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Post by blackbarney on Jan 24, 2016 10:40:21 GMT -5
The taken king was pretty good but I'll give it to Halo V. That shouldn't say how good the game is as much as how bad 2015 was
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Post by Aphoristic on Jan 24, 2016 11:32:39 GMT -5
Super Mario Bros. 2
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Post by UrbaneVirtuoso on Jan 24, 2016 11:32:49 GMT -5
I'm sorry. ;_;
To be blunt, holy shit Arkham Knight. Rocksteady sure brought it back after the Arkham Origins mess. Some obvious runner-ups would be Fallout 4 and Just Cause 3, as well.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2016 13:20:13 GMT -5
Does Overwatch count? I'm going to say Overwatch.
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Post by Dumien on Jan 24, 2016 15:17:38 GMT -5
Surprisingly Witcher 3. First time playing the series. Wow. Thought it was going to be Fallout 4 (because I live in mass and totally called the plot like 2 years ago) by a longshot. I just got pulled right into Geralt's world. Spent waaaaaaay too long playing gwent even when I was done collecting. Planning on starting Witcher 2 and replaying 3. Also I liked it so much I put it in one of my CoD vids. Undertale was very Earthbound and I quite liked it though I wouldn't consider it for GoTY. The boss fight during which that song plays is one of my favorite ever...but I won't spoil it. Taken King was actually the best DLC I've ever played, but Bungie's terrible treatment of their community left it out of the running for me. P.S. im stuck on sans so whatever. Awww are you having a bad time? Are your sins crawling on your back?
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Post by Dumien on Jan 24, 2016 16:01:56 GMT -5
Yeah I downloaded it free. It seems to run well.
Sans is just a muscle memory fight turned up to 11. That second to final attack gave me nightmares though.
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Post by tiesieman on Jan 24, 2016 16:35:44 GMT -5
I liked undertale alot but all the memeing about it everywhere is making my experience with it retroactively more and more sour. The ost in particular is godlike though
my game of the year was contradiction: the all-video murder mystery. played through that with family and the acting in it is just hilarious(ly bad in the best way)
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Post by UrbaneVirtuoso on Jan 24, 2016 18:31:50 GMT -5
As much as I'd like to try Undertale, owing to the unique concept by itself, I'm currently nauseated by all the memes.
I swear, it's gone pony.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2016 21:18:49 GMT -5
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Post by Dumien on Jan 24, 2016 22:08:53 GMT -5
I didn't know there was a meme following at all. A friend just recommended it to me.
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Post by jaedrik on Jan 25, 2016 0:34:15 GMT -5
Everything is a meme.
Game of the Year: Galactic Civilizations 3
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Post by 42 on Jan 25, 2016 9:03:00 GMT -5
It'd probably be Undertale or Hand of Fate as a close second
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Post by LeGitBeeSting on Jan 25, 2016 11:34:32 GMT -5
There's absolutely nothing wrong with that you roDENt lover.
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Post by eLantern on Jan 25, 2016 19:23:09 GMT -5
Personally I've really enjoyed Halo 5: Guardians, but I also haven't really played too many newer games this year in order to compare it fairly against its competition. I did however have the privilege of getting some hands on time with Rise of the Tomb Raider plus Ori and the Blind Forest at a friends house and thought that those games were pretty incredible as well. I didn't get a chance to play a few of the newer Nintendo games that looked quite intriguing like Super Mario Maker and Splatoon; normally I will be able to get quite a bit of hands on time with these types of titles at my sisters.
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Post by Will on Jan 26, 2016 3:28:35 GMT -5
Neverwinter on Xbox One. It has brutal framerate issues, but overall they did a fantastic job of bringing a freemium MMORPG over to console.
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Post by Macht on Jan 26, 2016 12:30:55 GMT -5
Neverwinter on Xbox One. It has brutal framerate issues, but overall they did a fantastic job of bringing a freemium MMORPG over to console. I played 100 hours or so of it on PC. It started out pretty decent but it seems to go more P2W with each patch. Guess I don't know how similar the PC version is to the XBOX one.
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Post by Ricebowl on Jan 26, 2016 15:51:58 GMT -5
Favorite co-op game is Lovers in a Dangerous Space time, it provided a very fun couch co-op experience. Favorite single player game is either Witcher 3 or Starcraft 2: legacy of the void.
