CCIV: Game of the Year 2008 - Round 01

[Neon Ignition]

Time to begin a new year, pushing on further and further into the noughties. We just passed our most release intensive year yet which contained a lot of drivel but emerged with some real challengers. Will this next year do the same?




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

[Tobal]

Audiosurf, not played it in a years but got a play at the time, maybe it's time to look through my steam library and reinstall.

Other main vote for me is Nuts and Bolts, what a game, and it should have had a follow up by now.

I did play Age of Conan at the time for a few months, never grabbed me, looked it up and i'm surprised it's still running today.

[Cepp]

Audiosurf, not played it in a years but got a play at the time, maybe it's time to look through my steam library and reinstall.

Other main vote for me is Nuts and Bolts, what a game, and it should have had a follow up by now.

I did play Age of Conan at the time for a few months, never grabbed me, looked it up and i'm surprised it's still running today.

Yeah Audiosurf is still awesome.

[Hirst]

Barkley Shut Up and Jam Gaiden made it onto the list, which is slightly astounding for a freeware game that mostly existed as a joke about Japanese RPG tropes that wasn’t to be taken seriously. Still remember the story, you play as ex-basketball star Charles Barkley in a dystopian future where basketball is banned and the world has become a depressing weird mess due to the consequences of you performing a Chaos Dunk, killing a ton of people in the process. One of the bosses is Bill Cosby as Ghost Dad.

It was good! Shame the over ambitious sequel never got anywhere.

[Kubrick]

I seem to recall Army of Two being way more enjoyable than it ought to have been.