Game of the Year? (2010)

So what are the people of notebookreview game or games of the year (2010)?

I know there are so many to choose from and its a little late to discuss this since, but whatever.

If I had to choose 1 it would be Battlefield Bad Company 2 + Vietnam Expansion.
It has not even been a year yet and I have already put in 330+ hours into this game!

Honorable mentions:
Mafia 2 - enjoyed the story and the atmosphere of the game and how it made me feel I was in the 50's.

Mount and Blade Warband - the original was great, but this improved on everything that was good in the first game and there is multiplayer!

Beat Hazard - A space shooter controlled by your music! Loved it!

Splinter Cell Conviction - One HELL of an AWESOME game! Felt like I was playing a summer blockbuster movie.

Biggest disappointment:
Star Wars the Force Unleashed 2 - only thing they did right was made loading fast compare to the last game.

So what is everyone else game of the year 2010?

 

Mass Effect 2: Streamlined the RPG elements from the first game while introducing characters you actually care about and an epic storyline. Improved upon almost everything from the first game which was already a GOTY contender in 2007/2008. The class specific special abilities made multiple play-throughs different and enjoyable. On top of the excellent base game Bioware also added some excellent additional content through quality DLC. ME3 will be hard pressed to beat this.

 

I'd say Bad Company 2 is probably the best this year. I always go back to play it every now and then and still have lots of fun.
Starcraft 2 was more addicting than Bad Company 2, but it got boring after a month or so. Very nice game design by the way.

 

My choice: no game made in 2010 deserves the title.

 

My game of the year is not the one that took the most time from me nor will I replay it the most. It simply wins because its fun, innovative and totally original.

Super Meat Boy

There has be no game I have played in my life probably that has been so hard yet fun to play at the same time, and nothing is impossible or feels unfair.

So when you finally beat that one thing holding you back for 500 deaths the sense of accomplishment is so grand that no other game has ever given me that feeling.

I also love how its all retro and old school with parodies and things.

Definitely my 2010 game of the year.

Runners Up:

Starcraft 2 and Battlefield Bad Company 2

 

Im seeing alot of bad company 2. i heard from my freinds that the game sucked. however, they all play the 360 version. is the pc version that much better? if so i may just pick it up.

My choice(s):
Mass Effect 2 - best overall
Super Meat Boy - best indie title

 

Alpha Protocol

 

well its difficult to compare a fps game available for console and pc, usually the pc version has a better feel to it, simply because its so much easier to use the mouse to aim, the gamepad sux for that.

As for the goty, dont rly have one that stands out.

 

I agree with the Bad Company 2 + Vietnam Expansion. Easily the best game combo I've played this year.

Starcraft 2 was pretty fun but got boring very quickly. After a month or two I haven't played the game since. 18 months till the next expansion? No thanks!

Mafia II was pretty and had a great storyline, but was very repetitive. It was fun but not great in my opinion..

I loved Fallout: New Vegas at first. But the terrible bugs and performance really hurt that game. In addition it didn't feel nearly as polished or great as Fallout 3 was. Kinda hard to have a post nuclear bomb world that has working machines, electricity, and neon lighting everywhere. I think it took a lot away from the feel of the game...

Your friends probably didn't like it because it doesn't have enough huge flashy banners popping up giving you points for breathing on your enemy or jumping over a wall in a flashy way or dieing and switching to the same class as the person who killed you like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 did...

/rant from a PC gamer snob.

In all serious though, its worth every dime you spend on it. I've played a LOT of shooters over the years and this is by far the most fun I've had in an FPS. Great maps, great weapons, very immersive environments.. Its just absolutely fantastic.

 

Mass Effect 2 wins it for me, easily.

Runner-Up #1 - Dawn Of War II: Chaos Rising. The plot twists had me saying WOW, in a way I haven't before.

Runner-Up #2 - Alpha Protocol

 

Super Meat was a fun game for me, still have a lot to play with it. It reminds me of the old school side scroller games I used to play as a kid, same goes for VVVVV. But nowadays I have to many games to play so my attention span on a particular game won't be long. If these games came out when all I had was one game to play for many months I would love it more!

I keep hearing good things about this game, maybe I will give it a try. What turned me away from this game was all the negative reviews the press had for it.

 

Darksiders gets my vote!

 

That felt like a ripoff of mono:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(video_game)

 

My vote goes to Bad Company 2. It had a somewhat rough start, but it has more than made up for that by now, and it's one of the most fun games I've ever played.

 

Super Mario Galaxy 2. Strictly PC? BC2 or Mass Effect 2.

 

Mass Effect 2.

 

I have to agree, Battlefield Bad Company 2, was a game I never really looked into, but one of my friends posted about it on facebook and I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. So having bought a new notebook this past Thanksgiving, I wanted to throw some modern software to benchmark my new system.

