firehawk12
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Sleepy Dawgs, Asura's Wrath, umm... Spec Ops?
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Giant Bomb Thread The Third: #TeamBrad
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oh sorry. haha. GOOD Music stands for Getting Out Our Dreams, and the title was eerily similar, whoops haha.
edit: Oh! I just looked it up. Yea, now i get it, i'm familiar with billy ocean too, so now im embarrassed
I think they'll hate Dishonored and Hitman, not speak highly of Darksiders, or Max Payne, certainly not RE6. XCom, AC3 and NFS, sure, I could see that being their three. But Mass Effect would almost certainly be up for debate I think.
Did any of them play/enjoy Dragon's Dogma?
Vire
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This year has been pretty pitiful for me. I can barely scrounge up 5 games I truly liked this year, let alone my usual 10 top ten list.
Off the top my head, (Journey, Trials, Borderlands 2, Max Payne 3, ME3?, Beat Sneak Bandit)
Hopefully Halo 4 and Assassins Creed 3 finish this desperate year strong...
Off the top my head, (Journey, Trials, Borderlands 2, Max Payne 3, ME3?, Beat Sneak Bandit)
Hopefully Halo 4 and Assassins Creed 3 finish this desperate year strong...
I've got the same problem, the whole site is going slow for me.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Patrick was the only one who played it iirc.
Other great multi-platform games this year: The Walking Dead, Binary Domain, The Darkness 2, Counter Strike: GO, (maybe Max Payne 3)
And don't forget about single-platform downloadable titles like Journey, Dust, Fez, Spelunky; or even single-platform games like Diablo 3. This year has been pretty good so far!
And don't forget about single-platform downloadable titles like Journey, Dust, Fez, Spelunky; or even single-platform games like Diablo 3. This year has been pretty good so far!
The Wizard
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What makes you think they'll hate Dishonored/ Hitman, seemed pretty positive about those two in previews.
Klepek liked Dragons Dogma, think he gave it a 3.
Binary Domain, Darkness 2, UFC 3, Syndicate.
It's definitely been a shitty year, but I liked all those more than Mass Effect 3. I also thought Spec Ops was incredibly vanilla and that its storyline bordered on plagiarism, but that's just me. It was nice to see something different in a campaign, I suppose. Even if it certainly wore its inspiration on its sleeve.
Jeff was bragging about playing Xcom and DisHonored to Brad while he was playing RE6. Patrick and Jeff and I think Brad all seemed real impressed by DisHonored at previous events, and Patrick and Ryan seemed really into the new Hitman. And if they're not into it, well that probably means the new Hitman is not a good Hitman as both liked Blood Money.
Ryan seems way into Hitman, so we will see. And most of them seem pretty interested in Dishonored.
They are everything they've spent the last couple of weeks shitting on when praising Mark of the Ninja, and Ryan recently made some negative comments about Dishonored, can't remember where. We'll see, I could certainly be wrong.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Ryan said he was skeptical about Dishonored on that Gamespot podcast.
I remember it. I wanna say it was a bombcast and he said the last time he looked at the game, it was pretty rough. But we don't know when that was, so it's somewhat moot. For as many dev diaries as Dishonored has, they've shown surprisingly little of worth or merit. A lot of sizzle, but not much substance. It looks interesting, but they haven't had their Bioshock Infinite moment that solidifies people in their purchase making decision yet.
And I don't think that moment is going to come until publications start playing it for people.
I wasted my RE5 money of Transformers: FOC. Man, I wish I waited.
brianmcdoogle
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Can it when Jeff won't be bothered to try it?
Strangely, I can't think of a single game that feels like a GOTY candidate for GB. I can't think of anything that's really inflamed them or kept them talking consistently. Maybe XCom will do that, but that'd be such a strange winner. I could see it ending up being something they accept is strong, but don't really care about, AC3 or something.
