Your favorite game of the past year?

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For me, it's easily Bioshock. The graphics (especially the water effects) are second only to COD4's among the games I've ever played. The art-deco style is really cool, and the lighting is spectacular (it's so difficult to make such a dark game look good, and 2K nailed it perfectly). The 50's soundtrack is the best I've ever heard in a game, and the variety of attacks and ways to kill things keeps the game fresh always. The story is worthy of a feature film, and kept me hooked. Bioshock is easily my favorite game I've played since Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The Big Daddy fights (Big Daddy is the thing you see on the cover above) are pretty intense, especially if you have your 360/PC hooked up to a good sound system.

Honorary Mention: COD4

Past year most likely God of War. I'm limited in my genres (Action/Adventure/RPG, some sports)

GTA4 with COD4 as a close 2nd. We'll see how Ninja Gaiden II works out.

Haven't played Bioshock but I just watched a youtube vid of it the other day that made me want to.

Read the title and thought BioShock instantly, it would easily have been one of the greatest games of all time if it had even passable multiplayer...

Imagine all of those cool ways you killed the baddies in Bioshock, now imagine doing that online.

I do understand though that the great single player story was possible in part because that was the focus, and I thought it was an amazing game.

It's close between Bioshock and COD4..... Let's say Bioshock...

You say it's worthy of a feature film, they are making it into one incase you didn't know...

GTA4 by a mile. CoD4 or Portal next.

God of War 2, Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, and Super Mario Galaxy.

I haven't gotten to play GTA4 yet, or Bioshock, and I only played COD4 briefly.

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Until Socom come out.

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GTA4 by a mile. CoD4 or Portal next.

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I just got the OrangeBox and I love team fortress 2 but I have yet to try Portal..

Is it really that good?

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Originally Posted by Sense

I just got the OrangeBox and I love team fortress 2 but I have yet to try Portal..

Is it really that good?

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With so many games that are just rehashes of old genres, it's cool when something original like Portal comes along. It's rare today that you go "I've never seen that before" in a game, well, Portal is the definition of that quote.

Team Fortress 2 is really fun too

Assasin's Creed

NBA 2K8 is my favorite sports game but MLB '08 The Show is also reallly good.

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With so many games that are just rehashes of old genres, it's cool when something original like Portal comes along. It's rare today that you go "I've never seen that before" in a game, well, Portal is the definition of that quote.

Team Fortress 2 is really fun too

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Yeah I was looking at it amazed... people say it's too short but that it's very good..


Do you have Xfire?

I'm new to TF2 and I've yet to get THAT much fun out of it like I do with CSS.

1)Bioshock
2)Orange Box (half-Life 2)
3)Assasins Creed


Btw, got Ninja Gaiden 2 today and its the shit

So what's the deal with Orange Box? Isn't it like some weird ass puzzles and shit? In any event I always thought Half Life 2 was the shit.

Cod4

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halo 3

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Get the fuck out with that bullshit...

I'd rather play half of Bioshock than play Halo 3....

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So what's the deal with Orange Box? Isn't it like some weird ass puzzles and shit? In any event I always thought Half Life 2 was the shit.

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Its got a whole bunch of games, all using the Half Life engine. Portal is a short puzzle game, Team Fortress is the online fps, and Half Life 2, plus episodes one and 2 of Half Life 2. Its worth it just for the Half Lifes.

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Its got a whole bunch of games, all using the Half Life engine. Portal is a short puzzle game, Team Fortress is the online fps, and Half Life 2, plus episodes one and 2 of Half Life 2. Its worth it just for the Half Lifes.

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Portal and TF2 are good games.... it's apparently the best deal you can get for those games...

Word. Sounds cool. Thanks for the info.

And I'll already say that Ninja Gaiden 2 might be one of the best games I've ever played, really challenging.

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So what's the deal with Orange Box? Isn't it like some weird ass puzzles and shit? In any event I always thought Half Life 2 was the shit.

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It's probably the best deal in video gaming history to get these 5 games for $60. Portal is a really funny game once you get 70-75% through it, and is one of the most creative titles I've seen come out lately. TF2 is a pretty badass (online-only) FPS, and there's HL2 and two sequels to it.

Valve doesn't fuck around; anything they make is amazing.

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And I'll already say that Ninja Gaiden 2 might be one of the best games I've ever played, really challenging.

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Can it seriously be harder than Ninja Gaiden 1 on NES? :lol

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It's probably the best deal in video gaming history to get these 5 games for $60. Portal is a really funny game once you get 70-75% through it, and is one of the most creative titles I've seen come out lately. TF2 is a pretty badass (online-only) FPS, and there's HL2 and two sequels to it.

Valve doesn't fuck around; anything they make is amazing.

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got it for 40

Im currently downloading CRYSIS, cant wait to play it.
What for you is the best FPS war pc game?