What's your GOTY 2010?

[Zetsubou-Sama]

Starcraft 2

Seriously anyone who didn't pick this is hereby dead to me.

 

[Sebenko]

Minecraft.

It's sold over six hundred thousand copies by word of mouth and it's not even finished yet. GOTY easily, and has the potential to be Game of the Decade.

God damn, this. Bloody time vampire. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some blocks to arrange...

Crashout: New Glitches

I get great amounts of entertainment from that game, whenever it is not crashing.

So you haven't enjoyed it at all?

 

[darth jacen]

I'm having the damnedest time deciding between Mass Effect 2 and Red Dead: Redemption. Both games were and still are fantastic. I am leaning towards Mass Effect 2 right now, though.

 

[Shameless]

a lot of games disappointed me this year, but that doesn't mean there aren't any good ones there.

but mine would be Mass Effect 2 but I think the game that would win most of GOTY awards this year would be SMG2

 

[Thimblefoot]

Starcraft 2, quite easily.

 

[Twaddlefish]

Dragon Age: Origins

You're a year late, Dragon Age is 2009.

I thought it was 2009 too.

Anyway, Mass Effect 2 by a country mile. Followed up Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver

 

[Kukakkau]

GUN came before it and was really great as well. In fact a lot of the gameplay style seems to come from that (and yes GTA). I'd suggest checking it out since it will only be like £5 or so now.

It's on steam right now for 15 quid, would you recommend it?

Wasn't it £10 in the link you posted earlier? (http://store.steampowered.com/app/2610/). But you should be able to get it cheaper than that from stores etc if you can find a copy

Yeah it's a really good game, it's got a decent amount of playtime in it but the side missions are a bit more repetitive than RDR's. But over all I really liked it.

 

[CrashBang]

I don't get chance to play most games released from Sept-Dec cos I get them for Xmas so I've not played New Vegas or AC: Brotherhood yet but, nevertheless, my GOTY is: Mass Effect 2
ME2 is my perfect game, I love it like a child

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Either Bayonetta or Vanquish.

Leaning towards Bayonetta at the moment.

 

[k3v1n]

Halo: Reach and runners up are, fallout: new vegas and Splinter Cell: conviction

normally, I'd say a PC game, but my pc's graphics card is fucked up, so I'm missing out all those juicy PC games ATM

 

[Mr.Incognitus]

Definitely Red Dead Redemption

 

[Kasper Gundersen]

Dragon Age: Origins

You're a year late, Dragon Age is 2009.

Upon further reading the back of the game, I've come to the embarrassing conclusion that you are right, my mistake

 

[Smooth Operator]

-No inventory
-No control over party equipment
-Limited control of party in mission beyond go here and shoot if you feel like it.
-All missions were various flavors of go here, shoot this. Basically just a series of corridors and chest-high walls. The galaxy, in general, just felt small. There was little to no exploration to do. No random planets to visit, and the places you could visit felt very small and claustrophobic.
-Really stupid method for persuasion. Why does how good or evil I've been make me more persuasive? Not only does it make no sense, it means you have to be all good or all bad to get the best ending, which is a kick in the groin.

Overall, I did like the game, and will probably buy it when the price drops a bit more. It just wasn't anything I'd call a GOTY contender.

If you found ME2 rich, I'd recommend checking out BioWare's other offerings: Dragon Age, KotOR, Jade Empire, and of course Baldur's Gate. ME2 was, in fact, the least rich and shallowest game they've made yet (though, DA2 is looking like it might challenge that. God I hate EA.)

I got the same problem with it, and I think I know why people praise it somuch, they made a game for the masses.
Basically ME2 isn't an RPG anymore, they dumbed down or took out nearly all RPG elements to the point where it's only a 3rd person shooter with story, and if you put ME2 next to other shooters... well then it looks like jesus returned.
But if you like the previous BioWare work this thing looks shallow.

The story progression seems to me like some sort of McDonalds management checklist, you don't explore and meet new people that come along, you got them lined up to collect, and once you checked all those boxes you go to the second round to gain their trust, and in between you can go scrape the fryer... I mean planets, thinking about it... even the hero is a damn corporate muppet.
Maybe the game is actually a parody?

OT: New Vegas, ya the programmers are a bunch of lazy a*holes but atleast they know how a game should be.

 

[higgs20]

The fact that every person in this thread hasn't listed Starcraft2 as goty... Well, that disapoints me.

Ha.

mine was probably metro 2033, if you need the reasons read one of the posts above it's just a great game. ME2 was good as was RDR but metros atmosphere wins it every time for me.

 

[nickachu]

Mass effect 2 probably... or was taht 09... can't remember. But it was brilliant.

 

[sinsfire]

The fact that every person in this thread hasn't listed Starcraft2 as goty... Well, that disapoints me.

me too, it is definitely my pick this year