Console Game Of The Year 2012

[Shifty Geezer]

I know, but Rockband 3 has a pretty good tutorial section, with various exercises. It's not perfect obviously (won't teach you two-handed playing), but it's sitll pretty good.

I'm not saying otherwise. I don't see a future for Rocksmith Piano though. I may be proven wrong, but it's quite a lot more effort with a far smaller audience. Don't see anyone going there.

Um, which is OT. I don't really have a GOTY 2012. Haven't played too many games. Wasn't impressed with XCOM in the end.

 

[Scott_Arm]

I'm not saying otherwise. I don't see a future for Rocksmith Piano though. I may be proven wrong, but it's quite a lot more effort with a far smaller audience. Don't see anyone going there.

Um, which is OT. I don't really have a GOTY 2012. Haven't played too many games. Wasn't impressed with XCOM in the end.

Yeah, Rocksmith Piano won't happen. Even electric pianos are very expensive. I think they could actually make the game work with a different presentation, but there wouldn't be any money in it. It would just be really awesome if it happened.

Back on game of the year topic.

My multiplayer game of the year is Borderlands 2, easily. My single-player shooter of the year is Max Payne 3. My favourite downloadable game of the year is Trials Evolution. RPG for me was Mass Effect 3, but there were a lot of RPGs I didn't play. It's sort of an RPG-lite too. The Witcher on 360 seems really good, but I haven't finished it yet. Sports game of the year for me is NHL, but the best game is probably FIFA. I just like hockey more as a sport.

 

[NRP]

Borderlands 2.

It was even better than the first game. Fantastic solo, even better in co-op.

 

[dobwal]

I' ve heard a lot of good things about this game and i'm thinking about getting it ... is it actioned packed ?

Ton of actions. Plays like GOW or ME but transition between cover isn't handled as well as those titles. Throws anywhere between 5-6 but sometimes 8-10 guys at you at any one time and enemies encounters seem more tightly packed together. You have two Delta operators at your side with the ability to give orders like ME but its limited to attacking enemies. Ones a support, close combat specialist the other is a sniper. You can carry two weapons at a time and there are a ton of different weapon types in the game. Action can get to a point where it seems like the game intentionally throws huge amount of enemies at you just to wear you out in an effort to make you feel the level of exhaustion and amount stress placed upon the protagonist.

Art, story, music and voice acting is where it really shines though. I finished it last night and found the ending satisfying but that it somewhat muddled or over complicated the story itself. The game throws out the typical shooter conventions and turns the genre on its head. This is no grand fairy tale with you as the knight in shining armor ready to save the world and be celebrated for doing so even though the protagonist fits your typical hero mold.

This game throws dirt in Ebert's eyes for saying games can never be art. This game points to a reality where games can be expressed and the audience impressed upon in a way thats not possible in film.

 

[Cornsnake]

I am playing Spec Ops: The Line right now and I am a 3/4 of a way through. Its probably closest thing to a HBO drama that I've played on a console. It created one of the most immersive moment I have ever experienced in a game where the look of the character's face is exactly how I felt at the time. Going through this game has highlighted how shallow and artificial 99% of all war shooters are when it comes to dealing with the realities of operating inside a war zone and all the tragedies and atrocities that come with it.

If the last 1/4 plays out the first 3/4, it will easily go down as one of the best games I've played this generation because of its story.

It does put a lot of games into a new perspective. Hoping they'll learn from what Spec Ops is doing.

I was surprised to see it so rarely show up in GOTY lists. It seems all the praise for story telling went to The Walking Dead. (Which I haven't played). Between that and it's poor sales Spec Ops is one of the most overlooked games of 2012.

Which ending did you get? It's definitely worth seeing all of them.

 

[Sigfried1977]

I think that's because Specs Ops is kind of a piece of crap as far as traditional moment to moment gameplay is concerned.

Arguably that's the case with The Walking Dead as well (I loathed the forced point and klick segments), but unlike the boring shooting bits in Spec Ops, the adventure game stuff in TWD is a very minor part of the package.

