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NeoGAF Games of the Year 2011 Awards (Up: bunch of extra data, check it out!)
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Cheesemeister
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Thanks, whomever updated the thread title.
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Deleted member 30609
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The script itself is awesome, but I'll just add a big ol' "agreed" stamp on this post.
timetokill
Banned
Thanks for the title update, mysterious mod stranger!
It was second on my list, so I think three points. I played it on PC, and by the time I cast my vote I think I was at 66 or 67 hours.
It was #3 on my list, and I put about 80 hours in it (split between two characters, one on the 360 and one on the PC).
Cheesemeister
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From the stats download...
[360][PS3][PC] The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda, RPG) = 1654 points, 26 honorable mentions
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Conrad Link
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Man, just looking over things again I'm really happy Xenoblade got so high..... for a game not even released in USA (yet)....... and on Wii. Good job GAF! I hope even more people get to experience its wonderfulness soon. <3
Bleach: Soul Resurreccion is a PS3 only game as well btw.
Bleach: Soul Resurreccion is a PS3 only game as well btw.
Just wanna know, as the more you play Skyrim the less favorably you'll think of it. By the time I got 140 hours in (only 40% completed the main quest + major questlines) I had to take it back to EB Games. It became so ridiculously monotonous.
I'm certain the game would have gotten more votes if Bethesda wasn't so insistent on quantity over quality, and less if more people got to the breaking point before voting.
I'm certain the game would have gotten more votes if Bethesda wasn't so insistent on quantity over quality, and less if more people got to the breaking point before voting.
Uh... of course playing something for that long will become monotonous? Especially a single player game : /
Um... that's the point? Bethesda shouldn't have watered down Skyrim as much as they did.
I finished Fallout 3 (with many of the one-off side quests) at 80 hours and felt great.
krameriffic
Member
I feel the same way, but I broke the game for myself. It got boring for me because of the obsessive way in which I built my character after reading a thread that explained in detail how to use smithing and enchanting to make my character really overpowered. After that I just lost all interest. I suspect that if you didn't play it in such a completionist way and focused more on the main quest and the important guild quests you wouldn't have gotten tired of it.
I'll never be the guy that tells someone that they're playing the game "wrong," but if you've played for 140 hours and you've only done about 40% of the major questline and the four guild chains, you at least played the game much differently than I did. Although the Thieves Guild is fairly involved, I don't see any of the major chains taking more than 15 hours. I think the Dark Brotherhood and Companions took me about 6 hours each. Did you do a no fast travel playthrough or something?
Again, I don't think there is a "wrong" way to play a game, but you must have done 70+ hours of minor quests (which would wear me down regardless of quality, unless I were to spread play sessions out over a very long period of time). You've played longer than Vinny from Giantbomb, and he spends at least some of his time rearranging the books on his bookcases to be in alphabetical order.
The heart of my point is that the games that make up 90% of GAF GOTY top 10s are direct character control games, which is a game type that phone games do not do very well yet. There are genres that are abstract enough to overcome the limitations of touch screen controls, but those genres tend not to poll well.
I concede that I was trying to force a greater separation between the game types than exists, but I was sorta
That's definitely not my position. The original post I was responding to was asking why certain games don't perform well in the GAF GOTY despite their popularity in the wider marketplace. I'm not trying to say "GAF only cares about the top ten", but that metric was the context of my response.
Those games get snubbed mechanically as much as aesthetically. Aesthetically The Sims is neutral. Doesn't Animal Crossing get snubbed because every release has been more or less the same as the Gamecube version? Sports games never punch their weight in GAF polling, but Wii Sports did make the GAF GOTY top 10, so by my metric it's a success.
Can you think of any games that sold very well (in the west), involved direct control of a character, weren't hampered by sequelitis, but polled poorly entirely because of aesthetics?
I voted for it as #1.
I played it on PC.
And I had played 85 hours at the time of voting.
