2011 SuperHero Hype Game of the Year

[socool]

Dead Space 2 is brilliant in terms of the story it tells, its pacing and its atmosphere. I get completely engrossed in that game while playing it, the rest of the world is pretty much cut off to me. We can argue about the technical bits all we want but that's genuinely how it made me feel and I absolutely bloody love it for that.

But if it's not your thing, sure.

Don't mind him. I'm surprised he doesn't complain about air...

 

[Electro UK]

No, I can respect a guy that's tough to impress in the world of video games, especially as a games journo hopeful.

But I do love me some Dead Space 2.

 

[ripse]

Mortal Kombat is total awesome, look remake from MK2 & 3 but with more great graphic & character...with little sadistic..

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Play it like the like the big boys, in Zealot difficulty, and then we talk about becaming over-powered towards the end.

Even so, it's your opinion...it's wrong, but i respect it....but it's wrong....WRONG......DEAD WRONG!!! (see what i did there? )

I think part of the problem, when you watch a horror movie, you usually get one-five (along those lines)of these type of jump out moments. In Dead Space you are bombarded with them from room to room with no real cooldown period.

There was a thing on tv about jaws with Steven Spielberg talking about it. He basically said in the underwater ooga-booga scene with the dead body popping out, people jumped in their seats. When he tried to repeat it again, they didn't and it was far less effect.

I think thats why stalker (even though it technically isn't a horror game) works well. Rather than being an out and out horror, it's a game that happens to have a few horror parts in it, rather than bombaring you with them. Ravenholm in Halflife 2 would maybe be another example. Some people were pretty scary in that level even though it isn't actually a horror game. Basically, more isn't always better.

 

[hippie_hunter]

After beating the game, my GOTY has to go to Arkham City.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

You seem to have mistaken a gaming discussion for Saudi Arabia.

Good example of the design problems in Skyrim.

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Does being able to do this make the game more immersive? Not from what I can see. For the most part, it is just jarring with the opposite effect. When we say "able" you actually, aren't able. Because it is deliberately linear in nature not allowing you to cancel the quest line. Weirdly, this isn't the case for everyone. Sometimes it cancelled a quest line, sometimes it doesn't, allowing you to power level. It's very odd. I think just not allowing you to attack them at all would result in the game being immersive. At least the very strange resetting AI wouldn't exist. I really think critics should have picked up on that. This is just my opinion, obviously. Which is why I would put Shogun 2, Portal 2 and probably Saints Row 3 ahead of it.

Another very good game (that has design problems also) is Sonic Generations. This game for the price it was being sold at, roughly about half the price of other retail games, was terrific value. Wonderful game. Wonderful.

That's not a design problem. It's an exploit, like many rpgs have, and you cab either get it that way, or earn it the old fashioned way. Once again, your nitpicks of "flaws" don't even kill the or ruin the game or even come close to it.

 

[KALEL114]

After beating the game, my GOTY has to go to Arkham City.

I'm leaning toward this as well. Skyrim would get it if Bethesda knew how to program for the PS3. The issues it has is unacceptable this late in a gen. I loved Uncharted, but B:AC gets a slight edge in my book. I still have a few other games to play before I vote though. Must. Get. Through. Back Log!!

 

[hippie_hunter]

I'm leaning toward this as well. Skyrim would get it if Bethesda knew how to program for the PS3. The issues it has is unacceptable this late in a gen. I loved Uncharted, but B:AC gets a slight edge in my book. I still have a few other games to play before I vote though. Must. Get. Through. Back Log!!

Bethesda has always had bugs in their games when they get released. It kinda happens when they're always trying to make games that are so freaking massive.

 

[The Morningstar]

Skyrim. Easily. Haven't really encountered any bugs on the 360. And the exploits/cheats? Pretty much all RPGs have them.

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

That's not a design problem. It's an exploit

Which arose from a design problem...

Once again, your nitpicks of "flaws" don't even kill the or ruin the game or even come close to it.

Thats subjective. I'm sure alot of the kids who spent hard earned pocket money to sell out £40 to play on thier Playstation 3 would disagree. It seems quite obvious to me the game is chalked full of problems and the game balance (which is totally wack) did kill the game for me. I'v ceased playing it went back to playing better designed games.

 

[The Morningstar]

Comparing Shogun 2 and Skyrim is completely redundant. They are completely different games.

Skyrim isn't chock full of problems. I haven't had a single problem with it, apart from some comedic glitches, like a hunter just randomly falling from the sky right in front of me. I've played over 90 hours and have only just finished the main quest. I've still got a dozen or so side quests, then the misc quests to get through.

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Comparing Shogun 2 and Skyrim is completely redundant. They are completely different games.

No they aren't. Both have RPG element skill tree's. One is balanced, one isn't. It's a perfectly fair comment.

.Skyrim isn't chock full of problems. I haven't had a single problem with it, apart from some comedic glitches

You know, it's not such a problem for me, I have alot of other games I can go play, or just wait it out until modders fix it (which they really shouldn't have to do). But I remember having a a paper round and £40 was about two or three weeks worth of money. This wouldn't have been amusing and it probably isn't for alot of people.

