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Most of all, we’re proud to see a community that’s looking toward an inclusion of ever-broader perspectives, without having to sacrifice the pure entertainment afforded to us by some of the purer adrenaline rushes to make our list. Our list this year pulls from all sorts of genres-the transcendental spaghetti-western homage, an intentionally bizarre bullet-hell shooter-and recognizes how fiercely creative games are becoming. Roger Ebert once famously dismissed the notion that games could be taken seriously as art, but his peers would be hard-pressed to do the same today, especially given the way in which advances in motion-capture technology have basically turned some games, like Until Dawn, into interactive films.
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How else to explain the success of a deep, philosophical puzzler from the testosterone-y studio once best known for Serious Sam? As developers continue to take risks, games grow more inventive and hard to define. The best example that studios and players are looking for the Next Big Thing, or at least a whiff of something new, is in the existence of The Talos Principle. Adventure games, led largely by the efforts of Telltale Games, have become popular and profitable again, and while the lowering barrier of entry to game development explains the increase of deeply personal and eclectic indie titles, it doesn’t explain the mainstream interest in them, as with Square Enix’s choice to publish Life Is Strange. But the larger trends suggest this is more than a trick of our subjective preferences. Maybe this year’s a fluke, with studios only momentarily adapting to reflect the dissatisfaction over last year’s bumper crop of buggy, repetitive games like Assassin’s Creed: Unity. There are hardly any sequels here, and of those that made it, with one exception that proves the rule in Fallout 4, all have introduced bold and significant improvements on their predecessors, refusing to be pigeonholed in an annualized and formulaic fashion. In 2015, fewer than half of our picks are traditional AAA releases, two of which focus on putting creativity into the hands of the player.
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Our inaugural list of the 25 best video games of 2011 was stuffed full of big-budget sequels.