Agreed. The first good one was AC2, the next brotherhood, and the next good one just came out.
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Yay! Another of my nominees to make it. Red Dead was an awesome game with an awesome story and awesome lead character, and the open world was a pleasure to explore. Some of the most fun I've had playing a game for years. There's so much you can do in that game. I'd love to see another one like it.
I have yet to play either Red Dead Redemption or any of the Fallout games. Sometime I need to get a hold of those.
I will say that I probably voted mostly for games that definitely shouldn't be on this list (such as FFXIII-2) over games that are probably more deserving. I just haven't played many of those more deserving games this generation.
If I had remembered, I would have nominated Dreamfall: The Longest Journey. That was a superb game and really opened up a whole new avenue of gaming experiences for me.
Huh, no wonder I was specifically asked to look into Assassin's Creed II.
Who the hell nominated Nintendogs?
BECAUSE THAT PERSON NEEDS A BROFIST.
One of the top-selling games of the generation. Seriously.
IR Information : Sales Data - Top Selling Software Sales Units - Nintendo DS SoftwareQuote:
As of March 31, 2013, the combined sales of all versions has reached 23.94 million and it is now second on the Nintendo DS best-sellers list behind New Super Mario Bros.
It's genuinely good. :3
I'm really surprised about the Uncharted games not making the cut. Is it 2 that is still in the race? Not that I'm a fan, but I thought they were real popular games on EoFF.
Assassin's Creed was good, but there's only so many games in one franchise that you can put on a top games list and ACII is the one that deserves to make the cut.
I'm kinda miffed Dota 2 didn't make it, it's very rare that we get games with this extreme depth of game mechanics and skill but I understand why it wouldn't fit into our forum's niche. It also just officially released a few months ago and it's best days are certainly still ahead of it.
Also it isn't the best game at what it does.
Point the first: Denying is an actively bad game mechanic. It forces players to do things that aren't fun, because they have to, because it's the only way to compete. Games that are GOOD games make players do the things that they actually like doing; the things that are fun.
Point the second: The game is based on DotA (obviously) but it doesn't fix the things that were wrong with DotA. It doesn't change the fact that there's not enough to do for the first few minutes. It doesn't change even the mechanical choices that were literally nothing but limitations of the Warcraft 3 engine - for instance, Axe's Counter Helix triggers at the beginning of an animation, rather than when he's actually hit. Why? Because that was a coding limitation in WC3. So they copied it and kept it exactly in Dota 2, rather than fixing it. There are many, many more. I don't feel the need to enumerate them.
I loved DotA, I played thousands upon thousands of games of it; but League of Legends is simply a better game, and I'd be very surprised if it wasn't picked to be on this list. Arguably, it's the game that should be at the very top of the list; certainly would be in terms of real world popularity.
Dota 2 isn't something you play through and finish; you're always choosing between it and LoL, unlike a type of game like an RPG where you play one, then play the next one. You could reasonably have 2 RPGs in a personal list; I find it harder to make the case for 2 MOBAs (or 2 MMOs of the same style, or 2 deathmatch-based FPSes, etc), and so the better one gets on the list.
You should update the first post with a list of revealed games so far.
Assassin's Creed is okay. It's not super great. You only play Assassin's Creed so you can play Assassin's Creed II.
Desmond's story takes place over the whole series (apart from ACIV I believe) but each numbered title starts a new ancestor's memories. There's a summary for what's going on in present time at the beginning of each game, but I mean you could have just read the wiki page if you were going to skip it anyway. So yeah you don't really have to play the first to get the second.
Good sales doesn't equate to a good game, not that I am saying Nintendogs is bad as I have never played it, just that because one person likes it and it has good sales doesn't make it a great game.
For example I personally think FFVII is the best game in the series (it's my opinion, please don't try to dissuade me from this) and indeed the most bitter competition often comes from people who hold Final Fantasy VI as the best of the series. Based on sales alone VII would rip that apart with a sales figure of 9.8m (highest sales of any final fantasy game ever).
Source: Top 10 in Sales - Final Fantasy - VGChartz