CNN's top 10 games of 2010

[Aragorn]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/gaming.gadgets/12/29/best.games.2010/index.html

Lots of talking, blah blah blah, and then their list:

1. "Heavy Rain" (Sony, PlayStation 3)
2. "Red Dead Redemption" (Rockstar Games, PlayStation 3/Xbox 360)
3. "Super Mario Galaxy 2" (Nintendo, Wii)
4. "Mass Effect 2" (Electronic Arts, PC/Xbox 360)
5. "Rock Band 3" (MTV Games, PlayStation 3/Xbox 360/Wii)
6. "Call of Duty: Black Ops" (Activision, PC/PlayStation 3/Xbox 360/Wii)
7. "FIFA 11" (EA Sports, PC/PlayStation 2/PlayStation3/PSP/Xbox 360)
8. "God of War 3" (Sony, PlayStation 3)
9. "StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty" (Blizzard, PC)
10. "Halo: Reach" (Microsoft, Xbox 360)

 

[firehawk12]

Heavy Rain. Oh man.

 

[AdAstra]

Was it any good? It sure looks interesting.

 

[Niorah]

Aw, no Dragon Age?

 

[firehawk12]

Was it any good? It sure looks interesting.

Everything about the game is interesting... except the story. It suffers from George Lucas syndrome, where no one told David Cage that the story made very little sense. I can see people being interested in the game and taking stuff away from it, but the story is not one of those things.

 

[Kadratis]

Hm, I thought it was pretty good; it's the reason I bought a PS3. Just that the ending was too static. It'd be much more entertaining if the killer was different depending on several different factors that are made through-out the game.

 

[LightningStorm]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/gaming.gadgets/12/29/best.games.2010/index.html

Aragorn, This board has a rule about copy/pasting too much of an article verbatim into a post. Since you provided a link, I snipped out the descriptions of each game. People can go to the site to read the whole article.

Thanks

 

[Arrqh]

Aw, no Dragon Age?

That'd be sort of weird if it was since DA came out in 2009...

 

[Switch]

A surprisingly credible article given the source.

 

[Timby]

Was it any good? It sure looks interesting.

Everything about the game is interesting... except the story. It suffers from George Lucas syndrome, where no one told David Cage that the story made very little sense. I can see people being interested in the game and taking stuff away from it, but the story is not one of those things.

It's dogshit. The problem with Heavy Rain is that it isn't any fun to actually play, which is a huge problem with a game, a problem that I thought we'd gotten past a decade ago. The story can be enjoyable at a few moments, but I begged for it to advance every single time I was given control of a character. David Cage desperately wants to be a movie director, not a game designer, and this game shows it.

It's basically Cage trying to show off once again that in a world of video game amateurs, he is an artiste. The only fun I got out of it was seeing how badly it was either broken or could be broken -- particularly noticeable if you don't do exactly what Cage wanted you to do in his game. It's a terrible "movie," and even worse as a game ... there isn't much more to be said.

JASONNNNNNNNNNN

 

[Emher]

"Red Dead" should've been top, and there's no way you'll concivne me "Black Ops" is better than "StarCraft 2".

 

[Lookingglassman]

I keep hearing about Red Dead being a great game. I might pick it up one day and check it out.

 

[Niorah]

Aw, no Dragon Age?

That'd be sort of weird if it was since DA came out in 2009...

Well, they released a whole lot of DLC through 2010, so in my love for the game I automatically thought it would count.

Silly me.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

I keep hearing about Red Dead being a great game. I might pick it up one day and check it out.

I just got it for Christmas. So far, it's awesome.

 

[Mistral]

I keep hearing about Red Dead being a great game. I might pick it up one day and check it out.

I just got it for Christmas. So far, it's awesome.

XBM game of the year.

 

[firehawk12]

Was it any good? It sure looks interesting.

Everything about the game is interesting... except the story. It suffers from George Lucas syndrome, where no one told David Cage that the story made very little sense. I can see people being interested in the game and taking stuff away from it, but the story is not one of those things.

It's dogshit. The problem with Heavy Rain is that it isn't any fun to actually play, which is a huge problem with a game, a problem that I thought we'd gotten past a decade ago. The story can be enjoyable at a few moments, but I begged for it to advance every single time I was given control of a character. David Cage desperately wants to be a movie director, not a game designer, and this game shows it.

It's basically Cage trying to show off once again that in a world of video game amateurs, he is an artiste. The only fun I got out of it was seeing how badly it was either broken or could be broken -- particularly noticeable if you don't do exactly what Cage wanted you to do in his game. It's a terrible "movie," and even worse as a game ... there isn't much more to be said.

JASONNNNNNNNNNN

That totally depends on what you want out of games nowadays though. Honestly, whenever someone can make a multimillion dollar game that isn't a shooter or a hack and slash game, I'm willing to give it a try.

The problem is just building a game around mostly pointless mechanics. Sometimes the actions you do are very meaningful - other times, you're opening doors and drinking orange juice.

Then again, I'm willing to suffer through the non-sense of a Metal Gear Solid game in order to experience the small moments of inspired game design because I'm funny that way.