2011, the year that was
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Interinactive
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PostPosted: Sun, 11th Dec 2011 00:29    Post subject: 2011, the year that was
-- Hitman gets dumbed way down

-- STALKER gets canned

-- Metal Gear looks like some manga shit

-- Duke Nukem was a turd

-- RAGE was nothing special

-- Dragon Age 2 - LOL

-- Syndicate turns into yet another FPS POS

-- Rainbow 6 comes back dumber than ever

-- Call of Juarez TEH KARTEL

-- Brink, the all new flappity flappity flop, where is it now?

-- Homefront, the game that looked good for years, COD wanna-fail-be

-- Resident Evil dives further into the generic shooter category

-- Sniper Ghost warrior devs learn nothing from their previous "Sniper" game. I look forward to that being in the bargain bin, again.

-- Red Faction game, after an open world one, turns out to be a linear corridor shooter

-- New Brothers in Arms game, whatz a popular movie + letz mekk a game

-- Operation Floppoint

-- F@3R

-- Death to spies gets Absolution-like xray vision

Probably lots more I missed. Some decent studios shut down too.

There's no denying there were some great games this year as well, but at the start of 2011 all of these games had enough promise to continue being as good as their predecessors (the way Deus Ex 3 had proven to a degree).

Now look at them. More games down the toilet in the ever expanding pool of games to no longer give a shit about. What's even left for tactical shooters now that MGS is tacticool, ARMA + RO2?

What's in store for 2012? Okay
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PostPosted: Sun, 11th Dec 2011 00:33    Post subject: Re: 2011, the year that was
Interinactive wrote:
What's in store for 2012? Okay


Creation Kit.
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PostPosted: Sun, 11th Dec 2011 00:34    Post subject: Re: 2011, the year that was
Interinactive wrote:
-- Death to spies gets Absolution-like xray vision


WHAT? Did I miss that? Crying or Very sad
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PostPosted: Sun, 11th Dec 2011 00:42    Post subject:
Hitman: Absolution is garbage? Metal Gear Rising ended up being crap manga? The new Syndicate is a POS? Resident Evil 6 sucks? You got a time machine, bro?
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PostPosted: Sun, 11th Dec 2011 00:46    Post subject:
It's not Resident Evil 6, it's a bland spin off title, and I guarantee it can't be as bad as something like this was: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_Evil:_Dead_Aim Laughing
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PostPosted: Sun, 11th Dec 2011 00:50    Post subject:
Ashok0 wrote:
Hitman: Absolution is garbage? You got a time machine, bro?



No, he's got eyes, "bro".
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PostPosted: Sun, 11th Dec 2011 00:55    Post subject:
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PostPosted: Sun, 11th Dec 2011 01:07    Post subject:
lol, how about best year this millennium?

-- Gray Matter
-- The Book of Unwritten Tales
-- Magicka
-- Saints Row
-- Two Worlds 2
-- MLB The Show 11
-- Mortal Kombat
-- Witcher 2
-- Skyrim
-- LA Noire
-- Fifa 12
-- Pes
-- NBA 2k12
-- Shogun 2
-- Bastion
-- Deus EX
-- Dark Souls
-- Football Manager 12
-- Battlefield 3
-- Uncharted 3
-- Assassin Creed 3
-- Anno 2070
-- Batman Arkham City
-- Rugby Challenge
-- Dead Island
-- Heroes 6
-- Serious Sam 3
-- Hard Reset
-- Gemini Rue
-- Portal 2
-- The Binding of Isaac
-- Voxatron
-- NHL 12

.edit. fuck it, added another bunch


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PostPosted: Sun, 11th Dec 2011 01:17    Post subject:
I'm not even arguing, this is the best year in a long time. Very Happy

I tried to list only the really best things this year and I've already edited it three times and I know I still forgot a lot of nice indie games, so I better stop adding to it.

edit. Uh... I must at least mention Gemini Rue. One of my favorites this year.


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PostPosted: Sun, 11th Dec 2011 01:20    Post subject:
No Serious Sam 3 and Hard Reset on the best games of this year list? :O

Both are epic.
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PostPosted: Sun, 11th Dec 2011 01:46    Post subject:
fawe4 wrote:
lol, how about best year this millennium?

