the croc level was fine for me; my main issue with Arkham was the MIND NUMBING REPETITION of voice over stuff. I knew I was frustratingly stuck on a level when I had to listen to joker or harley or gordon or thug #12 or a warden say the same shit 99BAZILLION times. They drastically underestimated either how many variants they needed or when the time was to cut off the talking. Having it go on forever sometimes made me have to play it on mute when hunting for riddles.
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 11 February 2010 05:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Idk, the croc thing was this maddening combo of really easy and really slow and really unfun.
― SMALL BONES, SMALL BODIES (jjjusten), Thursday, 11 February 2010 05:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Biggest problem I have w/the game is kind of the zero replayability factor.
― SMALL BONES, SMALL BODIES (jjjusten), Thursday, 11 February 2010 05:58 (fourteen years ago) link
That being said, like bioshock, worth it for how great a single playthrough can be when in the right hands.
― SMALL BONES, SMALL BODIES (jjjusten), Thursday, 11 February 2010 06:00 (fourteen years ago) link
23 Left 4 Dead 223 Trials HD14 Battlefield 194312 Beatles Rock Band10 Orbital Iphone8 Drop75 Guitar Hero Iphone5 GTAIV TBOGT
yrs a mostly casual gamer
― take me to your lemur (ledge), Thursday, 11 February 2010 09:35 (fourteen years ago) link
= 1) GTA IV - The Ballad of Gay Tony= 1) Worms 2: Armageddon (XBLA)3) Rockband: Beatles4) GTA IV: The Lost And Damned5) Pro Evolution Soccer 6) Time Fcuk7) Battlefield 1943
in all fairness Worms 2 isn't the same game as the worms armageddon from a decade ago
― ANIMUS HOUSE (stevie), Thursday, 11 February 2010 09:42 (fourteen years ago) link
1. Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor (19 POINTS)2. Dragon Age: Origins (13 POINTS)3. Trials HD (12 POINTS)4. Games by jtmb02 (achievement unlocked, this is the only level, run elephant run) (11 POINTS)5. Killing Floor (10 POINTS)6. Shadow Complex (9 POINTS)7. Arkham Asylum (8 POINTS)8. 1 Vs 100 (7 POINTS)9. Suikoden Tierkreis (6 POINTS)10. Droplitz (5 POINTS)
In retrospect I would've made some changes, added & dropped some things, but... yeah that was my list.
Forks if you need some help next year definitely, definitely let me know, I am totally in. Awesome work. What a bizarre top 10 though-- I guess I forgot how many Ps3ers are on here.
― The controls are janky (Will M.), Thursday, 11 February 2010 10:32 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah - amazing work forks this was a pleasure to read!
― ANIMUS HOUSE (stevie), Thursday, 11 February 2010 10:34 (fourteen years ago) link
1. Arkham Asylum - (20 points)2. Skate 2 - (18points)3. Fallout 3 - Broken Steel - (15points)4. Fallout 3 - Point Lookout - (15points)5. Trials HD - (10points)6. New Super Mario Brothers Wii - (9points)7. Bowser's Inside Story - (8points)8. Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks - (5points)
Disappointment - Scribblenauts
I probably would have tied Arkham Assylum and Borderlands at top, and bumped Zelda off the list if I had played Borderlands before the ballot.
Thanks again Forks!
― CraigG, Thursday, 11 February 2010 10:58 (fourteen years ago) link
5 Guitar Hero Iphone
lol this doesn't even exist you twonk.
― JimD, Thursday, 11 February 2010 11:39 (fourteen years ago) link
oh yeah, i meant rock band, don't worry forks cleared up my confusion for me :)
― take me to your lemur (ledge), Thursday, 11 February 2010 11:45 (fourteen years ago) link
i didn't vote (i played, like, three of these games) but yeah well done forks
― thomp, Thursday, 11 February 2010 12:42 (fourteen years ago) link
i voted for guitar hero android
― wall•egina (s1ocki), Thursday, 11 February 2010 15:42 (fourteen years ago) link
kinda amazed arkham asylum finished #1. sure the demo was fun but far from legendary... anyway, great job obviously forks!
― sonderangerbot, Thursday, 11 February 2010 15:51 (fourteen years ago) link
If even 60% of the demo's fun quotient carries over through the rest of the game, it will unambiguously be my #1 game of 2009 (even tho I didn't even touch the demo until 2010).
― Michael Steele, the first black Superman (HI DERE), Thursday, 11 February 2010 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
i have the feeling a bunch of people warmed up to borderlands just after they voted in the poll, obv craigG upthread and i think mordy as well?
xpost oh dan you are in for a treat, the rest of the game is way more fun than the demo, it goes in lots of directions that you def will not see coming, plus - SO MANY GADGETS
― 3:16 (jjjusten), Thursday, 11 February 2010 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
i am working thru borderlands hells slow because i am doing it coop with a friend and we can't get on as much as we we would like. anyhow, we only recently got past the first area and the game has finally kicked in now. before i was thinking that it was a super average game that i was only playing cos of the coop but now i am loving it and thinking of starting over 1p to quell the frustration of our glacial coop progress.
― aarrissi-a-roni, Thursday, 11 February 2010 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
The only major difference is online play, right?
