Skyward Sword didn't make the cut either, whaddafuq
Wait... Crisis Core made the cut but Skyward Sword didn't!?
I... I...
Wow this must be how Neo and HC feel everytime they look at someone elses top games list and don't see some obscure JRPG on there.
You have a pretty weird definition of obscure.Originally Posted by Aulayna
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I can understand why few people would vote for Ocarina of Time v.3.0 though.
Skyward Sword fixed a lot of the criticisms that have been levelled at the franchise for years. It has full on character development way beyond what the franchise is known for, actively setup a fully fleshed backstory for the land of Hyrule more than ever before, a cast of side characters and side quests with nearly as much emotional oomph as Majora's Mask, made use of the Wii Motion Plus like very few games have and is honestly one of the most refined, delightful and polished Zelda experiences to date.
The only problem was, it was on the Wii. (and this is coming from someone who, for the first 3 hours, couldn't get over how horribly pixelated Wii graphics looked on a HD TV and thought it was going to be crap, solely because it was on the Wii)
Idiot Mode is in Fallout 1, 2, 3, and New Vegas, though the NV implementation is a bit lacking and mostly takes the form of shorter, monosyllabic answers to questions, but it does affect a few things significantly (for example you can recruit Arcade by basically saying "I'm too dumb to do this, you're smart, please help"). Contrariwise, in 1 and 2 it completely changes things, locks off most sidequests because who would give this moron a job to do, and makes finishing the MQ much harder, but also opens up whole new vistas of friendship with Torr.
3 just has like three different conversation options and one or two easter egg-type things.
Only Fallout game I played was 3 and it was the first game I played after getting a 360. This is the first I heard of the Idiot Mode. It was also the first WRPG game I ever played after a decade of JRPGs so you can imagine it didn't take long for me to get lost...
"What is this place? AHH! Who's shooting at me!?"
Red Dead Redemption
2010 – PS3, Xbox 360
6 Nominations
Red Dead Redemption was something new and special. It galloped up out of nowhere - I hadn't seen any hype for this game at all - and it slung a lasso around my heart. It's an interesting juxtaposition - the Wild West is an area that hasn't been frequently covered in games, whereas sandboxes have been done to death and back again. And it worked. Given that it was made by Rockstar, a lot of GTA IV went into RDR, but in every way GTA IV got it wrong, Red Dead Redemption got it right.
The soundtrack was beautiful, the graphics and the environment doubly so, and the gameplay was intuitive and fun. The only downside I can see was that the story sagged a little bit around the middle, which is a shame because the first and last acts had great writing. The character of John Marston as a tragic hero will be one of the stories from this generation that will stay with me.
While the single player was fantastic, the online really kicked it into another level from good game to daily social activity with friends. Possess free roaming the plains hunting bandits, buffalo and you if you weren't careful. Fun and intense co-op missions. Silly gambling games like Liar's Dice and poker. Horse races. Oh, the horse races. Pegging Iceglow from 100 feet with a hunting knife, or the time myself and DK encountered a glitch where 40+ wild boar spawned and kept tramping us to death, with boar coming back from the dead to nail us.
Oh, and there was zombie DLC where you could ride a unicorn. So there's that.
Bayonetta (4)
DotA 2 (2)
Assassin's Creed (2)
Final Fantasy III DS (2)
Injustice: Gods Among Us (1)
F.E.A.R. (1)
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time (1)
F.E.A.R. 2 (1)
Nintendogs (1)
Metroid Prime Trilogy (1)
Last one for the night! More tomorrow!
Love that game, it definitely deserves to be on the list.
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Not surprised, I remember seeing RDR all over the place when it first came out and I hear good things overall about Rockstar. Just never played.
A little surprise Assassin's Creed didn't get more votes with how popular the franchise is overall.
Assassin's Creed itself was a super poor game. Boring boring boring.
Only thing I remember is people flipping their lids at the twist ending.
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.
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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.
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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.
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