The Wizard
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GOTY is hard to discuss when a lot of the big candidates this year aren't even out yet. I think it's safe to say we'll see a stronger downloadable game presence this year though.
That's just boring.
Yeah, so is Skyrim.
I wonder if Journey will be written off as handily as Flower was.
The Wizard
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Has Ryan even got around to playing Skyrim? Saints Row was robbed of number one.
TemplaerDude
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I don't see how it's the safe choice. You'll have to explain that one.
How is it not the safe choice? Everyone liked 2 and Brotherhood. It has a big budget, and there's been no negative stigma surrounding it. It looks to be improved upon 2 in almost every way, so why wouldn't it be? It's the kind of game you pick when a media outlet picks GOTY.
You don't pick XCom because it's a niche genre. You don't pick Need for Speed because it's a niche genre. A lot of them seemed burned by ME 3. Only 2 have played Sleeping Dogs. Far Cry 3 is an underdog. The only one who cares about Call of Duty acts like he cares less and less with each one.
TemplaerDude
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You seem to have forgotten that they called the last release in the series "stale". They can throw as much money at it as they want, but if it's the same AC formula in a new setting, there is zero hope of it winning GOTY, and if you ask me it has just as much chance of being the same-old same-old formula as it does to be something new.
slaughterking
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Can't wait to hear that discussion again.
Revelations was practically an expansion pack for 2. Same animations, same combat system, same art assets. It was a 3DS game that was turned into a HD title that had to be done in a year. It's not anywhere close to the same thing.
CrunchinJelly
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It's hard to say what would even be up for contention as the GOTY when it's very rare more than one or two of them even play a game.
AC3 is very different compared to Rev, but sure, anything is possible.
AHA-Lambda
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Woah! Is this true? O_O
TemplaerDude
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They can pretty up the engine and smooth out the combat all they want, if they haven't come up with some new, unique twist to the tried - tested - true AC gameplay, it isn't going to win much. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, I love the AC series and they could probably pump out 3 more of those games before I started to question their sanity, but AC3 better have a lot of interesting additions to it or it's going to garner the same reactions from the guys as Revelations: getting a little old, duders.
Also, I have a hard time calling a game I dropped 30+ hours into an "expansion pack".
theres been loads of great games this year:
binary domain
dragon's dogma
street fighter x tekken
gravity rush
lumines
resident evil revelations
tekken tag tournament two
kidicarus
resident evil 6
sleeping dawgs
war of the roses
crusader kings 2
diablo 3
guild wars 2
borderlands 2
walky dead
Legend of Grimrock
binary domain
dragon's dogma
street fighter x tekken
gravity rush
lumines
resident evil revelations
tekken tag tournament two
kidicarus
resident evil 6
sleeping dawgs
war of the roses
crusader kings 2
diablo 3
guild wars 2
borderlands 2
walky dead
Legend of Grimrock
Yup. Another example would be Nier which got several 4s and 5s, but also got a lot of 8s and 9s.
EmCeeGramr
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Hot Coldman
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Quadrilateral Cowboy shout-out from Jeff. That game is going to be fucking amazing.
Haunted
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ha! That's true.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
5/5 games on GB this year.
Mark of the Ninja
Dust
Sound Shapes
Diablo 3
Trials Evo
Journey
Rhythm Heaven Fever
Syndicate
Could be a downloadable game this year...
Mark of the Ninja
Dust
Sound Shapes
Diablo 3
Trials Evo
Journey
Rhythm Heaven Fever
Syndicate
Could be a downloadable game this year...
Seriously most of those games don't even come close to Trials Evolution.
RomanticHeroX
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This is the only reasonable choice. Journey would be acceptable too.
EmCeeGramr
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Oh man, I really hope Brad tries to gin up some kind of award for Diablo III and then the other guys give it to Torchlight 2.
Syndicate? Crazy, that game was as cookie-cutter as they come.
Haunted
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Most blatant greedy monetisation move in 2012.
Can't think of many other awards for Diablo III.
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