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post #51 of 74
12/11/09 at 3:43pm
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Since I've always had trouble with deciding my top ten of anything here is my top five of '09.

1. Dragon Age: Origins. The best game of the year, one of the best games in recent memory and the current high watermark for RPGs. Every western RPG made from now on will have this to live up to. Undisputed.

2. Torchlight. Came from nowhere and took almost as much of my time as Dragon Age. I'd say it was the surprise of the year if not for the great pedigree it came with, considering the people that worked on it. certainly the feel good gaming story of the year for me.

3. Batman: Arkham Asylum. More brilliant game design choices than any game on this list. Would have been even higher if not for its vulgar graphical style and stupid boss fights.

4. Plants Vs Zombies. There isn't a single wrong thing about it. It's not higher only because it didn't aim higher.

5. Far Cry 2. I know it's not that well regarded but when it works you find yourself driving full speed through the savanna towards the sunrise with a pack of zebras running along side. It's a game of moments but these moments make tolerating the stupid stuff worthwhile.
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post #52 of 74
12/11/09 at 3:44pm
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Originally Posted by Brad Millette
Protip: It actually isn't that good by today's standards to begin with. Very few of those old brawlers really stand the test of time.
I don't know, Rampage and the original Turtles arcade game tend to get as much play time with friends looking for a local time killer as does a newer game like Castle Crashers.
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post #53 of 74
12/11/09 at 3:44pm
Far Cry 2 was 2008! And kinda lame!
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post #54 of 74
12/11/09 at 3:58pm
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Originally Posted by dontEATnachos View Post
I don't know, Rampage and the original Turtles arcade game tend to get as much play time with friends looking for a local time killer as does a newer game like Castle Crashers.
Those games trade well on nostalgia, and I bet if they had just released the original Turtles in Time it would have as well. The problem is they went about revamping it and essentially gave us a different looking version of the same game that actually plays worse. Trying to update something without doing much updating (and I'm aware it was pretty much just intended as a minor graphics overhaul) is just pointless.
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post #55 of 74
12/11/09 at 4:01pm
Rampage I don't count, assuming we're talking about the building destroying arcade game. And I'm not saying that brawlers aren't fun, it's just that most of them really don't hold their own anymore. Good ones, like the old Simpsons and X-Men arcade games from Konami, are still pretty solid. But the Turtles games I think are more nostalgic than anything else. They're just not that great.
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post #56 of 74
12/11/09 at 4:12pm
Really? I played X-Men at a movie theater recently and that one benefits from nostalgia as much as the others do. Best things about it are the wonderfully shitty X-X-X-X-X-X-MEN!!!! music and this:



Simpsons still holds up, which baffles me as I type this. All these games are the same fucking thing with minor variations in gameplay (like throwing Foot Soldiers at bosses).
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post #57 of 74
12/11/09 at 4:15pm
Scott, Konami's...X-Men Arcade game is...X-Cellent! X-Men is also, one of the first...6 player arcade machines.
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post #58 of 74
12/11/09 at 4:35pm
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Originally Posted by devincf View Post
Yeah, I always have the same question. I'm playing DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS and it's taken me two weeks to get towards the end. That's about 40 hours of game time, and I feel really bad about it - and then I go online and see people who have finished the game 3 or 4 or more times. People gotta have a TON of free time.
To be fair, the other nine games on the AP's list are, cumulatively, about as long as Dragon Age for a single (leisurely) play-through. RPGs are massive time-sinks.

Plus, unless you're a professional reviewer, it's not really necessary to finish a game to get a reasonable sense of its quality.

I mean, 120 hours spent playing Dragon Age already is alarming, obviously. But you can probably "stay current" with video games while playing two hours a week, if you were so inclined.
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post #59 of 74
12/11/09 at 4:36pm
I'm just saying it's pretty easy to find the time to beat or play a lot of ten games over the course of a year.
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post #60 of 74
12/11/09 at 4:47pm
So am I. I'm saying you can get through four or five action games in the time it takes to beat Dragon Age once.
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post #61 of 74
12/11/09 at 4:47pm
Still waiting for Luca's top 10 PS2 games he played this year.
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post #62 of 74
12/11/09 at 4:49pm
He's too busy partying like it's 2004.
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post #63 of 74
12/11/09 at 5:02pm
After 6-12 months, many games drop by around 50% of their price. On that basis I picked up Bioshock, LBP, Heavenly Sword, Killzone 2 and Dead Space.

It means a lot of my top ten games played this year weren't released this year.
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post #64 of 74
12/11/09 at 5:22pm
It's kind of amazing but last month Sony still sold 200K new PS2s in the US alone.
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post #65 of 74
12/11/09 at 5:29pm
I think the availability and the popularity of the PS2 has done more to ultimately damage PS3 sales than anything else.
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post #66 of 74
12/11/09 at 6:51pm
If you never played a PS2 during it's era, I think it still represents some great value entertainment. God of Wars, GTAs, Devil May Cry 3, Metal Gear 3, FFX, FFXII, Katamari, or whatever really. So many great games for that system and all cheap about now.
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post #67 of 74
12/12/09 at 11:24am
Probably shouldn't do this without Uncharted 2 or Modern Warfare under my belt, but so far, in no order yet:

Assassin's Creed 2
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Beatles Rock Band
Demon's Souls
Street Fighter IV
Flower
Punch-Out
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Ghostbusters
Peggle
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post #68 of 74
12/15/09 at 1:32pm
I didn't play enough for a top ten, but Dragon Age: Origins, Uncharted 2, New Super Mario, GTA: Chinatown Wars (which should be in more Game of the Year conversations) and Beatles: Rock Band are must haves for any list. (I haven't played Borderlands, L4D2 or Modern Warfare 2, but all three appear to be quality)

Disappointments:

Brutal Legend

A waste.

Infamous/Prototype not having a standout winner

Shadow Complex

It's a nice game and all, but after about a third of a way through, just levels-out right through the "who gives a shit" end.
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post #69 of 74
12/15/09 at 1:35pm
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Originally Posted by Jcassady View Post
Infamous/Prototype not having a standout winner
While I prefer Prototype, they're both pretty great games. I get the feeling that they sort of end up canceling each other out in people's minds, though.
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post #70 of 74
12/15/09 at 1:36pm
I haven't played inFamous, so I can't judge it. But for me, fun as it was, Prototype was just too rough around the edges to be truly great.
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post #71 of 74
12/15/09 at 1:41pm
It might not have had much polish, but I really liked it. It had no illusions about being anything other than an anti-karma-system slaughterhouse simulator. I haven't revisited it in months, though.
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post #72 of 74
12/15/09 at 1:49pm
Yeah, it was a lot of fun, but I just think there's easily at least ten better games that came out this year.
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post #73 of 74
12/15/09 at 1:50pm
Yeah, having played both and given them a bit of time to settle, I preferred Prototype. InFamous is nice but there were enough frustrating things (mostly how crappy the jump height was, how easily he dies, stupid karma moments, annoying characters) that the raw destructive fun of Prototype wins out.
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post #74 of 74
12/16/09 at 12:04pm
As the Fuck You Game of the Year: Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days.

What a piece of shit. Even for a Kingdom Hearts game, it's a pile of rabbit turds.
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