Mass Effect 3 or Borderlands 2, if I had to decide right now. However, I still have to play Dishonored, Halo 4, and Assassin's Creed 3 before I make a final decision.
What is your GOTY so far?
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Bioshock Infinite. Or it would be if it wasn't delayed. Again. Since is was, it's probably SpOps: The line, since I'm a big fan of both apocalypse now and Heart of Darkness. I'd make a close runner-up out of Sniper 2. I feel that game was massively under-rated and don't quite know why. Obscure developer I suppose.
If you'll let me include free DLC than Mass Effect 3 with the Extended Cut. I know people where complaining about it but then again its the internet. Just about everybody bitches on the internet, even if they don't know what they're bitching about. Personally, I thought it was fantastic, had fun gameplay, good story, great aesthetics, etc. etc.
I'm gonna have to go with an obscure example and say Dustforce here. It's the best platform hell game to come out this year (if not the only good one).
Alternately, I Wanna Be The Guy Gaiden... but that's not really finished yet, so eh.
Then again, Intrusion 2 came out this year and I had been waiting for that one for ages. I mean, the game had a mech with a grappling cannon for one arm and a sword for another! However, Intrusion 2 was rather short, so... I'll stick with Dustforce for now.
Alternately, I Wanna Be The Guy Gaiden... but that's not really finished yet, so eh.
Then again, Intrusion 2 came out this year and I had been waiting for that one for ages. I mean, the game had a mech with a grappling cannon for one arm and a sword for another! However, Intrusion 2 was rather short, so... I'll stick with Dustforce for now.
Guild Wars 2, because it's the only MMORPG I've ever really enjoyed. It's also the game I've played the most this year, over threehundred hours. Sleeping Dogs and Dishonored were both great though. I loved the setting in both of those. I'm still looking forward to Hitman Absolution.
I'm a bit torn, as I've really enjoyed this year's titles. Sleeping Dogs, Spec-Ops: The Line, Hotline Miami, CS:GO and several others.
It's really hard to say which ones I've enjoyed the most as they were all great for very different reasons. While I wasn't overly fond of the slightly accusatory tone of Spec-Ops and HLM (since they forced me to do the killing), I did like how they made me think about -why- I enjoy violence in media. Yes, they're not real people, but that's what they're kind of meant to represent, so what does it say about me when I enjoy watching them burst like meat balloons? I think it's acceptable as entertainment, but I have to wonder what it is inside us that makes it entertaining and even cathartic to make or watch made-up people die.
Sleeping Dogs might be my favourite urban open-world game ever. The combat was stolen from the Arkham games, yes, but it was so much more satisfying, in my opinion. The driving felt really nice and ridiculousness of cars flipping over and exploding when you shoot the tires out was just stupidly fun. The story surprised me, too. It wasn't award winning stuff, to be sure, but it was engaging enough. I liked the characters and I found Wei's subtle internal struggle between relating to the gangsters and being disturbed by his actions quite interesting. Some of the final act was a bit weak, but somehow very satisfying. Without spoiling it, getting revenge in the last couple of missions was very satisfying even if it was slightly ridiculous. The game was really quite funny, too.
CS:GO is just one of the intense multi-player experiences I've had. I never played the original and most of the players on Source were waaaay beyond my skill level so it was just frustrating. The idea of death being relatively final just makes the game so tense, especially when you're the last one alive and you have no idea when someone might just burst around the corner and end you. That's some survival horror shit, right there.
I really need to buy XCOM and Dishono(u)red as well, they look fantastic.
It's really hard to say which ones I've enjoyed the most as they were all great for very different reasons. While I wasn't overly fond of the slightly accusatory tone of Spec-Ops and HLM (since they forced me to do the killing), I did like how they made me think about -why- I enjoy violence in media. Yes, they're not real people, but that's what they're kind of meant to represent, so what does it say about me when I enjoy watching them burst like meat balloons? I think it's acceptable as entertainment, but I have to wonder what it is inside us that makes it entertaining and even cathartic to make or watch made-up people die.
Sleeping Dogs might be my favourite urban open-world game ever. The combat was stolen from the Arkham games, yes, but it was so much more satisfying, in my opinion. The driving felt really nice and ridiculousness of cars flipping over and exploding when you shoot the tires out was just stupidly fun. The story surprised me, too. It wasn't award winning stuff, to be sure, but it was engaging enough. I liked the characters and I found Wei's subtle internal struggle between relating to the gangsters and being disturbed by his actions quite interesting. Some of the final act was a bit weak, but somehow very satisfying. Without spoiling it, getting revenge in the last couple of missions was very satisfying even if it was slightly ridiculous. The game was really quite funny, too.
CS:GO is just one of the intense multi-player experiences I've had. I never played the original and most of the players on Source were waaaay beyond my skill level so it was just frustrating. The idea of death being relatively final just makes the game so tense, especially when you're the last one alive and you have no idea when someone might just burst around the corner and end you. That's some survival horror shit, right there.
I really need to buy XCOM and Dishono(u)red as well, they look fantastic.
This is going to sound ridiculous, but Forza Horizon. Easily one of the best racing games. Ever. Of all time.
