2010: retrospective and looking forward

[The Sceneman]

Since we are just past halfway through the year it would be cool to recap what great software has been released so far, and discuss what we're looking forward to later in year.

Best games of 2010/GOTY contenders (for me):
Mass Effect 2
Red Dead Redemption
Bayonetta
Castlevania HD

Upcoming games I hope will make the above list:
Dead Rising 2
Vanquish

great year of games so far, comment and discussion pls

[fistfulofmetal]

GOTY Contenders so far:

Mass Effect 2
Bad Company 2
Red Dead Redemption
Starcraft 2

[Great Rumbler]

Upcoming:

Fallout: New Vegas

[Stoney Mason]

I have played two goty contenders. RDR and Mass Effect 2.


On a level beneath that has been
Limbo
BC 2 (multiplayer only)
Alan Wake

As far as the rest of the year I have hopes for

Black Ops
Fallout New Vegas
Mafia 2
Halo Reach
Civ 5

maybe vanquish.

[iconoclast]

It's been a pretty good year for games.

My top 10 so far, off the top of my head:

1. Super Street Fighter 4
2. Bayonetta
3. Ketsui: Kizuna Jigoku Tachi Extra*
4. Death Smiles
5. BlazBlue: Continuum Shift
6. NIER
7. Resonance of Fate
8. Mass Effect 2
9. Yakuza 3
10. Espgaluda II Black Label
- honorable mention to Deadly Premonition

*Only managed to play five or six hours of this before my 360 died. Really need to play more. :'(

For the rest of the year, the only games I'm really looking forward to are Valkyria Chronicles 2, Dodonpachi Daifukkatsu 1.5, and Vanquish. I'm sure they'll all be pretty amazing. Probably going to buy Halo as well, but I don't see that making my top 10. Dead Rising 2 I'll probably skip. All of my friends are casuals who only play Halo, CoD, sports games, etc. so I can't be bothered finding someone to play through the story with in co-op. Will wait for the GotY edition of Fallout NV so I don't have to waste money on the inevitable DLC scam. Very interested in Metroid Other M as well, but I don't have high hopes for it. The new Team Ninja has yet to prove themselves. And I think that's just about everything that could be good.

[Van Cruncheon]

mass effect 2
bayonetta
super mario galaxy 2
persona 3 portable
super street fighter 4

[Himu]

1. mario galaxy 2
2. super street fighter 4
3. smt: strange journey
4. mega man 10
5. mass effect 2

upcoming games I'm interested in:

- vanquish
- civ 5
- TACTICS OGRE PSP

[cool breeze]

Is there a list of all games released in 2010 so far? I have a terrible memory

for upcoming games I don't know what is still this year.

Fallout New Vegas
Vanquish
Civ 5
Mafia 2
YS 7 (next week!) and Ys Oath PSP

edit:

favorite game this year so far is Mario Galaxy 2.  I know that much.  Don't like to list these things out, but Mass Effect 2 is between number 1 and the rest.

[CajoleJuice]

Starcraft 2
Mass Effect 2

upcoming

Civ 5
Mafia 2 (maybe)

[demi]

GOTY: FF13

Upcoming GOTY: Two Worlds 2

Garbage of 2010:

RDR
Blur

[Stoney Mason]

GOTY: FF13

lol

I'm glad I bailed on that one.

[Himu]

Fallout New Vegas
YS 7 (next week!) and Ys Oath PSP

interested in these

[Bebpo]

Best games of 2010 so far:
-KH BBS
-Tales of Graces
-Bayonetta
-Sin & Punishment 2
-Resonance of Fate
-Peace Walker
-Heavy Rain
-Mario Galaxy 2
-Xenoblade
-Alpha Protocol
-Just Cause 2

Upcoming stuff I'm looking forward to:
-ACE:R
-Ys Seven
-Fallout NV
-LBP2
-Last Story
-Yakuza PSP edition
-Metroid Other M
-GT5...maybe

2010 stuff I'm looking forward to playing when they finally price drop to the <$30 range:
-RDR
-Alan Wake
-Nier

and pre-2010 stuff that were some of my fav games this year even though they weren't 2010:
DEVIL SURVIVOR
-Ratchet and Clank a Crack in Time
-Trine

[tiesto]

Excellent year for games so far!

