2005 VIDEO GAMES POLL

Uh, there's also PSYCHONAUTS! And Phoenix Wright! And Mario Kart DS! I'll have to think about this one.

im gonna keep posting to this thread until i can fall asleep btw but the Sword of Etheria is srsly one of the dopest games like not to get sad and overenthusiastic about the forgotten remnants of the PS2 era but its truly n/l the voice acting alone is on some bad sailor moon circa 95 dubs where the actors are sad and disgusted and giddy w/the ridiculousness of it all ~~~~

Uh, there's also PSYCHONAUTS! And Phoenix Wright! And Mario Kart DS! I'll have to think about this one.

no theres a list of at least eight really great games from this year but lets be honest im the only one voting for rogue galaxy here even if its 100% rad

yeah this game is just immense and wonderful but this vid makes me lol so hard @ the maudlin movie trailer music and his kid ceaser get up oh man but its still got a great story 20 years of adventure genre wistfulness and a million random encounters

loved this game too tbh (trailer for the first one sux) it has the strange trait of making u feel a little like yr learning some useful skill that is applicable to real life like one day on the train a man will collapse his abdomen distended and you will raise yr stylus and set to work and as you drift on this heroic fantasy tour hands move like the hands of promising young surgeon dereck stiles youve just started to uncover your true potential its true

so this dude has uploaded every music track from dawn of sorrow which i need to replay i cant remember that much about i think it took me one afternoon to beat i sat up so tired and sore and forgot everything about the game and went to order chinese food probably i wish i had more to say because i think this is probably the best ds castlevania but i dont

lol

psychonauts was only 2005? seems like it was from so much longer ago...

I voted Burnout Revenge, still love that one.

i wish tombot still posted here tbf i think hed have some great insights into the pyschology of rogue galaxy characters and what it all means to lyfe

> Brain Age
> Burnout Revenge
> God of War
> Guitar Hero
> Mario Kart DS
> Shadow of the Colossus
> the Warriors

mine could be any of these; I went with the Warriors since it deserves not to be shut out. I would have gone w/ Wario Ware Twisted if it had been available, though.

also whither Kirby Canvas Curse? Viewtiful Joe 2? Clubhouse Games? Sid Meier's Pirates (the xbox version, although of course the PSP version is the definitive one)? etc

Thinking about it, the DS came out in late '04 - so many good titles came out within that first year. It's weird, in my memory it had a pretty lackluster launch lineup, but I guess good stuff started coming out faster than I remembered.

I picked one up in the summer of 05 and at that time it was pretty bare - there was the Mario 64 port, Advance Wars (not my thing), Nintendogs (ditto), and then Canvas Curse and Meteos (which were both great). it didn't really start taking off until later that fall - Castlevania pretty early on, then Animal Crossing/MKDS/Sonic Rush/THPS/Mario & Luigi (the OTHER game I would have voted #1 for the year, can't believe I forgot about it earlier) all came out in November.

this was the last time i played video games on the regular. i had as much fun with RE4, colossus, castlevania, and burnout revenge as i've had with anything gaming-wise.

jamescobo the poll DOES have an other option vote yr heart ~~~ altho i think some of those games are not 2005 first release????

also really viewtiful joe????

Viewtiful Joe is great! I never ended up beating it since it gets INSANELY hard but it's still a shitton of fun. I suppose it helps that I'm a helpless sucker for 2d platformers.

also upon closer inspection Twisted came out in 04 in Japan but the rest are all 05s.

def psychonauts.

Tho' shadow of colossus and guitar hero and god of war and mario kart were also golden.

i'm thinking god of war. i certainly played pes5 more and it was a really good edition, but you can't vote pes in every poll.

I loved Viewtiful Joe, too, just never got around to picking up the second one.

it's basically more of the same but even harder. I never ended up beating it but failing over and over and over at it turned out to be fun too.

I got stuck about halfway through the first one, so the idea of the second one being harder was not appealing to me!

Burnout Revenge
God of War
Guitar Hero
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath
Psychonauts
Resident Evil 4
Shadow of the Colossus
We ♥ Katamari

jesus christ how the fuck do i pick only one out of this list

btw, that oddworld game is the shit, srsly slept on but great great great

shit yeah, katamari too!