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Having to be forced to play with an xbox360 pad (i hate playing first person games with a control pad) I personally, did not find it amusing. Especially after repeated complaints regarding Oblivion and Fallout 3.
The fact the UI mod is the most popular of any mods atm, including the porn mods, should be a good telling sign that other people aren't amused.

It seems to me Bethesda basicially know the money is in the xbox360 skew, so they seem they are more than happy to put out second rate crap for the others ones. Including delaying expansion packs for a month for extra moola. That's not really the sign of a GOTY developer to me or game.

You look at Portal 2 and the effort Valve put into the Playstation 3 skew, they didn't even release Left4dead on the Playstation 3 because the quility was not met with "The Orange Box" (which EA ported). Aside from steam, crossplay, much better optimisation as well as free content post-launch, they also allowed the game to be played across multiple platforms with a single purchase, customer value comes first and foremost. Then we take a look at Skyrim and Bethesda, never learning, the same mistakes over and over. The game itself isn't bad. But at the same time, it isn't great either. Certainly not this becon of hope people are shaping it up to be. Especially these mainstream websites of so called, professionals. If you enjoy it, great, knock yourself out.

 

[The Morningstar]

Shogun 2 is a real time strategy game is it not? And it doesn't have a massive map that you can explore at will?

I judge game of the year on the actual game i've played. I don't give a **** about the PS3 or PC versions. Why should I?

The UI doesn't bother me too much. Sure when my inventory is full it takes a while to scroll all the way down. But eh, that honestly doesn't bother me. To me it's a bit OCD to be complaining about things like that.

I do think it's a great game. I wouldn't have put nearly 100 hours into it if i hadn't.

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Shogun 2 is a real time strategy game is it not? And it doesn't have a massive map that you can explore at will?

It's RT/TB with RPG elements over the top that effect both layers of the games. It has more going on screen than Skyrim with more variables.
It's worth noting as well, that , that has botched multiplayer. However the core single player was still far more stable and better designed than Skyrim. Again though, alot of this has less to do with quility or anything like that and more to do with whats mainstream. Me about 2 people probably played it. With the majority of you playing Skyrim. So, understandably you have no comparison to go on. Thats kind of the problem as well with games these days. Alot of genres are basically being pushed out the door in favor of mainstream ones. Sad really. I'm kind of hoping in the next decade or two gaming climbs out of this primordial pool and becames abit more highbrow. At the moment, watching E3 and whatnot with bro dudes on G4 and IGN, it's kinda painful.

I judge game of the year on the actual game i've played. I don't give a **** about the PS3 or PC versions. Why should I?

Do what you want. I'm just taking into account it won GOTY for both of these platforms, including the one I played on.

I do think it's a great game. I wouldn't have put nearly 100 hours into it if i hadn't.

Cool I guess. If time spent is how you gouge is a game is great, fair enough, can't really argue it isn't a big game.

 

[Union Jack]

My goty is probably uncharted 3. But I have loved sonic generations and Rayman origins.
I also really like MW3. But it isn't game of the year.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Let's just all agree that Spock has unrealistic standards for games that will never be fufilled.

 

[Godzilla2014]

I'm going to say Batman: Arkham City. Batman: Arkham Asylum was my favorite superhero game, and AC refined its predecessor's awesome gameplay to be even better.

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Let's just all agree that Spock has unrealistic standards for games that will never be fufilled.

That's not true at all. I've enjoyed games this year with tons of problems.

Red Orchestra 2 for example I enjoyed more so than Battlefield 3. It launched with a ton of problems. It got totally chastised for it from practically every major reviewer. This was a game from modders who recently turned professional with a tiny staff count and tiny resources compared to Bethesda, a very ambitious game as well that probably has the best tank modeling and ballistics in a game to date, at least from a world war 2 perspective. I took that into account when I played it. It was also reasonibly budgeted. With Battlefield 3, you pay full price for a totally un-needed mediocre single player, just shoved in to compete with Call Of Duty.

Bethesda on the other hand, is a pretty old company, that sells something like, what? 6-7 million now it is? 10 million shipped. It has hundreds of staff, muli-level offices with gymes, community area's, presentation rooms. A huge budget. Yet, practically every reviewer seemed blind to the games problems barring very few (who themselfs were attacked verbally by fans).

To me this is just hypocrisy to the max. And it would also suggest some form of corruption, Actually it doesn't suggest, it is. A small, niche game with almost no marketing, no one has heard of is fair game. A multi-million dollar game with mass media behind it, who themselves are looking to promote it for there own purposes and gamers who basically want there hype justified, thats a free pass. Game of the year! Even though, objectively, you can argue the game is broken and repeated the same mistakes of previous titles.

Thats probably even more a bigger problem than the game, the media and the horrible mentality gaming seems to have turned into. It's basically like MTV now with FPS reduced to Battlefield VS Call Of Duty. Hell men, people basically listed game of the year, almost half a year in advance before the titles were even released. It's been reduced to a small pool of big budget marketed games.

