that I discovered RPS and started reading it.
Still… what happened to Optimus Prime?
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The recession hit Optimus harder than most.
We don’t like to talk about it.
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I thought I saw Optimus lying on some cinder blocks the other day and he wasn’t moving.
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Is Kieron the Ghost of RPS past or is he actually just very very pale?
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Yes.
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The vampire teeth indicate he’s actually fructose intolerant.
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All hail Horace!
I can’t believe Kieron still gets a stocking though. He better get coal in his! Or a serial killer. Not because I wish him any harm, just that he seems to like them, and having a little pet one to follow him round like a little MMO thing would make him smile, I think.
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Praise be to the Ceaseless Ursine Master of All!
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ALL GLORY TO THE ENDLESS BEAR
(Also, Hooray for another advent calender! Shame there’ll be no vicarious enjoyment of Fairtrade chocolate this time)
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praises to the space bear god
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If Horace enters your house through the chimney, is He really ever completely in your house? Can His endlessness ever be understood?
Oh Horace, send us your Angelbears with gifts of steam sales and enough free time. I pray to Thee for 75% off Mass Effect 2, and a week of university downtime in January 2011.
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Good lord CLICK TECHNOLOGY! Horace has been generous this year.
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Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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What good is the calendar, if all the articles it links to are posted on the top of the blog-list anyway, while the calendar gets pushed back on to page 2,3,4… never to be seen again? Am I missing something here?
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My guess is that it will be put in the feature header on the top of the page and stay there until the new year, when the monster comes out again, to devour RPS, as is its annual wont.
Edit: oh look there it is already (the header, not the monster).
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Nice ! This picture could make the winter solstice festivities a bit less shit this year, so thank you RPS and thank you Horace the Endless Bear for the gift of videogames.
But why is there a picture of Pete Townshend and some dudes on the wall ?
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Hail to Horace! May his worship be as unending as his form.
Hmm…what gift should I offer to an infinite deity? Milk and cookies doesn’t quite seem appropriate…
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Only an infinite quantity of milk and 542 cookies will suffice.
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Will Fallout: New Vegas be in here?
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It should be there. “grrr” at RPS. But we still love you.
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Horray for Horace The Endless Bear ad infinitum!
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Hail Horace! May Your Endlessness be ever reflected in our entertainment.
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I initially thought that Horace’s hat must be stapled or glued to his head, but as He is infinite, perhaps He is merely using hidden portions of Himself to support the hat.
I predicted the return of Horace, am I not a prophet?
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The only breakout PC smash this year has been Minecraft, fucking Minecraft, like Second Life but with fewer sex dragons.
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Oo, I love the Advent Calendar. I should hope that Horace will grant that some of the games hidden within shall be talked about in that dialogue/chat-log format you chaps sometimes do when more than one of you has played a game. Those are my favourite, excepting of course all the other things that are my favourite.
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Weee, time goes really fast these days. I remember the last years advent calendar like it just happened yesterday
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My Predictions:
Day 1: Battlefield Bad Company (edit: OMG I GOT IT RIGHT!!!)
Day 2: God of Thunder
Day 3-22: Lord of the Rings Online
Day 23: Fly Pig
Day 24: James Willock
Day 25: ~DNE
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I couldn’t find any numbers through the fog of jpeg artifacts!
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The RPS advent calender. Its like putting on a comfy pair of slippers, grabbing a nice hot-chocolate and watching it snow outside whilst sitting by an open fireplace.
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Yes yes yes, you beautiful lot. Another RPS Christmas on its way. Wahoo! :)
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Fact. On December the first, whilst unclogging my brain with coffee, I suddenly thought – will RPS have an advent calendar up today? and they did !?!? I SO HAPPY.
Also, I predict minecraft to be number one with a pickaxe.
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What are the rules here? Are unreleased games eligible? If it is then I’d have to agree but then what happens once it’s released for real, can it win again?
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Only number 1 clicks for me :(
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Same, amazing technology for none :(
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You have completely abused Horace’s Endless Gift by failing to update the click functionality even once. For shame! Horace would be endlessly displeased.
YES I AM OBSESSED WITH CLICKING OK THANK YOU
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RPS I am of disappoint.
We demand clicks!
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You forgot to update this, only 1 will click. I am so sad :(
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Day 4 is on Day 24
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in true rps style the writing is brilliant but the website tech sucks
never change
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Ahhhh full click functionality. Hail Horace!
Also, anyone doing any Games of the Decade stuff? How were the ’10s in gaming terms?
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Whoa, time warp.
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*Puts on best Simon Pegg voice and a look of disgust*
“Time Warp?”
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Is Horace Hungry?
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Horace appears to be thirsting for his rightful place on the front page. All hail his infinite glory.
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Played/bought 11 out of 24, who´s got more?:-)
(Might become 12, I´m contemplating getting Amnesia)
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Played/bought 11 out of 24, who´s got more?:-)
(Might become 12, I´m contemplating getting Amnesia)
(Screw you Spam-O-Tron, not even a new email address works???)
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I’m at 9/24 unless you count owning call of pripyat as enough to say I’ve played it. But I think it was utter suck.