-- Gray Matter
-- The Book of Unwritten Tales
-- Magicka
-- Saints Row
-- Two Worlds 2
-- MLB The Show 11
-- Mortal Kombat
-- Witcher 2
-- Skyrim
-- LA Noire
-- Fifa 12
-- Pes
-- NBA 2k12
-- Shogun 2
-- Bastion
-- Deus EX
-- Dark Souls
-- Football Manager 12
-- Battlefield 3
-- Uncharted 3
-- Assassin Creed 3
-- Anno 2070
-- Batman Arkham City
-- Rugby Challenge
-- Dead Island
-- Heroes 6
-- Serious Sam 3
-- Hard Reset
-- Gemini Rue
-- Portal 2
-- The Binding of Isaac
-- Voxatron
-- NHL 12

.edit. fuck it, added another bunch


oh wait, you're a sports fanboi, sorry, i almost read that shit.
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PostPosted: Sun, 11th Dec 2011 02:01    Post subject:
This year's been the best in five, maybe even the last ten years.
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PostPosted: Sun, 11th Dec 2011 02:05    Post subject:
Yeah I agree. They've raped a lot of potentially good games in 2011. You can thank Mr. Xbox and Playstation for that in my opinion. Catering to idiots is how you sell 20 million copies of CoD these days.
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PostPosted: Sun, 11th Dec 2011 02:06    Post subject:
I don't understand your point. You list a subjective list with bad games released this year, disregard some of the best games ever made, and call it a bad year. I can make a list of depressingly bad games for every year'.
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PostPosted: Sun, 11th Dec 2011 02:12    Post subject:
Mister_s wrote:
I don't understand your point. You list a subjective list with bad games released this year, disregard some of the best games ever made, and call it a bad year. I can make a list of depressingly bad games for every year'.


please do, and hopefully you include a bunch of shit console games and sportsgai games too like the one i quoted above.
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PostPosted: Sun, 11th Dec 2011 02:16    Post subject:
This 2011 was a surprisingly epic year for gaming, but it also laid the foundations for a potentially terribad 2012 like Interinactive said.

Innovation is a completely unknown concept by now, but we already know it. Companies like EA, Activision, Ubisoft are constantly destroying our beloved franchises and derpin' down everything, but we already know it.


We can only watch this situation impotently, all we can do is cross our fingers and try to "think positive". What the future has in store for us definitely doesn't look good...but at least we have the awesome indie games, which is a start.
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PostPosted: Sun, 11th Dec 2011 10:48    Post subject:
Isn't there always wasted potential and aren't IPs always being ruined? I don't exactly understand what's so special about this year and why it deserved a new thread in that regard. I guess it's somethig subjective, so let's agree to disagree.
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PostPosted: Sun, 11th Dec 2011 10:50    Post subject:
Mister_s wrote:
Isn't there always wasted potential and aren't IPs always being ruined?


It would be entertaining to see that question asked to current Hollywood filmmakers Troll Face
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PostPosted: Sun, 11th Dec 2011 11:12    Post subject:
Innovation is a completely unknown concept by now

tbh is really hard to find a thing to innovate from like 5+ years ago.
is not like you can get a new concept like dungeon keeper for every game.
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PostPosted: Sun, 11th Dec 2011 11:14    Post subject:
2012 will be the year of star wars the old republic, nothing else will matter.


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PostPosted: Sun, 11th Dec 2011 11:16    Post subject:
Acer wrote:
2012 will be the year of star wars the old republic, nothing else will matter.

The year of what?!


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PostPosted: Sun, 11th Dec 2011 11:18    Post subject:
-a challenging RPG is finally released and it's console-exclusive (Dark Souls)
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PostPosted: Sun, 11th Dec 2011 11:25    Post subject:
The only games i played this year

- Crysis 2
- Portal 2
- Saint Row 3
- FEAR 3
- Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 (just to see how bad it is, i played 1 level and removed it (just like their other shit games))

All others that got released either sucked or i was not interested in.

I remember playing more games in the past than the last 2-3 years .... gaming industry is going downward anyway. They only care about money instead of story lines etc.


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PostPosted: Sun, 11th Dec 2011 11:27    Post subject:
frogster wrote:
Innovation is a completely unknown concept by now

tbh is really hard to find a thing to innovate from like 5+ years ago.
is not like you can get a new concept like dungeon keeper for every game.

No, but spending time refining your game is innovative already these days. Hell, even QA is innovative for most studios (sup, id/Bethesda?).

And then there are games like DXHR, which got enough of it right to still be a good game to my (and many fellow humpers') standards yet not be a clone of DX. Or BF3, which while it does not do anything particularly innovative gameplay wise, gets a lot of it just right which makes it a better game than its unbalanced predecessors. Or Portal 2, which is everything Portal was and actually really did manage to present some really innovative gameplay. Or the Shift games, which were a surprisingly refreshing take on the genre and quite possibly the best non-sim I've ever played and just one of the best racing games ever (probably the best mix between arcade and sim ever). Or (and I'm sorry for those of you who haven't had a chance to play it) Mortal Kombat, which is just as "simple" of a game as the first one, which is exactly what makes it so fucking good and I still hate them for not bringing it to PC but it was a worthy purchase for me on the PS3.

And that's without even including the tons of smaller titles; last year I spent more money on "indie" than I did on AAA games. Especially these show that you can still be innovative.
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