Best game you have played this year?
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Demon's Souls, Child of Eden, Digital Devil Saga, Nocturne, Trails in the Sky, Portal 2, Valkyria Chronicles 2, L.A. Noire.
They all have their strengths, can't definitively say one is better than the others (although the first three are my favorites).
They all have their strengths, can't definitively say one is better than the others (although the first three are my favorites).
Well, this is interesting. We're all catching up on our Atlus canon, I guess.AbstractStream said:
Lost Odyssey. I moaned about it a lot a while back, but a bit later it gets less frustrating, and the game actually has a really good story. And the characters are pretty likeable.
Again, I beg to differ. It has some stupid design flaws (come on BioWare, environmental variation is not a thing to be afraid of), of course, but most of the hate comes from butthurt DA:O fans who expected a remake of DA:O. They didn't get that, and much rage ensued. Overal I enjoyed it more than DA:O, actually.machblast said:
It's not just that. It's the fact that 'difficulty' is either too easy or just plain stupid (as in, ANOTHER WAVE OF ENEMIES APPEARED ANOTHER WAVE OF ENEMIES APPEARED ANOTHER WAVE OF ENEMIES APPEARED with torrents of blood spurting out everywhere mixing with enormous clouds of fire creating a clusterfuck)Cowabungaa said:
It also looks like garbage (lol NPC character models from 2001) and a lot of terrible writers onboard. Hamburger Helper included.
It is actually a 3-way tie for me between Assassains Creed:Brotherhood, Portal 2 and Psychonauts. As of yet anyway.
Well there goes the rules book on RPG classes...hahaMetalhandkerchief said:Surprisingly, Age of Conan.
It has come a looooong way.
That's me by the way. I'm a level 80 Lumberjack.
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Saints Row 3 is going to be my favortie game by the end of the year...I can tell.
Then Skyrim
and all the others.
BUT NOW: I would have to say, STALKER: Call Of Pripyat, sure make me go down a crack in the earth to get a briefcase, YOU didnt tell me the only way to get out is through a monster den!
I was joking. I meant to say that there are worse games out there, but believe me, there aren't that many people that hate DA2 more than I do.machblast said:
Edit: To make it more clear, I do not like DA2, but it is not "one of the worst AAA titles of the year". So I wanted to make that point in a comedical manner. I did not mean to say that DA2 is a good game. In fact, I think it's pretty bad, but it isn't horrible. The reason I hate it so much is the same as why most fans hate it, because it was a sequel to DA: Orgins, an absolutely astonishing game. I hope I cleared it all up.
PS. Please excuse my very poor English, I am not a native speaker.
Oh yeah the stupid enemy spamming was one of those design flaws, but at least all that combat flowed a lot better than it did in DA:O. Not to mention that the allied AI wasn't so mindboggingly stupid. Didn't really look that bad to me either, quality-wise that is as the environmental design didn't appeal to me, and neither did the writing. Liked the characters more than anything DA:O threw at me as well. Except Ogren. Ogren wins at everything forever.machblast said:
Still, it's not up there in my little list of "best games you've played this year", so I'm not going to argue it's brilliant either. But it was far from a dud.
Those bastards and their non-backwards compatible system. It'd be a brilliant cash grab if they'd actually re-released more than God of War (FFX Sony. I will buy it again if you actually release it).Leole said:
OT: Yeah, I'd probably have to say God of War collection and God of War 3, Red Dead Redemption, Final Fantasy 9 (I'd played it before, but since my disks were completely dead I got it off the PS store. Also Cthulhu Saves the World.
Yeah, I get what you mean now.kayisking said:
Of course there are worse games. Everyone seems to be disregarding the 'recent' thing, though. DA2 is probably the most vile of the 'recent' batch of paid-off-review-syndrome games. Not as bad as Duke Nukem Forever, to be sure, but everyone knew DNF was dead on arrival thanks to Gearbox.
i've played quite a few games this year, but the best -by FAR- is Final Fantasy Tactics on the ol PSX. it's gotta be in my top ten most favorite games ever.
A close third would be inFamous 2.