The game was so much fun that when I got home I looked up the maker, Looney Labs, to buy a Fluxx deck for myself. It ends up being a very strange and fun mix, something like Nomic combined with Uno. It turns out to be a pretty fast-paced card game where you play: 'Action' cards, such as 'Pick a card at random from another player's hand' 'Keeper' cards which are assets you collect to win, like 'The Brain', 'The Toaster', 'Dreams', 'The Rocket', et al 'New Rule' cards that change play, like 'Draw 4' which changes the initial game of "draw 1, play 1" to "draw 4, play 1" and 'Goals', like 'Milk and Cookies' meaning that while that is the current goal, the player who has played both the Milk and Cookies Keepers immediately wins. It started at a chili-dinner party when a friend pulled a deck of cards out and said "Let's play Fluxx." Everyone else seemed to know what was going on, so I didn't require any convincing. My favorite game this year (outside of WoW, I'm required to admit) was something of a surprise. The Xbox 360's controls are awkward and the general ambiance of the environments seemed pretty drab and washed out. My only regret is not experiencing the game on my PC. And Ellen McLain's brilliant voice acting as GLaDOS makes me giggle like a The only thing a reasonable person could still wish for is more of it - it's a short game by anyone's standards. It's a darkly funny genre-bender of a game, and every minute of it is enjoyable. But Portal remains one of the best games to come out this year, well worth the price of the entire Orange Box just by itself. If you read game sites at all, by now you've probably had more than your fill of cake and Weighted Companion Cube jokes. What was the game you couldn't put down? The next-gen consoles really came into their own this year was it one of those games, or something for the PC? In your opinion, what was the best game of the year? When you're through reading those, it's your turn to speak up. Scuttlemonkey, Scott Collins, Chris Brown, CmdrTaco, and myself have all put together quick blurbs about the games we couldn't get enough of this year. So, once again, some of the Slashdot folks have come together to offer up our 'games of the year'. Last year's response to our Game of the Year post was so enthusiastic that I thought it would be worthwhile to give it another go.
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