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2004 Indie Games of the Year
cyrus_zuo writes "For all those who think that the best games that came out this year were all sequels Game Tunnel presents a different angle on things with their 2004 Independent Game of the Year awards. For those who believe that the best game this year was that badly named expansion pack that they have the nerve to call Halo 2, check out the awards for a different side of gaming than you are used to."
DID YOUR MOM SERVE YOU AN EXTRA HELPING OF DUMB TONIGHT?
The server is just crawling after just one comment.
I think the mirrordot mirror will work better.
It was great, more than I had hoped for.
I can accept trolling in comments, but the fact that this article was accepted as is makes me cringe.
I didn't see any ads.
And it feels so good.
If you build it, nerds will come. Soylentnews.org
If anything, it shows the power of marketing : these all appear to be good, original and fun games (except for the 3-4 rehashes of old games such as Marbles and Arkanoid), but I NEVER heard of them ANYWHERE. Which doesn't help me to buy them... which doesn't help the independant programmers of these gems... which doesn't help them to pay for marketing I guess. Vicious circle indeed.
I managed to get to the end of the list before a complete Slashdot (happened while I downloaded a top10 game... BreakQuest. Irony?). GISH, the Tarball adventure game is first, and it deserve it. Fun, VERY original gameplay and VERY challenging. Free demo available too.
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For those who believe that the best game this year was that badly named expansion pack that they have the nerve to call Halo 2,
It was obviously the $40m tech demo called Half Life 2
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Halo 2 had more hype than any other game there was no way it would live up to the hype so I just ignored all the hype. The game was brilliant, heaps better than the first one. There was almost vehicles in every level. There were a few too many ghosts but that was a good thing I got to hijack lots of people. It is playable online with a ping of 300 to a US server and it also has awesome LAN play. I don't see how that could let anyone down!
Have you metaroderated recently?
Okay, I've come up with a solution to all of the hurdles this horrid article is making you jump. Step 1: Close your browser. Step 2: Shut off your computer if the temptation is too great. Step 3: Find something better to do.
By reading this you acknowledge that you have read it.
For those who believe that the best game this year was that badly named expansion pack that they have the nerve to call Halo 2...
Oh for god's sake. Halo 2 had revamped graphics, sound, a completely new single player campaign and XBOX Live support. What is your definition of a sequel anyways?
I didn't see any ads either. Well, except for that "500 Internal" company. For some reason, a lot of the sites Slashdot links to have their ads. :P
Self published? Made by a non public company? Made by part time developers? Published by a company with revenue of less than x per year? No advance/royalties only? Budget of less than y?
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I believe it is divided accross 8 pages beacuse it makes the pages smaller. If you have one huge ass page your web browser might not load the images in order they appear on the page so it will load ones that you don't want loaded while you trying to view ones at the top. Hope that makes sense I think I phrased that horribly :) Happy new year guys!
Have you metaroderated recently?
I agree, GISH is an excellent game, but its a sidescroller, not a traditional adventure game. I love both genres and hope they make a comeback, possibly with the help of these independent developers.
No - they do it to increase ad views. Trust me - I know this to be a fact.
DID YOUR MOM SERVE YOU AN EXTRA HELPING OF DUMB TONIGHT?
Some of us like big-budget games made by major studios (*cough* World of Warcraft *cough*) because the artwork, sense of "success" and even gameplay is plain old better. Same reason why we flock to New Line's version of Lord of the Rings instead of watching the old hobbit cartoon -- it's just higher quality.
Although sequels certainly abound, anyone who complains that the major publishers produce nothing original obviously never played Katamari Damacy. It's probably much more original than any of the indy games this year.
Parent post has been mistakenly modded "informative."
It might be informative - if it were true - but a quick Google search for the three game titles it references reveals that none of them actually exist.
The page at mirrordot shows that the games actually referenced in the article have their own web sites. So if the games listed by "Sheetrock" really existed, Google should know about at least one of them.
We can only speculate as to why "Sheetrock" would post this type of disinformation.
For all those who think that the best games
that came out this year were all sequels Game
Tunnel presents a different angle on things
with their 2004 Independent Game of the Year
awards. For those who believe that the best
game this year was that badly named expansion
pack that they have the nerve to call Halo 2,
check out the awards for a different side of
gaming than you are used to.
Translation:
Please visit my site, it is only 8 pages full of pictures and I think I can survive a slashdotting.
"Internal Server Error" ???
I never heard of that game...
The coral cache is working. By the way, add this bookmark as one of your favorites, and from now on, everytime you get an error message *AND* the URL does not change, choose the bookmark to "coralize" it (NOTE DO THIS IN ONE LINE!):
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I have a question about firefox (and this happened while I tried to get the coral link): Why when you are looking at your bookmarks and right click on them, the next time you select the bookmarks menu it doesn't show up?
