Best Non-RPGs of 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012

[unfairlight]

You know I've heard some conflicting reports on Blacklist.

It has ups and downs. It's not that close to the original trilogy, but it's considerably better than Conviction.
It had quite good gameplay and a fair bit of nice level design, and it can be played as an actual stealth game, but mechanically it was a bit rough around the edges at times. It did have some amount of 7th gen retardation but I can't help but to like it because it was the last hurrah of the series.

Just play it for yourself and see what you think of it, and don't make too many assumptions very early on (get past Iraq at least, those levels aren't great) after that if you like the gameplay and level design enough then keep playing.

I like it enough to have completed it 3 times. Out of all stealth games in the 2010s it's pretty much leagues ahead of most of the competition, because there isn't nearly any at all.

 

[DalekFlay]

Yeah Conviction is pretty bad. Has some neat stealth sections but drowning in too much other shit. I remember Blacklist being much better.

 

[oddech_wymarlych_swiatow]

edit: blah - NON rpg.

2009 - NecroVision
2010 - MGS: Peacewalker
2011 - Mortal Kombat 9
2012 - Binary Domain

 

[ghostdog]

Deadly Premonition (2010) - I love this game. Twin Peaks simulator by a japanese madman. It's a crappy port of a crappily optimized PS3 game that looks like a PS2 game, though.

Yeah, DP does have a pretty unique setting and atmosphere. Unfortunately, when I tried playing the PC version some years ago, it was so buggy that I couldn't finish it.

Yeah, same here, the PC version crashed and burned at some point. I finished it on PS3.

Right now it probably runs better with the ps3 emulator. It may even be finishable.

 

[janior]

2009 Bayonetta
2010 Mount & Blade: Warband
2011 Dark Souls
2012 CK2