2013 Gaming Awards

List your Top 10 Games of the Year:
1. Ni No Kuni
2. AC4
3. Poke'mon X/Y
4. Stealth INC
5. Zen Pinball: Star Wars
6. Dust: An Elysian Tail
7. Resogun
8. Disney Infinity
9. MLB 13: The Show (Vita) - This game got me back into baseball in a big way.
10. Warframe - If I can't have PSO2 I will have to settle for this slow-ass grind but that's OK.

Honorable Mentions: Every remake/reissue I didn't list, Soul Sacrifice, Tearaway, Uncharted 4: Tomb Raider edition, Metal Gear Rising: Revnegeance (ugh, the names that guy comes up with), Etrian Odyssey IV: Something about Titans

Downloadable GotY: Stealth INC
Handheld GotY: Tearaway - I know it didn't make top ten, but it did things on Vita that made it the best handheld experience.
Worst GotY: Tomb Raider - It wasn't bad and I actually did enjoy it. But it wasn't Tomb Raider. It was Uncharted. Don't call it Tomb Raider and it makes my top 10.
Best Remake: Flashback - Pure nostalgia but it added absolutely nothing.

Best Singleplayer: AC4
Best Cooperative Multiplayer: Disney Infinity
Best Competitive Multiplayer: MLB 13
Best Overall Multiplayer: Poke'mon - The crazy battles and stupid wonder trades were a blast.

Best New Character: Drippy (Ni No Kuni)
Worst New Character: The thing that is being called Lara Croft but can't go 15 minutes without doing something moronic and scripted.
Best Writing: Ni No Kuni
Best Story: Ni No Kuni

Best Voice Acting: Ni No Kuni
Best Soundtrack: AC4
Best Sound Design: Resogun - It reminded me of what the 1st Wipeout did in bringing the on screen action together.

Best Graphics-Technical: AC4 - The ocean, man, the ocean.
Best Graphics-Artistic: Ni No Kuni
Best Overall Graphics: Stealth INC - It's charming and works so well with the overall design.

Biggest Surprise: Sony going insane with sales and freebies.
Biggest Disappointment (could be a game or just something gaming-related): Microsoft in general, PS4 Launch
Best Non-2013 Game You Played For the First Time This Year: Ratchet and mother fucking Clank!
Game You Wish You Played That Came Out in 2013: The Last Of Us - Waiting on GotY with all content on disc.

Favorite Level: AC4's ocean
Favorite Moment: When I got my pirate ship in AC4
Worst Moment: Lara Croft making me stumble around and hit button prompts
Best Boss Fight: Zombie King Tom (Ni No Kuni)
Game You Played the Most: Ni No Kuni or Poke'mon. I'm not looking up the stats.

Platform/system with the Best Software Lineup in 2013: This is impossible to decide. 3DS, Vita and PS3 were ALL great.
Most Overrated Game: Tomb Raider
Most Underrated Game: Zen Pinball: Star Wars
Best New IP: Ni No Kuni
Favorite Game to Discuss on the Forum This Year: AC4
Any other thoughts on 2013 in gaming: Fantastic year and I still have a tremendous backlog of top 10 worth games to get through. I'm actually hoping 2014 is a slow year outside of march and the holidays.

volvocrusher wrote:So I've seen two Ni No Kuni endings as the worst part of 2013. What exactly was wrong with it?

The fact that it ended at all. The endings themselves (for both the Dark Djinn and White Witch arcs) were rather lovely.

I was kind of bummed when Ni No Kuni ended too. There are a lot of post-game side quests to do, but the whole journey was so fun. The game was probably the perfect length for me, because I never got to the point where I wanted it to wrap it up. I really should pop it back in sometime and work on some of those side quests.

*cough*...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO >_>

Honorable Mentions: Every remake/reissue I didn't list, Soul Sacrifice, Tearaway, Uncharted 4: Tomb Raider edition, Metal Gear Rising: Revnegeance (ugh, the names that guy comes up with), Etrian Odyssey IV: Something about Titans

This made me laugh. Well done.

Did MGR Rising really come out this year? Wow that seems like ages ago, but that's at least one more game. I actually played through that one twice.

Yeah, I think it came out in February.

If everyone is done with their lists, I will tally these up tomorrow.

Changed my list around after I thought about it a little more

Didn't really play much that came out in 2013, mostly because 0 money until the end of the year, so it'll be pretty empty.


List your Top 10 Games of the Year:
1. The Last of Us
2. Persona 4 Golden
3. Gunpoint
4. Brothers
5. DOTA 2? It did officially get released.

Best New Character: Joel/Ellie.
Worst New Character: Lamar from GTAV
Best Writing: TLOU

Best Voice Acting: TLOU
Best Soundtrack: Metal Gear Rising
Best Sound Design: TLOU

Biggest Surprise: Brothers
Biggest Disappointment (could be a game or just something gaming-related): Sony.
Best Non-2013 Game You Played For the First Time This Year: Persona 3.
Game You Wish You Played That Came Out in 2013: Most of them.

Favorite Level: Brothers towards the second half had some fantastic levels.

Favorite Moment: Staying up stupidly late watching the DOTA 2 International finals with my mate on Skype.

Worst Moment: Playing with Russians on DOTA, a certain repeated boss fight in Bioshock Infinite, all of GTAV, knowing people think Gone Home is some masterpiece.
Game You Played the Most: DOTA

Most Overrated Game: I can't pick between Infinite, GTAV, or Gone Home.

I think Persona 4 Golden came out in 2012. Pretty sure I got it for Christmas that year.

2013 in the UK

Here is how the Top 10 shook out. I will tally the other stuff if you guys want. But this was enough for me at the moment! Points next to them. Gave 10 to first, 9 to second and so on.

1. The Last of Us (78)
2. Ni No Kuni (47)
3. Pokemon X&Y (45)
4. The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (33)
5. Rayman Legends (31)
6. Super Mario 3D World (27)
7. DOTA 2 (24)
8. Ratchet & Clank Into the Nexus (23)
9. Bioshock Infinite (22)
10. Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag (21)

Seems I will have to look into getting a 3DS sometime in the future. Solid lineup of games though.