NQcast32 – America’s Top FOTY

It’s time for the 2011 FOTYs (Favortes of the Year)! Many games and categories for games are discussed. Come enjoy the best of 2011 and more. As always, show notes with further details after the break.

 

NQcast32 – ‘America’s Top FOTY’ Show Notes

Entire Half: FOTYs!

  • Biggest Disappointment of 2011
    • Duke Nukem (Harlo & BJ’s pick)
    • X-Men Destiny (Maki’s pick)
    • Dead Space 2 Severed DLC
    • LA Noire’s 3rd act
    • Battlefield 3 (Chuck’s pick)
    • Bulletstorm’s dialogue
    • DC Universe Online
    • BJ’s Year of Game
    • Maki’s Game Rationing Failure
    • PSN getting hacked
    • Assassin’s Creed Revelations taking a step backward
    • Diablo 3 not coming out in 2011
    • Mass Effect 3 not coming out in 2011 (kinda, and story spoilers getting out)
  • Most Pleasant Surprise of 2011
    • Driver San Francisco (Maki’s pick)
    • LA Noire’s DLC pricing
    • Mortal Kombat being awesome
    • Captain America: Super Soldier being good! (Harlo’s pick)
    • The fact that Magicka Vietnam exists
    • Magicka DLC in general (BJ’s pick)
    • Fight Night Champion’s Champion Mode
    • Enthusiasm for Saints Row The Third (Chuck’s pick)
  • “Blonde in a Bar” (Pretty game, but lacking substance)
    • Child of Eden (Maki’s pick)
    • Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet (Harlo’s pick)
    • Modern Warfare 3’s single player campaign
    • Marvel Vs Capcom 3
  • Most Overlooked Game of 2011
    • WWE All-Stars (Chuck’s pick)
    • Captain America Super Soldier
    • Driver San Francisco (Maki’s pick)
    • Rage (Harlo’s pick)
    • You Don’t Know Jack (BJ’s pick)
  • The Stargroves (Favorite Soundtrack of 2011)
    • LA Noire (Maki’s pick)
    • Driver San Francisco
    • Rayman Origins
    • Shift 2 Unleashed (Chuck’s pick)
    • Deus Ex Human Revolution
    • House of the Dead Overkill Extended Edition (Harlo’s pick)
    • Saints Row the Third
    • Portal 2 (BJ’s pick)
  • Weirdest-ass game we played in 2011
    • Vin Diesel Wheelman (Chuck’s pick)
    • Tornado Outbreak
    • Kung Fu Rider (Maki’s pick)
    • Naughty Bear
    • Bayonetta (Harlo’s pick)
    • Deadly Premonition
    • Train Simulator’s over $1000 worth of DLC (BJ’s pick)
    • Catherine Demo
  • Games We Played More Than We Probably Should Have in 2011
    • Tornado Outbreak (Maki’s pick)
    • Vin Diesel Wheelman (Chuck’s pick)
    • Game Dev Story
    • Plants Vs Zombies (Harlo’s pick)
    • Torchlight (BJ’s pick)
  • Favorite Pre-2011 Game We Played In 2011
    • X-Men Origins Wolverine (Maki’s pick)
    • Battlefield Bad Company, Singularity, Wolfenstein (Chuck’s picks)
    • Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (Harlo’s pick)
    • Far Cry 2 (BJ’s pick)
  • Favorite Re-release of 2011
    • Ico/Shadow of the Colossus (Harlo & Maki’s pick)
    • Dead Space Extraction
    • X-Men Arcade
    • God of War Origins Collection
  • Favorite Character of 2011
    • Wheatley from Portal 2 (Maki’s pick)
    • Space and Adventure Orbs from Portal 2
    • Cookie Masterson & Billy O’Brien from You Don’t Know Jack (Chuck’s pick)
    • Rusty Galloway in LA Noire
    • Zimos the Pimp in Saints Row The Third
    • Mayor Burt Reynolds in Saints Row The Third
    • Charlie Cutter in Uncharted 3
    • Andre Bishop from Fight Night Champion (Harlo’s pick)
    • The Penguin from Batman Arkham City
    • Augustus Cole Train from Gears of War 3 (BJ’s pick)
  • Favorite DLC of 2011
    • LA Noire Season Pass
    • Marvel Tables for Pinball FX2 (Harlo’s pick)
    • Call of the Dead for Call of Duty: Black Ops
    • Pac Man Fever album for Rock Band 3 (Chuck’s pick)
    • Season pass for Forza 4 (BJ’s pick)
    • Wavy Tube Man Chronicles for The Gunstringer (Maki’s pick)
  • Favorite Downloadable Game of 2011
    • Magicka (BJ & Maki’s pick)
    • Torchlight XBLA
    • Burnout Crash (Harlo & Chuck’s pick)
    • Full House Poker
  • 2011 Game We Want To Play In 2012
    • Shadows of the Damned (Maki’s pick)
    • Skyrim (BJ’s pick)
    • Dead Island (Chuck’s pick)
    • Saints Row The Third  (everybody’s pick)
  • Favorites of the Year for 2011 (THE FOTYs)
    • Maki’s picks
      • Dead Space 2
      • Mortal Kombat
      • Gears of War 3
      • Batman Arkham City (Maki’s FOTY)
      • Forza 4
    • BJ’s picks
      • Magicka
      • Forza 4 (BJ’s FOTY)
      • Portal 2
      • Torchlight XBLA
      • You Don’t Know Jack
    • Chuck’s picks
      • Batman Arkham City
      • Deus Ex Human Revolution
      • LA Noire
      • Saints Row The Third (Chuck’s FOTY)
      • You Don’t Know Jack
    • Harlo’s picks
      • Gears of War 3
      • Batman Arkham City
      • Portal 2
      • Saints Row The Third
      • Skyrim (Harlo’s FOTY)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)