My favs for the year are as follows: (in no particular order)
Saints Row 2
Valkria Chronicals
Chrono Trigger DS
The Last Remnant
Tales of Vesperia
World of Goo
There may be a couple I am missing but, these are the ones that have kept me entranced. There are some such as Left for Dead that I have only played the demo for and then there are those such as LBP and WiiFit that I have not played at all. The reason I have not played the full games of some of these is because, well, frankly, they look like crap!
Gears of War 2 is just a prettier version of the first one, LBP is not even a game as far as I can tell, CoD: WaW lost me when the went back to WW2, Endwar is an RTS so, I won't even touch it, never had a chance to play Fable 2, Mercs 2 is good but, not as good as it should be, the music games are basically a carbon copy of the previous editions, NFS Undercover was just horrible, and let's face it, the Wii sucked as far as games were concerned!
My wish for 09 would be that devs and publishers get away from their safety zone. Redoing a game just because it did well the year before is not the way to go. Give me something Original!
