What's your game/disappointment of the year?
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you're mad that its too long?!? thats what i loved about it.. so i didnt have to worry about running out of game.azadiscool said:
Normally i devour a game in about a day. I beat odst on legendary in roughly 5 hours total over something like 2 days. I started playing WoW 3 years ago because i grew tired of games.. well.. ending. AC2 being long = yay something i can play for a while
Darn, Sonic Chronicles was released last year. That makes my choice for DotY so much harder.
GotY: inFamous or Borderlands, they're both really awesome.
DotY: I'd have to go with Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, even though it wasn't something I had much hope for.
GotY: inFamous or Borderlands, they're both really awesome.
DotY: I'd have to go with Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, even though it wasn't something I had much hope for.
I thought ODST was amazing. The campaign was great, and that's all I really play for, although firefight was so much fun.Jamienra said:
GOTY: I'm not getting MW2, AC2 or DA:O until christmas, so it will change, but at the moment it's Batman:AA
DOTY: Prototype
2009 was pretty much a fail year for me, almost every single game that came out that year, dissapointed me, it even persuaded me to play WoW again, can you imagine?
Arkam Asylum is at the top of my list as well.
Prototype was my big disappointment. A decent game but no where near as cool as it could have been.
Prototype was my big disappointment. A decent game but no where near as cool as it could have been.
Game of the Year: Dragon age.... It may not be as good as the other games, even more so on the Xbox... but I've played it 5 times through already.
Dissapointment: brutal legend....I liked it but 4 years? I would have waited for the whole "if we did everything it would have taken us 10 years".... If call of duty is coming out with good games twice a year now, why did it take so long for brutal legend. (90% of the time it took deciding sound tracks, begging Ozzy to join, and confirming whether or not the game should be canceled.)
Dissapointment: brutal legend....I liked it but 4 years? I would have waited for the whole "if we did everything it would have taken us 10 years".... If call of duty is coming out with good games twice a year now, why did it take so long for brutal legend. (90% of the time it took deciding sound tracks, begging Ozzy to join, and confirming whether or not the game should be canceled.)
In no particular order:
Top 3 Games of the Year: Fat Princess, Arkham Asylum, Street Fighter 4
-Fat Princess is one of the most crazy addictive games I've ever played. Crazy in that I have no fucking clue why I can't stop playing it, but it might have something to do with the mad-cap multiplayer action and the little quirks you find spread out through the game.
-Arkham Asylum is quite possibly the one game to best emulate the Batman universe and mythos since the original Batman for the old NES. Also, AA is one of the few games I've ever played in all my 23 years of gaming to have the trifecta; 1)responsive controls that aren't too responsive(anybody remembering old-school Castlevania or Mega Man knows what I mean), 2)an engaging storyline that will attempt to convince me to call in to work just so that I can see what comes next, 3)enough difficulty to give you a frustrating challenge; but not enough to where you want to put your foot through a TV.
-Street Fighter 4 had it's flaws, but in the end is a welcome return for the 2D fighting genre. Now if only someone took those cues and brought back the side-scrolling brawlers. I'd love me some good next-gen Final Fight or Streets of Rage, especially the latter.
Top 3 Disappointments: Resident Evil 5, Halo 3-ODST, X-Blades
-I will admit Resident Evil 5 is a solid game with solid gameplay; but as with most disappointing games it's the little things that matter. While RE4 did in fact change the name of the game in the survival horror biz, RE5 could very well have lived up to that and then some. However with a semi-bland story, a partner AI which would prolly lose an IQ test to a brick, and a steep learning curve as opposed to past RE's; this entry in the series is officially damned to rental hell.
-ODST was actually Halo goodness at it's core, but I couldn't help shaking the fact that it seemed more like something that could've been better as a DLC add-on campaign for Halo 3. The story itself was actually hard to follow, and the difficulty felt like what Bioshock is to System Shock 2; Halo for noobs.
