CCIV: Game of the Year 2008 - Round Eight

[Neon Ignition]

Onto the next GrrrrEight round of the search for the greatest game of all time





Which of the listed games are among the best of 2008 and why?

[QualityChimp]

Lego Batman was a lovely collision of worlds and was fun to play.

However, the big QC approved stamp goes on Left4Dead. What a phenomenal game.
So much fun, but also terrifying. Every mission felt like you just scraped through as it adjusts to how well you're doing.

The hospital level finale had this glitch before they patched it where you could smash open a container and hide in it until the chopper arrived.
It was supposed to be an easy win, but the screams and the banging of the undead is something that haunts me to this day!

[Neon Ignition]

Mario Kart Wii for me. Far from the best entry but still... it's Mario Kart

[Tobal]

Glad there is another person who enjoyed SE's The Last Remnant, the guys that made impenetrable Saga series had ago at a mixed RPG/Tactics/Orge game and i don't think there has been anything like it since, building an army made up of increasing amounts of 1-5 man parties that can be boosted with Named Hero unit or just build a Hero yourself, lots of crazy hidden mechanics around skill building, formations def/att/resists, flanking and personality combability, grinding to much made the game harder which you needed to do to get excellent equipment for the entire army, perma deaths and injuries side-lining party members.. and AOE Magic was broken as heck, specially if bosses used it, the way you could risk/reward battles by agro'ing tons of monsters inthe field so they all came into the battle at once but it gave bigger rewards on winning . Music was fantastic to. One day i need to get the later released PC version which balanced alot of the problems and explained more of the hidden stuff up front the 360/PS3 versions had.

and on checking steam and the web the game been removed since 2018... SE seems to requested it removed when they did the remaster for switch/ps4 but didn't put it on the PC. Which by all accounts are inferior to the PC version and 100% inferior to a modded PC version, time to sail the seas or pay through the nose for steam cdkey seller, my 360 version is likely a no go, not on backwards compatibility and i really don't want to get the heavy ass 360 elite box off the top of the wardrobe.

[wakka]

Mario Kart Wii here. Possibly my all-time most played game ever. Definitely my most played multiplayer game ever.

God knows how many hundreds/thousands of hours we put into playing that four player in my gaffe at the time, for years on end. It was a daily thing, like brushing your teeth.