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TIME's Top Ten Video Games of 2011
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The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I wouldn't say "agrees", more "doesn't rip to shreds"
added_time
Member
Wow! I expected much worse from such a mainstream magazine. Cool little list.
nckillthegrimace
Member
Dude, you need to step it up.
Agreed, put Witcher 2 or Deus Ex there instead. I'd also take out Minecraft and put the better game, Terraria, on the list.
I only bought Bastion today but it's not goty material so far. Decent game but not goty.
Joe Shlabotnik
Banned
Figured that was Lev Grossman before I clicked on it. He's on top of things.
Dark Souls should OBVIOUSLY be #1, but we are taking what we can get here.
Jason's Ultimatum
Member
No Rayman is disappointing.
Wolfgunblood Garopa
Member
Anything ahead of Skyrim is just wrong, but Bastion ahead of Skyrim is paranormally stupid.
George Claw M.D.
Member
Not bad. Not bad. Especially for a non-gaming mag. Puts most other gaming publications to shame. Never played Bastion, but from the mixed impressions, I've read, it seems like the oddball standout, ranked that highly. Maybe it's an artsy thing.
Mama Robotnik
Member
What's Bastion like? I'm assuming you have played it, of course.
bone_and_sinew
breaking down barriers in gratuitous nudity
That's about the closest thing we'll ever get to an agreement here
I'm really surprised to see Dark Souls there. I want to live on this planet again!
mclaren777
Member
I don't think Portal 2 belongs in the Top 3.
The_Darkest_Red
Member
Agreed. It's the best Mario game ever, in my opinion.*
*Annoying disclaimer that I always have to add with statements like this: unless Yoshi's Island is considered a Mario game.
GhaleonQ
Member
It's weird that it took 4 pages for someone to notice. Way to actually click the story and note the byline! I'm not a fan, but the guy's legitimate, people.
If I could only pick from the 30 most marketed games this year instead of all the good ones, I'd appreciate this list.
Pixel Pete
Member
swap out BF3 for Deus Ex HR and you have a winner. Still the best list I've read in a while.
edit: I personally don't work on lists that order them. I read this list as 'top 10, in no particular order'
edit: I personally don't work on lists that order them. I read this list as 'top 10, in no particular order'
Fixed1979
Member
It makes these list because it's a really good game, it gets bashed because don't think it lives up to UC2...and because of the control complaints.
JumpingTheGun
Banned
Out of curiousity, what's so special about Grossman?
i feel Portal 2 is a little overrated ...and i loved the first Portal.
Portal 2 was great for the first half, then i felt it got really boring and tedious for the second half.
game was too long i guess ...it overstayed its welcome. the first Portal was just the right length in that it didn't get too monotonous.
i'm primarily a PC gamer and Dark Souls gets my vote for Game of the Year ...out of the stuff that i've played.
Portal 2 was great for the first half, then i felt it got really boring and tedious for the second half.
game was too long i guess ...it overstayed its welcome. the first Portal was just the right length in that it didn't get too monotonous.
i'm primarily a PC gamer and Dark Souls gets my vote for Game of the Year ...out of the stuff that i've played.
GhaleonQ
Member
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Grossman
He's a respected author who actually knows things about video games (read: not Tom Bissell).
nckillthegrimace
Member
That's a fairly snobby thing to say. Care to name some of the "good ones" for us philistines?
Lev knows the score. In addition to being an excellent writer and having good taste in games, his twin brother Austin (an excellent writer as well) worked on Ultima Underworld II, System Shock, Deus Ex and Thief: Deadly Shadows.
Spirit of Jazz
Banned
Well Bastion was probably game of the year and Skyrim's so broken that I can't be arsed to go through trying to play it right now. So I think it was a perfectly intelligent choice.
Krauser Kat
Member
Take out Minecraft and move skyrim down and put witcher in its place and i would be very happy. As it stands its a good list.
Mama Robotnik
Member
People say this a lot.
I've already said that the game is probably my Game of the Generation, and its "lego/world building" aspects barely factor into the reasons why.
The real joy and immersion is in exploring, understanding and taming a wild world that's out to kill you every time the sun goes down. The first night in the game was for me, an intense experience of death, survival and hiding. Building a dirt hovel to hide from the night, eventually making an outpost of stone in the wilderness, and when I could finally survive the night, the exploration began.
Exploring the chasms under the sea, discovering collapsed sand dunes leading into buried rivers, bridging a magma-filled canyon with logs taken from burning forests, finding an underground lake infested with spiders protecting diamond, and emerging from a tunnel system into the belly of an ocean swimming to the top before the air runs out. The game combines an incredible procedural generation so its plains feel organic, considerable challenge and difficulty, and endless potential for exploration and eventual taming of the land from the hoardes.
The game completely absorbed me, as it does with others, and the heavily-mentioned lego-features are not always the reason why. Minecraft's atmosphere, in the right world and with the right player, can almost eclipse the atmosphere in nearly any big-budget game you'd care to mention.
That is indeed my opinion.
GhaleonQ
Member
I didn't say they weren't good. Some are amazing! They're just all heavily pushed and most are blockbusters. (The Venn diagram would be "all great games from 2011," "heavily marketed games," and then "this list.")
Metroid-Squadron
Banned
No Saint's Row The Third.
The list fails.
The list fails.
JasoNsider
Member
I'm not even into Minecraft at all but I would say this is a damn good list. Wow. Totally surprised.
Kudos for them putting Skyward Sword so high up, too. Impressive.
Kudos for them putting Skyward Sword so high up, too. Impressive.
Try the demo
GhaleonQ
Member
*nods* Again, his writing's not my thing, either, but they're both quite good and TOTALLY up NeoGAF's alley. Read them if you haven't read modern fiction in awhile, everyone.
That reminds me, when is Seth Schiesel's list out?
nckillthegrimace
Member
I agree with that sentiment. If a game isn't a huge production or a boutique indie darling, then it's falling through the cracks. It's a pretty big shame.
shira
Member
Sworcery/Bastion had top 30 level marketing?