What happened to EDGE? wow
Pretty much this. After viewing this list I was pretty dumbstruck. Mario Kart 7 over SM3DL? No fucking way. Skyward Sword over Dark Souls, sorry thats just retarded.
What happened to EDGE? wow
Seems right to me. The game was average or below average in every single way.
You can love it but calling someone to task for not listing a portable game that received mixed reviews in their end of year list is a bit weird. No?Jetpack Joyride nominated in Best Portable Game category but not the Tactics Ogre remake, Radiant Historia or Ghost Trick? Surprised and yet not, portable gaming is to Edge what Hip Hop and Metal are to Pitchfork
Pretty much this. After viewing this list I was pretty dumbstruck. Mario Kart 7 over SM3DL? No fucking way. Skyward Sword over Dark Souls, sorry thats just retarded.
Did you have mute on for all of them?
I really should try Dark Souls to see where all this bold, chest puffing fangasm is ejaculating from
*enters thread*
*sees cover*
*punches screen*
No, it's not. Saints Row 3 is awesome and one of the best games of the year, easily.
89, 87 and 83 on Metacritic seems like a pretty good reception for all three games? Not that it really matters, this just further emphasizes how goddamn out of touch with everything I am these daysYou can love it but calling someone to task for not listing a portable game that received mixed reviews in their end of year list is a bit weird. No?
And Edge agrees since 6 means it's above average.
But yeah, it was a pretty good game.
Awesome and one of the best games of the year are not the same as above average unless you live in some weird bizarro world.
My only complaint with that list is the lack of Dead Space 2.
Don't be silly, gaf won't like skyward sword til the next zelda comes out, everybody knows thatI forgot how much fun Edge threads can be to read through. Didn't realize so many people hated Skyward Sword so much. I've been enjoying it so far.
If you include the Dark Souls online community as part of the experience, you find a lot of users coming together to help one another, builds being discussed, the storyline being pieced together and a level of courtesy between gamers that you won't find anywhere else. The amount of respect between blue phantoms and those that summon them is great, and the fear of red phantoms that invade isn't found in any of game. Add in the soul signs being left on the ground to help you and you have an experience which is actually rather pleasant, and a major shift from the traditional online package.
I back it as the best online experience 100%.
So much rage in this thread. I really can't see why.
Mario Kart 7 absolutely deserves it. People who think it's just the same old MK game obviously haven't played it enough. Drifting feels great and there's no more snaking. Karts are more customizable than before, and you can really feel the difference. Items are more balanced. And most importantly, online play is really fucking amazing. It runs smoothly and the community feature is an ingenious idea.
Best Visual Design
Uncharted 3
Battlefield 3
Child of Eden
Best Audio Design
Portal 2
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Dark Souls
Yes it's a good game, but don't try to deny that it's just an iteration of MK DS.
Mario Kart 7 absolutely deserves it. People who think it's just the same old MK game obviously haven't played it enough. Drifting feels great and there's no more snaking. Karts are more customizable than before, and you can really feel the difference. Items are more balanced. And most importantly, online play is really fucking amazing. It runs smoothly and the community feature is an ingenious idea.
Their Best Audio and Best Online categories are...baffling.
And I never really took Edge for the hyper-enthusiastic type but in a year as strong as this one and they pick Skyward Sword as their game of the year? Nostalgia sure swings strong in the Edge office.
I still feel like people are just contrasting it with Mario Kart Wii. The items are more balanced than Super's? The drifting feels better than in DS? Customization is more critical than in Gamecube? Track design is better than Advance?
I'm genuinely just asking. Could you expound on 1 or more?
Well deserved 3 for NFS!
Customization - I do miss the two-rider aspect of Double Dash. But there's so many combinations of rider/kart/wheels in MK7 that yes, I'd say the customization is an example of something new and creative being added to the MK series.
Good for Zelda.
But it's not a perfect 10.
Here we go, the 10=perfect crowd.
By perfect he's referring to the score, not the game. And the score IS perfect.
The customization just breaks down the old vehicle types into a much larger arc, but you still end up with the "heavy, medium and light" vehicles pretty much.
And I'm not saying MK7 is weaker or better in any of those aspects, but to a layman the games definately will look almost identical. And you still need to drift almost 90% of the time in MK7.
Even though it's a sequel and probably considered 'more of the same' by many, I really liked the sound in Dead Space 2 as well... felt like a lot of care was put into it (pretty thankful to create sound for that kind of game as well). On the contrary, don't remember much of the sound from Portal 2, nothing that really stuck with me... been a while since I've played it though.
Interesting to see Skyward Sword and Dark Souls as nominated games, never played them myself but it makes both games even more tempting for me to try out.
I have this issue here. Does anyone want the text for any of the GOTY choices/runners-up?
I have this issue here. Does anyone want the text for any of the GOTY choices/runners-up?
What is the point of qualifying the score by saying perfect then? Why not just say 10? It's directly adding connotations that a score of 10 is a game without flaw.