Best game you played in 2013?

[The Brain]

"Challenging"

[garbon]

Not necessariy one made in 2013 but one you played for the first time that year.


Me: Sleeping Dogs

I played that - as one was supposed to - in 2012.

[fhdz]

somewhat weirdly, Shadow Warrior.

The game got good reviews all around.

It's just not the sort of game I'd typically play, whether it's critically well-received or not.

I bought it on a whim and really liked it.

[OttoVonBismarck]

It's been a pretty dull year in gaming for me, I think the only new game I played was Kerbal Space Program...which I'd rate as "really cool concept...but long way to go until it's a game."

I was looking over my Steam library and other installed games and I honestly just don't have many new games in 2013..I played a ton of CK2 but I started playing it in 2012 when it was released.

[Razgovory]

2013 has been a disappointing year.  A lot of the big releases were disappointments.  Company of heroes 2 was the biggest one for me.  It wasn't terrible, but was still disappointing.  Arkham Origins, A Machine For Pigs, Battlefield 4, and Rome: Total War 2 also disappointing.

[fhdz]

2013 has been a disappointing year.  A lot of the big releases were disappointments.  Company of heroes 2 was the biggest one for me.  It wasn't terrible, but was still disappointing.  Arkham Origins, A Machine For Pigs, Battlefield 4, and Rome: Total War 2 also disappointing.

Wow, I didn't buy a single one of those games.

[11B4V]

It's been a pretty dull year in gaming for me,

Pretty much the same here. Havent really had time. Tried Xcom and was Meh

[sbr]

99% of my gaming time last year was Guild Wars 2.

Off the top of my head, the only games released last year I have played are EUIV and Papers, Please.  I would vote for P,P of those 2.

[Ed Anger]

My PC gaming went into the toilet this year. 

For the iPad, maybe Battle of the Bulge.

[fhdz]

99% of my gaming time last year was Guild Wars 2.

Off the top of my head, the only games released last year I have played are EUIV and Papers, Please.  I would vote for P,P of those 2.

I bet Lucas Pope never dreamed that his little game would be such a hit.

[Grey Fox]

I can't remember. I've played lots of games but nothing stands out. Civ V, I guess or Darksiders II.

[Josquius]

Papers Please I just don't get. It feels too much like doing meanial work and following regulations...because well that's what it is. I can't get the fun out of it beyond the initial cool period.

[PRC]

Starbound.  Early access only became available in December but it's such a fun game.

[Syt]

Papers Please I just don't get. It feels too much like doing meanial work and following regulations...because well that's what it is. I can't get the fun out of it beyond the initial cool period.

You're right, it's about menial work while you're on a clock and closely watched by your superiors. What made the game very good for me was that it faced you with moral choices, but didn't proselytize. Are you helping the insurgents? Are you letting the poor guy through who lost his papers? Are you helping the trafficked prostitutes by refusing their pimp to enter the country even though his papers check out?

Or do you rather buy food and medicine for your family?

It put you into the mind of a cog in the machine of an oppressive regime and made you feel - well, me at least - that doing the humane thing, often the no brainer choice in video games, can be very hard sometimes.

[DontSayBanana]

You're right, it's about menial work while you're on a clock and closely watched by your superiors. What made the game very good for me was that it faced you with moral choices, but didn't proselytize. Are you helping the insurgents? Are you letting the poor guy through who lost his papers? Are you helping the trafficked prostitutes by refusing their pimp to enter the country even though his papers check out?

Or do you rather buy food and medicine for your family?

It put you into the mind of a cog in the machine of an oppressive regime and made you feel - well, me at least - that doing the humane thing, often the no brainer choice in video games, can be very hard sometimes.

Indeed.  I'm replaying KOTOR 1 right now and it struck me how unsubtle the moral choices are- it and most other games with "moral choices" seem to force you between pacifistic conversation choices for "good" and sword-swinging violent executions for "evil" with no real downside to the good and no real upside to the bad, except for completists.  Fallout 3 and Skyrim are at least subtler, but they still fail to give you meaningful mechanical choices to go along with the narrative choices.