NQcast18 – Sipping A FOTY

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This episode we celebrate one year of No Quarters AND present our 2010 Favorites of the Year or FOTYs. There’s too many Games of the Year out there so we wanted to do it up right and throw down some FOTYs. Before we get to that we review NBA Jam, Call of Duty: Black Ops and BJ enters into the world of Gears of War 2 finally.

Second half it’s all FOTY talk as we break down the best of the year (and maybe last year) as we go through our various made up categories. Enjoy!

NQcast18 – ‘Sipping A FOTY’ Show Notes

First half!

  • NBA Jam (Sigh… How do you spell disappointment?)
  • NBA Street 2 (The last truly great NBA Jam?)
  • NFL Blitz (BJ wants this to get the NBA Jam graphical treatment.)
  • SSX (Maki wants this series to return. Desperately. He’s the only one.)
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops (Doing barrel rolls! Annually! CODBLOPS!)
  • Gears of War 2 (BJ joins the fun and discovers just how awesome horde mode is.)
  • Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit (Hey, no DJ Atomica! We suggest you play as the cops, by the way.)
  • Alan Wake: The Writer (Yup, it’s more Alan Wake. Shockingly thermos free.)
  • Dance Central (Uniting families. Especially Maki’s.)
  • Kinectimals (Calm down, T’Challa! Ritalin is your friend!)
  • Splinter Cell Conviction (BJ joins the party, Richter… I mean, FISHER.)
  • Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (Cool multiplayer, Bro.)
  • Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection (Harlo says skip the PSP version, stick with 360 & PS3)
  • Poker Night At The Inventory (Well worth $5!)
  • Lucha Libre: AAA (How do you say “fun but shallow” in spanish?)
  • TMNT: Turtles In Time (XBLA deals saves us! Fun game, not worth $10)

Second Half: FOTYs! (1:06:41)

  • Biggest Disappointment of 2010
    • BioShock 2
    • Call of Duty: Black Ops
    • Crackdown 2
    • Force Unleashed II
    • Halo Reach
    • NBA Jam (Our winner! Just beats out Crackdown 2)
    • Star Trek: Online
  • Best Character of 2010
    • Barry from Alan Wake
    • Bonnie MacFarland from Red Dead Redemption
    • General Knoxx from Borderlands: Secret Armory of General Knoxx
    • Jack from Mass Effect 2
    • John Marsten from Red Dead Redemption (Just an awesome dude. Barry came in a close 2nd)
    • Mordin from Mass Effect 2
    • Everyone from Mass Effect 2 except for Jacob
    • All of the Bad Guys in Splinter Cell Conviction
  • Most Overlooked Game of 2010
    • Just Cause 2 (The winner! Harlo played enough for all of us)
    • Splinter Cell Conviction
    • Split Second
  • Games We Played More Than We Probably Should Have in 2010
    • Alan Wake
    • Angry Birds
    • Dante’s Inferno (Best of the God of War clones, but still a very guilty pleasure)
    • 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand
    • Game Dev Story
    • Red Faction: Guerilla
  • 2010 Game We Want To Play In 2011 (No consensus, but no matter what we win!)
    • Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
    • BioShock 2
    • Blur
    • Fable III
    • Fallout New Vegas
    • Gran Turismo 5
    • Need For Speed Hot Pursuit
    • Split Second
  • Best 2009 Game We Played In 2010
    • Dragon Age: Origins
    • 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand
    • Forza 3
    • Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection (Simply put, the best pinball game ever. Thanks, Knobs!)
    • Red Faction: Guerilla
  • Best Downloadable Game of 2010
    • Angry Birds (BJ’s pick)
    • Dead Rising 2: Case Zero (Maki’s belated pick)
    • Deathspank (Harlo’s pick)
    • Game Dev Story
    • Monday Night Combat
    • Scott Pilgrim: The Game
    • Shank
  • Best DLC of 2010
    • Lair of the Shadow Broker for Mass Effect 2
    • Secret Armory of General Knoxx for Borderlands (Harlo & BJ’s pick. More hours in this than any DLC this year!)
    • Undead Nightmare for Red Dead Redemption (Maki’s pick. The best Total Conversion ever?)
  • Favorite of the Year for 2010 (THE FOTY)
    • Civilization V
    • God of War 3
    • Mass Effect 2
    • Red Dead Redemption (Marsten wins! Storyline, characters, presentation, music. This game had it all. Mass Effect 2 was the close 2nd place.)
    • Rock Band 3

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