Green Shinobi
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Someone needs to make a list with Halo 3 four spots higher than Call of Duty 4, like. . . now.
Looking at the posts since the last update, H3 is going to jump out ahead of CoD4 by a ways, as of now at least. I'm quite surprised.Green Shinobi said:Someone needs to make a list with Halo 3 four spots higher than Call of Duty 4, like. . . now.
Just proves that GAF has at least some taste in shooters.GhaleonEB said:Looking at the posts since the last update, H3 is going to jump out ahead of CoD4 by a ways, as of now at least. I'm quite surprised.
On that note, the high reviews and now voting position of Bioshock has been one of the most interesting phenomena I've seen this year. I play games for a lot of reasons, but these are apparently different reasons that most. I often find myself with tastes that are outside of popular opinion, but this year at least shed some light on why.Green Shinobi said:Just proves that GAF has at least some taste in shooters.
What is your opinion on Bioshock?GhaleonEB said:On that note, the high reviews and now voting position of Bioshock has been one of the most interesting phenomena I've seen this year. I play games for a lot of reasons, but these are apparently different reasons that most. I often find myself with tastes that are outside of popular opinion, but this year at least shed some light on why.
I see. Fair enough. But I doubt most people voting for Rock Band are judging it based on the fact that it's 3x as expensive as most next-gen games. If I took price into account, I'd probably have to switch my list around.calder said:Because, I never played it and have no idea if I'd have enjoyed paying 3x as much for it as a whole. For $20 on it's own, Portal was sheer perfection in two and a half hours. I have TF2 for PC as well, and it wouldn't list in my top 20. So right there that's a reason to not vote for OB. ;\
GhaleonEB said:On that note, the high reviews and now voting position of Bioshock has been one of the most interesting phenomena I've seen this year. I play games for a lot of reasons, but these are apparently different reasons that most. I often find myself with tastes that are outside of popular opinion, but this year at least shed some light on why.
Opinions and all that. To me, Halo 3 and Bioshock were kind of complimentary. BioShock features a very rich and atmospheric world with great writing, acting and audio and art design. The gameplay was quite poor, from weak AI, repetetive fetch quests and just plain no new ideas beyond the mid-point (Inferno....2! Inferno....3!). And then there's the ending, where we have the collect the armor to open the door quest, the escort mission and the pattern-based last boss in three phases: fire, lightning and (wait for it) ice. How startlingly refreshing.Mar_ said:Bioshock's single player experience was excellent. Halo 3's on the other hand was quite poor. I loved going through Halo 3 in co-op, and it is the saving grace of that game. As for the multiplayer, well I gave up competitive multiplayer games after playing nothing but them for years.
I wouldn't be surprised if many people think the same way. That Halo 3's co-op mode saved it from being just another shooter with a crappy story line.
You'll need to add one more to the list for it to count.Parallax Scroll said:1. Halo 3
2. Knytt Stories
I didn't play many games this year.
AniHawk said:Every year there are more and more games voted in...
2004: 147 games
2005: 181 games
2006: 245 games
2007: 310 games
GhaleonEB said:Opinions and all that. To me, Halo 3 and Bioshock were kind of complimentary. BioShock features a very rich and atmospheric world with great writing, acting and audio and art design. The gameplay was quite poor, from weak AI, repetetive fetch quests and just plain no new ideas beyond the mid-point (Inferno....2! Inferno....3!). And then there's the ending, where we have the collect the armor to open the door quest, the escort mission and the pattern-based last boss in three phases: fire, lightning and (wait for it) ice. How startlingly refreshing.
Halo on the other hand features brilliant AI and encounter design and incredibly satisfying gameplay, wrapped in a ridiculously deep feature set. The story is weak, and the depth that the world hints at is just never fleshed out. Some of the dialoge lines clunk.
I play games partly for stories and atmosphere, but mostly for gameplay. After playing Bioshock twice, I'd seen all it had to offer. Too much of the 'depth' was spent on options to fight enemies with poor AI, rather than creating enemies worthy of fighting with the deep tool set provided. Bioshock just felt empty and brain-dead to me from a gameplay standpoint. Halo 3 continues, to this day, to impress me every time I play it. The AI and mission designs coupled with the co-op/skulls have led to one new experience after another (I'm just getting into co-op, and holy crap does that change the ballgame).
I can see the argument for Bioshock being GotY because the things it did well, it did as well as anything this year; it's qualities hit you over the head. But it wasn't what I look for in a shooter, or in a game in general.
1. Super Mario Galaxy - 4803
2. Bioshock - 3927
3. The Orange Box - 3822
4. Mass Effect - 2422
5. Call of Duty 4 - 2335
6. Halo 3 - 2313
7. Uncharted - 2193
8. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - 1532
9. Crackdown - 1414
10. God of War 2 - 1179
11. Rock Band - 1040
It should be able to stay in the Top 10, which is definitely fine with me.BenjaminBirdie said:Hang on Crackdown! Haaaang on!!