Nominees for Game of the Year
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Epic Yarn or Starcraft II winning will make me happy. Everything else is either okay or riff raff bullshit.
while i haven't played rdr and therefore my opinion isn't worth dirt; however i agree with me2 in that, even though there were two discs, it felt like half the game me1 was; also the music was terrible. out with the great techno sci-fi music and in with the generic epic action music.Irridium said:
as for my top choice: a tie between new vegas (dead money in particular), halo reach, and epic yarn.
Man, you KNOW its been a shitty year when Mass Effect 2 make the list of best games. Wow...just wow. This single game is pretty much a betrayal of everything that Bioware used to stand for, and consequently, a betrayal of their fans.
Wait, are you saying Mass Effect had music? Wow, that's news to me. I didn't even notice Mass Effect's soundtrack in all but one or two areas. When I found it on Youtube, I thought it was incredibly generic sounding and not at all memorable.cthulhumythos said:
Mass Effect 2, for me, was a great improvement. I thought the music was awesome and still listen to most of the character leitmotifs on youtube sometimes. It pales in comparison to stuff like Halo or Homeworld, but it's still damn good.
Really though, if you want to hear an electronic soundtrack done right, listen to Tron: Legacy's OST.
OT: That's a good list. I can tell it's been a great year for gaming, with a whole bunch of games all appealing to different people - just look at all the variety in the GotY lists on the internet so far, few of them are the same. Hell, look at all the argument on this thread. I'm glad to see Reach and Mass Effect 2 on that list, certainly.
Not one of the them are on my personal top 10 for 2010. Having played every singel one of them except WOW i must say 2010 will be known gaming wise to me as a year with a general lack of imagination. Boooorrrring..next please.
well AssBro was ok.
well AssBro was ok.
Maybe it was the ridiculous railroading plot that pretty much took what was good about the first game and pissed all over it. Then again it might have been the boring, rinse-repeat gun fights that tried and failed to be like every 3rd person shooter ever. Then again maybe it was the gutting of any semblance of depth from the leveling system, which loops around to my first point. I could go on.Halley M said:
All I've got to say is, if that's what is nominated for GOTY, what a dissapointment (in the year, i mean) 
95% of those titles are sequels, the only new IP being Heavy Rain. I consider RDR a spiritual successor to GTA, seeing as they haven't changed a thing outside of bizonker driving physics.
Damn you innovative stagnation!!
95% of those titles are sequels, the only new IP being Heavy Rain. I consider RDR a spiritual successor to GTA, seeing as they haven't changed a thing outside of bizonker driving physics.
Damn you innovative stagnation!!
I think you are confusing well designed with well budgeted, honestly blizzard are some of the worst designers in the industry. (I'm looking at you rogues and warlocks!)Aurgelmir said:
Proper balance is virtually non-existent in their games, even the so called balance of SC1 seems to me to be more of a fluke than proper design balance.
Actually, RDR is a sequal to a ps2 game from the mid 2000's called "Red Dead Revolver". RDR was pretty much just Red Dead Revolver mixed with GTA.MrLumber said:All I've got to say is, if that's what is nominated for GOTY, what a dissapointment (in the year, i mean)
95% of those titles are sequels, the only new IP being Heavy Rain. I consider RDR a spiritual successor to GTA, seeing as they haven't changed a thing outside of bizonker driving physics.
Damn you innovative stagnation!!
No indie games this year? Ouch, that's fairly narrow minded, but when you have a list populated with sequels and spin-offs I guess you could say 2010 was the year when originality truly died in the gaming industry. Thank God FFXIII didn't make it on the list.
But then again I would choose Super Meat Boy as the best game of the year. Very well made with bundles of creativity and the perfect challenge level out of any game I've ever played, and at the original 33% off price it's absurdly cheap. Don't get me wrong, New Vegas and ME2 I loved, but I'm going to forget about them when the next instalment comes along due to how these games feel like the glue that sticks a franchise together and not individual games in themselves.
But then again I would choose Super Meat Boy as the best game of the year. Very well made with bundles of creativity and the perfect challenge level out of any game I've ever played, and at the original 33% off price it's absurdly cheap. Don't get me wrong, New Vegas and ME2 I loved, but I'm going to forget about them when the next instalment comes along due to how these games feel like the glue that sticks a franchise together and not individual games in themselves.