What is YOUR game of the year..?!

[Bodhesatva]

To be honest, Rocket, the PH stuff was really more of a tangent than it was a "best game of the year" contender for me. I used it as an example to explain how innovation works for me: again, there are different types of innovation, and graphical/story innovations do not interest me, while gameplay/control innovations do.

I totally agree with your assessment of the Temple of the Ocean King, and I wouldn't put PH in my top 5 games this year. I should have made it more clear, but again, it was really only an example to highlight why I didn't like Bioshock very much, and why I DID like Portal.

Portal: GotY