Buying HALO 2: 45 bucks.
Submitting a self promotional story to slashdot and seeing your servers catching fire: priceless!
And... so? I mean, what do you care? Clicking on some type of "next" for subsequent pages is quite common. What's your real problem here? It's obviously not the fact they're getting ad revenue. You've got a different chip on your shoulder. Did they not choose your game?
Bill
Upon seeing the box was too small, Schrodinger's Elephant breathed a sigh of relief.
Don't worry, it's /.'d ... so I'd say the ppl that did go to read it did more to help your boycott than you did. :P
No sig for you!!
Darkspace by PaleStar / Richard "Faustus" Lyle.
Darkspace is Space Combat MMOG, not a mining simulation like Eve; imagine multi-player elite on steroids. PvP combat in a large scale persistent Meta-Verse of about 40 Star systems of 10-30 planets with 3 factions, 2 human and 1 alien.
Each faction has about 30 unique ships. You can fly combat ships from small fast stealthy long range scouts, frigate, destroyers, cruisers, dreadnaught and even space stations, each ship has uniques capabilities. There are also support ships such as engineers to build planets, supply ships to repair friendly forces and transports to trade resources, carry troops or ships mods.
You form fleets, or join an established fleet, or fight as a lone wolf. You can put down rebellions, capture planets & moons, bomb them, mine them, build them up with a wide range of structures as mining colonies, military training camps for troops, factory planets for ships mods, or front line supply depots using various structures including habitation, factories, powers planets, repair depots, barracks, defensive installations, supply depots and factories, even shipyards.
You can modify your ships extensively, upgrade your engines for more power and speed, switch between long range/stand-off weapons like fighers and missiles, or get close up and personal with cannon and torpedoes. You can sneak up to enemy ships, and paint them for your big guns, board and capture them with elite troops, or simply spy scout them out. As you go gain prestige, rank, earning honors alone the way, giving you a progress increase in choice.
I've been playing Darkspace for 2 years, I'm ranked in the top 30 players out of 6000 regulars and it still holds a challenge. IMHO its up there amoungt the best games of all time.
You dont even have to believe me, you can download the game client for free (windows only) and receive a weeks free trial.
10. I of the Enemy
9. Revolved
8. Smugglers 3
7. Global Defense Network
6. Anito: Defend a Land Endangered
5. BreakQuest
4. Outpost Kaloki
3. Hamsterball
2. Wik & The Fable of Souls
1. Gish (by the fantastic Chronic Logic)
That's the REAL list. Gish is the only one I've heard of, though some of those look interesting (and many have GREAT graphics). The one game I wish was on there is N by metanet software. I was addicted to that game for weeks. Very cool little game - "play as a ninja trapped in a world of well-meaning, inadvertantly homicidal robots. " Give it a try!
Comment forecast: Bits of genius surrounded by a sea of mediocrity.
to see Spiderweb Software's Blades of Avernum tactical RPG missing from the list. I am getting a tad tired of the re-use of the old Avernum engine, but the plots of Jeff Vogel's scenarios and the overall gameplay are just fantastic. Avernum 2 remains my favorite, if only for some of the ridiculous battles that you could face off in the end (one of which had the enemy turns lasting a good twenty times longer than mine simply because there were so many of them). You could keep yourself occupied for hours just playing the various demos available from their site - since each demo is about a fourth of its respective game, there's literally about the equivalent of a game and a half there to play.
--- Bwah?
The submitter is feigning dramatic ignorance in the hope of generating controversy and attention, methinks.
This will be covered over and over again, but I'm going to try and be concise:
When you code a brand new engine from scratch, it's not an expansion. Expansions are add-ins for existing engines. 'kay?
While I appreciate the edgy tone of effective PR, I do hope that cyrus_zuo understands that his mischaracterization erodes his credibility as any sort of authority on gaming.
I love Halo 2, but there are many accurate gripes you can offer toward it:
- Unsatisfying ending
- Repetitious single player action
- Microsoft is evil
I could go on. Over-zealous "indie" people are bitter and angry in any case. The snarky is to be expected.
Either the parent is a troll, or Game Tunnel realized they were being slashdotted into oblivion and moved the article to a single static page with no ads.
Either way, it's a single page article with no ads as I'm posting this....
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
Oh God. I just spent the New Years posting a comment to slashdot.
brilliant
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
At the forum for the warez .NFO site I frequent, the developer of that game actually asked people for their opinions about it. I'm not sure if he realized that everyone there was a software pirate, but either way he managed to guilt-trip a few people out of downloading his game. Brilliant idea, far better than most copy protection.
Rob
And my stance is I refuse to get opinions or advice on what is appropriate behaviour from anyone named "Pussyjuice". Or who uses the expression "is The Suck", for that matter.
You, sir, need to get out of the basement.
Spine World
...are you saying NEE to that old woman?
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