So, here we are, another year has passed and since last years “Best Video Game of 2010” went so well, I decided to continue that trend.
Now, as most of you know, I don’t judge a game on how big it was in terms of sales or how advanced the graphics look. I have one main criteria – is it fun to play?
With that being said, let’s roll.
Crysis 2
I played the demo version of this game, and I recognize that doesn’t do justice for the complete gameplay experience, but it was just too much of other games – Call of Duty, Battlefield and some elements of Halo. But, a lot of people like this game.
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3
Yes, I know this game made something like 700 million dollars and is what everyone uses as the “standard” for military style shooters. Again, played through this and wasn’t impressed, felt like I’ve experienced all of it before.
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations
This is probably the best franchise I’ll never play. Everywhere I look, it gets great reviews, and I’ve heard praise across the spectrum of opinions about this game. I’ll leave it at that – I’m not really interested jumping from buildings to hunt down and assassinate people.
Saints Row: The Third
Insanely fun. If there is a version of “pop” video games, this is it. Open world and copying the best aspects from GTA and ignoring bad ones (like the driving in GTA), this game delivers stupid fun with outrageous characters scenes to partake in.
Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary
343 Industries should’ve spent their time building a massive map update instead of an upgrade to the graphics. I will have to admit that I asbolutely LOVED the way the grunts explode on the 10 year version of the game – I hope they use that animation style moving forward for the entire Halo franchise.
I toggled between the old and new versions of the game a few times to see the graphics update. Sure it was impressive, but I don’t think it warranted the sticker price for a grpahics enhancement.
DC Universe Online
This should’ve been bigger, but because of some issues (it being lame) this game failed to deliver to it’s potential.
Honorable Mentions:
Dead Space 2
Bulletstorm
Killzone 3
Homefront
inFamous 2
F.E.A.R. 3
The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings
I still hate the original game because it permanently effed up my then 1 week old PC forever. I don’t care if they tell you the secret to life, I’m not getting this game. EVER.
Transformers Dark of the Moon
I don’t know what experience was better – this game or the movie. At least the movie had Megan Fox, oh wait, no it didn’t…
Duke Nukem Forever
The wait was finally over for this urban legend of a game. You can’t really blame the studio for this game. They had to get something out since it had been in dev hell for years. However, if they make another one and wish to recapture the title they once had, I will judge that game to see if they come anywhere close.
Madden NFL 12
BOOM! Gettin’ Penetration! The EA cash cow called Madden arrives again with nothing more than some updated code. It’s hard to change the formula when it’s making bank like crazy.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
Having never really been a fan of the Warhammer 40K universe until readers here started bringing the franchise to the forefront with all the battle requests, I wasn’t sure wht to expect when I played the game. The trailers made this look like everything you might image life in the WH40K universe would feel like. But, as I assumed the role of the Space Marine, that’s where it ended. Yes, some of the blood splattered killings were cool, and the weapons used to inflict harm were fun to play at the start, it quickly felt like nothing more than a button mashing fest. Here’s to a more involved gameplay mechanic in the next version…
Gears of War 3
Is this the end for Marcus? I sure hope so. I confess that while I played the first two, I never really was into the franchise. But seeing the previews for GOW3 made me want to play this game since I was hoping for an improvement on how the story was woven into the fabric of the franchise and story. Well, that kinda happened, and some othe fights were fun, but at the end, I really didn’t care what happened to everyone – much like it was for Halo Reach.
FIFA Soccer 12
Still can’t get into soccer as a video game. Real life? Sure.
Stronghold 3 (My replacement for Lord of the Realms 2)
I’m probably the only person that got this game, based strictly on the fact that one of my all time fave, Lord of the Realms 2 is so old you need Windows 98, NT or Windows 95 to play the game. Yes, I know there are MS-DOS emulators, but the entire game is about 850 MB, why can’t I just play it on any old OS? Anyways, Stronghold 3 is pretty close to Lords of the Realm. You are a lord trying to expand your empire and you need ot build castles/towers and either align with other lords or take them to war to conquer their land. Good times for an old fart like me.
NBA 2K12
Just in time, with the NBA strike over and the players are back, it’s time again to figure out how LeBron James will chole this time.
Forza Motorsport 4
More of the same as the third installment. Yes, graphics improved, cars handle a bit better. But after that, what’s really changed?
Super Mario 3D Land
This title delivers just about everything you can think of from the past Mario games. Think of Super Mario 2 & 3, sprinkle in some Mario Galaxy, tunr up the 3D affects and PRESTO! Super Mario 3D Land. It’s not making fun, rather it’s a compliment how Nintendo can essentially churn out the same game with neat “Bells and Whistles” and sucker another generation of Mario lovers. Despite my sarcasm, it is a fun game to play, just wish there were more “new” puzzles involved.