GOTY for me would have to go to Just Cause 2 for being so much fun. I haven’t laughed so much in ages and despite the ‘touch of the clone brush’ being prevalent across the world, my creativity wasn’t lacking. Between friend and myself we must have invented a decent 30 stupid mini games that became all consuming gigglefests.
I also feel quite unexcited about minecraft (one I’ve played). I think the only compelling thing about it is the ‘feel’ of the world. It has the tactility of popping bubblewrap, if that was any fun at all and if there were hallucinogenic spores in the bubbles. Pop, inhale, smile, repeat. Luckily it’s in beta. Throw in a few billion more materials and combinations and a better hierachy of tool and gear improvement and some sort of big boss man and you’ve got yourself a fantastic trippin’ gamebox.
Or just let me craft a rocket launcher.
Also dying in Minecraft was fucking terrifying compared to dying in Amnesia. In Minecraft i had something to loose.
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I’ve actually played/own 20 of the 24!? And most of them before this came out, frightening how much I must have spent. That said 4 are free and 7 I got for sub-£5 thanks to steam sales/pay-what-you-wants and generally cheap games being awesome this year.
My favourite? Amnesia. With Minecraft and Call of Pripyat completing top 3
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I’m 17/24, which is better than I’d have thought.
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16 for me, which I think it a bit worse than last year.
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Played 10 bought 12 (still to start Awakening and Lara Croft). Favourites were Mass Effect 2, VVVVVV, Minecraft, Desktop Dungeons and Amnesia.
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I’m at 23/24, which gives me both a sense of pride and a mild feeling of emptiness.
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I own 11/19 (5 are free, so don’t count), and have played 8/24.
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I own 16/24 which is rather impressive by my standards.
That I’ve only played 5/24 for more than say, an hour, speaks volumes about my current gaming time allocation.
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Bought one, downloaded one, got a link to another in my favourites, so that makes, three
Go me.
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Only 6/24 – yet I can confidently claim I spent nearly 30-40% of my conscious hours this year playing games. MMO’s are evil. Very evil.
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Played 3 1/2 out of 24 (Recettear, Super Meat Boy, VVVVVV and a couple hours of free Minecraft), which makes you wonder why I visit this site daily if I’m going to ignore half of the recommendations. That said, I wouldn’t have known any of those if it weren’t for RPS, and I even liked VVVVVV, so mission accomplished, Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
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Hm. If I count the demos (Recettear and RUSE) then I’am also at 20.
Now where is the one who played them all? Quinns?
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played 6, 2 of them demos, own 7.
Started super meat boy yesterday. What a blast!
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I didn’t play them all, no. That would be maaad. 19 out of 24 for me.
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Yes, but how many did you lot *play*? I mean play-play. You know: PLAY.
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Numbers always look pretty when they are in Impact. Or did I mean Hattenschwieler? /w link to correct chainsawsuit comic. Damn Search function of awful.
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How did plain sight get on the list may I ask, I mean its a nice little game but it has problems going back to a steam sale they had a while back when nobody could log on, has it actually recovered since then or is it still on life support?
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The Steam version works marvelously at this point, though last I checked it was still broken on the other services.
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I have the steam version myself, are people actually playing?
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Yes. Whenever I’ve started a server I’ve had people drift in. There aren’t a huge number of people playing, but there is certainly an active population to play with.
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ah good, then if I can still log in I might check it out sometime.
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I’m secretly disappointed One Chance didn’t make it onto the list.
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Yet another comment thread haunted by the ghost of spammers past.
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Isn’t this missing Civilization V? Sure it wasn’t a remarkable edition to the series. But, its civilization all the same.
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It was bollocks at worst, no better than the last one at best, not really worth much.
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A pretty good year for games. I got a lot of enjoyment from the big guns New Vegas and Mass Effect 2. Some enjoyment from Mafia 2. I had a tonne of fun with Alpha Protocol, Lara Croft and Call of Pripyat. I have made a decision to wait a bit with the Minecraft thingy until it is slightly more feature filled.
But for me the game of the year is without a doubt Amnesia. The first four hours is the most immersive gaming experience I have had. The last three were more exploratory than frightening (law of diminishing returns) but it worked out. But going though Storage and Prison – that’s as good as gaming gets.
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The comment pagination seems to have gone funny for this post.
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Testy Test
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When a spam comment is deleted, the next post will appear in that now-vacant slot, which makes the later post appear before earlier ones.
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No Fallout New Vegas ? Seriously ??
I’d put it on the list anytime over 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23 and reluctantly over 3. I can’t see how for one split second you could avec Bioshock2 or Just Cause 2 or Dragon Age Awakening in and Fallout New Vegas out.
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Fork off with your forking shoes mate!
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whoa! Red bull hats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m putting an order down for 157 of them.
Send me your credit card number, expiry date, security code, and credit limit so I can deposit the money into you.
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Whoa. “Expiry” is a word? Thank you, Britain, for your words! Now I’m going to use that instead of expiration, which always confused me because it has to do with breathing. It’s a great new year already!!!
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