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Red's Best of 2011: The YECA
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Didn't play and didn't play. I'm still trying to get through ACII, let alone Brotherhood and Revelations. Assuming I ever finish ACII, I will get to Revelations before the end of next year. I hope.
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The AC series is very addictive. My dad (someone who had never thouched my 360 before) is getting through ACII, in less than 3 weeks he's almost finished. I finished BH in just a couple weeks and I'm playing Revelation atm, but I haven't had time the last couple of weeks. My sister's already beat me to it. haha
MK slays too. It's the best of the series so far.
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You Don't Know Jack My friend has this game. It's good!
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Batman was AMAZING game still hooked to it
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haven't played those game yet
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Looks like it is me and you in the fantasy finals. I hope you're ready for some pain!
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i'm not much of a gamer.but those games look interesting from your writeups like the batman one
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I've heard so many good things about Arkham City and Uncharted 3!
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I ordered Uncharted 3 based on your recommendation from the games thread but I'm still waiting for it to arrive
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Waiting for your next list. Hopefully I'll have something to say about this one.
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^^
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Ahhh yeah, I think WWE All-Stars is what I meant. I need to check that out!
Great list! I have played You Don't Know Jack, so I can definitely vouch for its greatness. The other games, while I have never played, those other 4 games were certainly some of the games I heard about the most this year. Great write-ups, as always.
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Waiting for the next set
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Batman
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Looks like it is me and you in the fantasy finals. I hope you're ready for some pain!
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Curse you and your ability to have MJD playing on Monday night, thus making it easier for you to beat me last time!
(Oh, and the curse of #1 continues. I was the #1 seed last year and fell in the semis, and now, JGib gets to experience the same fate.)
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I ordered Uncharted 3 based on your recommendation from the games thread but I'm still waiting for it to arrive
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It's worth the wait, though. One of the few games that is these days, actually.
I'm going to reply to everyone's year-enders and post the first of two Worst Songs updates later tonight!
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I was actually thinking about buying that Batman game. It's been getting a lot of great reviews, I think I'll buy it when I get a new XBOX.
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YASSSS @ U3, it is my game of the year. Nice taste man
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I'm a bunny!
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Wait a minute...No Skyrim? My arrow joke is wasted Anyways, I love L.A. Noire <3
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YECA Countdown #5: Top Ten Worst Songs of 2011 (10-6)
First of all, if I have not commented on your most recent updates or haven't commented period, just send me a link on my wall to the most appropriate spot for me to start looking at your year-ender so I can reply to your updates. Most likely with a pun.
Hi, bunny. I'm a dinosaur.
Alright, with that silliness out of the way, let's get controversial and approach a list that I have been dying to do for four years and just didn't listen to ten or more songs worthy to make such a "prestigious" list. Finally, after four years, we will take a look at my least-favorite songs of the year!
| Rebecca Black
Friday
It's totally cliche to include this song on any "Worst of" lists, but it's hard to overlook "WHICH SEAT CAN I TAAAAAAAKE?" The reason why this song isn't any higher on this list is because this song has a charm to it that the nine songs above it just do not have. It's terrible, no doubt about it, but it's just such a giddy and happy song that it amazes me that some people literally hate this song to the point that listening to the song turns them into a fire-breathing dragon. Is it a bad song? Yes. Is it the Antichrist in music form? Of course not. It's a thirteen year old girl singing about her favorite day of the week. Get the **** over it, people. |
| Katy Perry ft. Kanye West
E.T.
I wasn't particularly a big fan of this song BEFORE Kanye West was added to the song. I liked the original more than "Firework". Admittedly, that's not saying much, as I would place "Firework" among my absolute least favorite songs of last year, but I thought that the original "E.T." had a different feel than any of her other singles, almost feeling like an anthem hidden underneath your standard sex song. And then, it was decided to add Kanye West to the song. Now, I LOVE Kanye West, more than many people on ATRL, that's for sure...but his effort here is among the most lazy and uninspiring that Yeezy has ever been. His output does not add a single thing to the song. In fact, it makes the song WORSE to me, because it feels so tacked on. No matter how you feel about her label's strategy to get Katy Perry to the top of the charts with every single she releases from this era, adding Kanye to "E.T." was the only decision that actively made the song worse. |
| Alexandra Stan
Get Back (ASAP)
I can KIND OF understand why people like "Mr. Saxobeat". The beat is relatively impressive and pulse-pounding, the kind of beat that puts people on the dance floor in large numbers. The problem that I have with the song is a problem that will become even more apparent in a second: Alexandra Stan has NO VOICE. At least in "Mr. Saxobeat", the beat is good enough to make people overlook her voice. In the case of "Get Back", though, the beat now feels like a complete retread of the "Mr. Saxobeat" beat. The comparison is unavoidable, as well: The beginning of the song sounds only SLIGHTLY different to the main beat of "Mr. Saxobeat", while the song even features the same stupid-ass person doing the "YEAH, YEAH, YEAH" sound. Because of this, there's more of a focus on Stan's voice...and, since I mentioned that Alexandra Stan does not have much of a voice, the song becomes much more grating and annoying than the song that preceeded it. |
| Jennifer Lopez ft. Pitbull
On the Floor
This choice is going to seem insane to some, especially those who have this song HIGH on their own "Best" lists, but let me explain. First, let's start with the featured artist: Pitbull...oh, Pitbull...my hatred of you grew to nearly unbearable levels in 2011. Actually, if I had to pick an artist who is my least favorite right now, it would probably be Pitbull. 3OH!3, YOU'RE OFF THE HOOK! So, when Jennifer Lopez picks that least favorite artist to be the featured artist on a song of hers, my hatred of Pitbull transfers to that very song. Pitbull is just as lame as he has always been on this song, which immediately detracts from the song in a big way. But there's something else worth noting that needs to be addressed: Is it just me, or does it seem like Jen was trying WAY too hard to get a hit with this song? The music in the verses just sound absolutely cliche and tired. And the worst part? IT WORKED! The song was an international smash. That's a great lesson to teach to some of you aspiring musicians out there: Don't try to innovate and make songs that no one has ever heard before. Just rehash the same old, tired **** that has been played on the radio for the last five years and you'll become superstars overnight! The chorus is uplifting, but that is the only thing that this song has going for it. |
| Jason Derulo
Don't Wanna Go Home
*sigh*...just...*sigh*...Jason ****ing Derulo, we meet on one of these lists at last. You immediately became one of my least favorite artists when you took one of the more interesting songs of the last decade and turned it into a backdrop for your autotuned voice and your standard R&B fare. This song doesn't send me into irrational fits like "Whatcha Say" does, but I almost felt like doing so when I heard "day-o, me say day-o" for the first time. The fact that Jason Derulo decided to use some of the most iconic lyrics in music history to try to bolster his generic and standard R&B schtick is infuriating. Harry Belafonte's "Day-O" is an absolute classic that still lives on nearly sixty years after first being released. Is there any chance that "Don't Wanna Go Home" becomes anything more than a relic of a weird time in music? I doubt it. |
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As much of a pain as it was to deal with these first five songs again, it's when we get to the next five, my five worst songs of the year, where the **** really hits the fan. Among my least favorite songs of the year: Perhaps the most generic song of the year, the worst song ever released by an artist with some pretty bad tunes, the song that inspired me to do this list again in the first place, a song that reminded me all too much of one of my least-favorite songs of all time, and a song that is so annoying and so incredibly stupid that almost everyone knows that it's going to be my #1 before I even get into the top five.
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