Your games of the year!

Phazael_sl said:

FO4 hands down. No game has sucked me in this much since EQ1. Story could be better, but damn what a sandbox.

Honorable mention would probably go to Wasteland 2: Directors Cut, which I could not stop playing..... until FO4 arrived.

I know Witcher 3 is a great game, but I just could not get into it, mostly due to the mashy clunky combat. Maybe when I finish my second playthrough of FO4 I will give it another shot.

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Oh Wasteland 2 counts? I guess Wasteland 2 is my #2 and Divinity Original Sin is #3

Witcher 3 by far. Everything is amazing, story, combat graphics. One of my favorite games ever.

Honorable mentions: Pillars of Eternity and Vermintide.

Witcher 3
Bloodborne
(Dark Souls 2 - Scholars edition - Not sure if this belongs here as it is a remake of sorts)
Fallout 4
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Pillars of Eternity
Wasteland 2
Metal Gear Solid 5

There is a invisible gap between the top three and the rest, because Bloodborne and Witcher 3 were superb on a scale of their own. Between them they are GOTY in most categories. Overall Witcher 3 might be right up there as a contender for one of my favorite games of all time, not just this year.

Column_sl said:

Wow Syndicate is that good hunh? I bought it on the sale just haven't touched it yet due to Tomb Raider, and Witcher 3 playthroughs

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Syndicate is fan service to AC2 fans, and I am a huge AC2 fan so I loved it. If you didn't like AC2 nothing in AC6 will change your mind.

The one thing thats a bit of a bummer for Tomb Raider and AC Syndicate is the feminism/SJW intrusions. Neither are really that big, but you can see how stuff got changed around to appeal to women. Like in previous AC games you had bands of hookers (you even ran a brothel in AC2), but thats gone in AC6. Evie Fry has a weird dumb romance in AC6, Jacob Fry doesn't really have one. There is a tranny character (FtM) in AC6, but he's just "there" and they never really talk anything about it, which I guess is what people would want? None of it really bothers me, but it feels like stuff done to try to appeal to a wide audience whereas the old games would do shit just to appeal to me, a middle aged gaming man who is playing games cuz he isn't getting laid tonight. Same with RoTR, all the sexy Lara outfits are gone, replaced by sensible cold weather gear. Makes sense, but man I had lots of laughs in the old TR games wearing bikinis and shit in the freezing weather and staring at Lara's ass.

basically my white male privilege is not as good as it used to be

I think the real problem is that it's really designed to appeal to male "feminists" not actual women. But that's probably a topic for the GG thread anyway.

Also, the previous Tomb Raider game already got rid of all the weird/sexy outfits back in 2013. The base game had her in a normal outfit, and all the DLC was just ugly and/or dirty variations on the same theme.

I definitely need to power my way through the AC series once I finish Fallout 4 though. I've been stalled on Revelations and AC3 for years because they are just so bad. If Syndicate is like AC2 I'll love it.

Droigan_sl said:

Witcher 3
Bloodborne
(Dark Souls 2 - Scholars edition - Not sure if this belongs here as it is a remake of sorts)
Fallout 4
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Pillars of Eternity
Wasteland 2
Metal Gear Solid 5

There is a invisible gap between the top three and the rest, because Bloodborne and Witcher 3 were superb on a scale of their own. Between them they are GOTY in most categories. Overall Witcher 3 might be right up there as a contender for one of my favorite games of all time, not just this year.

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I consciously omitted Scholar from my list, but if we're counting it, it's up there with Bloodborne.

Wasteland II (by a longshot)
Pillars of Eternity
Darkest Dungeon

If we're just talking 2015 games...

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate
Metal Gear Solid V
Witcher 3
AC: Syndicate
Batman Arkham Knight

That reminds me that I need to finally admit to myself Monster Hunter games simply are not for me and to stop buying them

joz123_sl said:

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen

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I have to say that game absolutely lived up to my expectations.

Bloodborne, fallout4, Rocket league. Shout out to Arkham City, I really enjoyed it and the dlc (ps4)

I have yet to play w3 and I hope xenoblade is still in the running.

Zaphid_sl said:

I say screw the arbitrary definitions, just say what you had the most fun playing this year.

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Looks like people have been doing that this whole thread 'cause there's alotof bad taste in here.

Vorph_sl said:

I think the real problem is that it's really designed to appeal to male "feminists" not actual women. But that's probably a topic for the GG thread anyway.

Also, the previous Tomb Raider game already got rid of all the weird/sexy outfits back in 2013. The base game had her in a normal outfit, and all the DLC was just ugly and/or dirty variations on the same theme.

I definitely need to power my way through the AC series once I finish Fallout 4 though. I've been stalled on Revelations and AC3 for years because they are just so bad. If Syndicate is like AC2 I'll love it.

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Why hasn't anyone modded sexy grunting and bruised nude skins into those SJW games?