GOTY 2011
These are the 2011 games I enjoyed the most this year. Done entirely for my own nostalgia, so I can look back next year, or the one after, and remember what I enjoyed playing in 2011.
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It was great jumping back into Valve's world. The humour and game play are spot on and the overall quality of the end product is awesome. I didn't spend all the much time with the co-op (almost none) and some the story did drag a little in the middle. But this game is up there will my all time favourites.
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Massive, immersive worlds are right up my alley. I've already sunk 120+ hours into this game and will double that, easily, by the time I'm finished with it. Having said that I've been lucky with this one and had a play experience largely free of serious bugs.
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I really enjoyed this game. Sure, sure, it's a brutal learning curve and can be pretty punishing at times. But once you get your head around it, and learn to temper your expectations of what a video game is supposed to do. Hell I think I even learned how to have fun playing it.....somehow.
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Because losing is fun! Ok, I might have played a lot of Dwarf fortress this year too, but Dungeons of Dredmor kept me coming back again and again. The referential humour throughout the game is perfect ("Fus do rah" - blue slime) and the game mechanics are both simple and deep. More importantly the experience is different every time and the absurd situations that lead to the loss of yet another character are amusing more often then not.
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This didn't hook me as hard as it seems to have a lot of people on the site and littered around the industry. I really enjoyed it though and that's why it's on this list. My interest waned in the middle, but that's more down to other games getting in the way. I'll get back to it eventually.
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At only a couple of hours game play I've only just scratched the surface on this this one. It's a gorgeous game though and the grey-on-grey morality of the witcher's world really makes it stand out from the simple good/evil decisions that too many contemporary RPGs push players towards. I can't wait until I can sink a few more days into this one.
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I...er...this game ruined a controller, almost two. The B button just plum doesn't work any more. This is an odd game, and I'm not really sure why I liked it, but hell I played the shit out of it.
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