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Topic	Games by year, ranked and explained - part II, 2005-2016
transience 04/08/17 9:48:26 PM #130:	2010 Notable Games: Ace Attorney Investigations Alan Wake Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Bayonetta Call of Duty: Black Ops Dance Central Darksiders Dragon Quest IX Etrian Odyssey 3 Fallout: New Vegas Final Fantasy XIII Fruit Ninja God Of War 3 Heavy Rain Just Cause 2 Kirby's Epic Yarn Limbo Mafia 2 Mass Effect 2 Metroid: Other M Nier Pac Man CE DX Persona 3 Portable Radiant Historia Red Dead Redemption Rock Band 3 Starcraft 2 Super Mario Galaxy 2 Super Meat Boy Super Street Fighter 4 VVVVVV transience's take: 1 - Persona 3 Portable 2 - VVVVVV 3 - Etrian Odyssey 3 4 - Z.H.P. Unlosing Ranger VS Darkdeath Evilman 5 - Pac-Man CE DX Overall: 22nd Gamerankings: 1 - Super Mario Galaxy 2 2 - Mass Effect 2 3 - Red Dead Redemption 4 - Starcraft 2 5 - Rock Band 3 GOTY Media Picks: 1 - Red Dead Redemption (111) 2 - Mass Effect 2 (101) 3 - Super Mario Galaxy 2 (19) 4 - Heavy Rain (12) 5 - God of War 3 (7) GameFAQs: 1 - Mass Effect 2 2 - Super Mario Galaxy 2 3 - God of War 3 When I think of 2010, I think of disappointment. There were a lot of big games that just missed the mark. Metroid: Other M had a fantastic reveal trailer, lost some steam when everyone learned you controlled it with a d-pad and then became widely mocked for its laughable narrative that threatened to kill the series. (In a way, it did. We haven't seen a real Metroid since.) Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty wasn't bad but the phased rollout (part 1 of 3) felt greedy, doubly so since the 2008 merger with Activision. The gaming landscape surrounding Starcraft had also changed - battle.net wasn't the dominant force anymore and a lot of people were looking at the MOBA scene, particularly League. Fallout: New Vegas ended up being pretty well-liked by the end of it, but the game was a technical mess at launch. Limbo was a really striking looking XBLA game that was not nearly as fun to play as everyone built it up to be. Dragon Quest IX eschewed consoles for the DS, a huge controversy in and of itself, and ended up being a tame throwback without a lot of charm after the brilliant DQ8 moved the franchise so far forward. The biggest disappointment had to be Final Fantasy XIII. Half of that was the game and half were the expectations. FF13 had the fabula nova crystallis hype. It was being made by the 7/8/10 guys. It was supposed to be a grand return to form. Lightning was basically being portrayed as female Cloud. It had been announced 4 years ago and the trailers looked great. FF13 had damn good art. But the game just wasn't very good. A lot is made of the linearity and the fact that the game doesn't let you loose for 20 hours. That's a convenient shortcut to badmouth the game but I don't think it's the true shortcoming. These complaints could be leveled at FFX as well and that game's an all-timer. FF13 just didn't have a good narrative. The characters and story were a letdown after two decades of fun -- not necessarily good, but fun -- scenarios. The world looked great but it didn't feel good to play it. It was fine, but nothing more, and that was really disappointing after so long. --- xyzzy <cite>transience posted [p:876823229] in Games by y... [t:75187081]...</cite> <quote>2010 Notable Games: Ace Attorney Investigations Alan Wake Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Bayonetta Call of Duty: Black Ops Dance Central Darksiders Dragon Quest IX Etrian Odyssey 3 Fallout: New Vegas Final Fantasy XIII Fruit Ninja God Of War 3 Heavy Rain Just Cause 2 Kirby's Epic Yarn Limbo Mafia 2 Mass Effect 2 Metroid: Other M Nier Pac Man CE DX Persona 3 Portable Radiant Historia Red Dead Redemption Rock Band 3 Starcraft 2 Super Mario Galaxy 2 Super Meat Boy Super Street Fighter 4 VVVVVV transience's take: 1 - Persona 3 Portable 2 - VVVVVV 3 - Etrian Odyssey 3 4 - Z.H.P. Unlosing Ranger VS Darkdeath Evilman 5 - Pac-Man CE DX Overall: 22nd Gamerankings: 1 - Super Mario Galaxy 2 2 - Mass Effect 2 3 - Red Dead Redemption 4 - Starcraft 2 5 - Rock Band 3 GOTY Media Picks: 1 - Red Dead Redemption (111) 2 - Mass Effect 2 (101) 3 - Super Mario Galaxy 2 (19) 4 - Heavy Rain (12) 5 - God of War 3 (7) GameFAQs: 1 - Mass Effect 2 2 - Super Mario Galaxy 2 3 - God of War 3 When I think of 2010, I think of disappointment. There were a lot of big games that just missed the mark. Metroid: Other M had a fantastic reveal trailer, lost some steam when everyone learned you controlled it with a d-pad and then became widely mocked for its laughable narrative that threatened to kill the series. (In a way, it did. We haven't seen a real Metroid since.) Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty wasn't bad but the phased rollout (part 1 of 3) felt greedy, doubly so since the 2008 merger with Activision. The gaming landscape surrounding Starcraft had also changed - battle.net wasn't the dominant force anymore and a lot of people were looking at the MOBA scene, particularly League. Fallout: New Vegas ended up being pretty well-liked by the end of it, but the game was a technical mess at launch. Limbo was a really striking looking XBLA game that was not nearly as fun to play as everyone built it up to be. Dragon Quest IX eschewed consoles for the DS, a huge controversy in and of itself, and ended up being a tame throwback without a lot of charm after the brilliant DQ8 moved the franchise so far forward. The biggest disappointment had to be Final Fantasy XIII. Half of that was the game and half were the expectations. FF13 had the fabula nova crystallis hype. It was being made by the 7/8/10 guys. It was supposed to be a grand return to form. Lightning was basically being portrayed as female Cloud. It had been announced 4 years ago and the trailers looked great. FF13 had damn good art. But the game just wasn't very good. A lot is made of the linearity and the fact that the game doesn't let you loose for 20 hours. That's a convenient shortcut to badmouth the game but I don't think it's the true shortcoming. These complaints could be leveled at FFX as well and that game's an all-timer. FF13 just didn't have a good narrative. The characters and story were a letdown after two decades of fun -- not necessarily good, but fun -- scenarios. The world looked great but it didn't feel good to play it. It was fine, but nothing more, and that was really disappointing after so long. --- xyzzy</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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