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The Games of 2015 - My Year was Weird, How About Yours?
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2015 was a weird year of gaming for me! Near the end of 2014 I had a baby (My first one). I've been gaming since the NES first came out so it has been a huge part of my life for years. I've never been the best at finishing games but I still finish most I play and for years now I've liked to dabble in a bit of everything. Sure I might not finish ALL the games I try but I finish most and I play through lots of fun things and generally feel I get my money's worth. I can make fun Top 10s at the end of every year and feel confident in my choices. Sadly in 2015 I'm now realizing the life I had before is pretty much gone, at least for a few years anyways.
Here's a mostly complete list of what my year was like (ordered by release date). I'm going by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_in_video_gaming and it doesn't have all releases (ie the expansion pack to Civ: Beyond Earth which I bought and hardly played) but it's a good roundup.
And if you are actually finishing games, how did 2015 treat you?
Here's a mostly complete list of what my year was like (ordered by release date). I'm going by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_in_video_gaming and it doesn't have all releases (ie the expansion pack to Civ: Beyond Earth which I bought and hardly played) but it's a good roundup.
- Dying Light - January 27th (Maybe halfway throughish?)
- Grim Fandango: Remastered - January 27th (Thankfully I at least played this to completion when I was younger)
- Game of Thrones: A Telltale Game Series - I've only played Episode 1, Episode 2 came out February 3rd and I've not played it or any afterwards
- Homeworld Remastered Collection - February 25th (Again, thankfully I at least played these when I was younger)
- Cities: Skylines - March 10th (I have put some time into this and it can't really be 'finished' but I have not played it nearly enough. Oh also at some point I bought the After Dark expansion)
- Battlefield Hardline - March 17th (I've played the first single player mission and not even launched the multiplayer. whoops...)
- Tales from the Borderlands - Similar to Game of Thrones, Episode 2 came out March 17th, the difference here? I've not even played Episode 1 yet...
- Pillars of Eternity - March 26th (I've only played act 1! Also... I bought the expansion pass)
- Mortal Kombat X - April 7th (Maybe halfway done the campaign)
- Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China - April 21st (Played the first level, luckily got this for free since I had the gold edition of Unity, a game I have also not played...)
- Broken Age: Part 2 - April 28th (I haven't even played part 1 yet...)
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - May 19th (Not even close to finishing)
- Puzzle & Dragons Z + Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition - May 22nd (Hardly played at all, seems fun!)
- Massive Chalice - June 1st (Maybe played 1/3rd of the way through 1 bloodline... I even backed this on kickstarter, oh god)
- RONIN - June 30th (Stupid Vinny quicklooks! This game is fun but I've only played a few levels)
- Rocket League - July 7th (Barely played)
- Rory McIlroy PGA Tour - June 14th (Hardly touched!)
- Madden NFL 16 - August 25th (Not even finished 1 season!)
- Lara Croft Go - August 27th (Only played the first area of missions!)
- Mad Max - September 1st (Played like... 2 hours)
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain - September 1st (Put tons of hours in, not even close to finishing)
- Forza Motorsport 6 - September 15th (I'm a huge Forza guy but have barely done any races in this one)
- NHL 16 - September 15th (played literally 1 online match)
- Rebel Galaxy - October 20th (Not played this nearly enough)
- Assassin's Creed: Syndicate - October 23rd (This really grabbed my attention for some reason, saw it on sale at Costco for XBONE and grabbed it, I should have just waited and got it cheap on PC down the line, ugh)
- Halo 5: Guardians - October 27th (I have literally not touched this, at all)
- Fallout 4 - November 10th (Not even close to finishing)
- Just Cause 3 - December 1st (Playing it right now? Oh god what is wrong with me)
And if you are actually finishing games, how did 2015 treat you?
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I evaluate if a purchase was worthwhile mostly to guide my future decisions, but I don't own these games anything, certainly not hours and hours of my time.
Sometimes I get sucked down an endless hole, sometimes I get really hyped and disengage soon after.
If I don't want to play a game anymore, I don't. And I'm in the relative rare position of having a lot of time and enough income to buy what catches my eye mostly.
I finished Pillars, Massive Chalice, Witcher 3, Her Story (for a certain value of finish), Thea (Well I saw a good ending), Batman AK and MGS V this year.
