People tend to criticize things they love more than things they dislike. They get close enough to see what aspects of that thing are imperfections to them.
Your TOTK final trailer react video is one of my fav Zelda vids on YT. The excitement is contagious AF, and phrases like “GANONDORF’S VOICE!!!” and “THAT. Was HYLIA!!!” are still happily burned into my brain. I personally adore the in-game lore and all the theories about how it fits with the existing multiverse of timelines, but I absolutely respect your stance! I’m glad the gameplay brought you joy! The merriest of Christmases to you, and a cup of good Hylian egg pudding nog!
Fellow creator here, I've really loved seeing you appear more in your videos recently! You have such an expressive face, it totally improves the quality and compliments your comedic timing! 👍 (And if you'd ever like to come talk about video games on my podcast, we'd love to have you 😊)
Why do you think you "cool" or more "special" than other people your not, nor are you special at all, maybe 👀 try to talk to me again when your your head gets quite a bit smaller. Lmao degenerates on the internet 🤣 make me laugh 🤣
This year, I played sekiro. And am now on my third playthrough on hard-mode. It has one of the most intense and difficult combat systems I’ve ever played, tailor made for epic one on one sword duels with mighty foes, such as samurai with supernatural powers, evil monks seeking immortality, and a giant monkey. Aside from how awesome it feels to master, the environment and lore draws you in, and always a different way to approach things, as you kill anyone who stands in your way to protect your master and aid him in his quest to end the Dragonrot. Also, you can drink booze with a hot doctor lady, so that helps
I started a 3rd Stardew file, replayed skyrim twice, played TOTK and during the wait finished Link's Awakening and recently started Nier Automata. Mostly games from past years but i also have a massive backlog
I share many of your sentiments on TOTK, your latest videos have been so refreshing to watch. Hope you enjoy the holiday season. Looking forward to 2024s content
I am currently on Outer Wilds! First time play through….well 47th time…. Those who know, know what I mean. I haven’t beaten it yet but I love the experience so far!
My top games this year, in no particular order: 1) Tears of the Kingdom, despite your weird vendetta against it 2) Sea of Stars 3) Baldur's Gate 3 4) Super Mario Odyssey - gave it a replay and really enjoyed the hell out of it again 5) Vampire Survivors - gave it another crack and it clicked. Had a load of fun with it until I no longer did
Damn I love this channel.. Always get a good laugh in almost every video... I've been hooked on Alan Wake II. The story is sooo captivating as are the game play mechanics. Not very jolly but I think it's earned my goty. I've been going down the whole remedy universe rabbit hole for the lore and everything
My top games of 2023 1. Legend of Heroes: Trails Into Reverie! 2. Honkai Star Rail 3. Legend Of Zelda: TOTK 4. Final Fantasy 16 5. Xenoblade 3 Future Redeemed
Merry Christmas! I finally got around to playing Hogwarts Legacy, and it actually really surprised me with how much fun I had. Probably not my favorite game of the year, but a pleasant surprise for sure.
I've mostly been playing Genshin Impact, because they've been knocking it out of the past these last couple of years and this year has introduced a region with full underwater swimming and tons of great quality of life changes.
I started hate-playing it when it came out because it was so absurdly similar to botw, but then I actually ended up liking it and it's totally developed it's own story now. Haha
@@OGAngieHonestly, it's more of a BotW bait and switch than an actual clone. Narratively and mechanically it was always much closer to traditional Open World games like Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West (to the point where I was completely confused how since of the more obnoxious fans were complaining that non-canon-collab-character Aloy didn't really fit the game), especially with how the superficial similarities to BotW drop off drastically once you leave the Prologue region.
@@TAREKOZA The story is pretty damn good, with constant revelations, call backs, and massive amounts of lore dumps. Like, Genshin waifus and husbandos are so well lived despite having significantly less fanservice than much of their Gacha contemporaries partly because of how good their character and overall story arcs are, and there are quite a few popular channels that are dedicated entirely to going through Genshin lore and story. Edit: Like hell, they just put in a bittersweet animated French musical number about how true love alone isn't enough to save people for a new meta-redefining waifu character whose only real fanservice element is that she wears shorts.
