The Hedgehog

OKAY, here are the rules.

1. Post your favorite new game of this year, released this year.
2. Do not criticize other people's choices, people have different tastes and let them be. I don't care if the user's favorite game is Little Tony Apple Picking Adventure, if they like it, they like it.

Seems simple enough, let's see what happens.

The Hedgehog

My personal GOTY: Batman Arkham Asylum.

Dirty_Vinylpusher

Little Tony Apple Picking Adventure

HPI_Savage_RC

X2

Lunchboxer

Super Mario Brothers!

Edit: Never mind... you said this year.. [:@]

DarkFire989

I havent bought any games yet this year. But I have a feeling its gona be either COD, Borderlands, or Assassins Creed 2.

Xtfreak

WEll I dont know if its this year or not, but Fallout 3 was pretty awesome. I've only bought 1 game thats new and its Forza 3. I'm Pondering the idea of getting Bordelands. I know its taken up most of Foxy's time so its gotta be good

ELK

cod mw2

Ttam Says Blarg

Forza 3 bought it and its amazing. Been playing it nonstop. MW 2 could of had it but there whole deal with not including party chat in multipayer was ridiculous.

Eman77

I have no GOTY, since I'm behind the times and am still playing Medieval Total War 2 (and slowly at that). But...I am eyeballing Dragon Age: Origins, which looks like a promising RPG by Bioware. I'm a bit RPG fan, but haven't found much outstanding since the Baldur's Gate days (Bioware).

I'm talking about PC games, of course.

Anyone into PC single-player RPGs?

butt_housed247

im not really into video games, but i went into game play yesterday to do some Christmas shopping and played Bayonetta.  it was pretty cool.

DarkFire989

My GOTY now is probably going to be Call Of Duty.

Emann if you like RPGs play World of Warcraft. Careful though, the game ruins lives.[:'(]

Eman77

Nah, I'm more of a single player guy. Never got into the online gaming (and don't want to, from the addition rate I hear!). I think it goes back to when I only had dial-up, so online gaming wasn't for me.

Even now I just have a basic DSL connection...I just don't have a desire to do the online gaming thing I guess.

The Hedgehog

Yep same here. Beet Baldur's Gate back in the day. I have been thinking about getting Dragon Age too, but probably for the PS3 just so I can play it on my TV.

sheograth

Dragon Age is pretty awesome, but DEFINITELY get the PC version if you can. The console versions have less tactical features, far worse graphics, an atrocious frame rate, and are harder to play due to all the RTS like elements.

dc2 man

CALL OF DUTY ....

likes:
well i just got the new one modern warefare 2 saturday evening,love the graphix,excellent levels of realisim & pure shoot em up precision,not to mention awesome levels of attention to detail and full of other adventures outside of the battlezone such as snowmobiling across snowcovered mountains and valleys,ice picking up the side of cliffs,awesome weaponry.......

its just an awesome game.

dislikes;
just one,i got game sat evening and had it comleted sunday evening, aprox 6-7hours..........a little dissapointing.......easily finished on the medium level difficulty (normal level)

on the plus side another will be coming out eventually judjing from how this one ends.

second after this would have to be tom clancys rainbow 6.........WHAT an awesome game...........

then brothers in arms hells highway,excellent......

then.........................lol list goes on.
but c/of duty is my goty

DarkFire989

Remember though you have a killer PC and most people do not....

sheograth

I do have a nice PC, though I don't think Dragon Age us as taxing as other new games.

DarkFire989

Its Reccommend requirements are still above the norm for todays average pcs. Even its minimums are slightly high, and no one wants to play a pc game on terrible settings.

sheograth

Sucks to be average then

Normally I don't mind console versions, but in the case of Dragon Age they definitely got the worse version. I originally picked up the PS3 version, but was pretty put off by the framerate and messy tactical controls. Traded it in for the PC version and it's a lot better.

Eman77

Although the recommended settings for Dragon age are a quad core (ouch), I've heard from 2 or 3 folks who ran it on dual cores with normal visual settings and were really pleased. And these are RPG regulars I've spoken to on forums over a lot of years, so they are quite willing to point out a game's flaws.

One in particular is running it on her dual core laptop (not a massive Alienware laptop mind you....a nice one, but not an Uber Laptop), and she's quite pleased.

So it's quite possible that for Dragon Age, you don't have to have an incredible rig.

Now, I wouldn't go running it on a Pentium 4 with a 64 MB video card, but you get the idea...I still think it will be a taxing game to run, and not everyone will have the specs....but I think there's hope for some of us, anyway.

Eman77

I got Dragon Age Origins for Christmas, and love it. Running it on a dual core setup, so it's nice hardware...but nothing overwhelming. It runs very well so far, and looks great so far.

AutoX - get it get it get it get it!

The Hedgehog

Too many games on the list right now. I think it's about number 5 on my list lol.

Tjettzky

I'm probably a year behind, but I just picked up Star Wars The Force Unleashed and I'm enjoying it a lot. I'd vote for Little Tony Apple Picking Adventure, but I'm stuck on level 4 and the Strategy Guide I ordered hasn't come in yet...

ThEoNeS911

Mine would be COD MW2, or ODST (if it was released this year). COD is great, except for the thing where you can use MW2 parties or Live parties in some. I love the campaign in ODST, though.