Eurogamer's Top 50 Games of 2006: 10 - 1
Happy new Psychonauts!
10. Prof. Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old is Your Brain?
DS, Nintendo, Gamepage.
Simon: Sod the mind exercises - I've been playing Tetris for nearly twenty years Kawashima you noob. Where's Brawn Training for these wasted biceps?
Dave: My brain is 20 years old and my best time at 20 calculations is 13.11. Just FYI.
Luke: Nice idea and all but my Brain Age was 20 on day 2. Either its brokenly simple or I'm an actual genius. Kinda killed it for me either way.
Tom: I did this solidly for about two months, and that was without anyone else to play it with. Some of the tasks were rubbish, and the voice recognition was never quite right, but the other stuff was stupidly compulsive. The best "play it every day" game since Polarium Advance.
Alec: After a month of playing this, I still can't spell 'necessary' properly without looking it up. I want my money back.

John: Sorry everyone, but this really isn't that good. It's a collection of very few simplistic puzzles, with an arbitrary score at the end, and some context-sensitive comments from the cartoon man. It's very well made, and writing numbers onto the screen is deeply satisfying. But really it's a bunch of times tables and Kim's game. Can we all get some perspective?
Tom: Surely, given that John clearly doesn't do Brain Training, there's never been a better opportunity to respond thus: Idiot!
James: Kudos to Nintendo for strengthening their conviction that the DS is the only portable gaming tool to bring together the entire family. Apart from Chris Tarrant's, of course.
Kristan: Without doubt my most played handheld game of the year - or of any other year, come to that. At first, the series of arithmetic tests and simple observation/memory assessments seem little more than a novelty, but, sure enough, it suckers you in to daily play. Played with anyone even vaguely completive on the same DS (preferably a partner), it turns into a daily ritual and reminds you what it was like at school when being quick at times tables was a thing you could feel proud of. It's a shame Nintendo didn't cram more tests in there, or I'd probably still be playing it now, but for the month or so that it got its hooks into me, Nintendo deserves warrants huge applause for daring to do something different that, gasp, felt educational. And how many games can you apply that to?
Kieron: On my birthday, I found myself on a (immensely delayed) train journey with a guy who recognised me from my games writing in other places. Between drinking in station bars, I lobbed him my copy of Brain Training for him to have a crack on. I was horrified to see his decade-younger brain effortlessly manage tasks my withered cranium simply wouldn't have any truck with. This confirmed two facts. Firstly, Brain Training is a fascinating and unique game which Nintendo deserve enormous credit for developing. And secondly, I despise young people with their healthy cerebellum.
9. Wii Sports
Wii, Nintendo, Gamepage.

Dave: All the people slagging it off on internet forums for being too simple are wrong because that's why it's astonishingly awesome.
James: I was in Thailand last year where I had my first taste of jackfruit. It was amazing! I couldn't believe something so natural could taste so sweet and succulent. The next day I scoffed down a large bag and spent some considerable time afterwards rolling around in pain with stomach cramps. After that, it lost some of its appeal and it's all been in moderation since then. Now try attaching this misshapen metaphor to the Wii's novelty factor: the first taste is the sweetest, we'll over-indulge this Christmas, but this'll be long gone from our minds by next year. (Er, I'm not quite sure how to fit in the intense pain part, though. Um, Wii elbow, anyone?)
Luke: Why do I even bother? The Wii will spawn a generation of kids with arms like Popeye and that don't know which one is the X button. Which makes them even easier to beat at Pro Evo, so I guess it's not all bad. If this was out a few months ago, you'd all have forgotten about it already. Well, technically, it was. It was called EyeToy Play: Sports then, though.
Tom: I've still not played Zelda much. I'm sure it's wonderful, but I'm saving it for the Christmas week off. This, I couldn't help myself. The most significant game of 2006, I'd argue.
John: Everyone was dying to announce how this was crap. A free game? Let's tear it apart for not being Tiger Woods meets Virtua Tennis! Fortunately Tom has a great deal more sense than that, and in the face of mockery from people like Kotaku, proved about the only right-brained online reviewer on the planet. I've taken my Wii to Christmas gatherings, and the moment the Miis are made, Wii Sports has garnered queues for the Wiimotes, from both those desperate to declare the Wii a failure (yes, you Nick) and those who've never been interested in videogames at all. Certainly baseball is cack, but tennis, boxing, golf and especially bowling are all brilliantly fun, and ideally simplistic for encouraging all-comers to have a go. Not enough recognition has gone to the Training section, with its Virtua-style challenges, my favourite being the ever-increasingly large numbers of pins to knock down in bowling. This is exactly how party games should work, playable by everyone who walks past, unlike the ludicrously fussy Guitar Hero.
Kristan: Proof that the Wii remote isn't the complete waste of time that its detractors want it to be. I was as cynical as the next man about how well Wii Sports would turn out - and then I played it. And played it. And fell in love with it. If you have a partner, they will love it too. You'll play bowling in your living room and feel like there's actual skill involved. You'll play golf and have a relaxing time around the green. You'll want to hit each other over the head with your Wiimotes when the other wins. It's truly one of the only games that delivers on the promise of getting casual/lapsed/non gamers back into gaming, and delivers on EyeToy's social gaming promise in a far more satisfying, playable and, above all, enjoyable way. If this is just a hint of what the Wii is capable of, then it's destined to be every bit as successful as the DS.
Oli: Probably the most important game released this year.
Kieron: IQs appear to have dropped when discussing this baby. Put it like this: There's never been a bowling game which has managed to simulate the key aspects of the sport as much as Wii Sports manages. There's never been a Golf game which has managed to simulate the key aspects of the sport as much as Wii Sports manages. There's never been a Baseball game which has managed to simulate the key aspects of the sport as much as Wii Sports manages. There's never been, oh, you get it. Yes, it's because of the controller. So? Trying to discuss the game without reference to how the controller impacts the experience of playing is like going back to the early nineties and arguing, "Yeah, Doom is pretty good - but if it was a 2D top down game, it'd be nothing special." Technological leaps change everything. Accept it and accept this.
Alec: My girlfriend's better than me at Wii Sports. After five years of desperately hoping she'd start playing videogames, I've now changed my mind.
8. Viva Piñata
Xbox 360, Rare, Gamepage.

Kieron: I like the Romancing.
James: Rare? Are you listening? If you really are getting back in your stride, then heed these words: BLAST CORPS 2! BLAST CORPS 2! BLAST CORPS 2! Thank you.
Dan: These sort of life simulations flourish or die based on their ability to draw you into their virtual world, and keep you entertained once you're there. Sneaking in right at the arse end of the year, Viva Piñata wins on both counts, with the inclusion of (bright and colourful) sacrifice and slaughter making it a bit like Animal Crossing minus the unnerving Japanese furry fetish overtones. Plus, Horstachio. That's still funny.
John: Tom is so incredibly lovely that he bought me this for Christmas. Unfortunately it arrived at the same time as the Wii launched, and Zelda hasn't released me yet. I did play through the tutorial, and I'm wondering if it's ok that all I wanted to do was batter that stupid bleating woman to death with the shovel? However, my housemate jumped on board, and I've sat watching him "romancing" gorgeous creatures in the game's disturbingly incestuous breeding ground, for hours.
Tom: Not the best of the year, but definitely my favourite. Everything flows so beautifully and happily into everything else. The quest to win the interest of one piñata becomes the quest to breed another. This triggers the arrival of new animals. Then you realise you need to be a master breeder of those to get them. Then you realise the crocodile's grumpy so you buy him a hat. All the while you're trying to make the garden beautiful. It's a living thing, constantly in need of reinvention to match the circumstances. And so you toil, and sometimes it's a bit clunky, but throw yourself in and the sores on your thumbs are like calluses from leaning too long on the trowel, with beauty the prize. It's also home to probably the best music all year. It's amazing to find yourself lovingly humming along to stuff that you've been listening to, virtually on loop, for 40 or 50 hours.
It's the game, hopefully, that will stop people banging on about how much Rare cost in 2002. If only by distraction - I've never turned it on and been able to stop playing within three hours.
Simon: Capitalism never looked so freaking cute.
Tom: And I've got a dragon.
Luke: Yes, Rare actually made a good game. Yes, it's their first since Jet Force Gemini. Yes, it's full of funny-looking, colourful creatures, which means that I was guaranteed to love it even if it sucked. But it it didn't. Harvest Moon meets Pokémon meets Dungeon Keeper meets Tamagotchi in the most unique, original and charming 360 title to date.
Tom: And you know what? I like the TV show too. Fergy: best.
7. Gears of War
Xbox 360, Epic Games, Gamepage.

James: Namco? Are you listening? kill.switch 2! kill.switch 2! kill.switch 2! Nah. Doesn't quite work for this one, does it?
Alec: Gives me shoulder-envy. Also: there are far too many very small walls in this game.
Dave: Gears of War? Boring greys and browns of war, more like. I don't understand how people have convinced themselves that this is great. It's not, it's just another boringly gruff shooter that does all the same things that the last one did, except jumping behind cover every so often. Still, it's the most blatantly homoerotic game of all time, so at least it's striking a blow for equality.
Luke: I thought the release of Rainbow Six Vegas made everyone realise they were wrong about GOW in that it was just a bog standard shooter that looked nice. Guess not. WHERE'S THE VEGAS LOVE, PEOPLE?
John: Honestly, I'm the girliest man in the universe, and I'm secure enough in my masculinity not to need to play this. There's something very peculiar about seeing this running on a big widescreen hi-def TV: it's one of the ugliest games I've ever seen. It's technically extremely impressive, and I've not seen a console generate graphics like it before. But it just looks awful. A talented artist can create something beautiful using merely crushed petals and an animal hair brush. Take the new Zelda, clearly built for the GameCube, and yet so utterly breathtakingly beautiful. GoW may have the most impressive graphics of any console game ever, but the artists just didn't know what to do with it. Their attempt to create haunting ruins has failed woefully, resulting in a dull and bland world, a land without a soul. And to go back to my Project 8 point, once more any sense of playing the game has been replaced by hitting a button to initiate the next scripted animation. No thanks.
Dan: Just get over it, OK? It's an 8/10, through and through. It may be a gorgeous, visceral shooter that flirts with your eyeballs and hits all the right macho buttons, but the core "duck and shoot" gameplay is never going to be the stuff of legend. It is, however, an exhilarating blast to play - either alone or with friends - and that alone makes it one of the best of this year. How it holds up five years down the line, let's wait and see...
Keza: I'm sorry, but I don't get it. Gears of War is... trashy. It's gratuitous, brash, full of itself and overall a tad unsavoury, but more importantly it seems really, really simple for a game that's supposed to catapult us all into a Microsoft-branded Next Generation of gaming. It's fun, don't get me wrong, and unbelievably pretty, but I don't understand what the enormous furore is all about.
Tom: I actually rather like Gears. It's sort of like Wac-A-Mole, but with strafing.