I am really waiting for his Genshin Stream for like 3 months now. Fontaine story is already finished and bro still haven't completed Whole of Enkanomiya and Sumeru. Your mind will be blown away after doing Sumeru and Fontaine. Like bro dipped just when We were getting at the best part. Pls Be live again, Sorry for ranting but I really am waiting. 😢😢 Hoping for the best 😭🙏 Also, I think I am Muted or banned from you Bandit Jo channel, I don't know why but It is like that. My Live Chat Never used to show up on your live chat layout (When It used to work). I might have accidentally triggered bot ban by some keyword. I do Apologize for that. Happy Christmas. 🎉🎉
In order my top 5 from this year are Hogwarts Legacy, RE4, The Talos Principle 2, Diablo IV and Spider-man 2. TotK comes in at #6. Still good, but 🤷♂️.
Since you asked. *Redacted* yeah this game gets some people very angry but it sold 23 million copies, so a ton of people played it but just don't talk about it. Baldur's Gate 3, Lies Of P, Zelda ToTK, Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, Fire Emblem: Engage and Starfield (yep I actually really liked Starfield, almost redacted this one too because it also drives some people crazy).
deadass sans the few hours of acnh sprinkled in here and there, the only games i played this year were totk (100%d in 305 hours), botw (doubled my original 2017 playtime to 260 hours total when i decided to 100% it after totk), and all 3 splatoon games (around 400 hours total across all three games). bandit i'm begging you to play splatoon and make videos on it............ do it for me (pleading emoji)
Repent and believe the gospel! Jesus died for our sins and rose 3 days later so we could be forgiven of our sins and be gifted with everlasting life. Put your faith In Jesus and follow him. Life is short, please make the right choice today.
Since thinking about TOTK’s lore triggers me, I decided to just look at BOTW and TOTK as two separate titles to all the past games and this way I truly appreciate them for the masterpieces both games are
So glad you mentioned Outer Wilds. My favorite game of all time and a game more people definitely need to play. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone
This year I played Octopath Traveler 2, Metroid Dread, Hades and Disco Elysium. All good games. I especially loved Octopath Traveler 2. As for 2024, I'll probably be playing Celeste and Tears Of The Kingdom.
For me, this year consisted of a lot of replays I did finally play the Outlast games and I played a little bit more of Final Fantasy I - the pixel remaster on Switch But of course, I "had" to replay Twilight Princess, Breath of the Wild, Skyward Sword (HD), and I'm currently replaying Ocarina of Time. At first, it was going to be my copy on GameCube, but the 3DS remake just feels and looks so much better
Looking at what you consider best games you played this year I'm surprised you like Zelda. It certainly looks like a fish out of the water in the middle of this list.
I'm loving the Bandit lore being the TOTK hater. or.... harsh criticizer. NGL, I get a twinge in my jingle bells when you shit talk TOTK caz it improved on EVERYTHING from BOTW. But yeah... that's how the cookie crumbles I guess. My actual comment was : I was expecting more games on your list. You barely scratched the surface.
A Game I played this year I instantly loved is Sea of Stars. It's an indie RPG borrowing concepts from games like Chrono Trigger and the Mario RPG's, in a pixel artstyle. The writing is really good, and I constantly laugh or chuckle with the humor, but it can also play serious moments very well! If you have any interest in RPG's, absolutely check this one out. (There's a reason it won the Game Award for Best Indie this year.)
I was pleasantly surprised by Alan Wake 2. I made sure to play the first one beforehand, and had no idea until playing 2 the massive connections to Control (which I had played a while back). Amazing story and.... LORE
2:30 "Abandoned and forgotten about...you know like Zelda lore" 😭
People tend to criticize things they love more than things they dislike. They get close enough to see what aspects of that thing are imperfections to them.
No surprise Zelda is on this list, bandit has good tastes
He is a Zelda-tuber.
He changed his channel to be more 'general gaming' than just Nintendo/LOZ games. He addressed this in one of his videos.@@Ninjaananas
A magnificant, fluffy hat.
Your TOTK final trailer react video is one of my fav Zelda vids on YT. The excitement is contagious AF, and phrases like “GANONDORF’S VOICE!!!” and “THAT. Was HYLIA!!!” are still happily burned into my brain.
