Just curious here. What games blew your mind this year ? And why ?
Here's my personal list :
5 : Undertale - A good little game that kinda came out of nowhere. Heavily inspired by Earthbound yet very unique. It's nice to see how such small and non ambitious games can still get that much success.
4 : MGSV - A blast to play. Amazing gameplay. Lots of things to do. Open world MGS is as good as it sounds. Shame so much content got cut though.
3 : Wolfenstein : The Old Blood - Pretty much as awesome as TNO. Great story and characters. Not a single moment I disliked in this little standalone prequel.
2 : Hotline Miami 2 - HM1 kicked my ass because of how goot it was and so does HM2. Unlike most people, I like HM2's story as much as HM1. And that soundtrack is pure orgasm.
1 : Fallout 4 - While it disappointed me on several points, FO4 managed to suck about 150 hours of my life in one month. Lots of things have been improved. Games is pure fun. Sucks that the story is lame though (but hey it's bethesda, what did we expect)
cities skylines
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and that's pretty much my top 5 list
They were all shit except maybe cars and mgsv
[editline]24th December 2015[/editline]
Subnautica looked great too but even nowadays tf2 and planet side are still fun
fallout 4 was pretty good for my first playthrough but I don't really see myself going through a second run.
the only thing hotline miami 2 had was its soundtrack. the garbage level design pretty much ruined the rest of the gameplay.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;49380751]
4: Undertale. Platformer.[/QUOTE]
Ah beg yer pardon?
5. TBOI:Afterbirth, its DLC but I think there's enough new content to count it. I like Greed mode as much as the default mode, really good new item concepts and more synergies which changes the value of a bunch of the old items, the ARG was cool, and the new enemies/bosses look amazing and are really creative
4. Undertale, Really cool to see a game take all the aspects of the mother series that I enjoy and actually improve on a lot of stuff like having a combat/progression system that is not only fun but really fits with the tone of the game and isn't frustrating or grindy and also makes for great humor
3. Hotline Miami 2, Mostly more of the same but a way more interesting story than the first one IMO
2. Olli Olli 2, This game is really underrated. 2D skateboarding score attack game, really fun mechanics and really satisfying and rewarding, really good sound design, soundtrack and visual style. Similar to Dustforce
1. Rivals of Aether, Competitive fighting game inspired by smash. The main dev is amazing and has a really good grasp on how to approach balance/early access and interacts with the community a lot. Sets itself apart from smash with a lot of unique mechanics that are surprisingly fun and well executed
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood is the only thing I really loved.
There have been plenty of others I've enjoyed, but I've not enjoyed them enough to put them into a list. Eh, fuck it, I may as well try. It's kind of hard, as I don't remember much other than early access flops, Telltale games I didn't really like and things I found kind of disappointing.
[I]Hotline Miami 2[/I] but [I]only[/I] for the level editor and the Fans levels. The base game is fun but disappointing in my eyes, with all the slow paced corridor baiting and windows.
[I]Fallout 4[/I], despite also being disappointing in my eyes, was quite fun for the 30 minutes I managed to play it.
[I]Hatred[/I], for being the only game this year to exceed my expectations when it turned from an amusing but clunky and pretty badly designed flying kick simulator into a fully fledged, fun, but kind of bland shooter. If multiplayer and mod support were miraculously released this month, it would probably be my GOTY. Until then, it's down here.
And that's about it. If updates to games count, chuck DF 2015 somewhere in here.
[QUOTE=SuperPlamz;49381095]Wolfenstein: The Old Blood is the only thing I really loved.
There have been plenty of others I've enjoyed, but I've not enjoyed them enough to put them into a list.[/QUOTE]
well you have 4 open slots so you might as well
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;49381054]What else do you want me to call it? Fucked up and dark game? :v:
[editline]25th December 2015[/editline]
Wait I basically have anyway.
Shit.[/QUOTE]
A meta deconstruction of the RPG genre so deep it wouldn't even be filled by Kanye West's liquefied ego?
Well, since my laptop can barely run games from 2013, I only played GTA V because everyone in my class bought it and they were saying how perfectly it ran on their piece of shit PC.
[sp]Of course I played it at 15 fps[/sp]:v:
1. Carmageddon: Reincarnation
2. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
3. Just Cause 3
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1. Pillars of Eternity
2. Fallout 4
3. Tales of Borderlands (Final episode arrived in 2015)
I would also list Witcher 3 but that game pissed me off so much that I won't be touching it for long time.
1. Dying Light - That game is crazy good, story gets a bit cheesy, almost down to Call of Duty levels of cheesy at times, but otherwise it is a pretty dramatic and captivating adventure that involves drop kicking zombies down cliffs and beating the shit out of bandits with an electrified police baton.
