Games of the year

I have more, but this is all I can think of for now. Perhaps I' ll add to it as my mind recovers from the Christmas and New Year period.

In no particular order and written in the style of a magazine (because I felt like it)

Here are mine:

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Oblivion is an astounding achievement, both technically and mechanically. Stepping out of your first dungeon and being greeted by a sprawling countryside just waiting to be explored has been likened to other widely recognised memorable moments such as exploring Ocarina of Time’s Hyrule field for the first time. The game is vast in other aspects too, such as the generous amount of side-quests, which are perhaps more entertaining than following the main story. Like every game, Oblivion has its flaws, but the good far outweighs the bad and it certainly will without doubt remain as one of the XBOX 360’s finer moments for its entire lifecycle.

Dragon Quest: Journey of The Cursed King

The mechanics in Journey of The Cursed King are archaic and if not for the wonderful cel-shaded graphics and sweeping orchestral musical score, you could so easily have been playing an RPG from all the way back in the eighties. The otherwise long in the tooth mechanics are wonderfully refined here though and every level up, makes your characters feel significantly stronger for the satisfyingly challenging battles that lie ahead. The story too is old fashioned, albeit told with a certain flair, that consists of wonderfully written conversations and voice-acting that is a true pleasure to listen to.

Saints Row

Saints Row does driving and shooting better than most similar games. Both aspects are equally as satisfying as one another and the activities, which involve a great variety of different tasks are generally good fun. On the other hand the online options offer some genuinely fresh ideas, with a personal favourite being blinged out ride, a team based mode, where the objective is to upgrade your car before your opponent does.

BLACK

We all know how capable the people at Criterion are at crafting amazing car crashes on the Burnout series, but earlier this year they turned their attention to another genre, the First Person Shooter. BLACK was the explosive results from the Guildford-based EA studio wizards, a satisfying FPS that looked amazingly good and sounded superb. Gunfights often result in vision impairing smoke, and much of the environments can be defaced by your big beefy and astonishingly detailed guns. BLACK is definitely one of the FPS highlights of 2006.

Your turn now.

Gears of War
Amazing next-gen graphics, amazing art direction, extremely fun to play. Ability to play with or against a friend. A great game in every way.
Zelda Twilight Princess
I played the GCN version and despite the lack of Wii-mote control the game felt fresh and exciting. Graphics are good for the GCN, art direction is amazing, gameplay is near perfect as always. Finally a Zelda game where the story is a little deeper than the old " save the princess" theme.

Those games are almost each other' s opposites but they' re both fantastic.

If I had played Final Fantasy XII I would' ve probably chosen it too but that' s just speculation.

I agree with your choices ginjirou. How on earth did I forget to include those two fine games?

Xbox 360
Gears of War
Oblivion
GRAW
Splinter Cell: Double Agent
Call of Duty: 2 " Game of the Year Edition"

PSP
Daxter
Tokobot
Gitaroo Man Lives
MGS: Portable Ops (BUYING MY PSP TODAY B17CH3S!!!)

PS2
MGS: Subsistance
Okami

Wii/Virtual Console
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Gunstar Heroes (VC)
(I thought it unfair to list Mario 64 )

Xbox
Black

PS3
Resistance: Fall of Man

Yeah, umm... Xbox & PS3 had a really bad year & a really bad start, respectively.

Teh only games I can really think of are:

360 Oblivion and Dead Rising
PSP GTA VCS and Air combat

I would say both CoD 2 and 3 but I fear I will be chastised relentlessly for liking them also Star Wars Lego was quite good as a multiformat game.

I would say both CoD 2 and 3 but I fear I will be chastised relentlessly for liking them

CoD 2 was an awesome game dude, but it was from 2005. Well, I suppose you could get away with naming the " game of the year edition" In fact...

There we go, post edited.

Call of Duty: 3 is really good online, but single player blows monkey chunx compared to 2.[:' (] A Game of the Year has to have both IMO.

Tekken Dark Resurrection deserves a spot at my list as well.
Best Tekken yet, best portable fighter ever. Dare I say it' s the best PSP game so far? I think so!

Tekken Dark Resurrection deserves a spot at my list as well.
Best Tekken yet, best portable fighter ever. Dare I say it' s the best PSP game so far? I think so!

Fool!, clearly you havent played Mpo yet. I Laugh at you at Fart in your General direction!

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

- Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence;
- Metal Gear Solid: Portable OPS;

Fanboy' ish enough for you?

Okay...

1.Gears of war
2.Oblivion
3.Medival total war 2
4.NW2
5.Rainbowsix las vegas
6.GRAW
7.Table Tennis
8.N3
9. <--- put in any crap game like a wii or ps3
10. <----- =II=

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

Gears of War or Oblivion. Nothing else comes close

"If you knew how good I am you would think I'm modest."

