Exactly this, if your GOTY is a sequel that's not necessarily a bad thing, but I personally would love a new LP to be worthy of the title.Vampire cat said:
But of what I've played this year Portal 2 was by far my favourite experience.
Poll: 2011 GOTY?
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But of what I've played this year Portal 2 was by far my favourite experience.
Skyrim, Mass Effect 3, Brink, Rage, Gears3, Portal2, Minecraft etc. Any of those could be the GOTY, It's impossible to know before all those games release. But mine is probably going to be ME3.
At this point, I can say Portal 2 is going to be GoTY.
mainly because the year hasn't ended yet.
mainly because the year hasn't ended yet.
I am torn between Crysis 2 or Skyrim. And I can't rightly decide at the moment due to one being unreleased. Ask me in 2012.
EDIT: Forgot about Arkham City. Even though I don't particularly like Batman, I love his villians and the firsts gameplay was fun even though I hate stealth...huh. I don't get why I liked that game.
EDIT: Forgot about Arkham City. Even though I don't particularly like Batman, I love his villians and the firsts gameplay was fun even though I hate stealth...huh. I don't get why I liked that game.
Yes Rockstar games are bad. (GTA Vice City excluded)drummodino said:
A sandbox game with a huge open world could work very well, there are just a few key points it needs to hit.
1) The story has to be tied to the sandbox or compelling enough to be more fun than sandboxing. GTA games have this deep dark story that doesn't tie in to the sandbox fun at all. So the tone of the game suffers a lot.
2) Cellphone and Email = not gonna happen. GTA 4 is the second worst game I've ever played because of the fucking phone. I don't check my Email on a daily basis in real life, this game wants me to have a stricter routine than I do in life? Fuck that.
3) The biggest problem with GTA and Red Dead Redemption is that moving is really hard.
In a sandbox game where you might spend 50% of your play time traveling from point A to point B and back again making walking and driving (or riding a horse) the two most frustrating aspects of your game is not a good business strategy.
So if they fix the cars and legs in L.A. Noire I might love it.
It was just a suggestion...
Every (A monopolistic majority of the) game(s) that come()s out now wants a slice of Call of Duty's market.
That means the game will be an FPS. which means you have two controls: Look and Shoot.
The campaign will be 6 hours or less and linear as fuck.
You will only be able to carry 2 weapons and a knife out of about a billion that have been programed into the game.
Writing and voice acting will be terrible. (or at least one of the two)
There will be a cover system and regenerating health. As a result you spend 100% of your play time either hiding behind a wall or running to another.
People who have been playing previous iterations of the game in question have a leg up from day one over everyone who is just now getting in to it. First of all the developers of these cash cow games don't feel the need to change a fucking thing from game to game so all the skills you honed in CoD 4 are just as useful in MW 2 or Battlefield Bad Company or what ever. That makes ranking skill levels in multyplayer impossible. So new players get pwned constantly, veteran players build up experience and earn more and more perks (which is bullshit on it's own) and better weapons (also bullshit) so the new players get to fuck them selves.
You can like them all you want but they aren't "objectively" good because there's no difference between Call of Duty 4 and Modern Warfare 2 save for the single player campaign (which is too short and shit to be of much consequence). All the changes to the multyplayer could have been changed by a Patch or by a DLC. How can a full priced patch to an existing game be called good?
And I can already smell your counterpoint coming, "If you don't like them you don't have to play them." And here's what I have to say to that Bioware said Mass Effect 3 would give Call of Duty a run for it's money. Bioware makes Action RPG's They've abandon their core market to gain a slice of the shitty FPS market. So you can't say that Multyplayer FPS games are an isolated incident. So stop buying them for 5 years and maybe the games industry will recover.
imo, it will come down to Portal 2 and Mass Effect 3. Battlefield 3 will obviously deserve to win too, the next half-assed Modern Warfare title will be favored over the obviously better title.
but im gonna guess it will be ME3 (if we are talking about the Spike VGAs, here)
but im gonna guess it will be ME3 (if we are talking about the Spike VGAs, here)
Okay you got me there.Levi93 said:
GTA Vice City was fun. I exclude it from my incoming Rockstar bash.
The problem I have with Rockstar is moving around in their games.
