At this point, I’m sick of writing about 2011 games, and I’m sure you’re sick of reading about them, so I’ll wrap it all up. I did a best of 2010 post last year, and now here’s this year’s best of 2011 post.
In my number five position is Bastion. The game had stellar music, some very nice retro [...]

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Many people have written off their Wii as a dead console. Probably most of the people who haven’t are the ones playing Skyward Sword or the ones still stuck on Wii Sports. At our house, the Wii game that sees the most play is Super Mario Galaxy 2. From the beginning, I’ve played the whole [...]

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It’s hard to think about all the games coming out in 2012. I’m up to my neck in Skyrim and Trine 2, I still want to finish off the Riddler challenges in Arkham City, and I have yet to start Skyward Sword, Deus Ex, Ico, or Infamous 2.
With the exception of the top few items [...]

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Skyrim, Skyrim, Skyrim. Yes, it’s nearly all I’ve been playing for the past few months, and I’ve put in a lot of time. I’ve written about the game so much at this point that I’m hesitant to include too much more, but I’m very much enjoying it, and it’s a strong contender for 2011 Game [...]

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Although I’ve been progressing through my 2011 games more or less in alphabeticaly sequence up until now, I’ve got to briefly break from that to hit a game that seems to have slipped through the cracks somehow: Limbo.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Like so many other XBLA exclusives that eventually come to other platforms, I played Limbo much later than [...]

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Whereas many of my installments in this series contain nothing but C- games, this chunk contains some good ones. First off, Pixeljunk Monsters Deluxe. Along with Beyond Good & Evil, Pixeljunk Monsters is one of those games that anyone who reads this site often must get sick of me talking about. I love the game. [...]

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This week, my list of the games I’ve played throughout 2011 continues. First off, Metroid Prime. Yeah, the old Gamecube game. I just got around to finally playing it. I never owned a Gamecube, but a few years back, I’d played Eternal Darkness on my Wii and had a lot of fun. When I mentioned [...]

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Metal Gear Solid
Yeah. The first one. The Playstation One game. I’d never really played it, although I scored a copy on EBay a number of years ago. My Playstation 3 plays PS1 games, so I gave it a go. The game actually looks pretty good with the PS3’s smoothing. But I played through until [...]

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The next segment of my Games of 2011 list begins with a PSP game: Dungeons & Dragons Tactics. This is one of the few 2011 games that I haven’t yet finished, and will likely continue playing well into 2012. I really like tactical battle RPGs, and this game does it fairly well. Since it’s turn-based, [...]

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I have a lot more to say about the games on today’s list than I have about many others. That’s probably just because I like to complain, and I’ve got a lot to complain about with these three titles.

 
 
 
 
 
 
I got Dead Nation for free as part of PSN’s “oops my bad” program. In the end, I [...]

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