Mario Kart 7
I know a guy who quit his 100k a year job just to make custom maps for Mario Kart. I wish I was lying about that, but I’m not. That’s the type of fan base this series has and allows nintendo to push out games like this every year to the applause of it’s fanboys.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
I confess – didn’t play this one at all. Tons of reviews saying it was great. Since I have no point of reference, here’s a video:
TOP 10 Video Games of 2011
Dragon Age 2
Sequels seem to be the story of the year. Only 2 games could be considered truly original and one of them makes the top 10. Dragon Age 2 had more depth and interesting ways to explore the world which made it fun, and that’s always been the main criteria for this list.
NHL 12
Already considered a great game by itself, but allowing me to add great players like Lemieux, Gretzky and Roy make this perhaps the greatest version of this franchise since NHL 94.
Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
The only reason to have a Wii. For me personally, Nintendo will always have it’s own place in gaming, only because of this franchise and Metroid. Save for those two, and there isn’t much more going on at Nintendo. Finally a game that it makes sense to use the motion controller and combines the Zelda of old with new updated gameplay. It’s no Dragon Age or Skyrim, but it offers a great way to include gamers of all levels and keeps it interesting for all involved in playing.
Infinity Blade 2
Another mobile game makes the list. Last year that was Angry Birds, and this year it’s yet another fantasy style game. Watch the trailer to see this in motion. What impresses most is that the game stores progress on icloud – so you can play at work on your iphone, then hop over to your ipad later and continue right where you left off. This is how technology should be applied!
Trailer -Yes, this is for an Iphone…
Star Wars: The Old Republic
Custom character creation in the Star Wars universe. Since apparently George Lucas isn’t worried about trying to make anything else named Star Wars decent anymore, at least this game will do wonders in getting some respectability for the franchsie.
Battlefield 3
Much better gameplay than Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3, allowing you to fly jets, helicopters and drive all sorts of military vehicles against a game where everyone camps. Hmm, wonder why that didn’t make the top 10?
Batman: Arkham Asylum 2
Very rare is it that a sequel can live up to the original. Here the Caped Crusader gets a somewhat similar experience of “Escape from New York” but without the eyepatch. I’ve heard rave reviews that this game is fantastic, this might be the best part:
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Uncharted 3
Stunning graphics, fantastic gameplay and delivers on all storypoints. Too bad it’s a Playstation exclusive, if it crossed over it would be even bigger.
Portal 2
Another Sequel that surpassed the original. Mostly. Sure this time around the game was longer and there were a few surprises along the way and that’s always what you want to see. It was great to see a game like this get the publicity and fanship it’s earned. Not all games need to be shooters or intense RPG’s to have a big impact on the industry.
And the winner for Video Game of the Year 2011:
Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
I have to admit that at first I wasn’t too sure if I would like this game. As you all know, I am a huge fan of the Fable franchise. But I feel like they are taking that down a path of mediocrity that will never return. So, while I felt like this was somewhat “forced” on me, I’m glad I went through with it.
Simply put, this game is stunning. There are seemingly endless ways to play this game. What I like the most about this is that I can play at my own pace. I know alot of people beat this in a week, and have since played it multiple times again. Even with all the cheats, glitches and crazy things you could do (my favorite – “Butt Jumping” – turn your back to the mountain you are trying to climb and jump backwards to make it up the hill), this game delivers.
I think the best way to explain the feeling of this game is to imagine that you are a character in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and this is your character’s “hero” story. From the seemingly endless quests, to the custimization available to just about any object you can pick up to the fantastic back stories for just about every town and character, this game has raised the bar for RPG play, and the open world experience by far.
The only that would’ve made it better would be if there was some type of Battle Arena where I could fight others playing through Skyrim and it would’ve been cool to see how they customized their character. Mostly, I would’ve enjoyed thumping Expert‘s dual-weilding sword character…
Any games that should’ve made the list? What are your top ten games of 2011?
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Good list. I haven’t played the majority on the top ten unfortunately, but from what I’ve seen online and in game informer, most of those are floating around the top.
Where is Galaxy Online II?
Skyrim for GOTY.
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Uncharted 3 is supposedly excellent. So I’ll give them PS3 GOTY.
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Gears of War was the best Xbox 360 game, so I’ll give them Xbox GOTY.
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Skyward Sword is the Wii’s GOTY. (I’d also give it 2nd place for overall GOTY)
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But what’s CE:A doing there? Definitely not even a runner up. It’s an old game with new graphics….nothing special. Remake game of the year? Possibly.
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As for MW3: game that seems to sell millions of copies every year even though they are all identical of the year. Or, GTSTSMOCEYETTAAIOTY
Yeah … Im pretty much up there with Teal … question … where did that pic come from lol … good hack and stitch job lol
“But what’s CE:A doing there? Definitely not even a runner up. It’s an old game with new graphics….nothing special. Remake game of the year? Possibly.”
