Ken Levine's Top 10 Games of 2013

You have to admit, it's kind of weird that for a game they all agreed was 2012's Game of the Year, like fucking zero of the GB staff seems to have touched Enemy Within. It came out on Nov. 11th, and I guess another playthrough of the game is kind of long, so unfortunately none of them seem to have fired it up. Also, it sounds like a lot of them just sort of wrote off the whole expansion before it came out because they were turned off by the fact that it wasn't a new campaign and was instead new elements added to the existing campaign.

But then I guess I sort of expected that since it was fairly apparent that they all only played the game once, and few of them ever intended giving the game another go on Classic difficulty, and/or Ironman, and/or messing around with different starting continents.

@edsone said:

On top of that, what version of Wind Waker did he play where anyone has a flute? The titular Wind Waker is a conductor's baton, and somehow that baton magically generates different musical pitches even though the positions of a baton actually indicate the beat (strictly speaking).

This list tops my 2013 list of favorite games of the year lists

stellar list. Never heard of unity of command, kind of want to check it out now.

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ken, hope your wife is isn't reading this. You just put your career ahead of her. :)

Why does it sound from the description of each game as if you havnt played any of them?

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No 'The Last Of Us'.

#shotsfired

"Hey another expansion pack!"

Well if we are allowed to break that rule... then I LIED in my other post (jeffs top 10). I said I was torn between GTA and Bioshock, but the truth is that not game came close to "Mists of Pandaria" this year for my money (literally).

Also NEVERWINTER should have made the best debut list for GB.

Didn't Dishonored come out last year? It's sad that he could never play Bioshock Infitnie with a clear mind like we did. Maybe in the future we will have a gadget to zap our minds for a few hours so we can replay a game for the first time again :) "Make it happen"

amen to that

Great to see Fallen Enchantress on a list. Its steadily been getting better.

Nice to see some love for Dishonored and Xcom, loved those games.

@heavenly_king: Personally, one thing I love about the Top 10 lists GB puts up is how varied people's lists are. When you look at GOTY coverage in the industry as a whole, it's very much the same every year and it kind of drives me crazy. I love seeing people who's opinion or work I admire list a game I've never played or even better never heard of and then trying that game.

Ken, any time you want to play Waterdeep, let me know. Amazing stuff.

You know that XCOM: Enemy Unknown won GiantBomb's Game of the Year last year, right? I was gonna assume you were referring to Enemy Within but didn't that expansion come out like couple months ago?

No The Last of Us? :(

Even Ken Levine hates Bioshock Infinite LOLOLOLOL

Didn't Dishonored come out in 2012? Ken Levine's 2013 2012 #4 GOTY?

Probably, but hell, they also got an active WWE wrestler, a noted film director, and the arbiter of the Lang Zone.

Now I really need to play Dishonored.

A classy motherfucker like Levine would list Dishonored 4th when it's a direct iteration of the Thief franchise that he birthed, and not mention it in the slightest.

Unity of Command! Nice. Its an incredible game.

ken levine is always an industry fave of mine, bioshock backlash or no.

isn't it either 'flautist' or 'flutist'? never seen anyone use 'floutist'. Might've been a typo perhaps...

@sometimesavowel: I figured that must have been John Carpenter. At least Ken Levine is in the same industry.

Sorry, too burned from Elemental: War of Magic to care about Elemental: Fallen Enchantress.

The first was broken for so long that they gave you Fallen Enchantress for free to apologize.

Is this the guy I think Jeff was referring to as the guy you knew you weren't going to get in Unprofessional Friday last week?

Damn you Ken Levine, you handsome bastard.

I wonder if Ken has young kids. I bought Lego Marvel when I bought a PS4 solely so that my five year old would have a game to play and not feel left out. Playing through it with him though, and its turned me into a big fan. Its just dumb fun.

Me too, just looking at it makes me thirsty.

Pure win to put Marvel Super Heroes on the list.

DIshonored has been on a couple Top 10 lists this year. Thats awesome

@turambar: It means instead of tacking on an expansion pack or making it it's won separate thing, enemy unknown adds an entire new "race", mission objectives and way of building your characters. It adds more the balancing act that takes place outside of the missions as well as new timed based objectives inside missions.

It's just the original game with way more content basically.