Mathew: I'm not trying to be controversial, here, but when played solo Gears of War seems irritatingly flawed; with far too many difficulty spikes, instant deaths and frustrating memory tests. Yet somehow, after almost chewing my tongue off with rage while trying to finish off General Raam on Hardcore, the minute I did I instantly started an Insane difficulty campaign because I just wanted to keep playing. Most remarkably, though, the flaws of the game are erased when played in co-op mode. It truly demands you work as a team, much like the superb Xbox Live multiplayer. Online or off, Gears of War is hypnotically addictive.
Tom: (I love this entry in the top ten. What a wonderful example of everyone submitting their first run of comments separately and assuming they were in a minority.)
Kieron: I love it, but wasn't in my own Top 10. With all the macho-overkill, what actually impresses me most about Gears of War has been kind of overlooked. It's just the small details which generally improve the genre (the reloading, for example, which every-one will be ripping off for the next few years. Or its use of cover. Or how they manage to make "Run" mean something more than "Move twice as quick". Or how they manage to integrate a massive skill-set without burying the game alive in a hellish control system). Also, there's the sense that it may be the terminal point for that Wolfenstein derived school of shooters. In which case, it's a beautiful dinosaur wandering around, wondering what all these little furry things are up to.
Kristan: Like Kieron once said, some of his favourite games of the year are 8/10 games, and this - like a lot of my personal top 10 - is a classic example of how you can fall in love with a game while still being more than happy to admit its flaws. It's a like dating a gorgeous model with rancid breath - you can live with it for the good things it offers. Who could fail to be blown away by its cinematic intensity, beautiful visuals and simple, refined duck n' shoot premise? Even though the campaign mode is way shorter than an epic (no pun intended) game like this should be, it had enough inspired moments to make it a game that every serious gamer should play, if not own. Multiplayer gamers, in particular, can have enormous fun with this - though until it lets you set up clan matches it'll never realise its obvious potential. It's so macho it hurts, but I still love it. And it's still an 8.
6. Lego Star Wars 2
Multi, Traveller's Tales, Gamepage.

John: I would recommend a Lego Star Wars game to anyone. But the odd thing is, they're very temporary games. Playing through both you recognise the fantastic brains behind the design, every scene gleefully fun and silly. But once you're done, you're done. It's like a great cartoon you saw and loved, but you wouldn't buy on DVD. However, you would definitely buy it for your friends who haven't seen it. Oddly, this second game doesn't quite manage the depth of daftness the original offered. I guess this is a response to making a game based on films deserving at least some reverence, rather than those that deserve nothing but mockery. It was the irreverence that made LSW brilliant. It's the puzzles and cheerful recreation of classic scenes that makes LSW2 brilliant.
Alec: I thought I'd never manage any affection for Star Wars again after subjecting myself to the dreadful Revenge of the Sith, but LSW2 meant the healing could begin.
Kristan: Superb fun. Sure, pretty much the same as the original with more variety and better settings, but it just works. Travellers' Tales once again shows us what a quality developer it really is when it gets to work, and deserves massive credit for transforming a C-grade Lego licence into an A-title when other developers would have lovelessly churned out a trite platformer. Excellent in co-op, and so very very moreish. Oh, and hilarious at times too. Han Solo, what a hero.
Dan: An absolute breath of fresh air, the Lego Star Wars games have bucked the system by producing great games despite having two licensing masters to placate. Faithful where needed, cheekily irreverent where appropriate, this game was enough to remind a jaded soul such as myself why I used to love the galaxy far, far away. Charming, witty and stuffed full of fun unlockables, this is just as great as the first entry, but without the handicap of shitty prequel nonsense.
5. Dead Rising
Xbox 360, Capcom, Gamepage.
Luke: Punish zombies any which way you like for as long as you like. Capcom are legends in my eyes anyway and in Dead Rising, they've come out with the game I've always wanted to play. Stick Dawn Of The Dead and Dynasty Warriors in a microwave and this would be the result. Maybe
John: High point: Watching my housemate run over 2000 zombies in twenty minutes with a car.
Mathew: I hadn't thought about this game once before I tried it at E3, but the minute I killed my first zombie by hitting it with a pot plant I was sold. Sure, it's got its share of horrible, arrogant flaws (the tiny text, the save system) but it is the zombie game and the most gleeful example of the potential of the new generation of videogames. Keiji Inafune, I salute you, sir!
Tom: Dead Rising is a very funny game anyway, but particularly funny is that if you cut it all into bits (as is its wont, I suppose), you've basically got crap controls, crap bosses, crap missions, crap AI, crap script and a crap save system. The reason it works is, as much as anything, that urge to be in this situation. Secretly all right-thinking fat geek males want to be in a post-apocalyptic scenario full of slow-moving squidgy mutant-dead. It's because we fancy our chances. Holing up in a shopping centre, waiting for the cavalry, trying not to get shot in the face by the cavalry, trying to undo the Saved By The Bell plot machinations happening over by the popcorn stand. It's disappeared off beyond schlock and set up camp using a tent made of expired money-off vouchers. We wish we were there. Just as important, there's always something to do, find or laugh at, and for once it actually is a living city; if you miss something, you'll just have to play it again one day. Something that, whenever I let my mind slip back into thinking about it, I've a very real desire to just disappear off and do. GTA used to be the game where we all swapped anecdotes; this year it was this.
James: Capcom making our dream come true. The one about smashing the undead in the face with a frying pan, anyway. It doesn't matter that the save system was a little broken and the text hard to read on a SDTV, knowing Capcom's attitude to zombies, there'll be another along in a minute. And another. And another. Quick, hand me that shotgun.
Alec: Trashy and stupid with awful boss fights, but I love that the game Daily Mail readers believe all videogames to be like finally got made.
Kieron: It's hard to go wrong when you've decided to make a game about bludgeoning zombies to death with frying pans. Capcom didn't.
4. Final Fantasy XII
PS2, Square Enix, Gamepage.

Kieron: They're still making Final Fantasy games? How quaint.
Dave: This isn't fair. I've been holding out for the PAL version.
Kieron: No, seriously, what the hell is this doing here? I appear to have found myself in the midst of a nest of Final Fantasy fans. Message to command: Drop Napalm on my present position so I can wipe out this hive of villainy.
Simon: Reviewing videogames like Final Fantasy XII is empirically harder than reviewing film. Not only must you consider the cinematics, pacing, costume and set design, casting and acting, camera work and location choice of Square Enix's latest world - but also its interactivity and mechanisms for role-play. The game's brilliance casts bright, perspicacious light on the stagnating genre, illuminating and accusing the flaws of its so-called 'modern' peers and pointing to a future for RPGs that could scarcely have been imagined before its unveiling. Its building blocks are as old as videogame time but the orphan who made good was never such a magnificent or wonderful role to play as in this game.
Tom: Don't you basically just hit stuff and buy potions?
James: For many reasons, there's a lot of games on this list I'll admit to not having played this year. If I was going to, in an Amazon pre-order review-style, pick one of the best of those to rave about, it'd have to be FFXII. Any game that both revolutionises the genre and guarantees my obsessive exploration for hundreds of hours gets my vote.
Oli: The Japanese RPG redefined: endless, painless, supple, subtle, radical and traditional all at once, and proof, alongside Okami, that PS2 can still host the world's most beautiful games.
Luke: In essence an MMO with an actual story (and a decent one at that) for people that aren't quite ready for the seedy underworld of online gaming. The best Final Fantasy since VII in my opinion.
3. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Wii/Cube, Nintendo, Gamepage.

Kieron: They're still making quaint Zelda games? How quaint.
Actually, a great game. But funnily - much like Gears of War - does seem a little bit of a dinosaur. Or maybe more a dying art. There's so much craft in every aspect of Twilight Princess, and realising that no-one else is doing - or, to be fair, is even capable of doing - similar work, makes you think you're living in some, well, some twilight. And when it's gone, we'll miss it terribly.
They're still making quaint Zelda games? How wonderful.
Kristan: What better reason to buy a Wii? What better reason to dust off the GameCube for one last hurrah? What better reason to get back into gaming? In a year when true classic games have been at a premium, Nintendo's long-awaited sequel reminds us why we love videogames, and why we keep coming back for more. After an admittedly slow start, the game offers such a relentlessly solid run of fantastically enjoyable sections that you don't mind the fact that the game is so huge. In fact, a couple of temples down the line you just want more and more. It's a bit like when I really got into San Andreas - another game with a shaky introduction that just kept getting better all the time and understood that progression should bring rewards. It's less progressive and ambitious than Oblivion, but has way more charm and provides a timely reminder why linearity doesn't have to be a dirty word.
John: Were it released a month earlier, I think this would have had a chance at number one. I've never engaged with Zelda before. I had fun on the GBA, but grew quickly tired of Wind Waker. And for my eternal sins, never gave the earlier games a chance. So I suppose I'm somewhat influenced by this being My First Zelda Love. While the early fishing is unforgivably dreadful, nothing else in the game has come close to being less than great. It's a masterpiece of design, beautiful and constantly expanding, reinventing itself with each new addition, and while I find bosses a tedious and disingenuous farce, here each has been fair and easily passed. Hooray for fairy boys!
James: Formulaic. That's formulaic in the sense that Zelda consistently builds on a traditionally successful underlying structure: get the item, solve the dungeon, defeat the boss, fill a heart container, ad infinitum. The satisfaction of constant reward happily married to the Wii's unique control scheme. Best launch title ever? Of course, the question you're inevitably asking: how much will I get for selling a mint Gamecube version on eBay. Pah! Get out of here. You disgust me. (A straight £25-30 quid for a couple of years then a gradual dip in price for some period before reclaiming its value is my guess.)
2. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
PC/Xbox 360, Bethesda Softworks, Gamepage.
Alec: A splendid hybrid of the depth of single-play RPGs and the confused wandering of MMOs. Shame about the pudding-faced characters, though.
John: Horsey!
Mathew: A game so good I've refused to play it more than a couple of hours, as I could feel the addiction I had to living a life that wasn't my own when I played Morrowind starting to take hold. I might book a holiday and install it again, though...
Kristan: Oblivion blew me away like no other game this year. I don't recall any other game giving me so many possibilities at once, and allowing me to forge my own path - all of which I wanted to do at the same time. I really couldn't give a flying fig about the perceived flaws with the level-up system, because - to be honest - I didn't even notice. I was too busy wandering around this vast, beautiful world, going off on one fascinating quest after another and shaping the game around what I wanted to do, rather than the other way around. So much of what this game offered was breathtakingly well executed, feeling more like a grand realisation of what an adventure game should be in 2006. People should get away from the tired notion of pigeon holing it in to the "rat punching" RPG category, because Oblivion is so much more than a game about slaying goblins and gaining XP. It's a game about freedom and possibilities, and one that offers so many hours of entertainment, it feels ungrateful to nitpick. The 360's finest hour so far, and the best reason to own the machine in my opinion.
Dan: Sure, the gameplay beneath the shiny shiny exterior may not be all that revolutionary, and the bulk of the dialogue soon begins to grate, but compared to the enormity of the experience and the enticing freedom to truly Choose Your Own Adventure, this is a game worth making the next gen leap for. It's nerdy as hell, often overwhelming in scale, but where else do you get to fight to the death alongside Sean Bean? Well, apart from a Sheffield pub car park, of course...
