Greetings to all...
I switched from PC gaming to a PS3 console in 2010. Here's what I purchased:
Fallout: New Vegas - Excellent & very re-playable, but has a tendency to crash over and over.
Alice - Beautiful and creative backgrounds and objects, but very frustrating because it's really hard to jump and land on certain platforms. Then you die and have to start all over again.
LA Noire - Meh. (There's a whole thread about it already).
Homefront - Decent shooter, but uses a check-point save system and has some frustrating timed puzzles that you have to repeat over and over till you get it.
Duke Nukem - Absurdly hard bosses, full of adolescent antics that are borderline offensive, and overhyped. A real waste of time.
Assassins Creed 3. Awesome game. Played the hell out of it.
Read Dead Redemption. Awesome game. Played the hell out of it.
MMA Supremecy. It was cheap, it's better then the UFC game. It got some use but I never really got it to play the hell out of it.
Rock Band 3. It hasn't gotten a lot of play though but I got it dirt cheap. It gets pulled out on occasion but I think the fake instrument wave has passed for my crowd.
Dark Souls - was a blast, got to the two bells and had had enough punishment. It got traded in for...
Skyrim - It's a Bethesda game so it's got the typical slew of Bethesda problems. But it is absolutely the best game they've ever put out and the best open world RPG to date.
Rocksmith. What can I say a game where I can connect my guitar into it and play/learn songs up to a note for note basis. Plus play around with amps, peddals and stacks that I'll never be able to afford in real life. Its part of the reason Rock Band 3 got shelved. Its an absolute must have game if you have a guitar.
Bunch of stuff. Mostly cheap/on sale on Steam.
Magic: The Gathering DotP 2012
Nexus - The Jupiter Incident
Avadon
Risen
Cave Story+
Sideway
Skyrim
Sonic Generations
Sequence
Dungeon Defenders
Humble Indie Frozenbyte Bundle
RAGE
Gundemonium Recollection
Bastion
Limbo
Chantelise
Magicka Complete Pack
The Witcher 2
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Capsized
Portal 2
Bulletstorm
Mass Effect 2
Ishar Collection
Wing Commander: Privateer
Descent Collection
Ultima 1-3
Wing Commander 1-3
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Darklands
God help me, I'm not buying any games for the next few years.
Also, I didn't buy it, but I'm in the Tribes: Ascend beta. It'll be F2P eventually.
Civ V - The latest iteration of the classic Civilization is simply awesome, Unit Tactics can now completely change the play of the game... That plus I love using nukes, plus there's fallout now, which affects areas not directly hit by the blast.
Skyrim - A gift, but well appreciated,
Paizo's Game Mastery Guide.
Plus tons of new minis including a complete New BSG fleet (4 cylon base stars, a battlestar, a warstar, and a couple colonial cruisers along with over two hundred vipers, raptors, and cyclon fighters and bombers) which was prepped and debuted for this year at Gencon.
Skyrim - easily my favorite game in years.
WoW Cataclysm - played for a few months.
Most of the games I play are older, such as Dragon Age and City of Heroes.
heh
MvC3 - half a game, broken online due to a) everyone being absurdly good and b) no spectator mode. Ultimate MvC3 released last month as harcopy only. Fail.
Mortal Kombat - looked great, played reasonably well despite every character basically being the same. X Ray Moves utterly broken the online unplayable.
LA Noire - bollocks from start to finish. Good acting though.
Gears of War 3 - story/arcade mode fun enough, the multiplayer was shite due to terribad map design and the ineptitude of the server (singular). The beta played better.
Arkham City - decent enough, though one too many Riddler puzzles. Catwoman as DLC was the worst idea yet.
Battlefield 3 - shit pc port.
MW3 - shit MW2 port.
Skyrim - enormous, lots of content, bugged to fuck. Can't even start the Thieves Guild quest due to an enormous hugely conspicuous fuck up in the quest that makes the ending to Monty Python's Holy Grail look sane. Better playtesting has to be the watchword in 2012.
I'm sure i played other games (ugh, I forgot Brink). They all sucked too :D
Everything sucks. You suck.
Arkham City - great game, though perhaps too many Riddler trophies/puzzles.
Skyrim - better than I feared, but maybe not as great as I hoped... still a good game. It'll be interesting to see what comes down the pike DLC-wise.
Space Marine - again, not a great game, but I had plenty of fun playing it. Hopefully they'll polish the game a little more for a sequel.
Way, WAY too much stuff. In fact, I wrote a whole blog post (http://mostunreadblogever.blogspot.com/2011/12/playstation-3-one-year-later.html) about it.
But my favorites were both Arkham games, Dragon Age: Origins, Red Dead Redemption and Heavy Rain. Oh...and Smackdown vs Raw 2011 and NCAA Football '09, the first football game I've played in YEARS and the best wrestling game I've played in years. That's not to say those were the only ones I enjoyed, just the ones that stayed with me the longest.
While not bought per se, I did sink cash into a MMO (World of Tanks), and that is something I never had the urge to do before.
Everything else I spent time on was already bought years ago.
Highlights:
Bastion - Game of the fucking year. You are welcome to argue, but you are morally wrong if you do so.
Portal 2 - There are portals. It was a fun way to spend a weekend, but other than going back for one of the achievements, I haven't touched it since. And I was too busy at the time to do co-op, so have resigned myself to never playing that bit.
Saints Row 3 - Most fun game I've played in years.
Dawn of War 2 : Retribution - Best of the series so far, brilliant Ork campaign
UT3 Black - Fun! True story: I dominated one online match I was in. I mean, I utterly wiped the fucking floor with my opponents, then kicked their asses for letting me do it. It was just that one match, mind. Maybe they were console players.