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Well at least 343i didn’t try to sell it as a whole new game and appropriatly labeled it a remake *cough*MW3*cough*
“Well at least 343i didn’t try to sell it as a whole new game and appropriatly labeled it a remake *cough*MW3*cough*”
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So true, yet everyone still goes and buys it. It’s just depressing
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Good list, mostly, there are a few up there that no force in the Universe could ever make me play.
to keep it short … anno 2070 … it was the only game i played this year …
i´m tired of cod,bf and that kind of stuff … yet i guess skyrim will (should) take it this year …
… deus ex: revolution is pretty good too … but had some issues … especialy the bossfights were to easy …
Crysis 2: Doesn’t even remotely belong here. Games are very close to matching the original Crysis in the graphics department even on the console now. The series tries to ride on how good it looks as opposed to, oh, I don’t know, being good. At least the first exploited a jungle environment up until bug-central (in more than one way) hit. This looked lush and beautiful.. the urban environment that 2 sells itself on just looks like yet another urban setting in any other modern shooting game.
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CoD3: Probably should have been called CoD2.5.. I think that’s all that really needs to be said here.
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DCUO: Did NOT suck, but a handful if ass hats on any given server figured out the noobtastic tactic and hammered people for months before SoE picked up the ball and fixed that, and then they didn’t take away those peoples’ gear so they had the absolute best stuff while we were all struggling still, giving us absolutely no chance in the PvP department. They should have used some more well known characters more consistently as well, and fixed late level mission glitches sooner. Between all of this and the Hacking fiasco that Sony experienced, it’s no surprise that DCUO plummeted in popularity, but this is not the game’s fault as much as it is SoE’s. You’d think after Star Wars Galaxies they’d of learned to handle things better, and compared to SWG they did too, but it was too little too late for DCUO. I’d actually still play that game myself, but like with all MMO’s, I find them uninteresting with out people to play them with.
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NHL 12: *looks at NHL 12, looks at kids outside playing..just points*
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Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword: My Wii, simply put, does not get enough love. I find myself constantly trying to keep up with my 360, while I find the AI in Wii games to be mainly lacking. With out appropriate Online gaming the Wii has collected a lot of dust, sadly, even with games that are insanely fun for all, such as Super Smash Bros Brawl and niche ones that appeal directly to me such as Godzilla Unleashed. In either case, I haven’t had to play this game, or the last Zelda game. Sadness.
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TOR: As much hype as this game has gotten, it’s failed to live up. It’s basically a big Mass Effect game, using some star wars elements. People make a big hubbub over every single bioware star wars game like they’re phenomenal but in the end when you look at it, you reaize they’re just caping on the name of Star Wars and half assing it.. but when most franchise games suck completely I guess the fact that some didn’t look like a steaming pile of you know what is something to celebrate. BioWare is known for changing all kinds of stuff and making Star Wars look like it might even be in some kind of technological regression, it’s hurt the franchise, a lot. Their space combat, just compare it to Galaxies. How do you make it WORSE? Really guys, it’s like trying to sit through the American Godzilla movie, all expecting it to be everything the Japanese ones were but with great graphics and an actual proper plot for once and then you up and ignore the source material, completely forget about a plot, and just shower us with shiny things that look nice.
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon: What the fuck, Admin. Are you on crack? Were you high when playing this game? It’s a paper thin remake of War for Cybertron with the movie characters slapped in instead, and a campaign I beat in only a few hours and an on-line experience that I completed in even less time. It fixed very few problems with WfC and was pretty clearly just a money boost for the studio while they work on the next big Transformers game. If you thought Dark of the Moon was worth putting up I can’t wait to see how this next one will blow your mind.
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Battlefield 3: They’ve taken great strides, they really have, and learned a lot from their Bad Company line, but their marketing campaign was awful. A single shitty commercial to maybe lure in that one dude under the rock who didn’t already know Battlefield existed. You’re either in the Battlefield camp or the CoD camp, really, and I happen to be in Battlefield until CoD brings in combined arms combat and allows me to destroy buildings and other such cover. Still, the console version has a fucking 2+ Gig patch that I NEED to download? PLUS an already released DLC? Are you fucking kidding me? You guys are real mother fucking scum bags. BF3, your developers should be fucking ASHAMED of themselves. That is all.
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Skyrim: I’ve heard and seen nothing but goodness for this game. A few glitches here and there but when you have a bethesda game this is to be expected. They’re confined to, what, a single building? Their staff can’t be that huge, but their games sure as hell are. In cases like this the original problems are somewhat forgivable. They’re hard at work producing the DLC, and people have already found the foot print of where the new explorable areas will be although I won’t say any spoilers for those wanting to wait. It takes -a lot- to impress me with medieval fantasy shit. I normally could not care less. Yet, outside of Dragon’s Dogma this game is the only one to have caught my eye. Way to go Skyrim. This game was predicted to be Game of the Year and it probably will be. It doesn’t suffer from any of the gigantic, glaring problems that the other giant competitors suffered, although it has serious competition with the others such as Batman and Uncharted. Skyrim enjoys being a wide appealing genre with a game type that attracts even the sorts of people who don’t normally touch games. This is sort of like being able to step on to the gaming field while pumped full of steroids.