― Your body is a spiderland (polyphonic), Thursday, 11 February 2010 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link
a bunch of new weapons/tech too, and new single-player campaign (also you could play the original worms armageddon online)
― ANIMUS HOUSE (stevie), Thursday, 11 February 2010 18:41 (fourteen years ago) link
cobo - do you have a PC?http://store.steampowered.com/app/16600/
fuck, guess I'm'a have to take the plunge
also my ballot:
1. Demons Souls (15 points)2. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (14 points)3. Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (14 points)4. MLB 09: The Show (12 points)5. Uncharted 2 (12 points)6. Canabalt (8 points)7. Way of the Samurai 3 (7 points)8. Retro Game Challenge (7 points)9. Metroid Prime Trilogy (6 points)10. Big Word Puzzle Book (5 points)
games I regret leaving off: Bayonetta (although I'll just vote for it this year instead), skate 2, Sword & Poker ON IPHONE, Wolfenstein RPG ON IPHONE, Puzzler World (maybe even instead of the controversy magnet Big Word Puzzle Book)
man last year owned so hard.
also GOOD JOB FORX. if you wanted I would be happy to help start/populate a Wordpress blog w/ all these entries for archival/nerd-trolling purposes.
― /no cobo (jamescobo), Thursday, 11 February 2010 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link
wolfenstein RPG?!
― chris nibbs (cozen), Thursday, 11 February 2010 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, I've got that game. If I had realized it came out this year I would've voted for it.
― Mordy, Thursday, 11 February 2010 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
go for it jamescobo!
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 12 February 2010 05:05 (fourteen years ago) link
just bought trash panic btw, will report back
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 12 February 2010 05:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I reluctantly accept this high-paying, largely ceremonial position
http://cointandplick.wordpress.com
someone make a logo. also if anyone wants on the blogroll holla at yr boy.
― /no cobo (jamescobo), Friday, 12 February 2010 08:49 (fourteen years ago) link
voted 5 stars!
also (pedant) if you want to fix the spelling of my name in that first post, i will not be angry
― 3:16 (jjjusten), Friday, 12 February 2010 09:01 (fourteen years ago) link
intersting
― Nhex, Friday, 12 February 2010 09:01 (fourteen years ago) link
So I guess I'll give batman a second chance. I hated that demo so much though, I was REALLY BORED within five minutes. Clearly I missed something. Going to grab it again today and give it another go.
Forks, u hero. I'd like to buy you a pint! Paypal? :-)
― JimD, Friday, 12 February 2010 11:07 (fourteen years ago) link
still haven't bought batman ;_;
might go grab it today actually
― chris nibbs (cozen), Friday, 12 February 2010 11:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, and my votes were:
Plants vs Zombies - 5ptsFallout 3: Point Lookout - 5ptsBeatles Rock Band - 5ptsRetro Game Challenge - 5ptsTekken 6 - 10ptsBayonetta - 10pts1 vs 100 - 10ptsBattlefield 1943 - 10ptsShadow Complex - 10ptsRittai Picross - 30pts
Should've finessed my scoring a bit really, kinda nuts that I gave tekken 6 the same score as bayonetta.
― JimD, Friday, 12 February 2010 11:11 (fourteen years ago) link
(In other news, I fiddled around in some of the deeper menus of Rittai Picross last night, trying to get the text to turn english...and managed to delete my savegame and my 235 completed puzzles, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO). Will wait for the euro one before I restart, I think.
― JimD, Friday, 12 February 2010 11:25 (fourteen years ago) link
cozen how did you log 600 hours on SFIV and not then vote for it
― MPx4A, Friday, 12 February 2010 11:40 (fourteen years ago) link
keen observation lol
― Nhex, Friday, 12 February 2010 12:43 (fourteen years ago) link
i played an assload of NHL 10 and didn't vote for it. some games you play because they're a sickness.
― Dead Or Alive Extreme Beach Boys Volleyball (Will M.), Friday, 12 February 2010 16:15 (fourteen years ago) link
MW2 IMO
― snoocki (s1ocki), Friday, 12 February 2010 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
that site is awesome!I'll take you upon that pint sometime.
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 12 February 2010 17:10 (fourteen years ago) link
btw I will be adding in the comments I was too lazy to include with my ballot into the results here. EDITORIAL DISCRETION~
― /no cobo (jamescobo), Friday, 12 February 2010 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
when you're driving, you can make detours.
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 12 February 2010 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link
omg I missed so much by having images off
― your extra awesome blossom (HI DERE), Friday, 12 February 2010 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
those would be good last words
― snoocki (s1ocki), Friday, 12 February 2010 22:00 (fourteen years ago) link
ayo jamescobo, if you want to add the hi dere and jjjusten collaborative and inactive blog to yer blogroll, cool. http://jjjusten.blogspot.com/
― THEY HAVE CREATED ANOTHER (jjjusten), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 06:48 (fourteen years ago) link
done and done
― /no cobo (jamescobo), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 06:51 (fourteen years ago) link
The blog looks awesome btw!
― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
standing on the shoulders of giants, etc.
also if'n anyone wants to make a ILG/C&P logo I'll gladly put it up top
― /no cobo (jamescobo), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
i say keep it text-exclusive, like this board
― Nhex, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 17:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Guys, I played Hatsworth and it's bonkers amazing. So much fun, such innovative mechanics, etc, etc. I'm loving it.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link