2009 Game of the Year

[MiracleOfSound]

Modern Warfare 2 or Fallout 3 complete edition, and I predict that Mass Effect 2 will take the cake for GOTY 2010.

I'm sure it will be fantastic, and it will take a hell of a game to beat it. Though I'm equally excited for Fallout: New Vegas.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Really? I sort of looked at those fights as a bit necessary in order to be built up. The failed experiment introduces you to dodging, the Bane fight teaches you how to deflect a charging enemy with a batarang, then the first few Titan enemies teach you how they're a little different from Bane. Then it unleashes the full shitstorm when you fight multiple Titan enemies with mooks coming off the rafters. The initial impression from anyone would be that it's a stale rehash of what they have, but the fact is it forced you to fight very differently to accomodate for the absurd number of different enemy types trying to kill you at once. And, the difficulty curve to show you how to do it was very appropriate as it stepped up.

Well, I agree that the titan enemy fights were well done, but it got stale after awhile, seeing as how you fought those guys numerous times and the addition of more Titan thugs didn't force me to change anything about my fighting, other than dodging their charges more often. But I still think the rest of the boss encounters were crap. Poison Ivy felt out of place, the controls just weren't mad for that type of fight. Killer Croc felt hilariously easy, especially after how much effort the game put into building him up. Scarcrow's final fight was just an easier version of the Titan battles that came before, and the Joker himself was just a big let-down.

I have to agree here, the boss fights in Arkham Asylum were dire.

Killer Croc was one of the worst, most tedious and annoying levels I have ever played, and the Batarang/dodge fights got a little old after the 500th time you had to do them.

The Joker looked promising, until... oh...

Spoiler

more bloody henchmen. Yay. How utterly lazy of the dev team.

Amazing how they got the boss fights so damn wrong in an otherwise wonderful game.

 

[ZZoMBiE13]

even as a big halo fan Id have to agree with most everybody els hear that ODST was not GOTY material. this was kind of a disappointing year for me but the game I enjoyed most was dragon age. It has done a nice job of distracting me until mass effect 2 comes out

This is pretty much my sentiment as well. I love Halo and I thoroughly enjoyed ODST, but it is just not GotY material in the least. What was in the game was great and all, but there were too many games this year that are more deserving of the GotY title.

I'd prefer Batman recieved the award or maybe Borderlands but I know that isn't likely since the game did have it's issues. Uncharted 2 is a good pick as well. Or from earlier in the year maybe InFamous.

 

[Tourette]

Assassin's Creed 2

 

[Mungular]

haha i agree with SikOseph halo is such a mediocre overrated series

 

[kawaiiamethist]

JRPG-wise, Last Remnant, for the idea of treating my units as single party members.

 

[Rayansaki]

1. Assasin's Creed 2
2. MW2
3. Arkham Asylum

I miss Bethesda.

This.

Also, alot of people saying ODST/Borderlands/etc., you must look at the game and find an outstanding characteristic. That's right, there's none. They might be very fun to play and very good, but they are not GOTY material

 

[MiracleOfSound]

1. Assasin's Creed 2
2. MW2
3. Arkham Asylum

I miss Bethesda.

This.

I really hope Obsidian do a good job with New Vegas. I'm more excited for it than every other game of next year put together.

 

[jigs160]

Dragon age..... a pretty close race but dragon age.

this.
the first time i played this i started it up at 10am only to go to sleep at 11pm nothing has made more addicted to a game than dragon age.so yeah dragon age by a landslide.

 

[Mirroga]

For Non-Exclusive GOTY = Assassin's Creed 2
For Exclusive GOTY (in terms of it being an exclusive so few people can judge it) = Uncharted 2

I just have a thing with third-person running/jumping/climbing mixed with stealth and whatever combat it has.

 

[Shycte]

Dragon Age, Brutal Legend or Borderlands....

Probably DA:O but it's a tight race...