PsEG: Best of 2013
Right, let's do this. This list is subject to change if I play any more 2013 games this year, but that seems unlikely.
Maybe I'll play Brothers. Run that shit into the ground, right? I played Brothers. The list is altered as a result.
Excellent atmosphere. Love its style. Had the ending spoiled by a user we banned, but it was still a hell of a fun traipse through a strange and highly patriotic world. The piano stings (if that's what they're called) were a nice touch every time I landed a headshot with a sniper rifle.
A great storytelling and digging-around-junk game. Left an impression, partially because the idea of walking around a large, unfamiliar house at night alone with limited lighting scares me terribly.
...that might be why Outlast isn't on here, among other scary games.
Saints Row the Third was great. Saints Row IV distills that into a short, amazing open-world game that takes my memories of its predecessor and enhances them with a bunch of crazy superpowers and bullshit. Wouldn't recommend it without playing SR3, though.
Nice, simple stealth game. I like it. Great music, too. Haven't completed it all the way through, and I spent a bit too much money trying to encourage others to play it with me to no avail, but even the solo experience is a fun, almost Pac-Man-esque trip.
Like the original, but more to-the-point and every bit as addictive. Some of the new master powers feel game-breaking in a delightful way.
The puzzle aren't tremendously hard, but this was a nice 2-3 hour adventure in a very moody section of space. 2013 is the year of slick atmosphere and plots for games, apparently.
An easy step up from GRID's muddled style, even if it suffers from the Codemasters habit of repeating every race and race type until it's a well-beaten dead horse. Pleasant arcade handling and beautiful graphics. Didn't try the multiplayer, but that doesn't bother me much.
This would have been my game of the year if Dave Lang included racing wheel support. I would be playing ranked matches all the time and attending tournaments. No, Joy2Key isn't an acceptable compromise, because I want to bring a racing wheel to said tournaments and make stream monsters lose their shit.
Get fucked, Lang. Get. Fucked. Also, fuck you, Dave Lang. Great game -- my favorite fighting game not named Power Stone 2, even -- but fuck Dave Lang.
I was ready to pass off Brothers as an OK adventure with a few annoying bits surrounding a neat control mechanic. The early scenes that were supposed to be emotional didn't do much for me, due to a lack of build-up to make me empathize with random people/things I found.
This changed when a certain part I shall not reveal near the end happened, and a single action started the emotion rolling in. I nearly started sobbing, which was thoroughly unexpected at this point.
There are many games better than Brothers, but it's a worthwhile two hours. Brad's right.
The repetition wears after a while, but blah blah blah plot and atmosphere and funny narrator with an accent
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