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine: Sadly, like most franchise games.. it kind of sucked. I’m sure all the wankers were pissed to see Space Marines trudging around in their big heavy armor.. but trust me, I’ve seen the equivalent of those leg types blitzing through terrain before. It’s really, really goofy looking. You do not want to see it guys. The game felt like a prettified SNES game, which isn’t always bad but I got bored just playing the demo. The Warhammer 40,000 MMO is really the game to look forward to. While we’re on the subject, I know someone, somewhere is doing a FPS conversion job for.. I don’t know which game, but for WH40k. I don’t know if they’re just replacing the graphics or if it’s going to be like the full-conversion for Crysis that they did with Mechwarrior: Living Legends. If it’s going to be full conversion maybe, yet again, the fan made game will be the one to watch as opposed to anything official.
In my opinion, either Portal 2 or Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Both excellent games.
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HALP!
Skyrim = fun for a while, but not forever. I played Skyrim for about two weeks before I simply couldn’t handle the slow paced traveling and uninvolved plot. Because somehow in all elder scrolls games you are the all-mighty savior of everything, and yet the character interaction sucks soo bad that I keep getting the feeling that everyone hates me… As soon as Bethesda makes PC and NPC interaction better, I will play again.
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@admin I too used to love the Fable series with all my heart, the original Fable was in my young mind, the greatest game ever created. Unfortunately Peter Molxneux has mind-raped all my memories with the last two games, and the upcoming game about riding horses…
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My vote for game of the year goes to Dungeons and Dragons. I had never played before because I didn’t want to be labeled a super-nerd, but a friend convinced me to try it out, and it is more fun than any video game I’ve ever played. The endless amount of things you can do blows my mind, and I finally found a game were I can create a character with a class and personality that I want! (psion/bard ftw)
@Sauroposeidon – I love your comment about the Transformers, made me laugh. Get Skyrim, I think you’ll enjoy it.
@Broadwine – I am hoping that somehow Fable 4 on the next generation of Xbox consoles will regain what was lost. D&D? Always a good choice – I have a psionic thief that always p!sses off my DM when I use him. Also like my Vampire Monk…
I’m divided between Space Marine, Deus Ex, and Portal 2.
And MW3 should be on here, Battlefield 3 game play may have been better, but the story and additions in MW3 make it the better game.
^redact MW3 statement I didn’t see it, sorry.
“@Sauroposeidon – I love your comment about the Transformers, made me laugh. Get Skyrim, I think you’ll enjoy it.”
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I think I actually screamed when I saw it there. And they killed Warpath! Poor Warpath! As for Skyrim, I’ll be getting a chance to play it soon, so hopefully my praise won’t be based on the observations of others.
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I was going to plug Armored Core in for 2012 but I decided not to.. oh wait, oops. >=)
I rather Enjoyed Space Marine myself. Maybe because I’m essentially incapable of becoming bored when it comes to 40K (I friggin loved Space Hulk for some reason). Though I do see where your complaints with it came in. You would think that with such a rich base universe to draw from, Relic could have done something really incredible with it.
Batman Arkham city
The jet pack play is where I think it suffered the most. I didn’t even bother completing that part of the demo. Maybe it’s because I so heavily lean towards the Tau that I felt I’d rather be running round in a crisis suit.
On any other site a 40K wouldn’t have been mentioned………
*a 40K game
Dead Space was something interesting too. It had an entirely different feel to it that the first game, and it didn’t exactly feel right with me.
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Maybe it was that they had Isaac talk and they showed his face, but I actually empathized with him LESS in this one. During Dead Space, Isaac was just this regular Joe with Gawdawful luck looking for his girlfriend on some horrendous ship filled with shit-your-pants alien zombies. He wasn’t some knight in shining armor or a melodramatic angstbucket. He was just some guy. In this, he felt more like the “Action Hero” out to destroy the Marker and all that. Or maybe it was just goddamn Stross having his midlife crisis during the game.
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The Necromorphs just weren’t scary this time around. I don’t know if its because you’ve already fought them before, or the fact that your on a giant space station rather than a (relatively) small ship, but I honestly was hardly ever scared during this one. Dead Space just had better atmosphere for that kind of thing.
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Goddamn Stross.
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Goddamn Stross.
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Goddamn Exploding Babies.
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Goddamn Stross.
Mortal kombat is fighting game of the year
And for the record, I’m a little surprised this didn’t make it on the list. It’d of been the best fighting game of the year in my book if they hadn’t of boned us with Ultimate.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=WduVvq0YRGg&feature=relmfu
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And chuck, quit your god damn trolling. Mortal Kombat is struggling to keep up. It hasn’t been good since MK3, because they keep experimenting and never settle on anything. This is probably because games like Killer Instinct and Primal Rage took the one unique thing they offered and schooled them on how to do it right. Except no one’s fucking doing that to them anymore so they should just return to their old god damn style and quit puttering about with their thumbs up their asses. Considering how big of a Dante fan you are I’m surprised you’re not all over this game. When else will you ever get to say Dante humiliated Galactus mano a mano?
mortal kombat 9 was a much better game then the standard edition of MVC3, all you need to do to win in mvc3 is get tron,haggar and amaterasu mash B with the first two and X with amy
” chuck, quit your god damn trolling”
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how am i tolling? you’re just mad cause street fighter can’t win a match oin factpile
“Mortal Kombat is struggling to keep up.”
