Fallout 3 GotY: fidgit #4

[Brother None]

We're just going to keep bumping up these GotY results as they roll on in. Fidgit has Fallout 3 as the 4th-best game of the year, after Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, Saints Row 2 and Far Cry 2.<blockquote>Fallout 3
I didn't do this intentionally, but once I'd arranged my list I realized that my top four games of 2008 are all powerfully imagined and skillfully created open worlds, with rock-solid infrastructures of good gameplay and an unwavering emphasis on freedom. Here are almost unprecedented juxtapositions of developer creativity and player freedom (Grand Theft Auto IV would have belonged among this rare company if Rockstar had either written a better story or designed a better game). Fallout 3 is the most contrived of the four, proceeding apace along the usual RPG trappings like dialogue trees, fussy interface muckery, and occasionally clunky world building. But it's an unforgettably bleak and epic experience, brave enough to be barren and gray, but crammed with stories, vignettes, characters, and sights. Oblivion with guns? Oblivion should be so lucky.</blockquote>

 

[Brother None]

Seriously, Far Cry 2?

That game is a like a pinnacle example of mediocre game design.

Ah well.

 

[Kashrlyyk]

Seriously, Far Cry 2?

That game is a like a pinnacle example of mediocre game design.

Ah well.

He is obviously a mindless action fan.

 

[Tycn]

I hadn't even heard of the Banjo Kazooie game.

Or Fidgit, for that matter. Seems like the same mediocre blog material.

 

[generalissimofurioso]

Ah Fidgit, you once again prove yourself a mindless derivative of the Sci-Fi channel.

 

[Brother None]

No, Fidgit is Tom Chick's site. Chick's a pretty well known journo.

 

[Pope Viper]

I would love to see what criteria these people use to determine GoTY. It seems to be based entirely on the amount of the hype generated.

 

[Kilus]

I would love to see what criteria these people use to determine GoTY. It seems to be based entirely on the amount of the hype generated.

Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, Saints Row 2 and Far Cry 2 weren't exactly hyped much.

 

[Brother None]

Far Cry 2 got a bit of hype...not a lot, though, not compared to the main titles.

Nope, these lists, and I do respect that, seem to just be Tom Chick's personal picks. He also made a list of overrated games, which includes Mass Effect and GTA IV.

So you can question his tastes, but his integrity in these picks looks fairly solid.

 

[Pope Viper]

That's cool, I haven't heard of a couple of those, and I've only played one

 

[Kilus]

Far Cry 2 got a bit of hype...not a lot, though, not compared to the main titles.

Nope, these lists, and I do respect that, seem to just be Tom Chick's personal picks. He also made a list of overrated games, which includes Mass Effect and GTA IV.

So you can question his tastes, but his integrity in these picks looks fairly solid.

Except Mass Effect was a 2007 game, ports don't count.

 

[Paul_cz]

FarCry 2 was awesome 95% game for me.

Yeah it was fucked up by too fast respawning, the story should have been much better and better told, and AI could use some tweaking.

But despite all that, I fucking loved it and spent 32 hours in it, loving every second.Similar to Stalker in this respect.

Anyway, I would not say it had mediocre game design.It was just too ambitious for its own good, and the devs lacked the time/money/talent/resources to pull everything off successfully on their first try....

 

[Brother None]

Except Mass Effect was a 2007 game, ports don't count.

Usually they don't. I think I saw DA's PC port in some GotY races as well back in the day. ME PC won't be competing on GameBanshee any more than TW Enhanced Edition, that's our policy, but it's not a rule, not all sites exclude ports.

 

[Public]

My friend is a hardcore fan of Far Cry, and he hates FC2.

He's a harcore fan of Resident Evil, and he hates the "new and changed" game's idea. But Resident Evil is not on this list.

 

[BloodyPuppy]

Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts looked like garbage. Course I never played it so I can't really judge the game. Regardless, the new character design is just terrible...

 

[Brother None]

My friend is a hardcore fan of Far Cry, and he hates FC2.

I would think that most hardcore fans do. I mean, on the one hand our effrontery is worse, because Fallout 3 does pretend to be a sequel and has some types backing that claim up, and that's worse, but on the other hand Fallout 3 makes some half-hearted attempts at actually being a sequel too. FC2 just has dick-all to do with FC.

 

[moyogo]

I thought it was a good idea to move away from the sci-fi stuff. I couldn't finish farcry because of a big room with monkey snipers hitting me with their smgs from 5000 yards. That said I enjoyed the game.

I've heard good things about Banjo & Kazooie, but I'm not a big platformer and I don't know that hardcore platformer fans still exist - didn't Nintendo abandon them or something? Last platformer I liked was Bubsy...

 

[BloodyPuppy]

I dunno, I heard Nuts and Bolts was more of a racing game or some crap.

 

[TorontoReign]

I heard Banjo Kazooie sucked balls, but you can't always rely on what you hear so I don't know if its good. Saints Row 2 is just recycled trash. Far Cry 2 is decent.

 

[BloodyPuppy]

I dunno, I've watched some videos of Nuts and Bolts and though vehicle creation is interesting looking, the physics just look awful. I mean it just looks as if nothing has any weight and the vehicles look to handle poorly. Looks like a case of good concept, bad execution.