After Peter’s picks yesterday, it’s now my turn to go through the games and pick my favourites.
It seems like we’ve said this previously, but it’s felt we’ve hit our stride now. This past fifty games feel like the best set yet and we’ve enjoyed playing them. We’ve been having so much fun, it’s actually sped up our playing (we’re actually building up quite a buffer – three months ahead by now, we’ll probably end up speeding up our posting speed at some point), because it’s just been so much fun to play.
After all of that though, it seems like the next 50 could go over that… let’s hope it does!
Best Game I Had Not Previously Played
As said, lots of great games again in this fifty. Peter has already mentioned Jeanne D’Arc as his favourite, I seriously loved God of War II (one of those games that was just great to watch) and Pain was just simple good fun.
In the end, there was one single game that wooed us both. Peter mentioned how much he’s been playing it, while I started the first game in the series first and am loving that. Saints Row 2, you’re brilliant. Great sense of humour, brilliant gameplay, way too much customization to get boring and a collector’s dream. And then it’s just a fun game to watch. Love it.
Worst Game
Look, we’ve said a lot about Free Running already, but I’ll not go on about that after Peter already did. Let’s just say that was terrible.
There’s another game though that didn’t belong on the list. It might not be a too bad game, but we’ve already played it plenty… Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes. It’s just the same game as Metal Gear Solid (the first one)! I won’t repeat it… but it just wasn’t fun to play. We were happy when we could stop.
Most Surprising Game
There’s been the psychodelic Mad Planets, the surprisingly engaging BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, the surprisingly sandboxxy Far Cry 2…
When it comes down to it though, Facade was surprisingly good and in depth – it came true on the promises and was more interactive than expected. Good fun, certainly something to try if you haven’t yet.
Biggest Disappointment
Some games are just hyped up and loved by so many that you’re expecting something great. Harvest Moon was supposed to offer a deeper experience, RPG and all. We really wanted to have something fun here and love it. But I’m sorry, it’s just so incredibly boring to play. Repetitive, long winded and just not actually interesting. Sorry guys!
Best Blast From The Past
There’ve been quite a few games I already played before that we now played for the blog. Back to some more Half-Life, fun enough, and Civilization got us right back to being addicted to the game. Defender of the Crown and SimCity might have disappointed slightly more, but it worked well enough for me.
In the end though, last night’s Dungeon Keeper clinched it. Several hours of play, great humour, incredibly addictive, and I know it all too well. It’s brilliant. So happy I got back to it – even if it took me an hour or two to fix it.
Games We Kept Playing
With us having already mentioned Saints Row 2 often enough, I won’t repeat it here again. That limits my options quite a bit further though, so I’ll cheat slightly with a game I played before, though I already loved it before. Neverwinter Nights immediately went back on my playing list… and yeah, I’ve already started looking at playing some of the expansions. God, I love that series.