January 8, 2009 10:17:33 AM
I felt kinda' the same way, being a Wii-owner and everything, but I would say Professor Layton & The Curious Village was my GOTY. I don't see anything wrong with voting for smaller, under the radar games. It's not a question of what game do people THINK will be GOTY or WANT to be GOTY, but PLAYS like GOTY, and it sounds to me like PixelJunk Monsters was the closest thing you had to a GOTY.
January 8, 2009 1:27:17 AM
While I'm glad you took the time to explain why you dislike Fallout 3 (I couldn't agree more; the game is simply far too niche to be receiving this much praise), I'm confused as to why you voted it game of the year. Was it just peer pressure or do you honestly think the game deserves that title based on the developer's "ambition"? If it's the latter, you've got to be joking. Who cares about ambition? I could have an idea for the most incredible RPG ever made, then throw some horrible game together in RPG Maker and have people play it. That doesn't make it a good game in any way. This just strikes me as a bit unethical.
November 2, 2008 1:38:41 PM
Russ: I haven't played much of Little Big Planet, but I think you're missing the point Scott was trying to make about having some type of plot motivation. Mario never had anything more than a half-assed plot in his platformers, but we still had motivation. Save the princess. It's simple and overdone to hell, but it's something. In a game with as much style as LBP, it just feels weird that there's nothing there behind the gameplay. It just feel a little empty.
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