GameSpy announces best games of 2005

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Tags: Dungeon Siege 2; Gas Powered Games

<a href=http://www.gamespy.com>GameSpy</a> has posted one of those <a href=http://goty.gamespy.com/2005/>best games of 2005</a> articles. The RPG winner is <a href=http://www.gaspowered.com/ds2/news.php>Dungeon Siege 2</a>:
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<blockquote>While the original Dungeon Siege was a good game in its own right, it lacked certain elements that we expect in our RPGs -- namely, a well-developed world and characters with actual personalities. Gas Powered Games clearly took these deficits to heart when designing Dungeon Siege 2, and for this, we give the game credit. Hack-'n-slash RPGs are sadly a dying breed, and when one comes along that fires on all cylinders, it's a very special moment.</blockquote>I'll file that under "what a load of crap"
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I think Sacred already came through and covered that ground

 

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While the original Dungeon Siege was a good game in its own right, it lacked certain elements that we expect in our RPGs -- namely, a well-developed world and characters with actual personalities. Gas Powered Games clearly took these deficits to heart when designing Dungeon Siege 2, and for this, we give the game credit. Hack-'n-slash RPGs are sadly a dying breed, and when one comes along that fires on all cylinders, it's a very special moment.

Fucking hell, I must have missed the "well-developed world and characters with actual personalities." About the only thing DS2 had above its predecessor was a higher degree of interactivity, but even so, it didn't really have anything to stand out among the hordes of hack and slash "RPGs" we've seen year after year, since Diablo. Of course you can fix that shabby journalism with a couple of quick edits...

While the sequel to Dungeon Siege was an average game in its own right, it lacked certain elements that we expect in our RPGs -- namely, a well-developed world and characters with actual personalities. Gas Powered Games clearly confined these deficits to the "don't care basket" when rehashing Dungeon Siege, and for this, we, the idiot mainstream gaming media, inexplicably give the game credit. Hack-'n-slash RPGs worth playing are sadly a dying breed, and when one comes along that fires on all cylinders, it's a very special moment. Sadly, this isn't it.