2017 The Year Of The Game

[Joe]

While GoW is a decent game by today's standards, back in 2006 it was truly something special.
One thing you didn't mention, Satsubutt, was the co-op experience and how the game's campaign handled it. Splitting you up in asymmetrical areas to fight on different levels of a persistent map.
There was something magical about fighting in the upper part of a factory building but being able to boomshot an exposed locust on the lower floor to ease things up for your partner down there.
It was a completely different experience to 'Here now two of you are on the level'

 

[Jason Tandro]

Welp, done with Gears of War. I didn't finish it. but I gave it a chance. Here's my review:

Year of the Game: Gears of War

Not to piss on your parade (because it's an awesome thing you're doing), but in the context of 2006 Gears of War was almost literally the first Unreal Engine 3 game that was released, so it graphically blew people's minds at the time

Yeah it's aged terribly but alongside Resident Evil 4 it set a precedent for the way third person shooters controlled, with a slower and methodical pace. Those two games introduced the over-the-shoulder/offset camera with a narrower field of view and legitimized it in such a way that center camera view has been mostly dropped in its favour. You can see it in the DNA of other franchises like Dead Space, Mass Effect and Metal Gear (and in the latter it vastly improved the way the whole thing handled).

It should be noted that while I try to use objective logic, the reviews themselves are aggressively subjective and about as "fair and balanced" as Fox News.

 

[Cthulhu]

I tried to play co-op / split-screen GoW with my brother once, I had no clue wtf was going on, where I was, where he was, what side of the screen to look at, etc .

I do remember that the game was glorious though.

Obligatory:

 

[Hisako]

Ahh, the good old days where Egoraptor was a lone animator and not merely a platform for other animators

Anyway, your roadmap looks fucking hectic, lol. May's going to be a helluva month

 

[Jason Tandro]

Beat God of War today. This one... surprised me. Read on for details but it was astounding.

Year of the Game: God of War

 

[Cthulhu]

AREEEES!111!!!111one

 

[Hisako]

God of War was definitive proof that you didn't have to be Japanese in order to make a good character action game

 

[Jason Tandro]

Played Fable. I've played 2 and 3 but never the original. And I love it so... so much.

Year of the Game: Fable

 

[Jason Tandro]

Finished Vanilla Alan Wake, though I'm going to play the bonus DLC and probably replay this a couple times to get all the collectibles and achievements. I had an extraordinarily good first run.

Year of the Game: Alan Wake

 

[Jason Tandro]

Beat Eternal Sonata (XBOX360 Version). It was... good but massively flawed if that makes any sense. I had higher hopes. Not a bad game just a mixed bag.

Year of the Game: Eternal Sonata

 

[Jason Tandro]

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

Just beat the next part of the Ezio Collection.