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Post by ChloeB42 (Alexcalibur42) on Jan 27, 2016 1:49:24 GMT -5
MGSV is my GOTY. Even with all the issues behind the scenes, Kojima knocked it out of the park.
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Post by mannon on Jan 27, 2016 17:47:42 GMT -5
I think the only games I own that came out in 2015 are Black Ops 3 and Battlefront. BO3 I like better than any other CoD since MW2, and Battlefront is cool for the Star Warsiness, if a bit blah in gameplay.
If we're talking play-time invested in 2015 then Destiny wins, hands down... even though I quit when Taken King came out. The grind in that game was real, but it was certainly satisfying to waste time in.
As for what game I enjoyed most in 2015... uh... Probably GTAV. I made a concerted effort to get to the middle of the single player game before getting derailed again. ;3 But then Battlefront and BO3 distracted me and I reinstalled Fallout 3 to make an attempt at actually finishing it this year so I can get Fallout 4 before it's ancient. heh (I didn't start playing Fallout 3 until 2016 though, because I spent about a month picking and patching in mods before I actually started my game. heh)
(I rarely play games the same year they come out unless they are primarily multiplayer games, and even then it's hit or miss with me.)
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Post by prioc on Feb 4, 2016 14:28:25 GMT -5
CoD:AW - I know that many people hate it, but I actually loved its MP. I also played a lot of Fallout:NV in the 2nd half of 2015. I also bought SSB3DS, but I didn't really play it that much because it I don't find it very engaging. It's fun to play every now and then though
I also don't really play games right when they come out anymore and I don't think I bought any 2015 releases.
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Post by mannon on Feb 4, 2016 17:51:09 GMT -5
Yeah... I played AW about a week or two and gave up on it cold turkey. I played Destiny instead.
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Post by prioc on Feb 4, 2016 20:44:37 GMT -5
I only played the beta of Destiny at a friend's house and didn't really see anything special about it, so I don't know how the actual game is. I can see it being pretty fun with friends, but I don't play with a group too often anymore
I understand why people don't like AW, but I thought the movement mechanics worked really well and most of the maps and weapons were fun. I probably wouldn't have bought it if it weren't for the movement mechanics, I would've just played the older CoD games that I know I already like. The pacing of the game is a bit weird though, I normally like TDM/KC in CoD but I only played dom/hp/momentum in AW, TDM felt way too slow. I know lots of people also didn't like the supply drop/variant system and I agree, but it didn't really affect my enjoyment of the game itself
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Post by mannon on Feb 5, 2016 0:33:12 GMT -5
I didn't play enough to even brush up against the variants, but I doubt I would have liked them. Actually I hate when games give you loads of customization via attachments then make all the best weapons in the game unique guns that you can't change the attachments on. Feels like a big middle finger shoved in my face. trollolololl As for the movement I might have liked it better if I hadn't played Titanfall so much which had a MUCH MUCH MUCH smother movement system. AW was just so... janky. I'm enjoying BO3. It's sort of a compromise or something and feels a lot more intuitive to me. Still not as smooth and intuitive as Titanfall, but not bad. Ironically it's actually a little easier to shoot while wallrunning than in Titanfall since you can ADS and because the wallruns in BO3 sort of automatically just run horizontally so once you're on a wall you're kind of on a rail and don't have to control it. Granted, that wouldn't work for Titanfall. TF is WAY more vertical and you need loads more control. You also need to wallrun up walls in TF.
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Post by prioc on Feb 5, 2016 10:53:38 GMT -5
most of the variants in AW are just stat changes, like extra damage in exchange for lower RoF or tighter hipfire in exchange for smaller magazine size. There are a few with attachment restrictions and included attachments though. I don't think the idea itself is bad, it's just that most variants are nearly useless and each gun only has 1 or 2 variants worth using, but those variants are almost always straight upgrades over the base gun because their downsides don't outweigh their upsides. I still had fun + success with a lot of average variants, but I got some of the good ones on a few guns.
