I'll just critique the games myself and not give a shit who's can piss the farthest.

This is because they are "fun" and "awesome" and "not emo".

WHY IS GORDON'S CHEEK TALKING

That's not his cheek talking, it's a very small zit with its own separate identity. Let's hope it doesn't pull a Family Guy and try to kill Gordon.

TF2 gives me a boner.

I don't think any games should get over 9.5. It just seems too high, being so close to 100.

It totally deserves it, too. HL2 and the 2 episodes are brilliant, Portal will blow your fucking mind, and TF2... never have I logged so many hours into an online FPS (I usually hate FPS games)

Half-Life 2 alone rapes Halo 3, so this is no surprised. Also, as amazing as BioShock is, I'd have to give the nod to Half-Life 2 as well. BioShock and Half-Life 2 are amazing games. Halo 3 is an overrated pile of shit just like the other two were.

Master Chief? Meet Heavy Weapons Guy... and his Medic.

Halo 3 = generic FPS pile of dogshit for console gamers.

Guess what - 8 hours of single player hardly qualifies as anything near Epic.. and theres much better multiplayer FPS' out there.

For example - TF2.

i guess i'm about the only person in the world who finds single player FPS's to be boring.

i'd give HL1 a 90 - it broke a lot of new ground and was the first good storyline in an FPS game maybe ever.

HL2 was an amazing demo for the physics engine, the story and game other than the graphics and physics bored the hell out of me
HL2 ep1 and ep2 are just more of the same. more hallways. more enemies. more walking and jumping and crawling. but nothing NEW.

portal is another great demo of a concept - but the "game" is a long tutorial, and 1 hour of escape that should have been 5 minutes. the final boss is cool though.

and tf2, another great idea (the stylized graphics) but they are already making it suck (limited server cvars, limited server filters) so that all the servers are exactly the same... and after 100 hours i'm so bored of it i don't want to play it any more.

how do these games score 9.5? i guess the numbers start at 8/10?

I guess I'll be the one olive branch type and point out that the 360 has (at least in the eyes of aggregate critic scores) gotten 3 of the best games out there in the last couple months. And with the stuff still to come out this fall, it is a good time to be a gamer.

Hm, not surprising.