I personally adore the in-game lore and all the theories about how it fits with the existing multiverse of timelines, but I absolutely respect your stance! I’m glad the gameplay brought you joy!
The merriest of Christmases to you, and a cup of good Hylian egg pudding nog!
Fellow creator here, I've really loved seeing you appear more in your videos recently! You have such an expressive face, it totally improves the quality and compliments your comedic timing! 👍
(And if you'd ever like to come talk about video games on my podcast, we'd love to have you 😊)
No one asked
@@egg_64. thanks, you too
Why do you think you "cool" or more "special" than other people your not, nor are you special at all, maybe 👀 try to talk to me again when your your head gets quite a bit smaller. Lmao degenerates on the internet 🤣 make me laugh 🤣
@@jarrodnisly3333 also wdym by content creator?
Lol. The salt is showing, Bandit 😂😂 Merry Christmas to all and to all a goodnight
The constant shots at Zelda had me cracking up lol
Happy Holidays to you all, for another year of good games :D
you've grown on me my Friend ... i like your humor and your style XD
Merry Christmas bandit hope u have a great day
Merry Christmas, bandit!
This year, I played sekiro. And am now on my third playthrough on hard-mode. It has one of the most intense and difficult combat systems I’ve ever played, tailor made for epic one on one sword duels with mighty foes, such as samurai with supernatural powers, evil monks seeking immortality, and a giant monkey. Aside from how awesome it feels to master, the environment and lore draws you in, and always a different way to approach things, as you kill anyone who stands in your way to protect your master and aid him in his quest to end the Dragonrot.
Also, you can drink booze with a hot doctor lady, so that helps
Merry Christmas bandit.
merry christmas jordan!🎄🎅🏻❤️
Merry Christmas Lily! 🎄❤️
Merry Christmas Bandit!
One could argue that a burned marshmallow IS a perfect marshmallow.
Happy Holidays Bandit Games!
I started a 3rd Stardew file, replayed skyrim twice, played TOTK and during the wait finished Link's Awakening and recently started Nier Automata.
Mostly games from past years but i also have a massive backlog
I share many of your sentiments on TOTK, your latest videos have been so refreshing to watch. Hope you enjoy the holiday season. Looking forward to 2024s content
My favorites of the year are Tears of the Kingdom, Hogwarts Legacy, Super Mario Wonder, and Metroid Prime Remastered.
11/10 best yt outro🏆
lolololol the shade you throw at totk there is beautiful
Star Rail is one of my favorite video games that released in 2023.
This might be my new favorite video 😂
Love you Bandit! ❤ Have a Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas sir. Thanks for the content, and all the best to you and yours
Merry Christmas!
*CASUALLY SIPS COCOA
The man doesn’t get enough credit for his voice or his comedy style
I am dying at this video (2:23)
Epic video fam
I am currently on Outer Wilds! First time play through….well 47th time…. Those who know, know what I mean. I haven’t beaten it yet but I love the experience so far!
Merry Christmas Bandit! 🎅
Merry christmas Bandit. I like your Lore videos, but I really enjoy that you're making more videos with you just being yourself. Keep it up
This was an entertaining list and Happy Holidays Bandit
My top games this year, in no particular order:
1) Tears of the Kingdom, despite your weird vendetta against it
2) Sea of Stars
3) Baldur's Gate 3
4) Super Mario Odyssey - gave it a replay and really enjoyed the hell out of it again
5) Vampire Survivors - gave it another crack and it clicked. Had a load of fun with it until I no longer did
I really enjoyed this video thanks
Damn I love this channel.. Always get a good laugh in almost every video... I've been hooked on Alan Wake II. The story is sooo captivating as are the game play mechanics. Not very jolly but I think it's earned my goty. I've been going down the whole remedy universe rabbit hole for the lore and everything
Merry Christmas!! 🎉🎉🎉
My top games of 2023
1. Legend of Heroes: Trails Into Reverie!
2. Honkai Star Rail
3. Legend Of Zelda: TOTK
4. Final Fantasy 16
5. Xenoblade 3 Future Redeemed
I played the Mass Effect trilogy what a game.