-X Blades is one of those games that actually starts out as a tease working it's way around the pleasure center of your brain, before kicking you in the shins and running away with your time and rental money. Although labeled a God of War clone(and rightfully so), the raw gameplay is actually better and more responsive than God of War 2 as chain after chain just feels damn fun. Also, the 'leveling' aspect of the game is very intuitive and reminds me of Dante's ability menu in DMC1 or even FF 10's sphere grid in it's flat out ease of use. Where this game kicks you and runs is in the bland to almost non-existent storyline and the typical 'flashing' of the main char. The storyline just plain sucks, the cut scenes are all unskippable, and into the second cutscene I caught myself thinking "Is there a face to go with that ass or what?"
Why is there always more bad things to say about bad games then there is good things about good games? Oh well.
Top 3 Games of the Year: Fat Princess, Arkham Asylum, Street Fighter 4
-Fat Princess is one of the most crazy addictive games I've ever played. Crazy in that I have no fucking clue why I can't stop playing it, but it might have something to do with the mad-cap multiplayer action and the little quirks you find spread out through the game.
-Arkham Asylum is quite possibly the one game to best emulate the Batman universe and mythos since the original Batman for the old NES. Also, AA is one of the few games I've ever played in all my 23 years of gaming to have the trifecta; 1)responsive controls that aren't too responsive(anybody remembering old-school Castlevania or Mega Man knows what I mean), 2)an engaging storyline that will attempt to convince me to call in to work just so that I can see what comes next, 3)enough difficulty to give you a frustrating challenge; but not enough to where you want to put your foot through a TV.
-Street Fighter 4 had it's flaws, but in the end is a welcome return for the 2D fighting genre. Now if only someone took those cues and brought back the side-scrolling brawlers. I'd love me some good next-gen Final Fight or Streets of Rage, especially the latter.
Top 3 Disappointments: Resident Evil 5, Halo 3-ODST, X-Blades
-I will admit Resident Evil 5 is a solid game with solid gameplay; but as with most disappointing games it's the little things that matter. While RE4 did in fact change the name of the game in the survival horror biz, RE5 could very well have lived up to that and then some. However with a semi-bland story, a partner AI which would prolly lose an IQ test to a brick, and a steep learning curve as opposed to past RE's; this entry in the series is officially damned to rental hell.
-ODST was actually Halo goodness at it's core, but I couldn't help shaking the fact that it seemed more like something that could've been better as a DLC add-on campaign for Halo 3. The story itself was actually hard to follow, and the difficulty felt like what Bioshock is to System Shock 2; Halo for noobs.
-X Blades is one of those games that actually starts out as a tease working it's way around the pleasure center of your brain, before kicking you in the shins and running away with your time and rental money. Although labeled a God of War clone(and rightfully so), the raw gameplay is actually better and more responsive than God of War 2 as chain after chain just feels damn fun. Also, the 'leveling' aspect of the game is very intuitive and reminds me of Dante's ability menu in DMC1 or even FF 10's sphere grid in it's flat out ease of use. Where this game kicks you and runs is in the bland to almost non-existent storyline and the typical 'flashing' of the main char. The storyline just plain sucks, the cut scenes are all unskippable, and into the second cutscene I caught myself thinking "Is there a face to go with that ass or what?"
Why is there always more bad things to say about bad games then there is good things about good games? Oh well.
GOTY - Killzone 2, the multiplayer for this game is so addicting.
Dissapointment - Well MW2 was actually better than I expected (the multiplayer, singleplayer was cool, but story was completely retarded) So I would have to go with Borderlands, cause the first playthrough was soooo fun, but then it gets boring really fast.
Dissapointment - Well MW2 was actually better than I expected (the multiplayer, singleplayer was cool, but story was completely retarded) So I would have to go with Borderlands, cause the first playthrough was soooo fun, but then it gets boring really fast.
RE5 was probably my biggest disappointment...
It wasn't terrible, heck, it was actually pretty good. But coming off RE4, is vastly underperformed. I still don't know why it went to Africa.
Hm, I guess Brutal Legend was kinda disappointing. Again, good game, just not as good as it needed to be. Tim, please stick to single player games. Make your single player worthwhile first, THEN work on multiplayer. Your fans are single player people.
It wasn't terrible, heck, it was actually pretty good. But coming off RE4, is vastly underperformed. I still don't know why it went to Africa.
Hm, I guess Brutal Legend was kinda disappointing. Again, good game, just not as good as it needed to be. Tim, please stick to single player games. Make your single player worthwhile first, THEN work on multiplayer. Your fans are single player people.