Alpha Protocol - Best RPG I've played in years (If not ever), and pisses all over anything Bioware have done this century.
Super Mario 3D Land (3DS) - Another great Mario game.
Dungeon Run (iOS) - Hyperaddictive dungeonbash puzzler, like Puzzle Quest but without the campaign. Amazingly brilliant and time consuming.
Starblazer Adventures (used) is the only full game I bough this year. I also got the new Gamma World for Xmass, but I didn't buy it.
I also purchased some supplements, but those were .pdfs that I got on sale for like a buck each
I have purchase the following games and i hope i will enjoy these games because
these games are really outstanding and there are lot of rumors about these games like
MW 3
Skyrim
Starwars
Need for speed the run
I think the only computer games I bought in 2011 (for me, anyway) were expansions for the computer version of
Field of Glory:
- Rise of Rome [Republican Roman period]
- Storm of Arrows [Late medieval Europe]
- Immortal Fire [Greek/Persian/Macedonian Wars]
- Swords & Scimitars [Crusades]
(I like the tabletop version of
Field of Glory better, but the computer version is fun, too.)
Video games? Uh. Skyrim and The Old Republic.
Tabletop Games? I mostly spent my money on color art for H&S2e, but I traded from or used secondary markets to pick up some nice things. Like Witchcraft RPG books I was missing. Nocturnals for M&M1E, Red Star campaign book and 2E WoD Changeling.
Got King's Bounty: The Legend during Steam's Xmas sale, and it's been a great ride so far (think HOMM meets RPGs). Be prepared to update your drivers, though, because some old ones will keep crashing until they drive you mad (pun intended).
Hyperdimension Neptunia (PS3)
Ar Tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel (PS3)
Mortal Kombat (360, PS3)
Record of Agarest War Zero Limited Edition (PS3, 360)
Nostalgia (DS)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky (PSP)
Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World (Wii)
Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords (PS2)
Ar Tonelico: Melody of Elemia (PS2)
MS Saga: A New Dawn (PS2)
Zoids Assault (360)
Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3 (360, PS3)
Shadow Hearts: Covenant (PS2)
Shadow Hearts: From the New World (PS2)
Resonance of Fate (PS3)
Dragoneer's Aria (PSP)
Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection (PSP)
Radiant Historia (DS)
Star Ocean: The Last Hope, International (PS3)
Eternal Sonata (PS3)
Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis (PS2)
Tekken Hybrid (PS3)
Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage (PS3)
Civilization Revolution (PS3)
Otomedius Excellent (360)
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Extend (PSP)
Macross Frontier: Sayonara no Tsubasa - Hybrid Pack (Macross Last Frontier) (PS3)
Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon (360)
Atelier Totori: The Adventurer of Arland (PS3)
Shadowrun (Genesis)
Probably forgetting quite a few.
None. My XBOX RRODed for the second time in a matter of months about... a year and half ago or more. I have not replaced it since then. Much less of a time sink.
I got some used versions of Trivial Pursuit, Clue and Stratego in a yard sale a few months ago, though, if that counts.
Skyrim for PC.
My buying habits have slowed right down, it seems.
Nevermind.
Let's see...
Skyrim: really liked it, despite issues with crashes and the like. Can't make myself do the Stormwhatever questline. Seems so...racist.
ME 1, 2, 3: I used a friend's copies of ME 1 and 2 for my first, and only, full playtrough. Then actually bought 3 myself. Then went back and got 1 and 2 off of Steam.
For tabletop, only the Magic Burner for Burning Wheel.
So, not a lot, but I ain't rich, so I don't think there'll be much more this year.
Just got an email saying Combat Mission: Shock Force is about to be released for the Mac, so I'll be grabbing that. I'm a big fan of the original Combat Mission (Beyond Overlord).
It's been a while since I've last bought a single-player RPG. The last two I've got were Dungeon Siege 2 (2006?) and NWN 2 (2008?), and I didn't get to finish either one.
I missed out on pretty much the entire Elder Scrolls series.
What do you say? Should I pick up Skyrim (or Morrowind, or Oblivion)?
I'm greedily eyeing the BG relaunch.
I always recommend The Witcher, although the first game features some unfortunately childish gimmicks (sex cards for the women you sleep with). It's also a sort of love-it-or-hate-it experience because the main character isn't agreeable to everyone's tastes in protagonists.
As for TES, Skyrim is, IMO, better than both Morrowind and Oblivion. Oblivion is outright awful without mods, and Morrowind has all sorta of clunky legacy crap, although the world has a really alien atmosphere and the writing in the books (there are books/scrolls all over the world that have short stories and histories) is better.
So Morrowind == interesting world and writing, really clunky mechanics. Oblivion is just meh. Skyrim has relatively good gameplay (though still clunky compared to other RPGs), but it's still not as alien as Morrowind (though it is an interesting environment because of the northern location).
Skyrim also has procedurally generated encounters and sidequests, so you can keep going and the game will keep throwing stuff at you, although I'm sure it'll get repetitive after a while.
I'm preordering Max Payne 3. Yeah!
Skyrim (PC) - The single most worthwhile video game purchase I've made in years. The mod community is easily doubling this games greatness
Lord of the Rings : War in the North (PC) - I bought it for some closed multiplayer fun on Steam. Its nothing groundbreaking, but between the fun had while multiplaying, and its setting, I don't regret the purchase at all
Kingdoms of Amalur : Reckoning (PC)
Mass Effect 3 (PC)
Trine 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAx9Q9z4Pdo) (PC)
recently Dustforce (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZcpK3OU_bA) (PC: Steam)
I'm eagerly awaiting the release of Torchlight II presently
+ giving Blade & Soul (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODD790bO2VU&feature=relmfu) (PC) a trial run on a private server. Its a pretty game, but pretty bleh w/o a solid translation.