Even if I never finish the game or touch it again (not likely), the fact that I had a ton of fun playing it for that amount of time makes it my Game of the Year. No single player game can stay fresh forever. It probably also helps that the game performed well enough for me from the beginning, and that I had all of 2 crashes in those 85 hours.
I spent a shit load of time organizing all my stuff after every quest (god damnit Bethesda!!!), did a fair bit of the minor quests, and used fast travel minimally as the exploration was my favorite thing about the game. Also, I left the game running a couple nights/while I ate dinner/etc. so the number is inflated a bit. Did the same with Fallout 3 so the comparison is still fine.
Mostly completed the main quest & Companions' quest line, maybe 3 civil war quests, and hadn't really started the Dark Brotherhood line. I made a new character for the College of Winterhold thinking it would be about teaching magic. Gave up when I discovered they sent me into these high-level areas that looked exactly like places I've been in on my main save to fetch shit. Ended up having to run past everyone with heal spell constantly going in both hands.
It was #1 on my list, played it on the pc and had put around 20-30 hours into it iirc.
I came back to my list weeks later to add Xenoblade. Skyrim was still my #1, and I'd put in just shy of 100 hours at that point.
Riposte said:
There's no shame in liking a great game. Sorry you had a bad experience.
The Librarian
Banned
It was fourth, fifth, or sixth on my list. I had put about 50 hours into at the time of my posting. Xbox 360.
More Fun To Compute
Member
I play on PC and voted for Skyrim but not Witcher 2 or Deus Ex because I neither played nor care much about those games. U mad?
Arjen
Member
First on the list so 4 points
360
I think around 100, i'm roughly at 200 now 2 characters combined.
Hah. Somebody takes this shit way too seriously.
I put about 120 hours into Skyrim on PC, and even having played 90% of the games on the GOTY list, Skyrim was still an achievement that dwarfed the others. Just an amazing game. It managed to exceed my already sky high expectations.
The attempt at divisiveness because a bunch of man children take a GOTY vote too seriously is pathetic.
I don't know why but I find this incredibly funny. There are "a lot" of Nintendo only gamers on Gaf in comparison to the other consoles. And the Xbox hasnt had a single good exclusive this year it seems
-However many points a #1 choice gives.
-PC
-About 80-85 hours on my first character before I reached god tier through broken balancing (max stealth makes you virtually invisible even when right next to someone). I got bored and made a new character for another 40 hours or so. I'm on record as saying Skyrim wore me out much quicker than Morrowind or Oblivion, and that it's only my #1 choice because I played nothing better last year. Every game had some huge balance or other issue that soured my enjoyment at least a little.
timetokill
Banned
It's not really true, though. It's more that Sony had a pretty bad year.
Last year's stats, for example:
>50% Sony Exclusive: 8.93% (82)
>80% Sony Exclusive: 0.87% (8)
100% Sony Exclusive: 0.44% (4)
>50% Nintendo Exclusive: 9.80% (90)
>80% Nintendo Exclusive: 1.42% (13)
100% Nintendo Exclusive: 0.65% (6)
Microsoft on the other hand never has a very high exclusive count.
charlequin
Banned
Not necessarily. All three Nintendo systems that would have entries in 2011 have a high percentage of their titles (and their best-ranked titles) as exclusives; conversely, the PS3 and 360 both have the vast majority of their titles (and a large portion of their best-ranked titles) as multiplat titles with each other and/or PC. As a result, even if we had exactly proportionate numbers of voters who owned only hardware from a single manufacturer, Nintendo would tend to have a lot more exclusive-only ballots.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
I think I wrote the longest post in the thread, well into the extension, but I personally was against the extension. I felt like last year's deadline of January 7th was a better deadline. If this year hadn't had an extension, I would have wrote the same stuff and ranked the same order, I'd just have forced myself to do it sooner
Doesn't that make the Nintendo count still exeptionally high though?
That's a good point yes. Also Nintendo basically has 3 platforms, while Sony has 2 (in reality only 1) and Microsoft just the Xbox.