I put a lot of hours into Fallout 4, CK2, D3 season 3, Vermintide, Rocket League and BoI: Afterbirth, Wasteland 2:DC, Marvel Heroes
Spoiled for length.
Highlight of these is probably Witcher 3. On the opposite end would me MKX's online play and what Bloodborne did to me. A pretty good year for games.
Bloodborne absolutely wins my game of the year, Witcher 3 wins my Worst of the Year but only because it cost more than Fatal Frame 5
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Disney Infinity 2.0: Guardians of the Galaxy (PS4)
Need for Speed: Rivals (PS4)
Cel Damage HD (PS4)
Peggle 2 (PS4)
Wolfenstein: The New Order (PS4)
Akiba’s Trip (PS4)
Transistor (PS4)
Strike Witches: Hakugin no Tsubasa (PSP)
Gal*Gun (PS3)
Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward (PC)
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 (PS4)
Koukyaku no Kishi Mires (PC)
Demon Master Chris (Mac)
Oppai Sensou (PC)
Liberation Maiden (iOS)
Sakura Angels (Mac)
Sakura Beach (PC)
Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor HD (iOS)
Lili (iOS)
The Lost City (iOS)
Karateka (iOS)
Little Inferno (Mac)
Sakura Fantasy, Chapter 1 (Mac)
Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty (PS3)
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (PS3)
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn 2.55 MSQ (PC)
Hyperdimension Neptunia: Producing Perfection (Vita)
GundeadliGne (PC)
Proteus (PC)
Voices from the Sea (PC)
Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds (PC)
planetarian ~the reverie of a little planet~ (PC)
Sakura Swim Club (Mac)
Star Ocean: The Last Hope: International (PS3)
Lara Croft Go (Windows Phone)
Hitman Go (Windows Phone)
A Ride into the Mountains (Android)
Monument Valley (Android)
Remember Me (PC)
Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 (PS3)
The Rub Rabbits! (NDS)
Megpoid the Music # (PSP)
Monmusu Quest! Pt. 1 (PC)
Transformers: War for Cybertron (PC)
K-On! Houkago Live!! (PSP)
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva f 2nd (Vita)
Ninja Gaiden Sigma (PS3)
Journey (PS4)
Home (PC)
Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir (3DS)
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;birth 1 (Vita)
Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes (Xbox)
Silent Hill 4: The Room (Xbox)
Frog Fractions (Flash)
9 Clues: The Secret of Serpent Creek (PC)
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary (360)
Earth Defense Force 2025 (360)
Nightmares from the Deep 2: The Siren’s Call (PC)
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron (360)
Halo 4 (360)
Perfect Dark (360)
Disney Fairies: Tinker Bell’s Adventure (PC)
Splatoon (WiiU)
Otomedius Excellent (360)
Deathsmiles II X (360)
Committed: Mystery at Shady Pines (PC)
The Secret Order: New Horizons (PC)
THE iDOLM@STER Live For You! (360)
Call of Duty 3 (360)
Call of Duty: Black Ops (PC)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (PC)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PC)
Urban Legends: The Maze (PC)
Small Town Terrors: Livingston (PC)
Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae (PC)
Hard Reset (PC)
Fatal Frame 4 / Zero: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse (Wii)
Killer is Dead (PS3)
Woolfe: The Red Hood Diaries (PC)
Skyrim: Dawnguard (PC)
Mystery Stories: Mountains of Madness (PC)
Skyrim: Dragonborn (PC)
Crimson Dragon: Side Story (Windows Phone)
Liberation Maiden (3DS)
Code of Princess (3DS)
Skyrim (PC)
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva f (Vita)
Demon Gaze (Vita)
Dead or Alive 5: Last Round (PS4)
Dead or Alive Dimensions (3DS)
Titanfall (PC)
Oneechanbara Z2 Chaos (PS4)
Ranko Tsukigime’s Longest Day (PS3)
I've probably cut an equal number of games from my backlog through admitting to myself that I just wasn't going to play them ever, and I've been trying not to make new purchases.
It's also helping me make smarter purchases and play the games I buy, rather than letting them sit on the shelf and collect dust. For example, I bought CODBLOPS3 shortly after it came out, and I made sure to sit down and play it THAT WEEKEND, because I'd spent sixty bucks on the thing.
