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Nathan vs. Video Games: Favorite Games Played in 2012

NathanVsVideogames posted previously on his favorite video games played in 2012. He named a lot of good titles, some of which I enjoyed, but there are some he did not mention that are some of my favorites. 2012 was a good year for video games.

Assassin’s Creed III

The Assassin’s Creed series already had such a good name and I had not played it until this game. I loved every minute of it. This game takes you to another world where you get to relive memories of your ancestors and fight against the Templars. This has one of the best storylines in a game I have ever played. There is so much you can do in this game like explore, have wars on ships, and buy weapons from arms dealers. There is so much customization with your character that you really get to feel like you are in the American Civil War where the game takes place. The fighting is one of the coolest aspects of the game, along with the amount of kill combos they give you. You get to help the world and stop the redcoats, but also “assassinate” at free will and escape from the law and look awesome while doing it, with all the parkour the game has to offer.

Halo 4

Halo will always go down as one of my most favorite titles to play. Halo 3 will always be the best of them, but that doesn’t mean Halo 4 was bad. This game brought everything from the previous games with stellar multiplayer gameplay. Halo provided us with a new story for our beloved hero, Master Chief, and we got to pick up where he left off floating throughout space. It was one of the stranger storylines in the franchise, but it did its job in making me love Master Chief that much more. We got to see old things, with a twist of new things spun off from Halo Reach. There were also some new game types that they created, which always keeps you staying up past midnight to own noobs.

Call of Duty Black Ops II

Another big game I spent hundreds of hours playing. This game was the reason I procrastinated a lot of homework assignments in high school and the reason I was always tired there too. Black Ops I was one of my favorite Call of Duty’s and this was such a worthy. It brought me all the great visuals that the first one had, with new kill streaks, maps, and guns. Let’s not forget when they brought back Nuketown, everyone’s favorite map. This game had it all and it had one of the best zombie experiences, where they added the first moving map with the bus.

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5.) NBA 2K17 (2017)

Why: The game is a standard basketball game, which is something we have all seen before. There is nothing about it that makes it stand out from other basketball games. They added way too much attention to detail where the loading screens become so long that you lose interest in playing. They have too many cut scenes where you go to the barbershop or hang out with your friends and it goes away from the actual main idea, which is playing basketball. You will honestly probably die before the game even loads.

4.) Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (2014)

Why: This game is a total waste of money. I cannot believe a franchise that I cherished as much as Call of Duty could make such garbage. When we were all kids we dreamed of having an advanced call of duty, but they did it all wrong. The jumping mechanism in the game leaves every player jumping every other second, where you almost have a seizure trying to shoot someone and put your sights on them. The zombie game type was nothing like the old zombies in the game and makes me think they ran out of ideas with the franchise. Call of Duty continues to go into a bad direction with their games, but this was the start of the decline.

3.) Monopoly (PC) (1999)

Why: Monopoly has always been a great family game to play. But you know what? Monopoly should never be a video game! I mean depending on how stupid some of your friends and family are, there is at least some satisfaction you get when you take their assets, but there is no fun in taking money from a bot. The bots are very dumb too and you can cheat them very easily and have them make irrational decisions.

2.) Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)

Why: Sonic 2006 turned out to be a trend in the terrible monster the franchise had become. The game lacks in so many areas: it has a terribly jumpy camera, lousy collision, and an uninspired story. Those are three things that Triple-A titles should avoid at all costs. The real culprit here, though, is the fact that Sonic just is not fun and has not been fun since, the sequel to the game in the 90’s. If playing Sonic titles from the past ten years or so doesn’t convince you, playing only an hour of Sonic 2006 will be more than enough reason to be suspicious of the character in the future.

1.) Dragonball: Evolution

Why: Now this one stings a little bit, considering if you saw my recent post about how much I loved the most recent Dragonball game. I have always loved the Dragonball series and Dragonball Evolution tried to mix the live-action Dragonball movie with the established gameplay of the Budokai series. The fighting aspect was not good at all, considering it took everything that made the Budokai games great and made it a clone of its former self. And the story mode is conveyed through static images of the actors in front of tasteless backgrounds. Everyone knew a live-action Dragonball title would never do well, so why a companion video game was made is a very good question that we will never know.

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