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How? MK 9(9.4) got better reviews than both MvC3(9.0) and SFIV(9.2)
and besides MK9 has sold 1.81 million. MvC3 has sold 1.23 million.
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MvC3 was just a rip off,Hell, they had to release it twice in the same year. MK9 only had one release and it even won fighting game of the year at Gt video game awards
@Sauroposeidon
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You do realize that TOR, and every single Bioware Star Wars game, is set 4000+ years before the movies, right?
I just have one thing to say.
That ladies and gentlemen is this: If awesome was measured by the pound and the game Skyrim was a truck it would be hauling a TON of awesome.
I absolutely love the game and probably won’t stop until I put in the minimum two hundred hours mark. Then I’ll pick it up in a few months and do it all again.
This also accurately summed up my anticipation for the game. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9eGtyqz4gY
Oh and then there’s also this to add.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsqiSknjHK8&feature=related
Capcom has to release dozens of version of each one of their fighting games.
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Street Fighter 2 and it’s army of re-releases, Street Fight 4 and Super Street Fighter 4, MvC3 and MvC3 Ultimate.
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I honestly laugh at the people that buy a Capcom fighting game at launch because in a month or 2 it will have a “better” version released.
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Yep.
@Turtle Commando
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Those videos made me laugh! Shit day so far, evening for me now, and this makes it all good.
Skyrim was okay, I kind of agree with Broadwine in that (for me) it was slammin’ for awhile at the beginning, then kind of plateaued. It’s still fun though. I’d like them to have had some kind of dwarven gun, like what those brass drones shoot at you. Plus, child killing would be neat.
“I honestly laugh at the people that buy a Capcom fighting game at launch because in a month or 2 it will have a “better” version released.”
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This
@ Itisburgers
You being mad because you can’t figure out how to turn up the difficulty does not make the game poor.
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“How? MK 9(9.4) got better reviews than both MvC3(9.0) and SFIV(9.2)
and besides MK9 has sold 1.81 million. MvC3 has sold 1.23 million.”
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CoD:MW3 has the fastest sales records ever. Sales do not equate to the game being good. Now that I’ve said that so you know where I stand on how much this actually effects your claim that MK9 was better. YOU LIED ABOUT THE SALES NUMBERS. A cursory glance at a simple search shows you’ve understated the sales of BOTH games. Wow you are lazy. Did you just make your shit up? Maybe if you cited your sources I’d believe you. For instance, I’m more likely to trust these guys on MK9′s sales than your random statement.
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www.gamebandits.com/news/mor-12566/
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Although I will hand it to MK that MK9 was a step in the right direction. We also know game reviews mean pretty much nothing. Bad Company 2 actually got insanely good reviews despite the piss poor campaign mode and the far inferior multi-player maps compared to Bad Company 1. The only thing it improved on was buildings could collapse, a few more vehicles, and now tanks had more appropriate armor and horse power. Bullet Drop as well although your mileage may vary.
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“MvC3 was just a rip off,Hell,”
Yes, it was. Normally they only do that sort of thing with street fighter, and it was low of Capcom to do that.
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“won fighting game of the year at Gt video game awards”
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Reeeeeeeeally not helping your cause with that one, trust me.
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“you’re just mad cause street fighter can’t win a match oin factpile”
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The only two I’ve bothered to participate in except for the blanka match (which strikes me as being possibly impossible to come to a conclusion to, although I’d have to check it again, really.) were over run with based god trolling the shit out of them, I corrected them. You want to debate if Street Fighter fails in a match or not you take your ass there and debate like a big boy, but I keep countering you at every step so I can see why you’d run your mouth here where your repeated failures can’t be read simply by scrolling up. What the hell does this even have to do with MvC3? There were only a handful of Street Fighter characters. I almost never even use the SF Characters in favor of Tron, or Sentinel, or Iron Man, or Amaterasu, or Zero, or Wolverine or.. well you get the idea.
“I honestly laugh at the people that buy a Capcom fighting game at launch because in a month or 2 it will have a “better” version released.”
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They didn’t do that with MvC2. I think a lot of us were blindsided with Ultimate.
@ Reaper
I try. Thank you. But I seriously do like Skyrim at about that level.
@ Chuck
I’m sorry, Based God was not in Ryu & Ken vs Scorpion & Sub-Zero. That match is probably going to be the easiest win Ryu and Ken will have on this site.
” We also know game reviews mean pretty much nothing”
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Yes it does, if the reviewer knows what he’s talking about
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” not helping your cause with that one, trust me.”
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Still GOTY over that ripp off MvC3
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“but I keep countering you at every step so I ”
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Countering? Lol no I showed you Lou kang punching stone into crumbs and him knocking heads off with punches and kicking bodies into pieces and all you can say is ryu can dodge
IMO:
Crysis 2 is the game nobody likes but yet everyone has to have so they can show their friends how awesome their pc is.
