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Wed, 26 Dec 2012 22:51:59
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Prior GOTY's (for the year in which they were published):

2007: Super Mario Galaxy

2008: No More Heroes

2009: Uncharted 2

2010: Red Dead Redemption

2011: L.A. Noire

2012: Spec Ops: The Line

This year I beat 39 games and awarded 9 games 10/10:

  1. Half-Life 2: Episode 2
  2. Fallout: New Vegas
  3. Uncharted 3
  4. Mass Effect 2
  5. Saint's Row The Third
  6. Skyrim
  7. Paper Mario
  8. Halo 4
  9. Spec Ops: The Line

The two biggest disappointments of the year were Mass Effect 3 and Rage.  Rage nosed out ME3 for the most disappointing though.  I really was expecting a great FPS and got far less than that.

The lowest scoring games of the year were:

  1. Rage: 3.5
  2. Yakuza Dead Souls: 4.5

Nothing else scored below a 6 (the average was 8.3).

I cannot pick a personal best of the year, there were simply too many top tier games that I'd be unable to choose from.

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Thu, 27 Dec 2012 01:38:06
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"This year I beat 38 games and awarded 9 games 10/10:

  1. Half-Life 2: Episode 2"

Officially the worst list of the year. Nyaa

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Thu, 27 Dec 2012 04:26:06
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Foolz said:

"This year I beat 38 games and awarded 9 games 10/10:

  1. Half-Life 2: Episode 2"

Officially the worst list of the year. Nyaa



Since that is the only one on the list you have played I know you are joking.  But I thought that even you enjoyed HL2Ep2?

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Thu, 27 Dec 2012 05:38:00
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Since that is the only one on the list you have played I know you are joking.  But I thought that even you enjoyed HL2Ep2?

I did, but it's like a 6 if you're being harsh, and 8 if you're very generous. 10 is insanity.

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Thu, 27 Dec 2012 19:14:30
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I will go ahead and pick The Saboteur for you.

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Fri, 28 Dec 2012 08:29:41
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robio said:

I will go ahead and pick The Saboteur for you.



As my GOTY? It was a good game, a very good game, but in the running against the other games Iplayed this year it did not get a mention. Sad

I am playing Mafia II right now, which does have a 3/10th of a feeling that he Sabotuer did, so if you see it cheap you may want to try it.  None of the pedestrian traversal that Sabo had, but pretty much everything else. Including boobies.

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Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:33:44
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Are you going to review Spec Ops?

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Sat, 29 Dec 2012 20:32:45
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Are you going to review Spec Ops?



I wish I could.  I think it is the most consequential game of the generation.  Not for it's specific message, nor its gameplay but by its very existence.

Hey does can anyone help me out with what my 2008 GOTY would have been?

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Sat, 29 Dec 2012 20:38:30
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Can you explain why?

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Sat, 29 Dec 2012 20:40:51
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Can you explain why?



Not without spoiling it. That's why I said I wish I could review it. I honestly think it will be one of those games that enthusiasts will reference for as long as gaming is around.

If you have any interest in playing it at all, avoid all coverage of the game.  In end of year podcasts there have been some explicit spoilers being thrown around.

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Sat, 29 Dec 2012 21:05:46

2008 GOTY - That probably would have been Bioshock, World of Goo, No More Heroes, GTA IV or DQV.

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Sat, 29 Dec 2012 21:09:11
GTA4 or MGS4
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Sun, 30 Dec 2012 01:54:08

Why can't you review it?

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Sun, 30 Dec 2012 02:29:06

I am both not a good enough writer and too distracted to dedicate to a written work right now.

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Sun, 30 Dec 2012 02:29:48
robio said:

2008 GOTY - That probably would have been Bioshock, World of Goo, No More Heroes, GTA IV or DQV.



I am thinking it would have to have been No More Heroes.

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Sun, 30 Dec 2012 02:42:34
aspro said:

I am both not a good enough writer and too distracted to dedicate to a written work right now.

Hmmm... I am the EXACT opposite. I distract myself BY writing. It's kinda a guilty pleasure of mine.

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Sun, 30 Dec 2012 02:49:11
aspro said:

I am both not a good enough writer and too distracted to dedicate to a written work right now.

Ah yes, should have seen that coming.

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Sun, 30 Dec 2012 02:50:40
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aspro said:

I am both not a good enough writer and too distracted to dedicate to a written work right now.

Hmmm... I am the EXACT opposite. I distract myself BY writing. It's kinda a guilty pleasure of mine.



When I have the time I don't have the faculties, I am usually dead tired or gaming.  When I write it is usually as a result of being caught up on all my jobs around the farm and being in the right mood.

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Sun, 30 Dec 2012 02:52:23
Foolz said:

Ah yes, should have seen that coming.



It's a fair excuse though, no?

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Sun, 30 Dec 2012 02:54:15
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It's a fair excuse though, no?

Not when speaking to me, no. Nyaa

But otherwise, yes.

What I really meant, though, was that it should have been obvious to me, and thus I shouldn't have asked. WinkWink

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