The Gamer's Quarter

[dessgeega]

alright.

1. knytt stories
2. space giraffe
3. kororinpa
4. master of illusion

other games i thought were worth playing this year: arkanoid ds, it's a wii wario, ghost squad, marathon on live arcade, portal, team fortress 2.
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[bleak]

I'll do this too!

1: Rock Band. I don't think I've ever had this much fun playing a videogame!

2: Call of Duty 4. I don't think I've ever had such an enthralling single player experience!

I haven't played that many new games this year all the way through.

3: I lied about number 2. Portal is a very enthralling single player experience, though Portal mixes pitch-black humor with nameless horror but since it wasn't as serious as CoD4 I didn't feel as much from it.

4: Knytt Stories. hi dess. pure, simple, elegant, full of feeling and charm. I love it.
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[SuperWes]

Hey guys, I just changed my vote. I decided to bump Portal off the list. I decided that although it's an amazing game it just didn't last long enough to leave a lasting impression.

-Wes
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[friedchicken]

Okay.

1. Kangaeru Exit
2. Mario Galaxy
3. Beautiful Katamari
4. Every Extend Extra Extreme (I'm pretty sure the XBLA version was from 2007)

Arkanoid DS, Goku Makaimura Kai, and Disgaea PSP just barely missed the cut.

[Harveyjames]

[kirkjerk]

[Cycle]

i guess he thinks portal wasn't amazing enough for how short it was which I agree with!

i would have liked it better if it was actually challenging at one point.
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[Harveyjames]

[Cycle]

well i didn't really find it amazing at all, iwas talking about wes!

i thought it was cute, that's about it. especially since i already played narbacular drop and lots of its amazing level packs.
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[helicopterp]

[kirkjerk]

[Mr Mustache]

[SuperWes]

[extrabastardformula]

1. Knytt Stories
2. Etrian Odessey
3. Kensha Otawa (Your Life Is End)
4. Pac Man CE
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[Harveyjames]

Nice to see Knytt Stories getting a lot of love on here.

I had an idea for my '3D Knytt Stories' and it is this: What if Nintendo released a user-friendly level editor for Mario Galaxy? It could come through Wiiware, and users could upload their levels through the 'everybody's nintendo' channel or whatever the hell they're calling it. If anyone could make a program like that fun and accessible it's Nintendo. It makes sense because there's a huge user base for the game already installed. And Nintendo could release new levels themselves, perhaps even charge for them if they wanted. Food for thought. I wonder if they'd take notice of this idea if I sent it in a big enough envelope with enough pretty pictures.

[helicopterp]

i think you ought to give it a shot, for all of us
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[dessgeega]

[helicopterp]

so i can push master of illusion out when i add yours up?
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[helicopterp]

So, our top ten as of now. It becomes final once people get tired of posting.



#1 Portal 38
#2 Super Mario Galaxy 22
#3 Knytt Stories 16
#4 Stalker 15
#5 Pac-Man Championship Edition 13
#6 Team Fortress 2 12
#7 Uncharted 11
#8 Call of Duty 4 9
#8 Crackdown 9
#8 Kororinpa 9
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[fish]

1. Portal
2. Super Mario Galaxy
3. Rock Band
4. Crackdown

edit to change my mind.
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[dark steve]

Huh. I didn't even play one of these.
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[daphaknee]

man i havent even played knytt stories
anyway

1. portal
2. phoenix wright 3
3. zack and wiki
4. etrian odyssey

[Cycle]

next person who mentions portal gets a kick in the teeth!

it was the NUMBAH ONE game over at eurogamer, those blokes are really trying too hard these days
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[ee_emm_ecks]

Virtua Fighter 5: See my LJ Also: It's VF.

GGXX: AC: I guess I have to put this up here even though I don't like Guilty Gear

GGPO and P2P Protocols for online play through arcade emulators: Online fighting games hit primetime this year, and will only get better. Soon they will become viable for competitive play. I never thought this would happen, and I'm overjoyed to see it come to pass. Hear hear!

Team Fortress 2: Most addictive and playable multiplayer FPS since counter-strike. It might not be the deepest game around, but I've never encountered an FPS fan who doesn't like this game.

Honorable mention:

BioShock: Not especially innovative, and all the "freedom of choice" the game allows are usually false dilemmas and smoke and mirrors style bullshit. The level design is also clearly oriented toward console. On the positive side, the game's setpieces and art design are impeccable and it was fun enough to play to completion despite not being the game it was advertised during development.

Stalker: Terrible game when it comes to the execution of the concept, but the concept itself has so much potential and the engine is so moddable it deserves a mention here. The aesthetics are also very appealing to me.

Knytt Stories: Knytt with lock-and-key elements and a level editor. This game is great, although short. I will wait for the user-created levels to mature to delve into this title more.

Whatever Kenta Cho put out this year: lol


Portal is a gimmick title and does not even deserve a mention amongst the top games of the year. It was a very fun game but the only reason it's worth a shit after the initial 2 hour bits of gameplay are the user-created mods for the PC version. Most of you have 360s so I can't see how your choice is justifiable in the least.

[daphaknee]

[Cycle]

HOISTED BY MY OWN PETARD
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[kirkjerk]

[Dracko]

Why the Hell do you people want to spend so much time on (the initial experience of) a game in the first place? Jesus, just give me what's essential and purposeful and stop jerking me around with filler.

