http://i40.tinypic.com/fxzbz8.jpg#23: Temple Run – iOS – 41 pts – 5 voteshttp://i41.tinypic.com/4pwe1c.pngs1ocki: temple run is addiiiiiiiictive
Jeff: I usually don't like these run forever type games, the controls often aren't responsive enough, but this one is well done.
Woof: It fills those 2 min gaps better than most other games & is repetitive-compelling but it's sort of charmless and there's that grubby 'buy fake coins with real coins' thing, so it's at the bottom of my ballot.
― 1986 tallest hair contest (Z S), Monday, 9 April 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://i43.tinypic.com/3524qp3.jpg#22: Marvel vs. Capcom 3 – 360 / PS3 – 42 pts – 4 votes - 0.25 top game voteshttp://i40.tinypic.com/rbe1j6.jpghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83r0wf_oc6Mjamescobo: When I was in college I was required to take two science classes. The first one I took was The Science of Earthquakes, which was an awesome class. The other one was Astronomy, a class which (a) required real physics and (b) was apparently a class physics students used as an easy A. MvC3 is basically the video game equivalent of that class - I am firmly out of my element and under no pretenses about it. It's still a bunch of fun, which puts it in sharp contrast with Astronomy (which actually sucked) .
DJP: YES YES BASHY BASHY BOOM FIGHTER TRIPLE COMBO EXPLOSION WOWAnyone who hates this game hasn't figured out Deadpool's 4th wall-breaking ultra combo.
abanana: I did not actually play a minute of this. I am voting for it just forthe tournament streams and youtube videos. The comeback mechanics mayhave been too powerful, but the game is still very entertaining towatch.
― 1986 tallest hair contest (Z S), Monday, 9 April 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
this starts with the amazing Deadpool super
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn3m8qlVk8w
I love this move so much
― God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Monday, 9 April 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
i didn't know they'd made this game. it makes me a little sad that it's 3d
― thomp, Monday, 9 April 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
http://i40.tinypic.com/9fp17n.jpg#21: Saints Row: The Third – 360 / PS3 – 45 pts – 3 votes - 0.25 top game voteshttp://i41.tinypic.com/33ttu2o.jpgNhex: It's almost a cliche at this point to bring up the point that this series has become what GTA should have been. The missions and sheer fun this game throws at you! It could've been pretty easily gone too silly - and hell, it probably does at points - but even with all its sophomoric humor you can really see there was a lot of passion put into this game. For instance, the sound the dildo bats (err, The Penetrator) make when you clobber someone is perfect - you can really feel the weight and texture of that thing. Yeah and there's some other stuff like how they deliver a ton of things for you to do and how every single mission and activity in the game is coop-able, which makes everything better, but you knew that. Just keep this game away from Congress, for all our sakes...
jjjusten: Sometimes a game comes along that is so far removed from ideals of respectability and taste that it seems to operate on a different metric, and most of the time it fails (hey whats up naughty bear/duke nukem) but saints row has increasingly found a way to triumph in that arena. Now that GTA has decided to be a boring emo trainwreck painted in varying shades of grey, the world needed saints row the third more than ever, and we got more than we bargained for. You can not take this game seriously, and when you try, suddenly you think "oh shit, i did just beat that guy to death, but he was a magical neon encrusted anime nerd with a sword and the powers of the flash, and i did it with a baseball bat length purple dildo." Video game violence is best served super corny and bizarro, and the sooner people start remembering that, the better.
― 1986 tallest hair contest (Z S), Monday, 9 April 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
BUT THE VEHICLE HANDLING SUCKS!!
