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Post by dreaminstereo on Jan 13, 2013 17:24:31 GMT
Seeing as there was a bit of a divergence in the ranking thread, I am following Kaito's advice and making a new thread for it.
For me, the best game of last year was Borderlands 2. I absolutely adored the original game, and Borderlands 2 was bigger, better, brighter and bloodier. Picking up Anthony Burch as a writer was the best move they could have made - I was positively doubled over at numerous points thanks to tons of hilarious one liners. The new classes were amazingly fun to play with, and there was a lot more variety in the missions as well. All in all, ridiculously fun.
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Post by dancingdan on Jan 13, 2013 18:21:19 GMT
Dragon's Dogma
Aside from releasing another Resident Evil game CAPCOM tried something new. They may have experience with fantasy setting with the monster hunter series, but this was on another level. A real action RPG with atmosphere. I've never played a game where darkness was this dangerous. If you haven't set your TV on highest brightness you couldn't see a thing without a light source. This is were your handy lantern came in. They put so many good things in this game. Good old stats, levels, exploration, item farming, crafting. They also did new things with vassals and big monster to climb on! It's just amazing crawling on a griffin when it takes of to soar trough the sky and trying to get rid of you. You can jump on the back of a cyclops and ram your sword into his one and only eye. Also they tried to make work of influence from the enviroment. You could get wet from water (under waterfalls, jumping into lakes/rivers) extinguishing your lantern and making you more vulnerable to lightning attacks. Goblins throw oil flask at you to drench you in oil and make you more vulnerable to fire. How you created or equipped your character played a big role. Small childish characters were able to fit trough narrow spaces. Big and heavy characters withstood stormy passages with ease. I wish this game was as big as skyrim and had as many things to do, but at the same time I feel it was the right amount. It kept me entertained enough to get a plat and play even beyond that.
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Post by Jjos on Jan 14, 2013 7:41:31 GMT
I personally haven't seen any hidden gems in 2012 and basicly no great ones as well. Several good ones but no great ones.
I'll catch on some of the games Mr. Vash mentioned:
Farcry 3: It's a good game, without doubt. It's big and kinda fun - but it has the same problem like a Fallout, it's too empty. And, if not doing the main quests, too repeative (enter area, climb tower (sounds familiar?), capture outposts, do the same sidequests over and over). Best situation: Running out of an enemy outpost, jumping half way over a river to escape and being "picked" out of the air by a crocodile. Worst: The Co-Op could have had lot of potential. But it turned out just bad.
Hitman: Absolution: It's a Hitman. End of story. Maybe a bit too much pushed in the direction of action compared to older ones, but all together as solid as any Hitman game. Positive: Ingame tracking of challenges from which some are tough - can motivate to do them all.
CoD: Black Ops 2: I haven't played it, I haven't bought it. But this CoD seems to be able to let me break my own rule of not playing any CoD - cause they made the story worth it with alternate ways and decision that have impact on the story. Shall have a good, longer and solid story with replay value = to be considered (think when the price drops a bit more).
Sleeping Dogs, Assassins Creed 3, Dishonered: While I have Dishonered laying around waiting to be played was Sleeping Dogs not really good in my eyes at all. Sure, it was different focusing on melee, but well *shrugs* just haven't felt this game. Assassins Creed 3 may be an improvement to the older ones, but this series kinda got the same rule from me like CoD or NfS: To be avoided unless there is any major changing happening making it worth to play.
GOTY 2012: Borderlands 2: I have to give the GOTY to Borderlands 2. It is close to be a great game. There are 2 major points why I consider it the best of 2012. 1st: It's a funny humour run from the beginning to the end. This game doesn't take themself serious, always joking around and able to still bring new unexpected things even so you are expecting a lot since you learn pretty fast that it's full of jokes. 2nd: It's pretty huge. Even so it's not really open world are the areas big, is there lot of stuff to do and all together a good amount of it too - you can invest a lot of time without being bored (one of the most important things a game needs to offer in my eyes).