Favorites so far: Sin and Punishment 2, Resonance of Fate, Dragon Quest 9, Mass Effect 2, Super Street Fighter 4, and DeathSmiles

Slight Disappointments: Super Mario Galaxy 2, ESPGaluda II, Final Fantasy 13

Upcoming: Ys VII, Ys: Oath in Felghana, Ys I and II PSP, Sora no Kiseki, Valkyria Chronicles 2, Fallout New Vegas, Xenoblade (fingers crossed), The Last Story

Still have to play: Bayonetta, Infinite Space, Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, MGS: Peace Walker, Starcraft 2

Favorite System: PSP

Games I beat this year: Dragon Quest 7, Mass Effect 1, Mass Effect 2, Final Fantasy 13, Resonance of Fate, Ys IV: Mask of the Sun, Rudra's Treasure, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Sin and Punishment 2, Zelda: Spirit Tracks, Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story

[CajoleJuice]

Garbage of 2010:

RDR

I didn't want to say it. I had some fun with it for a few days, I guess. That one time with Eel and buddies was fun.

[pilonv1]

demi why didn't you like RDR?

For me

Mass Effect 2 and Alpha Protocol have been awesome. Bioshock 2 was just a game.

Looking forward to Civ 5 and Fallout New Vegas.

[The Sceneman]

He is trolling I believe

[pilonv1]

yes but I like hearing his troll reasons, I find them amusing

[iconoclast]

Forgot about Sin & Punishment 2 since I played it last year. Yeah that game is pretty amazing. Certainly one of the best games Treasure has ever made, if not the best. Best game on the Wii too.

Persona 3 Portable would be one of my favorites easily, but it kinda feels like cheating since this is the third time they released it. But then again three of my favorite games this year are ports of games that are several years old so whatevs.

[Stoney Mason]

I'll toss in my disappointments of the year.

FF13
Splinter Cell Conviction
Dragon Age Awakening

Probably Alpha Protocol also but I haven't really played enough of it to say something like that fairly.

[iconoclast]

I think my only real disappointment for this year has been Yakuza 3. It's still a great game, but my expectations were way too high after playing Yakuza 1 and 2. Yakuza 4 looks like it gets the series back in high gear at least.

Actually, my biggest disappointment for this entire generation was when Itagaki revealed he is making a multiplayer FPS/TPS/whatever. Fucking hell.

[Himu]

No More Heroes 2 is pretty good so far, and I haven't opened SP2 yet.

What I played of RDR today has been amazing.

Gay Tony + TLAD double pack was solid.

Disappointment of the year: FF13 by a long shot.

[Beezy]

Best games of 2010 I've played:
Bayonetta
Mass Effect 2
Blur
Super Street Fighter 4
Nier

Wanna play but haven't yet:
Just Cause 2
Bad Company 2
Blazblue: Continuum Shift
Resonance of Fate
FF13
RDR

Looking forward to:

Civ5
Vanquish
Halo Reach

Can eat a dick:
Handheld games

[Stoney Mason]

There are a couple of games from this year that I haven't played but I want to get back to.

Darksiders, Bayonetta (I actually tried this one and liked it but I had to send it back to gamefly because some big game at the time was coming out.), and Singularity. ( I played through at least an hour of singularity but once again I got sidetracked by some other game)

[Third]

GOTY; so far:

- Mass Effect 2

Great games I've played and finished in 2010; so far:

- Super mario Galaxy 2
- God of War 3
- Alan Wake
- Heavy Rain
- Nier
- PixelJunk Shooter
- Shadow Complex

Mediocre to average games I've played and finished in 2010; so far:

- Darksiderds
- Bayonetta
- Final Fantasy XIII
- Splinter Cell: Conviction

Bad/boring games I've played in 2010; so far:

- Crackdown 2
- Bioshock 2
- Red Dead Redemption

Ultra shitty games of 2010; so far:

- Lost Planet 2


Looking forward to in 2010:

- Gran Turismo 5
- Little Big Planet 2
- Castlevania: Lord of Shadow
- Dead Rising 2
- The failure of Epic Mickey, Natal and Move


Not looking forward to:

- Halo 3.5
- New Treyarch Call of Duty

[Himu]

omfg RDR may top SMG2 as my goty if the whole game is like this the entire time.

