Game of the Year

Now first of all I want to start by saying I did not play that many games this year so my idea of game of the year is incredibly biased. I'm basing my "game of the year" on only games that I have played or games that I have a rough idea of.

Lets start with games I did not play:

- Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword

- Assassin's Creed Revalations

- Halo Combat Evolved

- Battlefield 3

- Modern Warfare 3

- Saints Row The Third

- Rayman Origins

- and more!

These are the games of 2011 that I have played and enjoyed:

- Batman: Arkham City

- Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

- Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

- Dead Island

- Portal 2

- and more!

Based on games that I have knowledge of and games that I have played... There are only 4 games per category. Here are the categories for my `game of the year`:

(Games that are underlined win that award)

Most Replayable game:

- Uncharted 3: Drake`s Deception

- Rayman Origins

- Skyrim

- Dead Island

Best Voice Acting:

- Portal 2

- Uncharted 3: Drake`s Deception

- Assassin`s Creed: Revalations

- Modern Warfare 3

Best Soundtrack:

- Dead Island

- Portal 2

- Uncharted 3: Drake`s Deception

- Skyrim

Best graphics:

- Halo Combat Evolved

- Uncharted 3: Drake`s Deception

- Batman: Arkham City

- BattleField 3

Best Story:

- Portal 2

- Batman: Arkham City

- Uncharted 3: Drake`s Deception

- Skyrim

Best Character:

- Chell (Portal 2)

- Nathan Drake (Uncharted 3)

- Victor Sullivan (Uncharted 3)

- Ezio Auditore Da Virenze (Assassin`s Creed)

Nominees for `Game of the Year`:

- Batman: Arkham City

- Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

- Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

- Dead Island

- Portal 2

- Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword

- Assassin's Creed Revalations

- Halo Combat Evolved

- Battlefield 3

- Modern Warfare 3

- Saints Row The Third

- Rayman Origins

GAME OF THE YEAR TO BE REVEALED NEXT WEEK

Uncharted 3 flaws/improvements.

Uncharted 3's flaws:

- More prone to glitches and clipping issues than the previous titles. (Doesn`t feel as fleshed out and polished like the previous 2)

- Enemies that piss me off. (Enemies that always shoot from behind when I'm already in combat with sombody ahead of me)

- Shorter story.

- The game tries to take control a lot more. (I don`t know what it is but it`s unlike the previous games, this game takes control of the character in areas you would expect to play)

- Ridiculous enemies. (Enemies that take the ammo capacity of 3 long range guns to defeat).

- Too many annoying combat sequences. I think they tried to emphasize that the combat system in Uncharted 3 is unlike the others...however there are only few differences.

Uncharted 3`s EPICNESS:

(There is no word in the english dictionary to describe the way I feel about the following so replace the adjectives with a stronger vocabulary if you like)

- Fantastic story. 10/10

- Amazing Graphics. 10/10

- Awesome Gameplay. 9.5/10

- Redicoulously super awesome terrific killer Soundtrack. 10/10

- Cutscenes. 9.5/10

- Stellar voice acting. 9.5/10

- Stupendious Multiplayer. 9.6/10

This was a difficult game to rate, having been playing Batman: Arkham City two weeks ahead of this game it was difficult to get into. I got waay too used to the control scheme of Arkham City going into Uncharted 3 and that made it difficult for me to enjoy. I feel like if I were to play Uncharted 2 before Uncharted 3 I would've love Uncharted 3. However this just didn't happen. Uncharted 3 in my opinion is still the greatest game of 2011.

In my opinion I do not think this game deserves a 10/10 like IGN gave it, the reason being is because it's not a 10/10...no game is. If a game is 10/10 you're basically saying there are no flaws and the game has no room for improvement. There is no such thing as a perfect game, and there never will be.

However I rate Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception - 9.6/10

I rate Uncharted 2: Among Thieves - 9.9/10

and I rate Uncharted: Drake's Fortune - 9.7/10

So...in my opinion Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception is the worst in the Uncharted series but the 3rd best game ever.

New Callou incoming...

In time for the Halloween holidays.

What I watch after I wake up...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WibmcsEGLKo

Click the link above.

It's a speech by Charlie Chaplin

It really makes you think about your life and how you're spending it. To us the most important thing is the material goods we buy or just money in general and to others in suffering focus on survival.

It really made me rethink my life so far.

My Youtube Snake Scores

I am officially a master at this game! In case you don't know what or how to use Youtube Snake here's the basic rundown:

When you're watching a video, before it loads click on the video screen, then press the left and up arrow keys in a repetitive motion, this should activate snake. Then you can move around using up, down, left and right without disrupting the video. But be careful, if you click away from the youtube screen it will disable the controls. And be careful, when you die, not to keep moving as this reables the video movements.

Here's the videos I was watching when I screencapped my scores:

- Tegan and Sara ???

- Pooh Bear meets the Terminator

- Some Black Screen????

- Elliot Goes to School

- FIRES!!???

I bought A Terrible Game.

Today I had made a horrific purchase. It was on Amazon.ca and it goes down in the most awful games of mankind. The Game if you haden't guess it yet is Twisted Metal Small Brawl. I know you are thinking "Why?". Well let me just defend myself by saying that I'm a fan of Twisted Metal and I'm going to continue to support the franchise, for the good games and the bad. This will just add to my Twisted Metal collection. Now I own TM 2, 3,4, Small Brawl, Black, Headon, and Headon Extra Twisted Edition. Fun Fact: Did you know that TM Small Brawl was made for Ps1 after the release of TM Black? Also by the same company as 1,2,black,and head-on. Incognito now call themselves Eat.Sleep.Play.

and yes I own Twisted Metal 2 on Psp. It was an impulse buy.

Why We Need Physical Discs.

If we turn away from disc-based games we're giving up:

- the freedom to return a video game

- the freedom to rent a video game

- Collector's editions

- speedy installations (especially if you have a bad internet provider)

- the freedom to sell an old game

and most of all:

- The ability to physically grasp the case of a new game.

ALSO, doesn't everything seem much more rewarding once you paid for a 60 dollar game to have it sit up in your collection, I know it does for me, that's why I try to avoid downloadable games at all costs.