Runner Up 2012: XCOM: On a close 2nd do I consider XCOM. It's a good, tough and solid combination of turn-based-strategy and base building simulation (and one of the rare strategy games for PS3). Yes, strategy games mostly get some additional points from my side for being rare on console, but all together is XCOM a good game even without these points. Solid in base development and technology advancing. Challenging in Iron Man Mode, pretty hard on the higher difficulties. Nothing really to complain about.
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Post by M2VASH on Jan 19, 2013 0:24:26 GMT
^Interesting comments above. Mine is ' Dishonored', felt the story twists were decent and the character build ups and relationships were great (except the character you play who is dead silent and bodiless throughout!) the levels had MANY multiple paths and opportunities, the loot scattered EVERYWHERE made it fun to travel around and see how much you can get away with and how close you can 'cut' it, also the literature was astounding and all the other neat scenarios around town. The combat was also interesting, in that, you mix and match attacks and powers or just set traps or even get them to kill each other through various antics. The downside for me was the severe lack of assassination or passive weapons/upgrades/perks... it felt as though the game was designed to fall back on to physical violence no matter the situation despite the developers making sure you can go throughout the whole game without killing anyone, atleast that was what I'd encountered. Ending was lacklustre. I did like the story a lot, it was intriguing and I would not mind a well placed sequel (like a bioshock2), but nothing ongoing after that. Bring in Morgan Freeman narrating and Christian bale as the next Whaling assassin. 9ish/10(Walking dead had the best emotion and story of the year, but they were right ***** for the ending )
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Post by CrimsonBox on Jan 21, 2013 0:28:24 GMT
^Interesting comments above. Mine is ' Dishonored', felt the story twists were decent and the character build ups and relationships were great (except the character you play who is dead silent and bodiless throughout!) the levels had MANY multiple paths and opportunities, the loot scattered EVERYWHERE made it fun to travel around and see how much you can get away with and how close you can 'cut' it, also the literature was astounding and all the other neat scenarios around town. The combat was also interesting, in that, you mix and match attacks and powers or just set traps or even get them to kill each other through various antics. The downside for me was the severe lack of assassination or passive weapons/upgrades/perks... it felt as though the game was designed to fall back on to physical violence no matter the situation despite the developers making sure you can go throughout the whole game without killing anyone, atleast that was what I'd encountered. Ending was lacklustre. I did like the story a lot, it was intriguing and I would not mind a well placed sequel (like a bioshock2), but nothing ongoing after that. Bring in Morgan Freeman narrating and Christian bale as the next Whaling assassin. Agreed. Dishonoured is my GOTY of the year too. But it's probably due to me not playing much of the games released in 2012. I was focusing on my backlog and only just got round to finishing ME2. Never the less I was never bored with Dishonored and completely invested in the story however silent Corvo (protagonist) was and I liked his name www.fileden.com/files/2006/8/29/193541/Clan Stuff/icons/Kamina.gif[/img] Also Vash I finished the whole game killing a total of three 'people' The Granny at the end, a patrol dog by accident and the torturer because he deserved it! The end game did have me quick saving and quick loading a few times I'll have to admit but the time stop power helped me so much along with the possession power. I'm sure if I tried again I'd be able to make it a pacifist speed run with 0 detections (which I may try some day)
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Post by dancingdan on Jan 21, 2013 7:40:57 GMT
What? That game got quicksave an -load? Definitely GOTY! No stupid console savepoint shit? Has been ages since such a game has been around
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Post by CrimsonBox on Jan 22, 2013 8:07:03 GMT
The wonders of PC gaming xD
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Post by Kaito-kun on Jan 23, 2013 23:21:05 GMT
I...I honestly can't remember what I played last year that was also released last year...
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Post by immerginggaru on Feb 28, 2013 12:08:38 GMT
I...I honestly can't remember what I played last year that was also released last year... its the same with me i went back and actually played old ps1 and ps2 games that year such as Persona 4 or FF8 but the best game i played would have to be between Assassins creed 3 or Kingdom Hearts dream drop distance
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