Top gaming moments 2005

[Ste-Von]

Playing and getting good at Guitar Hero.

[YellerDog]

Best: Playing through Donkey Kong Jungle Beat with friends. Also, beer.

Worst: Shit game endings. More or less all of 'em I finished this year.

[Cheebs]

Best: the first time I blew the crap outa' something with the rocket launcher in RE4.

[bVork]

First off, wasn't MGS3 released in 2004?

Best:

Mission 3-6 in Trauma Center, where you have to dismantle the bomb.

Exploring the landscape in Shadow of the Colossus. Such a peaceful experience.

Fighting Ermac in Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks

Zig-zagging between the legs of brontosauruses while being chased by raptors in King Kong.

Kicking a villager and then shooting them in the head in Resident Evil 4. That never got old for me.

All of the dialogue in Psychonauts.

Playing a level of Super Mario Brothers by twirling the GBA in Wario Ware Twisted!

The 'retro' dungeon in The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap.


Worst:

Midway Arcade Treasures 3. Could've been a great compilation, but the ports were awful and a bug regularly destroyed save files.

European-exclusive downloadable tracks in Wipeout Pure. Why do such a thing on a supposedly region-free handheld?

No The Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess this year. Delays suck.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion being delayed until March. Delays suck, part two.

[mollipen]

I'll do both of my picks from recent events, since I'm too lazy to try to remember all of the games I've played this year.

Best
Tie:
Finally trying out Resident Evil 4 and realising how much I loved it.
and
Sniping for the first time in an RE game and realizing how freakin' awesome it felt.

Worst
Leon being a TOTAL FAG and not taking up the offer for sex from RE hottie Ashley. WTF!

[g0zen]

The Best (AROUND):
1.) Resident Evil 4...All of it. Plz Blv.
2.) Navigating through numerous firefights with North Korean armored vehicles, tanks, helecopters, entire infantry regiments, just to snag one fucker alive for the bounty in Mercenaries.
3.) The numerous gags in TimeSplitters: Future Perfect story mode. Cortez was a riot; "Time to SPLIT!"
4.) Building awesome decks in Phantom Dust and whooping motherfuckers on Xbox Live all the while rocking out to my custom soundtracks.
5.) The boss battles and the story in God of War.
6.) Playing as Deadpool in X-Men Legends 2.
7.) The style and craziness of Killer 7.
8.) Playing through 3/4ths of Indigo Prophecy's story.
9.) Rocking your FUCKING SOCKS OFF in Guitar Hero.
10.) Smashing shit to bits in Burnout: Revenge!


The Worst:
1.) Suffering through another shitty Evil Dead game.
2.) TRAPT...All of it.
3.) Playing through the final 1/4th of Indigo Prophecy's story.
4.) How boring Stubbs The Zombie got and quickly it got that way.

[mollipen]

The Worst:
2.) TRAPT...All of it.

What's wrong with it? Both a friend of mine and I have been looking at the game.

[Eightbitbreaks]

The Best (AROUND):
6.) Playing as Deadpool in X-Men Legends 2.

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!

[g0zen]

What's wrong with it? Both a friend of mine and I have been looking at the game.

You must not have looked at the thread for it, let me break it down for you by the numbers, since this thread already has me on a roll;

1.) The voice acting, story, etc. are all garbage. I mean total garbage. Only the lord high shogun of f-chans could look past TRAPT's localization issues.
2.) All the skill of placing traps and chaning them from previous Deception games is watered down and formulaic in TRAPT. All non-environmental traps are ineffective and have to be used repeatedly and become tiresome to watch very quickly.
3.) I beat the game in like 5 hours, and that was doing every side-quest along the way. The reward I had been expecting and that was, incidentally, the only reason I'd played the game for as long as I had (costumes for the heroine) never materialized. Sure, I could have played the game again and tried for a different ending, but why bother?
4.) They try to make the game seem strategic by making certain trap types more effective against certain enemies, but then they go and mix the enemy types they send at you every level. So, while you're waiting for the lumbering knight to walk into your spike trap, the nimble thief is already right in your grill showing your skinny white ass the business end of his dagger.
5.) The long-range enemies, archers and magic-users, send the game spiraling into new levels of tedium. How do you get someone who never comes closer than 10ft. to you and stops every two steps to fire something at you to go to a certain spot at the right moment? You don't, you just get lucky.

Well, I'm sure there are other flaws with TRAPT that I've left out because I'm tired and because I've tried to put some of the worse aspects of that game in the deeper recesses of my mind. I only hope what I have told you is enough to dissuade you and your friend from wasting any money on this shitfest.

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!

It's true. The only reason I bought the game was because I was surfing the TNL thread for it and learned of this.

[Rocca]

Best:

- Mushihimesama: Arrange mode without losing one life.
- Devil May Cry 3: Using a motorcycle for a nunchaku.

Worst:

-Magna Carta