I think I wrote the longest post in the thread, well into the extension, but I personally was against the extension. I felt like last year's deadline of January 7th was a better deadline. If this year hadn't had an extension, I would have wrote the same stuff and ranked the same order, I'd just have forced myself to do it sooner
I prefer the extension deadline, but I also don't think voting should begin until the year concludes.
Nope, PC exclusives count for Microsoft apparently. After my Dezaemon Kids vote was disqualified (it never came out in America before 2011 dammit!) Jamestown got bumped up into my Top 10, making my list 10% Microsoft according to the stats.
Anyways, it would be more relevant to run those exclusives scripts for 2008 or 2007 or whatever rather than the end of the generation when things have settled.
charlequin
Banned
I think I wrote the longest post in the thread, well into the extension, but I personally was against the extension. I felt like last year's deadline of January 7th was a better deadline. If this year hadn't had an extension, I would have wrote the same stuff and ranked the same order, I'd just have forced myself to do it sooner
Conversely, I was a big supporter of the extension; I played several of my final list entries (and a few others I thought had a chance but which ultimately didn't make the list) during that extra time, and it gave me a chance to seriously evaluate my options and formulate my list.
Honestly, I'd much rather we start on January 1st and give people three weeks from that date next time; I don't see much value in racing to get the list out OMG RIGHT AT THE START OF THE YEAR compared to letting people give it serious consideration after the holiday season is over and all the candidates are in.
The Librarian
Banned
I think doing it right at the end of the year is a mistake, even with an extension. We need to allow time to get out of the hype window of any big games released at the end of the year, and, of course, more time to play games.
If it were up to me, I'd hold the GOTY contest in June of the next year.
In response to the general queries about Skyrim #1 GOTY votes, I played it on Xbox 360 for, at the time of voting, ~80 hours.
Also, here's a list of people with excellent taste:
$$WhyMe6
Users with similar selection to WhyMe6:
1. IceDoesntHelp ( 121) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=455980&page=5#244 ]
2. Killer Yakuza B ( 118) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=455980&page=27#1349 ]
3. DoomXploder7 ( 117) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=455980&page=23#1147 ]
4. Mistle ( 114) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=455980&page=8#399 ]
5. Electivirus ( 114) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=455980&page=4#166 ]
6. Nocturnowl ( 113) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=455980&page=5#234 ]
7. Salih ( 110) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=455980&page=5#213 ]
8. XxCGSxX ( 110) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=455980&page=8#398 ]
9. vcassano1 ( 109) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=455980&page=5#248 ]
10. TyRaNtM ( 107) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=455980&page=34#1662 ]
Total similarity score: 40112
Also, here's a list of people with excellent taste:
$$WhyMe6
Users with similar selection to WhyMe6:
1. IceDoesntHelp ( 121) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=455980&page=5#244 ]
2. Killer Yakuza B ( 118) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=455980&page=27#1349 ]
3. DoomXploder7 ( 117) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=455980&page=23#1147 ]
4. Mistle ( 114) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=455980&page=8#399 ]
5. Electivirus ( 114) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=455980&page=4#166 ]
6. Nocturnowl ( 113) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=455980&page=5#234 ]
7. Salih ( 110) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=455980&page=5#213 ]
8. XxCGSxX ( 110) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=455980&page=8#398 ]
9. vcassano1 ( 109) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=455980&page=5#248 ]
10. TyRaNtM ( 107) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=455980&page=34#1662 ]
Total similarity score: 40112
SatelliteOfLove
Member
I agree, we had right of the top of my head one huge game (SW:TOR) and one small one (Mighty Switch Force!) release very late in the year, after voting started, and the former was from a genre that requires some aging to tell its worth better.
carbonbased
Member
that's just about identical to what i proposed in my (much too wordy) post on the last page ;P
well gosh if we had some publishing deadline to meet or we wanted our rainbow of opinions to be mentioned in the same breath as those of the hallowed video game journalism industry then just maybe we could justify rushing things..!
also, sticky that shit next year
NullPointer
Member
* I gave it the #1 slot, so four points right?