A sandbox game is about getting from point A to point B, you spend maybe half or your time in transit. walking in a strait line is hard. Running in a strait line is harder. Sprinting in a strait line is impossible because you have to tap the A button and hold the stick forward while avoiding curbs and lamp posts and gum wrappers that people left on the floor. because hitting any of those will stop you cold in your tracks. Driving is even harder because they're all top heavy and fish tail somebody buttered the back tires.
The specific problems I had with GTA 4 were the story and the cellphone/Email mechanic. The story is too serious to take 20 minute brakes to go grief NPC's and you'll constantly have to answer a text message or reply to an Email or something just a mind-numbingly tedious that I don't even do that shit in real life. GTA 4 is the second worst game I've ever played
Red Dead Redemption was okay. it would have been better if they took out all those horse rides and insta-kill cougars because just like GTA getting from A to B is a pain in the ass.
Also nothing you could do in the sandbox part of RDR had any point what so ever. So Rockstar games give you no intensive to sandbox. They're both frustrating and pointless.
Long story short if Rockstar makes moving around not a pain in the ass L.A. Noire might be awesome.
Well they fooled me by putting "Bethesda" on the box and all.
F:NV was buggy and linear.
I know they fixed most of the bugs with patches and what ever but they didn't fix the linearity.
Fallout 3 was the best sandbox game I ever played. it was an awesome open world where you could go anywhere. I played it through 5 times and I played a different way every time.
And not just in class, in path through the world too.
In NV the only class that actually works is Melee tank (before patches anyway) and the only path through the world (to a point) is south, east, north east, north, north west, north.
and you have to do the first 15 levels the same way every time.
That spells boring. (compared to F3)
I have no problem with linearity. I have a problem with linearity in a sandbox game who's main selling point is replayability.
It seems rather silly to be casting aspersions for GOTY based upon games we haven't even played.
With that in mind no game has come close to GOTY material apart from Portal 2.
(by the way on no planet should Minecraft be considered a game of the year)
However, If I were going to make some wild guesses based upon premise or the developer responsible, I would have to say it's a toss up between Portal 2, Uncharted 3, LA Noire, Skyrim, Mass Effect 3 and Batman: Arkham City. I won't even bother to take a guess at which out of these would win, if anything my guess would just be Portal 2 because I've actually played it.
With that in mind no game has come close to GOTY material apart from Portal 2.
(by the way on no planet should Minecraft be considered a game of the year)
However, If I were going to make some wild guesses based upon premise or the developer responsible, I would have to say it's a toss up between Portal 2, Uncharted 3, LA Noire, Skyrim, Mass Effect 3 and Batman: Arkham City. I won't even bother to take a guess at which out of these would win, if anything my guess would just be Portal 2 because I've actually played it.
Three weeks ago I would have said it was probably going to be Minecraft (Since that is officially released in November this year or something) but last night I started playing Portal 2, finished it, then realised I had played until 3 in the morning. Totally deserves the 96 on Metacritic IMO.
idk, but here's my nominees:
LittleBigPlanet2: expanded on the already fantastic original
Pokemon Black/White: featured a better story and a great new idea (have only the new ones until you beat the main game), this is the best Pokemon game since G/S/C/HG/SS
Portal 2 *haven't played yet* sequel to the fantastic original. just arrived in the mail today, but studying for Bio comes first (also, can I still play my PC copy if PSN is down?)
L.A. Noire *haven't played yet* can't WAIT for this. Red Dead was m pick for GOTY last year, let's see if Rockstar can do it again.
Batman Arkham City *haven't played yet* this is the sequel to my GOTY of '09. IT'S FRIGGING BATMAN.
LittleBigPlanet2: expanded on the already fantastic original
Pokemon Black/White: featured a better story and a great new idea (have only the new ones until you beat the main game), this is the best Pokemon game since G/S/C/HG/SS
Portal 2 *haven't played yet* sequel to the fantastic original. just arrived in the mail today, but studying for Bio comes first (also, can I still play my PC copy if PSN is down?)
L.A. Noire *haven't played yet* can't WAIT for this. Red Dead was m pick for GOTY last year, let's see if Rockstar can do it again.
Batman Arkham City *haven't played yet* this is the sequel to my GOTY of '09. IT'S FRIGGING BATMAN.
