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GAF Games of the Year Awards 2007
- Thread starter AniHawk
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Justin Timberlake
Member
Amir0x said:
Unfortunately, I can't see Spore as a 2008 release.
But yea, devs need to stop with the 2 year long hype machine. Announce games a year before they come out at most. Just look at FFXIII, its hype is getting killed because it was announced too early.
Amir0x said:
I recall certain opinions about yours regarding Mario Galaxy.
If one can be so blatantly wrong about Game of the Forever (the infinite glory of which is self-evident), then your opinions on all matters requiring more perception (such as fighting games you probably played once at a friends' house) are clearly invalid.
GenericPseudonym
Banned
Next year will hopefully see a PC game win (StarCraft II).
Yeah but this is Smash. Come on, guys, I enjoy it as much as the next dude but trying to compare it to a game like MGS4 is completely ridiculous. I think a comparison to Halo 3 would be more warranted, to be honest, since the perceived value is predicated on an embarrassment of bonus features and extra content rather than atmosphere, innovation or attention to detail.Crushed said:
Crushed said:
I'm not sure you do recall my opinions on Mario Galaxy, based on what you wrote here. So that probably renders the rest of your attempt to defend the honor of the ultra shallow Smash series rather hollow.
Edit:
For the record, I'm sure Smash'll be grand for Nintendo fanatics, after all it has all the makings of what they tend to love. It's filled to the brim with Nintendo wankery, while simultaneously stripping a storied genre of anything that could possibly cause them to consider their tactics for more than five seconds. Lest they be overwhelmed by buttons and strategy! It's basically the wiimote of fighting games.
Edit2: Whoops, time to head out for New Years. Happy New Years!
rollingstart
Banned
nice list!
and Brawl is gonna be high on the list next year unless everyone forgets about it.
wow, this award list is really good.
and Brawl is gonna be high on the list next year unless everyone forgets about it.
wow, this award list is really good.
Justin Timberlake
Member
AniHawk said:
I am having a hard time letting Amirox's statements slide but you're right.
Oh, btw GAF, ty for putting the Witcher as the best PC game of the year. Well done fellas, well done. I played it after I voted, and I felt guilty that it wasn't on my list ever since. Thanks for redeeming me.
Deputy Moonman
Member
That list is very respectable. Thank you antihawk for taking the time to put it all together.
Well, they don't have to then. While the top of the list is loaded with shooters, the rest of top 20 has music, action, adventure, RPG, racing and platforming games. If the shooting genre expansion was having a noticeable impact on the number great games in other areas, I think it would be cause for concern. Who knows, maybe it will go in that direction. But this year at least, even with all the shooters that came out, we had a great year in every other genre as well.Deku said:
I will honor Anihawk's request.Grecco said:
MiamiWesker
Member
Once again GAF has the best GOTY awards, great job guys. I have yet to disagree with the GOTY choice.
Son of Godzilla
Banned
Orange Box beat Bioshock and Halo 3 beat CoD4. This list doesn't suck.
Also: Strike the DS off of Puzzle Quest. It's an extremely buggy, unbalanced pile of crap. I assure you anybody voting for the game was not voting for that version.
Another Also: CoD4 is a filthy, disgusting stealth game and should be counted as such.
Burning Crusade is pretty much the best expansion pack ever released yet nobody even thinks its a 2007 game.
Also: Strike the DS off of Puzzle Quest. It's an extremely buggy, unbalanced pile of crap. I assure you anybody voting for the game was not voting for that version.
Another Also: CoD4 is a filthy, disgusting stealth game and should be counted as such.
Might as well call them both a tie.Son of Godzilla said:
It was a horrible guild splitting pile of shit in a genre whose fans tend not to play other games, and therefore have their own communities. It would be unusual for an MMORPG to get any major accolades on a place like GAF.Son of Godzilla said:
I leveled two characters to 50 on the DS version and saw it crash once. The only mildly annoying thing was starting with the same puzzle every time after turning it on. I wish they enabled the D Pad for bumpy commutes too, but apart from that it's fine. Unbalanced? It's no different in that respect to other versions.Son of Godzilla said:
It gets most votes for the multiplayer which is most assuredly an FPS.Son of Godzilla said:
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Son of Godzilla
Banned
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Except not. Even if they are absurdly close, ranking matters.
Eh, not really. The raid change was known months in advance, and the strengthening of non-30 complete strangers activities more than made up for it.