Yay early Christmas present
Merry Christmas! I finally got around to playing Hogwarts Legacy, and it actually really surprised me with how much fun I had. Probably not my favorite game of the year, but a pleasant surprise for sure.
Coffee with a straw!?
He does the thing
SECRET STONE? DEMON KING? IMPRISONING WAR?
You are a true zelda fan my friend , only a true zelda fan wouldnt include totk in their favorite of the year games list for that i must thank you 😊.
I've mostly been playing Genshin Impact, because they've been knocking it out of the past these last couple of years and this year has introduced a region with full underwater swimming and tons of great quality of life changes.
I started hate-playing it when it came out because it was so absurdly similar to botw, but then I actually ended up liking it and it's totally developed it's own story now. Haha
@@OGAngieHonestly, it's more of a BotW bait and switch than an actual clone. Narratively and mechanically it was always much closer to traditional Open World games like Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West (to the point where I was completely confused how since of the more obnoxious fans were complaining that non-canon-collab-character Aloy didn't really fit the game), especially with how the superficial similarities to BotW drop off drastically once you leave the Prologue region.
Who cares about story of genshin you cant even finish the game !!! People only care about the waifus 😂
@@TAREKOZA The story is pretty damn good, with constant revelations, call backs, and massive amounts of lore dumps. Like, Genshin waifus and husbandos are so well lived despite having significantly less fanservice than much of their Gacha contemporaries partly because of how good their character and overall story arcs are, and there are quite a few popular channels that are dedicated entirely to going through Genshin lore and story.
Edit: Like hell, they just put in a bittersweet animated French musical number about how true love alone isn't enough to save people for a new meta-redefining waifu character whose only real fanservice element is that she wears shorts.
@@lnsflare1 the waifus/ikemens (depends on your gender) made you install the game tho ? Or maybe just because its an openworld ?
I actually started playing outer wilds recently, so far it's intriguing.
Spoilers for TotK.
4:34-4:40 Someone telling Zelda this in TotK. Lol.
my list is armored core, starfield, zelda, and lethal company. no particular order.
I am really waiting for his Genshin Stream for like 3 months now.
Fontaine story is already finished and bro still haven't completed Whole of Enkanomiya and Sumeru.
Your mind will be blown away after doing Sumeru and Fontaine.
Like bro dipped just when We were getting at the best part.
Pls Be live again,
Sorry for ranting but I really am waiting.
😢😢
Hoping for the best
😭🙏
Also, I think I am Muted or banned from you Bandit Jo channel, I don't know why but It is like that.
My Live Chat Never used to show up on your live chat layout (When It used to work).
I might have accidentally triggered bot ban by some keyword. I do Apologize for that. Happy Christmas.
🎉🎉
The steams shall return after Christmas :) thank you so much for the super thanks! And I’m not sure what’s up with the ban, but I’ll look into it!
@@BanditGames Thank you so much.
Really looking forward to it.
😁😁
In order my top 5 from this year are Hogwarts Legacy, RE4, The Talos Principle 2, Diablo IV and Spider-man 2. TotK comes in at #6. Still good, but 🤷♂️.
Outer Wilds is probably my 3rd favorite game of all time. Great tastes Bandit
Terraria top 1 for me 😈
I see outer wilds, I like
TOTK is at the bottom of the bargain bin in my book.
1:00 BOTW was.
TOTK feels like a chore.
Keep those sly little jabs at TOTK bro.
If you have never played Hollow Knight or haven't in a while, please make yourself the favor and play it again ahah
Since you asked. *Redacted* yeah this game gets some people very angry but it sold 23 million copies, so a ton of people played it but just don't talk about it. Baldur's Gate 3, Lies Of P, Zelda ToTK, Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, Fire Emblem: Engage and Starfield (yep I actually really liked Starfield, almost redacted this one too because it also drives some people crazy).
Lol, nobody could criticize a game like you have Tears if they didn't really love it 😂 I thought that was obvious.
deadass sans the few hours of acnh sprinkled in here and there, the only games i played this year were totk (100%d in 305 hours), botw (doubled my original 2017 playtime to 260 hours total when i decided to 100% it after totk), and all 3 splatoon games (around 400 hours total across all three games). bandit i'm begging you to play splatoon and make videos on it............ do it for me (pleading emoji)
I highly recommend oneshot. Different from anything on your list but it's amazing, also one if those can't spoil games!
