I have to agree with most of your points. This is a 'favorites' list though. Not best.Darth Trethon said:
Steve Butts' Five Favorites of 2010
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It's supposed to be games that the editors liked, not game popularity, innovation, or shininess. Honestly, my favorite game of this year was a Professor Layton game. And there is nothing wrong with that or any of their choices. We all have different tastes.Afterglow- said:
I'm very happy to see Napoleon: Total War on there. It is my favorite game of the year for sure, so many hours of fun.
Of the top 5 game lists so far, this is the one which rocks the most. Besides Rock Band, Steve Butts has narrowed down some of the most awesome and compelling games of 2010 - in my humble opinion of course. ME2 would have made it on my no. 1 on my list, since I've been playing at least 30 playthroughs since its release, and still hungers for more.
A RPG fan that doesn't have Fallout in his top 5? What? 
EDIT: Didn't see that Fallout was already mentioned in the other editor's top 5. I assume you can't use the same games.
EDIT: Didn't see that Fallout was already mentioned in the other editor's top 5. I assume you can't use the same games.
Happy to see Rock Band 3 as someones favourite game of the year It's certainly mine and is deserving of more respect than it tends to get most of the time. Overall good list, even though I havn't played ANY of the other games yet, though I really want to play Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, but havn't gotten a chance yet since I've been busy.
It's certainly mine and is deserving of more respect than it tends to get most of the time. Overall good list, even though I havn't played ANY of the other games yet, though I really want to play Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, but havn't gotten a chance yet since I've been busy.Tbh, I love RPG elements, but I didn't actually miss them in ME2. I felt they were done somewhat poorly in the first ME and the improvements on gameplay more than made up for the lack of the ability to upgrade a pile of things.Onyx Oblivion said:
OT: I wish I could agree with you on Napoleon and your subsequent wish for the American Civil War but frankly I couldn't be happier that the next installment is Japan, mainly because of one reason - Total War series functions MUCH better imo and is much more interesting when there's a focus on melee rather than ranged. I like being able to utilize both, melee front, ranged back on support fire but you don't really get much of this in periods with guns. I have to say though, the ship combat is pretty much amazing, I thought I'd hate the feature (didn't play the British conquests), but really loved it.
Oh and aside my dislike of the American Civil War (in the sense that it was boring), there's just not enough factions there to make a Total War game, they focus on the conflict between several civilizations, not civil wars between just two factions from the same country. It doesn't really have any room for anything interesting, all the soldiers would be more or less the same with just a slightly different accent and a different leader/ideology, no room for special units and all that.
Oh and Rock Band... well cool if you're into party games with non-gamers, but personally I'm not much for that (and of note, I'm not a console fan and those games lose all point when played on a keyboard really). I can't consider it much of a real game though to be honest because it totally boils down to gameplay with very little background and the players are so focused on watching what they have to press next that the little background that's there might as well be a few paper cutouts of the band :\
I shake my head in wonder at your inability to understand that opinions cannot be incorrect. It's not bad taste, they just like games you don't.Darth Trethon said:
In all honesty you just come across as somebody who's very angry people like what you don't like, and believes people cannot hold an opinion different from your own. You dismissively state all those things as if they're facts.
Now what are your top 5 games of the year?
Woo total war makes a list! <3 total war series Fleet Battles are epic! (especially when you manage a critical hit and BOOM!)
Fleet Battles are epic! (especially when you manage a critical hit and BOOM!)
My only consolation is that now I can just ban the crap out of anyone who makes fun of it.poiumty said:
Steve Butts, let me say that I love you.Steve Butts said:
No no, that's not right. I wuv you.
DA was awesome, ME2 was awesome, I've been playing Total War since it came out, and the AC series is a blast.
You seem like someone I'd get along great with at LAN parties. Someone I could play through Baldur's Gate with multiplayer, or who would swap great RPG moment stories. That is awesome, and you are awesome.
Great list! I look forward to seeing the rest of the staff picks!
There was an error in the review of Napoleon Total War*----You will NOT get the chance to play the Little Corporal himself unless they come out with WWII Total War.Napoleon's lowest rank was Lieutenant,just after being the first Corsican to graduate from the Academy.---Adolf Hitler however, was a corporal in WWI and was the one referred to as the Little Corporal,by Hindenburg....It was a diss.
*I suppose that you could say that "The Little Corporal" is your own nickname for Napoleon and you would be correct.
*I suppose that you could say that "The Little Corporal" is your own nickname for Napoleon and you would be correct.
since when do popular and innovative have anything to do with someone's favorite games. These arent video game awards, where the winner of best sound track goes to a game with nothing more than a "Compilation Album" collection. This is purely opinion.Darth Trethon said:
Nope. I called him that because that was the name his troops gave him after his campaign against Austria. Well, technically, they called him La Petit Caporal, but let's not confuse the issue.Smitty of the Tolchocks said:
You're right to say he never held that rank officially. Some historians speculate that he was given the name because he personally sighted his artillery. Since this was a job normally done by a corporal, his men started calling him The Little Corporal. Napoleon, anxious to promote at the least the appearance of egalitarianism, probably didn't do much to discourage them.