 

[.Rorschach.]

Dark Souls all the way for me:]Skyrim IS AMAZING..do not get me wrong.The thing I absolutely love about Dark Souls is the challenge.It's the First game since the SNES days to give me an actual challenge.Too many games hold your hand these days,and Dark Souls takes you by the hand and throws you off of a cliff.

 

[Havok83]

Copying the old list from 2010. What do people think for 2011?

1. PS3 Game of the Year
2. Xbox 360 Game of the Year
3. Wii Game of the Year
4. PSP Game of the Year
5. 3DS Game of the Year
6. PC Game of the Year
7. Best Downloadable Game
8. Best DLC for a Retail Game
9. Best Game No One Played
10. Worst Game Everyone Played
11. Best Action Game
12. Best Adventure Game
13. Best Fighting Game
14. Best Music/Rhythm Game
15. Best Shooter
16. Best Racing Game
17. Best RPG
18. Best Sports Game
19. Best Platformer
20. Best Multiplayer Experience
21. Most Surprisingly Good Game
22. Biggest Disappointment of the Year
23. Most Innovative Game
24. Best Male Protagonist
25. Best Female Protagonist
26. Best New Protagonist
27. Best Boss Battles
28. Best Duo
29. Best New IP
30. Best Licensed Soundtrack
31. Best Original Soundtrack
32. Best Story
33. Best Graphics
34. Best Artistic Design
35. Most Memorable Gaming Moment
36. Best Use of a License
37. Best Comeback
38. Best HD Remaster/Collection
39. Most Anticipated Title of 2012

 

[Soapy]

That's way too many categories.


7. Best Downloadable Game - Jamestown
9. Best Game No One Played - Rayman Origins
10. Worst Game Everyone Played - Dragon Age II
11. Best Action Game - Vanquish
12. Best Adventure Game - Gemini Rue
15. Best Shooter - Vanquish
16. Best Racing Game - Wipeout HD
17. Best RPG - Skyrim
19. Best Platformer - Rayman Origins
20. Best Multiplayer Experience - Saints Row: The Third
21. Most Surprisingly Good Game - Rayman Origins
22. Biggest Disappointment of the Year - Dragon Age II
23. Most Innovative Game - Dark Souls
24. Best Male Protagonist - My guy from Saints Row
26. Best New Protagonist - Adam Jenson
27. Best Boss Battles - Dark Souls
30. Best Licensed Soundtrack - Saints Row
31. Best Original Soundtrack - Skyrim
32. Best Story - Portal 2
33. Best Graphics - Rayman Origins
34. Best Artistic Design - Rayman Origins
35. Most Memorable Gaming Moment - That part in Saints Row when...well... you know what I'm talking about.
36. Best Use of a License - Arkham City
37. Best Comeback - Deus Ex: Human Revolution
38. Best HD Remaster/Collection - ICO/Shadow of the Colossus
39. Most Anticipated Title of 2012 - Right now it's a tie between Metal Gear Rising and Darksiders II.

 

[.Rorschach.]

1. PS3 Game of the Year: Dark Souls
2. Xbox 360 Game of the Year
3. Wii Game of the Year: Skyward Sword
4. PSP Game of the Year
5. 3DS Game of the Year:Mario Kart 7
6. PC Game of the Year
7. Best Downloadable Game
8. Best DLC for a Retail Game: Red Dead Redemption GOTY
9. Best Game No One Played: Rayman Origins
10. Worst Game Everyone Played:
11. Best Action Game
12. Best Adventure Game
13. Best Fighting Game: Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition
14. Best Music/Rhythm Game
15. Best Shooter: Battlefield 3
16. Best Racing Game
17. Best RPG: Dragon Quest 6
18. Best Sports Game
19. Best Platformer
20. Best Multiplayer Experience: Battlefield 3
21. Most Surprisingly Good Game
22. Biggest Disappointment of the Year: Deus Ex
23. Most Innovative Game
24. Best Male Protagonist
25. Best Female Protagonist
26. Best New Protagonist
27. Best Boss Battles
28. Best Duo
29. Best New IP
30. Best Licensed Soundtrack: Dark Souls
31. Best Original Soundtrack
32. Best Story
33. Best Graphics: LA Noire
34. Best Artistic Design
35. Most Memorable Gaming Moment
36. Best Use of a License
37. Best Comeback
38. Best HD Remaster/Collection: Metal Gear Solid HD Collection
39. Most Anticipated Title of 2012

 

[Spider-Aziz]

11. Best Action Game Batman Arkham City
13. Best Fighting Game Mortal Kombat
18. Best Sports Game Pro Evolution Soccer
21. Most Surprisingly Good Game Spider-Man Edge of Time
24. Best Male Protagonist Bruce Wayne
27. Best Boss Battles Mr. Freeze
39. Most Anticipated Title of 2012 Prototype 2