* I played it on PC through Steam.
* At the time of voting maybe 40-50 hours. I'm sitting at 145 hours total played now, which is a good time for a break. I've got two main characters and a third ancillary pure mage for kicks and have still barely dented the main campaign with any of them.
thanks skyrimites, doesn't surprise me that most of you played under 100 hours and didn't marathon the game. if i hadn't had a lot of free time in november (i probably played 5 hours a day or so,) i'd probably share your enthusiasm.
hope bethesda puts a greater focus on quality over quantity for their next title.
hope bethesda puts a greater focus on quality over quantity for their next title.
StoppedInTracks
Member
Gah @ Deus Ex losing the 3rd place by 13 points... by actually 1% of the votes it got!
Can't argue with top 5 though even if my order would be different.
Can't argue with top 5 though even if my order would be different.
So I was motivated enough to start and finish Ghost Trick thanks to all the praise.
As far as actual gameplay, it's just a pretty novel concept executed pretty well. Probably could have used some type of fast forward on retries, but the experimentation was generally fun enough, and the banter helps to keep it interesting.
Game easily would have made #3 on my list. Prooobably wouldn't make it higher, but it was enjoyable and memorable enough to warrant serious consideration, and it is right there with them.
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So, thank you to people who voted for it on this and other polls, for making me finally experience it.
Overall really really good. I think with some of the plot progressions/related power progressions, I felt things got a little unwieldy, I guess. Just kept getting wilder in a "Oh, by the way manipulator, oh by the way evil foreign nation, oh by the way magic meteorite, oh by the way alternate timelines..." way. It just didn't really mesh perfectly for me.
Buuut, the "core" mystery, and its core characters, was executed really, really well. Most of the answers Sissel comes across are satisfying in their own right, but even the ones that were less so always led to more questions that still remained interesting and tense. The tension and intrigue over the last half really carried me through with not wanting to take a break.
A large part of making that core work is the immensely strong cast. Sissel, Missile, Lynne, Kamila, Cabanela. Jowd was just kind of okay. Anyway, they're all really endearing in that Ace Attorney way, with good interactions and a huge amount of personality in their animations and dialogue. The main thrust of their intertwined fate on this super important night was sold really well, with the highlight being Cabanella's buildup and reveal.
Then at the end, my mind just naturally starts wandering when time travel comes up generally, but whatever, Missile owns. Top Pomeranian.
Generally not a huge fan of time wipes in endings, but everyone lives happily ever after so I'll accept it.
Buuut, the "core" mystery, and its core characters, was executed really, really well. Most of the answers Sissel comes across are satisfying in their own right, but even the ones that were less so always led to more questions that still remained interesting and tense. The tension and intrigue over the last half really carried me through with not wanting to take a break.
A large part of making that core work is the immensely strong cast. Sissel, Missile, Lynne, Kamila, Cabanela. Jowd was just kind of okay. Anyway, they're all really endearing in that Ace Attorney way, with good interactions and a huge amount of personality in their animations and dialogue. The main thrust of their intertwined fate on this super important night was sold really well, with the highlight being Cabanella's buildup and reveal.
Then at the end, my mind just naturally starts wandering when time travel comes up generally, but whatever, Missile owns. Top Pomeranian.
Generally not a huge fan of time wipes in endings, but everyone lives happily ever after so I'll accept it.
As far as actual gameplay, it's just a pretty novel concept executed pretty well. Probably could have used some type of fast forward on retries, but the experimentation was generally fun enough, and the banter helps to keep it interesting.
The globe swinging puzzle was just dumb though. Like, okay, suspension of disbelief so they can have entertaining puzzles or whatever. But this.
Game easily would have made #3 on my list. Prooobably wouldn't make it higher, but it was enjoyable and memorable enough to warrant serious consideration, and it is right there with them.
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So, thank you to people who voted for it on this and other polls, for making me finally experience it.
Haunted
Member
cooljeanius
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This award existed? Most of the games I played this year I was LTTP on... Wishing I had included them now...timetokill said:
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