100% on the money for me, too, there.The Madman said:
Currently on a play through from 1066 onwards as the Buchan family (Eastern Scottish Earls). Family has weathered four generations as mere Earls, never extended their reach beyond the home county. The Empire of Brittania under Emperor Torf the Great covers a good chunk of the Holy Land and almost all of the British Isles (a few Welsh and Irish are subbornly holding out). And then, in 1150 or so, I suddenly noticed something whilst my mouse was hovering over my family ruler - I had somehow become the sole heir of the Kingdom of Denmark (my mother was the King of Denmark's only surviving sibling, and he himself had no direct heirs). The next 10 years saw a flurry of assassination attempts back and forth across the North Sea as the respected but relatively weak Buchanan family consolidated its hold on Denmark through coin and dirk.
Now, sitting on the throne of Denmark, I cannot help but feel dirty. I bought my throne with the blood of the 2 of the previous king's young wives (one was pregnant when she plunged from the battlements), and the blood of his only infant son. Something truly is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Now, if a quick run through of a game creates plots worthy of Game of Thrones and *every time it's different*, that game is the stuff of GOTY to be sure.
Seeing as I got a nice form letter from the mods, I'd like to take my time to tell the tale of what I think what my game of the year in my own personal opinion was.
Dishonoured or Mass Effect 3.
I personally liked everything in mass effect 3 - or me3 as the kids call it - even the ending. I just loved following Nutgobler Shepard and her galactic exploits all across the galaxy. The idea of having the same character grow and effect (massively) everything in the universe. I felt like a king by the time Mass Effect 2 and especially 3 rolled around and everyone was all "Oh, Shepard! You're so awesome and stuff!" and I'd be all "Damn right I am!" I'm a little sad to see it all end but it was well worth it.
Dishonoured was just a great experience for me. Something very new in my opinion with a very interesting story. There's not much to tell because it's an experience in it's own, you have to play it to feel it. Yes it did feel like Thief mixed with Bioshock but those were great games and smushing them together creates this awesome game, I've already played through it a couple times and still haven't had close to the same experience. Now the same argument could be made for the new XCOM but I feel that it was just the same XCOM as before but with better graphics and whatnot.
That is why Dishonoured and Mass Effect 3 should both receive game of the year.
Dishonoured or Mass Effect 3.
I personally liked everything in mass effect 3 - or me3 as the kids call it - even the ending. I just loved following Nutgobler Shepard and her galactic exploits all across the galaxy. The idea of having the same character grow and effect (massively) everything in the universe. I felt like a king by the time Mass Effect 2 and especially 3 rolled around and everyone was all "Oh, Shepard! You're so awesome and stuff!" and I'd be all "Damn right I am!" I'm a little sad to see it all end but it was well worth it.
Dishonoured was just a great experience for me. Something very new in my opinion with a very interesting story. There's not much to tell because it's an experience in it's own, you have to play it to feel it. Yes it did feel like Thief mixed with Bioshock but those were great games and smushing them together creates this awesome game, I've already played through it a couple times and still haven't had close to the same experience. Now the same argument could be made for the new XCOM but I feel that it was just the same XCOM as before but with better graphics and whatnot.
That is why Dishonoured and Mass Effect 3 should both receive game of the year.
You are wrong. The best since X was XII, since XI is an MMO, XIII and its sequels suck in every way, and XIV apparently is/was an unplayable MMO. You could argue it's the best since XII, since I'm perfectly willing to believe XIII-2 is better than XIII (as it would almost have to be).ShinyCharizard said:
For my money, it's got to be Dishonored.
It's the only game this year that hasn't let me down in some way.
Soul Calibur V said fuck you to everyone who cares about the story and characters. SSX was good but also lost points for personality, and the lack of freeride (and the lame death mechanics) really make the game less fun. I Am Alive and Journey are awesome, but only barely games. Prototype 2 managed to take a great premise with a flawed execution and turn it into a steaming pile of garbage. Lollipop Chainsaw just managed to finally prove Suda51 is a shitty game designer. Kingdom Hearts 3DS met my expectations, but not in a good way. Fable found a way to get worse, somehow. Assassin's Creed 3 only functions half the time.
and that's just the games I was actually interested in. The rest of the market I just don't even care about. This year made me seriously consider giving up the hobby.
that came out in 2011 sir...Akalabeth said:
Mine is Mass Effect 3, the changed ending was awesome and just topd off a great game. A close second is Assassins Creed 3, this game rocks, have not beaten it yet but it's pretty awesome.
For Arcade games, The Walking Dead, absolutely superb, every episode, every moment, gold.
Honourable mention to Spec Ops: The Line, best modern shooter.
And there is a random ad of a woman getting her hair done on the bottom of the site, really?
A few days ago I would have said Dishonored with very little doubt in my mind. That game was amazingly fun, the world they built was great, and the storyline was very engaging. Now though it's tied currently with Assassins Creed III. I'm not far enough yet in ACIII to really be able to say it'll topple Dishonored, but it's defiantly in third/second place along side X-Com. Time will tell what the final order is, but those are my top three for the year.