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patapon
11/26/09

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There can be only one...

Uncharted 2
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AncientUnknown1
11/25/09

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Modern Warfare 2 is my GOTY. Great single player and the best multi-player on the market.
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Shinta
11/25/09

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Best voice acting goes to Mark Hammil. Don't mess that one up guys.
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mind in rewind
11/25/09

@Shinta: Mark Hamill gives a great performance, no doubt. But I would give it to, er, the guy who played Alistair in Dragon Age.
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superfrogsavestokyo
11/25/09

@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)
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mind in rewind
11/26/09

@superfrogsavestokyo: Of course Nolan North is in it, he's in every game! :)
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KaneRobot
11/25/09

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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.
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mind in rewind
11/25/09

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Assassin's Creed 2 for me.
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Madeira
11/25/09

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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.
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Friedhamster
11/25/09

@Madeira: Thin? Are you kidding?
Assassin's Creed 2
Uncharted 2
Batman
Call of Duty: MW2
inFAMOUS
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Madeira
11/25/09

@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.
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Friedhamster
11/25/09

@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.

#speakup
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Archaotic
11/25/09

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Uncharted 2 or Demon's Souls here. Nothing else even came remotely close.
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Innis
11/25/09

@Archaotic: I agreed with those two games, Demon's souls gave me the biggest surprise of the year tho.

It's unforgiving at first, but once you get hang of it it's gratifyingly good.
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Psudonym
11/25/09

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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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dreamfall
11/25/09

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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!
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omgwtflolbbqbye
02/17/09

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I just beat it last week after playing for a good 2 months. Worse ending ever...
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LllusionX Mailed the Fission
02/17/09

@omgwtflolbbqbye: lol!

and you mean "worst". ;)
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scaught78
02/17/09

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Am I alone in having not liked this game??

I was excited for it because I a huge Bethesda fan. I was so let down.
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Vault
02/17/09

@scaught78: So was I. I expected it to be as good as Oblivion but I just had no fun with it.
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Brad Phillips
02/17/09

@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?
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LllusionX Mailed the Fission
02/17/09

@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
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Haruhila
02/17/09

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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.
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LllusionX Mailed the Fission
02/17/09

@Haruhila: :O!! Kingdom Hearts isnt a drug! it's jesus juice incarnate(incarbonate)
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Len Bias Cocaine Surplus
02/17/09

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All of these games have been Low Availability since their release
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ThursdayNext
02/17/09

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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.
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danjlove
02/17/09

@ThursdayNext: Naah everyone i know bought gears. We were in Afghanistan and we ordered a huge package with almost 20 copies from amazon.
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ThursdayNext
02/17/09

@danjlove: Fairy Nuff.
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Random J
12/29/08

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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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