Is XCOM really buggier than AC3? Not that AC3 has any chance of being their goty. It'll either be TWD or XCOM.
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Is XCOM really buggier than AC3? Not that AC3 has any chance of being their goty. It'll either be TWD or XCOM.
slightconfuse
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Wait why was york not best character. unless he lost to mordin there is no other option
I hate how they decide which game is the final goty as all they do is shit on the other title rather than praise the games merits. Skyrim vs Saints Row 3 made neither game sound that good as all they did was bitch.
slightconfuse
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what is with the bastion hate. i thought it was a fun game to play, with a great art style. plus an amazing soundtrack to boot.
brianmcdoogle
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The walking dead is going to get knocked out early, you guys. It is not going to get runner-up. They're going to recognize the fact that while they enjoyed the game, as did I, it isn't so much of a game as it is just a story. There were better "games" out this year. Jeff is going to be presenting this argument almost assuredly since he focuses on how games play, and not just their story aspects. Remember, he completely dismissed any sort of story aspects of red dead redemption and basically wrote off the entire game.
That's a good point. In hindsight, listening to that final debate made me want to play neither Skyrim nor Saints Row.
He loves zombie fiction though.
It was a pretty good game, not GotY though. If I had my way, everyone would put Dark Souls as GotY.
brianmcdoogle
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Brad, who is THE WORST MEMBER OF GIANTBOMB, completely stonewalled the discussion of York being best character, when it appeared that Jeff, Vinny, and Ryan were all ready to crown him best character; Brad probably did this because he is horrible at video games and almost screwed up the ending of Deadly Premonition so bad that he barely, BARELY, finished the game.
I love ya, Brad! just trying to get a rise out of you!
Nah, you've got a point there. XCOM is pretty buggy, but it doesn't have anything on the level of AC3 bug vids I've seen.
Walking Dead will get stonewalled by Jeff most likely.
John Rabbit
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everyone knows the only list to watch for is caravella-san's.
and dave's.
vinny played and finished binary domain right?
and dave's.
vinny played and finished binary domain right?
If I had my way Yakuza 4 would have been 2011 GOTY and Xenoblade Chronicles for 2012. The likelihood of Xenoblade being mentioned by the Gisntbomb crew is highly unlikely
brianmcdoogle
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York then mordin is the right choice.
TheShampion
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Asura's Wrath doesn't deserve shit. The Asura's Wrath ending DLC, on the other hand, deserves the DLC of the year award. Though, how horrible it is that they made the ending DLC may disqualify it.
TriangleOfCorruption
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everything is equal amounts of game
If I had my way Yakuza 4 would have been 2011 GOTY and Xenoblade Chronicles for 2012. The likelihood of Xenoblade being mentioned by the Gisntbomb crew is highly unlikely
Wow, totally forgot about Xenoblade. I keep putting that game off because of school, but it definitely deserves some consideration.
Has anyone at Giant Bomb played it?
John Rabbit
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any guesses for 2012's 2011 GOTY?
i can't think of any game that's maintained a strong presence this year from 2011. maybe SR3 with the DLC? but they all seemed to think none of it was very good.
i can't think of any game that's maintained a strong presence this year from 2011. maybe SR3 with the DLC? but they all seemed to think none of it was very good.
firehawk12
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slightconfuse
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Mario 3d Land most likely
ItWasMeantToBe19
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Xenoblade was probably the best game released this year and it was super inventive as well, but I doubt it wins any awards from the western media considering how few reviews it got.
Giantbomb didn't even review it.
Giantbomb didn't even review it.
firehawk12
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Patrick and Brad are probably the only ones that are remotely interested in JRPGs and they don't really play them much either. lol
Be glad that they did a QL of Dead Souls and Xenoblade at all.
Amnesia maybe?
I don't think he really started it and only spent an hour or two with it. It's an extremely long game and I don't think any of them would have had the time.
In regards to The Last Story they made no mention of playing it at all.
That. It's the only one from 2011 that's been played recently.