At first playing the single player game was, meh, been there done that, so I thought, whatever, gonna get me Modern warfare 2. I played Modern warfare 2 and loved it because Modern Warfare 1 was my all time fav. I kinda got bored and wanted to try the multiplayer Bad Company 2, and still I was like, meh, this is so pathetic, but as I spent more time on it and learned how it plays and got used to it's pace, MAN! this is the ! I mean, I used to search and watch Iraq war videos on youtube, and Battlefield Bad Company 2 actually makes me feel like I'm in one of these war videos. It's that much more real and immersive and actually made me not like playing Call of duty series as much anymore .

I'll give the Call of Duty series the upper hand in single player story and game, but multiplayer, Battlefield Bad Company 2 all the way!

To anyone that didn't play it yet, at first you might not really like it, but after the learning curve, I guarantee you'll love it. Be warned though, this game is just as demanding on hardware as Crysis is, and to get good framerates you'll have to have at least an i5 with a GTX 460m. I have this set up and I get 40-60 fps, everything maxed even AA and AF, but turn off HBAO since that really taxes the hardware.

 

BFBC2 is not even close to Crysis in hardware requirements. I can max it easy on all my systems but not Crysis.

 

Mass Effect 2 is the obvious choice although the combat system was a let down the story line wins it outright. I want to add BFBC2 as an honourary mention but I'm bored of shooters and twitch games.

 

Games for 2010 on PC was pretty barren. I can only think of two games and no honorable mentions.

Mass Effect 2 for Action semi-RPG.
Civilization V for requiring some IQ.

I'm not a SC2 player so I don't care

 

On a 5870 theres about 10-20 FPS difference (Depending on who's benchmarks your reading) between Crysis @ 1920x1200 full settings and BC2 @ 1920x1200 full settings.

BC2 eats most cards up pretty well. Its not as rigorous as Crysis but you still can't max BC2 out on most cards except for top end (At least not at normal resolutions). NVIDIA?s GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470: 6 Months Late, Was It Worth the Wait? - AnandTech :: Your Source for Hardware Analysis and News

Also, I think the low end for BC2 is higher than a lot of video games mid to high end settings. My old M15x in my signature can only run BC2 at minimum possible settings (minimum settings after editing the Settings.ini folder and forcing dx9 @ native 1440x900 resolution) and still only averages 30-35fps.

 

I can max BC2 with 40-70 FPS with 16x AF and 1x AA with HBAO on.

I can't max Crysis, not even close. With Crysis maxed, it's not even playable, it's stuttering.

 

BFBC2 + Vietnam is my choice.

 

What processor/video card/resolution?

If I remember correctly Crysis is a lot more CPU intensive. Once you get to a certain level CPU they should perform as the benchmarks above show. But below that than your probably not going to be able to run Crysis nearly as well as BC2 even though, graphically, they are within 10-20fps of eachother on the same video card.

 

my vote goes to Rogue Warrior . any one????


JK

BFBC2

 

Despite putting in more than 180 hours in Bad Company 2, I have a hard time recommending it for game of the year. It just had too many glitches and bad net code that it was more frustrating than fun half the time. I would have probably kept playing if all that was fixed, needless to say it wasn't. I've started up with Vietnam now, and it's fun and seems to be improved a bit though.

I really have a hard time recommending anything for game of the year 2010 to be honest. Starcraft 2 maybe. But that's probably a shoe-in anyhow.

 

BFBC2. Campaign is good. The multiplayer is so good. You have to get past your individual driver issues first, but once you settle in on one that provides the least amount of problems you can bear to live with, it becomes an awesome experience.

I also loved the single player campaign for MOH. Yes it was too short, but I really enjoyed playing it and have replayed the campaign more times than any other FPS. Too bad the multiplayer sucked so bad.

 

Wow, that link actually makes the case for more RAM and higher minimum framerates, and although the ATI cards can hit higher maximum framerates it doesn't seem to handle minimum framerates so well. This is a very significant factor, since dropping below 25 fps is what makes a game "choppy" and breaks the illusion of being immersed in a virtual world, especially when alot is going on screen. Nvidia has the upper hand in keeping framerates more steady in the playability zone of 25-40 fps, because 100 fps is overkill and means nothing, since 24 fps already deceives the human eye into perceiving fluid motion, anything more will barely be distinguishable.

It's also proof that BFBC2 is on par with Crysis as far as software that demands so much calculations that it brings even state of the art in hardware to a crawl. Anyway yes BFBC2 does have it's flaws, such as hit detection that can get annoying, but for immersive factor this game has it if you got the hardware to run it in all it's glory. Oh and use the "war tapes" option for audio...

 

My vote goes for call of duty black ops.. Excellent game and may not be as good as BC2 in some respects , overall i still prefer it.

Panther214

 

Yea, exactly. BC2 eats video cards up.

I keep meaning to Google what the war tapes function does. Thanks for reminding me!

 

BC2 is the best in fps
ME2 in 3ps

and bc2 is best played in pc, those who say it sucks because they can't see the real beauty and effects of bc2.

 

BC2 - FPS
Civ V - Strategy
Assassins Creed Brotherhood - RPG

 

Which is exactly why the RPG Genre is so barren these days !

