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GAF Games of the Year 2012 - Voting Thread, now closed. Thanks for all the fish.
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SteveWinwood
Member
TWD taking top spot won't bother me.
Journey however... will be disappointing...
Journey however... will be disappointing...
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
I tried Episode 1 of TWD and didn't really like its mechanics. It made me nauseous for some reason. I'm sure the narrative ends up being really good and memorable if it's getting a lot of votes.
I'd like to give it another shot, but I'm not sure if it's for me in the long run.
Now I understand where you're coming from a little better. Exploration used to be a huge thing for me, so Suikoden (just to get characters), Terranigma, Skies, etc. are some of my favourites. But I primarily go for systems and ability acquisition now, so I guess if I didn't change up what I wanted in an RPG, our interests would align more often.
To be fair, mine had puzzles in it. Edit: actually, I'd say it's more of an adventure game than a VN.
I'd like to give it another shot, but I'm not sure if it's for me in the long run.
Ohhh, well, fair enough. I feel similarly when it comes to SPM: the ideas are great, but execution is odd. The only RPGs I've seen you comment on recently were Infinite Space, Radiant Historia, etc. And some of them I've disagreed with you, and others I've agreed on.
Now I understand where you're coming from a little better. Exploration used to be a huge thing for me, so Suikoden (just to get characters), Terranigma, Skies, etc. are some of my favourites. But I primarily go for systems and ability acquisition now, so I guess if I didn't change up what I wanted in an RPG, our interests would align more often.
I'm sorry.
To be fair, mine had puzzles in it. Edit: actually, I'd say it's more of an adventure game than a VN.
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
haha, don't tempt me now
Yeah, I'd say 999 has a fairly meaty selection of puzzles to it. Enough that I forgot the solutions to half of them on subsequent playthroughs for all of the endings!
I wish I could play VLR but I have a 3DS and don't want to run into the save bug.
Episode 1 is probably the 'peak' of its mechanics with the outside of the motel segment, sadly.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
After a little consideration, I wouldn't call it a straight-up VN. You follow narratives and make dialogue choices in VNs while unlocking CGs (the scene drawings).
I'd say 999 would be more like a decent point and click adventure with puzzles. VLR falls into that category as well.
LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLet's get ready to be booooootheeeeerrrrrrrrrrrred!
By "let's" I don't include me.
1. Kid Icarus: Uprising ; Geez, where do I event start with this game? The gameplay is phenomenal with tons of extras that kept me playing for a long time, the music outstanding and fits each and every game wonderfully, the story is fun, the voicework is great and humorous, is and the multiplayer mode is a blast. Could not have asked for more.
2. Binary Domain ; All I can say is to play it. Go in with no expectations and have fun.
3. Super Hexagon ; I'm addicted to this game someone help me.
4. The Walking Dead
5. Xenoblade Chronicles
6. Mass Effect 3
7. XCOM: Enemy Unknown
8. Journey
9. Paper Mario: Sticker Star
10. Theatrhythm Final Fantasy
2. Binary Domain ; All I can say is to play it. Go in with no expectations and have fun.
3. Super Hexagon ; I'm addicted to this game someone help me.
4. The Walking Dead
5. Xenoblade Chronicles
6. Mass Effect 3
7. XCOM: Enemy Unknown
8. Journey
9. Paper Mario: Sticker Star
10. Theatrhythm Final Fantasy
SteveWinwood
Member
Eh it's a list on the internet.
Riposte
Member
Yeah, I'd say 999 has a fairly meaty selection of puzzles to it. Enough that I forgot the solutions to half of them on subsequent playthroughs for all of the endings!
I wish I could play VLR but I have a 3DS and don't want to run into the save bug.
Since we are talking about it, what I also like 999 is that it has pretty neat role-playing/story-branching mechanics. They are very simple, but effective. Kind of like the opposite of TWD where they give you a ton of choices, but collectively they are pretty ineffectual. That's if you see through the illusion anyway. Which I did really early on.