Mine are:


1: Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistance <--- in Japanes its just the perfect game
2: Okami
3: Oblivion even tho the hole voice acting its made by just 3 guys
4: Resistance: Fall of Man
5: Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops
6: GTR2
7: GRAW
8: Gears of War
9: Guild Wars
10: Tekken Dark Resurrection


havent played Zelda TP

1. Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
2. Gears of War
3. Oblivion
4. Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
5. Dragonball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 (Best fighter I have played this year).
6. Dark Messiah (Forgive the bugs and some other issues...but action was fast, frantic, and superb).
7. Lumines Live...still can' t stop playing it from time to time.


I only have 7, not many others come to mind...but videowise (not ones I have played) it would go.

8. Okami
9. Elebits
10. Resistance: Fall of Man

" What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things."
~ Unknown ~

ORIGINAL: Alecrein


6. Dark Messiah (Forgive the bugs and some other issues...but action was fast, frantic, and superb).

goddamn, this game dissapoint me so bad, i was so sad

goddamn, this game dissapoint me so bad, i was so sad

Never set your expectations high and you won' t be disappointed...not to say you shouldn' t be excited for things :)

" What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things."
~ Unknown ~

1: Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistance <--- in Japanes its just the perfect game
2: Okami
3: Oblivion even tho the hole voice acting its made by just 3 guys
4: Resistance: Fall of Man
5: Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops
6: GTR2
7: GRAW
8: Gears of War
9: Guild Wars
10: Tekken Dark Resurrection

Resistance over Gears and GRAW? Fanboy much?

I dont want to celebrate, I want to sell you hate.

for 2005 my vote goes to COD2 and Geometry Wars, for 2006 my vote is for Oblivion.

ORIGINAL: immortaldanmx

Resistance over Gears? Fanboy much?

have u even played the damn game??? the weapons are alot better, the sound its better, the online play its better, the boss battles are better, and the plot its better, i have said it before, TO ME Resistance its better than GoW, u dont have to listen to stupid bullshit like " dude thats classic" , " ill take those" " now im pissed" " that was sattifiying" " thats bullshit" gears of wars its a good game, a great game but there are some thing that really annoy me, like 2/3 of the weapons are really usseles, the granes take too long to be thrown, and if u r sprinting u get stucked everywhere, and im tired of fucking noobs getting raped by the chainsaw by people who take the win from me.

The co-op its awesome tho.

It has nothing to do with the xbox, i love GRAW and Oblivion even tho i played that game on PC. GRAW its an awesome game but i did like Resistance better.

I agree that GOW has a few serious gaming flaws. Multiplayer for one thing is just boring and the regular campaign is too short. Once you beat Insane, the game loses most of it' s appeal. The only reason I haven' t sold my copy is because they are supposed to have some free maps.

I like the game because it looks fantastic, i dont know it looks so clear snd filled with detail, i like it, even tho sometimes i get all dizzy and makes me want to puke.

1: Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistance <--- in Japanes its just the perfect game
2: Okami
3: Oblivion even tho the hole voice acting its made by just 3 guys
4: Resistance: Fall of Man
5: Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops
6: GTR2
7: GRAW
8: Gears of War
9: Guild Wars
10: Tekken Dark Resurrection

Guild Wars was last year (well two years ago since we are in 2007). And World of Warcraft is a much better game :P But to each his own. Unless you were talking about either of the expansions...then it would make sense.

" What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things."
~ Unknown ~

ORIGINAL: Alecrein


Guild Wars was last year (well two years ago since we are in 2007). And World of Warcraft is a much better game :P But to each his own. Unless you were talking about either of the expansions...then it would make sense.

Yep, i mean nightfall and factions and yes, World of Warcraft its awesome until u realise thet if u keep buying those fucking games there will never be a StarCraft 2 or a new Diablo and i said to myself... ill be damned if i ever buy another World of Warcraft...

Fucking hell Blizzard, get to work

I don' t know how you can consider such mediocre games such as Resistance as GAME OF THE FXING YEAR. Game of the Year is one game, the best game of the year. Not a C game, not a B game, not even an A game. Its an A++++++ best game of the fxing year.
Since oblivion was 2006 game GoTY would have to go to Gears of War. Wii GoTY is obviously Zelda but you can' t give a game so far behind in certain areas (like graphics, AI, physics) a game of the year award. Yes it is a good game but not GoTY material. That goes for your handheld games too. GoTY is a serious award and is given to a serious game.

"If you knew how good I am you would think I'm modest."

ORIGINAL: locopuyo

I don' t know how you can consider such mediocre games such as Resistance as GAME OF THE FXING YEAR.

