Almost Febuari, so I had enough time to look over how my top 10 should look like for 2011 and not change half of it in retrospect.
As always, I do not look at year of release and just rate what I have played and finished for at least 80% in 2011. The 80% rule is mostly for games I played in December, like Skyrim. Since I was only 10 hours into it around the 30th it will not appear in 2011's list. Im around 80 hours in now though, and I can say that it would'nt have gotten the top spot. Probably around 3rd/4th place.
Also in this almighty blog of overkill, a lot of senseless stats just because i can.
alright...
My top 10 of 2011...
01) Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (PS3)
02) Red Dead Redemption (360)
03) Dead Space 2 (360)
04) Deadly Premonition (360)
05) Enslaved: Odyssey To the West (360)
06) Halo: Reach (360)
07) Halo: ODST (360)
08) Deus Ex: Human Revolution (360)
09) Gears of War 3 (360)
10) Metro 2033 (360)
A very special award goes to LA Noir for making me play a good game, but ruining it completely thanks to one of the most annoying and hateable characters in my 17 years of playing videogames...yes, the one you control...I refuse to use the name and have the occasional daydream that a special DLC package appears on Xbox live, erasing him out of the game. I'd rather pick up my phone in GTA IV and say yes to ' HOW IS MY MY FAVOURITE COUSIN!, YOU WANT TO GO BOWLING?' 50 more times then play that game again...ugh
Top 5 movies of 2011:
01) Drive
02) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
03) Melancholia
04) 50/50
05) Another Earth
Most entertaining gore: The Thing, Chromehead: Laid to rest 2
Worst Movie: Hostel III
Side Note: The oscar Nominations have been anounced and it's going to be yet another sad year. Not that it's a bad movie, but ' The Artist' is by far not the best piece of filmmaking from 2011, and yet I fear it will probably take in everything important...just like shakespear in love, chicago and slumdog millionaire did. People had a little hate campaign going against ' The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' a few years back, saying that it was gimmicky with the age thing. Well...then ' the artist' falls under that aswell. Filmcritics get aroused by old (looking) stuff and musical bs. It will be a sad moment when the oscar for ' actor in a leading role' goes to a french guy doing nothing but a mime routine with some tapdancing for 1,5 hours and speaking exactly 2 words in bad english. If this all 'hopefully' does not happen, consider this little rant non-written.
Some random stuff:
Games finished: 27
Movies watched: 477
House make-over: 0,5 (in progress)
Hours of sleep: too little
Annoying collegues at work: 9
Annoying temps at work: 22
Injuries: 3
holiday ruining foodpoisonings: 1
Arrows to the knee: 0
Ruined relationships: 1
Weight: 88kg, thanks to food poisoning
Lenght: still to bloody tall
Greatest concert: Suicidal Tendencies (Wacken open air), Slayer (Amsterdam)
Most fun at a festival: Graspop 2011
Wrecked tents: 2
F.U.B.A.R moment: My german neighbours at Party San open air blasting the final fantasy VII soundtrack all week long on the camping. We've been best friends since
and looking forward to:
Max Payne 3
Hitman: Absolution
Mass Effect 3
Silent Hill Downpour
GTA V
Bioshock Infinite
Metal Gear/ Silent Hill Hd collections
and seeing Meshuggah, Slayer, Machine Head and Lamb of God play live on a single day. (thank you Fortarock)