WELL TONIGHT THANK GOD IT’S THEM, INSTEAD OF YOU
The UK Christmas games chart. Very depressing. There’s nothing in here that makes us want to remember where the charger cable for anything is. It’s the same games as last year only in marginally redesigned boxes.
Games are pretty much dead. Sooner or later someone important’s going to realise this and say something in public, and there’s going to be HELL to pay.
1: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
2: FIFA 10
3: Wii Fit Plus
4: Wii Sports Resort
5: Assassin’s Creed II
6: Mario & Sonic At The Winter Olympic Games
7: New Super Mario Bros. Wii
8: Forza Motorsport 3
9: Mario Kart Wii
10: Just Dance
The only vaguely different game in there is, ironically, from Ubisoft, in the form of Just Dance.
Ubisoft, champion of originality – THAT’S how far we have fallen.
filed in "NEWS" on Dec.21, 2009
December 21st, 2009 on 7:52 pm
Given the successful derailing of X-Factor perhaps next year we should all buy one Dreamcast game to get it to the top of the Christmas charts? I vote for buying Shenmue II en masse.
December 21st, 2009 on 9:13 pm
Sure, commercial studio games development is a steaming turd, but what about more independent things like Braid, or even completely free enjoyable things like Cave Story? Even some Flash games (despite that generally being an awful shitdump of games copied from tutorials from this hideous girlbeast) are pretty good. Dino Run?
December 21st, 2009 on 9:15 pm
If you were going to say “would” for black dress woman, check the full size picture first. Nasty.
December 21st, 2009 on 9:25 pm
Actually I was going to say “would”, then I realised she was a women.
December 21st, 2009 on 11:17 pm
What a depressing lot..
December 22nd, 2009 on 12:13 am
Everyone involved in thinking up, developing, publishing, marketing, buying and/or playing “Just Dance” should be dragged into a field, run over by a tractor, shot, burnt, run over by a second tractor and then shot again just to be sure.
Happy Christmas!
December 22nd, 2009 on 1:31 am
So if you are moving in sync with an avatar with a skirt on and it’s sort of like that’s your imaginary skirt does that mean you are gay. Does it matter. It probably doesn’t matter
December 22nd, 2009 on 9:42 am
Going back to the top ten – Assassin’s creed 2 might be ok?
And Forza 3 might be quite fun for just doodling on cars and then not driving them? But yeah, it’s rather depressing, where’s the originality?
I thought I’d check to see how much more originality there was 20 years ago, but according to vgchartz.com, the “Worldwide Weekly Chart for Week Ending 23rd December 1989” was
1. Super Mario Land (GB)
2. Tetris (GB)
No other games or chart positions listed.
So only 2 games released that year I guess, according to them. Although, I’m pretty sure I was still buying c64 games back then, so where are they in the chart? Where’s Afterburner, Altered Beast, Batman, Cabal, Cyberdyne Warrior, Dynamite Düx, Great Giana Sisters, Mr. Heli, Project Firestart, Rampage, Retrograde, Silkworm or even Turbo Outrun?
And just how many people bought Tetris, when it came with every sodding gameboy anyway?
Anyone know of a reliable place to find out previous years games charts instead? (other than me rifling through my old stacks of Zzap!64?)
December 22nd, 2009 on 12:24 pm
Altered Beast should be in the toilet as long as no one’s moved it. If you poke Dynamite Dux with a stick you should be able to see it.
December 22nd, 2009 on 12:35 pm
God, I loved Altered Beast when it first came out. Even travelled as far as Port Talbot to play it when I heard a chipshop there had it. Dynamite Dux also sits in the rose-tinted area of my memories too for some reason.
I still think I’d still have more playing playing either of them than half of that top ten up there though.
December 22nd, 2009 on 1:48 pm
Altered Beast! Silkworm! *sigh*
And altered beast made me remember Shadow of the Beast. Shadow of the Beast! *big sigh*
When I first played that I couldn’t believe my eyes. Four fucking layers of paralax! Music by Orbital (or someone)!
Ah shit I hate getting older. Everything is rubbish now, not just games. EVERYTHING.
Oh, and Happy Christmas to one and all
December 22nd, 2009 on 2:51 pm
The best game I’ve bought this year is Beneath a Steel Sky on the iphone for 59p.
Rather than any of the ‘top 10 games’, I played Ultimate Qix for 2 hours last night. I managed to get 99.8% on the first level, but it was a lonely victory as the wife had already gone to bed.
December 22nd, 2009 on 3:44 pm
99,8 % with no witness and no screenshot to prove it… How unfortunate.
December 22nd, 2009 on 4:01 pm
New games that I’ve played this year:
Canabalt
I think that one’s kind of new, anyway. And I only played that because Charlie Brooker told me to.
December 22nd, 2009 on 11:46 pm
Forza 3 is seriously the best thing I’ve played this generation. If it’s your kind of game, then it’s offering a lot to keep your attention.
December 23rd, 2009 on 1:15 am
Altered Beast was and is an absolute piece of shit of a game to play. I still love it though. “Rise from your grave and rescue my daughter.”
December 25th, 2009 on 12:02 am
Well, I’m playing Forza 3, with a Chevy stock car dressed up like the Hornet from Daytona USA (the livery came from username rerunjp), so I’m not the problem here.
April 1st, 2010 on 1:19 am
“Just Dance” just surpassed 2 millions sales, despite it being, or thanks to it being a morronic, absurd piece of rotten crap extracted from a pest-ridden dead dog’s carcass.
in memoriam :
http://timesonline.typepad.com/technology/2009/12/just-dance-review.html
where a few braves dared to post comments in a last stand of rebellion. 2 millions mean Ubisoft and Nintendo won.