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Game of the Year 2010 Poll [*RESULTS*]
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Nope, it's actually totally sweet
Sure as shit better than MP2 or 3
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It sure is shit compared to MP2 or 3. Underneath the insulting story and awkward controls is a mediocre game, with serviceable gameplay and bland environments. There were some good ideas in the game, but all of them were executed poorly, and there is nothing compelling me to ever touch the game again.
Thats cool, I just had to give you shit because of the way you worded things at first there.
Most of these Game of the Year polls that I have seen either have Red Dead Redemption or Mass Effect 2 as the winner so it must be a pretty good game. Of the sites I follow, IGN gave the award to ME2 while Game Revolution and 1Up gave it to RDR. Just for fun, here is Game of the Year breakdown of the main three winners (Mass Effect 2, Red Dead Redemption, Super Mario Galaxy 2) according to Wikipedia:
During the 2010 Spike Video Game Awards, the game won the awards for "Best Xbox 360 Game", "Studio of the Year" (for its developer, BioWare), "Best RPG", and it was nominated for "Game of the Year", "Best PC Game", "Best Original Score", "Best Performance by a Human Male" (for Martin Sheen as the Illusive Man), "Best Performance by a Human Female" (for Jennifer Hale as Commander Shepard – female version, and Yvonne Strahovski as Miranda Lawson), "Best DLC" (for Lair of the Shadow Broker), and "Most Anticipated Game of 2010".
During its year-end series of awards, GameTrailers gave the game the awards for "Best RPG",[109] "Best Story" and Game of the Year. Screw Attack ranked the game as top game of 2010 as voted for by users. IGN Australia chose the game as the best game of 2010.
I'm partial to agree with the guys in this spoiler myself.
On the subject of Metroid I really need to get around to finishing Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. I don't have much of a backlog or anything but that is in there. I thought Echoes was a pretty badass game and almost enjoyed it as much as the first. Haven't played Other M yet, but I really want to check it out at some point.
'Twas said with tongue firmly planted in cheek; but in all honesty I didn't care for RDR much, hence the hint of belligerence.
Ubisoft patched out most of the DRM recently (link).
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it is on steam right? I'm sure i saw it on there.
Yes, AC2 is:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/33230/
It is supposed to be Steamplay-based now, but I don't know if I have heard whether or not they completely removed the Ubi-based DRM/cloud saves and just replaced it with the Steam DRM and Steam Cloud. That makes me wonder if this switch to Steamplay well after release for AC2 is a sign of things to come for the PC version of Brotherhood.
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Wait, what?
Like, the actual XBLA game?
He clarified earlier that he confused it with a flash game called Crush the Castle.
Indeed I did.
Hmm. Castle Crashing versus Castle Crushing.
This happens to me a lot, too. Kind of counterproductive of the feature.
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My favorite part about the list though, was that Yakuza 3 actually ranked (relatively) high. Had I voted, would've been my number one.
I don't know about everyone else, but I rated it lower than I did AC2 last year because it felt like an expansion. AC2 had already finished Ezio's character arc so the Brotherhood's story didn't go anywhere new and felt a bit tacked on. It was still a fun game, they added some good features and I ended up putting as much time into it as I did AC2 but yeah, some bits were disappointing.
It wasn't really marketed terribly well either, they placed too much emphasis on the multiplayer and seemed to make some doubt the scale of the single player.
I think I voted for it as my number 3. It would've been higher if the story and pacing had been a bit better. Pity Yakuza 4 is coming out this year, I've heard so many people describe it as the best game of the series but even then I can't imagine I'll think it's better than Uncharted 3, Batman: Arkham City, Mass Effect 3 or Infamous 2.
ME2 was pretty awesome though; I don't feel bad losing to it.
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http://kotaku.com/5741734/game-of-the-year-2010-the-readers-choice-award
Black Ops #2? Hmm.... I like the PA community's rankings better, but I think they had a multiple choice selection with a write-in vote.
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Again, I think it was multiple choice with a write-in field. But still.
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It's kind of weird, in that I like a lot of other games better, but there's absolutely no way I'll put more time into any other game throughout this entire next year than I will into BlOps. So, I can't be mad that it's on their list, though I think it gets high marks for me only because thousands of hours of playtime for $60 is pretty awesome.
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I guess I'm just usually in opposition to the pluralist vote. Hell, Alan Wake was my number 2.
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Actually that's a lie, the singleplayer was surprisingly awesome in that it was cold war era, and I have a soft spot for games set in the cold war
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But since those issues weren't resolved... it didn't crack my Top 20, and I doubt I'll be given them my money for future installments.
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I pronounce it bee-log.
Check your old subscribed threads from your User Control Panel? I'd get you the link but I'm using the terrible Blackberry browser right now.
Edit:
Here we go: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showpost.php?p=17827700&postcount=66
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I pronounce it bee-log.
No problem. I don't post in too many threads, so it wasn't too bad to find that thread in my history.
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Do you guys replay Mass Effect 2? Is it satisfying over and over again?
I tried playing through again because the ending I got wasn't really to my satisfaction
I can't do it, though
The shooting's fine enough for one playthrough, massively improved over the first game, but it still feels like a chore to slog through just to change some of my story bits
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Man, I can't believe that I'm doing this, but I agree with UV. Depending how far it is though, it may be better to just turn the difficulty down and grind through it
The Mass Effect 2 thread is one of the most active ones in this forum and there are people in it who have completed the game upwards of eight times. So, you know, it really depends on how much you like the gameplay.
I'm on my fourth play through now, and each one has been unique and enjoyable. There are so many ways you can make your way through the game, and so much content, it really is fun to play multiple times.
And really, I'm on the light end of the scale. There are plenty of people in the ME thread with double (or more) my number of play throughs.
If the gameplay isn't your thing (and I can sort of see how it wouldn't be, but for the genre that ME2 belongs to, its amazing), then it could be difficult to slog through, but if you enjoy the gameplay there is absolutely every reason to play through the game four, five, six, or more times.
But I can't
Only one way feels right
Maybe that's a testament to how strongly I feel about the characters in that game, I don't know. I don't like fucking up my continuity.
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And for those who do like the gameplay (I realise you don't) each class plays pretty differently, although I never saw the appeal of the Sentinel or Engineer classes.
But now I'm actually doing a second playthrough as a female Shepard (which is still odd to me, I'm so used to male Shep's voice), but that means my beloved Ashley is gone and that asshole Kaidan lived
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