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MW3, er excuse me, MW1.5 isn’t just stagnation of the series, it’s actual regression. Seriously, the game looks like MW1. I haven’t been this shocked at how bad a game looks since Homefront.
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BF3 >>>>>>>>>>> MW3. Graphics are in a different league altogether, destructible environments, combined arms, multiplayer is just straight up better. I have a couple gripes with it though. DICE apparently has a raging hard on for bloom that hasn’t gone down since the bad company series. Half the time I feel like I need sunglasses to play this game. Ironically? Some of the player models actually DO have polarized visors and they STILL look like this: www.image-share.com/upload/1155/17.jpg. Disclosure: that’s actually bad company 2 but the effect’s pretty much identical. They also managed to break the knife somehow. It only seems to work if you’re both standing still and you have to be behind the other guy. If you’re in front of him or either of you is moving it just misses. Finally, the damage is too low. It takes most guns 6 or 7 bullets to kill someone, and unlike in bad company you can’t increase your damage.
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Love Skyrim. Combat is still too loose for my taste but that’s not what the game’s about.
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AC:Revelations is good but it’s starting to feel like more of the same. AC2 was a quantum leap over AC1, which was admittedly more of a tech demo than a game, I mean I got so bored I couldn’t even finish it and had to youtube the ending. Brotherhood added assassin recruits which adds something. Revelations added… ziplines and tower defense? Not particularly impressed here. That said, Ezio is a total badass and needs to get on this site more. Youtube the intro cutscene and try to get the long version. As you’re watching that, keep in mind this guy is over 50 years old!
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Saints Row 3 is a fun ride. I wouldn’t call it GOTY material, but it’s fun. It is to GTA4 what TF2 is to BF3. It’s pure kitsch but you know what? Fuck that advant garde bullshit. It’s the worst kind of faux-intellectual snobbery. Every time I look at a Jackson Pollock I can’t help but think that poor canvas was the victim of a twisted bukkake party where everyone involved has a different STD.
“Yes it does, if the reviewer knows what he’s talking about”
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Most reviewers do not know what they are talking about. They are often paid to give positive reviews. Game Reviewers are GIVEN GAMES FOR FREE TO REVIEW. If they slam the game then chances are that company will be much less likely to give them the game to review before hand. NEVER trust game reviewers that constantly gush over new games.
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“Still GOTY over that ripp off MvC3″
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From GT.. this is sort of like citing ST-v-SW.net for a Star Wars debate.
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“Countering? Lol no I showed you Lou kang punching stone into crumbs and him knocking heads off with punches and kicking bodies into pieces and all you can say is ryu can dodge”
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I showed you why Ryu is just as strong and durable as Liu. I showed you why he’s faster and a better martial artist. You provided repeatedly weaker feats for Liu. How is ripping someone’s arms off better than the last feat you gave where he shattered statues? How is any of this superior to stopping a river? You either don’t understand how to debate or simply have run away. If you want to continue it, counter my arguments in the actual thread.. otherwise I’ll take it you’ve retreated and that these barbs you keep flinging are the defensive arrows of a broken and fleeing force.
@ W00T
I do not have this problem on the x-box. Is there perhaps a bloom setting on the console you can alter?
on the PC, sorry, not the console.
It’s pointless I’m arguing with a guy who thinks MvC3 is better than MK9.. I feel stupid arguing with you
Excuses excuses. You probably think Smash Bros is a crappy fighting game too. Come back when you have real ammunition. You’ve only got blanks to bark with for now.
“Excuses excuses. You probably think Smash Bros is a crappy fighting game too. Come back when you have real ammunition. You’ve only got blanks to bark with for now.”
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lol at crapcom’s number 1 fan. At the end of the day MK9 was the highest selling fighting game of the year www.thesixthaxis.com/2011/09/15/mortal-kombat-9-reaches-3-million-sales/ making it the best fighting game of the year
Someone doesn’t seem to like Nintendo.
Instead of bitching about how much it doesn’t change how about noting they change more in each game than most other games.
They don’t make these games yearly like you claim either.
Because if that was true we would have around 22 damn zelda games.
Honestly if you are going to bitch about nintendo bitch about the worse companies that hardly change anything and barf out the games like they hardly try.
“Honestly if you are going to bitch about nintendo bitch about the worse companies that hardly change anything and barf out the games like they hardly try.”
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lol first thing comes to mind is MW3
Figures that Skyrim would be at the tp of the good list. I’ve heard alot about it, but not really into the elder scrolls game. Might try it out if I can buy it.
“making it the best fighting game of the year”
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I like how you point at MW3 as a crappy game but it’s got crazy good sales right now. I wouldn’t put money on it but I bet they outside Battlefield 3 despite how much worse the game is, or at least competed very closely with them.
ousted* not outside.
“I like how you point at MW3 as a crappy game but it’s got crazy good sales right now. I wouldn’t put money on it but I bet they outside Battlefield 3 despite how much worse the game is, or at least competed very closely with them.”
