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TIME Top 10 Games of 2014
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GifGafIsTheBestGaf
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why im not surprised their top pick is a mobile game but my own list is not better either
Apart from Shovel Knight, I honestly thought this was one of the weaker years for indie releases... also can't say I agree with any list that leaves off Bayonetta 2 and Smash.
Vanillalite
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List was probably drawn up and made before the Nov games hit even if the list didn't come out before those games did.
List is actually decent. Only real flaw is Alien as I just don't see how anyone could argue it's a good game if you play through to completition.
List is actually decent. Only real flaw is Alien as I just don't see how anyone could argue it's a good game if you play through to completition.
TylerDurden4321
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I admit, I have NOT played them, but I bet I would like them both, yet they wouldn't make my top 10.
I may have come off like a dick in my post, but this list still feels too much like a "hey, you should play these" list from a publication with a mostly no-console-or-pc-with-a-good-graphics-card audience than a real BEST games list.
Dombrowski
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80 Days? The unforeseen sequel to 8 Days? Good to see Sunset there tho, my personal GOTY.
Then again you didn't play them so that statement is worthless. You bet they wouldn't make your top 10? Okay?
evilromero
Member
I love the new Smash but even I don't feel it's in the top twenty.
opticalmace
Member
Ah yes, the "mobile games can't be great because they're on mobile" argument.
ElodieTicotoune
Banned
80 Days, from what i just watched on the net is an Interactive Story book, there is no gameplay, just traveling while undergoing a conversation with some npc... I'll have to try to judge it better but from what i saw, nothing seems to happen, it looks INSANELY BORING.
The Dutch Slayer
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Listening to idle thumbs 80 days seems And sounds amazing but I have no intrest in playing a mobile game
uhh 80 Days has more gameplay than most of the AAA releases this year
thanks for trying
orthodoxy1095
Banned
How can you know they wouldn't make your top 10 without playing them? This is why most comments on "Top" lists end up being useless. Most of us have not played all of the games on a given list, and most of us have not played all the other plausible nominees. So who are we to say that a list errant? It's an opinion piece.
Impeccable
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Pretty solid list.
Tye The Czar
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TylerDurden4321
Member
I totally didn't say that they can't be great! ...but I'll stop commenting on this list now.
chixdiggit
Member
Didn't Wolfenstien come out this year?
Care to explain it to us then? Because an interactive adventure book is exactly how it is described and looks.
Care to explain it to us then? Because an interactive adventure book is exactly how it is described and looks.
Trojan
Member
Thank you for posting exactly what I was going to say. People are so funny/ridiculous with posts like these just blasting mobile games without actually playing them. Monument Valley is fantastic.
Griddlelol
Banned
Personally I didn't like Monument Valley. Wasn't my cup-of-tea. Just bought 80 days, heard a lot of people say it was really good, but I doubt it'll be 1) on my top ten of 2014.
I personally don't agree with this at all. Not even close. I thought Alien Isolation started off really well, really liked the atmosphere, but the pacing is soooooooo slow. I'm even surprised of saying something like this, but this would be a much better game in my opinion if the length was cut in half. Apparently it takes people 30 hours to complete the majority, where I think 15 would me more than sufficient.
And despite Shadow of Mordor being pretty damn solid, I still didn't absolutely love it. It just didn't have that feeling, I don't know what. Just felt like, a very good, clone of Batman Arkham City and Assassin's Creed. I enjoyed my time with it, but I don't consider it one of the best games of the year. Still, great game to play through once and then probably never look back.
I'd have included DKC Tropical Freeze, Super Smash Bros. (still hasn't released here officially but there's no way I'm not going to love it), Child of Light, and South Park The Stick of Truth, among others. But that's just me.
And despite Shadow of Mordor being pretty damn solid, I still didn't absolutely love it. It just didn't have that feeling, I don't know what. Just felt like, a very good, clone of Batman Arkham City and Assassin's Creed. I enjoyed my time with it, but I don't consider it one of the best games of the year. Still, great game to play through once and then probably never look back.
I'd have included DKC Tropical Freeze, Super Smash Bros. (still hasn't released here officially but there's no way I'm not going to love it), Child of Light, and South Park The Stick of Truth, among others. But that's just me.
pokeystaples
Banned
No Wolfenstein?
I don't agree with the statement but there's a bit more going on in 80 Days than just reading - there's a trade goods system with items and full sets that provide bonuses or big profits in certain cities, money, health and time management and lots of choices that shape the personality of the narrator, the places you end up and how you get there. Games like Carmen Sandiego and Oregon Trail are decent reference points, gives off a similar educational adventure vibe.
EmptySpace
Banned
a lot of people really, really like 80 days.
has it come out for android yet?
has it come out for android yet?
TheRealTalker
Banned
Velocity is a great game glad to see it on the list
Nope.
Probably a better way to describe it is that 80 Days is not simply an interactive adventure book, because the choices made alter the path you travel. You do not follow a scripted linear path with a harrowing story ending exactly on the 80th day of your travel; you can play again and again to figure out how to complete the journey in less than 80 days, and hop a different path through other cities and encounter different events that factor into your funds, your time, and your resources.
Stump posted this in his OT regarding the way in which you can play the game:
Each circle on the land is a city. Some of the reviewers are slower than others because they opted to stay in the city to do something within those cities, or they might travel slower than other players because they opted for a different mode of transportation, or that they choose to go sea route versus land route, and so on.
80 Days is super cool in how expansive it is. I haven't even finished one play through and a ton of interesting stuff has happened. It feels like I could do a bunch more play throughs and experience something different each time. The writing is really good and the risk/resource management gameplay is interesting enough to keep you making interesting choices to try and make the deadline. Feels kind of like FTL in that way.
Nintendojitsu
Banned
Simply behind the TIMEs.
Zomba13
Member
One of my favourite games of the year. Were you running around making noise? Not taking it slow and playing it as a stealth game? Not listening to the sound cues for where the Alien is, when it's in a vent etc? Not paying attention to the saliva when it's above you?
I like the idea that you can see others on their travels. That gif was cool.
I also found this review explained the appeal of the game pretty well.
SaggyMonkey
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I appreciate that they didn't put HD remakes on the list, like pretending Last of Us or GTAV are GOTY again just running on a new machine.
I'm hoping remasters that are a year apart like that wouldn't be up for awards, there are many other games that came out this year that are brand new and just as deserving.