Comments on: Game of the Year: Editor’s Picks

By: Kirill

Kirill — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:36:42 +0000

You guys are all dead to me for not playing Dragon Age. Dead I tell ya! DEAD!!!

By: Chris C.

Chris C. — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:06:06 +0000

Dude, mine would have been SO much better if I could have found that gigantic fucking Darkest of Days poster I brought home from PAX. I think I brought it to the office and threw it away. Grrr.

By: Chris C.

Chris C. — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:04:49 +0000

I really do want to play it. Bad.

By: lotr-sam0711

lotr-sam0711 — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:15:10 +0000

I believe quality is much more important than approachability when it comes to game of the year. It should represent the pinnacle of what gaming has to offer, not what game the most people can enjoy.

More people will enjoy Halo ODST than anything on these lists but that doesn’t make it a game of the year (never mind the fact it isn’t even on the PC).

By: weclock

weclock — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:57:33 +0000

it may not have been ported, I don’t know. but I do know you still could have easily played the console version and not touched the pc version of any of those games.

By: Samy M.

Samy M. — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:19:40 +0000

I’d argue that Batman isn’t technically a console port because Rocksteady worked on all three versions simultaneously. The others are because they released well after their console counterparts.

By: weclock

weclock — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:57:45 +0000

OH, also, as a side note, it appears as if two of you selected Console ports that… were actually pretty fan-fucking-tastic, and also All of Samy’s picks were console ports, I have an inkling that he’s just playing his PS3 and uses his PSP to use skype to do the show.

By: weclock

weclock — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:55:37 +0000

GO BUY DRAGON AGE. HARUMPH.

By: Samy M.

Samy M. — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:16:40 +0000

I guess I’m just not into fantasy RPGs myself. By the time I would have time for an RPG, moreover, I will be too busy with Mass Effect 2.

By: Keenan W.

Keenan W. — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:54:45 +0000

I’ll play StarCraft eventually! In the meantime, I’ll be playing Dragon Age!

By: Phried

Phried — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:21:16 +0000

side note: all 3 pictures are priceless.

By: Phried

Phried — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:18:10 +0000

I didn’t meant to suggest it was your job or duty so I’m sorry if it was interpreted that way, I was surprised to find that 3 PC gamers with varying taste all haven’t played what I consider to be one of the biggest releases of the year.(again, except for Keenan because he hasn’t gotten around to some of the biggest releases of 1998).

I hope you do play it because it’s a great game.

By: Chris C.

Chris C. — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:55:44 +0000

Chris wants Dragon Age! Me me me me me! But yeah I was majorly bummed to not have the chance to play it yet. Fucking Borderlands ate all my free time like a, uh, gigantic eating thing.

By: Chris C.

Chris C. — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:53:04 +0000

Yeah, this was our literary chance to be selfish and get away with it. Well okay I’m ALWAYS selfish, but more so justifiably here.

By: Keenan W.

Keenan W. — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:49:45 +0000

I’m getting it for Christmas!

By: Samy M.

Samy M. — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:54:42 +0000

Right, none of us here get paid, and, for the most part, we have to buy our own games. This is why we haven’t played Dragon Age.

By: Phried

Phried — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:25:12 +0000

hmmm… I’m not quite sure how to respond… Normally I would say something like “my bad” but in this case, I’m simply flabbergasted that none of you have played a game as big as Dragon Age, especially when nominating for GOTY. We’ll have to pitch in and send the Game-Central’s editors a copy of Dragon Age!

(Not Keenan because it will be absorbed by the amorphous blob of absorbing material he calls his backlog.)

By: Blooddimond

Blooddimond — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:01:43 +0000

none of them have Dragon Age.

By: Keenan W.

Keenan W. — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:01:21 +0000

None of us have played Dragon Age. We have pointed this out numerous times on the forums.

By: Samy M.

Samy M. — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:42:19 +0000

These games are meant to be our personal Games of the Year. The GotY you describe, one that arguably appeals to any gamer, is the Overall Game of the Year that will be revealed in the next podcast.

By: Phried

Phried — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:28:55 +0000

two things:

I’m surprised to see Braid and I’m VERY surprised to not see Dragon Age.

I found Braid an average puzzler with, besides the odd pick, easy puzzles and a very well trodden gimmick.

I also am surprised that the most old school style, PC game of the year isn’t on this list. I would have put it as a shoe in for at the least, runner up. Revisiting the classic dungeon crawling, tactical RPG wasn’t like a breath of fresh air, but more like drinking a beverage you loved in your childhood. That would be MY #2.

But, maybe that’s why I’m not an editor for a PC gaming website.

By: Frost

Frost — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:12:07 +0000

Good lists overall guys. I have not played Machinarium nor Torch Light so I cannot comment on those, however I ask you guys this – are these both games you feel the gamer populace as a whole will enjoy? To be, GOTY must be a game that any gamer, regardless of their conventional genre-expertise, will enjoy. Not saying that most gamers will dislike Machinarium (like I said before, I have yet to play it), but just curious as to your thoughts on that.

I strongly disagree with Keenan’s vote for ArmA II, but I know he enjoys it immensely so to each their own. ArmA II would probably be my shame of the year. However his list is redeemed with Opera Omnia, so it’s all good.

Samy – I agree with you that Modern Warfare 2 is an utter disappointment, but I gaurentee you it is NOT because of the lack of PC-centric features. In all honesty, the lack of dedicated servers and player-hosted rounds works perfectly. I went into it guns-a-blazing like most PC gamers, ready to flame IW.Net, but in all honesty they really did wonders with it. In fact, I’d go as far to say that IWNET is the MOST impressive part of Modern Warfare 2!
It was my biggest disappointment of the year because it was nothing new. Sure, it had that great cinematic CoD single player, but it just didn’t feel “fresh” like Call of Duty 4 did. They tried to reuse similar moments that made Modern Warfare so great, and it just felt really cheesy and forced.

Multiplayer is fun, but again it is no different from Modern Warfare 1 – just more guns, more perks, same feel. Feels like a BIG expansion pack as opposed to a full game.

Also, the lack of lean is not a con at all. Surprisingly enough it does “balance” the game.

Guess what I’m getting at is I agree with you in that it was the biggest disappointment, but not because of what they changed – rather, it is because of what they DIDN’T change.