Were it up to me, I would only swap a couple runners up with their 1st place winners. I'd put Gears 3 over MW3 easy.
Also, while I appreciate Radiant Historia getting some love, where the hell is Dark Souls?
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When you're up against the latest Mario and Kirby platformers from Nintendo for an award, you know the competition is stiff. It says a lot about the quality of Rayman Origins to prevail against these odds. Stuffed to the brim with personality, Rayman Origins is truly something to behold.
There's nothing simple about Rayman Origins. A platform is never a platform; it's a didgeridoo or bongos, or the lid of a pot, or the hair of an electoon. That's right, hair. At face value, every level is as simple as getting from point A to point B, but along the way if you want to access all of the game's content you'll have to utilize all of Rayman's abilities, which are progressively unlocked and used in tandem with one another. Each room in the game offers a brand new unique challenge and a new set of nooks and crannies to explore.
It may have gotten lost in the shuffle of some major releases, but there was no way this unique title would be so easily overlooked by the PixlBit staff. Besting Super Mario 3D Land is an achievement all on its own, but taking Platformer of the Year is an even greater one.
After spending months searching to justify buying a 3DS, Super Mario 3D Land jumped on our buyer’s remorse and squished it flat. A nice blend of three- and two-dimensional platforming, 3D Land hits that sweet spot of Mario games - dishing out fun times for all skill levels. Despite what some at PixlBit think, anyone who was able to cheese through the primary game had plenty of chances to test their skills in the special world’s tweaked levels.
Bounding from ledge to ledge in stereoscopic 3D, every moment is blissful and perfected. It surprises nobody that a Mario game would get high praise from our crew, but there is always concern when a game is being pressured to prove the merits of a new system. Not to worry, though: Super Mario 3D Land proved that the series and system it calls home should be carried in every gamer’s back pocket.
I'm happy as hell Portal 2 won best puzzler. Catherine was good, but I felt Portal 2 was a much better game...the online co op is the most fun I've had playing online with anyone. I have to agree with Angelo though....Dark Souls didn't even get an honorable mention. Why's that?
We each voted for our top 3 in the genre and Dark Souls only placed on 2 people's lists and that was in the 3rd place position. As such, it wasn't really enough to get a mention. I think it's one of those cases where it's been a year rich in RPGs and it's a game easily overlooked when considering your 3 favorites of the year. Disgaea 4 was also omitted for similar reasons.
Truth be told, I was pretty surprised it didn't get a bunch more votes.
Yea it's tough this really was one of the greatest years in gaming EVER! So unfortunately that means that there was just not enough spots to represent all of the great games that came out this year.But in honesty having to many great games to choose from is a pretty awesome predicament to have.
Dark Souls, if only I had been here earlier haha. I have been raving and ranting about that game since it's release, and was raving about Demon's Souls up until the day of Dark Souls release. I'm definitely a bit sad it didn't make it on this list, but this game was so jam packed of quality titles that the masochistic Dark Souls was bound to be left behind. It's personally one of my top 3 games of the year though.
it's all good fellas, not mad atcha. Disgaea 4..another wonderful title that I didn't give enough attention to. Glad it's in my Q...though I may just wait for a price drop and pick'er up for keeps. That game's easily playable for 100+ hours.
Vic, I knew you'd have something to say on SOULS. It's shaping up to be more fun than Skyrim, for me.
This is really reminding me how many games I need to play from this year still. I'm leaning towards Uncharted 3 over Zelda at the moment, but have not finished Zelda yet, so I have to wait and see. Still need to play Dead Space 2, Rayman, Kirby, Layton... ahhhh! Hopefully I will get to some of these games soon.
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