[Amusing] Game of the Year (Grains of Salt)

I voted Galaxy because the poll didn't list Persona 3. For some reason Uncharted: Turok 1 has more votes than Galaxy right now.

My Games of the Year would be:

PS2 - Persona 3: For everyone who gives jRPGs and visual novels shit, this is actually fucking awesome. A kickass soundtrack (which I intend on purchasing), a great visual novel experience with dungeon crawling and fantastic voice acting. Most of the characters are memorable and everything fits together nicely. The game's lengthy and I still haven't finished it, but I don't want it to end. This is, by far, one of the best games available for the PS2.

Honourable mention: Odin Sphere. Well, what can I say. The graphics are fantastic, the characters are great, the voice acting is great, the difficulty is up there, and it has excellent replay value. It presents itself as an RPG which you can't grind endlessly on just to overcome. Skill and mastery are needed in order to complete this game, not just high levels.

Wii - Mario Galaxy: It gave me that feeling which I got when I was playing Mario 64 for the first time. The soundtrack is fantastic, Yoshiaki put countless amounts of time into coming up with something so memorable. I look forward to buying the OST. The game isn't long, but there's still a bunch of post-game stuff you can go back to if you like. There's always different routes you can take if you get stuck on a world, so you're constantly playing something new.

Honourable mention <3: Zack and Wiki, for it's wacky design and neat puzzle solving. Game's hard as far as puzzles go, since messing up means you're screwed in different points. But it gives you the feeling that you're playing a 3D Monkey Island.

PC - Orange Box. Team Fortress 2 is a great game, and this is coming from someone who hates FPS games in general. Yet they've managed to make it fun again. By far this is the best value for money in terms of game purchases. Portal is also very well designed. I can't comment on the HL2 stuff as I haven't played it.

Honourable mention: Mountain of Faith. I admit, I'm a touhou fan right to the centre of my hitbox and I was absolutely addicted to this game for a month when it first came out. It's not for everyone, but it's definitely the more graphically superior touhou game of the series.

360 - Eternal Sonata; This game's beautiful. Simply beautiful. Namco Bandai have put a lot of effort in bringing this game out, but it was unfortunately overshadowed by Halo 3. The entire game is very, very colourful and enjoyable, and there's rarely a dull moment.

PS3 - lol

Honourable mention: lol

DS: Contra 4. If there was ever a game which made you feel like you were playing a newly released SNES title, this should be it. The difficulty remains the same (frustratingly hard) but it wouldn't be proper Contra without it. This is a direct sequel to Contra 3 from the SNES. The game plays well and doesn't butcher anything with DS touchscreen gimmicks or any of that nonsense commonly found in DS shovelware.

PSP: Disgaea. This is probably one of the best ports of a game I've ever seen. Everything about the original PS2 version is fixed - option to cut animations, proper Japanese in-battle sounds (which weren't in the PS2 ver), widescreen, better graphics, extra content, and pretty much a better game because of it. There's no reason to play the PS2 version after touching this.

I think that's it..

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Encephalon

You could've spent that time typing out those exclamation points to, you know, fix the poll. LIKE I DID.

It's a bit late now. Looks like Galaxy is going to dominate this poll regardless, though. Go figure? I would still change my vote if I could.

Originally Posted by Aardark

More like Persona 3 for game of the year and RPG of the decade.

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