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Indeed. MW3 sold more in one day than BF3 sold in a week. Doesn’t mean it’s better. About the bloom, there was a way in BC2 but you had to edit an ini file. It doesn’t seem to change anything in BF3 though. I think developers need to learn that amazing graphics only look amazing if you can see them. BF3 is on one end of the spectrum with glaringly obnoxious flashbang like HDR and Doom 3 is on the other where you feel like Albert Wesker groping around a pitch black room with your sunglasses still on.
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As for fighting games, I don’t play either, but from what I’ve heard the MK series is pretty meh and Street Fighter is awesome, though I believe among truly hardcore guys Virtual Fighter is considered the best. In a FP context, I’m not really sure how much is considered canon but I’m fairly certain Akuma could wipe most of the MK guys. The guy’s jumped into space to shoryuken an asteroid, raised a submarine from the bottom of the sea with a kick, split Ayer’s rock with one punch, and sunk an island with one fist. You’ve also got weird shit like Chun Li kicking tanks apart. Street fighter suffers from the same problem as a lot of fighters in that they can’t decide whether or not their guys are street level or super heroes. Darkstalkers probably gets this the worst. Their (noncanon) comics depict them as street level with occasional shitty powers but the (approximately half a paragraph per game) backstory says even the weakest of them can take on a small army of elite soldiers and the stronger ones are starbusters.
“but from what I’ve heard the MK series is pretty meh”
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Maybe I’m being one of those crotchety old fanboy types who hisses at the notion of change but MK sucks majorly compared to the original trilogy. Deadly Alliance, for instance, was just god awful. It was extremely painful to watch characters muck up their martial arts. I think they should have hired actual martial arts experts to come in and do them because their idea of Sambo was just ridiculous. When you watch a fighting style you hold dear to your heart get such poor treatment.. that’s when I knew that they were skimping big time. As for Virtua Fighter, I recall the AI being extremely difficult and that’s about it. It was years ago and I was not as good a gamer then as I am not but I wasn’t a god damn slouch either. My Saturn simply didn’t get played much because the games were of NES difficulty level for me at the time.
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“I’m fairly certain Akuma could wipe most of the MK guys”
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That’s why no one pitches Akuma against these guys. He’s got one fight, with another Martial Artist I really, really like, but he’s close to the proper tier needed with some of his durability feats.
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I have little experience with Dark Stalkers, for the record.
“lol at crapcom’s number 1 fan.”
Crapcom made Dante……
“That’s why no one pitches Akuma against these guys.”
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raiden owns
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“The guy’s jumped into space to shoryuken an asteroid,”
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non canon
“Crapcom made Dante…”
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uhh no this guy made dante en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideki_Kamiya Crapcom screwed over dante by handing him over to ninja theory
“raiden owns”
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Raiden has no comparative feats.
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“non canon”
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The energies required to launch Akuma that high are less than required to sink an island.
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“Crapcom screwed over dante by handing him over to ninja theory”
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I’m sorry that you don’t like the direction they took Dante, but the fact of the matter is he is their creation. They are his parent company. They own him. Sometimes they make bad decisions. I’m still stung over their not hiring Americans for development purposes anymore, but thems the breaks, dude.
“Crapcom screwed over dante by handing him over to ninja theory”
If it wasn’t for Crapcom, Dante wouldn’t be around right now. Besides, I thought you didn’t care about Dante’s new emofied persona, just as long as he retains his “I dun givafuck” attitude.
“If it wasn’t for Crapcom, Dante wouldn’t be around right now. Besides, I thought you didn’t care about Dante’s new emofied persona, just as long as he retains his “I dun givafuck” attitude.”
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But they didn’t create Dante, Hideki did And the Dante in DmC is not the Dante in devil may cry so no I don’t like it now but I’ll still buy it though
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“The energies required to launch Akuma that high are less than required to sink an island.”
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Still non canon
“Dante in DmC is not the Dante in devil may cry”
What is “DmC”? Devil Might Cry?
@Laharl
I agree with that, aim the targeting on Activision in General and to some degree, E.A in General(Except Bioware, but i digress) as well, instead.
@Admin
Fable is the sad story of a game that made you feel so epicly powerful just your farts would blow peoples brains to shits….the Fable 2 and 3 came along and all your farts did was put little facial emotions above their heads….oh well
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@Broadwine
You simply don’t like Skyrim because you didn’t get into enough, its not a game you can just jump in and play for half an hour every couple days…you really have to emerge yourself with the game…granted the NPC do have shitty interaction at times (much better than Oblivion tho!)
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DnD : FTW
I haven’t played any of these.
“But they didn’t create Dante, Hideki did”
So you mean to tell me he could have created the game and even the DMC franchise (not just the main character) all on his own without a company to publish it? Dante is a product of Capcom.
I have decided I like Space Marine the most. Mainly for how smoothly the plot twist occurred. Also for the awesome finishers and ground pounds.
Nice pic admin. It’s funny to notice someone other then me saw that protagonist have a need for walking/standing towards us.
