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GW2 voted top video game of 2012
azzamasin
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in Guild Wars 2
Yes time of all places voted GW2 #1 game of 2012. Notice it doesn't say #1 MMO of 2012. Tells you a little about just how good this game really is.
Sandbox means open world, non-linear gaming PERIOD!
Subscription Gaming, especially MMO gaming is a Cash grab bigger then the most P2W cash shop!
Bring Back Exploration and lengthy progression times. RPG's have always been about the Journey not the destination!!!
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Oderint, dum metuant.
That put a smile on me
I am VERY happy with this...
However, GW2 doesn NOT deserve the vote of top game of 2012... it's just so.. boring. So few skills to use, barely any real end-game, and that fight with Zhaitan was laughable at best. The story in general is pretty bland, actually.
I liked that you could explore, find specific points of interest, do the "dynamic" events, pvp, whatever, and get xp towards your goal of 80th level, but PvP isn't very fun (WvW or SPvP), PvE isn't a ton different than the norm aside from everyone in the same area being able to do the quests with you without grouping.
Hm... I just really don't get the game. Period. Oh well, for me.
Woot for ANET, they deserve it.
The Deep Web is sca-ry.
If your into deep meaningful endgame, GW2 doesnt have it but what it does have it does amazingly well. Accolades like this only reinforce that. just because the game isn't for you doesn't mean its not right for the hundreds of thousands who do enjoy it.
Sandbox means open world, non-linear gaming PERIOD!
Subscription Gaming, especially MMO gaming is a Cash grab bigger then the most P2W cash shop!
Bring Back Exploration and lengthy progression times. RPG's have always been about the Journey not the destination!!!
Top voted MMO is not really a surprise, while X-fire numbers are pretty suspicious at best games like TOR had fallen to almost nothing after 3 months while GW2 been at about half Wows numbers the last 2 months... That doesnt really prove much about GW2s actual numbers except that it does somewhere between okay and good but it is a good sign.
Also, all stores in my card have sold out their gemcards and my buddy who works in EB games say it is one of the topselling games.
However that it is the top game altogether is unexpected to me... I guess it have been a pretty bad year with lots of sequels because MMOs rarely win this price.
It is also surprising that Diablo 3 did so bad, there have been many complains but with the incredible large salesnumbers it had I would assume more people should have voted for it. Maybe it is because the initial technical problems it had.
Anyways, gratz to GW2 and the other games on the list.
Good list and gz Anet for the only mmo reaching that list and #1 makes it all the more epic for them.
If in 1982 we played with the current mentality, we would have burned down all the pac man games since the red ghost was clearly OP. Instead we just got better at the game.
And of course we all turn to time magazine for our gaming news....No in all fairness the only way this plays out is if the writer of the article actually plays GW2.
This reminds me of when you would get all those cooky stories about the teachers and such ranting about how great SWG was......Suuuuure.
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I wouldn't call Time magazine "obscure".
It's a well-deserved victory IMO. XCOM and Xenoblade are just as great, but they're all so different it's impossible to compare them fairly.
Althought not a "gaming" magazine, pretty sure TIME does well enough to not be obscure :PGot my monies worth and got a refund, good chaps at ArenaNet even if GW2 is poor.
Think you have me mixed up, I'v never mentioned a refund before.It is if you've never heard of it, im guessing its an american magazine maybe? tbh, don't have a scooby on that one.
In the UK have The Times newspaper, but somehow i don't see them handling game awards etc, but they do have a really hard crossword if you have the time/patience.
Didn't swtor get tons of awards but I guess that tells you just how good that game really is.Waiting for:EQ-Next, ArcheAge (not so much anymore)
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Worst MMO: FFXIV
Favorite MMO: FFXI
Haha, grats to GW2. I do think that this is the best MMO to come out for several years, but that is looking at ToR, Rift, and releases of that nature. I think there are some problems with GW2 that require fixing, but it is overall a good game.
However, I think TL2 is the best purchase I made bucks for fun ratio-wise this year.
D3 was awful and I feel a little ambivalent still towards WoW's MoP.
I have not tried other new releases since the little gametime I have left is spent in either TL2 or an MMO.
Playing MUDs and MMOs since 1994.
Time top 10 list
1. GW2
2. Xenoblade Chronicles
3. XCOM: Enemy Unknown
4. Dishonored
5. Assassin’s Creed III
6. Papo & Yo
7. The Last Story
8. LittleBigPlanet
9. Halo 4
10. Torchlight II
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Secrets of Dragon?s Spine Trailer.. !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwT9cFVQCMw
Best MMOs ever played: Ultima, EvE, SW Galaxies, Age of Conan, The Secret World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2X_SbZCHpc&t=21s
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Funny, I had the opposite reaction and analysis.