2013 In Review: Jumping, Sneaking, and Dimension Shifting
Posts: 151 (hey, original number of Pokémon callback)
Games Played: 87 (74 standalone + 13 DLC)
Highlights:
Lowlights:
Most Comforting (alternatively, Most Relieving):
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
- The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies
- Turning the hilarious failure of SimCity (2013) into rekindled interest in SimTower
- My continuing disdain for Just Cause 2
Biggest Surprises:
- Analogue: A Hate Story
- Assassin's Creed III
- Borderlands 2 DLC (Captian Scarlett, Mr. Torgue, Sir Hammerlock)
- Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
- Open-world LEGO games (Undercover, LotR, DC, Marvel)
- Mercenary Kings
- Thomas Was Alone
- Tomb Raider (2013)
Biggest Disappointments:
- Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?!
- Batman: Arkham Origins's creative bankruptcy
- BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Episode 1
- The private execution of The Last Guardian
- Ouya
- Sleeping Dogs DLC (Zodiac Tournament, Year of the Snake)
- The Walking Dead
- The public execution of Star Wars: 1313
Coolest Application of Existential Physics:
BioShock Infinite
Most Shocking Technical Ineptitude:
Binary Domain
Baddest-Ass Ass-Kicking Badassery:
Saints Row IV
Runner-up: Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
Most Goddamned Confusing Bullshit I'll Never Fucking Understand:
The Wonderful 101
The "I've Had This For How Many Years?" Duke Nukem Forever Memorial Award Winner:
Trine 2
Best Game of 2013:
If Saints Row had Red Faction: Guerrilla's Geo-Mod physics
Runner-up: Saints Row IV
Most Looking Forward To in 2014:
- Actually getting somewhere in Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag
- Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
- Maybe the next Uncharted, please?
- Saints Row IV DLC
- Watch Dogs
Most Nervously Awaiting in 2014:
- Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I Don't Know!
- BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Episode 2
- A PC relaunch of Grand Theft Auto V
- Actually getting somewhere in Killer Is Dead
- Thief