James: Confession time: I still haven't played this. Perhaps I shouldn't have promised I'd get round to completing Morrowind first.
Keza: Typically, I have a fifteen-hour limit on games, even ones I really like. Nothing holds my attention for very much longer. My game time clock in Oblivion currently stands at 104 hours and I STILL haven't finished it. If ever a game was worth fifty quid, this is it. I love it unreasonably. But if I start listing things I like about it then we'll be here until next Christmas, probably; I've been enthusing about it all year...
Kieron: The strangest thing about Oblivion is how quickly its critical standing in general gaming discourse dropped. For about one month it was being talked in Best-Game-Ever terms but then, well, a disenfranchisement set in. That it's "only" 2 in the chart speaks volumes. The disenfranchisement itself was strange - even from the very beginning, its primary flaws were obvious (botching its levelling so allowing you to accidentally break the game, mainly) and widely discussed. But the when its standing fell it wasn't actually a backlash. It was just it falling out of conversation. We stopped talking about it. But even if it wasn't quite what we wanted - that is, the best game ever - it was still a triumphant experience and absolutely top-five-of-the-year material. And, for the record, about twice the game Morrowind was.
1. Guitar Hero
PS2, Harmonix, Gamepage.

Tom: It's no Psychonauts, I'll tell you that.
John: I dunno. Really? I just don't get what's so special. It's got a great controller, and some non-shitty songs. It's a dance mat in your hands. It's fun to compete against friends. But what else? Why so great? Everyone bangs on about RAWKING OUT, but I was over Wayne's World a decade ago. Meh, I'm glad everyone's enjoying themselves, but I'm left sat in the corner staring in confusion.
Mathew: Described as a "rock star" simulator rather than a guitar simulator, it's as true as a description as possible, as it feels just as superb to blast through "Sharp Dressed Man" on easy as it does to struggle through it on expert. Plus! When you play it on easy, you've got more leeway to gyrate your hips and posture for "the ladies".
Simon: It's horrible, ugly, rock pastiche - as if The Darkness distilled their mock 'n roll USP into polygon and pixel and let you play as them; the rawk cliché weeps from every bottle of thrown piss and toilet-themed loading screen but, y'know, maybe parody's not such a bad frame of reference for a game that has you strap a plastic toy to your torso and pose idiotic for five minutes in front of your TV. Guitar Hero made 10-year old Japanese Bemani mechanics actually work on a Western audience at last and, for further widening the boundaries of what mainstream videogames can mean, who wouldn't be ever grateful?
James: Nothing more than a priapic totem to masculine fantasy. Just as it should be. The kind of game that causes spellcheckers to have a fit, because it needs you to spell rock with a capital 'AWWWWW'.
Kristan: Oh look, another 8/10, and another personal fave. It may well be a simple rhythm action game at its core, but, my god, what an inspired peripheral? Transforming what would have otherwise been a mild curiosity (like Harmonix's equally great and under-rated Amplitude and FreQuency) into a global phenomenon, the sight of goonish individuals gurning their way through More Than A Feeling will live long in the memory. The track listing, while not initially chock full of obvious favourites, has more than enough big hitters and hidden gems that have now entered gaming folklore. What was more surprising about Guitar Hero was its ability to appeal to the uber hardcore at the same time as attracting the non-gaming audience, but rather like Singstar, it won't really realise its true world-dominating potential until it becomes a product you can choose your own tracklisting online. But for now, with its low-budget cover version approach and charming simplicity, it definitely goes down as one of the most important games of the year - and unquestionably one of the most effortlessly enjoyable.
Alec: The only videogame I've ever played with my mother.
Kieron: Where to start?
The absolute sense of pure joy which consumed me upon plugging it in at the start of the year, and how a whole day was just consumed in a riff-frenzy? How "More Than A Feeling" is so good that I somehow talked The Escapist into letting me write 2500 words about it for them? How I suspect it managed to extend my relationship of the beginning of the year by a couple of months, as no matter how bad it got, we could always play Guitar Hero together and lighten the mood? How it was the only game she ever completed? How it was the only game which had friends turning up after closing time, banging on our door, demanding a go? How I found myself playing against a man in a Gorilla suit at a party, and losing? How it somehow marries the pure skill of something like Robotron to the social lubricant of Singstar to the faux-fantasy-fulfilment of Football Manager (except a better class of fantasy) to the atmospheric immersion of Looking Glass at their best (always remember: there's Thief alumni over at the Harmonix studio)?
Oh, don't start me talking. I could talk all night.
Keza: If you don't like Guitar Hero, you have NO SOUL.
For more end-of-year excitement, look out for our Readers' Top 50 voting form in the near future.
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The art, creativity, thought, games design and love put into GH makes Zelda look like pong.
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None of my top 3 games even made it into your top 50 list. Not even Medieval 2.
EG and me are drifting away from each other.
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Some very strange choices.
Oblivion is utterley shite as well. Played it for a day or so, then realised that the developers had put in the most absurd levelling system ever. Also, everywhere in Oblivion looks the same and it has FAR less content than Morrowind (which is, incidentally, a much better game).
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And for once, I acutally agree with them on the number 1 game.
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!?!?
!???!
/dies
/comes back as zombie
Haven't you realised how crap it is after the first few hours?
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GH1+2, Zelda: TP and Oblivion are my best-of-2006
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Dead Rising at No.5 is the real surprise for me. mind-blowingly bad game IMO. Pretty good top ten otherwise.
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Games that put smiles on faces, can't ask for more than that.
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It was a backward step in nearly every way.
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Tell me now, I'm about to pick it up today.
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/makes own list & posts on blog
/finds out no one cares
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Edit: I'm a massive Morrowind fanboy, btw
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Not Gothic 3, unfortunately. Dark Messiah and Titan Quest, although admittedly at least TQ might be a bit of an acquired taste.
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It had better AI? After all the hype about about Radiant AI, it turned out scripting NPC's individually would have been a million times better for the player.
By spoken dialogue do you mean the phrases that all random npc's repeated(sometimes in different voices from the same NPC) or the quest npc's talking? One totally ruins immersion(not to mention just being _stupid_), the other is like 30mins of voice in the whole game.
As for more interesting quest design, well all anyone can ever say is "DARK BROTHERHOOD DARK BROTHERHOOD" as if 2 good quests make up for 98 generic ones or that Morrowind didnt have some stand out ones.
Morrowinds holds > buying properties
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"Also, there's the sense that it may be the terminal point for that Wolfenstein derived school of shooters. In which case, it's a beautiful dinosaur wandering around, wondering what all these little furry things are up to."
Good stuff.
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2 good quests? Are you sure we played the same game?
I agree about Radiant AI being overhyped, but you clearly haven't played Morrowind for a long time, or have some very large rose-tinted specs if you think it's not an improvement in Oblivion.
As for the spoken dialogue, did you actually prefer wading through text boxes in Morrowind?
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lol
Wii Sports is soo much better IMO.
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Although I'm not sure about the order, the top games do reflect my opinion...
Then again, Guitar Hero has no freebird or hangar 18 now has it?
Oh, and that screenshot gave me something of a recurring trauma attack...
Edit: Type-O negative...
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Yes.
I agree about Radiant AI being overhyped, but you clearly haven't played Morrowind for a long time, or have some very large rose-tinted specs if you think it's not an improvement in Oblivion.
How is the AI an improvement?
As for the spoken dialogue, did you actually prefer wading through text boxes in Morrowind?
Yes, I quite like text in an RPG, I think you're playing the wrong genre if you dont.
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I agree.
For the most part, because I still don't agree about the inclusion of FFXII, but who can deny that the unifying force of the Air Guitar as the single greatest experience of this year? No other game has drawn crowds round a demo pod like Guitar Hero has (Espicially when me and my brother are playing), and the perfect after party entertainment (well into the early hours of the next morning).
/tips hat at GH
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Main reason (as has already been mentioned) is, there are no effing cliff racers!
Cliiiiiiiffff Raaaceeeerrrrr!!!!!!!
/coat
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Surprised at GH. I play the guitar myself but have never been interested in buying a PS2 just for that. Maybe when it comes out on 360...
Medieval 2 no show? Poor show EG
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Its a game where humans are even dumber than zombies but who cares, it was an absolutely crazy, amusing journey.
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Oh well. Lists after all stay lists, they don't define the best game. Just what some blokes down the local pub scribbled on the back of a beermat. As long as you have fun with the game that you like, who cares?
GoW tonight, anyone?
EDIT: Btw - while we are talking about lists anyway - Oblivion is still the 7th most played game on the 360. And RB6:v is topped by COD3. Speaks for itself I would say. Source: XB activity of last week - MN.
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Being able to play the game like an RPG version of Thief scored big points with me.
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The first time I ran into the capital and seen how the NPC's behaved with movement, it made me literally laugh.
It's like they used Radiant AI to parody RPG's, but no-one except the devs are getting the joke.
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/dies
Otherwise, good list.
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Does it matter? As long as you are playing and enjoying it who cares where it falls on a list.
As fun as it was to read, it doesn't actually mean anything.
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It seems like a fantastic game at first. Escaping from the dungeons, travelling to Chorol (helping out the people IN Chorol) and then meeting up with the Knights and retaking that town that had fallen to the Daedra - This was just great! But unfortunately you just end doing this again and again without any variation in the graphics, apart from the excellent towns.
I just wish they had used more varied locations rather just coming with 1 cave, 1 dungeon and then just mapping 'em out D&D style. It feels like they came up with the construction kit and then just made the game with it...
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Rephrase?
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Dave: This isn't fair. I've been holding out for the PAL version.
So have I, so have frikken I...
Whoa they didn't half rip into GeoW didn't they?
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However I personally went off of Oblivion because of the fucking awful frame rate on my next gen console. I would have preferred loading times breaking up the action to the stuttering mess that could be a horse ride across open countryside. In the end, the technical problems with the game became too annoying to live with and so I sold it.
Hopefully the next game in the series will put the technical problems with the game right.
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Granted, that was a bit unfair. The trouble is it seems you spend all your time in the caves and oblivion realms
My personal favourite mission was one where you ended up travelling way off the map to find an old fallen fortress - Now that was a PROPER adventure! If the rest of the game could manage that quality it would have remained great.
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I think the chart shows well how good was 2K6 for the 360... I'm not so in love with Oblivion too but all in all it was a year full of great games for the M$ platform. Swan song games for all the exiting platforms were great (Zelda and FFXII in particular), but this year looks really like it was the year the next gen started, and while it wasn't nothing like I expected, I have to say that the 360 managed (surprisingly) to be so satisfying for the hardcore gamer in a way that remind me of the great times of the Dreamcast...
Let's hope for an even bigger 2K7. And for more PC attention from EG
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Tom: Don't you basically just hit stuff and buy potions?
Now THIS, ladies and gents, is a comeback. Bravura stuff!
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Reading eg:s (mostly negative IMO) comments about Gears of War makes me wonder if the reason is too upset the fanboys.
Given the game still got a top 10 placement.
