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Best Game Of 2013/Thoughts
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For me it was Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. That game is amazing, I should re-play it.
For me it was Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. That game is amazing, I should re-play it.
It's Nintendo without a question for me. Link Between Worlds and 3D World are the only games I really liked that year, and WW HD if you count remasters. Not counting remasters I'm going with LBW.
The impossible choice:
I'm leaning towards SM3DW but the more I think about it the more I remember how awesome ALBW is.
They're the perfect complement to one another.
And they released on the same goddamn day.
I didn't even realize they released on the same day. That must have been something.
2013 is one of my favourite years for gaming. The Last of Us, GTAV, Tearaway, Ni no Kuni, DmC, Puppeteer, Resogun and Bioshock Infinite off the top of my head. Great stuff.
Gotta give it to TLoU though.
Gotta give it to TLoU though.
Super Mario 3D World
Rayman Legends
GTAV
Cant go wrong with any of these
Havent played Link Between Worlds tho
Rayman Legends
GTAV
Cant go wrong with any of these
Havent played Link Between Worlds tho
Toys R Us had a "Buy 1, Get 1 40% Off" sale for that week as well, making it a no-brainer to buy both at once.
My Top Three
- Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
- Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
- Gone Home
Rayman Legends
Grand Theft Auto V
Battlefield 4 (actually sucked shit in 2013, but retroactively got good)
State of Decay
Super Mario 3D World
Pikmin 3
Tearaway
etc.
Metal gear rising for me by far, shout out to Tomb Raider and Farcry Blood Dragon. Shit forgot that The Swapper was that year, strong #2. Shadow Warrior was cool too.
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- Antichamber
- The Wonderful 101
- XCom: Enemy Within
- The Swapper
- Link Between Worlds
- Rayman Legends
- The Last of Us
- Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut
- Aces Wild
I dug up my top 10 from back then (last week I was thinking about making a thread where we post our top 10s from every year of the 2010s and talk shit about/praise the genius of our picks), and it is apparently this:
1. Tearaway (Vita)
2. Fire Emblem Awakening (3DS)
3. Gone Home (PC)
4. Antichamber (PC)
5. Saints Row IV (PC)
6. Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk (PS3)
7. Battlefield 4 (PC)
8. The Last of Us (PS3)
9. Remember Me (PC)
10. Metro: Last Light (PC)
Tearaway is lovely and I'd definitely pick it over its PS4 remake a few years later, but I don't think it deserves game of the year. I think recency bias affected my decision-making that year.
In hindsight, Awakening and Gone Home both would've been good picks. Antichamber is still awesome and would've been an outside favourite, just because I don't feel like I've played anything quite like it since. The Last of Us could maybe be higher, but honestly I'm okay with putting it in the second half of my list.
Atelier Ayesha is probably the game I have the fondest memories of now, so fuck it: Atelier Ayesha is my 2020 2013 game of the year.
1. Tearaway (Vita)
2. Fire Emblem Awakening (3DS)
3. Gone Home (PC)
4. Antichamber (PC)
5. Saints Row IV (PC)
6. Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk (PS3)
7. Battlefield 4 (PC)
8. The Last of Us (PS3)
9. Remember Me (PC)
10. Metro: Last Light (PC)
Tearaway is lovely and I'd definitely pick it over its PS4 remake a few years later, but I don't think it deserves game of the year. I think recency bias affected my decision-making that year.
In hindsight, Awakening and Gone Home both would've been good picks. Antichamber is still awesome and would've been an outside favourite, just because I don't feel like I've played anything quite like it since. The Last of Us could maybe be higher, but honestly I'm okay with putting it in the second half of my list.
Atelier Ayesha is probably the game I have the fondest memories of now, so fuck it: Atelier Ayesha is my 2020 2013 game of the year.
Civilization V: Brave New World came out in 2013 and turned the game into something fantastic. Between that expansion and the western releases for Etrian Oddysey IV and Animal Crossing: New Leaf, 2013 was amazing.
