Well, I finally caved and did it. I bought a fight stick. I have officially bid farewell to the fightpad. This is a major move. Things are going to change forever. Gulp.
A few observations thus far:
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010Best Games of the Year 2009: Tim’s List
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
So here it is – one final “best-of-2009″ list from your beloved Pixel Verdict crew. All that’s left now is to listen to our year-end podcastravaganza, where we each make the case for our respective number one pick in the argument over game of the year (though ultimately we leave it up to your, our faithful readers, to decide). As a bonus, this is the last time you have to deal with the picture of the Dodge vehicle with the Photoshop’d license plate.
What follows are my picks for the best games of 2009. My criteria for this list are pretty simple: Games I’ve actually played (which limits me slightly due to time, money and console restrictions) and cumulative hours committed to those games.
Best Games of the Year 2009: Adam’s List
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Ah, 2009. A fun year for video games and a broke year for this reviewer, who in his shame admits freely to having not played as many games as his esteemed colleagues-in-pixilated-arms. I mean, I just got Borderlands as a Christmas gift, so there’s no making it onto my list this year (blasphemous, I know.) Always lagging behind, I am. And look—not a single PC-only game on my Top 5. I don’t even recognize myself in the mirror anymore.
Click the jump below to check out my Top 5 picks of the year, as well as two noteworthy honorable mentions.
Best Games of the Year 2009: Jon’s List
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
Whew! This year was a close one. With a wedding so pay for this coming March, and full year’s worth of can’t miss games released over the course of 2009, I didn’t think I was going to make it out alive (or at the very least, out of shark-tank debt). I’m in agreement with Steve that trying to pick just five out of the squall of sterling digital offerings we’ve had this past year is a cruel endeavour. After spending much of the holidays in tears, trying to trim the fat from my list, I think I’ve finally tapered it down to an unfortunately circumscribe five (plus two honourable mentions). So before we ring out the Aughties, or Zeroes, or whatever you hipsters are calling the soon to be decade past, I’d like to regale the gamers among you with my personal favourite games of 2009. And no…Prototype is not on the list.
Best Games of the Year 2009: Steve’s List
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
With the curtain closing on one hell of a banner year in gaming, here’s yet another “best of” list to whet your appetite. I had a hard time whittling this list down to even ten titles, let alone the proposed five that everyone else has agreed upon. Obviously one of us is more hardcore than the rest. There are 5 extras to fill the 6 to 10 slots, and there’d be a list of about 12 honorable mentions that I had a blast messing with. I’ll also say that, much like Erich, my list is probably considerably different from everyone else’s, but that’s more because I march to the beat of my own drum. Leave some feedback if you want to tell me how insane I am. Check it out after le break.
Best Games of the Year 2009: Erich’s List
Monday, December 28th, 2009
As Dave explained in his kickoff post, ’tis the season for “best of” lists, and who are we to buck tradition?
Just to warn you, my list isn’t going to look like the rest of the lists you’ll see on this site over the next few days. Compare my picks with Dave’s and you’ll see what I mean. That’s because I don’t own all three consoles, or play a lot of new games. In these harsh economic times, can you blame me? Somehow, though, I managed to play a few—mostly on Nintendo systems. Go figure. Click through for the best of what 2009 had to offer the Asperschlager household.
Best Games of the Year 2009: Dave’s List
Monday, December 28th, 2009
What kind of video game blog would we be if we didn’t do a list of best games for the year? A shoddy excuse for one, that’s what. So here we go, the first of six individualized lists from the writers of Pixel Verdict, to be capped with a year-end podcast where we bicker and argue about our respective choices, because, really, what kind of video game fanboys would be if we didn’t bicker and argue?
Hit the jump for my five best games of 2009, complete with party-pooping bloviating from The Contrarian Fanboy!
Under the Radar – The RPG Edition
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
These guys are ready! But are you?
With the busy fall season officially upon us, I’m sure we’re all prepared to face a deluge of console software in the coming months.
Sure, everyone is following the big guns, we’re all ready for and awaiting our Uncharted Twos and our Modern Warfare twos and our Assassin’s Creed Twos and on and on. I’m not going to preview or run down the hot commodities here, no, my purpose here is to shed some light on a few other titles you may have overlooked in the stream of sequel hype that preceeds the glut of triple-A high-profile wallet-fodder.
I’m kicking things off with my personal favorite genre. I’m a dice roller, a stat geek, a fantasy devotee with more repeat readings of The Lord Of The Rings under my belt than i care to admit. Join me brave adventurer, or whatever, y’know, as i present to thee, or you, 5 Role-players coming to consoles this fall (marring unforseen delays) that just might be worth your time and hard earned cash, perhaps you’ll see something that looks kinda cool.