― PSOD (Ste), Monday, 9 April 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like i voted for marvel vs capcom but cannot remember
― Lamp, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 00:58 (twelve years ago) link
temple run: yeah, this was kind of your typical hot iphone game, like super awesome for a while but i haven't touched it in a long time
mvc3: juuust got knocked off my ballot, but this was really fun. i'm kinda with james, in that, i really enjoyed this but this is the first fighting game to really make me feel like, damn i am too old and too slow to even consider playing this at a decent level. seriously, even executing the standard magic series/bnb combo is like arrrrrrrgh fingers too slippy
also it deserves mentioning that the whole Ultimate re-release is kind of top shelf Capcom assholery. fortunately, i figured it was gonna happen so i didn't buy the original
saint's row: wooo my .25 GOTY vote! only 3 votes though, c'mon you suckas need to play this
― Nhex, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 01:58 (twelve years ago) link
yeah blazblue was the last fighting game i had the skill, patience and time to become 'competitive' at but mvc3 is flashy and stupid enough to just have a lot of fun fucking around w/. certainly is the first fighter since blazblue that ive wanted to play more than once
― Lamp, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 02:06 (twelve years ago) link
i never got blazblue - will pick up that latest release sometime this year, it looks awesome, i enjoyed watching the evo streams too
ste: does the vehicle handling NOT suck in ANY GTA/alike game? i've totally accepted it now, and prefer the arcade slip of SR
― Nhex, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
no i've always enjoyed the car handling in gta.
i really wanted to like SR, it seemed like a lot of fun that GTAIV wasn't, but i just can't get over the bad car handling and also I don't really want to drive wacky looking cars either.
― PSOD (Ste), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 11:05 (twelve years ago) link
I like the car handling in GTA in general, but IV seemed way too realistic.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 11:34 (twelve years ago) link
motorbikes in IV, now they were fucking annoying
― PSOD (Ste), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 11:47 (twelve years ago) link
Actually the thing I really didn't like about GTAIV is that as the vehicles became more damaged they would start listing to one side or another. Proper GTA = you steal a car, you ride it like a maniac until it is 1 sec from exploding, you get a new car. None of this realistic damage nonsense.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 12:10 (twelve years ago) link
nah, San Andreas vehicles were brutal to drive with the tires popped and it added to the hilarity, pretty sure there is a crude damage implementation even in the v. first GTA
― red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 12:19 (twelve years ago) link
I remember playing Destruction Derby for the first time, I think it was on the Saturn. I was impressed at how the damage affected the cars driving, I loved it. the best parts of the game were in the Bowl arena when only a few cars remained driving around all battered up barely able to turn.
in fact in gta one of my favourite cars is the 'already' beaten up, wing missing, rusty thing, that you can't even get fixed in a paynspray.
― PSOD (Ste), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 12:27 (twelve years ago) link
i'm pretty sure i voted for SR3. i keep trying to formulate a post in the video game racism thread where i explain why i didn't find its sexism/homophobia/racism upsetting, whereas i was bothered by deus ex human revolution, but i can't quite say it the way i want to. it's something about how it's so gleefully inane that it is hard to ascribe malice to it. it's not just that it insults everyone (which ppl have pointed out is often the refuge of the racist) but that the way it insults ppl is so guileless, so silly.
ftr, my fave part of the game is Genki. have u all seen tim + eric's thing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5O9x7aL7QE
― Mordy, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 12:33 (twelve years ago) link
i just think that personally SR weirds me out a little too much.
― PSOD (Ste), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 12:51 (twelve years ago) link
it's really weird
― Mordy, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 13:00 (twelve years ago) link
normally, i hate Tim and Eric, but they were the perfect guys to do that video
btw, did any of you guys ever randomly run into Genki in the game, because holy shit, he's scary.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
fukit. I'm a load this shit up and see if i can like it.
― PSOD (Ste), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
i liked sr3 but i didn't love it. as manic as it is its still an uglier reflection of arrested gamers attitudes to women, and that gets icky after a while. and its just pretty cheap and shoddy wrt gameplay compared to gta4, esp compared to ballad of gay tony, which was just about perfect IMHO in terms of lunatic but grounded urban sandbox.
― I accidentally sonned your dome (stevie), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
The Fifth Annual Coint and Plick Poll for Best Video Games of 2011 - Part Four: THE TOP TWENTY
― 1986 tallest hair contest (Z S), Thursday, 12 April 2012 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
played sr3 for a few hours last night after being reminded by this thread and man, its stupid, but still one of the most fun games i played last year.
― Rango Unchained (jjjusten), Thursday, 12 April 2012 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0C59h1nlwg
― the acquisition and practice of music is unfavourable to the health of (abanana), Saturday, 14 April 2012 13:19 (twelve years ago) link
heh, nice!
― Nhex, Saturday, 14 April 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link