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Not sure if it's Rare's first 'great' game since JFG, though. I thought Kameo was pretty special, and was probably the game I most enjoyed playing through since Rayman 2.
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EDIT: I just noticed that only 3 of those games are sequels too! Who says originality is dead!
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AON: I despise Guitar Hero, however much I want to enjoy it.
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Hopefully somewhere around the 291-292 mark...
Peej
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They added new content to the 360 version or what?
Othervise F.E.A.R belongs to last years list.
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Not enough fluffy Japanese creatures and goofy, novelty peripherals I suppose...
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or maybe i can actually play a guitar and have no need to do it in a stupid game? gotta say i disagree with so many stuff on this top..ah well.
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It was reviewed and released this year on the 360 and should be considered in 2006
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'There's something very peculiar about seeing this running on a big widescreen hi-def TV: it's one of the ugliest games I've ever seen. It's technically extremely impressive, and I've not seen a console generate graphics like it before. But it just looks awful.'
really? ugly? even if u mean artistically... ugly?
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There's hardly been any car games released this year on 360. You have TDU, and EA's annual NFS increment. That's about it IIRC.
There's of course a plethora of 'gun' games, but you may have noticed that in the top ten, we have 3 titles that do not focus on this aspect of gaming. No guns in VP, in Oblivion, and while there are guns in DR, you can hardly call it a shooting game.
What was your point again?
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Anyhow enough about a line that got old after the first time it was mentioned.
As for the list...bleh, not what I'd have chosen, but good reading all the same (apart from the afore mentioned phrase. As mentioned earlier, does anyone at EG actually enjoy GoW?
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it's almost irrational
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I do own a console, however I've had alot more fun from playing Company of Heroes, Dark messiah, DefCon, FlatOut 2, Battlefield 2142 and of course Medieval 2. All on my trusty old PC...
This list is BULLSHIT.
PS - Oblivion sucks donkey balls!
PPS - Peej, have you played 2142? ...and I don't mean the demo either. I think it's one of the best online shooters ever created. To think some of the sh1t that's on that list too...
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Nice list! They're incredibly hard to put together and always tend towards the reviewer's most played games. Normally there's a strong corrolation between these and the *best* games of the year, but like Lou mentioning TQ, there's those that fall outside and divide opinion. Or something like that.
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Chainsee you soon!
(see what I did there?)
Oh by the way, Lea said if I got you to pose for a desktop wallpaper, she'd sort one out of herself for me. So please send a nice 1024x768 photo to my email address and I'll pass on the goods when she comes through. Just dont tell her I said that.
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Gears of Wars ROCKS !!!!
2.GoW
1.Oblivion
Shitty Ninny games (Zelda) numero TEN
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Oblivion lol
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If Gears of War can't be mentioned without mentioning kill.switch (and really, aside from being broadly the same genre, and both featuring blind-fire, they are quite different games) I think it only fair to tone back some of the relentless praise of Guitar Hero.
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In short, no, and yes.
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I trust eurogamer mostly for thier reviews and independant journo (and have done for 6/7 years) but at the end of the day I read a review of a game that interests me, play a demo, then decide...strangly enough all by myself.
After all I'm a grown man and can make my own decisions, or so my mother/boss keep telling me.
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Wii Sports also deserves to be right up there. Guitar Hero should have been fun apart from the fact that, three or four tracks aside, the music was utterly abysmal 80s [okay, not all 80s, but still shite] cock-rock of the worst kind. Judas Fucking Priest? Please.
Zelda's quite fun, but I just don't get why it's hailed as such a masterpiece. It's all right, and nothing's ridiculously broken, but it's all a bit meh really.
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/strips
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The graphics might move a lot of pixels around, but there's nothing interesting to see.
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Mind-numbingly awful game. It was fun, for the first five hours. They you have to play through the first five hours again, and again, and it stops being fun.
Any game that includes a design that makes you replay the first x number of hours in order to be at high enough level to take on the rest of the game is just fundamentally flawed.
They had a good concept, realised it was fun but wouldnt last more than 10 hours, so elongated it the worst way possible. Silly silly dev people.
Then again I do know people that absolutely love going back through and doing the same stuff over and over, so what do i know
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Speaking of overating games because of hype...how many people are still playing Psychnaughts btw?
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My favorite game of the year was DreamFall, which is not in this list at all. It got a 5/10 from Eurogamer
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As always!
KG
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Why do people keep bringing up scores anyway? You can work out yourself what the top 50 would be if done by scores, this has more to do with what has stayed on, maybe Top 50 influential games of 2006 would be a better title?
As for Oblivion I enjoyed it immensly, but its not as good as Morrowind, which wasn't as good as Gothic 2.
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...and multiplayer still deserves more than 8/10! Haven't enjoyed online multiplayer this much on a console since........ erm..... nope that's it. Get online split screen with a mate and start shouting "he's coming at me with a chainsaw! Shit! GET HIM! GET HIM! GET HIM!" and how you'll laugh! HO HO HO!
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Did we actually played the same game?
GOW has brilliant art direction, and its a non-stop ride of cleverly designed levels with breathtaking graphics and imagery.
Does it bring anything new to the genre, did it reinvent the wheel?
Let me put this way: It is the best in its genre, isn't that enough?
FFS, it's the only game I've played to the end twice in a row, since Half-Life 2 or KOTOR...
I like EG, but sometimes when they get picky with a game, they drown themselves in their nonsense.
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As a story it was beautiful, but as a game it was empty. The disappointment arises since The Longest Journey remains my favourite game of all time, and Dreamfall didn't match it.
Everyone else - I didn't say GoW was technically unimpressive. It's technically astounding. But I don't connect with it. I found it ugly. When it comes to staring at art, it seems sensible to accept that one person's beautiful is another person's ugly. By which I mean, I am beautiful, and you are all ugly.
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/stops relying on EU reviews and lists from now.
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'ang on!
Was SotC released this year? :\
/tired
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Ohh I almost forgot about the factory in the rain chapter until Fruity mentioned it,that was fooking gorgeous and probably the sweetest graphics I've seen,as was the mansion mulitiplayer map.
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It's a shame they had to needlessly rip into Gears of War though. I thought that really blotted their copybook, and exposed the EG mindset for what I, and many others, have always suspected it to be. I mean, it came in at seven for Chrissakes, so clearly they loved it. Why all the venom then? Could they be any more desperate to come over all Edge and 'discerning', and declare their disdain for this "meathead, lowest common denominator American flag-waving shooter"? Their childish putdowns and tasteless diatribes would have had more credibility had Gears not placed so high.....
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I personally prefer the Vivid option as I find it enhances the colour somewhat IMO.
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Oblivion lol"
First off; Zelda destroys FFXII with one punch. Second, Oblivion is a great game.
FFXII doesn't advance the genre at all. It adds bits and bobs from other JRPG's to the FF universe.
Fanboys lol
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Guitar Hero \o/
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(Really loved GeOW too though)
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Perhaps we need to club together and buy you guys a graphics card or something.
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Yawn. Grow up a little bit.
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???
Surely Zelda games have to be required playing for a games journo.
Eurogamer = Eurogamer - 1
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If that was true then they wouldn't have made the incredibly popular Guitar Hero number 1, would they.
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Yup, I have the game. I play the game. It is a good game. It doesn't bring anything new the the genre at all. It brings some new things to Final Fantasy. It isn't as good as Zelda TP. Bye.
I'm not angry btw, just very tired and therefore a bit tetchy. ;|
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Uh huh, which JRPG did the battle system come from? Pathetic and ludicrous all at once.
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Fanboys lol!"
Please tell me that 'fanboys' comment was supposed to be in some way ironic!
What idiot would even compare FFXII, Zelda and Oblivion - They are all totally different styles of games. FFS!
Fanboys lol!
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What idiot would even compare FFXII, Zelda and Oblivion - They are all totally different styles of games. FFS!
Fanboys lol!"
Aye. there was a touch of irony in there. Some games are better than others though. Zelda is better than FFXII, for example.
Peace love dope.
/falls asleep at keyboard
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Yay for double standards. :/
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And Guitar Hero \o/ - They really are great games... sometimes get home from work and strumming away for a few songs is a great way to relax - and on the other hand anyone who comes around and gives it a go is instantly addicted and in love with it. But if I hear "I love rock and roll" ONE more time grrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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QuakeWorld is actually the finest online fps experience ever coded. No other game has caused me not to blink for 3 hours (this actually happened, it hurt like fuck when I did finally blink).
QuakeWorld is now obviously "old" and therefore not "cool". Nor has it ever contained flying boxes with forcefields, an big oversight I'm sure.
The next greatest online fps experience would, of course, be CS. This doesn't mean I won't be giving the 2142 demo a go some time and even though I've not played it yet I am convinced it won't be as enjoyable an experience as QW. No code written since QW has incited in me the same adrenaline rush, no matter how good the game.
None of this matters of course, preaching to the deaf and all. (winking smiley face)
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Sure, daedric bandits were probably a mistake, and yes you can create a custom character who sucks, but it's kept me gripped for over a 100 hours (on PC and 360), and I can't think of another RPG that's kept me so consistently entertained - due in large part to the levelling system, which (for me) preserved just the right amount of challenge throughout the game. Ok, so a lot of the dungeons look the same, but they are far from randomly generated, and if you get bored of doing them, why not go off and do something else in the game?
In a way, the biggest mistake Oblivion made was to keep the traditional idea of numbered character levels... naturally this led a lot of people to expect the game to have the usual emphasis on gaining levels, whereas in actual fact skills are much more important than levels in Oblivion - had they kept the player's level hidden (but still kept the system of boosting skills and abilities), I think people would have focused more on gaining the latter and worried less about scaling enemies, loot etc.
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In My Honest Opinion. Of course!
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Secondly, Zelda vs. FFXII. As pointed out, with regards to bringing new ideas to the table, Zelda has done nothing to move its own brand of action/adventure forward - and no, I'm not counting waving the Wiimote round. FFXII on the other hand has taken the RPG style it defined and developed it in new ways.
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Both Obliv and Zelda are better games than FFXII. Sheesh. Look, FFXII isn't even the best looking game on the PS2, isn't the best JRPG on the PS2. People like a game and defend it like their lives depend on it. Man alive.
/twitches
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Out of all the good things I could say about FFXII and the new things it has brought to the JRPG genre, decent storytelling isn't one of them. Don't get me wrong, it's a fantastic game but it had bugger all in the way of character interaction or plot development compared to something like Suikoden V, Xenosaga 1-3 or Tales of the Abyss. The story was good but it was very minimal which, of course, some peopel will prefer.
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What I'm trying to say is... er, I don't know.
I do wonder why gaming attracts so many fucking retards, though, many of whom are clogging up these threads. I think I need a less stigmatised hobby - trainspotting, for instance.
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Not if they review PC games for a living.
Now I'm all multi-format and edjukated, and catching up with such things. Stop complaining.
I'm on the very final boss at the end and everything, right NOW. Stop interrupting.
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Eurogamer have lost all credibility, man. I won't be coming back here. Well, not until you give a game I like an unfavourable review (like, 8/10).
