The Escapist Staff's Five Faves of 2009: John

John Funk

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The Escapist Staff's Five Faves of 2009: John

It's almost 2010, but what were John's five favorite games from 2009?

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Jared

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Glad to see L4D2 made it in there somewhere =D

Although Ass Creed II? Well, each to hiw own I suppose.
 

Baby Tea

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Great List!
I confess I'm not much of a 'fighting game' guy, but the visuals of BlazBlue are just fantastic.

And I'm currently playing through Assassin's Creed 2 (Got it for Christmas) and am just loving it. At first I was thinking 'This is just like number 1', but as I got further in the game and got new gadgets and really noticed and experienced the changes...the game just shines. And I can't stop playing! I was up early to get a few missions in, and I found myself saying 'Just one more Assassination before work!'
Just awesome.

Anyways, great list, Funk!
 

Catchy Slogan

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I'm liking your list much more.

I think Assassin's Creed 2 has finaly taken some of my attention away from Biooshock.
 

Cpt_Oblivious

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Good list, although you've ruined the trend of either Dragon AGe or Modern Warfare 2 as top.
Tut tut...
 

Jang

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Pretty good list. I agree with most of it ^^. Though I must say I would have hoped to have seen borderlands in there.

Does anyone know if Susan Arendt is going to make a top 5?
 

John Funk

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Jang said:
Pretty good list. I agree with most of it ^^. Though I must say I would have hoped to have seen borderlands in there.

Does anyone know if Susan Arendt is going to make a top 5?
She sure did [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/events/favorites2009/6877-The-Escapist-Staffs-Five-Faves-of-2009-Susan].

Borderlands would have been an easy #6. I felt bad for cutting it :(

TheNamlessGuy said:
I agree to a degree.

You should have had Dragon Age in there, somewhere.
Other than that, awesome
I only just got Dragon Age, and it hasn't really "grabbed me" so far. I keep just going back to play more L4D2.
 

Cherry Cola

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No Uncharted 2 love, I see.

But it doesn't really matter to me. I think Uncharted 2 is great, and I don't need anyone else to confirm that for me.
 

Donrad

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im happy just cuz assasins creed is in there.
awesome list, i havent played torchlight but it looks.. interesting.
 

Jaranja

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Great list. I, too, am loving Assassin's Creed 2 at the moment. I tried the torchlight demo and almost turned to stone it was so boring.
 

Onyx Oblivion

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Totally agree with 1, 3, 4, and 5.

Left 4 Dead is good at what it does, and is great, but its just not my thing.

Giving Assassin's Creed and Blazblue some love!
 

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Good list of games, I didn't heard of some of them but am now curious to try them. :D
I agree with you on Assassin's creed 2, most of the time I wish the creators would just forget about the story completely.
Did any of the games you mentioned made it to your actual top five favourite games besides 2009?
 

Ophiuchus

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Kudos. AC2 is far and away my favourite game of the year too, for almost exactly the reasons you said. If I have the 'favourite game of the year' discussion with anyone else, I might just point them to this article to save me the effort of explaining...
 

sizzle949

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Probably my favorite list so far. Assassin's Creed 2 still stands as my number 1 with AA as number 2. And though it took me a while to try the multiplayer online, L4D 2 just became too fun to play on scavenger. Just woulda put borderlands in there, but Funk already covered what was up with that so it all works out.
 

Enigmers

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Glad to see Torchlight got a mention, it's easily one of my favourite games of 2009 if not my favourite (Left 4 Dead 2 comes to mind as well)