Biggest surprise of the year, for games released in 2015, was probably Splatoon. I normally can't stand Nintendo's first-party stuff, but Splatoon sold me a WiiU and sucked up a good chunk of hours. Phenomenal character design, music, and team-based gameplay where you could help your team win even if you were rubbish at actually hitting players on the other team.
Best new-to-me games: Skyrim, for being the first Big Open World RPG I've played and also introducing me to the world of "I want my character to have fairy wings. I bet someone has written a mod for that", and Ninja Gaiden Sigma 1 & 2, for making stylish character action combat with training wheels.
Oh, for sure. I have all the ones we got here in the states and a couple of the Japan-only games. I'm still boggled the PS4 one made it over.
I would call them "guilty pleasures", but guilt implies shame and I feel no shame.
the fuck.
This year has been AMAZING for gaming, but no game has set up camp in my head as long as Undertale has since I was a kid. I can't even identify what made it stick with me so much, it just did.
Other highlights of the year for me were Fallout 4 (still playing it), Witcher 3, Bloodborne, MGSV, Her Story, Rocket League, Galak-Z, Dying Light, and a bunch of stuff I'm sure I missed.
Tales From the Borderlands (outstanding)
Game of Thrones (flawed but exciting)
Halo 5 (defeated handily by Destiny in playtime)
Transistor (beautiful, wonderful game. Love this dev)
EDF 2025 (an improvement in very important ways, but some BAD lag and connection stuff held it back a bit)
And then a bunch of stuff I touched on but did not dive deep into (notably Layton vs Phoenix Wright and Guacamelee). If Destiny cools it on the expansion front, I'll probably go for Rise of the Tomb Raider and drink that up until it's done.
AAA games I did NOT play this year were:
Witcher 3 - I played maybe 45 minutes of the first one and completely lost interest. The overt misogyny of the main character was huge turn off for me. Plus, I'm not a fan of single-player RPGs. I never have been, going all the way back to Bard's Tale in the 8-bit days.
Fallout 4 - Again, single player RPG games don't interest me at all.
MGS - Same story here.
Bloodborne - Same sort of thing, plus an added helping of not finding brutally difficult games "fun". As a 50-yo gamer, I have plenty of real life stress and "twitchy" games are less and less accessible to me every year.
The Taken King - I avoided this one because Destiny sucked me in for four months last year. I literally played nothing BUT Destiny from launch until mid-January. I am not ready to sign up for that again (because I know it would happen).
Having said that, I did play a LOT of different games this year. But there really wasn't anything that was a huge stand out or obvious GOTY for me. I'm sure that everyone's top-10 lists will be filled with that five games that I listed above, that I have absolutely ZERO INTEREST in playing. So, for me, 2015 was a bit of a bummer year.
Ironclad Tactics - Fun for the few days I messed around with it. I think it was worth it, but I'm probably also done with it.
Saints Row: Gat out of Hell - Kind of disappointing really. It was entertaining, but not really a lot of meat to it. I think I had more fun playing the Christmas dlc for SR4 a month or two prior.
Dying Light - This didn't click with me to the degree it did with others. I probably should give it another go, I wasn't that far in.
Life is Strange - Loved it.
Apotheon - Didn't finish but liked what I played of it on PS4. Neat style and structure.
Game of Thrones - Disappointing. In my mind the worst of the modern Telltale games so far.
Hand of Fate - Enjoyed this quite a bit. A good idea well executed.
Roundabout - What's not to like? I didn't chase leaderboard scores or anything, but I certainly completed the story and each challenge.
The Order: 1886 - Borrrring.
Ori and the Blind Forest - To my shame I have played like an hour of this. It's on the list of games I need to start over and really play. With a lot of other games.
Tales from the Borderlands - Possibly the best modern Telltale game so far. Great story, writing, acting, direction, comedic timing. Perfect.
Bloodborne - Managed to finish this, but not to the degree of doing all the chalice dungeons. I really liked the new take on the souls formula. Good times.
Pillars of Eternity - Also ashamed that I haven't quite finished this yet. But it was quite good. Once the dlc is done I need to pick my playthrough back up.
