Angst
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Rationally I should vote for Skyrim... But I have to go with Magicka. Because Magicka didn't have any vampires. Skyrim vampires were really annoying.
Game of the Year
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Zack
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no offense, but how the hell does magicka have two votes?
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ah totally missed arkham city! A good game but I never did finish it. Same for witcher 2, and I have portal 2 but have never played it
Yes tons of good titles from 2011, not that many *great* ones. I'd expect skyrim to run away with this, I just didn't love it personally.
Why magicka? Well as you said nothing amazing stands out and it just had a really cool concept well executed plus the writing was hilarious. I easily put 30 hours into it in like 2 weeks, fun game.
Magicka didn't have vampires? Is that some kind of joke? Have we played the same game?
Spoiler :
I think it might be a joke I'm not getting cus vlad constantly insists he's not a vampire.
The faction quests weren't that good and the main quest was by far the laziest of their three main releases (what sort of novice requires you to join several factions just to complete the MQ?), but Skyrim was still a very worthwhile and time-consuming game. Only other Elder Scrolls games can match it for sheer hour-count (disclaimer: I have not played The Witcher 3), so there's no question for me really.
Akka
Moody old mage.
Skyrim is easily the most overrated game of the entire video game history. Its fighting is better and more fun than other TES entries, the sceneries are stunning and for once the characters look good, true. But its factions quests are abysmally bad, it's dungeons are more linear and formulaic than a CoD clone, it continues the incredible dumbing down and consolization of the serie (managing to make Oblivion looks vastly better in comparison, which is some kind of an achievement incredible in its own right), the level scaling is nearly as [mentally challenged] as Oblivion and, as usual, destroys any feeling of progression and it manages the paradox of being a complete sandbox game which has at the same time about zero amount of RPG and actual choice.
So no, [gently caress] this. It's great as a walking simulator, but even with mod I still couldn't find it interesting enough five years later to finish the main quest. That's saying a lot.
Now that the elephant in the room has been dealt with, let's see the rest :
There is Minecraft, for which it is the year of the actual release.
There is Dragon Age II, which was a complete slap in the face and terrible in every aspect but the writing. I could spend hours facepalming at the utter trash it is, but it was (justifiably) panned enough to be redundant. But still, that was shameful.
Crysis 2 follow the sad and long string of sequels which completely ruins the serie by ignoring everything single thing that made the predecessor great, so to the trash bin too.
Witcher 2 hopefully is not this trend, with a great story well-written and real RPG. Too bad it was just as horribly consolized as Skyrim, but still it was pretty rad.
Portal 2 obviously was also great, a REAL sequel - though I still prefer the freshness of the first one.
Trail in the Sky was a very nice JPRG (that is, story-based adventure game with next to no actual RPG), with tons of content and a charming cast.
Deus Ex : Human Revolution is a major one. It's, as usual, very consolized, which is bad. It also had a completely unbalanced gameplay (hacking gives you resources while managing to find password doesn't, so well... killing is noisy while neutralizing is silent, which makes little sense...) which kind of force you into one way. But it's one of the rare games which truly asks questions about the world and the future, and manage to make you think without giving you easy answers. And a terrific art direction.
On the whole, it was a rather poor year for me - probably because many of the more ambitious games were on console and the rise of indie games hadn't yet begun. So despite the quality of writing and artistic design of both TW2 and DE:HR, I'd say Minecraft easily dominates with its insanely innovative and player-empowering concept.
So no, [gently caress] this. It's great as a walking simulator, but even with mod I still couldn't find it interesting enough five years later to finish the main quest. That's saying a lot.
Now that the elephant in the room has been dealt with, let's see the rest :
There is Minecraft, for which it is the year of the actual release.
There is Dragon Age II, which was a complete slap in the face and terrible in every aspect but the writing. I could spend hours facepalming at the utter trash it is, but it was (justifiably) panned enough to be redundant. But still, that was shameful.