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There I said it :/
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You did see the trainwreck of a review comments thread when Gears of War received a respectable 8/10, right?
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So either they put it higher than they think it deserves and let their true feelings be known by slating it in their comments (the Wack-a-Mole remark was just silly and insulting), or they put it lower than, deep down, they think it deserves and slate it to justify their controversial placing.
The negative comments combined with the place in the Top 10 suggest that EG are, to say the least, insecure about their decision.
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Also, I love Dead Rising, but there are other games that have eaten up my time so much more. It did'nt have any Live features, so its longevity is reduced in a big way. Although Oblivion had no online features either... but it was so sodding huge it did'nt need any.
Including games not released over here yet is an absolute joke too, Top games of 2006, on a site called EUROgamer, there's a clue what games should/should not be included.
Also, there are games included that gets slagged off by almost all staff members, but still makes it into this list?! Getting the increasing impression that Eurogamer does'nt have a grip on what it's doing half the time.
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An annoying list. They could have got together and told us their top 10 games in no particular order.
Following that, they could maybe have then told us of the other great games of the year, followed by category (not genre!) awards for achievements such as social gaming, online multiplayer, best handheld game, most original, progressive, artistic...
That would have been original, and would have let you praise GoW for its strengths without handing it any top awards. This list overall has ended up looking like a snobbish, amateurish, vague, childish, inaccurate mess. You've made yourselves as gamers, look stuck up and snotty.
Gears Of War is not George W. Bush. So chill.
MOSTLY nice top 20 tho', but with some junk commentary.
As has been already stated here:
Eurogamer = Eurogamer -1
Sorry guys, but so many of us think so highly of the site. But like Dead Rising, if you cut it up into its components...
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The most yawniest yawnsville of a game ever!
But it looks pretty.. so that's okay then...
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They're getting to be more and more like those loathsome and contemptable movie and music critics, who don't have a story or a note in their heads, but take glee in ripping apart 'mainstream' movies like the sadists they are. Yet they will unashamedly shower praise upon willfully abstract and art-house (and crap) movies, because they believe it bestows upon them a status and an intellect that displays discerning tastes, a hunger for high-brow culture, and other such snobbish aspirations.
All in my humble opinion, of course.
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WTF? You nerds REALLY need to get a life. Yeah.. discuss the list, yeah say "meh i wouldnt have put that game there".. But to get upset by it??
Oh fucking dear.
Booo hooo!!! My favourite game on my favouritist console got lower on the list than a game on that smelly console that i dont like/own.. boo hoo!
Get a fucking life you complete saddo nerd!
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Oh fucking dear.
Booo hooo!!! My favourite game on my favouritist console got lower on the list than a game on that smelly console that i dont like/own.. boo hoo!
Get a fucking life you complete saddo nerd! "
Best post all week.
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Not played GOW so i cant comment.. But Oblivion doesnt even belong in top 20!
Guitar hero does rock though! Even if a tad hard...
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Now run along and go take a bath, then maybe you'll get a shag in 2007 to vent all of that pent up aggression you've got.
Dick.
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Funny thing is, I dont even rate Gears that much. I've played it, it's fun, but I need something deeper in my games. I need to be immersed in some sort of an engaging narrative that I can care about. This Gears doesn't deliver, so I can never enjoy it as much as I do, say, Halo.
But few things in life annoy me more than snobs. Not just within gaming, but life in general. And EG's attitude to Gears is clearly one of "lalalalala, the hype doesn't affect us, meh". I expect more from professionals. I expect more from a site I once really respected, but in time has become more and more random and biased in its gaming critiques.
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Well maybe, or as I wrote earlier:
" Reading eg:s (mostly negative IMO) comments about Gears of War makes me wonder if the reason is too upset the fanboys.
Given the game still got a top 10 placement. "
/Awaits nobelprice
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"WTF? You nerds REALLY need to get a life. Yeah.. discuss the list, yeah say "meh i wouldnt have put that game there".. But to get upset by it??"
I find it rather ironic that you're getting really annoyed about people getting really annoyed. People are just voicing their opinions on the games, and the structure of the list itself, that's what this particular comments thread is for, or so I thought... let me go check.
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See? Case closed. Get a life.
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Why, because the EG panel unfortunately haven't played them all or been able to spend the time on them, so the averaging of the ranks would leave Tomb Raider in the top 20, but push loads of the other greats way down to the bottom.
It's natural, because who can play and love all of the best games of the year? It'd need a bigger sample of gamers to be more accurate, and not the general public, as it'd lead to Need For Speed and FIFA / Madden winning.
It look's like we'll have to take it with a pinch of salt. But it's a flawed list with a good enough top 10.
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Maybe it's PCs are less and less relevant to gamers?
Aside from FFXII (oh my) and Oblivion a worthy top 10.
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Says who?
Boo hooo!!! That nasty man smelly is taking the mickey because im upset that a game not on my favouritist console got higher on the list than a game on my favouritist console. I really liked that game, i want everyone to know how great it is to make everyone buy my favouritist console.. Then my console will win and I can feel soo much betterer about my life.. because i've never been kissed or even held hands with a girl, so which console is bestest is soo much important to me.. boo hoooooo!
Boo hoo!!! Now I bet he's about to say that oblivion sucks and the ps3 is shit.. boo hoo!!! How dare he!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!
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You honestly don't see the irony in the way you complained? Think before you type in future, that way you'll run less risk of making yourself look a little simple in the future. Spend the rest of the day blowing off steam in here if you like... I've got better things to be doing.
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I'd be well interested to learn about your exciting film star life. Why? Because it probably doesn't exist. What the fuck are you even doing here?
Tosser.
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Puts the tracklist for GH2 to shame, utter shame. Really, GH2 has no Blue Oyster Cult or Queen on it, for starters. I've said it before and I'll say it again: GH2's tracklist is too biased towards sucky American emo/grunge/indie bands. GH1's all over the place, and covers nearly all sides of rock with a near-perfect song selection.
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Keep your comments to yourself. Try thinking of something original to say. Too hard? Shame.
Live anywhere near Manchester?
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"shit we forgot........."
Insert: Medieval 2, shadow of the colossus, MGS 3, etc.........
good overall but me thinks you guys were rushing out the door to get to the xmas party.
tut.
P.S. Wheres the gears love, c'mon is it cool to hate gears?
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Yeah.. funny as hell isnt it? I'm laughing my ass off here at him.
Getting this upset at me kinda proves my point too!
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Not having it in the top 50 is just inhuman.
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Like how your console is the bestest thing in the whole wide world, and why everyone should buy your favouritst game on it as that'd make you feel popular?
And how its not fair that girls dont like nice guys like you, because they're not as interested in which game is betterer than another one because its not on their favouritist console...
Boo Hoo!
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You're the one pretending to be though
I have no problems with people discussing the top 10 (or whatever), but getting upset about it? Oh dear.
Some geeks seem to be taking it as a personal insult to their chosen console that one game is above another in the list.. That's just plain sad.
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>but I can recall you going on many's a rant
>against people dismissing Nintendo games for being "teh kiddy".
Thats because game geeks try to justify their hobby of playing with toys by only playing "adult" games. As then if they're shooting stuff and hearing swear words they cant POSSIBLY be playing with a toy can they?
I find that quite sad personally. I'd much rather that games didnt rely on violence and gore to sell themselves, and therefor developers might spend more time making the the games be fun to play.. And we wouldnt end up with shitty dull games like GOW.
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Some geeks seem to be taking it as a personal insult to their chosen console that one game is above another in the list.. That's just plain sad.
I agree in a way. I mean, my favourite game of the year, PES6, didn't even place! Doesn't bother me. The only think that gets my wick is the snobbish journalism clearly in employ, with regards Gears of War. Still, I think we all need to chill out a bit, don't you think?
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I find that quite sad personally. I'd much rather that games didnt rely on violence and gore to sell themselves, and therefor developers might spend more time making the the games be fun to play.. And we wouldnt end up with shitty dull games like GOW.
Remember that comment I made a way's up about anti-hype journalists being just as unprofessional as those that swallow it whole? Well you're doing the exact same thing! You're criticizing those who don't dig Nintendo games for the kiddy reason...and then you're dumping on Gears, a game which a lot of people consider to be the shizzle, just because its dark and gory and whatever else. Are you not aware of the irony?
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Nope.. Im dumping on Gears, as it's shit.. and relies on being dark and gory to make up for the fact its a shit game.
Boo hoo.. Smelly is slagging off your favouritst game.. thats like smelly is slagging off your favouritist console too!!! That must mean that smelly thinks all 360s are rubbish!! How dare he!! Booo hooo!
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Oh .. you noticed? Good show!
Wait a minute?? Highschool musical is on bbc1 at the moment??? Shit.. Why didnt anyone tell me? I'm off to watch it.. see ya!
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Clearly you're on the beer or summat, cause you're acting in a very flippant and juvenile manner smelly. You haven't played Gears, and yet it's a shit game relying on its 'adult' factor? Puh-lease. How much more of a blinkered fanboy can one man be?
I may not be much into Nintendo games personally speaking, but at least I've played Mario, Animal Crossing, Pikmin, Nintendogs, etc, and thus can qualify my apathy towards their atmosphere, styling and whatever else with experience.
I won't bother trying to convince you as to why Gears' gameplay is astounding (cos no doubt you are the sort of Nintendo fanboy that believes only Nintendo games sport good gameplay). All I will say is that your stance is kind of pathetic.
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Maybe I'm just not a real gamer anymore. Or has anyone else boycotted GOW based on that Mad World advert alone?
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I can see Guitar Hero 2 being well recieved, and I do rather like it - though not enough to buy a PS2 rather than wait for the 360 version. However, I really do get amused by Eurogamer's niche filling as one of the few voices of dissent against Gears of War's brilliance. Their opinion on the matter doesn't seem very well thought out to me, but they're entitled to it.
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I'd been thinking the same thing recently, about Ubisoft. Everything I've played of theirs recently has been grade A solid gold.
I'm peeing my pants waiting for Assassin's Creed.
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Yip.. Shame their consoles arent always up to scratch though.
"You haven't played Gears, and yet it's a shit game relying on its 'adult' factor?"
You really are a complete dumbass arent you?
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Don't let them get started on FFXII's story again!
It was interesting living in the comments section for a few days rather than the forum, not something I think I'll be bothering with again until next year's list, mind you.
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Exactly. I don't even like all their games. I'm a huge Splinter Cell fan, although Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six usually tend to leave me cold (except for Vegas that is). But you can never deny upon leaving any of their games that, for those whom the subject matter interests, their work represents top tier examples.
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All this nonsense and no one picks up on Smelly for saying that he'd rank his best game of the year below games he thought were less good. You silly billy.
Although not as daft as someone's getting angry with EG for giving a game a mark he agrees with, but deciding he's mind-read a different, more evil reason for EG's doing so. I love all these conspiracies. As if any of us have the energy to do anything other than just write what we think.
