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The Gaming Vault's 2010 Game of the Year Awards

Today, we bring you our Game of the Year Awards from our minds to your eyes!

We didn't unanimously pick one game. Instead, we opted for a more personal approach, each picking a game that spoke to us and naming that our personal game of the year.

2010 was an excellent year for gaming. Here's to the excellent year of 2011 and the games it will bring!

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borisfett4863d ago

Nice approach. Good to see some good alternative titles in there.

Sidology4863d ago

What a great year in gaming! Every single title is worthy of praise.

And no sign of Cawadooty, either!

borisfett4863d ago

Quite the blessing, that one. =P

RustyMagus4862d ago

Most "big" gaming sites like Giantbomb completely omitted Call of Duty from their respective GOTY lists as far as I know.

Sidology4862d ago

With good reason. Giving that game a "Game of the Year" Award just means you're a dumb frat boy.

Herminator4863d ago

I really liked doing it this way.

AP4863d ago

Very cool imagery there. Nice sense of style.

xyxzor4863d ago

Haha, Michael's love for Platinum Games. Castlevania: LOS was my personal choice.

borisfett4863d ago

I like those games simply because they happen to be the pinnacle of pure game design. It's pure coincidence that they both just happen to be made by the asme developer.

xyxzor4863d ago

Maybe pure Japanese game design, but I wouldn't say as a whole. That's a bold statement. I gotta say the A.I in Vanquish was incredible though.

borisfett4863d ago

Yes, game design as a whole. They are the lifestyle forms of skill based gaming I have personally played in years, and will likely remain the pinnacle of their respective genres for years to come.

LoS was great for instance, but it has nothing on Bayonetta when it comes to depth, fluidity, and gameplay. They're not even remotely comparable. It's like comparing netspeak to Shakespeare.

Sidology4862d ago

Same. Loved Lords of Shadow, but Vanquish and Bayonetta were in my Top 5, easily.

Just incredible game design, no matter how short or difficult.

The controls are the absolute tightest gaming has to offer.

xyxzor4862d ago

I just didn't like Vanquish that much, haven't had the chance to play Bayonetta yet. It's mostly because I'm a sucker for content and good stories, I guess that's why Castlevania resonated so well with me.

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15 PS3 Games That Would Absolutely Shine as PS5 Remakes

GB: "With this feature, we talk about 15 games on the PS3 that should be remade for the PlayStation 5."

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kenpachi18d ago

You left out The Darkness games bring those back

fan_of_gaming17d ago

The head of Nightdive Studios has posted that The Darkness is on their list of games they want to do, so hopefully something comes from that

Yi-Long17d ago

Little Big Planet 1 and 2 deserve a mention, IMO.

Good call on Motorstorm, a game released 2 gens ago but still looks and feels so good. Motorstorm 2 and Motorstorm RC were gems as well. They followed up the Motorstorm games with the brilliant Driveclub, which still manages to put modern racing games to shame. Imagine closing down a studio as talented as that ... (!) Incredible.

A little 'arcade-gem' back then was The Last Guy, a top down 'follow the leader' snake-like game where you had to find and lead survivors to safety during an alien invasion, on terrible looking 'Google-earth' maps. Graphics were poor, even back then, but would love that same gameplay with modern maps and graphics.

Street Fighter 4, once it finally had a full roster, was quite good, but it was always an ugly game, sadly. Imagine bringing that back while using the current SF6 engine.

fan_of_gaming17d ago

Good suggestions, I'd be in for
LittleBigPlanet
LittleBigPlanet 2
Motorstorm: Pacific Rift
Motorstorm: RC

purple10117d ago

God damn I love motorstorm so much

At the time I had a low-mid range sony 40” tv, The latency to the controller was waaaay too high, would to play a modern version

In saying that later I got a 3d lg tv and playing the 3d motorstorm in my bedroom with the environment crumbling around the track, was something special, specially compared to what others were playing at the time, will always remember that

Skuletor17d ago

Some good choices here and Resistance: Fall of Man is my most wanted PS3 remaster/remake. Not sure about their claim it was Sony's answer to Gears of War though.

CrimsonWing6917d ago

I’d rather have sequels than remakes. Look at Dead Space 1 Remake. Would’ve been cooler if we got a new entry and it failed with sales sealing the fate of a sequel rather than just replay the same game and it fail in sales and we never get a new entry.

Remakes are great for things like PS2 and earlier games to really get a crazy new graphical coat, but I think we should ease up on all these remakes and actually do sequels.

fan_of_gaming17d ago

Yeah for sure, sequels would be ideal. But in the current market environment where many big publishers are risk-averse, I'd rather get a remaster or remake that a developer can do on a budget that will be approved, rather than nothing for an IP.

Inverno17d ago

I rather they remaster and port over to PC and current gen all the games permanently stuck on PS360. Those games don't need remakes, they need to be given a chance to live again outside of their confined consoles and then give a few proper sequels. Like Sleeping Dogs, Motor Storm, LA Noir, should get another entry.

fan_of_gaming17d ago

Yeah I'd be fine with remasters of PS3 games too, they don't have to be remakes.

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Ex-Rockstar Dev Finally Explains Why Small Planes Randomly Crashed in GTA San Andreas

Former Rockstar Games Technical Director Obbe Vermeij has finally revealed why some planes would randomly crash in GTA: San Andreas.

Profchaos22d ago

This fly by feature was on the cutting room floor due to the random plane crashes and it's one of those things I'm so thankful made it into the final version as these random fly by and crashes make the world seem more alive on the extremely limited PS2 hardware you needed everything you could possibly get in a open world to convey that feeling.

And accross hundreds of hours of gameplay I probably died around 3 times as a result of these fly by failures but I loved every time it happened

isarai22d ago (Edited 22d ago )

It made the world feel more human, and honestly kinda insane that even today with all these open world games, almost no one can capture that like R* even when compared to their ps2 games

Skuletor21d ago

Lol, I remember those. I vaguely remember dying from one crashing into my car once too.

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The 7 Best Western RPGs: Immersive Adventures

RPGs are often huge, sprawling endeavours. With limited playtime, we have to choose wisely, so here's the best western RPGs available today.

SimpleSlave23d ago

"I started playing games yesterday" the List... Meh!

How about a few RPGs that deserve some love instead?
1 - Alpha Protocol - Now on GOG
2 - else Heart.Break()
3 - Shadowrun Trilogy
4 - Wasteland 2
5 - UnderRail
6 - Tyranny
7 - Torment: Tides of Numenera

And for a bonus game that flew under the radar:
8 - Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden

DustMan23d ago

Loved Alpha Protocol in all it's glorious jank. Great game.

SimpleSlave22d ago (Edited 22d ago )

Not only glorious jank, but the idea that the story can completely change depending on what you do, or say, or side with, makes it one of the most forward thinking games ever. The amount of story permutation is the equivalent of a Hitman level but in Story Form. And it wasn't just that the story changed, no, it was that you met completely new characters, or missed them, depending on your choices. Made Mass Effect feel static in comparison.

Alpha Protocol was absolutely glorious, indeed. And it was, and still is, more Next Gen than most anything out there these days. In this regard at least.

Pity.