I honestly don’t understand how anyone enjoys Skyrim. I rented the game for a week and really cracked down, putting every waking moment I could into it to get as much of the experience as I could before I had to take it back. I really wanted this amazing experience that every seems to be having, but it wasn’t at all… it was just awful. The voice acting, graphics, glitches, skill trees instead of stats, shield system, all the walking, walking, walking, the load screens, the overabundance of fetchquests, and especially the combat… were all just awful.
It never once screamed ‘GOTY’ to me, it screamed ‘this is from 2005′.
I thought about it too much and I change my #1 vote to Portal 2. It had great humor, mind puzzles, and that ending was the second best I’ve ever seen.
I loved Portal 2 so much simply because of the originality. Not many games are even close to being like portal, and the ones that are aren’t even well known. So hats off to you Portal 2 (Also amazing humor and characters aswell).
” Dante is a product of Capcom.”
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Correct, he’s a product of capcom.. They didn’t CREATE him
Chuck I’m confused here. In what way do you think Capcom didn’t create Dante? Kamiya was working for them when he made Dante. That’s like saying Disney didn’t create Mickey Mouse because Walt Disney specifically did. And where do you think the artists, animators, modelers, coders, testers, etc came from?
@ SKekLach
Well, if you don’t like to walk, ride a horse. If you don’t like the glitches well, be fucking patient. I you don’t like the rest…well you just don’t have the same tastes as everyone else and I’m sorry for you.
@w00tm0ng3r
- I belive he means that the character Dante was not first seen or heard of in the game Dante’s Inferno, in fact the entire storyling of Dante’s Inferno comes from the Poem, The Divine Comedy, written by Dante Alighieri. The poem has three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The game is based only of the first part “Inferno” hence the name: Dante’s Inferno
@MacBurger
If i decide to consider the Forces of Olympus(according mainly to Camp Half-Blood incarnations) vs the Templars of Dragon Age in Group Fight to the death(with B.F.Ring of the gods permitted to the Templars) trust me, you would know i am not in the right emotional or mental state, as of late, alright?
Still as ever, where’s news from Namco-Bandai?
@Commander Cross…..
I honestly have no idea wtf you talking about…:/
@MacBurger
This is exactly what i get for trying to prevent site memory loss. -_-’
You do realize the Templars are that scumbaggy organization from Dragon Age 2, right?
Very surprised by the lack of good reception for swtor on this site. I would have expected alot of the star wars fans on here to love it. Hell alot of the time when star wars was brought up on this site in a duel I sided against it but Im still playing swtor and enjoying the living hell out of it. Very good and creative MMO and easily better then WoW. I played WoW for 4 years, had 3 85′s and dont regret for a second that I dropped it for swtor. Awesome game and is growing very fast which is only right.
Oh and Skyrim was above and beyond the right choice for GOTY no other game this year even comes remotely close. That game is a masterpiece.
@Commander_Cross
- I know exactly who the Templars in DA, mostly because I have been trying to wipe them out, its just you seem to write in a strange version of Old English and I can’t decipher out your meaning half the time lol
A note on Battlefield 3 now that I have it. The campaign is embarrassing, and the way EA nickel and dimes you if you bought a used copy is just salt on the wound. I will from now on be stealing any more EA games which I get.
@Turtle Commando – Don’t feel sorry for me. There are many other games from this year that I’ve been enjoying. Perhaps you’re right though and my taste is just too different from the norm to appreciate Skyrim. Games like Portal 2, Arkham City, and particularly Dark Souls have made 2011 an amazing year in gaming for me nonetheless.
@MacBurger
The Forces of Olympus, as you already know, is what i coin the military/paramilitary fighting forces meant to fight for Olympus, if you had to ask.
I just don’t want to come across as desperate, well…more desperate than normal if i fear the only way for the Camp Half-Blood meta-series to be remembered in reason is to have one of its fighting factions/meta-factions in a group fight to the Death against the Dragon Age Templars.
Even i feel that both halves of the Forces of Olympus(Represented by Camp Half-Blood and Jason’s original home camp, whose true name will not be uttered, here, either!) are better-equipped to engage the Templars than most of the resident fighting groups of the Modern Potter-world(i said Modern because the Ancient/Medieval Potter-world has better odds, sadly speaking!) would have, and one of the reasons why is because they have guns.
Why do i sense that its desperation talking through me rather than the other way around, MacBurger?
Please be honest with me and warn me if Desperation is trying to weaponize me, alright?
No to Dragon Age 2. IT’s is mediocre.
Yes to Skyrim. It is great.
Duke Nukem was o.k.
Sword of the Stars 2 is great (if still not fully fixed).
Batman is..batman. Nuff said!
I’m just gonna say this, as a first time Call of Duty player I prefer it to Battlefield.
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However for me, the best game I played this year is Batman: Arkham City, followed closely by Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
LOL COD 2.5 I’M A TOOL.
Seriously though MY GOTY is Starcraft 2, since I didn’t play it until January. If I HAD to pick a game from this year… Portal 2. Hands down.
So any luck for latest news of the year, yet?
Well you know, the guy that wounds Adam Jensen so he forced to be augmented is Israeli
spy vs spy 2:electric bugaloo