EDIT: If TWD had mighty impressive role-playing mechanics, I would like it a lot more. Right now it is more disappointing than the most disappointing parts of the Mass Effect series.
cosmicblizzard
Banned
TWD taking the top won't bother me. It will just baffle me, and it's going to happen.
Journey taking it won't evoke any kind of reaction at all.
Journey taking it won't evoke any kind of reaction at all.
timetokill
Banned
Don't worry about it guys. we're going to throw out all the votes for non-games anyway.
However, we recognize that non-games are becoming a thing nowadays and we are considering making a separate award for non-games to win. We'll call it the "Best of the Non-Games Ghetto Award"
Look forward to it!
However, we recognize that non-games are becoming a thing nowadays and we are considering making a separate award for non-games to win. We'll call it the "Best of the Non-Games Ghetto Award"
Look forward to it!
Change this to "at least it works largely as intended" for me. Lame ME3 had character import issues, but you can just recreate again and the new look to the game probably meant any character wouldn't look quite right anyway simply because hair/skin would appear to dark or light, and more importantly all my choices were properly retained. But I like TWD enough to put it there, at a low spot admittedly, and if it WINS... well, it's not votes like mine that'll put it there, not unless this is victory through chipping away.
EDIT: Although I did reconsider and shuffled TWD down. I think ME3 actually fixed its damn bugs and even tried to patch up the ending which was a nice gesture if nothing else, but Telltale seems to be sticking their fingers in their ears about their problems.
nckillthegrimace
Member
Yeah, I'd say 999 has a fairly meaty selection of puzzles to it. Enough that I forgot the solutions to half of them on subsequent playthroughs for all of the endings!
I wish I could play VLR but I have a 3DS and don't want to run into the save bug.
Don't save in puzzle rooms.
I have VLR in my top ten, but the way Chunsoft and Aksys have handled the game is fucking shameful. Despite having the same sized game cards, the 3DS version inexplicably only has one save slot and the audio is notably more compressed than the Vita version. Further, there's of course that glitch they haven't fixed. I'd say buy the Vita version, but that has perhaps the worst controls I've ever used in this sort of game. Also, sometimes you have to write stuff down, and good luck using the in-game note system with a greasy finger on that imprecise capacitive screen.
timetokill
Banned
Less than one hour remains
cosmicblizzard
Banned
Yeah, I'd say 999 has a fairly meaty selection of puzzles to it. Enough that I forgot the solutions to half of them on subsequent playthroughs for all of the endings!
I wish I could play VLR but I have a 3DS and don't want to run into the save bug.
I'm sure most of the people that played it on gaf played it on 3DS, and look at how many votes it's getting. You should have played it anyway and put it on your list. Would love to see it in the top 10.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Just wait for the last minute surge of the true GotY, Mark of the Ninja
juuuuust wait
juuuuust wait
I think you mean 1 week, right?
Oh, that's great --
*frysquint.jpg*
Wait, you saying you saw through TWD's choices or 999's
Games like Portal 2, Red Dead Redemption, Super Mario Galaxy, Fallout 3, and Uncharted 2 aren't considered "up there"? They all came out in separate years.
That said, this is all subjective, so there's not really a debate to be had. Was just expressing my opinion, nothing more.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Post your list already!
Oh, really? Hm. I guess the characterization was just that darn good. I still want to get through it because I can't talk about it if I haven't played it outside of the first episode. Just I dunno when I'm going to do that.
I just took a screenshot of what I'm supposed to remember and kept the photo album App open whenever I needed to look at it. It was more convenient than trying to use the silly memo.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
What about Halo 4
nckillthegrimace
Member
ART GAMES! *shakes fist*
LOL, this was actually one title I really, really, REALLY wanted to get around to in time for voting. I bought it, it's there in my Steam library. But then Anarchy Reigns came out. :O
Yeah, I actually liked it. I was hoping for some other stuff like that instead of sequences where you basically mindlessly rambo through a horde of zombies with a weapon.
I don't think it's baffling to see TWD be so successful given that they did really pull people in with Lee and Clementine and the overall tale they go through, even if there's a lot of stuff surrounding it that can get iffy.