Tower of Guns - Only toyed with this for an afternoon. Meh.
Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China - Also kind of Meh, but pretty.
Wolfenstein Old Blood - Doesn't hit the same kind of highs as New Order, but a enjoyable return to the Wolfenstein gameplay.
Invisible Inc - Smart, stylish, and very replayable.
Witcher 3 - Probably my game of year. Devoured this game. It was feeling a bit overly long by the time I wrapped this up but that's also because I did everything possible.
Puzzle & Dragons Z +Super Mario - I wish I was better at this. But it still kept me entertained for a lot of commutes.
Splatoon - My favorite competitive shooter of the year. Great character and gameplay.
Massive Chalice - I still haven't beat this game. I have 3 different playthroughs that have stalled out at different points. It's good. But I'm still mostly looking forward to XCom2
D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die - A shame it's unlikely this will ever get finished. Swery has his special brand of crazy.
Batman: Arkham Knight - Worked well enough for me. I did enjoy this game, often in spite of itself. It has a lot of bloat and unnecessary material, but the core game is still really satisfying.
Her Story - Great story told in a unique structure. Highly recommended.
Ronin - This got a bit too hard for me. But also super worth checking out.
One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 - My mindless go to for button mashing relaxing for a few months.
Until Dawn - This was good fun to play together with my wife. They pull it off well.
Armello - I'm a sucker for a board game.
Grow Home - My other zone out go to, this one for a calm zen.
Metal Gear Solid V - Great game, terrible mess of a narrative. Enjoyed my time with it quite a bit though.
Soma - Maybe only halfway through this currently. Need some calmer nights to finish playing this spooky game.
Assassin's Creed Syndicate - This was kind of bubblegum. I liked it, I'm done with it. I kind of don't need any more right now. It was a good AC game, not a great one. Nothing more or less really.
Fallout 4 - This has hooked me more than I expected. I didn't realize how much I wanted to play some more Fallout.
Just Cause 3 - That point in a GTA game where you just cause as much havoc as you can before dying. I am not enough of a make my own fun type to avoid it already starting to feel a bit repetitive though.
Yakuza 5 - Have only played like an hour or so, but come on it's Yakuza.
Also Hearthstone ate up an inordinate amount of my game time. A really good year overall for games.
I'm going to fully attribute my lack of story completion to the prevalence of open-world elements in most of the games that I picked up this year (Mad Max and AC: Syndicate spring to mind). More specifically, if a game just lets me free-roam around, I'm going to do that. It's the same reason why I still haven't finished the main story in Skyrim (straight vanilla Skyrim)...in spite of logging 50+ hours in the game.
So, without further ado, games that I picked up this year (and am in love with (or, at the very least, having a good time with)):
And the one game from this year that I bought and still have yet to even fire it up: Rise of the Tomb Raider (I want to finish Tomb Raider first).
EDIT - forgot a few games that I bought and haven't started yet (I actually forgot they came out in 2015): Galactic Civilization 3; Invisible, Inc.; Magicka 2.
holy shit. I have it for 360 and back on release there was like nothing to do, what do you do in it for 11 days?!
I mostly run jobs, fly around in the Savage/Hydra, set up elaborate sticky bomb traps, challenge myself to make the biggest chain-reaction of vehicle explosions....y'know, the usual =P I think I've run a handful of heists (done each one at least once...a couple have been run 3 or 4 times). But mostly it's running jobs.
Same here; I only have a WiiU in terms of new consoles, so a lot of games were inaccessible for me. I was pretty busy this year anyway, so maybe that's for the best.
A lot more of my gaming was more casual then previous years. A lot of Mario Maker, Smash Bros, virtual console games, and Goat Simulator. I played Undertale but even that is short compared to most of the others in that genre.
Good year for beating old games.
But for me, I'd say this year was the year of obscure indies and episodic gaming.
I missed when The Walking Dead made episodic gaming a thing because zombies are not my thing. Late last year, I picked up the complete season of The Wolf Among Us and was then more or less hooked. I've picked up Life is Strange, Tales from the Borderlands and Dreamfall Chapters. And although I have my... issues with Life is Strange, I've enjoyed them all. Turns out I really like games that just try to tell a story, whether that's teenage drama, sci-fi comedy or cyberpunk fantasy.
