@mind in rewind: The voice actor for Alistair is Steve Valentine. At first I thought that I wasn't going to like his character that much until he started to warm up. I was shocked that he didn't get a nomination on Spike's VGA show, but then it's Spike TV.
I was surprised to read the voice over credits and see a lot of my favorite voice actors in the game. Tim Curry, Kate Mulgrew (sp?), Claudia Black, Steve Blum, Yuri Lowenthal, Liam O'Brian, Nolan North, Cam Clarke, Jim Cummings (he's everywhere), Kath Soucie, and Fred Tatasciore are the one's from the game that I can remember right now. (Super-frog is a voice acting geek if you can't tell already. :P)
Batman AA is up there, although I don't know if I like it so much because it's actually game of the year, or if it's because I was just so surprised at how good it was.
Uncharted 2 was good from what I played, but I only got to play for less than 2 hours total so I'm not comfortable picking that. It's probably as good a choice as any, though.
Modern Warfare 2 mostly lived up to the hype, but a few nitpicky things like the dedicated servers issue, a short single-player mode and no co-op campaign (spec ops is ok, but I'd rather see a full mode with co-op) knock it down a few pegs. The multiplayer will keep me hooked for quite a while though.
Games people have already forgotten about since they came out early this year, but are definitely in the mix: Punch-Out!! and Street Fighter IV.
Definitely NOT game of the year: Borderlands or NSMB Wii. Both are fun, but the praise on those two is terrifyingly overblown.
It's been a pretty thin year, Dragon Age is easily at the top of the heap. BioWare has it all figured out right now, next year is going to be even better.
@Friedhamster: Those are all great games, but the Hollywood-style blockbuster titles aren't GOTY material for me anymore. Arkham Asylum would be my pick of those listed.
@Madeira: I'm not saying what should win, I'm saying what will get nods to win.
For me... boy, I don't know... I've had a ton of fun with Bayonetta, and why shouldn't that count? It came out this year.
I don't know! It's been such a good year for games... I've been completely impressed by how beautiful and engaging Assassin's Creed 2 is. I thought most definitely I'd say Uncharted 2, but I may go with Ubisoft. I'd probably throw Dragon Age in the mix, and it's totally complicated! I also think Arkham Asylum remains as one of my favorites from this year- what a tough decision!
@Vault is credit to team!: I disagree. My first Bethesda game was Fallout 3, and after getting dangerously addicted to that, I decided to check out Oblivion.. Maybe it just has to grow on me, but I'm just not having the same amount of fun as I was in Fallout. I guess once you go VATS you can't go back?
@Brad Phillips: the problem is, is that most reviewers and gamers alike said if you loved oblivion, you wouldnt like Fallout 3, because they said it's basicly the same game. or at least it feels like it. with the slow and crunchy, robotic looking npc's of both games, if youve played one, youve played both. ;3
Ugh? that crappy Kingdom Hearts remake was the most requested? Figured most KH addicts didn't have the credit card for GameFly, since they blew it on Keyblade replicas.
Interesting to see SONY's platform exclusives topping the list. I would have thought that Gears would have had been more rentable/rented than Fallout 3.
I find Soul Calibur IV's inclusion in this list more surprising and baffling than No more heroes'. I can at least understand why No more heroes made that list. But Soul Calibur IV is just ridiculous. I'm no fan of GTA and think the series is mad overrated. But it definitely was more worthy of being included in that list over Soul Calibur IV: which I thought was a bloody terrible game.
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I was surprised to read the voice over credits and see a lot of my favorite voice actors in the game. Tim Curry, Kate Mulgrew (sp?), Claudia Black, Steve Blum, Yuri Lowenthal, Liam O'Brian, Nolan North, Cam Clarke, Jim Cummings (he's everywhere), Kath Soucie, and Fred Tatasciore are the one's from the game that I can remember right now. (Super-frog is a voice acting geek if you can't tell already. :P)
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Uncharted 2 was good from what I played, but I only got to play for less than 2 hours total so I'm not comfortable picking that. It's probably as good a choice as any, though.
Modern Warfare 2 mostly lived up to the hype, but a few nitpicky things like the dedicated servers issue, a short single-player mode and no co-op campaign (spec ops is ok, but I'd rather see a full mode with co-op) knock it down a few pegs. The multiplayer will keep me hooked for quite a while though.
Games people have already forgotten about since they came out early this year, but are definitely in the mix: Punch-Out!! and Street Fighter IV.
Definitely NOT game of the year: Borderlands or NSMB Wii. Both are fun, but the praise on those two is terrifyingly overblown.
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Assassin's Creed 2
Uncharted 2
Batman
Call of Duty: MW2
inFAMOUS
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For me... boy, I don't know... I've had a ton of fun with Bayonetta, and why shouldn't that count? It came out this year.
#speakup
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It's unforgiving at first, but once you get hang of it it's gratifyingly good.
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While I'm firm in my choice of Uncharted 2 for game of the year, I would be remiss if I didn't give additional mention for two very special games.
That Game Company's "Flower" needs no introduction, and Daniel Benmergui's "Today I Die" should be familiar for the die hard kotakuite.
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and you mean "worst". ;)
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I was excited for it because I a huge Bethesda fan. I was so let down.
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