Journey is just lost on me, however. I really don't grasp how it was emotional affecting, and I felt that despite the incredibly short length the ending was poorly paced
Riposte
Member
TWD's. I don't know how you would guess 999's craziness.
Post your list already!
Still writing it! ... I'll finish it later...
Art GAME. Singular. TWD is a soap opera with zombies.
Thanks, I really appreciate this.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
EAR-GASMIC SOUND
KILLER MULTIPLAYER
AMAZING CAMPAIGN
why would IGN lie, fracas
no idea why 3/4ths of HaloGAF hates that masterpiece of a game
KILLER MULTIPLAYER
AMAZING CAMPAIGN
why would IGN lie, fracas
no idea why 3/4ths of HaloGAF hates that masterpiece of a game
even virtue's last reward wasn't really that close to the same level as 999, but it best mimics the ideas that 999 had, especially in working in story and game design. both games wind up having stories that can only be told through video games, and rely on the player understanding traditional video game mechanics to tell the story.
the walking dead wouldn't even be a choose-your-own adventure book. at least those things have multiple endings.
the walking dead wouldn't even be a choose-your-own adventure book. at least those things have multiple endings.
IrishNinja
Member
stoopid ani, now i wanna play skies of arcadia again
ahahaha
its funny how many more votes (again, possibly mine) this'dve seen if the steam holiday sale wouldve taken another $5 off, i bet
you almost had me, bro
almost
well at least you got this guy
ps describing a game as ear-gasmic and sick sound like minuses to me
ahahaha
little (failed) joke there, love - i picked VLR as mine, heh
its funny how many more votes (again, possibly mine) this'dve seen if the steam holiday sale wouldve taken another $5 off, i bet
you almost had me, bro
almost
well at least you got this guy
ps describing a game as ear-gasmic and sick sound like minuses to me
Sand-surfing. The whole damn game should've been sand-surfing. Ah well.
Yessssssssss. 999 was so full of mind-fucks, it was like that Jackie Chan meme gone Inception.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
I wanted to get to this before GotY voting phase ended but noooo...
I'm sorry.
To be fair, I read a lot of lists in the thread so I probably forgot since a lot of people voted for it as well. I feel bad.
Everyone just make sure 2013's 2012 game of the year is Mark of the Ninja and it will all be forgiven.
I remember seeing screenshots and getting all giddy thinking about sliding all over the expansive environments. My heart was shattered when I found out wind gusts blew you away when you strayed out of the fairly narrow sand area.
I remember seeing screenshots and getting all giddy thinking about sliding all over the expansive environments. My heart was shattered when I found out wind gusts blew you away when you strayed out of the fairly narrow sand area.
SteveWinwood
Member
There is a lot of journey that is lost on me.
Is HaloGAF like ZeldaGAF where the new Zelda sucks and the last Zelda becomes the greatest? (I'm obviously excluding Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks in this analogy)
I really gotta play Journey. It's going to win GAF's 2012 skimming this thread for the last time.
But going by my track record with Sony games, there's a decent chance
it's not gonna roll with me.
You'd probably have me by the balls if the game was like a God of War or Folklore game.
But going by my track record with Sony games, there's a decent chance
I'm being generous, more like 99% chance
You'd probably have me by the balls if the game was like a God of War or Folklore game.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Holy black Jesus, that's is REALLY sad to hear. Equal mix of tragedy and comedy. Like a midget clown getting hit by a car and making a funny-ass honking noise.
nckillthegrimace
Member
The power of the Walking Dead lies in the character interactions, in that it's actually you interacting with the characters instead of some idiot rednecks talking to each other in the terrible show or some cartoon villain menacing everyone in the shitty comic book. You can actually see this fall apart in Episode 4 where a big time Hollywood writer came in and ruined everything with his "set-piece" moments, character stupidity for the point of plot expediency, and terrible pandering girl ninja character.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
lol not really, Reach is still garbage. 4 is just worse.
A lot of people in that thread and in general prefer classic Halo, i.e CE-3, and Reach and 4 deviate from that quite a bit.
......more or less
We changed! Kinda. A lot of people just left