Have u even played the game or u are talking mayor shit???

come back and say that to my face u bastard

Wii GoTY is obviously Zelda but you can' t give a game so far behind in certain areas (like graphics, AI, physics) a game of the year award. Yes it is a good game but not GoTY material. That goes for your handheld games too. GoTY is a serious award and is given to a serious game.

I havent played Zelda but i belive there are much more important things in a videogame than graphics and physics, for instance i belive GoW its not half the game MGS3 Subsistance and Okami are, i guess it all comes down to what do u whant from a game.

Dreamfall: The longest Journey Deepest storyline iv seen this year in a game, too bad its too short, but im still waiting for the sequel, the ending nearly made me cry

Gears of War Great game, i havent finished it yet since my 360 died, and i havent gotten it back yet, but im looking forward to finishing it.

Oblivion nice game, lots of exploration, i would have liked some more depths in the story, Bethesda could learn things from Bioware (yes Gangsta Bioware are perfect)

edit:

wasnt finished

Wait, i was

Zelda is good, but i only played 2 hours of the GCN version, so i cant say much yet!

Dreamfall: The longest Journey Deepest storyline iv seen this year in a game, too bad its too short, but im still waiting for the sequel, the ending nearly made me cry

This game is one of many, that I have sitting on my shelf waiting to be played. I must get around to doing so soon.

Dreamfall: The longest Journey, I want to get that game, I' ve heard it has a great story. But the gameplay is a little crap.

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

Dreamfall: The longest Journey, I want to get that game, I' ve heard it has a great story. But the gameplay is a little crap.

yeah you are right, the combat in the game sucks big time, and shouldnt have been in unless it had been better. But the story and mood in the game is super. But if you dont like cliffhangers, dont get it

Dreamfall was a great game,but it' s more like a interactive movie/story then a " game" .

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

ORIGINAL: fernandino

ORIGINAL: locopuyo

I don' t know how you can consider such mediocre games such as Resistance as GAME OF THE FXING YEAR.

Have u even played the game or u are talking mayor shit???

come back and say that to my face u bastard

Wii GoTY is obviously Zelda but you can' t give a game so far behind in certain areas (like graphics, AI, physics) a game of the year award. Yes it is a good game but not GoTY material. That goes for your handheld games too. GoTY is a serious award and is given to a serious game.

I havent played Zelda but i belive there are much more important things in a videogame than graphics and physics, for instance i belive GoW its not half the game MGS3 Subsistance and Okami are, i guess it all comes down to what do u whant from a game.

I' d almost feel bad for you considering those are the best games you' ve played, but it is obvious you are a sony fanboy and limit yourself to that garbage. It is your own fault.

"If you knew how good I am you would think I'm modest."

Zelda but you can' t give a game so far behind in certain areas (like graphics, AI, physics) a game of the year award

Yes it is behind in terms of Graphics, physics are ok, not a major issue at all in my eyes and the AI is satisfactory. Zelda is still an excellant game. It is a mammoth adventure game lasting around 50 hours that is full of memorable moments throughtout! The story is far better than previous Zelda' s and the gameplay is spot on!

Gears of War is not without its faults. The single player only lasts a pathetic 9 to 10 hours (yes I know it has excellant online play but 9 to 10 hours is pretty poor). I have to say that I still think its an excellant game just so I dont get attacked by all the 360 worshippers here.

Anyway as the saying goes ' Whatever floats your boat' , everbody is going to have a different opinion of what they think game of the year is. But to say that Zelda can not be considered for game of the year just because its graphics are not the same quality as 360 or PS3 games is bullshit.

Zelda
Rhythm Tengoku
Wii sports

My pis for the top 3 games for 2006
Gears of war
Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion
Zelda Twilight Princess

Does dreamfall fall more into the Adventure catagory or is it more like Indigo Prophecy (AKA Fahreinheit)?

" What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things."
~ Unknown ~

its more adventure than Fahrenheit is!

Try it, i posted a trial in another thread!

With no Xbox 360, I' m afraid I cannot share any of the Oblivion and Gears Of War love with you lot. However, the games I really enjoyed this year are:

Kingdom Hearts 2

Laugh all you want, but I have always been a huge fan of the Kingdom Hearts games. The feeling that you are actually getting to meet and fight alongside an array of well-known Disney characters makes it all the more worthwhile. Not to mention the fact that the Kingdom Hearts series is blatantly Square Enixs answer to the next game series I am about to mention...

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Another series I have seen little fault in. Or should I say THE series? Zelda is undoubtably my favourite game series of all time, and Twilight Princess certainly doesn' t change that. Whether you' re running around on all fours in wolf form, or sumo wrestling Gorons, many can' t deny that this game is fantastic(and mean it, anyway).