I never played Titanfall so I'm sure that has to do with why I liked it so much and why it felt so fresh to me. I know what you mean by it being janky, it feels a bit forced into the game, and I think lots of people had a hard time learning how to use it. I was going to buy TF at some point, but didn't for some reason. I'll probably wait for the sequel once I have more $ and a PC to play it
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Post by mannon on Feb 5, 2016 13:16:33 GMT -5
Movement in AW is all right angles and massive accelerations. It's not smooth at all. It's like you're playing pacman as a shooter. The maps also didn't really seem to account for the increased mobility. They let you go vertical which was mostly good, but that also created 50 new flanking paths, and let people cross the map in the blink of an eye. The spawns really couldn't keep up. Oddly it made TDM almost unplaybly annoying and forced me to play momentum or anything but TDM.
Not that spawns are ever super great in CoD, but I feel like it was really exacerbated in AW. BO3 doesn't seem like it suffers quite as much except on the really small maps, which is inevitable. (Literally holding your life in your hands if you turn your back to the spawn zone in Combine.)
I feel like it was a great idea, just poorly implemented in AW.
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Post by blackbarney on Feb 5, 2016 15:48:34 GMT -5
lol, THANK YOU
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Post by Den on Feb 5, 2016 18:12:34 GMT -5
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 3: V Generation
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Post by Dumien on Feb 5, 2016 21:38:34 GMT -5
Why so hipster DendoKirsonseru?
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Post by ChloeB42 (Alexcalibur42) on Feb 5, 2016 22:54:51 GMT -5
Naw he's just a weeaboo
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Post by Den on Feb 6, 2016 21:23:32 GMT -5
Such bullying! This masterpiece truly deserves Nep of the Year 2015! Neptunia Re 3 V was the first and only Neptunia game I played (received as a joke gift), but it has been pretty charming for the ten or so hours I've played thus far. I'm interested in seeing the game through to the end, but I doubt I'll ever bother getting another one in the series. I didn't get around to playing more than a few big games of last year. Among the big hitters I have played, my GOTY would be MGSV on PC. It leaves me wanting more content just to tackle with the great gameplay mechanics. I replayed what was there several times over just because it was so enjoyable, even if nearly all missions were entirely static which removed most potential spontaneity. Taking on handicaps to challenge myself (namely no tranq weapons and no D-Dog so no automatic marking) made it a very tense and challenging stealth game. Have not touched Witcher 3. Waiting for it to come out with all of its expansion content in one bundle, even if it takes years, so I can buy it all at once. Gave Fallout 4 a little bit of play. That is to say about 200 hours, most of which was spent with the game on and me asleep. I'm waiting for mod tools, patches and whatever their expansions will contain before I consider it whole. The building stuff was neat, but largely superficial and useless. Among smaller games: Divinity Original Sin was 2014, but let's pretend Enhanced Edition made it 2015. Just a great RPG, the kind that nobody would argue as being or not being an "RPG". It fixed nearly every problem that the old turn based RPGs of the late 90s / early 00s had when it came to combat, encounters, decision making, outside-the-box concepts, Cooperative play. Looking forward to Original Sin 2. Though I only just got my hands on it this February for to Playstation Plus, Helldivers is frustrating in a good way, challenging in a fun way... assuming you're not playing alone. Not quite GOTY material in the "wow factor but forgotten about by next year" way, but the kind of thing I could turn on for a mission or seven whenever some friends are around for years. Grim Dawn officially released in 2015, so that counts? It's still very much like Titan Quest in style, and still a little rough with a slow start. But for the type of Diablo-like hack&slash dungeon crawling action game, I'd set it among the top tier of those types of games. Got a PS4 for myself for xmas. Of the few games I have so far:EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 is awesome in its low budget, unashamed absurdity and core chaotic mass enemy shooting. The most fun of the lot. Both it and Helldivers has designated my PS4 a cathartic alien bug-killing game console. Bloodborne was eh. I completed it, took care of most optional content, got the "third" ending. Don't have The Old Hunters DLC. Don't really feel like playing it any longer. Neither Bloodborne nor Dark Souls captured my attention in the same way Demon's Souls had. Destiny was 2014, but let's pretend Taken King makes it 2015. Regardless, after not too much playtime playing alone, it's probably the one I'm least interested in popping out of the game case. Infamous (2014) is alright, but I've not played too much. The Uncharted Collection that came with the PS4 is still in its foil wrapping. ← GOTY
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