GOTY 2011
A lot of these are skewed, because I'm playing mostly on an Xbox 360 only, and admittedly missed a lot of the big titles of the year, but hey! It's my list. Leave me alone.
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Completely changed the open-world action genre as we know it. I loved me some GTA 4, but I often felt myself lamenting the fact that Rockstar chopped out so much of the light-heartedness. Saints Row was apparently listening.
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I can't honestly remember the last time that a story of a game had me as engaged as Portal 2's did - and it's a puzzle game, for God's sake. The humor, the characters, not to mention the intuitive puzzle design, made this a game I know I'll remember for a long, long time.
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Just from the sheer technical marvels, L.A. Noire would be worthy of a spot on my list, but the immersive atmosphere and film-like quality of the whole game kept me pushing forward. I played this game on the 360 - it says a lot that I was willing to play this game to completion despite having to put up with three discs.
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I missed out on YDKJ the first who-knows-how-many times, so it doesn't sit this high on any sort of nostalgia. Instead, it's the crazy humor and intuitive tweaks on the traditional trivia game that kept me coming back time and time again - and through a full four packs of DLC.
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Normally when you tell me I have to go back and re-solve a scenario, I tell you to screw off. In Stacking, I relished it. Must have done something right.
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To everybody who complains about how sports games are the same damn thing each year, with only minor tweaks: here you go. Now shut up.
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I set up a PC solely to get time in on TrackMania. Does that answer your question?
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The only modern military shooter I've had any sort of a taste for. Go figure.
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It's an iPhone game, and it's not a terribly deep iPhone game, but the rhythm-game junkie in me was more than happy to have this little gem come out this year, especially with the genre largely taking a break on consoles in 2011.
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No, it's not as good as the original. And I'm sure that had I played the original Puzzle Agent when it had come out, I'd have been as disappointed as everybody else. But I didn't, and playing Puzzle Agent 2 immediately after the first one allowed it to quench my thirst for more of the same. Mission accomplished.
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