XCOM is MUCH buggier than AC3 and they are progress blocking bugs (at times). I still find it amazing that it hasn't been patched yet.
XCOM was a great game, but the things that stick out the most to me are the crippling bugs which forced me to reload saves or kill ironman campaigns.
The only thing AC3 makes me want is an open world pirate game. Because man, defying all odds, the privateer stuff in that game is the best.
Man, I hated Xenoblade so much...The last 4 hours of that game are atrocious.
Trackmania? Maybe Skyrim? They talked about that game a bunch earlier in the year.
It should be Dark Souls.
firehawk12
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Sid Meier already made that game. Heck, they did a remake of it!
I think Patrick got into it a fair amount? I don't recall to be honest.
And yeah, I guess a Sakaguchi JRPG doesn't really mean anything anymore.
Although, to be fair, we got the Brono Trigger Endurance Run. lol
Blame NoA for releasing it when most people had already boxed up their Wii's.
John Rabbit
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i mean if there's any justice it should be dark souls: prepare to durante edition.
but there is no justice.
But I want it to look like AC3...only without the Turok fog...
MAN the caribbean stuff in AC3 is pretty.
brianmcdoogle
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ItWasMeantToBe19
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What? The last four hours are pretty similar to the rest of the game but with more interesting encounters and enemy design once you get past the level spike (and there's areas to go to and enemies to kill to get up to speed).
Definitely.
booooooooooooooooooo............
Boo you. I love that ER. Way more than either Deadly Premonition run.
Yeaaah...that got canned, didn't it? Kinda wish they just took all the assets from that and released it under a different name. But you know...that's why you don't work with Disney.
I'd say the fighting game of the year category would be interesting. But it won't be.
The last 4 hours of Xenoblade is fighting massive enemies with positional weakspots on super narrow platforms, which if you fall off you die. That's fucking bullshit. And god help you if you go right to the end boss after the point of no return, because you're going to get fucking owned by his 4 fucking forms unless you power level for 4 more hours. Ugh.
I was hoping that there would be a really nice pay off for the amount of anime bullshit that's in that game. It's like they took every weakness the combat system has and stacked it at the end.
slightconfuse
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I think it might be a grab bag TNT if I remember correctly
God I hope so. I want that game to be good so badly.
Yep. I find their GOTY podcasts unbearable, it's just a bitch fest. They're all stressed out about something that's completely meaningless.
Just talk about the games you liked and why you liked them, or the games that disappointed you or whatever the category is. There's no need to try to pick one game to represent the opinions of four different people.
RomanticHeroX
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That's why they have the individual lists.
Antiwhippy
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They do that already.
They do lists, I think it would be cool to have some good discussion as group to go along with them instead of the pissing contest they currently have.
For example, last year could have had a podcast where they fondly look back on games like Saints Row 3 or Skyrim and discuss the positive (or negative) impact each of these left on them. Instead we got a bunch of shitty arguments trying to prove one was better than the other. I know there's an audience that eats that shit up, but I find it disappointing. It also makes no sense for a small and personality focused site like Giantbomb.
More positivity would be nice. I'm not sure who's benefiting from the pissing matches you mentioned. People still shit on Brad for the BS2 DLC thing, these argument certainly stay with people it appears.
Dark Souls PC is my GOTY. I know it won't even get a mention on GB since only Vinny likes good games that don't hold your hand.
Im guessing Brad will push for Journey. Everyone will nominate Walking Dead except Jeff. Vinny will mention Sleeping Dogs. Patrick will dismissively say that it was better than expected but not worth mentioning.
Everyone loves XCOM but it will be overlooked because of bugs and "being hard".
Finally they will settle on something really dumb like BLOPS 2.
Im guessing Brad will push for Journey. Everyone will nominate Walking Dead except Jeff. Vinny will mention Sleeping Dogs. Patrick will dismissively say that it was better than expected but not worth mentioning.
Everyone loves XCOM but it will be overlooked because of bugs and "being hard".
Finally they will settle on something really dumb like BLOPS 2.
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