[RT-55J]

AAAAAAAAAAA

uh... I mean, sure thing.



(man how am I ever going to clean up this mess?)

[Gorblax]

My vote for Game Of The Year: Super Mario 3D Land. This year brought back a pure joy I had not felt since the first time I held a Nintendo 64 controller in my hands and triple-jumped my way through Princess Peach's Courtyard.

Honorable Mentions:

Jetpack Joyride
Portal 2
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[RT-55J]

just realized that I could (probably) just pull the results from this thread

oh well

[remote]

My vote is obvious.

(Though I still wish I could have played SM3DL, and honestly feel that could have been a close runner-up.)
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[Dracko]

Frozen Synapse
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[Felix]

Need to play Dark Souls and/or SM3DL before I can vote, everything else I played this year was just okay or very competently executed.

My problem with Frozen Synapse is the same as my problem with D&D 4th Ed; they abstracted too much of the menial fun stuff away to leave just the combat.

[spectralsound]

Dark Souls for me too, and the IGF Pirate Kart if it counts. i kinda wish i had a 3DS so i could investigate Super Mario 3D Land. and oh god Au Sable is one of my favorite games of all time and yet i keep forgetting Gyossait exists
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[Napoli]

2001 Wizardry 8
1990 Ys Book I and II

[The King]

Going to tentatively say Aban Hawkins and the 1000 Spikes
I haven't played Mario 3d Land yet though.
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[spectralsound]

so hey i haven't seen this thread in a while

i was bored earlier so i went through all the years listed and compiled my picks for each, plus one for this year to kick it off. lots of revealing stuff here about my tastes/history in videogames (spoiler: i'm probably terrible at videogames) (also if you're wondering why my pick for 2012 is different than what i picked for benren's thread: i hadn't played my pick for this thread yet)

here's the list, godspeed ye who still curate this thread:

[Ronnoc]

Good list

[Gorblax]

RT-55J hasn't posted in a year. I would be happy to resume this project in his place. Mods?
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[remote]

2011:
dark souls
super mario 3d land
witcher 2
terraria
bastion
the binding of isaac
x-xenoblade?!

2012:
dark souls artorias of the abyss expansion
journey
la-mulana (remake)
hotline miami
xcom
goblet grotto
torchlight 2
binary domain
d-dragon's dogma?!

2013:
dragon's dogma: dark arisen
the last of us
starseed pilgrim
zelda: a link between worlds (whoa, what)
teleglitch
papers, please
space harrier 3d
yume nikki 3d
the stanley parable
shin megami tensei 4
doom wad: back to saturn x
hhhammerwatch!!! piiissss!!!
s-starbound?!
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[Kitten ClanClan]

okay, so

1. what the fuck does this mean:

"If you so desire, you can vote for multiple "first place" entries per year, which will be counted as 1 point instead of .5 points."

i'm parsing this "if you vote for one game, it gets .5 points. if you vote for multiple, they all get 1 point." shouldn't that be the other way around?

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2. are we going by original or regional release dates: imagine i were to choose mega man 2 for 89, would i then be able to also choose it for 88, since that's when it came out in japan? hell, if i count pal, i can make it 91, too.

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3. are certain years closed off and finished voting, or can we vote all years now?

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4. how about different version release dates? for example: terraria came out in 2011. i didn't play it until 2013 on my xbox. the version came with a slight new update. i'm tempted to say we should pick 2011.

this also raises a question for something like contra: the arcade and nes versions are very different, if i wanted to nominate the nes version, would i use its release date, since "contra" technically came out before that? and again, which region would i use?

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5. significant game updates often change the game drastically: would we pick the year the most impactful version came out? i mean, look at minecraft.
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[remote]

the issue with release dates came up a lot along the course of this thread: for example, a bunch of folks started naming super mario bros. 3 as their goty 1988 even though most of us didn't play it until at least 1990. i think you should be honest to your own experiences to some extent, though of course this also presented an issue where i or someone would nominate a game for a certain year and because others nominated it for another year its overall presence would be diminished. it's a weird and flawed process no matter how you cut it, i think. especially with stuff like minecraft and terraria, "early access" games on steam, etc.

i dare say it's a dead thread, anyway, unless someone puts gorblax in control of it.
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[Kitten ClanClan]

[remote]

if you're up to it, this could be a fun idea for a thread, though it'd have to be something more like "what's your top ten per console?" rather than forcing people to pick just one game, and then working out a system to merge individuals' picks into a collective result.
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[misadventurous]

no way man, make people really think and pick one game and give an eloquent defense of it, so it isn't just a bunch of lists.

i guess i can't speak for everyone but personally i don't give a shit what the Best Game of 199X/20XX Actually Is by consensus, i want to see why X person calls X game THEIR game of that year.

i dunno. i'm rereading this thread & i instantly scrolled past the OP & all the "results". it was just a bunch of titles and numbers. i think i ignored the rules when i posted in it too (no offense to RT-55J intended).

while i'm throwing my opinion around: so there's no confusion, either make the "year" the actual original release date year of that game, or make it the year you played the game. personally i'd vote the latter since tying appreciation of media to your own experiences = (hopefully) more interesting & i want to see weird things like people voting some obscure Game Boy game they played last year their GOTY 2012

[remote]

sure, yeah, maybe that would be better. or, you know, just an entirely different thread: post your one favorite game from this year and just talk about it. no lists, just thoughts and discussion.
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[RT-55J]

[cassievania]

come back RT-55J ;__;

o-oh

hi RT-55J :3
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