TNL's GotM: October 2010

September 2010 Winner: Halo: Reach
Philistines.

This month was incredibly packed on both the retail and the downloadable fronts. As such, I've had to make some hard choices on what to leave out, and some really big games didn't make the cut. Enslaved: Odyssey to the West is a major release, but TNL seems to (rightfully) be less than impressed with it, so I'm leaving it off since there's no way it's going to have a chance of winning. Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 was cut for the same reason. DJ Hero 2, Comic Jumper, Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, Costume Quest, and Arcania: Gothic 4 (sorry dakidski) all failed to make the cut as well. I admit that I'm allowing some of my bias to creep into the selection with Pinball FX2, but it's my poll so fuck you.

I'm torn between Fallout: New Vegas and Pinball FX 2. I really, really want to like the former but Obsidian's typical lack of QA makes it very difficult. It'll be a fantastic game in a few months, but not something I really want to play right now. Pinball FX 2, despite a few scoring quirks in some of the tables (multipliers are way too difficult to get and some of the activities are far too difficult for the points they provide), is pretty much the best original pinball video game since Pro Pinball: Timeshock.

oh man this is a tough one let me mull this over a litVanquish.

Castlevania. Best video game ending in years, and I thought it was more playable than GOW 3 and Ninja Gaiden II which are the last 2 major action games I tried to get into. Can't wait for a sequel!

Voting Vanquish based on Youtube videos.

Costume Quest as a write-in.

Anyone who doesn't like this game is my enemy.

Rock Band 3 based on RB1 and 2.

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Originally Posted by Compass

Costume Quest as a write-in.

Anyone who doesn't like this game is my enemy.

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It was really short, and the battles were REALLY repetitive. By the time you got all the costumes, there were only like 5 fights left, and only being able to equip one stamp per person meant that you stuck with the 3 super useful ones through most of the game, and ignored all the rest. I played as the Robot, Knight, and Spaceman through 90% of the game because the game never gave me any other cool costumes until the very end.

I liked it, but no way is it Game of the Month in a month with so many other great choices.

Based off of how much I will play it, I chose RB3. If RB3 wasn't around Castlevania for sure.

New Vegas could have been the game of Dec. or Jan. It is most certainly not the game of October.

Super Meat Boy without question.