We ♥ Katamari ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

oh yes oddworld, didn't even notice that. great game.

also whither Kirby Canvas Curse? Viewtiful Joe 2? Clubhouse Games? Sid Meier's Pirates (the xbox version, although of course the PSP version is the definitive one)? etc

haha just rereading this now i realized that u and i we have VERY different tastes in video games wte of pirates! i did not vibe any of these games at all

~~~~ anyway just a way of saying that doing this type of poll seems so much easier for 1990s even 2002 was easier now theres just SO MUCH STUFF released but also its easier to fuck w/ a genre getto in the 90s even as an rpg head i still played sports games, racing games, platformers &c &c but now not at all

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haha just rereading this now i realized that u and i we have VERY different tastes in video games wte of pirates! i did not vibe any of these games at all

I chalk my videogame-liking weirdness up to my parents refusing to buy me any systems or games when I was but a wee lad. apparently they wanted me to read books instead, to which I say good job Mom & Dad; now I read a bunch of books about video games.

no theres a list of at least eight really great games from this year but lets be honest im the only one voting for rogue galaxy here even if its 100% rad

― Lamp

^^^^^looooooooooooooool u didn't even vote for it the end!!

What a great year for games. The Warriors! I loved that game so much. Is it the most violent game I've ever played? Not the most graphic, but the violence has so much oomph. Really did it for me.

good results

Surprised We ♥ Katamari got votes - at the time, didn't people think it was just a (still fun) retread of the first one?

1st one never got a PAL release, and maybe in hindsight its a better game than the first one? if i was going to go back, i'd want to play that huge stage where you're rolling up islands, ultraman etc. not that i voted for it, though!

yeah, don't think there were any other versions here in the uk for the ps2, at the time.

but hurrah for the evil4

^^^^^looooooooooooooool u didn't even vote for it the end!!

lol i always forget 2 actually vote in polls doesnt anyone else do this???

wait what bro someone voted for it - does that mean u did????

missed voting for PES 5 ;_;

i didnt' vote on this because i haven't played 90 percent of these games but RE4, god of war, and we love katamari are all great. i didn't really get into psychonauts as much as i thought i would, and i have dual strike but never play it

of course I did

hi5

revisionist note: i hit "other" before noticing psychonauts was on there, so consider it in second place.

honestly tho: psychonauts, god of war, katamari and Colossus are all top ten all-time material

hi5 coz

what was your other vote forks????

psychonauts! Just didn't see it for some reason.

did not see this!

colossus obv

i'd be tempted to vote for GoW but the sequel is sooo much better

oh i didn't really like shadow of the colossus that much :( really pretty but not very fun

i keep thinking that i should probably play SOC one of these days and then i look at all of the nearly unplayed current gen games i have lying around my living room and reconsider.

you are wrong nick, you actually had a lot of fun playing sotc.

at this point, just buzz through it with a walkthru. it's visually and physically enjoyable enough that skipping the frustration of figuring out how to beat the damn things still leaves you with a good experience imo. story is great too.

i kind of feel like the real videogame nerd vote was split massively on this one, thus permitting RE4 to romp home
that said admittedly the first couple big battles in RE4 + mercenaries mode were the biggest chunk of new videogame fun i'd had in years at the time

would i like this rogue galaxy game? it looks a bit like a mass effect that wasn't terrible but was japanese

are u the bro from golden sun vs. shining force or are u the how it works shooter fiend?

Yeah, even I eventually just buckled down and went for RE4, that game did virtually everything right - and then you had Mercenaries which was just awesome, on top of all that.

mercenaries was great!! a little samey after a while but tons of fun. i was sad to see the sequel get such crappy reviews

i am "the bro from golden sun vs shining force" i think. is this a trick question of some kind?

nah kid just curious if u were into golden sun than yeah im sure u'd vibe rogue galaxsy its pretty great dope lev 5 space rpg i mean cmon. but if u were the latter than i doubt u'd be that into it

kind of feel bad that i didnt vote in oddworld just so it could place instead of going for psychonauts, but psychonauts is just kind of unbeatable IMHO

geeky qn: does xboriginals psychonauts work over vga?

doubt it, i bought halo and it wouldn't work on PAL via VGA. of course the console tested my connection and put up a "heyyyy you're using vga, this game won't work sucker" AFTER i'd paid. gee thanks microsoft, really encouraged me to buy more games there.

tht sucks :((((( thx dude