Zerker on 21/12/2013 at 13:54
So I took at look at the games released this year in my games list and came up the following:
Pikmin 3
Guacamelee
Metro: Last Light
Tomb Raider
Dust: An Elysian Tail
Gunpoint
Bioshock Infinite
Honourable Mentions:
Kentucky Route Zero
Gone Home
Fez
Ittle Dew
Yet to play:
Hammerwatch
Shadow Warrior
Brothers
Sulphur on 21/12/2013 at 14:05
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is absolutely lovely. It's short enough to never overstay its welcome, it's beautiful to look at and play - like a Brothers Grimm fairy tale come to life - and it has that ending. It's absolutely wonderful, unless you have a heart as cold as stone, in which case you should just play (
http://kayin.pyoko.org/iwbtg/) IWBTG forever.
Best Game of 2013 featuring incidental scenes with an owl-cat thing that fulfilled what The Last Guardian would have if it were actually released this year.
henke on 21/12/2013 at 14:59
Quote Posted by Zerker
Gunpoint
I was wondering when/if Gunpoint would show up on someone's list. There was a lot of hype about it pre-release but I've heard very few people raving about it since. I think a lot of people ended up being underwhelmed by it. I know I was. Certainly it had some hilarious dialogue options and the way the plot is handled feels very organic, but the gameplay was just really lacklustre. In the end I couldn't even be bothered finishing it. :erg:
Muzman on 21/12/2013 at 16:58
Hey, I did play a game from this year! Guess that means Gunpoint didn't blow me away either, really, since I forgot.
I do like it a lot. Pretty much everything about it is quite brilliant. There is something amiss though. I can't quite put my finger on what.
A lot of the levels seem to have one solution, which reveals itself after some trial and error. It's also often one that feels like you're exploiting the game in a stepwise fashion to grind through. There's always other ways but they aren't nearly as obvious as that method you can see how to do with relative simplicity. And for some reason that's quite discouraging.
You can be a seat of your pants awesome stunt person sometimes, but it's quite hard a lot of the time.
I think that's probably the trouble. There's no real spectrum between that tough-but-boring method you can see and the super badass trickery that probably won't work those few times so you go back to the more obvious.
Maybe. I'm not too sure.
Still a good game though.
nicked on 22/12/2013 at 09:18
Yeah I enjoyed Gunpoint, but it was very short and I felt no real incentive to replay it. It was the gaming equivalent of a bag of crisps - tasty enough, but then you realise they put "Contents may have settled in transit" on the side to justify it only being 25% full of crisps.
EvaUnit02 on 25/12/2013 at 17:38
I haven't played many 2013 games.
5. Bioshock Infinite - The worst Bioshock game by far because of the decreased depth in everything related to gameplay, but it's still definitely delivered one of the most engaging narratives in gaming within the last several years.
4. Warframe - A pleasant surprise, many hours of fun.
3. Battlefield 4 - I've probably only played 3 hours of this game at most due to not having the files personally, but it was enough to hook me in. This is the successor to the amazing Bad Company 2 that BF3 utterly failed to deliver on for me.
2. Saints Row IV - this game was amazing for me, Jesus riding atop an Aston Martin. It broke my heart however, the game glitched rendering my 50+ hour save unfinishable.
1. Blood Dragon - Like SRIV it was sublime satire full of amazing and belly laughs. Rated higher than SRIV because it didn't take a crowbar to my saves. Utter surpassing ita parent game, sh*tting upon it from gr
Honourable mention:-
GTA V simply because I've barely played it (maybe a dozen hours at most), but the sheer rich depth of everything and the fixing off most of its predecessor's crimes cannot go unnoted. GTA IV in retrospect feels like a late alpha for this game.
Yamatotakeru on 31/12/2013 at 11:16
Got a few favorites this year:
- Deadly Premonition : Director's Cut - I thought the main drawing point of this game would be its weirdness and oldschool crappiness. It proved to be much, much more than just that. It's like a mixture of Twin Peaks, Silent Hill and Shenmue, yet it still comes of as very original. The story is surprisingly great and so are the characters.
- Dragon's Crown - beautiful, addicting as all hell, and I loved the whole lol-sexist-drama controversy that surrounded the game :P . It's basically Wizardry meets Final Fight and I love both dungeon crawlers and beat 'em ups.
- Dragon's Dogma : Dark Arisen - the basic Dragon's Dogma was one of my favorites of 2012. Dark Arisen is a whole lot better
- Dishonored (Daud DLCs) - I really dig Dishonored and those were some great mission packs.
Other than that I kinda liked Bioshock : Infinite. Thought the gameplay sucked, the story was hack-writing at best (though it was very engaging and charming in a way), but it still left quite an impression. From the moment I'd finished it, it hasn't really left my mind.
june gloom on 31/12/2013 at 21:06
To be fair, there's a good reason the sexist drama happened: some of the artwork is ridiculous and juvenile and so is the artist. I'm sure the game itself is fine but don't make the mistake of dismissing the debate over the artwork as "lol teehee feminazi."
