The best video games of the year -- so far

Breakfast - 529 days 9 hours ago

Are you kidding me?

Wheres Halo 3?

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Lelouch V Brit - 529 days 9 hours ago

lol, Army of Two?, My Game of the year is Metal Gear 4, GTA IV or Super Smash Brawl.

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aceitman - 529 days 8 hours ago

read right he said this year so far january not oct or nov.

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TruthbeTold - 529 days 8 hours ago

Brawl not on the list = fail.

It may not be game of the year, but it is definitely up there.

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kazuma - 529 days 3 hours ago

what? army of two? LOL

how about replacing that lost odyssey with something else? like brawl?
i mean jesus mgs4/world ends with you/layton and gta4...lost odyssey isn't even on the same level.

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Kleptic - 529 days 9 hours ago

totally agree...GTAIV is the weakest GTA game since GTA 2 imo...the only real improvement is visuals (which are not that special relative to other games this generation)...and a decent background story of niko...

but same monotonous missions...same pointless cash system...somewhat tacked on multiplayer...and most importantly, LESS features than the PS2 GTA games (except for GTA III) for the single player games...some things are better...but overall, it just isn't as much fun for me...I finished the main story...and have no desire to go around looking for pigeons, going and hanging out with packie again, or looking for jumps that require an exotic car or bike to complete succesfully...

its boring for the most part...being done witha ANY gta game, and having no desire to ever get back into it, in a little over a month is something I did not expect to happen this generation...

MGS4 on the other hand...best game this generation...let alone this year...

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Steven Colbert - 529 days 8 hours ago

I know what you guys mean.GTA4 was a dissapointment but I thought that GTA3 was still more fun than GTA4.I even played liberty city stories to remind me what a real GTA game is.

Anyway Game of the Year has to go to MGS4.Or HAZE.Hahahaha Just messing.

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Dark General - 529 days 9 hours ago

I was wondering about that myself.

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TheHater - 529 days 7 hours ago

I have played and beating Lost Odyessey. And I must say, it isn't a very good game. Sure the gameplay was fun at times. But the leveling up system was retarded. After leveling up in an area, you stop gaining XP. which was lame as hell. The Story was boring until the end of the Third Disk. Eternal Sonata Should have been on that list instead of Lost Odyssey

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Dark General - 529 days 8 hours ago

See that's the thing i don't really like about JRPG's is the grinding. You have to stay in specific area's just to keep battling the same menial enemies just to level up. It feels to me too much like a chore to do than actual fun gameplay (for me). Yeah it's gonna have hours ontop of hours of gameplay but most of the hours is just from grinding over the same enemies over and over. I prefer a game where i can earn some stuff my first playthrough then if i want to go through again i keep the abilities/guns/equipement i unlocked from my previous playthrough for the next one. For me JRPG's is too tedious.

MGS4's gameplay is a bit on the short side of the spectrum compared to previous installments. But it still is a average length game of about 15 hours of gameplay. Yeah you can finish the game "in 5 hours" but it actually takes hours upon hours to actually reload segments you messed up on. I should know seeing as i beat MGS4 in 5 hours in 6 minutes to get the foxhound rank but i spent at least 2 hours and over 100 attempts trying to get pass the on rails section of act 3.

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kewlkat007 - 529 days 8 hours ago

Hey Jrpg's is not everyone's cup of tea.

JRPG's in general are suppose to be EPIC with Huge Plots/stories and Exploration that take up most of the game.

You could easily make a game where every time you fight you gain 1000HP's, were "9999" is maxed out, you would beat this game in like 4 Hrs.

All that grinding your talking about happens over the span of the game as you wander around new towns/caves/dungeons/temples and new Bosses. What you didn't know, is that in "Lost Odyssey", you cannot Grind forever, there are Limit CAPS for every AREA.(It forces you to continue/Move on)

And in some JRPGS getting too strong is a "negative" as a Boss you may eventually fight will be at the same level(at it's strongest) making it more difficult to fight. But the developers wouldn't tell you that. Really it's the Story that keeps JRPG games together and tha tis why Getting stronger through out your adventure is pivotal, if you wanna beat the game.

As far as grinding, you are not LIMITED to one specific area, they have much BIGGER AND BADDER Bosses throughout out the world if you dare challenge them to gain Levels. But No, JRPG's are not about just Grinding.

With a Great Soundtrack, Story, Visuals to keep it together all through out and a balance of ones grinding/ skills/magic/items/tactics is required to beat any Jrpg and especially Lost Odyssey.