So, apart from the areas where it's a buggy piece of crap it's not a buggy piece of crap? I haven't played the DS version in ages, but I'm pretty damn certain there's alot more care gone into the XBLA (Which is based off PC?) version, more restrictions on autowin combos.
FPS is a system for controlling your viewpoint. It's still a stealth game.
The lockouts on 10 man content and reducing the raid cap to 25 were horrible horrible decisions. Sure there were probably millions of people on their tenth level 60 whose minds were starved of new content to whom a new expansion was like a downpour in the desert, but best expansion of all time? It wouldn't even be top 3 within it's own genre, and it took two years!Son of Godzilla said:
It's nowhere near as unplayable as you made it out to be, as if no one that played it could consider it a good game. Everything was based on the PC version. The PC demo was out before anything else.Son of Godzilla said:
It's really not.Son of Godzilla said:
FateBreaker
Member
Happy with the list, and happy to see Blue Dragon 5th place for RPG of the Year.
Best list on the internet.
Best list on the internet.
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
I'm going to call it. GOTY 2008= Duke Nukem Forever. BELIEVE.
Son of Godzilla
Banned
Fredescu said:
Well, to be honest, I'm in a strange position regarding TBC. I agree that the endgame was a complete fucking mess initially even beyond the 25 man change even if the leveling content was incredible. I myself went as far as cancelling towards the end feburary because of how big a mess it was.
But what I came back to around September is damn close to perfection. Does the game deserve credit for eventually getting it right? I'd say it does, if only because theres really no other way for including it.
And CoD is as much a stealth game as you make of it.
Pureauthor
Member
Nice thread. Thanks, Anihawk.
Kuroyume said:83. Space Giraffe - 60
out of 301+ games
Nice GAF
It got my 10 points!
Incredible GOTY list as always. GAF delivers once again. Thanks Ani for all your hard work.
Shame Bioshock didn't hold on to number 2 but Orange Box deserves all the credit it gets. I haven't even played EP 1 or 2 yet so who knows, I might even like it more than Bioshock when all is said and done.
I love the fact I was the only person to vote for Jericho. It's a horrible game but a horrible game that I loved for reasons I find hard to explain. I certainly didn't expect anyone else to vote for it and was secretly hoping I'd be the only one, for more reasons I find hard to explain. Maybe I'm just weird.
Crackdown winning action game of the year is excellent. Some of these games got a bit of a free ride with being released so close to the voting time. But Crackdown had to be something special to linger in people's minds and it seems it has done just that.
gray_fox224
Junior Member
Great list. I agree with it.
Goty 2008 will most likely be MGS4. Do you know what emotional roller coaster you are in for with that title? It's going to be absolutely meltdown crazy for folks who have followed the story. It's an emotional impact ten years in the making (discounting the 8 bit versions). MGS4 will result in man tears.
The other super strong goty 08 contenders will most likely be: GTA4, Resistance 2, Alan Wake, Fallout 3, Killzone 2, GT5, LBP & StarCraft 2.
The other super strong goty 08 contenders will most likely be: GTA4, Resistance 2, Alan Wake, Fallout 3, Killzone 2, GT5, LBP & StarCraft 2.
Wolves Evolve
Member
WHOA. Who voted for Kane and Lynch?
monkspider
Member
Bah, this list reeks of crass fanboyism triumphing over reason. Mario Galaxy over Bioshock? Halo over Call of Duty? Preposterous. That said, I do appreciate the love that Crackdown and God of War II got. I personally don't think this top ten is as good as some of the others out there though.
I absolutely loved Mario 64, and hadn't even played a console FPS (since the N64 days) up until Bioshock and I think Bioshock was a much better game then Galaxy - and that is after not enjoying the Bioshock demo very much either.
Fair enough I am only basing this on my limited playtime of Galaxy, but being 30 stars it just hasnt captivated me like the older Mario's or Bioshock did - right from the get-go.
But hey, I went and bought Bioshock mainly because of the GAF love, and even though im not seeing why Galaxy is GOTY at the moment, its still fun so maybe my opinion will change as i play more.
Fair enough I am only basing this on my limited playtime of Galaxy, but being 30 stars it just hasnt captivated me like the older Mario's or Bioshock did - right from the get-go.
But hey, I went and bought Bioshock mainly because of the GAF love, and even though im not seeing why Galaxy is GOTY at the moment, its still fun so maybe my opinion will change as i play more.