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Solve : Golden Joystick Awards: Portal 2 named ultimate game? |
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Answer» Portal 2 has been crowned the ultimate game of the year at the Golden Joystick video game awards. It wasn't that great. But given it's competition it's no surprise it won. As a massive gamer and one that the community respects, what would you have chosen? Obviously playing all the games and just judging from a gamers point of view. I'm not a massive gamer, at least not in the capacity that I play newer games extensively. I've probably clocked more time in FCEUX and ZSNES than I have in games like Blur, Shift, or Crysis. I played a Call of duty game for like 10 minutes before pressing Alt-F4 and deleting it from my hard drive because it lacked originality,taste, and any semblance of balanced multiplayer (WARRANTED, I discovered that after the fact). That, and of course the ostensible problem that it glorified war which I've always had something of an issue with. LA noire was yet another "GTA with a twist" game, which isn't bad in and of itself but still leaves much to be desired. I've never really LIKED the Gran Turismo games for some reason. Portal 2 was funny, but it was too short and in some ways felt like it tried too hard. On that note, the game itself was way too easy; though in fairness, it might be because it was designed to be easy for those who hadn't played the first one at all. Most new games that are "blockbusters" lack any sort of novelty; they are built on "tried and true" concepts that are sure to garner sales. This is why indie games OFTEN have so much more value, even if they don't have millions of dollars behind them; they explore new game ideas and concepts that the well-rooted game developers cannot risk creating a AAA title for. (And this is why games pretty much follow a set formula, you just get very mild variations on it. And those games can be great on their own, but when you've played games going back to the NES- you just get tired of the same old crap. I don't play Call of Duty, or really any modern shooter, because I already played shooters. I played Doom, I played Duke Nukem, And Quake, and Quake II & III. About the time of Doom 3 I got utterly sick of the same type of shooters being churned out over and over again. If I want to play a Shooter- I'll play one of those. Additionally, the online communities for those games are typically of an older demographic, so you are SPARED of the sea of 14-year olds that you would otherwise find in a `modern shooter`. Portal was a very unique game and deserved the heaps of praise it got; it added the cool concept of portals to the Source engine, and used it in the idea of a non-violent puzzle schematic, which was refreshing given the other games of the time. Portal 2 merely tried to draw on the fanbase of the first game. As a result, while it was great, it lacked a lot of the charm of the first one, which was of course to be expected, since a sequel that exists only because the original became popular isn't going to have the same innovative charm that the first one did. In summary, games today (specifically PC games) are more about what ridiculously overpowered graphics card you need and can show off to your nerdy friends while you all much on cheetos and discuss the ambiguities raised by Odo's biological makeup, and less about the actual content and gameplay of those games. In summary I would have chosen Spelunky. Don't Cheetos make the keyboard orange ? ? Quote from: PATIO on October 22, 2011, 01:31:22 PM Don't Cheetos make the keyboard orange ? ? This is cancelled out however when they spill Lime Soda on it. There is balance in nature.As it should be... Quote from: patio on October 22, 2011, 01:31:22 PM Don't Cheetos make the keyboard orange ? ? Quote from: BC_Programmer on October 22, 2011, 01:33:17 PM This is cancelled out however when they spill Lime Soda on it. Quote from: patio on October 22, 2011, 01:34:42 PM As it should be... In a chatroom I would have said lol but here I will just say haha |
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