Your Best/Worst of 2011 & Your 2012 Expectations?

Quote from XReflection : Any of Valve's games are well thought out and polished. Portal 2 was no exception. Absolutely loved the humor, characters and story. As thermo said, the campaign is still incredibly short, but definitely enjoyed it more than the campaign in a game like MW3 or BF3. Not to mention the puzzles are fun and it feels good when you beat them . Coop is a blast. I've only played with my brother, but it's fun killing each other for no reason xD

So this is only an opinion that I only share but I didn't feel clever for solving any of Portal 2's singleplayer "chambers." The reason is because it is blatantly obvious that there is only one exact solution and one solution only given the layout (a huge abuse of panels that you can't generate portals from). Now it's not something that I would penalize the game for but it did detract from my overall satisfaction of it.

Also, the campaign for BF3 is an abomination to gaming. It's as if it was designed specifically to generate gameplay footage trailers from.

I didn't have a best game, but my biggest disappointments were:

Gears of War 3
Uncharted 3
Resistance 3
MW3

I don't know if any of these needed to be made because they just felt like their predecessors without the fun.

Quote from thermoelectron : So this is only an opinion that I only share but I didn't feel clever for solving any of Portal 2's singleplayer "chambers." The reason is because it is blatantly obvious that there is only one exact solution and one solution only given the layout (a huge abuse of panels that you can't generate portals from). Now it's not something that I would penalize the game for but it did detract from my overall satisfaction of it. Also, the campaign for BF3 is an abomination to gaming. It's as if it was designed specifically to generate gameplay footage trailers from.

MW3 wasn't really any better imo,

Quote from XReflection : MW3 wasn't really any better imo,

I just realized what your avatar was but only because I watched Princess Mononoke for the first time over the weekend.

Quote from SkeezaPleez : I just realized what your avatar was but only because I watched Princess Mononoke for the first time over the weekend.

Lol. It's the default avatar for people who choose not to upload one xD. I never changed my avatar since I signed up, haha. And Princess Mononoke = good movie. But so are the rest of the movies by studio ghibli.

Quote from XReflection : Lol. It's the default avatar for people who choose not to upload one xD. I never changed my avatar since I signed up, haha. And Princess Mononoke = good movie. But so are the rest of the movies by studio ghibli.

Speaking of Studio Ghibli...anyone looking forward to ni no kun [youtube.com]i on the PS3?

Quote from thermoelectron : Speaking of Studio Ghibli...anyone looking forward to ni no kun [youtube.com]i on the PS3?

it looks like a pokemon style game. Never heard of it before... it doesn't look like my cup of tea.

Quote from XReflection : Lol. It's the default avatar for people who choose not to upload one xD. I never changed my avatar since I signed up, haha. And Princess Mononoke = good movie. But so are the rest of the movies by studio ghibli.

Interesting choice by SD.

The only game that I played that came out in 2011 is MW3... a few hours at a friend's house.

Only games I plan on purchasing in 2012 are..

FFXIII-2
Halo 4

Time, Money, & Motivation issues.

LoZ: Skyward Sword is probably my fav. Didn't play too much else new in 2011. Batman is too much like the first, but not enough in a good way. Repetitive fights and some bad level design has all but killed that game for me... but then again I haven't plowed through a game without losing interest since Red Dead Redemption.

Batman was my GOTY

Guess DNF worst GOTY and worst sequel/letdown ever

Halo4, MGS: RISING

Quote from XReflection : MW3 wasn't really any better imo,

just saw this....wow I totally disagree. I thought MW3's SP was pretty good actually. Certainly better than BLOPS SP campaign. I thought BF3's SP campaign was really bad but it's MP was better than MW3's.

Quote from Roland Deschain : just saw this....wow I totally disagree. I thought MW3's SP was pretty good actually. Certainly better than BLOPS SP campaign. I thought BF3's SP campaign was really bad but it's MP was better than MW3's.

Well, I guess it wasn't THAT bad...BF3's was pretty terrible. MW3 was definitely not the best out of the series. I felt like they just cook cuttered the SP based on COD4. What I do know is that MW3 overall is a terrible game. MP is complete shit (I haven't touched it in over a month and a half), coop mode is glitched as fark and SP was okay.

Quote from IamPro : MGS: RISING

Me too... until they did a reboot with a new developer called Metal Gear Rising: Revengence [youtube.com] now.