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Game of the Year 2010 Poll [*RESULTS*]
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I didn't say that
I don't know if I did, really. I remember SoC placing well when it came out, but a lot of people had that experience and then didn't keep up with the series. The STALKER thread around here is pretty active, but outside of a handful of us, a lot of that is because new people keep picking up SoC. What I did expect to place higher is Metro 2033. I'm pretty disappointed in how little attention that game has gotten, and is apparently still continuing to get.
Remember that these polls are a reflection of what we played and enjoyed over the year. Things with low barriers to entry tend to place abnormally high because everyone played them. It's the same reason you had stuff like Iji and You Have To Burn The Rope rank well last year.
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Yeah, the jump between 2nd and 1st place is crazy.
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Well, depending on your definition of "high-profile", Mafia 2 is sitting at #82.
I mean, Madden 11 is at #125, but you know, sports.
Edit: Oh, and Epic Mickey at #100.
Edit the second: On another note, there were a few 2010 games I own but didn't have enough play time to honestly vote for them, such as Amnesia, Mafia 2, and Metro 2033. I'm curious if anyone else found themselves in a similar predicament.
Well the steam sale caused this problem for me in general. I'm sure I'm not alone.
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Actually, the fact that it got such an overwhelming vote when it came out last January speaks volumes, considering gamers usually have the memories/attention spans of a small rodent
Yeah, but from the sidelines it felt like Pripyat was getting a fair amount of attention for all the stability and gameplay improvements over its infamous predecessor. It seemed like more accessibility meant a better point for interested parties deterred in the past by bugginess to hop on and experience the Zone.
Your point about Angry Birds is well taken, and at $1 a lot of people were exposed to it, but it's still hard for me to fathom it showing up in anyone's top 10 list (where most of its votes come from) unless there wasn't much competition, i.e. few games played and all ranked.
There's a pretty sharp difference between appeal to popularity of a general audience (oh no Britney Spears sold 30 hojillion records) and appeal to popularity of a more limited audience like a particular forum. If you're going to toss out the entire spectrum, then the Academy Awards poll of 6,000 or so doesn't somehow get a pass.
I think you're missing something.
PC as a platform seemed to do pretty well: there are more PC exclusive in the top 10 than there are games that can't be played on the PC, which wasn't the case in '09 or '08, for instance. VVVVVV got some serious love.
I'm probably one of the most outspoken critics of ME2 on these forums, and I don't begrudge it winning. I do, however begrudge this kind of "we are the champions, no time for losers" mocking. As it's one of the reasons I soured on it in the first place
That's just Dhalphir though. Mass Effect 2 was indeed my game of the year, but if you didn't like it you didn't like it. At the same time though, I don't like how some people (not you) do begrudge the game for winning the top spot.
Then again I voiced by own dislike for two of the other Top 20 winners so I guess I'm part of the problem haha. (Though my dislike of Alpha Protocol is almost entirely based on technical issues on the PC, not the dialogue that people seem to applaud the game for.)
At any rate, nice info to see as always. And thanks for running this gig again mcc.
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The ME2 G+T thread went through 50 pages (thats 50 posts per page) every few days when it first came out and is still cycling through a new thread every 2-3 weeks this far down the track. AND SE++ has one that doesn't exactly run slowly too.
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Yes but then you have to take into account that RDR is actually really boring.
Usually in a voting period, later events or entrants have a significant advantage. So yeah, ME2 stands out there (except Bioware have been releasing DLC throughout the year and thus have kept interest up). It also explains (to me) Super Meat Boy's relatively high placement - it'd probably drop ten ranks if it were released last January; XBLA darlings like MNC are far down the list since I assume most people have moved on and mostly forgotten. In another 4 months it'll be the same with SMB.
Yeah, I think my tastes are now officially no longer mainstream. While I can see the appeal in nearly every game in the top 20, most of them don't excite me at all, even if I did play them.
The multi was really fun for a couple weeks. But when people had cycled through the fairly limited content/population dropped enough that you couldn't find friends to play with, which that needed more then most - it just completely vanished.
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While I enjoyed ME2 a lot and personally wouldn't put it in my top ten, I can see the merits and am totally happy with it winning.
Super Meat Boy at #6! Wooooooooooo!
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I am totally okay with admitting that I was 100% dead wrong.
