Nice topic, just when I was seeking for some community fun on GOG ;)
My personal "best" games list, where "best" games are games, that given me the must fun this year. If my list finds you angry or something, please remember, it's my opinion, and I porbably have resons to have it after multiple hours of playing ;) I also will try to justify my decisions. Let's post my favorites list, shall we:
As for my favorites:
Hotline Miami and Thomas was alone - My definitive "indies" of the year.
Far Cry 3 - Graphics, gameplay, gunplay, story, villans and insanity. All that makes for the best and most fun shooter of this year. Though, game required a TON of tweaking to run properly on my system.
Darksiders 2 - this game just given me hours upon hours of fun. It's just an amazing game. I've played the first game, I was blown away how they increased the amount of stuff you can do. Still, I must say that the didn't sacrifice the fluid progress from the first game for quantity over quality.
Dark Souls - Finally on the PC? With essential community fixes! Heh, this game is a true masterpiece. It given me so much fun and satisfaction, fueled by stress and constant feeling of survival, it's not even funny. The unique atmosphere and high amounts of player immersion that comes from the difficulty level is just one of a kind. My definitive GOTY and probably best action-RPG of the decade.
Most disappointing in my opinion:
Sniper Elite V2 - I've tried to play this one on very high difficulty level (I play my games on high difficulty levels, I like a challenge) and figured out later on that game uses a ridiculous checkpoint system where checkpoints are few and scattered widley throughout the levels and you can't manually save your progress. Some sections took very long to complete (for example, the museum) and replying them several times was just frustrating. Why you cannot just save you game? It turn out to be a game, where getting a checkpoint was a Godsend! It just killed all the enjoyment for me.
Diablo 3 - I really wish it was as good as Diablo 2, which is one of my favorite games of all time, but it sadly isn't. Many design decisions turn me off this one. It's not for me.
Borderlands 2 - Three things made the game boring as hell for me. Level balance, loot and difficulty level. Not binding level of loot and enemies to player level was a shoot in the foot. I was constantly over the level of my enemies, and thus, over the level of gathered loot, making most of the loot being trash. And considering this is a loot-fueled game, this made it easy and boring. In fact, so boring, I didn't even finish it. Hey, you can say "don't do sudequests, you will be over the level, which will kill the game for you". What a stupid design decision. Also, 90% of quests I've done where trivial.
Post edited January 02, 2013 by defosh369