Kentucky Route Zero started releasing in 2013. Thrilled we're finally about to get the last chapter in 2020.
There was some other serious quality. Super Hexagon was a phenomenon, fuckin' Far Cry: Blood Dragon, Shadowrun Returns, Steamworld Dig, Papers Please, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Rayman Legends, Puppeteer, Monaco, XCom: Enemy Within, Resogun, Tearaway, and (of course) The Last of Us.
I guess if I was gonna re-do a top ten out of those it might look like:
Not exactly the order that I'd play through them again, but I want to honor just how much fun I had with Super Hex and how much time I put into it. I'm also not exactly itching for another playthrough of Rayman Legends (I think Origins was tighter), Blood Dragon, or Tearaway. The Last of Us was a very solid game, but I'm gonna sleep on the sequel until the next gen is out for a while. With the exception of some decent multiplayer, I don't think it had much staying power. As for XCom: EW, it's been superseded by its excellent sequel.
But Shadowrun Returns kicked off an improbable return to a franchise, Monaco would still be fun if someone wanted to do co-op, and Papers Please feels like re-reading a decent short story. All games I'd still fire up if I was in the right mood.
Finally, KRZ is KRZ and I will keep replaying it, but I can't put Acts 1 and 2 too much higher on the list by themselves. I just played through it again in anticipation of Act V. The 28th can't arrive soon enough.
Edit: Oh shit, Gone Home released in 2013? Put that after KRZ and bump Tearaway down in to honorable mention territory. Maybe I would have WiiU and 3DS games on the list, too, but I didn't have those systems and without a re-release probably won't catch up to 3d World, A Link Between Worlds, or Pikmin. If I had the opportunity to play them now, tho, I would.
There was some other serious quality. Super Hexagon was a phenomenon, fuckin' Far Cry: Blood Dragon, Shadowrun Returns, Steamworld Dig, Papers Please, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Rayman Legends, Puppeteer, Monaco, XCom: Enemy Within, Resogun, Tearaway, and (of course) The Last of Us.
I guess if I was gonna re-do a top ten out of those it might look like:
- XCom: Enemy Within
- Super Hexagon
- Papers Please
- The Last of Us
- Rayman Legends
- Monaco
- Shadowrun Returns
- Kentucky Route Zero: Acts One and Two
- Far Cry: Blood Dragon
- Tearaway
Not exactly the order that I'd play through them again, but I want to honor just how much fun I had with Super Hex and how much time I put into it. I'm also not exactly itching for another playthrough of Rayman Legends (I think Origins was tighter), Blood Dragon, or Tearaway. The Last of Us was a very solid game, but I'm gonna sleep on the sequel until the next gen is out for a while. With the exception of some decent multiplayer, I don't think it had much staying power. As for XCom: EW, it's been superseded by its excellent sequel.
But Shadowrun Returns kicked off an improbable return to a franchise, Monaco would still be fun if someone wanted to do co-op, and Papers Please feels like re-reading a decent short story. All games I'd still fire up if I was in the right mood.
Finally, KRZ is KRZ and I will keep replaying it, but I can't put Acts 1 and 2 too much higher on the list by themselves. I just played through it again in anticipation of Act V. The 28th can't arrive soon enough.
Edit: Oh shit, Gone Home released in 2013? Put that after KRZ and bump Tearaway down in to honorable mention territory. Maybe I would have WiiU and 3DS games on the list, too, but I didn't have those systems and without a re-release probably won't catch up to 3d World, A Link Between Worlds, or Pikmin. If I had the opportunity to play them now, tho, I would.
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It's The Last of Us, playing through it again 6 months ago after years and still absolutely loving it really hammered it home for me as a Top 5 all timer.
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Don't give in to Legend of Zelda.The impossible choice:
I'm leaning towards SM3DW but the more I think about it the more I remember how awesome ALBW is.
They're the perfect complement to one another.
And they released on the same goddamn day.
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