Other than that, excellent list.
I agree with pretty much all of this, except for the bit about putting it into a first-person perspective. First person perspectives always feel like they've turned the environment into a backdrop.
I initially had huge trouble with the driving. In the end I had to soften the steering right down to make the cars less 'jumpy' and that sorted things out. Like you say, bikes remained troublesome until TLaD. Don't know if they actually tweaked them, or if they just got easier because you were on them enough to get the hang of it.
Jesus. Mum, is that you?
They don't even really try to sell it as a gaming system anymore, do they, its more a sort of social lubricant/fitness machine. They'd rather it was thought of as a combination of Twister and a Multigym.
The Xbox ballistic vagina advert cracks me up every time.
Oh, and 'Where am I?' Mint!
Are you seriously advocating the revival of Blind Date? I will strangle 'our Graham' with my calloused gaming hands before I let that atrocity come to pass.
Like the rest of the list, though.
I'm wondering what 'Seriously 3.0' will be as well.
Mint, can't wait for this. Loved Gears II, loving Gears I at the moment, I'm hoping Gears III has the same sense of enormous spectacle.
See many ads on the site, do you?
You don't have to agree with the list, in fact it would defeat the point of making a list if everybody already knew what would be on it, but at least respect the intention to entertain.
RE5 almost made the list but while it was disappointingly off-target for a Resident Evil game, I did think it worked very nicely as a co-op action game, so I let it slide.
It took me nearly twelve hours, but I have the thumbs of a 90 year old washer woman, it's probably a quicker game if you actually have decent reactions!
That said, one of my gaming resolutions this year was to not bitch about game length. Portal and Split/Second have pretty much defined short, sharp, fun and doesn't outstay its welcome for me recently, and thats the ideal for now. Be as long as you like if you can maintain my interests, but if you lose my attention or...
I was just a bit bored by Black Ops really. I had hoped the 'Nam levels would save it, but they were fairly plain.
The game that just missed the cut on this was Resident Evil 5, which was a huge disappointment as a Resi game, but a good enough co-op action game to get a pass. Just.
I can sort of see that NfS:HP's trick of keeping you aware of what your friends are up to even when you're playing solo is an innovative multiplayer feature, but beyond that I'm not sure what it does to distinguish itself from any other online racer, let alone win the entire multiplayer category.
I try and I try to 'get' Assassin's Creed and its sequels, but they do nothing for me.
I couldn't stand CoDBlops, much preferred Medal of Honour. No awards for Red Dead either, crackers.
For me? Yes. But these things are always subjective.
I don't know. I wish Liberty City had been slightly bigger, but I remember finding SA too big, and I think a lot of people felt the same. Maybe a middle ground is needed-how about a rural greenbelt around the fringes of the city? Perhaps 1/4to 1/3 again the area of the city itself. Get some grass in your grill and mud on your tires for variety,without losing the pressure-cooker feel of the environment?