Not necessariy one made in 2013 but one you played for the first time that year.
Me: Sleeping Dogs
Judging by hours spent in Steam, Football Manager 2013. EU4 gets an honorary mention for being pretty damn good from the very beginning.
Though I think I was most impressed with Far Cry 3 this year, but FPS games never keep their replay value for me.
A few good ones. Bioshock Infinite is the only game in recent memory that I played through three times in a row. But there were others, as well. Two of my favorites were not so much games as they were interactive experiences: Gone Home and the brilliant Stanley Parable.
I'm also enjoying Hearthstone a fair bit (and I normally hate multiplayer only games). Trying to think of more when I'm home.
Nuclear Throne, Skyrim, and, somewhat weirdly, Shadow Warrior.
Skyrim, GTA V & Tomb Raider
Probably Arkham Origins.
Quote from: fhdz on January 03, 2014, 09:56:23 AM
somewhat weirdly, Shadow Warrior.
The game got good reviews all around.
Games I played in 2013 for the first time and really enjoyed:
- Portal (seriously)
- Gone Home
- Tomb Raider
- Stanley Parable
- Starbound
- Batman: Arkham Asylum
- Batman: Arkham City
- Rogue Legacy
- Hotline Miami
- Dust - An Elysian Tail
- Pinball FX2
- Sid Meier's Ace Patrol
- Shadowrun Returns
- Bioshock Infinite
- Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
- Euro Truck Simulator 2
- Civ 5: BNW
- Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
- Papers, Please
- L.A. Noire
- Hearthstone
Of this list my top 3 would be:
- Bioshock Infinite (for telling a great yarn despite all its flaws)
- Papers, Please (for making the mundane gripping and deeply psychological; for me at least)
- The Stanley Parable (for analyzing game design and gamer expectations in a very hilarious format)
Starbound and Gone Home are strong runners up.
There's games I bought on sale but haven't played yet (Dishonored, LEGO Marvel Super Heroes and others), though.
Papers, Please
I think CK2 and EUIV are both incipient classics.
I went through an Alpha Centauri phase. That's pretty close to my favorite game ever.
I forgot EUIV although I've stayed away from it a bit while they sorted through those beta patches.
Quote from: Tyr on January 03, 2014, 05:46:11 AM
Not necessariy one made in 2013 but one you played for the first time that year.
Me: Sleeping Dogs
:hug:
For me, Civ V
Quote from: Jacob on January 03, 2014, 04:49:24 PM
Quote from: Tyr on January 03, 2014, 05:46:11 AM
Not necessariy one made in 2013 but one you played for the first time that year.
Me: Sleeping Dogs
:hug:
I liked it, but what was up with the one date and dumping of all the ladies Jake !!?!?! :ultra:
Quote from: DontSayBanana on January 03, 2014, 10:13:55 AM
Probably Arkham Origins.
Game pissed me off to no end. Almost to the end, I walk into one room fall into space. I load, I go back to falling into space. Since the game auto saves my gave was effectively over.
"Challenging"
Quote from: Jacob on January 03, 2014, 04:49:24 PM
Quote from: Tyr on January 03, 2014, 05:46:11 AM
Not necessariy one made in 2013 but one you played for the first time that year.
Me: Sleeping Dogs
:hug:
I played that - as one was supposed to - in 2012. ^_^
Quote from: Syt on January 03, 2014, 11:15:06 AM
Quote from: fhdz on January 03, 2014, 09:56:23 AM
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.
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.
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.
Quote from: Razgovory on January 05, 2014, 05:16:45 PM
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.
Quote from: OttoVonBismarck on January 05, 2014, 03:13:29 PM
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
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.
My PC gaming went into the toilet this year.
For the iPad, maybe Battle of the Bulge.
Quote from: sbr on January 05, 2014, 07:26:36 PM
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.
I can't remember. I've played lots of games but nothing stands out. Civ V, I guess or Darksiders II.
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.
Starbound. Early access only became available in December but it's such a fun game.
Quote from: Tyr on January 06, 2014, 09:48:46 AM
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.
Quote from: Syt on January 06, 2014, 12:45:58 PM
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.
Quote from: Tyr on January 06, 2014, 09:48:46 AM
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.
Yeah, me neither. I'm not good at that kind of work so I found it really frustrating.
Quote from: Razgovory on January 06, 2014, 04:24:48 PM
Quote from: Tyr on January 06, 2014, 09:48:46 AM
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.
Yeah, me neither. I'm not good at that kind of work so I found it really frustrating.
Raz: unsuited for the very sort of bureaucracy he advocates.
Quote from: fhdz on January 06, 2014, 08:48:02 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on January 06, 2014, 04:24:48 PM
Quote from: Tyr on January 06, 2014, 09:48:46 AM
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.
Yeah, me neither. I'm not good at that kind of work so I found it really frustrating.
Raz: unsuited for the very sort of bureaucracy he advocates.
I wasn't aware I was wanted strict border controls.
Quote from: Razgovory on January 06, 2014, 08:50:59 PM
Quote from: fhdz on January 06, 2014, 08:48:02 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on January 06, 2014, 04:24:48 PM
Quote from: Tyr on January 06, 2014, 09:48:46 AM
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.
Yeah, me neither. I'm not good at that kind of work so I found it really frustrating.
Raz: unsuited for the very sort of bureaucracy he advocates.
I wasn't aware I was wanted strict border controls.
I'm teasing. :hug:
First the teasing, then the comes long sticks, then the swollen ass... :(
Quote from: Razgovory on January 06, 2014, 09:04:59 PM
First the teasing, then the comes long sticks, then the swollen ass... :(
You were the one with the sticks!
EU4
Quote from: Fate on January 06, 2014, 09:47:31 PM
EU4
Figured you would go for Surgery Simulator 2013.
Quote from: katmai on January 03, 2014, 04:54:56 PM
Quote from: Jacob on January 03, 2014, 04:49:24 PM
Quote from: Tyr on January 03, 2014, 05:46:11 AM
Not necessariy one made in 2013 but one you played for the first time that year.
Me: Sleeping Dogs
:hug:
I liked it, but what was up with the one date and dumping of all the ladies Jake !!?!?! :ultra:
What was up is that a bunch of content I had planned didn't make it through the shitstorm that was the development process. The girl-related stuff was severely short-changed alas :(
I had a whole bunch of stuff planned....
Quote from: garbon on January 03, 2014, 05:01:39 PMI played that - as one was supposed to - in 2012. ^_^
:hug:
Anyhow, for me it was Civ V with expansions. Only game where I got that "have to keep playing" feeling for any period of time.
Quote from: Jacob on January 08, 2014, 07:40:18 PM
What was up is that a bunch of content I had planned didn't make it through the shitstorm that was the development process. The girl-related stuff was severely short-changed alas :(
I had a whole bunch of stuff planned....
That is an acceptable answer :D
Wargame: Airland Battle. Steam says I have 100 hours invested in that thing. Probably half of that is just playing around in the Armory with make-believe tanks and thinking up gimmick decks for 10v10s :lol:
Quote from: Syt on January 03, 2014, 11:31:31 AM
- Papers, Please (for making the mundane gripping and deeply psychological; for me at least)
Just tried this, nice game.
Earlier in the year it was CIV5, a lot of CIV5. In the past few weeks it is has been Endless Space oddly enough, despite all its flaws.