[Mr. Gundam]

From what I've played of 2010 titles:

Liked:
Bayonetta (although I played it at the end of 2009)
Final Fantasy XIII
Resonance of Fate
Ryu ga Gotoku 4
3D Dot Game Heroes
Nier
Power Pro Baseball 2010
No More Heroes (PS3)
MGS Peace Walker
White Knight Chronicles

Indifferent towards:
God of War III
Hokuto Musou

Hated:
Dark Void
Last Rebellion
Star Ocean Last Hope International

Looking forward to for the rest of the year:
Rock Band 3
Vanquish
Sengoku Basara 3
Another Century's Episode R
Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
Macross Trial Frontier

[Third]

omfg RDR may top SMG2 as my goty if the whole game is like this the entire time.

I liked RDR during the first few hours. But it got very boring an repetitive after that.

[naff]

Looking forward to playing Civ 5, GT5, Starcraft 2 and Vanquish...

Possible GOTY contenders

ME2
Limbo
RDR
SMG2

I'm loving what little I've seen of Vanquish and Civ 5 though.. Betting they'll top the other stuff. Haven't played BFBC2 yet either which I'm keen to grab once I've got more time for games again.

[tiesto]

Disappointed in the lack of DQ9 mentions on here

[Third]

Wow, totally forgot about that one.

I'll add it to my "Not looking forward to:" list.

[Beezy]

Wow, totally forgot about that one.

I'll add it to my "Not looking forward to:" list.

[The Sceneman]

Third is improving his troll-fu, I see.

Something to add to my looking forward to list: Comic Jumper! Cant wait for that game, looks hella fun.

I am looking forward to the new 3d Castlevania too. The art looks cool, and I really hope it intergrates the Metriodvania style exploration gameplay in it's 3d setting (as Metriod Prime has done excellently, and also Batman AA to a lesser extent).

I'll be very disappointed if its just a super linear God of War rip-off. It needs to have it's own special touches that say "this is Castlevania".

[BobFromPikeCreek]

The best of the year is still coming

Dead Rising 2
Fallout New Vegas
Two Worlds 2

[Great Rumbler]

Fallout New Vegas
Two Worlds 2

[The Sceneman]

Dead Rising 2 is going to piss all over Fallout

[magus]

is it wrong if all i could think is ghost trick?

[Great Rumbler]

Dead Rising 2 is going to piss all over Fallout

:hippolaugh

[Akala]

Far and away the best so far have been RDR and SSF4.

Looking forward to DR 2, Civ 5, RB3, and Fallout NV.

DQ9 I have but haven't played because I'm still chipping away at DQ4. 

Want to get SC2 at some point, and will get FFXIV day one...but my hopes are pretty low.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

If Dead Rising 2 ends up sucking I don't know what I'll do with myself, especially after Crackdown 2 turned out to be meh.

[Trent Dole]

What was released this year again? I think the only retail releases of the year I've purchased and kept are Deathsmiles and Mass Effect 2.

[Himu]

If Dead Rising 2 ends up sucking I don't know what I'll do with myself, especially after Crackdown 2 turned out to be meh.

 :'(

[Bebpo]

is it wrong if all i could think is ghost trick?

Ghost Trick is kind of cool, but like the weaker parts of Phoenix, there's a lot of trial & error and rewatching things play out until you get it right.  I bailed after a few chapters.  This guy has good gameplay concepts and fun characters, but he needs to make his games less boring.

[Himu]

Disappointed in the lack of DQ9 mentions on here

i'd put it over mass effect 2 myself but i love both games

[cool breeze]

If Dead Rising 2 ends up sucking I don't know what I'll do with myself, especially after Crackdown 2 turned out to be meh.

Isn't Dead Rising 2 coming out at the end of the month?

I think the only big thing working against Dead Rising 2 is that the Capcom games worked on by western devs have had problem.

[The Sceneman]

Bionic Commando was GOTY 2009

[cool breeze]

Bionic Commando was GOTY 2009

yeah, Bionic Commando was awesome, so was Rearmed (I'll add that Rearmed 2 is a game I'm looking forward to whenever it comes out).  Still didn't seem all the way done, had a multiplayer mode that no one touched, and bombed hard.  Then there was Dark Void.

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

Anyone that mentioned Heavy Rain should automatically be fucking dismissed for being bat shit insane.  Boggles my mind how anyone could've enjoyed that.  The game had one memorable scene - the one where you cut off your finger - after that it's just a mish mash of QTE garbage.

Of what I've played so far this year, the clear winner in my mind is Mass Effect 2 followed by RDR.  ME2 is balls out amazing. Still haven't touched Starcraft 2 though.