Can we all start a meme by saying totk has no lore. Just like the ps5 has no games meme. Thanks
I played a lot of League of Legends... Send help pls
Repent and believe the gospel! Jesus died for our sins and rose 3 days later so we could be forgiven of our sins and be gifted with everlasting life. Put your faith In Jesus and follow him. Life is short, please make the right choice today.
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Since thinking about TOTK’s lore triggers me, I decided to just look at BOTW and TOTK as two separate titles to all the past games and this way I truly appreciate them for the masterpieces both games are
Normalize TotK being BotW from an alternate timeline that crossed over to ours lol
So glad you mentioned Outer Wilds. My favorite game of all time and a game more people definitely need to play. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone
I still can't get farther than like a quarter be cause I have no idea what to do lol
Yup, this guy never fails to put a smile on my face 😊
Merriest of christmases to you as well, Banit! 🎉🎊
Merry chrismas everyone
Merry Christmas Bandit ❤ so happy to follow you through all these years, you're great!! Nice list
I finally finished Xenoblade Chronicles 3, and it was awesome. Merry Christmas Bandit!
I've only played a handful of these, but the ones i have, i love!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
🐈⬛Meowy Christmas😸 ❄☃🌨💙
Sea of Stars & SMRPG really warmed my heart
This year I played Octopath Traveler 2, Metroid Dread, Hades and Disco Elysium.
All good games. I especially loved Octopath Traveler 2.
As for 2024, I'll probably be playing Celeste and Tears Of The Kingdom.
I’ve spent hundreds of hours in metroid dread, celeste, and totk. Celeste is one of my favourites of all time
I gotta try octopath 2
Bearded bandit lookin fresh 😅
For me, this year consisted of a lot of replays
I did finally play the Outlast games and I played a little bit more of Final Fantasy I - the pixel remaster on Switch
But of course, I "had" to replay Twilight Princess, Breath of the Wild, Skyward Sword (HD), and I'm currently replaying Ocarina of Time. At first, it was going to be my copy on GameCube, but the 3DS remake just feels and looks so much better
Looking at what you consider best games you played this year I'm surprised you like Zelda. It certainly looks like a fish out of the water in the middle of this list.
2:20 I agree with him
JUST GO PLAY IT DONT LOOK ANYTHING UP ITS GREAT
I'm loving the Bandit lore being the TOTK hater. or.... harsh criticizer. NGL, I get a twinge in my jingle bells when you shit talk TOTK caz it improved on EVERYTHING from BOTW. But yeah... that's how the cookie crumbles I guess.
My actual comment was : I was expecting more games on your list. You barely scratched the surface.
A Game I played this year I instantly loved is Sea of Stars. It's an indie RPG borrowing concepts from games like Chrono Trigger and the Mario RPG's, in a pixel artstyle. The writing is really good, and I constantly laugh or chuckle with the humor, but it can also play serious moments very well! If you have any interest in RPG's, absolutely check this one out. (There's a reason it won the Game Award for Best Indie this year.)
Duuuuude, make WoW videos. You probably know WoW content creators suck. There's a market for good WoW content
Whenever you act out your scripts you need to come off more naturally, this wasn’t a hate comment just a critique
My blood pressure increased from all the salt. Good thing salt is my favorite flavor!
You need to play core keeper, it's a beautiful indie game that is so much fun, and best of all, it has lots of LORE
You Bandit are a great asset, great great asset.
I love how Bandit talks about BotW/TotK 😂
😂 those end credits were AMAZING
That is the correct way to eat marshmallows
Bandit didn't mention Honkai 😢
no fire emblem engage? smh
I was pleasantly surprised by Alan Wake 2. I made sure to play the first one beforehand, and had no idea until playing 2 the massive connections to Control (which I had played a while back). Amazing story and.... LORE
The game I played most this year was FF XIV, my first MMO in a decade! Now I am a lifelong fan! Looking forward to more videos from you!
love your zelda theory vids