Zero Punctuation: Top 5 of 2010

[Jabberwock xeno]

This got me thinking:

Who else would like to see a list of all the game yahtzee has reviewed orderd by how much he enjoyed them?

It would give us a good idea of how good exactly yahztee thinks a game is.

 

[Subject7]

I cheered when he said Just Cause 2. That game deserved way more praise than it got.

 

[AetherWolf]

I spent a lot of 2010 finally saving up money to get PS3 games from the early days. So frankly, I didn't play very many 2010 games. But my favorite that I got to play were Sonic Colors, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, and Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep. But the next game on my to-get list is Red Dead Redemption, so we'll see.

 

[samaugsch]

I must be the only one who actually likes Bioshock 2

Nah, you're not. I quite liked it, too, though I kind of wish you could reload your character after you finish the game. :/

Also, I knew he was going to put Kane & Lynch 2 as #1 in the worst games of the year.

 

[samaugsch]

i actually thought hed for sure put fable3 on as worst game. a lot of people hated it. also,


YAHTZEE, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD, PLAY MASS EFFECT 2!!!!!!

hed love that game, and we havent had a positive review in a while. i have no doubt itd make it to the top of his game of the year list, if he had played it this year

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1461-Mass-Effect-2

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I must be the only one who actually likes Bioshock 2

I liked it:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.175856-Miracles-Whip-Bioshock-2

 

[The_Zoomer_Knight]

Stop blaming Team Ninja for Metroid Other M.
Nintendo wrote the story and created the game engine and D-Rockets was responsible for shoving Samus's ass in our faces every other cutscene. Team Ninja just aided Nintendo in creating the gameplay style they preferred.

 

[Jonesy911]

Totally agree with FFXIII. I loved the FF series on the PS1 but in the last decade its gone from gold to shit

 

[kirbyfan8]

Oh man. I did not see Just Cause 2 coming at all.

I bought it a while back during a steam sale and I instantly fell in love. I though it was an absolutely astounding game and I had no idea what I was missing. I even went back to watch Yahtzees review, and it looks like he kind of just didn't talk about how much fun it gets.

So yeah, seeing that up there was a big welcome surprise.

 

[Aurora Firestorm]

It's clear that Yahtzee likes nothing but indie games and sandbox games now. Does he play anything that has a plot? He hates on anything with a cutscene as well as the entire JRPG genre, which is half your plot right there.

 

[epikAXE]

Finally someone put Dead Rising 2 on a tops games list

 

[Steve the Pocket]

Put me down as another person who didn't hate Bioshock 2. I mean, the story is pretty blah and frankly I had no reason to expect otherwise, but it's a textbook example of how to use a sequel to fix everything that sucked about the original: the hacking, the combat, the NPC models that were so cheap it was hilarious, the rapid decline in level design about midway through (although it mostly avoids the last one by not really having any particularly excellent level design in the first place). I just wish 2K had had the budget to put all these improvements into the first game before it was released; because it would have been the best game ever made.

way to go yahtzee ,the guy who loves storylines and games with "SOULS",give away all this shit for the FUNZ in Just Cause 2(fun game btw ).
Also i am sorry,but...Just Cause 2 isn't the greatest game of 2010.Yahtzee probably made this top when he was drunk or something,i mean how could he forget about Mass Effect 2?
And,Bioshock 2, a bad game? What,did some video game company pay u to say it sucked? It was one of the best games i have played,it has one of the best feelings u can get from a game,great atmosphere,great setup,nice steampunk theme and a very interesting story,everything being put togheter with nice combat mechanics.

Sry for the bad english...at least you can have something to trolololo on me

I get the feeling you never played the original. You're talking about the theme and atmosphere of the game as if it were something you'd never seen before. (By the way, it's not steampunk.)

 

[Torfindra]

It was a good list, although I thought Alan Wake would make it in there in some regard, whether on the good or bad list. Kidding us about HALO Reach was my favourite part.

Thank you for all of your reviews in 2010, Yahtzee, and I look forward to 2011!

BTW, yes I am new here. Nice to meet you all. ^^

 

[Raykuza]

I can't believe no one saw Just Cause 2 coming from Yahtzee. I distinctly remember it for being one of the few games he actually liked. And by 'liked' I mean 'did not insult so hard as to make its developers weep in shame.'

Just Cause 2 was a ton of fun (especially the so-bad-it's-good voice acting) and one of my favorites of the year as well.

 

[BoldBaldBastard]

Kane and Lynch 2 go to the same corner as Just Cause 2 when it comes to my taste. For me 2010 was the year of BFBC2, but Yatzhee did only do the SP on that one. (The SP i still haven't touched btw)

 

[PixelKing]

Spot on.

Surprised Reach was'nt actully on that list.

 

[Aurora Firestorm]

I also liked BioShock2 -- it was just one of those amusing games that was fun because you got to play something Big and Awesome.

Also, they fixed the hacking an added a couple things that undid one of the "dumbing-downs" that Irrational did when they turned System Shock into BioShock: real-time hacking, where the world doesn't freeze while you hack. Excellent.

 

[Da Joz]

I thought he would have put FF 13 higher.

 

[DJShire]

That was the funniest he's been in quite a while

 

[Freechoice]

Finally someone who didn't include Mass Effect 2. You didn't disappoint, Yahtzee.

Damn straight. Seriously, I get the impression that Bioware fanboys are worse than Halo fanboys. Yeah, you don't have to deal with the QQ and racism/homophobia on XBL, but the second you raise even the slightest dissent about ME2 not being the greatest thing ever, you immediately get the tards from out under the woodwork.

The original was superior in the story, the one thing that Bioboys will consistently cite as the overarching reason it's the awesomest thing ever. Plus it had Wrex. And a big, stupid jellyfish. And an Asari that would actually put out.