Merry Christmas, everybody! I'm gonna keep this short because idiot thought it was a good idea to put a small tree in my house and then leave a bunch of presents sitting under it, so I need to go get rid of that crap before anybody trips on it or it becomes a fire hazard. In the meantime, here's The Destructoid Show's top stories of 2011. Some good, some bad, some of them barely aren't even what you'd consider "stories," but all of them are things from the last year that somehow involve video games.
I want to thank you guys for watching the show and making this such an awesome year. It was right about this time last year that I'd gotten the news I'd be hosting the show, and it's been as much fun as it looks. If all goes as planned, we'll be doing another one of these in a year's time, and it'll have a substantial pyrotechnics budget and lots of dancing girls.
Take it easy, guys!
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There's only one thing missing in that video, it has to do with me; because you know, I created games and stuff, all hail me, bow before my greatness hoes
Even aside from the little outburst at the end, Tara seemed a little sassier than usual. I like it!
My GOTY? Steam's Great Gift Pile giveaway. It's prompted me to try a ton of new games (and games I owned but never played).
Okay, okay, that doesn't really count. My for realsies GOTY is Battlefield 3. Didn't play a whole lot of stuff this year, and normally a shooter wouldn't be my top pick. But it's really quite good, and I won it from you wonderful Destructoid folks, so that's a plus! Thanks guys, hope your Christmas is AMAZING!
I love Dtoid show and to answer your question I personally consider Portal 2 a game of the year despite Skyrim being awesome. And the lenght and scope of the game does not really count for me. Like I always say, I prefer several hours of absolute awesomeness than dozens of hours of ok, or hell, even quite great gameplay. I thought Braid was the game of the year 2008 just slightly beating Gears of War 2. Anyways, 2011 was a pretty great year in gaming and I'm looking forward to all those highly anticipated stuff in 2012. Cheers.
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My GOTY? Steam's Great Gift Pile giveaway. It's prompted me to try a ton of new games (and games I owned but never played).
Okay, okay, that doesn't really count. My for realsies GOTY is Battlefield 3. Didn't play a whole lot of stuff this year, and normally a shooter wouldn't be my top pick. But it's really quite good, and I won it from you wonderful Destructoid folks, so that's a plus! Thanks guys, hope your Christmas is AMAZING!
It's better than the 3DS, deal with it.
I love this show soooooo much