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Dark General - 529 days 7 hours ago

I know those things about JRPG's but like you said it's not everyone's cup of tea. My girlfriend loves them but i can't get into them. I know grinding isn't just the same place but still it feels like a chore for me. I know JRPG's are all about story but i can't get into the stories either. It's strange because i LOVE anime but i don't like JRPG's (ironic i know) but i don't know JRPG's just don't scratch my gaming itch.

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kewlkat007 - 529 days 1 hour ago

I'm a Jrpg music nut...

Look at theHater's 5.2 comment, see not all of us see games the same way, which is fine. I beat Eternal Sonata in 24Hrs, and Lost Odyssey thoroughly in 135Hrs with one pass through.

In Lost Odyssey, the music was great and the story was awesome and the same as Eternal Sonata, but in Eternal sonata, it's action based and you could easily run past Monsters, not having to fight, while in LO it's random battles which added the element of surprise.

I liked that there was CAP LIMITS in LO because the developer want to continue the story and not become a BEAST after only the first world, then the game would not be challenging through out, if you were so powerful in such small amount of time, so it worked well as you progressed in LO and made the game difficult.

some Jrpg are too easy if you can grind FOREVER on the first area and go on to beat the game.

Diffferent strokes for different folks.

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Dark General - 529 days 8 hours ago

MGS3 had more gameplay than MGS4. It also had better gameplay throughout. As good as the last few acts of MGS4 was i still think MGS3's gameplay trumps MGS4's gameplay. Also i don't remember quite as many cutscenes in MGS3 as there was at times in MGS4. Sure the gunplay in more accessible in MGS4 than previous titles but it turned more into a shooter with stealth aspects instead of vice versa.

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Dark General - 529 days 8 hours ago

Yeah i agree with you. In acts 1 and 2 you CAN be stealthy but even Otacon encourages you to fight with the rebels. Act 3 was something completely different. Act 4 i loved since it focused heavily on stealth and act 5 is a perfect blend in my opinion of stealth and action. It includes one of the best boss fights and experiences in gaming i've ever had.

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Dark General - 529 days 7 hours ago

I know alot of people that feel that way about Act 4's robots. But they do give you a good challenge if you're not trying to get spotted. Also the ****SPOILER ALERT**** Boss Battle with Crying Wolf and the frogs required a good amount of stealth. I like how that boss battle played out it felt like a scene from a movie. ****End Spoiler****.

I didn't like Act 1 the first time around but now that i'm on my third playthrough i'm noticing just how many different routes of stealth that's actually available in Act 1 the same can be said for Act 2. Act 2 would have been better for me if i didn't just finish playing through Uncharted again and doing the jeep racing scene through the Jungle. But i do like act 2's homage to MGS3.

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Lelouch V Brit - 529 days 9 hours ago

jajaja, I agree

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karlostomy - 529 days 7 hours ago

from the article:

"4. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Konami, for the PS3): It may be more of a movie than a game, but it's a dazzling finale for one of gaming's most fascinating sagas."

there you have it folks... "Movie Gear Solid4 at #4."

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ThatCanadianguy420 - 529 days 7 hours ago

yeah and gears of war is now Queers of war,Just because i said so.

Makes sense yeah?

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juuken - 528 days 23 hours ago

karl, go suck on a big one.
You're just jealous that this game isn't even on the 360. Go back to playing Queers of War. You'll be just in time to play Queers of War 1.5!

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GrammarPolice - 528 days 21 hours ago

Sorry, just had to...

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karlostomy - 528 days 18 hours ago

.. and look at the grief i get from Nasim... err juuken and the rest of the sdf riff raff.

Don't be so angry guys.. lighten up!

If MGSiv is the game of the year why aren't you playing it?

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ThatCanadianguy420 - 528 days 16 hours ago

"there you have it folks... "Movie Gear Solid4 at #4."

That's not a quote from the article,that's the b!tching
of a jealous fanboy.

What really made me laugh was
"If MGSiv is the game of the year why aren't you playing it?"

it's been out for almost a month now,i've beaten it 4 times.
I play it daily.I love it just as much as the first time i played.
The online is intense,addictive and very fun.I dont need to stay glued to the t.v screen 24/7 to know if a game is GOTY or not.
Beside's if i did that,i wouldnt have the time to come on here and call out people on there Bullsh!t comments.

Dont be so jealous.you still have your precious gears 2 to look forward to no?

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silverchode - 529 days 8 hours ago

ive played gta4 for about an hour and i will never play it again cuz its the most boring game ive played. thats just my opinion thou

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juuken - 529 days 8 hours ago

I'm about to sell the damn thing along with Assassin's Creed. I haven't touched those games at all since I bought them.

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Dacapn - 529 days 7 hours ago

Agreed. Lost Odyssey? DS games? This list is a joke.

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