Crysis 2 follow the sad and long string of sequels which completely ruins the serie by ignoring everything single thing that made the predecessor great, so to the trash bin too.
Witcher 2 hopefully is not this trend, with a great story well-written and real RPG. Too bad it was just as horribly consolized as Skyrim, but still it was pretty rad.
Portal 2 obviously was also great, a REAL sequel - though I still prefer the freshness of the first one.
Trail in the Sky was a very nice JPRG (that is, story-based adventure game with next to no actual RPG), with tons of content and a charming cast.
Deus Ex : Human Revolution is a major one. It's, as usual, very consolized, which is bad. It also had a completely unbalanced gameplay (hacking gives you resources while managing to find password doesn't, so well... killing is noisy while neutralizing is silent, which makes little sense...) which kind of force you into one way. But it's one of the rare games which truly asks questions about the world and the future, and manage to make you think without giving you easy answers. And a terrific art direction.
On the whole, it was a rather poor year for me - probably because many of the more ambitious games were on console and the rise of indie games hadn't yet begun. So despite the quality of writing and artistic design of both TW2 and DE:HR, I'd say Minecraft easily dominates with its insanely innovative and player-empowering concept.
Snerk
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2011: Skyrim. Yes it was kinda lame but also very awesome.
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That seems to be the consensus. And I'm a little surprised, thought there would be more fans of it. I mean it has an 8.1 user rating on metacritic, I know there's a lot of detractors though.
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The Elder Scrolls series, after three modern installments*, is a known quantity at this point. It's like pizza--it's good even when it's less than mindblowing by the thousandth hour. But most fans who have played the series are more likely to shrug after the fact.
*Arena and Daggerfall are very different games and were published in a different time. Morrowind was the first to use the modern Gamebryo/Creation engine.
*Arena and Daggerfall are very different games and were published in a different time. Morrowind was the first to use the modern Gamebryo/Creation engine.
Akka
Moody old mage.
Well, conversely I'm disappointed there is so many fans of it
Do you mean fanboys? Even its detractors tend to like varying amounts of the game.
Evie
Pronounced like Eevee
Skyrim gets my vote too. A game I spent that much time playing cannot *not* get my vote.
Zack
99% hot gas
personally i thought skyrim was boring
if i want to play a fantasy rpg, i'd rather play dragon age or the witcher
if i want an open-world sandbox rpg, i'd rather play fallout (not 3)
Angst
Rambling and inconsistent
Magicka didn't have vampires? Is that some kind of joke? Have we played the same game?
Spoiler :
I think it might be a joke I'm not getting cus vlad constantly insists he's not a vampire.
Of course it's a joke.
Angst
Rambling and inconsistent
... Wait, 2011 was the official release of Minecraft? Can I change my vote?
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
While there are parts of Skyrim that are good, fun, and enjoyable, the amount of poor quality, half-baked if not half-arsed, badly done, buggy, broken, and sometimes mind-numbingly stupid parts of the game prevent it from being "game of the year".
Game of the Year does not mean "the game I had the most fun playing the longest". Skyrim is a ridiculously flawed and problematic game.
In which case my vote goes to The Witcher 2, though Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a close second.
Game of the Year does not mean "the game I had the most fun playing the longest". Skyrim is a ridiculously flawed and problematic game.
In which case my vote goes to The Witcher 2, though Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a close second.
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Yeah, Skyrim has many flaws but apparently I enjoyed it enough to play over 300 hours, so there's my vote.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution was great, but it lacks replay value. I've finished it exactly once and was done with it.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution was great, but it lacks replay value. I've finished it exactly once and was done with it.
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
"Game of the Year" implies that it is the best game overall that came out that year. Which of course is a bit silly since there are so many vastly different games that a single one can't really be the absolute best, but you can choose one that you felt was the best one that you played. Which is more than just one you really enjoyed playing. Otherwise it would be called "Which game did you have the most fun playing in year XXXX?".