Why not just bill games like ME, FO3 and NV as a "FPS with PAUSE" !

Well at least the Witcher 2 is coming out soon.................

Err.............nothing really stuck out in 2010 !

BTW.................screw the Zombies, where the hell is Episode 3 Valve ?

 

I don't even have to think about this one. Farming Simulator 2011.

But seriously, I don't know. I'm terrible at these decisions.

 

Never played ME2, but I don't doubt that it's an amazing game.

As for Bc2, I love the game, but it just could have been so much better. It's glitchy, EA servers suck, and it's a console port. There are very few unlocks and it doesn't feel too rewarding. Plus, if the developers focused a bit more on the PC port it could have been much better. The game is loads of fun, but it just needs to be tuned up a bit.

 

Mass Effect 2 should win. Story, gameplay, & character development are second to none for 2010. I can see how some people may not like that type of game, but they did a great job of putting it all together. It was really a captivating experience.

 

HL Woot!

 

RPG? I'd think it is an action/adventure game...

 

I got quite a few RPG just recently during the sale.

I got the Kings Bounty complete series, oblvion GOTY, there was dragon age but I am boycotting that, deathspank, monkey island, titan quest, just to name a few.

I prefer JRPG genre like Final Fantasy, but those truly are pretty rare these days on PC.

 

May I ask why?

 

BioWare refuses to fix a lot of known bugs. And they charge $$ for every DLC. It's like buying a game with half the content and then selling the other half in small segments. I've talked to Vicious about this game and having played it myself I don't blame him. Eyefinity is still broke. I encountered a quest bug for example in Awakening where all my gear is gone in the Silvirite Mines, and that bug has been known since March 2010 and it's still not fixed. For many users the game continues to have the memory leak issue even after Patch 1.04 and BioWare has made it clear they will never fix this. BioWare while they make great games I'll admit, they sure could step it up on support. And I'm not a fan of the trend of offering players half the game at full price and then slowly eventually releasing the other half at more than the full cost of the game in total. Although Dragon Age without DLC still had 50 hours of gameplay, so that is awesome. But ME2 naw, that was just shameful ripoff. All the DLCs should have been included for that game IMO.

 

What???? If it is a port, it is the best port ever created. I don't know where you came up with this info, but nothing in BFBC2 feels like a port to me. It had bad driver support from the start, but I don't think that makes it a port. The Battlefield franchise has always been built for PC. It also has plenty of unlocks, weapons, pins, awards, rank. If there is a problem with unlocks, it's that you complete them all long before you max out rank. Or at least I did. Which isn't a bad thing because now I just focus on killing.

 

Ruckus said my main reason why.

The poor eyefinity support, this game is 10x better in eyefinity and I purchased it only because it was on the officially supported games list.

Only to get about 3 hours into the game and wonder why things were so plain, almost every tree and bush and other environmental decoration was gone because it was not rendered in eyefinity, also there are horrible pop-up issues where a giant tree just pops in and out of your vision based on how far away it is from the center of your screen when you look around.

Totally destroys the immersion of this great game.

I made a youtube video clearly demonstrating the problem. I ran through the forest on a single screen resolution, recorded it.

Then did the same run again in eyefinity and then edited the video to show the two side by side, all the grass, bushes, flowers, etc were gone on eyefinity making the lush forest look like a barren plane.

I had that video up for 2 days and magically got a copyright claim from one of bioware's dogs and had to take it down.

Any post about the issue is ignored or deleted on the forums, and they have not even acknowledged it or said they will fix it despite the fact they themselves submitted the game as eyefinity certified.

I dont like how they just dropped support for this game and are already working on the next one before its fixed and I dont like how they released so much DLC so fast because it makes me just know they had that content ready @ release but choose to hold out on it so they could charge for it.

 

ME2 is goty 2010 for me. They improved pretty much everything from the first game.

 

I'd hafta vote SC2.

 

Can't agree with you more. That's why i refuse to buy those until a couple years later when they make a GOTY version or make an ultimate one with all the content and have a steam sale on it or in a steam back...aka mafia 2 and borderlands ^^

 

Overall GOTY - Battlefield Bad Company 2
Best FPS - same as above
Best RPG - Fallout NV
Best Strategy - Starcraft 2
Best 3rd Person - Fallout NV
Best MMO - None
Best Top Down - TORCHLIGHT!
Honorable Mentions - Mass Effect 2, Just Cause 2, Mafia 2

Worst Releases
Worst FPS - (Im going to get flamed here) tie COD Black Ops and Sniper Ghost Warrior
Biggest Let down of 2010 - Medal Of Honor. Still better than Black Ops but a Major let down.

BW, StevenX

 

bc2 or borderlands w/expansions.

 

didn't play too many new games this year... but vicious is right, Super MEat Boy is awesome!

 

Its a great test of personal character to see if you can hold your cool and patience on the harder levels. However hold out and when you beat it the sense of accomplishment is just so great.

Im currently in the 5th world working on the hidden character warp zone "the kid" and damn its hard.