43. ...And to all a Good Game

It’s been a good year, eh? Now that it’s over I’m not sure it ended up being better than last year but it was still pretty great. Games such as Gears of War 2, Fable 2, Prince of Persia and Fallout 3 have kept me up late many a night and I’m looking forward to spending much more quality time with them (especially Fallout 3) over my Christmas vacation later this month.

I managed to stomach almost an hour of the Spike TV VGAs (winners) last night before I turned it off in disgust.  The entire thing is such a joke and the worst part is that I knew it going in.  I was watching the webcast which was abysmal in it’s quality.  I’ve seen amateur’s do WAY better.  In fact, if you want to see how multi-view should really be done then I suggest you check out this awesome episode of Diggnation.  GAH!  I just want to erase the entire event from my brain!  Next time we meet up with Geoff Keighley I’m going to give him a piece of my mind…

If you didn’t watch them, then maybe you don’t know that Rockstar’s GTA4 ended up taking Game of the Year.  It was a good game, for sure, but I can tell you that it didn’t make it into my personal top five experiences of the year.  I’m going to hold back my winners for a potential future comic later this month, but I am very curious as to what other people’s top three games of 2008 are (any platform, not just 360).  Leave a note in the comments below.

You know, it’s a damn good thing that I received my copy of Fable 2 almost a week early.  Otherwise, I probably wouldn’t have finished it in time for tomorrow’s epic release of Fallout 3.  If you’ll recall, I spent over 170 hours playing Bethesda’s last game, the venerable Elderscrolls IV: Oblivion and it ended up becoming the 360 Prophecy 2006 Game of the Year.  Suffice it to say, Fallout 3 has a lot to live up to.

Fallout 3 isn’t the only game I’m picking up tomorrow, I’ll also be picking up a copy of EA’s Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3.  I realize that this genre doesn’t exactly have a foothold in the console market but for PC gamers (including part-time PC gamers like myself) this is pretty huge.  I’ve already setup a LAN party this weekend for some serious Dolphin on Bear action.  F*** YES.

Oh… and I’m being forced to buy the new Scene It game. I guess I’ll be playing that at least once.

A special thanks goes out to DeathAlbertIII, Keadin, and Mister Switch who answered the call on Twitter to supply ideas for this comic.  I’ll probably end up doing something like this again in the future, so if you’re interested in participating be sure to follow my Twitter feed.