What's Your ALTERNATIVE GOTY - Injustice Style! [Read the OP, seriously]

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Arnoxthe1

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SkarKrow said:
Whilst I agree you do realise you can swear on The Escapist right?? So long as you aren't directly insulting another user of the site.
I know, I just don't really like to swear if I can help it. It's a weird personal thing.
 

The White Hunter

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Arnoxthe1 said:
SkarKrow said:
Whilst I agree you do realise you can swear on The Escapist right?? So long as you aren't directly insulting another user of the site.
I know, I just don't really like to swear if I can help it. It's a weird personal thing.
Fair enough I suppose, it just seemed unusual is all, that said now that I bother to look at your join date it should be obvious you'd know that by now.

As for Aliens, it's just pretty bad, it's not as bad as some would claim and there is some fun to be had, it really just represents the absolute worst business practices this industry has demonstrated in recent times.
 

Arnoxthe1

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SkarKrow said:
As for Aliens, it's just pretty bad, it's not as bad as some would claim and there is some fun to be had, it really just represents the absolute worst business practices this industry has demonstrated in recent times.
Hm, is the multiplayer at least playable now?

Nah, not the absolute worst. I would peg Sim City for that followed by Diablo 3 (yes, Diablo 3) just for the fact that they just REFUSE to make the game playable offline citing a bunch of BS reasons notwithstanding some other problems. The worst part for me though is that people are still playing it and singing Blizzard's praises.
 

The White Hunter

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Arnoxthe1 said:
SkarKrow said:
As for Aliens, it's just pretty bad, it's not as bad as some would claim and there is some fun to be had, it really just represents the absolute worst business practices this industry has demonstrated in recent times.
Hm, is the multiplayer at least playable now?

Nah, not the absolute worst. I would peg Sim City for that followed by Diablo 3 (yes, Diablo 3) just for the fact that they just REFUSE to make the game playable offline citing a bunch of BS reasons notwithstanding some other problems. The worst part for me though is that people are still playing it and singing Blizzard's praises.
My friend with a computer science degree and I, with my ability to memorise command line inputs immediately and find and edit anything I need in the damn CFG,s have managed to make the multiplayer more stable, but co-op is still finnicky to make work, though that seems to be resolved easily by playing LAN, but if you're not on PC that's just really not helpful.

Never played Diablo 3, gotta be online and make more accounts.
 

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Tie between Persona 4 Golden, Persona 3 FES & Portable(played both for the first time this year) and Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward. Overall some damn fine games I got to play for the first time this year
 

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Puppeteer. Solid platformer, decently challenging, some unique mechanics, fun to play two player (playing 1p is more challenging), and the only PSMove (not required, you can use a second control and joystick movement too) title I've ever played.

All packed in an unique and incredible art style.

PS3 exclusive, but well worth the 40 bucks (it may have dropped from release price by now too)
 

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It can be a GOTY candidate from another year? Excellent, because my answer is Arkham Asylum. Just got around to it and it's the most fun I had with a game all year. I actually haven't purchased any of the big hitters yet this year, except for Enemy Within, but that's an expansion pack. Gonna have a good backlog by the time GTA V comes out on PC.
 

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Seagoon said:
I'm going to be utterly mainstream and say Grand Theft Auto V. I didn't get to play it as much as I would have liked since I was lent it by a mate but I absolutely fell in love with the morally dissolute protagonists and the sickeningly colourful satire. stunning scenery, lovingly crafted world, beautifully dark and blunt atmosphere. Funny, fucked-up and profound.
I absolutely agree with you - I'll be playing GTA V on and off for at least another several months. But since it says we can't pick mainstream games from this year, and that was the biggest mainstream game there is...

second choice would have to be Bioshock Infinite. God damn it, also a huge success this year.

Then I'd say Fez or Trine 2. Both were fantastic for similar reasons, so I really can't choose between them. And they both have oodles of collectibles, so I will be going back to both many times in the future.
 

