Yes I know its a little too late to indulge myself in giving out "awards" to my favourite game of last year, you got to know it's just weird how I never really talk much about video games in my own blog... despite it being my no.1 life waster. I had been playing video games ever since the age of 4 with my first video game being Ice Climbers on a Nintendo Entertainment System rip-off called Micro Genius. I never stop gaming since then and when I come to think of it... it is just sad that my favourite life-waster had taken a backseat in my blog. So if you don't mind, let me indulge myself in giving out awards to my favourite games of 2008.
Surprise of The Year - World of Goo
I don't like to play puzzle games because they either make me feel stupid, or they are to casual for my liking. Then came Portal, a first person physics based puzzle game which actually made me feel clever and laugh at the same time and I thought I will never fall in love with another puzzle game again.... until I played World of Goo a physics based puzzle game in which you must lead a group of "goo" from point A to point B (kinda like Lemmings with physics... without the stupid lemmings). What impress me more is its size of 60MB!!!
Surprise of The Year - World of Goo
I don't like to play puzzle games because they either make me feel stupid, or they are to casual for my liking. Then came Portal, a first person physics based puzzle game which actually made me feel clever and laugh at the same time and I thought I will never fall in love with another puzzle game again.... until I played World of Goo a physics based puzzle game in which you must lead a group of "goo" from point A to point B (kinda like Lemmings with physics... without the stupid lemmings). What impress me more is its size of 60MB!!!
If only physics class was ever this fun....
Biggest Disappointment - Spore
Ever since I first heard of Spore's development (circa 2004), I had been anticipating it. I was intrigued by the idea of a game that simulate life itself. How you start a creature from a cell and slowly evolve it into a race of galactic superpower. What makes it even more intriguing is how every single user created creature, buildings and vehicles is uploaded to a Wikipedia like server for all to see. After following the development phase closely for 4+ years I finally got to play it. Instead of a huge open world game which simulates everything in life, we got a multimillion dollar casual game. Every single aspect of the game is dumbed down to appeal to "casual gamers" so say EA. For a game which plays like Pop Cap game, I felt cheated for buying this for RM139.00 (US$40) .
Ever since I first heard of Spore's development (circa 2004), I had been anticipating it. I was intrigued by the idea of a game that simulate life itself. How you start a creature from a cell and slowly evolve it into a race of galactic superpower. What makes it even more intriguing is how every single user created creature, buildings and vehicles is uploaded to a Wikipedia like server for all to see. After following the development phase closely for 4+ years I finally got to play it. Instead of a huge open world game which simulates everything in life, we got a multimillion dollar casual game. Every single aspect of the game is dumbed down to appeal to "casual gamers" so say EA. For a game which plays like Pop Cap game, I felt cheated for buying this for RM139.00 (US$40) .
Sadly, the creature creator is the only thing worth playing in this game
Games that I wanted to play badly but never had the chance to - Metal Gear Solid 4
Ah, Metal Gear Solid. One of the best and consistent gaming series that I had ever played. I still remember the first time I played Metal Gear Solid 1, it took me 1 and a half agonizing hours just to get past the first 2 guards. Yeah, I know... I suck but ever since then, every single minute playing it was an orgasmic experience. The wonderful cinematics, the great graphics, the awesome story of twists and turns and last but not least the fantastic stealth gameplay which was quite alien to me back then. Fast forward 3 Metal Gears later, I am still craving for more but unfortunately can't get some. Due to some unknown reason why Hideo Kojima still remains fiercely loyal to the overpriced piece of plastic by the name of Sony Playstation 3.
Videogame of the Year - Left 4 Dead
Games that I wanted to play badly but never had the chance to - Metal Gear Solid 4
Ah, Metal Gear Solid. One of the best and consistent gaming series that I had ever played. I still remember the first time I played Metal Gear Solid 1, it took me 1 and a half agonizing hours just to get past the first 2 guards. Yeah, I know... I suck but ever since then, every single minute playing it was an orgasmic experience. The wonderful cinematics, the great graphics, the awesome story of twists and turns and last but not least the fantastic stealth gameplay which was quite alien to me back then. Fast forward 3 Metal Gears later, I am still craving for more but unfortunately can't get some. Due to some unknown reason why Hideo Kojima still remains fiercely loyal to the overpriced piece of plastic by the name of Sony Playstation 3.
A video is worth a billion screenshots. Watch it!
Videogame of the Year - Left 4 Dead
Before you go, "WTF? Where is Fallout 3, GTA 4, Mass Effect, etc etc" on me allow me to explain why I gave this award to L4D. Though GTA 4 had a great story, it lacks the free form gameplay that its predecessor San Andreas has. Despite Fallout 3 being a free form epic RPG game, I do not have the time to truly immense myself in the epic-ness of this game. Mass Effect? If it is not for the story, the whole game itself would had suck.
So what's so special about Left 4 Dead you say? This game have what I call the "Diablo-factor". Which in laymen terms means "simple repetitive game but strangely addictive". The whole concept of the game is simple. You and 3 other people have to travel across the zombie infested city to escape from...what else? Zombies. In between your paths of the escape point and you are thousands of zombies including some special types which have special abilities. The hunter, who will jumped and humped you like a rapist, the smoker, a sniper-type zombie which can grab a person with his tongue at long distant, the boomer, an obese zombie which vomit bile on the survivors which attract zombies, the witch, a zombie bitch which will incapacitate you simply by touching you if you disturbed her crying and the tank, which like its name implies, a tank of a zombie that won't die until you empty several rounds of ammo at him.
Unlike all the AAA games that was released last year, Left 4 Dead is the only one with the most replay value especially with friends. Despite only having 4 campaign maps, the game is high replayable as every session is like Diablo. You never know what the game will throw at you until you are there. Best part of them all? You can play as zombies....
So what's so special about Left 4 Dead you say? This game have what I call the "Diablo-factor". Which in laymen terms means "simple repetitive game but strangely addictive". The whole concept of the game is simple. You and 3 other people have to travel across the zombie infested city to escape from...what else? Zombies. In between your paths of the escape point and you are thousands of zombies including some special types which have special abilities. The hunter, who will jumped and humped you like a rapist, the smoker, a sniper-type zombie which can grab a person with his tongue at long distant, the boomer, an obese zombie which vomit bile on the survivors which attract zombies, the witch, a zombie bitch which will incapacitate you simply by touching you if you disturbed her crying and the tank, which like its name implies, a tank of a zombie that won't die until you empty several rounds of ammo at him.
Unlike all the AAA games that was released last year, Left 4 Dead is the only one with the most replay value especially with friends. Despite only having 4 campaign maps, the game is high replayable as every session is like Diablo. You never know what the game will throw at you until you are there. Best part of them all? You can play as zombies....
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1 comment:
I like MGS; so? What has my sexuality or race got to do with anything? I get called a gay nigger for liking MGS4 and told that I'm a child. Why is that exactly? Not only are you my junior, liking a video or a game is enough to call me names for what reason? I commented ages ago and you felt the need to insult me and I'm a child? I didn't even know you were insulting me at first as you couldn't form a coherent sentence and I had to ask you! Well if liking MGS and Hideo is gay then I'm gay!
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