Posts tagged goty 2011
2011 Game of the Year Awards: Number 1
Jan 10th
And here we are friends, at the end of our third-annual Game of the Year awards ceremony. We laughed, we cried and we certainly didn’t argue as much about the placement of 2011′s games as we had in 2010. This is a good thing.
By a near-unanimous vote (meaning three out of five of us agreed), we bring you our finest and most spectacular game of the entire year that was 2011.
As is our custom, we will next post a list of Honorable Mentions from each of our handsome and intelligent contributors during the coming seven days. It will be our individual chance to showcase the titles we think deserved a top spot but were perhaps outvoted on, or we might just tell you what Flash games were the coolest. Time (and editing) will tell.
Thank you for reading!
2011 Game of the Year Awards: Numbers 3 and 2
Jan 10th
Only three games are left to cap-off 2011′s best of the best. Well, we should be more specific and write that only one game is left after you finish reading this entry.
And no, number one is not Minecraft.
2011 Game of the Year Awards: Numbers 5 and 4
Jan 10th
We’ve reached the halfway point for our top 10 games of 2011! Boy, were there a lot of sequels last year or what? At least we liked them.
2011 Game of the Year Awards: Numbers 10, 9 and 8
Jan 2nd
Did you miss us? Because wow, we sure missed you. It’s been a few months, but we’re back with another top-ten list for the year that was 2011. Just as we did in 2009 and 2010, all five of us met one day in late December and spent hours debating what we felt to be this year’s best and most important games.
However, this was our first year where everyone was hundreds of miles apart from each other. With Doug and Tyler in Japan, Spencer in Seattle, Aaron in Portland and Nick in Austin, the logistics were a much bigger hurdle this time around. But thanks to the magic of Skype and an inexplicable need we all share to see our games make the cut, we’ve pulled it out again.
A couple things to keep in mind: We are only evaluating games that came out in the year 2011. That gets a little murky when you look at things like the PlayStation 3 enhanced release of Mass Effect 2 and Minecraft officially leaving beta, so we decided that once a game is evaluated in one year, that’s it. Barring anything short of a comprehensive remake, it probably shouldn’t be considered a game that was released in 2011.
Next week we’ll bring you each writer’s list of personal favorites, but for now, let’s get started!