No-one wants to spend more than 20 minutes playing a single-player tournament in a fighter either. I'm not arguing against gaming mastery.
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[Harveyjames]

[ryan]

[ee_emm_ecks]

re: Portal:
The idea really isn't all that interesting or novel in portal. Portals have existed in games since the Arcade era. Its pristine execution is the real strength. The gameplay lacks depth, though. The puzzles are just a trial-and-error exercise like any other similar puzzler once the novelty of the concept wears off (right after you're able to deploy 2 portals, basically) The aesthetics are nice but were lifted directly out of HL2. The Incredible Machine is a lot more fun and deeper to boot, and it came out in the mid-90's. I'm not faulting it for being short, I'm faulting it for being short and shallow.

Kirkjerk, I don't really like being backhandedly patronized over a hobby that I've invested several years in already. If you don't like fighters, that's fine with me, but you're not above me just because I'm actually willing to learn how to play something more complex than knytt or portal and spend lots of time at it. I thought this place was supposed to be free of unprovoked ad-homs?

GGAC is the latest update in the most complex and balanced 2D fighter ever made. I respect the game even though it's not my cuppa. There is a lot of thought and effort that goes into the design of Guilty Gear beyond the aesthetics and the music. You might want to look into it if you're interested.

[ee_emm_ecks]

[helicopterp]

EMX, will you please unabbreviate all your guilty gears titles? I really have no idea what the letters after gg stand for, and i'd rather ask you than go look for myself because i'm pathetic.
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[Cycle]

I agree with ee_emm_ecks. They managed to run out of ideas and recycle them constantly even in the three-four hours of the game. It seemed like they were more concerned with the narrative and neutered the games challenge and innovation so people didn't get stuck for ages. AMONG OTHER PROBLEMS I HAVE WITH THE GAME.

In short, you're all suckers! Nah, I don't mean that.

I was going to make a post about why I don't like certain games popular here (intelligently and with reason) but lack the energy right now.
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[ee_emm_ecks]

[kirkjerk]

[ee_emm_ecks]

[helicopterp]

That was mean, and even if I played VF5 online I wouldn't want to talk to you about it in your thread now.
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[ee_emm_ecks]

[Shapermc]

For the sake of keeping things cool I say we just drop this for now. I don't need things to become attacks on people, even if they weren't intended.

A difference of opinion is always fine, just try not to step on toes or poke out eyes while making it.
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[Patrick Alexander]

ee_emm_ecks, it's frustrating to read you whine about kirkjerk having a go at you when he didn't in the slightest, and then turn around and use an antagonistic tone in every post you make.

[ee_emm_ecks]

[dhex]

if i'd played it in 2007 actually, crysis would now be on my list.

but i did not, so it is not.
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[kirkjerk]

[ee_emm_ecks]

man who needs gravitas when you've got fucking giant swing and pizza toss with Wolf?

I don't understand you, but good post anyway.

All of the games you mentioned are competitive games though, bruh.

[kirkjerk]

[Shapermc]

posts have been deleted because no one seems to be able to drop this. Thread locking comes next.
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“The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

[ee_emm_ecks]

[Cycle]

Ok, so while I'm waiting for these DVDs to burn:

Also, these are all JUST MY OPINION, so feel free to disagree! I'm here to make discussion, not prove how much better I am than all of you!

Portal: I was really hoping for a challenging Loderunner-like game, but instead I got a game that focused too much on the narrative and, as I mentioned, I felt the game was deliberately made easy so that it wouldn't get held up too much. The same tricks are used over and over again, beyond the actual portal mechanic nothing is really that interesting... it just felt neutered and flaccid. And the escape scene was just so gamey, since it was just a bunch of more puzzles set-up for the player. I feel it would make more sense if the escape was part of the test, and the final boss battle didn't help matters either. I think I was only stumped for more than 30 seconds... twice in the game.

Like I said, I was already spoiled by Narbacular Drop, which had some stellar user-made levels that were far better than anything the actual Portal crew made for both the original game and the new one. Also, sorry, but if you got attached to the companion cube, you have emotional problems! Now, I felt bad for the people (imaginary people, in the game) that became attached to it. Though, they were a bit daft if they were stuck in the place that long to get attached to it, since all the puzzles up to that point was easy as pie. So maybe they deserved it.

Also, my mind got more messed up by Marathon maps that made heavy use of 5D space... I have other games I've played that gave me similar feelings of disorientations, but their names escape me at the moment.

But yeah, I have high hopes for user made content that will prove the mechanic can be used for more than just a few tricks and actually challenge the player, but as for the game that we actually got... I found it disappointing.

Very cute, though! I can't deny that.

Pac-Man C.E: Ok, I really loved this game at first, until I realised it was just as memory focused as the original game, if not more so. Really, it's like a racing game; racing around the same course again and again, learning each corner, finding the optimal path to shave those few seconds off (and gathering a greater score). Only problem is it lacks the pure adrenaline rush a racing game offers, and I found this memory/repetition gameplay to be ultimately unrewarding for an arcade game. This was a problem in the original game, but it's brought right to the fore-front in this edition. I can understand other people liking it, but it's not for me. I just don't see the appeal of playing a game constantly until you find "the perfect play".

Crackdown: Man, I just couldn’t get past the awful controls and camera. I’m glad I only rented it.

Ok, my DVDs are done!
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[Dracko]

5D space?
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