Giantbomb GOTY 2012 Thread: Videos, Top 10's, and podcasts lots and lots of podcasts.
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This is true, and others are free to deconstruct his picks. We'll see what the whole list looks like, but I personally couldn't more strongly disagree with ME3 as his choice for GOTY. I appreciate an honest assessment from a reviewer because it tells me how much weight to give their opinions.
We had a thread about it.
Ventilaator
Banned
If you're gonna make people agree that ME3 is GOTY by reading them a paragraph of text, you should get into politics.
I am not sure he's trying anyone to make them agree with him, that's not the point of personal GOTY.
Someone may need to correct me, but I think day one is the only podcast that's free of WD spoilers. Days two and five are definitely the most dangerous.
I am listening to it now and it had stuff about it (at least around the 50 minute mark and earlier a bit). I forget where it starts though.
Felix Lighter
Member
Not finishing The Walking Dead yet was a huge mistake that I knew was coming.
Day 1 has major spoilers too.
As pointed out already, you've completely missed the point of the personal top 10 lists if you think that's my intent.
Felix Lighter
Member
There's a story but there's not much to be spoilered from my point of view.
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thepotatoman
Unconfirmed Member
I said this about the giant bomb crew a month ago:
Jeff is gameplay mechicanics
Vinney is imersive experience
Brad is big budget grandeur
Patrick and Ryan is creativity and novelty
Alex Nevario is story
Is it any surprise that Brad gave his GotY to the only big budget game that is any good at all this year?
Jeff is gameplay mechicanics
Vinney is imersive experience
Brad is big budget grandeur
Patrick and Ryan is creativity and novelty
Alex Nevario is story
Is it any surprise that Brad gave his GotY to the only big budget game that is any good at all this year?
nckillthegrimace
Member
Spoiler for one of the categories:
Fucking Double Dragon under Best Retro Revival as a runner-up instead of Kid Icarus is beyond shameful.
Ventilaator
Banned
This isn't about catering to anyone. It's about a critic essentially making the statement that it's okay to clean up your story with paid DLC 6 months after everyone has played it, you won't be penalised. That should bother a veteran game critic enough to not give it their personal GOTY.
However, all of that is moot if he says during his Top 10 that ME3 would have been No.1 for him regardless of all the post-release stuff. In which case, fair play, he liked it.
Get a few hours free and some Prozac and you're set to finish it quickly.
Typographenia
Member
You guys did a great job. Your space marine performance brought a tear to my eye.
I was never someone that was actually angry at bioware, despite all of my serious complaints with ME3. That said, after watching that leviathin stuff, up yours bioware. It doesn't fix the overwhelming majority of the things I disliked about the game, but holy crap. How is this something that came out so long after the fact and talks about such weighty topics? I am almost in utter disbelief. Geez.
I agree with Patrick that this had to be almost entirely reactionary, but even so...
edit:
I don't need to understand why you think things, just to know that you think them wronger than me.
You'll probably have to reassess your idea of my tastes after you see the rest of my list.
Wat.
Ducky and Carly dying, and exactly how,
edit: TWD, I mean...
I love the Office parody from the first ten minutes, had to skip Brad's pick since I haven't even finished Mass Effect 3 yet (I'm thinking of getting the Omega DLC but I'm hearing it doesn't add that much to the game).
Still...The Office parody would be even more perfect with Vinny wearing Aviator shades and randomly high fiving people.
Still...The Office parody would be even more perfect with Vinny wearing Aviator shades and randomly high fiving people.
Borderlands 2 and BLOPS 2 were light years ahead of ME3. "Dudebro" BLOPS 2 even surpassed ME3 when it came to player choices making an impact on story outcome.
That's fine.
There's no reason why I can't enjoy your work but also think you are bonkers when it comes to ME3 not being a gigantic bucket of diarrhea dumped on the fans of the series.
Typographenia
Member
Brad's all about those downloads, c'mon son.
Knux-Future
Banned
It's Brad's GOTY.
How the fuck can you tell him that he's wrong about his own personal GOTY?
the fuq?
How the fuck can you tell him that he's wrong about his own personal GOTY?
the fuq?
Patrick's more like indie game connoisseur. I don't know what Ryan's is like though, that eludes me.
Kazuma Kiryu
Member
gaf is always able to tell someone how wrong their opinion is.
HamPster PamPster
Member
Day 1 recap was fantastic
Great job
Great job
Isn't that the point of opinion? To debate and discuss? Because someone opines something doesn't mean they can't be challenged on it.
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
Eh. Jeff's is spot on but Brad's is questionable. Doesn't really explain his love of stuff like Flower.
Knux-Future
Banned
It's one of the worst things about this forum sometimes.
"oh you enjoy that? You are wrong, that thing is shite".
gaf will always tell someone they're not allowed to argue against someone
I don't think judging Brad's taste in video games is debate or discussion.
gaf will always tell gaf what gaf always does to gaf
Knux-Future
Banned
Challenge it all you want but don't tell him that he's wrong to have enjoyed or that he has bad taste it just because you don't.
I get that it's part of a debate but when his opinion is called trash because of your opinions, what the fuck is the point? That's not a debate at all.
He enjoyed ME3 the most of all games this year. It was his GOTY. Boom. He's not wrong. He doesn't have bad taste. He just happened to enjoy something you didn't.
Jake Tower
Banned
Yeah, just because something is stated as opinion doesn't mean it is unassailable in discussion.
With rare (but welcome) exception, Gaf's idea of challenging an opinion consists of calling them "fucking nuts" and that the person with the opinion is a bad person and should feel bad.
There's not much value to the discussion and it becomes boring after a couple posts and annoying to read through after another dozen.
There's not much value to the discussion and it becomes boring after a couple posts and annoying to read through after another dozen.
Kazuma Kiryu
Member
if this
is debating someone else's opinion, then sure.
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
Welp. Guess I'm putting the podcasts on a hold for a few weeks!
It's all about validation. Disbelief too, I suppose, but although I share in it I can't begin to care. I'm surprised regardless.
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thepotatoman
Unconfirmed Member
OK I'll admit Brad is the biggest wildcard of the bunch, but considering his reasons for him being so adement for Skyrim as GotY last year had a lot to do with how big the game is, I figured that for his first love. I know he can default to other types of games in absence of those.
Its not like saying you love big budget games is an insult.
Its not like saying you love big budget games is an insult.