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Gears of War is a great game and up there with the best - MGS, Halo etc
whats the homoerotic stuff about??? - i just see big guys who have to fight big monsters - makes sense
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I thought it was a great, fun game, not up there with the Nintendo greats. But what it does, it does extremely well, it's just that some people don't like that sort of game and so will never like it. Where as those who are really into those games will love it.
I fall in between the two camps, as I suspect do most people, and EG.
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Personally I like Sony's first party efforts of late.
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Zelda FTW in my eyes.
And as for Guitar Hero?!? bah...
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I actually quite like DoC, though it's poor by SE's standards. SE are great at plenty of other genres too - Mario Basketball, action-RPGs (KH) and tactical games (Final Fantasy Tactics). I think it's about time Square Enix got the recognition they deserve here in the west.
And yes, Sony's first-party games are brilliant as of late.
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Gears is just over masculine. I hope you appreciate the distinction.
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Probably, yes. But we aren't talking about names here are we?
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DoC IS a good game. No, it's not the greatest FPS ever, and it shouldn't be approached as such. It's fun, playable, great to look at, with a good story and an outstanding soundtrack. Just don't expect to understand it completely if you've not finished FFVII.
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I'm not saying Gears is gay, I just disagree with the design of the overly masculine characters.
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In bully this can happen, in MGS it happens once. The rest of the game doesn't feel, or contain anything gay.
In gears you have to look at these guys all the time.
Get the point?
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As for the whole MGS being more homoerotic than GeOW...isn't there something mroe interesting to debate? MGS has actual real gay characters and that's great and adds to the story and character development and all that, but I wouldn't say it's more homoerotic than GeOW. GeOW features overtly-muscular men helping eachother out a lot. That's pretty homoerotic to me.
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Lego SW2 at 6???
Did Eurogamer get a 2 year old to do this article? they have come out with some sh..rubbish in the past but this takes the lot!!!
Yes Lego SW2 is fantastic and yes so is guitar hero, but they are short bursts of fun, there is alot more quality and fun to be had with alot more of the lower ranked games. ? GRAW @ 38 ??
Maybe change your site to Europreschooltoys seems it may be a better vocation.
Hey thats my 2p worth.
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The only complaint I have about it is that on the 360 they shouldn't have bothered with the huge draw distance, and instead concentrated on using the power for some decent texture draw-in in the middle distance stuff. Oh and the actors get well boring after a bit, and there are no plot forks dependant upon what you say.
Flawed but brilliant!
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Do we really have to have the same backlash every time someone makes a top games list?
However, as people have said, I did find the earbashing that GoW received a little more disconcerting than amusing, especially given the strong review, its high placement, and the fact that it *is* a quality title, despite the hype machine. EG's desire to champion the alternative over the obvious, no matter how well made, obviously still needs to be remedied.
I can't really pick between GoW or Guitar Hero for sheer fun factor. They're both stupid in some ways and are ultimately not saying much about anything, but then that's pretty much gaming in 2006.
Anyway, I read EG for opinion and not a de facto ruling on whether something is good or not. It's pretty easy to take it with a pinch of salt, no?
Dead Rising was my GOTY simply because it did almost everything it set out to do very very well.
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They help eachother kill giant aliens. That's what I meant. If the game isn't homoerotic, then why do they need to be that muscular?
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Hello? Anyone remember Shadow of the Colossus?
Does anyone realise how hard a 10/10 is on Eurogamer?
And so well deserved.....
Pah!
I sneeze on your opinions.....
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was released Feb 2006.
And.........?
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The PlayStation 3.
The resemblance to a George Foreman grill is deliberate for two reasons - 1) only gay men cook 2) George himself is a large, powerful man who - being a black gentleman - has probably got a really big cock.
The PS3's smooth lines are obviously made to resemble the tight buttocks of its owner's male lovers, so that they may caress it during lonely times, while its small trayless disc drive is clearly meant to conjure images of the tight arsehole of a young, innocent virgin.
Therefore, we can conclude that anyone who owns or is planning to own a PS3, definitely loves the cock.
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Comment on the actual writing, absolutely.
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Theres a little something called 'good taste' and 'bad taste' and I think that pushed the boundaries a little. Try to keep at least some class on EG, maybe?
AdamOfEternia,
I don't think musles = gay either. But having so many guys that muscular is something that just doesn't happen in every videogame.
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This is not a detractor.
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Like edge, music, movie and many tv reviewers (that one guy that reviews tv shows in the sun, who only seems to take pleasure in finding new ways to be witty whilst distroying every tv show), EG just cannot see thier own faults. They cannot see the fact that hating a game based on muscular characters is sad (but ok to like all the estrogen-filled j-rpg characters), or the fact that it's a shooter loved by americans (EG probably see them as the lowest of the low), or the fact that it is an ugly game (only a stupid person does not realize art is context sensitive. Not every game needs to look like okami, and the art must be in context of the game).
That's probably the saddest part of EG. They never seem to acknowledge thier faults or mistake, but rather hide behind the "It's my opinion. tralalalalaaa" card to justify thier snubbishness.
I still come to this site (I'm too used to coming here), but I just don't trust thier reviews and I can't stand thier arrogance and snobbishness.
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How he got away with it for so long is beyond me.
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There's that, and there's the trippy visual effect you get when you've been playing for too long and look away.
Best game I've played all year, without a doubt.
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Bizarre. How long did you play those two games?
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You really hit the nail on the head there.
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Now I see why you are in such denial of GeOW's homoerotica (be it parody or not), you're obvioulsy in some way homophobic. Makes sense as that seems to be the way of most Xbox users to be honest....
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IMO, the only real homoerotic scene is the stranded bit of act 2, where all the stranded happened to be.......men. What? women couldn't survive?
That bit was a missed opportunity IMO. They had the opportunity to do a terminator-eque scene, with children camping around fire tvs. It was a chance to show the complete downfall of mankind, but ended up being a stranded men's campsite.
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edit: I'd also like to point out that even though the game is massively, massively masculine (over masculine, yes), this means the game is open to female players like other FPSs aren't, simply because it's so ridiculously OTT that they don't actually feel uncomfortable slipping into the role of Marcus. He's not your generic FPS man, he's a cartoon.
VV maybe not that homophobic but your attitude towards homosexuality has the integrity of a viking invasion.
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.. yeah.. they shouldve spent more time making it.. fun..
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I guess there's a first time for everything then
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I'm not gay for your information and I suggest you learn to understand that not thinking disrespectful and tasteless comments about gay men are not funny does not automatically make someone gay. This was never really a debate anyway, not when someone is as immature as to actually think that " Gay men do like other mens bums, stating a fact is not being homophobic." is a worthwhile comment....
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... I am a fan of nintendo GAMES.. yes. Just like i'm a fan of square-enix games, and trackmania games..
Is it a bad thing to like games made by a company? Surely that's the whole point of playing games? To play games you like?
Now liking games for no other reason than they're on a particular piece of hardware, or whatever is a bit sad imho.
If nintendo did a sega and went multi-format (and that aint ever gonna happen), then I'll still say their games are the best in the world. Maybe then the saddo fanboys who only buy games becasue they're on a certain platform will realise what they've been missing out on.
But I make no appologese for liking one of the best game developers in the world!
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What is intelligent of "how quaint?" or talking about art without addressing the obvious fact that art is subjective to its context (GOW shouldn't look like okami)? Or completely disliking a game that has macho characters (like the conan movies, commando, rambo, aliens or predator)? Or rarely bothering to speak about the positives of a game they regard as the 7th best of the year? Or disliking a game simply because it got a lot of hype?
Trying to be the polar-opposite of americans doesn't automatically make someone intelligence. Intelligence is constructive criticism. In fact, automatically presuming american reviewers are dumb and illiterate is actually unintelligent and snobbish.
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Why not? Let me guess, because they dont have blood guts and swearing in them?
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I am one of the TWO MILLION people in the last six weeks that have purchased Gears of War for the Xbox 360, because we KNOW it is the best game released this year!
Just look at all of those dozens and dozens of websites, magazines, radio shows, and TV shows that have already given Gears of War the Best Game of the Year award.
Gears of War lets you do SO MANY special things that other shooting games don't do.
In Gears of War, you can do things like hide behind the back of a car for cover, but then push the car forward toward the enemies who are shooting at you; that way you will get closer shots and better angles.
Anyone who has fought a Berserker in Gears of War knows that it is revolutionary in terms of the way the fight is carried out. Berserkers are almost invincible in Gears of War; the only way to kill them is with the "Hammer of Dawn" satellite weapon, which can only be used outside, because the satellite needs to target the Berserker with your laser. The cool thing is that when you start fighting the Berserker, you are doing so INDOORS! You need to shoot the Berserker in order to get his attention, and then, just as the Berserker is about to hit you when you are near a wall, you need to roll out of the way so that the Berserker crashes through the wall and goes to the next room! When you do that a few times, you can get the Berserker to go outside, and then you can use the Hammer of Dawn satellite weapon to target him and kill him with a few shots. The whole experience of fighting a Berserker is AWESOME, FUN, and INNOVATIVE!!!
There is another spot in the game where you are on a cargo train, and you need to fight a Berserker outdoors, but this time the Hammer of Dawn can't target him. This time, you need to find a way to get the Berserker away from you, and the best way to do that is to lure him onto another part of the train, then run back and disconnect the cars that the Berserker is standing on from the cars that you are standing on! It is funny, because I actually had the Berserker run off the train while chasing me, and he rolled up into a ball of damaged flesh when he ran off the train and hit the ground! Marcus Fenix yells, "Piece-a-Sh*t!"...and it is SO funny and SO awesome!
Dude, Gears of War provides LOTS of replay value, because there are sections when you are given a choice of what you want to do, and who you want to go with in the game. There is no way that you will see everything in the game or unlock all the achievements the first time you beat it. You will need to go back into the game and make different choices if you want to unlock all the Xbox 360 Achievements.
My friends and I have SO MUCH FUN with the way you can try to gather all 30 of the COG Tags that are hidden throughout the game. Right now, I have unlocked the Achievement for finding two-thirds of the COG Tags in the game. I have found 23 of the COG (Coalition of Organized Goverment) Tags.
The graphics in Gears of War really are BY FAR the BEST EVER in any game on any system. The framerate is SO smoooooth at all times, and the lighting is 100% amazing! When you are taking cover, you can literally see the eyeballs of your character and the other people fighting with and against you! The lighting is absolutely amazing, too! Different lighting situations allow you to see different scars on the face of your character, Marcus Fenix.
The sound is amazing, too! Some of the enemies are SO SCARY and make such SCARY noises that you SERIOUSLY feel SCARED!!!
Everyone has heard how awesome it is to walk up to an enemy and use your Lancer automatic machine gun with the chainsaw attachment to just chainsaw the enemy to death and watch blood splatter all over the screen! That is true! But it is also cool to watch the people fighting with you do that to the enemies too! And sometimes both of you will chainsaw an enemy at the same time, and your CPU friends will say things like, "Man, that was nasty!"
One of the other cool things that Gears of War lets you do is shoot the enemies in the knees and the lower legs. It won't kill the enemies, but it prevents them from standing up, and it keeps them on the ground. You can just walk up to them and shoot them to finish the job, or, if you want to see something cool, you can just press X and STOMP their head into the ground!!! That makes just as much of a mess as the chainsaw does, and it looks just as cool!!!
