Giantbomb GOTY 2012 Thread: Videos, Top 10's, and podcasts lots and lots of podcasts.

Yeah, Jeff's a good sport about this collecting habits and in all honesty if I were in his position of being old enough to care about and collect games while also being a part of the industry for as long as he has been then I'd be swimming in games too.
 
Foliorum Viridum said:
Exactly. Finish the games beforehand or don't listen.

GOTY is a free-for-all and great because of it.
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Asking people to finish every game that they're interested in before year end is a bit much and unrealistic imo. They should be more considerate to the GB fans who don't get to interact with games for a living.
 
In a year when we had that Mass Effect ending and Resident Evil 6, they choose AC3 as most disappointing? I'll not argue AC3 wasn't a disappointment but most disappointing? No way. This year was rife with disappointments but AC3 was certainly not chief among them.

EDIT: Just noticed what Brad's personal GOTY was. That explains an awful lot.
 
edgefusion said:
In a year when we had that Mass Effect ending and Resident Evil 6, they choose AC3 as most disappointing? I'll not argue AC3 wasn't a disappointment but most disappointing? No way. This year was rife with disappointments but AC3 was certainly not chief among them.
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Well, for them ME3 was good until the ending and RE6 had warning signs (and probably only Patrick and Brad played it)
 
TheBaronOfNA said:
Well, for them ME3 was good until the ending and RE6 had warning signs (and probably only Patrick and Brad played it)
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Jeff and Patrick had some pretty big problems with ME3 before the ending, but I'll wager that it came down to Brad arguing that some maniacs people liked the majority of ME3, and Ryan being a huge Assassin's Creed fanboy and being disappointed by AC3.
 
ouch, the Walking Dead showcase after the recap is kinda messed up. they keep talking over each other in spots and it's hard to follow.
 
LiK said:
ouch, the Walking Dead showcase after the recap is kinda messed up. they keep talking over each other in spots and it's hard to follow.
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Good thing I need to skip it due to not wanting to be spoiled. These guys have sold me on both X-Com and Far Cry 3 this week anyways.
 
PCGamer called their downloadable game category "short form [games]". I think that might be a better name for it since everyone seems to wrestle with what to call it each year.
 
eot said:
PCGamer called their downloadable game category "short form [games]". I think that might be a better name with it since everyone seems to wrestle with what to call it each year.
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So Black Ops II is a short form game and The Walking Dead is a long form game because the latter is three times longer, right?
 
eot said:
PCGamer called their downloadable game category "short form [games]". I think that might be a better name for it since everyone seems to wrestle with what to call it each year.
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Makes a hell of a lot more sense considering I can buy The Walking Dead at retail now and I'm downloading X-Com (a retail game) from STEAM right now.

"Downloadable game" doesn't accurately identify a group anymore.

DaBuddaDa said:
So Black Ops II is a short form game and The Walking Dead is a long form game because the latter is three times longer, right?
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Black Ops II has hours of multiplayer content. I get what you're trying to say though.
 
REV 09 said:
Asking people to finish every game that they're interested in before year end is a bit much and unrealistic imo. They should be more considerate to the GB fans who don't get to interact with games for a living.
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What about the fans who want them to actually discuss all of a game?
 
I had to stop listening to them speak about The Walking Dead in the recap video because of everyone talking over each other, or the audio being broken.
 
EmCeeGramr said:
Jeff and Patrick had some pretty big problems with ME3 before the ending, but I'll wager that it came down to Brad arguing that some maniacs people liked the majority of ME3, and Ryan being a huge Assassin's Creed fanboy and being disappointed by AC3.
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Welp, I'm one of this maniacs. (But I played the game post the DLCfest, so)
 
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REV 09 said:
Asking people to finish every game that they're interested in before year end is a bit much and unrealistic imo. They should be more considerate to the GB fans who don't get to interact with games for a living.
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It's an optional podcast, so I say screw those people. (Although, hardly any of us play games for a living, so it's just about time management really)

If they did regular spoilercasts there'd be an argument I'd support, but there's not, so GOTY being spoilerific is what I love about it.
 
edgefusion said:
In a year when we had that Mass Effect ending and Resident Evil 6, they choose AC3 as most disappointing? I'll not argue AC3 wasn't a disappointment but most disappointing? No way. This year was rife with disappointments but AC3 was certainly not chief among them.

EDIT: Just noticed what Brad's personal GOTY was. That explains an awful lot.
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Howsabout you listen to the podcast before jumping to any snide conclusions?
 
Honestly, Diablo 3 is a better runner-up for Most Disappointing than RE6. The expectations for RE6 were rock bottom in a lot of places. Diablo 3 isn't a bad game at all, and they fixed a lot of the late game, long term problems with it since launch, but everyone seemed to expect the Second Coming of the loot RPG that would keep us playing for years... and it just seemed to fizzle out a few weeks later.
 
Best moment of the podcasts this year so far:

J: Let's cut Mark of the Ninja.
V: I'd cut Journey before Mark of the Ninja.
B: I'd cut Fez before either of those.
J: I'll cut you before we cut Fez.
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I totally lost it.
 
Well, now I'm just going to wait for some TWD spoiler timestamps before I listen to today's podcast.

Amazing stuff, loved Ryan's faces of concern and reactions to Jeff's addiction, lol.
 
EmCeeGramr said:
Honestly, Diablo 3 is a better runner-up for Most Disappointing than RE6. The expectations for RE6 were rock bottom in a lot of places. Diablo 3 isn't a bad game at all, and they fixed a lot of the late game, long term problems with it since launch, but everyone seemed to expect the Second Coming of the loot RPG that would keep us playing for years... and it just seemed to fizzle out a few weeks later.
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Perhaps. But thinking about it, lots of games this year had caveats and concerns going into release. Diablo 3 had the real money auction house and always online requirements. Mass Effect 3 had multiplayer (ultimately wasn't a factor in its disappointment and the mode was received quite well but I'm just talking about prerelease concerns and expectations), Street Fighter X Tekken had gems and on-disc dlc characters, Halo 4 had a new developer and so on. Assassins Creed 3 didn't really have any downsides for people to harp on before its release, so expectations for that were higher than most of this year's big games.
 
edgefusion said:
In a year when we had that Mass Effect ending and Resident Evil 6, they choose AC3 as most disappointing? I'll not argue AC3 wasn't a disappointment but most disappointing? No way. This year was rife with disappointments but AC3 was certainly not chief among them.

EDIT: Just noticed what Brad's personal GOTY was. That explains an awful lot.
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I dunno, just personally speaking a lot of the stuff I'd heard about ME3 prior to launch (day one DLC, galaxy readiness points, etc) had me pretty wary of the game. The demo didn't do much for me, either. But ultimately it plays pretty well, it's the story that let me down.

Assassin's Creed 3 blindsided me. Plus where Mass Effect 3 disappointed me in terms of EA DLC strategy and the way the story was handled, AC3 looked bad, was glitchy, controlled worse than its predecessors, and was poorly structured on top of having a bad story.

When I think of my time with Assassin's Creed 3 the prevailing memory is of repeatedly falling through the world while riding a horse with whiny-voiced Paul Revere clinging to my back, yelling at me to change direction.

Oh and also the memory of witnessing the signing of the Declaration of Independence... during the wrong year.
 
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