TNL's GotM: October 2010

[Yoshi]

I didn't play Barbie's Adventures at the Mall either, but I'd start there if I were going to question votes.

[Tain]

breakin' it down:

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (360/PS3) - a better God of War. So, it's okay, but nothing great.

Fable III (360/PC) - series sucks shit.

Fallout: New Vegas (360/PC/PS3) - boring once you finish running around a couple towns.

Kirby's Epic Yarn (Wii) - fails the "watching on youtube must be less fun than playing the game" test.

Medal of Honor (360/PC/PS3) - dice singleplayer probably won't be good again until mirror's edge 2

Pinball FX 2 (XBLA) - hey, might be good.

Rock Band 3 (360/PS3/Wii) - i don't have much fun with rock band anymore. unless i'm singing. but i can do that in RB2.

Shantae: Risky's Revenge (DSiWare) - probably not very good.

Super Meat Boy (XBLA) - pretty sure i was over trackmania platformers with N/N+. and that game wasn't as kotaku.

Vanquish (360/PS3) - the one ring to rule them all.

[NeoZeedeater]

Shantae looks awesome and has been getting very positive reviews. I don't own a DSi nor was I big on the original. Is there anyone here who wasn't a big fan of the first game but loves the sequel?

[Bacon McShig]

breakin' it down:

Tain - I only bought one game this month so I'm going to pull one-line summaries out of my ass for anything else

[Tain]

Pretty much, only replace "ass" with youtube, word of mouth, and whatever other little scraps of info I figure are enough to make a quick judgment from. There are reasons I don't buy the bad ones!

edit: actually, I did at least try a few of those this month, for once. LoS, New Vegas, Epic Yarn, Super Meat Boy (trial), and Rock Band 3.

[bVork]

Aaaand I just hit a save corruption bug in Fallout: New Vegas. That means Pinball FX 2 wins for me this month.

[Yoshi]

I'm curious as to how Bacon had time to play every nominated game before voting.

[Bacon McShig]

I explicitly said I won't be voting until I play New Vegas and more of Vanquish.

[Mzo]

Shantae looks awesome and has been getting very positive reviews. I don't own a DSi nor was I big on the original. Is there anyone here who wasn't a big fan of the first game but loves the sequel?

Sounds like they did a better job with the sequel, I haven't tried it yet. Still playing the first and it sucks!

[Finch]

Shantae looks awesome and has been getting very positive reviews. I don't own a DSi nor was I big on the original. Is there anyone here who wasn't a big fan of the first game but loves the sequel?

I think the consensus is that the first was charming but kind of really bad and the second has quadruple charm and is actually a pretty good game.