Topic: 2015 will be as remarkable as 2011

Uncharted 3 wasn't as good as 2 and went well past my comfortable limit for QTEs (though I'll admit the first two were close to said limit...), nearly everything about Skyward Sword annoyed the crap out of me, and LittleBig Planet 2 failed to address any of the problems in LittleBig Planet...

At least Skyrim, Arkham City, and inFamous 2 were good, though in retrospect I wouldn't say any of them were spectacular.

Also Bastion still exists? I honestly forgot about that...

2007 was easily the best year of the last generation. 2009 had a lot of my favorites as well, not sure I'd say as good as 2011 but it's close. All 3 of those were great years though, no reason to downplay them. But I definitely wouldn't put them up with the prime years of PS2 and certainly the 90s was the golden decade for this industry. It could just be nostalgia but it seemed like most years in the 90s were stacked and certainly during the 16-bit era the industry was at one of its highest points in terms of creativity.

Just to be clear i wasn't downplaying them. Each year bring it's own great titles, even this year had some awesome games.

I see where you're coming from. I totally forgot about Bastion as well,
you can't forget super mario 3d land, sonic generations, portal 2.

Metal Gear Solid V, Persona 5, Xenoblade Chronicles X, Zelda U, and Splatoon. Also in no particular order. The thought of any of those games makes me giddy with anticipation.

Umm, clearly 2006 was the best year ever for video games. Sonic 06 anyone?

In all seriousness, if I had to pick a best year ever for games it would be sometime in the 90s. In my opinion gaming just hasn't been all that exciting since then.

A little OT, but was did Uncharted get any better in the gameplay department after the first?

I really liked it at the beginning, but it soon settled into a
walk 5 steps -> half hour repetitive shootout sequence -> 5 minutes of bad early 90s grade 3D platforming -> another half hour shootout sequence -> nice cutscene -> bad platforming -> 30 minute shootout...

So, did UC2 fix that?

I thought Bastion had been sent to an alternate dimension and wiped from all conscious existence; the memory of its name kept only by mute nuns in Tibet. My mistake.

Ah! Poor Bastion. That was a fun little game, though. I played through it a few times. I'm not rabid for it like the internet seems to be, though. It was a fun game but a short game.

Lots of strong arguments for good years in gaming, but really it's nothing that can ever be decided objectively. 1998 with the first release of Pokemon does make a pretty good argument, though. Such a key game in the history of the hobby.

I've been gaming since the 80s, and I feel that the hobby has gone downhill since the 90s. Just my opinion, but a valid opinion nonetheless. I do look forward to some revivals and new IPs this year, though.

2011 must have been one of the worst years in gaming.

Uhm not, it was still a 3D action-adventure and TPS with cutscenes providing narrative structure. UC2 was very good though, better than UC1 one and way, way better than UC3. UC2 felt like an excellent take on the "Indiana Jones"-brand of entertainment, actually I don't think any other game came even close to that, not even the Indiana Jones games, which admitedly were hold back by their technical limitations of the time. If you play one UC game, make it UC2. If you don't care for Indy, you know silly humor, some staged shootouts and fist fights and car chases, crazy lore, nazis and just overall goofy stuff, middle-aged-white-guy-doing-adventuring including "romancing" damsels-in-distress (although U was acutally pretty modern in that regard) ... well, steer clear for sure, it might just not be for you after all.

Yup, me2, maybe not MGSV though, since that series lost me ... well, right after MGS1 tbh (which I loved), despite of which I kept playing most of the pre-/sequels for some reason, well okay Snake Eater was really fine. What I've seen and played (GZ) of MGSV looks mechanically excellent, but Kojimas style of mixing serious issues and tone with nonsensical, convoluted stories and ridiculous gameplay, like professional mercenaries being fooled by cardboard-bikini-babes is really jarring and not to my liking, I like games that are more or less consistent. And yes, I'm gonna say it, to me that's nothing short of the famous, often lamented "ludonarrative dissonance". Kojima might be doing it intentionally, but I don't think this changes anything about it.

There are even a couple of games I would add to that list btw, like Galak-Z, Darkest Dungeon, Below, Banner Saga II, Aliennation, Hand of Fate, Hotline Miami 2, Mighty No. 9, SteamWorld Heist and a dozen others I can't think of right now. Not even mentioning games that already released this year like Sunless Sea or other "AAA" games coming in 2015 like Code Name Steam or The Division, maybe even Crackdown 3 and once more a dozen others, many of which were already mentioned here.

You saying you know more than we do?, some insight knowledge about mass delays and cancelations? Other than I'm gonna stick with my last paragraph.

Oh I love Indy and I loved the storytelling/cutscenes in UC too. What eventually made me give up the game were the endless shoutout scenes and bad platforming. I have nothing but good things to say about the writing, set pieces, and presentation though.

Not true.
Everything was better in the old days.

I thought the platforming was decent in Uncharted compared to Tomb Raider and Assassin's Creed. The shootouts could get annoying, but I thought they were more fun in UC2.

I was basing it solely on the first post. If I made a top 20 of the best games of 2011 none of them would be in that post(although I haven't played Dark Souls yet).

Uncharted 3 was such a big freaking disappointment for me, especially after the awesomeness of Uncharted 2. Uncharted 3 was just too freaking short, and the ending was so unemotional and not satisfying at all. I actually think Uncharted 1 is better than 3, just because it is at least longer, and contains less cheap enemies, and quick time events. I have no idea how Uncharted 2 turned out to be such a masterpiece. I haven't played the last of us yet, but I hope Naughty Dog can replicate that Uncharted 2 greatness for Uncharted 4. Uncharted 2 is literally one of my favorite games of all time.

1. Mass Effect 2 + 3
2. Uncharted 2
3. Super Mario Galaxy

The first Uncharted is a total slog. Awkward platforming, endless gunfights, and a horrible twist near the end that pretty much ruined the last part of the game for me. The voice work and main character were pretty much all that kept me going.

I still want to give UC2 a chance, though, and see if that one is actually decent.

I don't care for the series, but UC2 is definitively an improvement over the first one. I didn't bother with 3, a lot of fans of the series didn't seem to like it, and I didn't even like UC2.

3 was pretty meh and 1 was ugh

but 2 was so awesome

Double post