That kind of game with that kind of picky platforming didn't sound fun at all to me. I hated N+, I thought it controlled like shit and that when I got through something it was based on pure luck, because it brought absolutely no sense of satisfaction.
Hearing about another indie 2D platformer that would necessitate thousands of deaths had me yelling "boo!", but luckily there was a demo available
I didn't even dig the demo that much, honestly. I was like "Well...better than I expected but whatever"
And then I got this feeling in me like two days later and I just bought it straight off and wasn't able to put it down. It's wonderful.
You didn't need the ranking for SMG2 in that post though, 3D Mario games are trash
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My most pleasant surprise is Super Meat Boy placing so high. I actually didn't place it on my list because I just got the game a week ago and I'm amazed at how great it is. If I were to go back and revise my list, I'd probably throw it at 3 easy. Just Cause 2 got some love too, though I wish it were a little higher as it's easily my favorite GTA-like game ever.
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Sadly, I honestly think the Lara Croft name was more detrimental than beneficial. I'm guessing most people though it would be another average third person action/adventure game like the previous Tomb Raider titles, so they just skipped it. I know that's what happened with me, until I downloaded the demo on a whim and was thoroughly wowed. Had it been a new IP, and had a bit more of a marketing push behind it, it could have been this years Shadow Complex, IMO.
Though shipping without online coop probably hurt it a bunch too, which is a shame because the game honestly had the best coop implementation I've ever seen in a game. Coop not only changes how you play the game, but the entire game itself is altered to make the puzzle solving a two person affair. A lot of love was put into that coop.
Coop coop coop.
It's just lack of taste.
And ME2 is fucking awesome.
Also I can't see how being a cowboy can be classed as boring. I'm still putting some time in to the multiplayer with a friend, sometimes we just boot up free roam and mess around for hours.
And thanks again to Mcc for the list.
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If you have one, you should also seriously consider the PS3 version coming soon since it'll include all DLC so far.
Yeah, I meant PC, 360 or PS3, they're all options. Being it's not natively compatible with the 360 pad though I may just pick it up on the 360 itself, I imagine it'll be cheap enough by now.
I like to game whilst lazing in my couch, Keyboard + Mouse makes me sit up straight
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For example, there is one specific character you don't get access to until very late in the game, but it seems that the developers originally intended him to be available earlier as there is a TON of unique dialoge (dozens and dozens of lines, both of his and of other characters in reaction to him) that you cannot access on the 360 but can on the PC by modifying the file to allow you to have access to him earlier. It breaks continuity a bit, but only in a story sense, not in a gameplay sense, and is the kind of thing you only do after you've played through once or twice already obviously.
if having to KBAM is a dealbreaker go for 360 but its a much better experience on PC.
In addition, if you intend to play the game more than once, a little minigame that Bioware saw fit to include, that is, scanning planets for minerals, while nifty the first playthrough, becomes INCREDIBLY dull in subsequent playthroughs but you have to do it anyway to finance upgrades, and the PC version lets you just skip that completely and just buy upgrades as you find them, rather than having to find upgrades and then STILL scour planets for minerals to research them.
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All the amazing games this year? I can't really name any amazing ones that've come out over the last 10 days...
I'd put the overwhelming ME2 popularity down to it being a high profile game in what was overall, a pretty mediocre year. ME2 was my number 2 I think, but if it had come out in 2009 it probably would've been down around the 5th position or lower (underneath at least Uncharted 2, Batman, AC2 and Infamous).
I was kinda annoyed it even got that far up the list but I guess your view is a nicer outlook on it. Black Ops' single player campaign was horrendous, ratcheting up MW2's stupidity and adding some really incompetent design into the mix as well. For all its stupidity, MW2's scripting was generally pretty intuitive and it all felt very natural. Black Ops on the other hand felt like a robot, requiring you to specifically go to different spots to trigger an end to the enemies infinite respawns or whatever.
Oh and Grinch, you could just wait for the PS3 version to drop in price. That way you get to choose the ME1 story variations without having to play the game again and get all the DLC packaged in.
Minecraft as an FPS is mind-boggling, I suspect it has something to do with keeping Halo off the awards?
the real 'wild west' was actually fucking boring that's why.
I voted ME2 as my #1 as well, even though I wasn't hot on the gameplay