Rank games you've played this year (GOTY 2015)

[aboblyndsae]

It's that time, I guess? Didn't see a thread for this year so I'm making it. Rank and briefly review games you've played this year. They don't necessarily have to have been RELEASED this year, but let's try to limit it to stuff that's relatively current—we're all at least a little stuck in the '90s, and I think half the fun of doing this is helping us jaded, grizzled old gamers discover new titles we'll like.

1. Undertale - Yes, it's the most the internet has lost its collective **** about a game since Portal—and like Portal, it deserves all the hyperbolic praise. I can't remember the last time I played a RPG where I never knew what to expect in the next room, and it was nearly always funny and surprising. The influence of games like Earthbound and Yume Nikki is obvious, yet it never feels merely imitative.

2. Super Mario Maker - The game I have been wanting for over 25 years. It is not everything I wanted it to be, but it is almost everything, and with periodic content updates it will likely become everything and more. This game alone justified my purchase of a Wii U.
Might as well plug my levels while I'm at it: https://supermariomakerbookmark.nint...le/aboblyndsae

3. Dungeon Travelers 2 - The Royal Library and the Monster Tits - First, envision a biiiig gap between #2 and #3 here. I should also clarify that I am forever addicted to Wizardry-style dungeon crawlers, and will play them no matter how garbage they are. So I was very pleasantly surprised to find with Dungeon Travelers 2 that not only was I not scraping the bottom of the barrel, but that it was a competently designed and fun RPG that had me glued to my Vita at every opportunity. Just... not in public.

4. htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary - Utterly beautiful game. And so unbelievably stressful to play that I never finished it, but wasn't it just gorgeous? This thing gave me Ecco the Dolphin flashbacks.

[Gypsy]

1. Undertale - Yes, it's the most the internet has lost its collective **** about a game since Portal—and like Portal, it deserves all the hyperbolic praise. I can't remember the last time I played a RPG where I never knew what to expect in the next room, and it was nearly always funny and surprising. The influence of games like Earthbound and Yume Nikki is obvious, yet it never feels merely imitative.

Well I was pretty sure I would not like this game and this confirms it. Earthbound was boring to me.

Anyway, I rummaged around the what are you playing thread here to see what I posted (and am only including what I distinctly remember finishing, also not listing shmups because I go through those like candy). I finished Yakuza 4 at the end of last year or it would have made the list.

First, what I played that I posted about on here full list: Warhammer 40k Space Marine, Kane and Lynch, Fairy Fencer F, Sorcery Saga, Dragon Quest 8, Mass Effect, Tales of Hearts R, Arc the Lad 2, Oddworld: Munch's Odysee, Wild Arms 3, Perfect Dark Zero, Symphony of the Night, Oreshika, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Red Dead Redemption, Champions of Norrath, SRW OG, Ys I-II, Exile, Cadash, PC Genjin 2, PC Genjin 3, Kaiso Choujin Shibubinman 1-3, Growlanser III, Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon, Fire Emblem GBA.

Let's eliminate anything from the 90s for the sake of the OP. Arc the Lad 2 is being counted as 90s or it would make the list.

1. Mass Effect
2. Warhammer 40K Space Marine
3. Red Dead Redemption

On the whole pretty much all of these games were rather enjoyable. PD Zero is AWFUL though. Avoid it. So is Kane and Lynch. Those are the worst two games listed. Oreshika really started grinding on me by the end.

[EternalB]

I played a wide range of titles this year. Well maybe not that wide. Seems I sunk over 400 hrs in western style RPGS. And about 100 or so in JRPGs. According to my list, I finished 52. So here are my top 5, in no real order.

1. Witcher 3
2. Fallout 4
3. Bayonetta 2
4. Box Boy
5. Dragon Age Inquisition
* Summon Night 5 *Haven't finished so I didn't make my top 5. But after 10 chapters, it's easily one of my favorite SPRG's in quite a few years.

[Tubsiwub]

Well... my list will be spur of the moment, but here ya go.

1. Devil's Third (WiiU)
2. Batman: Arkham Knight (PC)
3. Car Mechanic Simulator (PC)
4. Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival (WiiU)
5. Playing History 2: Slave Trade (PC)

Ah, good memories.

[banditwolf]

3. Car Mechanic Simulator (PC)
Is that like it sounds?

[Gypsy]

Well... my list will be spur of the moment, but here ya go.

1. Devil's Third (WiiU)
2. Batman: Arkham Knight (PC)
3. Car Mechanic Simulator (PC)
4. Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival (WiiU)
5. Playing History 2: Slave Trade (PC)

Ah, good memories.

[aboblyndsae]

I've paid such little attention to most games recently, it was only Playing History 2 that made me suspect he was perhaps not serious.

[banditwolf]

I've paid such little attention to most games recently, it was only Playing History 2 that made me suspect he was perhaps not serious.

Yea, I've been waiting for Wiley to comment on #5.

[JWiley_12]

Yea, I've been waiting for Wiley to comment on #5.

Thank you for your contribution. 10/10.

[banditwolf]

Thank you for your contribution. 10/10.

And your comment is top notch as well.
You know you want to comment on tubsiwubs post.