And speaking of cyberpunk fantasy, Shadowrun: Hong Kong was... actually kind of disappointing when compared to Dragonfall. The setting and the villain just didn't grip me as much, I guess.
Then there was
Renowned Explorers: International Society, which has made imperialist looting seem like good, clean fun;
Chroma Squad, an SRPG about a group of stuntmen filming their own Power Rangers TV show;
Black Closet, where I enjoyed finding ways to abuse my power while trying to make it seem like I'm not abusing my power;
80 Days, which was just an enjoyably written race around the world and
Thea: the Awakening, which is rather shoddily written in parts but still a nice enough 4X game where you only ever get a single village and the whole world is trying to kill it.
Mine were probably Life Is Strange, Until Dawn, Super Mario Maker, Yoshi's Woolly World and Dying Light.
Maybe Transformers and Mortal Kombat X up there too. Monsterbag on Vita was adorably cute and would likely get a vote. I always forget what games I played at the start of the year.
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Fallout 4 and Dying Light were both mixed experiences. They had excellent gameplay and beautiful worlds, but main stories that left me not just cold but actively annoyed (the latter so much that I've not bothered finishing it).
MGSV surprised me first by the fact that I bought it at all, and secondly by how much I ended up enjoying the whole experience. It has so many quirky, wonderful mechanics that the average player might never even experience, which is something I really like.
Witcher 3 had pacing problems, and at one point it almost looked like I wasn't going to finish it, but its story is a brilliant showing of what good writers, actors and animators can achieve together, with an incredible open world and decent combat built around it. Its in-engine story cutscenes are so far above what any other RPG has proven capable of, making FO4 look hopelessly outdated in comparison, and the flawed, complex characters and stories immersed me like few other games have.
Tales from the Borderlands was just pure joy to play through and proves that Telltale are still capable of making enjoyable experiences, after TWD2 and GoT left me cold.
Pillars of Eternity was an interesting throwback to old-school crpgs, but its story hooks were not strong enough to pull me all the way. I might still revisit it, but it seems unlikely since I have no emotional stakes in seeing the end of the story.
I just put together a new PC, too, to better run all these games I keep buying but have no time to play.
yup, a few months ago i got a fancy new video card.. for some reason
I think the original organizer said last year would be their last. I guess no one took up the mantle? Or maybe they've moved it further into January (I remember that being a point of contention for a while in those threads).
I was doing great until I got back into Destiny with The Taken King. Now I'm only at 37 games beaten, because Destiny has taken all my gaming time for 2+ months.
Oldest game was Jumping Flash! from 1995, and yes I've had the PS1 disc for the better part of two decades just sitting there for when I could get around to it.
It was a pretty good year.
A Ride into the Mountains (Android)
Akiba’s Trip (PS4)
Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance 2 (Xbox)
Brave (PC)
Call of Duty 3 (360)
Call of Duty: Black Ops (PC)
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 (PS4)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PC)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (PC)
Cel Damage HD (PS4)
Code of Princess (3DS)
Committed: Mystery at Shady Pines (PC)
Cotton Original (PS1)
Crimson Dragon: Side Story (Windows Phone)
Daytona USA (PS3)
Dead or Alive 5: Last Round (PS4)
Dead or Alive Dimensions (3DS)
Deathsmiles II X (360)
Demon Gaze (Vita)
Demon Master Chris (Mac)
Disney Fairies: Tinker Bell’s Adventure (PC)
Disney Infinity 2.0: Avengers (PS4)
Disney Infinity 2.0: Guardians of the Galaxy (PS4)
Disney Infinity 2.0: Spider-Man (PS4)
Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes (Xbox)
Earth Defense Force 2025 (360)
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron (360)
Fatal Frame 4 / Zero: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse (Wii)