No doubt about it...Gears of War is my favorite game EVER!
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I love it,
Snipe abuse and just blatantly troll away, its so much better to be passionate than despondent.
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I really don't think that's appropriate.
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Nobody is claiming it's revolutionary or the second coming. That's the one thing you'll hear time and time again even from those like me who are still playing it to death. Reason it's in the top 10? Same as the others: it's fun to play and it's solidly made.
The only discrepancy is that it made the top 10 and then all of a sudden EG rush to disclaim it! Why? Put your money where your mouths are for once.
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Damnit Load"$", the first rule of the forum is you dont talk about the forum.
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* On the 360.
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You can TRY to have intelligent discussions. But I find what normally happens is, lets say for example, I try to discuss why I dont think oblivion is a good game. I'll list all the reasons i dont like it, and try to open up a discussion as maybe there is some part to it i've missed out on and i've been missing out on a great game, etc etc.
But because you dare to mention a game which is specific to one platform, everyone automatically presumes you're "anti" the console its on.. And everyone starts going "boo hoo.. how dare you slag off my machine.. waaah!"
In pretty much the same way that SOME (not all) people on this comments thread are sulking because a game on their console didnt get as high as a game on another console (or other such nonsense).
That said.. this is no where NEAR as bad as it'd be if EG dared to put a nintendo game at number 1.. Especially a nintendo game with cartoony graphics and stuff.. that's the sort of stuff which'll REALLY wind up the kiddy winks!
If anyone out there doesnt agree that guitar hero is the most fun game of the year, then they either have no soul.. or havent played it.
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There are still utter dicks in the forums, but the level of discussion is generally fantastic. It's far better than most gaming forums I've seen.
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Eh? Wtf? Have you READ anything i've written?
I dont give a flying fuck which game gets higher than which. In my humble opinion zelda should be lower down (due to high expectations it didnt live up to previous encarnations) and wii sports shouldnt be in that list at all (and ditto to oblivion).. Hmm.. actually looking back, last year was a shit year for good games..
But as per usual.. feel free to ignore that above paragraph and think I actually care about all this "my console is better than yours" bullshit.
Just because you may be a saddo nerd who cares which platform what game is on, dont tard me with the same brush!
All I care about is whether or not games are fun.
I never understand all this rediculous fanboy nonsense and never will. I can only presume what with puberty and stuff kids will probably just grow out of it.
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Good show
Also worth a noting is daring to mention that GOW is crap.. That's always good for a laugh
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In short; GoW is good for MS and the 360, even if it isn't *that* good a game.
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That and Psychonauts and its been a great xmas for me
happy new year all!
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Loving the way you totaly miss Smelly's little jokes and misread him.
Keep it up!
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Now, it may be unoriginal, sorely frustrating in places, and laced with a delightful self-parodic homoerotic subtext, but it most certainly is not ugly. Nor even grey and drab if you choose the vivid colour setting.
Speaking as a level designer working since the humble days of quake, I was frequently astonished at the realisation of such gorgeous and elaborate architecture and design. The cornices, the gargoyles, the oxidised copper... things, the flagstones, the frosted corner windows, the distant forested estates, the follies, plazas and arcades. It is without a doubt not just the most technically beautiful game I've ever seen, but also one of the better artistically designed games of it's ilk.
But the other criticism stands
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Glad it wasn't TP though - I've had the game for 2 weeks and I really couldn't be more "meh" about how fucking SLOW it is to get into. So slow in fact that I've got absolutely no incentive to carry on with it. GAH! I never thought I'd say that about the Wii's supposed "killer app" but it says a lot when you'd rather piss about making Miis for an hour than get an hour further in Zelda...
Peej
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You know what this freakin article was full of shit and with no respect to the people's opinion. wtf? Pages promoting Sony or just against xbox games should have a warning cause this is pathetic. They could never mean that shit about GoW and tell me I have no soul cause I find quitar hero THAT STUPID game to be the best of the year. OMFG
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I... I don't know what to say.
TP is so good it makes me a bit horny when I play it.
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Some of the enemies are SO SCARY and make such SCARY noises that you SERIOUSLY feel SCARED!!!
lolololol
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First, a moment's silence for AoE, gone, but, forgotten.
Second, I enjoyed the comedy stylings of SexyBodyBuilderDude, and would like to subscribe to his newsletter.
Third, I enjoyed the word "n00000blers"
Fourth, did Gillen really inflict that crap-phrase on us for 5 days just for that bloody awful pay-off on the Zelda comment? *gags*
Fifth, I thought Gears might get a different place in this top 10, say 8/10?
And finally. I like some of these games more than the reviewers did, and also disliked some more than the reviewers did, and if it had been my choice, I might well have put these games in a different order. Because of this intolerable situation I shall actually die.
/dies
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Two words however...
Dwarf Fortress
!!!
Bestest management game in years surely?
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Whoa!!! someones feathers have been ruffled.
/runs away
@SexyBodyBuilderDude
Dude grow up.
Nintendogs is an okay game, it doesn't set the world on fire, and the dogs piss me off when they're unresponsive to the microphone to the point that i'm screaming down the microphone which you can't do because they don't read your voice patterns very frustrating game.
That game got an 8 (a 7 average) on this site and that game is being enjoyed by 5 million people as we speak and still going strong.
Did EG rate the game wrong? Shoul it have got a 10/10 because of the hype?
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IT ALWAYS HAPPENS, in every site, no matter the username I chose.
But lol to the big sexy dude.
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GC version if you don't mind the lack of no widescreen option.
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Yup.
(In my shitty way, I was trying to draw a line between all those sequel things which bore me rigid and stuff which is more of a tradition or something like that. I was kind of undermining my original snobbishness, and the snobbishness of anyone who'd take the "How Quaint" position. But I was drunk.)
KG
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I think so.
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I guess women do now rule the world.
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How quaint.
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I guess women do now rule the world."
this kinda stuff is such bullshit, you should be ashamed
but it is a fair point that EG clearly appreciate some vapid, uninteresting, substance-less stereotypes than others
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>>testosterone-filled muscled up character in the vain
>>of G.I Joe, but you're straight for
>>liking a a frail, prepubescent teenage japanese
>>boy with small clothes, feminine features and a giant sword.
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>>I guess women do now rule the world."
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>this kinda stuff is such bullshit, you should be ashamed
+1 Yossarian
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How so? Clearly no mention of j-rpg's feminine-esque characters are ever mentioned during many reviews (EG or other), but GOW is being laballed as a homoerotic game because it features muscular men.
Even in movies, the tough-guy action stars cease to exist and are quickly labelled homerotic, yet beckham and toby "meguire" (sp) on aothers are regarded as action stars of today.
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Also I'll watchout for article from "James" in 2007, the comments were just gold! And buddy, you're dead right when you say kill.switch v2.0 = Gears of the Year, only much much better made.
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I've always liked these lists!
Top games of the year then, eh? Well, Guitar Hero did define a lot of my social life for a long long time - going down the pub then afterwards inviting mates round for a session or going round to theirs to play.
I think half the company bought a copy on the same day - was madness!
And though it isn't as 'pick up and play' as something like Wii Sports is for non-gamers, it still brought joy to their faces. And that's a good thing! =)
I'm far more interested these days in the social aspects of having people round to play in your living room and entertaining them as opposed to the Xbox LIVE thing I used to love a few years ago for example that used to *exclude* my then girlfriend in her own living room...
Maybe that's the change in EG too? Maybe they're realised that yes, you can play alone if you want but you don't *have* to. And that sometimes it's more fun to play games while hanging out with friends, introducing non-gamers to your hobby, and having a laugh with them.
Both types of play are totally valid and have their good and bad points. I've started to prefer the 'shared experience' of videogames though, and I think EG has as well perhaps?
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Well yer obviously not going to get an unbiased answer to that one, as very few people here wouldve actually have played both versions!
The wii version has widescreen, and pointing at the screen to control bow & arrow/boomerang is easier/quicker than using analogue stick (As per other versions).
Also there has been rumours from nintendo about downloadable levels at a later date on the wii (although I dont believe these for one second).
But the cube verison is available now if you dont have a wii.. and it is a good game (probably one of the best this year.. but dont expect it to be up there with OOT or MM quality!)
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.. ah.. you see you have to enter the mind of the fanboy. The 360 has so far had a lack of high quality exclusives (considering how long its been out). So when one does come along the fanboys will defend it to the hilt saying its the bestest thing in the whole wide world.. Disagreeing with that is like you're slagging off their beloved console, and their choice of purchase, and then (due to them not having much of a social life and therefore these things mattering more to them than it should do) you're insulting them themselves.
They'll get all whinny and go "boo hoo... this list has really pissed me off, etc etc"
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I dont know if i'd dare.
Blind fanboyism scares me.. And I might get wound up and upset people..
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Well funny.
I particularly like one reply to him...
"3) Get a blog. Prefererably one on a computer not linked to the web."
Good one
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LOL Well done! Guitar hero? snicker snicker snort
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Really, though, EVERYONE disgarees with that list in some way...
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Oh and Mr. Gillen, please fuck off with your inane comments in the article. If they were wanted we'd pick up a copy of the Official Nintendo Mag or some other shit.
Merci.
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.. and yet another person who has needlessly gotten upset! This is incredible!
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FFXII, not played (yet! I will have you, PAL demon).
Lego Star Wars 2, Not played, though I enjoyed number 1 for a few evenings.
Gears of War, not played. Got a 360, but I think I'll wait for a price drop before I consider it.
Brain Training, got. Must. Get. Brain. Below. Age. 33.!.
Twilight Princess, got. Last dungeon, atm. Love it crazy, but it's infuriated me on one or two occasions with a few forgivable design nasties.
Wii Sports. Pro Bowler agogo!
Dead Rising. Nice demo, don't think I'll invest.
Oblivion. Western RPGs always make me snore.
Viva Pinata. Looks nice. Maybe pickup on pre-owned.
Oh, and I also enjoyed the word n00000blers.
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;o)
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Either that or a big fuckin' wind-up merchant...
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Yet ANOTHER person getting upset about absolutely nothing!
Boo fucking hoo.
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I won't say how quaint wasn't a little tired by the end - but hell: drunkmas. Get over it.
(* some of us remember when it was limited to to sending in poorly edited snaps to Gamer, or jockeying for yet another demeaning photo shoot.
You're making us look bad.)
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So it wasn't enough to make yourself look insanely stupid ONCE by giving this game a perfect ten? You had to continue pretending like this piece of overhyped shit actually is THAT good, huh? Swallow your pride, Eurogamer, just admit what everyone else already found out a few hours into the game: it's shallow, it's completely linear and the auto-levelling of your enemies is the dumbest invention since.. someone invented the solar powered flashlight.
Apart from that, I thought the last part of the list got a tad bit better than the laughable 50-20. Still one of the most useless lists I've ever read. A huge let-down as Eurogamer is supposed to be my favourite game site. Not sure now.
