Super Mario Galaxy with Phantom Hourglass a close runner up!
Griffin don't use 'gay' as a way of describing your distaste for a game, there are thousands of other available words. Vgchartz is like any other community, with 10-15% of the population likely not to be straight. Every time someone uses gay as a description for something flawed in a game, we mods get alot of complaints, so it needs to stop.
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^ I agree with you man, find a different word such as sh%#ty! haha j/k
if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything!
^ thats why I don't post in the Nintendo forum!
I'm breaking this up a bit:
Single Player: Mass Effect
Multiplayer: Rock Band
"Other": Portal
I haven't spent enough time with SMG to put it up there yet.
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| Bodhesatva said: I actually put Bioshock in to my "most disappointing" category. I know this isn't true for everyone, and I can explain the disconnect. I personally do not play games for story. I've said that about a bajillion times on this site, and it remains true. I gave this one a shot in hopes it would change my mind, but instead it simply further cemented my sense of tedium at games as a story telling medium. So with the (in my opinion) poor story out of consideration, I'm left with a game that has very similar mechanics to many other FPS, and essentially identical mechanics to System Shock 2. Seriously it's so close it isn't even funny. From the perspective of someone interested in Bioshock's story, I can understsand why the game was so great. For someone who has no interest in such things, it was basically a graphical upgrade and a pallatte swap away from being System Shock 2. By contrast, a game like Zelda: Phantom Hourglass was right up my alley: I am completely unconcered by the fact that I've played as Link in about twenty games and saved that stupid princess Zelda every freaking time. Story is irrelevant, and I actually appreciate the fact that the story hasn't changed because I don't want to focus on the story in the first place. However, there were significant control innovations in that game, and I am very intrigued by those. In short, games can innovate in a lot of ways: graphics, story, controls, and gameplay are the main four. Bioshock was innovative in its graphical presentation and its story, and neither of those interests me very much. A game like Zelda: Phantom Hourglass innovates with its control scheme, which I do like quite a bit. And then a game like Portal innovates in its Gameplay, which is definitely my favorite type of gaming innovation (and thus Portal was my GotY). |
You're a weird one at times, Bod. :D
I know your dislike of story and therefore the exclusion of BioShock, but Phantom Hourglass? Oy! That was one of my most disappointing games of the year. At times it achieved real brilliance, only to hinder itself again with a ridiculously repetitive Ocean Temple level with inane enemies.
Remove the Ocean Temple and the game is wonderful. Add it in and IMO, the game drops to a 7/10 or so. I absolutely loathe being forced to play the same level more than twice.
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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
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