And don't forget that there's no super popular Specs Ops The Line tv show to raise awareness for the game.

 

[KongRudi]

For me it were Journey.
It's the only game I can imagine to remember 10+ year from now, and still want to replay.
I've played through it alot of times, and seen alot of other peoples playthroughs with commentary on youtube, to see what other people think about it.

2nd place I think is XCom, it's great, kind of what I wanted when I said they need to make a remake of XCom when I saw Valkyrie Chronicles.
But it still has abit flaws where the original got it right..
The original games had alot more research of human tech before we got to alien tech, i.e. inciedenary bullets and armour piercing clips, different grenades - while the remake version jumped straigth to the laser and plasma tech, leaving us with nothing to research in large parts of the later game.

I also 'discovered' the Yakzua franchise this year, and played Yakuza 3 and 4.. If those were released in 2012, it would perhaps have been a contender for my GoTY, but I think they are 2011 games.

 

[Cornsnake]

I think that's because Specs Ops is kind of a piece of crap as far as traditional moment to moment gameplay is concerned.

Arguably that's the case with The Walking Dead as well (I loathed the forced point and klick segments), but unlike the boring shooting bits in Spec Ops, the adventure game stuff in TWD is a very minor part of the package.

And don't forget that there's no super popular Specs Ops The Line tv show to raise awareness for the game.

Spec Ops' gameplay can be a bit rough, but I wouldn't call that bad either. If anything Far Cry 3' gameplay is far worse in places, and has one of worst stories ever written attached to it. Yet people are calling it their GOTY. I'm not here to tell anyone which they should like best, but clearly they are willing to forgive a few flaws.

 

[Cheezdoodles]

Far cry 3 is at least the best graphics I have seen on consoles by far! It is simply put breathtaking in some parts. Better graphics than uncharted and OPEN WORLD. If someone would tell me 7 years ago that this could be done on a ps3 I would not believe it.

Dunno if its my GOTY, but its certainly the game that has wowed me the most

 

[nightshade]

I don't think it's better looking than Uncharted 3, it's open world yes but shaders and lighting quality are superior in Uncharted...so is the post processing, animations and textures. Also Farcry 3 runs like ass....and tears like shit.

 

[tuna]

Far cry 3 is at least the best graphics I have seen on consoles by far! It is simply put breathtaking in some parts. Better graphics than uncharted and OPEN WORLD.

It has a much worse frame rate as well.

 

[alexsizz]

Far Cry 3, Assassin`s Creed has the best grafics in my opinion. But uncharted 3 has a great storyline. Waitnig for a new Final Fantasy maybe there will be some innovations.

 

[(((interference)))]

Piano's much harder. Guitar is a folk instrument, popular for its portability and easiness to start creating music (learn basic chords and change strumming patterns and you wail along)

I disagree, I think guitar is definitely harder to play (to a beginner/intermediate level at least)

I started playing piano at 8 or so, picked up electric guitar a few years ago - definitely think guitar is harder. The most difficult thing on piano is playing two hands simultaneously, wheras on guitar even fretting a simple chord and getting it to ring properly without any dead strings took like a month or two. And even then changing chords quick enough is a whole other matter altogether, never mind more advanced stuff like barre chords, bending etc.

 

[Nesh]

I disagree, I think guitar is definitely harder to play (to a beginner/intermediate level at least)

I started playing piano at 8 or so, picked up electric guitar a few years ago - definitely think guitar is harder. The most difficult thing on piano is playing two hands simultaneously, wheras on guitar even fretting a simple chord and getting it to ring properly without any dead strings took like a month or two. And even then changing chords quick enough is a whole other matter altogether, never mind more advanced stuff like barre chords, bending etc.

Kind of off topic but you may love this guy
He is self taught and has a shitload of free lessons in youtube. Took him years of practice to become what he is today but he does amazing stuff.
He's got some crazy finger techniques