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I don't play a great breadth of games, but among the small handful I have played, I'll go with Risk of Rain. Unique mix of mechanics (time difficulty, new game plus-like, stacking items), classes with very different playstyles, humourous item descriptions. One criticism is a reasonably small pool of bosses and enemies, but it's a great game for what it costs.

Armored Core Verdict Day could have been number one except it's dying down a little bit and has been since it was quietly launched, once again crippling the somewhat improved in vain team-based territory system.
 

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MeChaNiZ3D said:
I don't play a great breadth of games, but among the small handful I have played, I'll go with Risk of Rain. Unique mix of mechanics (time difficulty, new game plus-like, stacking items), classes with very different playstyles, humourous item descriptions. One criticism is a reasonably small pool of bosses and enemies, but it's a great game for what it costs.

Armored Core Verdict Day could have been number one except it's dying down a little bit and has been since it was quietly launched, once again crippling the somewhat improved in vain team-based territory system.
I really am seeing a lot of Risk of Rain posted in here, I think I'll definately have to grab that over the Xmas sale on steam and have some fun with it, it certainly did look intriguiing.
 

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Rariow said:
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Rariow said:
Also, my favorite strongly game-like experience which presents itself as a game but I can't quite bring myself to classify as one of this year is Katawa Shoujo, which I now apparently have to mention by law in every post I make on these forums. I did technically begin playing it last year, but I only got through one of the five paths before the year turned over and stuff. I just want to mention Katawa Shoujo some more. Go play/read/experience it. It's really damn good.
What would you define as a game, and how do you feel Katawa Shoujo differs from that? No real reason for asking, it's just a topic I find interesting :)
"What is a game" is quite a complex and interesting topic, and one I feel merits discussion, but after a good amount of consideration I came to a definition that I think works for me, that being "a number of interactive systems that interact with one other, designed with the specific purpose of creating a feeling or emotion in the user". This is, of course, just what I decided "game" means for myself, and can, and likely will, be debated.

The reason I can't consider Katawa Shoujo a game is that it only has the one system that is interactive, this being the choices. Your making a choice doesn't change the way you interact with KS, just the text you read. In a game, any choice would have an effect on another system, even if it's something as basic as moving left or right in a platformer affecting your ability for vertical movement by putting a block above you.

Am I making sense here? I'm having a bit of trouble trying to communicate what I'm thinking.
Ok... no. Relying on only one basic mechanic doesn't keep it from being a game. How is the difference in text any less viable than the difference in player movement?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgu76ql6FSo
 

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There are a few

Batman Arkham City
Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Directors Edition)
Assassins Creed 3
Pikmin 3

But those are all AAA titles right?

Well I also enjoyed

TankTankTank
Trine2
Chronicles of Mystara
Consuming Shadows
 

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With the gradual decline in quality of video games over the last few years, there's only one released this year that really deserves the title:

Age of Empires 2: HD Edition, released this year on Steam.

HAHAHAHA FUCK YEZ ALL! This thread is concluded and I declare myself the winner[footnote]In my mind.[/footnote]. Prize money to the usual address.

 

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Persona 4 Golden at the moment. Finally got around to picking it up a couple weeks ago and loved the hell out of it. FTL and Last of Us are tied for second.
 

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The best game I played for the first time in 2013 would be Beyond Good & Evil, of course. I really enjoyed everything in that game. Can't think of any weak hinges, bar the racing, but most of it is optional and for completionist psychos. Also the Batman Arkham Asylum & City games, brilliant games.

(the only 2013 release I've purchased is BioShock Infinite and haven't even played it yet)
 

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Witty Name Here said:
Sins of a Solar Empire.

It's just... agh... more addicting than civ for me.

Just take Civ in space, make it realtime, and make the action like all the best "big space battles" from movies mixed into one. You've got sins. It's freaking amazing.


FOR THE UNITY!

My friend keeps asking me to play that but I've never got around to it, is the gameplay similar to civ?