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn 2.55 MSQ (PC)
Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward (PC)
Frog Fractions (Flash)
Gal*Gun (PS3)
Gamera 2000 (PS1)
GundeadliGne (PC)
Halo 4 (360)
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary (360)
Hard Reset (PC)
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva f (Vita)
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva f 2nd (Vita)
Hitman Go (Windows Phone)
Home (PC)
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;birth 1 (Vita)
Hyperdimension Neptunia: Producing Perfection (Vita)
Journey (PS4)
Jumping Flash! (PS1)
Jumping Flash! 2 (PS1)
K-On! Houkago Live!! (PSP)
Karateka (iOS)
Killer is Dead (PS3)
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (PC)
Koukyaku no Kishi Mires (PC)
Lara Croft Go (Windows Phone)
Liberation Maiden (3DS)
Liberation Maiden (iOS)
Lili (iOS)
Little Inferno (Mac)
Megpoid the Music # (PSP)
Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae (PC)
Monmusu Quest! Pt. 1 (PC)
Monument Valley (Android)
Mystery Stories: Mountains of Madness (PC)
Need for Speed: Rivals (PS4)
NEKOPARA Vol. 0 (PC)
NEKOPARA Vol. 1 (PC)
Nightmares From The Deep 3: Davy Jones (PC)
Nightmares from the Deep 2: The Siren’s Call (PC)
Ninja Gaiden Sigma (PS3)
Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 (PS3)
Oneechanbara Z2 Chaos (PS4)
Oppai Sensou (PC)
Otomedius Excellent (360)
Peggle 2 (PS4)
Perfect Dark (360)
Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds (PC)
planetarian ~the reverie of a little planet~ (PC)
Proteus (PC)
Ranko Tsukigime’s Longest Day (PS3)
Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty (PS3)
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (PS3)
Remember Me (PC)
Sakura Angels (Mac)
Sakura Beach (PC)
Sakura Fantasy, Chapter 1 (Mac)
Sakura Santa (Mac)
Sakura Swim Club (Mac)
Senran Kagura: Bon Appetit (Vita)
Silent Hill 4: The Room (Xbox)
Silent Hill: Origins (PSP)
Skyrim (PC)
Skyrim: Dawnguard (PC)
Skyrim: Dragonborn (PC)
Small Town Terrors: Livingston (PC)
Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor HD (iOS)
Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir (3DS)
Splatoon (WiiU)
Star Ocean: The Last Hope: International (PS3)
Strike Witches: Hakugin no Tsubasa (PSP)
Teen Titans (PS2)
THE iDOLM@STER Live For You! (360)
The Lost City (iOS)
The Order: 1886 (PS4)
The Rub Rabbits! (NDS)
The Secret Order: New Horizons (PC)
Titanfall (PC)
Touch My Katamari (Vita)
Transformers: War for Cybertron (PC)
Transistor (PS4)
Trapt (PS2)
Urban Legends: The Maze (PC)
Voices from the Sea (PC)
We Love Master! (PC)
Wolfenstein: The New Order (PS4)
Woolfe: The Red Hood Diaries (PC)
1. Fallout 4
2. Tales from the Borderlands
3. Rise of the Tomb Raider
4. Talos Principle
5. MGSV
6. Massive Chalice
7. Transformers Devastation
8. SOMA
9. Vanishing of Ethan Carter
10. Life is Strange
Talos Principle shouldn't count, I know, but it came out this year on PS4 and it is really good! Fallout barely edged out Tales as my favorite game this year. Tomb Raider swooped in at the last second to take 3rd place.
Surprisingly i also dusted off my psp and played some valkyrie profile, as well as FF tactics and dissidia.
I tried splatoon when it came out but using the required gamepad for more than like an hour or two made my hands cramp and hurt like crazy. I liked the game but returned it because i didnt want to play it due to pain.
Played a bunch of hearthstone as well as heroes of the storm, and finished the protoss expansion for starcraft.
Guess i mostly played some older stuff, but i dont own a ps4 or xb1, and my pc wouldnt run the newer games very well. Wiiu really struggles to put out new games, but i like smash and hyrule warriors so no biggie. Also i did a study abroad so the ps3 and wiiu were packed up for 5 or so months anyway.
Im looking forward to the cascade of final fantasy titles as well as fire emblem stuff. Persona 5 too if it plays well on ps3. Monster hunter X being announced for US release would also be awesome.
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You did it last year, didn't you? So I figure you should be answering that question. :P
As for favourite games of the year, my top 7 were Bloodborne, Yakuza 5, Witcher 3, Until Dawn, Life is Strange, Rocket League and Helldivers. It'd be a top 8 but The Fall already came out on PC last year.