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O_o
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Say it ain't so! ¬_¬
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+1
Gears is rubbish.
The graphics might move a lot of pixels around, but there's nothing interesting to see.
You know what's funny? Every time I hear someone saying that, he turns out to just speculate on what others said. When I actually invite them to come and play some games, they quickly change their mind and want more (the last one being Friday in a great execution session with death gibbon). If you really want to prove your 'argument' give us your gamertag so we can have some sessions and then come back to us that it is shite. Or don't you have a gamertag?
But I guess that gears is the new halo, stamp on it as much as possible to look cool. Oh well, the haters are so obvious that it's rather sad imo.
Sure, it's not the best game ever, but it's without doubt the best looking game ever and the art is rock solid. And so is the gameplay mechanics. This game is absolute fun.
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Ah, now you see all this time I'd been missing the point. I didn't realise the list was supposed to actually have a USE.
I thought it was just a light hearted collection of some of the more popular games of the year, with some staff comment thrown alongside, all in the spirit of Xmas cheer etc. Its not like a rubber stamp that validates your DNA you know. You can still continue to exist despite the fact that Oblivion got a higher placing than Disgae 2.
Q. Could a list of 50 subjective items EVER match the preferences of everyone who reads this site.
A. Course it f'cking couldn't, because its SUBJECTIVE. So stop bloody crying and put on a hat if your head is cold. Bloody children.
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Oh well, I guess thems the ways.
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You don't play to many other games, do you?
And because some average bloke at edge thinks that it's the best game, it automatically becomes just that? A) Lists are pointless as they represent the biassed opinion of some bloke. B) if your logic is anything to go by, GoW would have won hands down.
As for those two games...they are both shite, play oblivion instead.
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I'm not upset at all. I just asked if anyone thought you were a prick, because that's what I think. You ought to try actually reading what people post in the future.
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I do play a lot of games, as a matter of fact. So, please, stop saying that as if it's stupidly obvious that other 3ed parties have as significant a fanbase as Square Enix.
I wouldn't call those who work at EDGE 'average'. Afterall, I don;t think there are too many people who work for a widely respected magazine and are paid to play videogames. I never said it automatically makes it so, just that it's a good indication of how good a game is.
Oblivion is totally charmless and just gets boring. I picked it up for PC and after about 6 days I gave up. I tend to prefer games that don't rely overly on pure gameplay and realistic graphics so I don't know why I picked it up in the first place....
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the poster referred to "innovative" features that are already in FPS games, in particular, out some time now. Hence my comment.
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Oh, and whoever wrote that gigantic love letter to Geow, please masterbate somewhere else i feel sick after reading it how someone oculd have such passion towards a game.
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So why do you think i'm a prick? Because i disagree with you? Or because im not crying because my favouritist console game got lower than a game on another console i dont own? Or other reasons?
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People will count how many PS3 and Xbox 360 games are on the top 50 list and start e-dick waving.
GTA and Halo are going to be in the top 10 next year and people will be pissed because they're around 4th - 7th on the list.
And last but not least...
Killzone PS3 will take the top spot and the EG website will implode on epic proportions...
.... yeah i was Joking about the last part... please don't kill me.
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- Does it count since it isn't out in Europe yet?
2. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
- I still say its shit. I'm a big RPG fan but I really can't stand to play it.
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Keep it going spacktards.
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Well I guess a whole year, and that it's been announced for another platform now..
.. Because if you'd said that this time last year, everyone would be calling you some sort of anti-xbox fanboy or something.
I agree though.. I hate it. Never ever ever have i practically forceed myself to play a game in the vane hope i can find out why everyone says its so fucking great! The only good things i have to say about it are it's big and its pretty.
(kinda like my cock)
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Thanks for this great input - this post says it all.
Happy New Year @all
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I'm still eternally grateful to them for choosing Psychonauts as nr 1 last year, it's a superb game and I don't think I'd have picked it up weren't it on top of the list.
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/hugs
Happy New Year, too.
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Erm, take a look at the comments you've posted... You just sound like you're a horrible person that's all. Are you a horrible person?
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Clearly ANY game that makes it into the list has merit. Does it matter what order they're in or if a few are missing?
Can't we all just, get along?
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It would be nice wouldn't it.
However, people take their gaming seriously because they are very passionate about it. Eurogamer used to be a site people could trust, with mature attitudes and well written reviews. They used to cover all platforms evenly and fairly with no gimmicks. Sadly those days are gone........
People here are just reacting to this and others are reacting to those people, creating the 'mess' this site represents these days. Sad really.
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People aren't reacting to the apparent change in editorial of the site. Its way more basic than that. They are simply reacting because their idea of a top 50 doesn't match that of the EG staff, and that makes them absurdly upset.
"However, people take their gaming seriously because they are very passionate about it."
Its not about passion, and its not about taking gaming seriously. Its about people not able to bear opinions that differ from their own. And when people see an opinion that differs from their own, they call conspiracy on it because they feel it must somehow be invalid.
I remember the letters in printed magazines fighting over whether the Amiga was better than the Atari ST, or whether the ZX Spectrum had better games than the C64. And you only have to look at pretty much any games forum on the web to see that there is immaturity everywhere. Its got nothing to do with EG.
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Yes, laughing at fools who whine about how someone else's ranking/taste is wrong by being different than theirs is horrible. It's like laughing at retards. Smelly, stop it!
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Right, enough of this peace and love crap!
/rolls sleeves up
Only yoking
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The point of the commenting option is so people can express their opinions on whatever Eurogamer writes. So, I won't be told to keep my mouth shut by you. I'm not crying over it, I won't loose sleep over it, it hasn't upset me. I was simply expressing my opinion on FFXII and TP. You obviously prefer TP and so, my opinion doesn't suit you, so you try to dress up what I said as being whining or something like it.
Why is everyone so fucking hostile on this site?
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I do play a lot of games, as a matter of fact. So, please, stop saying that as if it's stupidly obvious that other 3rd parties have as significant a fanbase as Square Enix.
My post was about saying how much bollocks you crammed into one line, but you failed to see that. SE may have a fanbase (being a fan of a company?!), but so do a lot of others.
I wouldn't call those who work at EDGE 'average'. After all, I don;t think there are too many people who work for a widely respected magazine and are paid to play video games. I never said it automatically makes it so, just that it's a good indication of how good a game is.
Still says nothing. Just another brand name that has some people writing for it. Just because it's edge doesn't make their list any more or less valuable or relevant. I read edge as well and think that they have some great stuff there but it's just another magazine, nothing more, nothing less. Credit is a ghostly thing in terms of the games coverage industry.
Oblivion is totally charmless and just gets boring. I picked it up for PC and after about 6 days I gave up. I tend to prefer games that don't rely overly on pure gameplay and realistic graphics so I don't know why I picked it up in the first place....
Great, so you say it's crap because it's based purely on gameplay? What else would you want? 99% clichéd, over the top film? Oh wait...
In other anecdotal opinions, I played oblivion for over 500 hours now and still pick it up every now and then. I think that it's great. Yep, that really changes the quality.
You like ff and think it's No. 1. Others don't. Boehoo. Does that make your opinion less good? Does that make other opinions less good? Does it somehow make the game less good?
Lists are just lists.
Oh f*ck it.
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I just noticed... Where's sensible soccer on the list
Post...of...the...year!
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Are you jerking it with the other hand?
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Do people have to swear so much around here? A lot of others? Sorry, but last time I checked into reality EA, Activision, Criterion or any other publisher/developer did not have as siginifcant a fanbase as SE does. Maybe, if you actually named one these "a lot of others", then you might be a little more believeable.
Still says nothing. Just another brand name that has some people writing for it. Just because it's edge doesn't make their list any more or less valuable or relevant. I read edge as well and think that they have some great stuff there but it's just another magazine, nothing more, nothing less. Credit is a ghostly thing in terms of the games coverage industry
Edge are revered in the industry. Edge have a great reputation. I still think therir opinion stands for something, given how experienced they are.
Great, so you say it's crap because it's based purely on gameplay? What else would you want? 99% clichéd, over the top film? Oh wait...
Yes, I want 99% over the top film, d'uh. If I like FF, it's not because of a long and thought provoking narrative complimenting great gameplay, it's not for stunning FMVs sequences every now and again, it's not for deep character development - It's for 99% clichéd over the top film. *sigh*
Also, if you want to talk about cliché, then you need look no further than Oblivion. And I never actually said Oblvion was crap.
You like ff and think it's No. 1. Others don't. Boehoo. Does that make your opinion less good? Does that make other opinions less good? Does it somehow make the game less good?
When did I say this? Why such drama? I never said that everyone's opinion is automatically wrong because I disagree with it. I never said that. All i did was express my opinion and then try to give some credibilty to it. Sheesh.
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Don't give me ideas. I can't control myself when I'm horny.
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Totally agree, BF2142 should be in the Top 10. It's the best multiplayer game out there at the moment for me, very enjoyable and much more balanced and enjoyable than BF2.
I also think Test Drive Unlimited should be somewhere in there. GoW is massively overhyped, a good game but boring after a while and in no way a classic. Yes it has lovely graphics but the gameplay is so repetitive and uninspiring. Oblivion deserves to be up there, I never usually play these sort of games but this had me hooked and I put a lot of time into it. Oh and GTR2 should defo be in there, without doubt the finest racing game to date anywhere. Suprised Splinter Cell Double Agent isn't in there, that is a really enjoyable and engrossing game as well. Even Rockstar's Table Tennis should get an honourable mention too.
Anyway everyone has their own opinions, as long as you enjoyed the games you think should be in there then who cares?
Here's looking forward to some top games in 2007.
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Games that are given a very hard to earn 10 drop under the radar!
Best games that have not released in EUROland!
A list that doesn't even make any sense because of the way it's made.
A pictoresque little game as number one lol! If you accept nerd simulator as number one, then pokemon, nintendogs, need for speed or even plain old tetris could be number one.
What a deliberate effort to put something quaint as number one!
What a crapola list. This is like asking a bunch of girls that only watch the news and soap operas on tv which are the best programs! Ridiculous.
Some professionals haven't even played the top games of the year.
There is even someone saying that he wouldn't put his best game of the year at number one, lol!
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You obviously werent around when it happened. EG got an exclusive on sensible soccer and gave it 9/10, but everyone else slagged it off.
Which led most people on these forums to start slagging off EG for fibbing or wotever (despite ignoring that maybe, just maybe they DID actually enjoy it).
... erm.. ah soddit.. i cant be bothered.
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360 allready sold 10 millions, it's here to stay. Just don't talk about it, maybe if you try real hard you can pretend there's only Playstation (my mother also keeps calling Playstation to my 360, but she's older than you Sony-old-timers, I bet...). Can we move on now ?
And (smelly and friends): do you guys feel hip to bash on a game that everybody plays, I mean... there are going to be sequels, lots of them for Gears, you're gonna have to look at it, whetever you want it or not (welcome to the capitalist world), and mark my words Psychonauts; Oddworld, and those great games are unfortunatly dead. May they rest in peace in your dreams...
This list is funny, like almost every single article on EG, it has an attitude and very little relevance.