2. From the Depths - Basic concepts still puzzle me today but it is great fun
3. The new Rust - Vast improvement from Legacy, it sucked out a lot of hours from my life and I had great fun and made great friends through the danish Rust community
4. Hatred - It was fucking fantastic
5. Brutal Doom V20 - Therapy for a tempered mind.
Fallout 4, Rocket League, that's about it. Didn't have a good PC for most of the year so missed out on most of the releases
1. Witcher 3 - Couldn't get into it at first, but once I got my head down, it really grew on me. I love every moment of it. Still gotta finish it, though.
2. GTAV - mods
3. MGSV - Wasn't planning on giving it a go, but since it was on PC I decided to. No regrets, honestly. Fun as fuck, although I haven't finished it yet.
4. Fallout 4 - It was okay. Very fun game, but it was far from perfect. It's brilliant for a video game, but it's very lackluster for a Fallout game.
5. Dying Light - dropkicking zombies is ridiculously fun holy shit
Hotline Miami 2 could have made this list if I was even able to actually finish it. I enjoyed it up until level design started pulling some bullshit with me, and I simply got tired of being killed by offscreen enemies 5 seconds after I start a level.
1. The Phantom Pain
2. Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
3. Fallout 4
4. Undertale
5. Rocket League
Those are like the only games I even played from this year apart from maybe one or two.
5: Besiege - Fun physics game, if not goddamn frustrating to learn. I'm not into building stuff and could barely limp past the first set of levels, but it was still pretty enjoyable.
4: Party Hard - Similar to Hotline Miami in graphics and gameplay. Absolutely fun as shit, but I'll be damned if it didn't make me rage after being caught with SECONDS to go.
3: Hand of Fate - Great blend of RPG and adventure. Uses some unique mechanics, and I think it pulled them off well. One of the main appeals of the game is its sliding scale of difficulty based on the equipment it sometimes randomly gives you, along with cards gradually being unlocked as you play through the events unfolding throughout the game. Huge replay value.
2: Until Dawn - One of the best games in the branching choices genre to date. Genuinely scary, with quick consequences for your actions if you fail to react in time and reactive scenarios based on your choice of equipment/dialogue.
1: I wasn't as invested in big 2015 games as usual, so I'll leave my favorite game blank. A special shoutout to CK2 mods like Warhammer: Geheimnisnacht and AGOT, which finally made it to 1.0 this year.
1. MGSV, yeah it ended weak. But I still got a hell of a good time out of it before the weakness kicked in.
2. Fallout 4. Not as good as New Vegas, an improvement from Fallout 3. Just as I expected, so it perfectly lived up to my two bits of expectation.
And that's it for games released 2015 that I played. Got good time from em both, Fallout 4 is only gonna give me more next year when modding really takes off.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;49381054]What else do you want me to call it? Fucked up and dark game? :v:
[editline]25th December 2015[/editline]
Wait I basically have anyway.
Shit.[/QUOTE]
It's not a platformer :v:
GTA V for PC
DIRT Rally
...that's about it.
I haven't got Fallout 4 or Just Cause 3 so I can't say much about them yet.
1. Until Dawn
2. Cities: Skyline
Really, only games I enjoyed this year that I managed to play. I'd include Fallout 4, but I haven't gotten around to playing it but it looks really fun.
Only three 2015 games I can list of the top of my head are Dragon Ball Xenoverse, Besiege, and Undertale, and the only one of the 3 I'd call GOTY is Undertale.
I did play a lot of pre 2015 games that I loved this year like Call Of Duty 3, Unreal Tournament and No One Lives Forever
In no particular order, and only from what I've played so far because I've missed out on quite a few good titles I haven't gotten around to yet.
Cities: Skylines
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
Monstrum
Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty
SOMA
There are more, quite a few decent games came out this year. It's been a good one.
[b]1.Alien:Isolation[/b]
[b]2.Valkyria Chronicles[/b]
[b]3.Resident Evil REmake[/b]
[b]4.Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth[/b]
[b]5.Oddworld: New N' Tasty[/b]
I didn't think 2015 was going to be a particularly decent year. Glad I was wrong. Some great ports this year on top of new titles. And 2016 is looking good so far too.
Metal Gear Solid V, Undertale, and uhh... That's about it.
I played a lot of new games this year (as well as some classics for the first time), but those two were the most memorable. A lot of big releases like The Witcher 3 I've not played yet, so I can't say much for those.
HD releases don't count in my book, but otherwise I would have put on REmake HD.
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I do highly recommend Undertale to anyone who hasn't tried it yet, BTW. It's on sale right now so it's not even 10 dollars.
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