GOTY 2016 thread

Supreme Shah Ismail

Supreme Shah Ismail

Where'd That 6th Toe Come From?
With the year coming to a close its time for us to list and talk about some of our favorite games this year. You can have a GOTY and a list of games you enjoyed a lot alongside it. As well as a list of other games you played this year that didn't quite make the list. Heres mine:

1# GOTY: DOOM (10/10) (Last year GOTY: Witcher 3 Wild Hunt)

2# XCOM 2 (9/10)

3# Dishonored 2 (9/10)

4# Titanfall 2 (8.5/10)

5# Deus Ex Mankind Divided (8/10)

6# Dark Souls 3 (8/10)

7# Civilization 6 (8/10)

8# Tyranny (7.5/10)

Honorable mention: Witcher 3 Blood and Wine expansion (9/10)

Good but I didn't like it THAT much: Uncharted 4 (7/10), Stellaris (7/10), Shadow Warrior 2 (7/10)

Meh: Mafia 3 (5/10), No Mans Sky (6/10), and Farcry Primal (6/10).
 
The only two games I remember playing from this year are No Man's Sky and FFXV.
(I played a tiny bit of Doom, but I don't really remember much about it).
FFXV is really fun and No Man's Sky is probably the most okay game I've ever played.
There isn't much to do in it, but I like the feeling of feeling small and isolated in a vast Universe. If anything, the game could have made a good survival horror.
 
The only games I've played that has been released 'this year' is Dragon's Dogma (PC version), WASTED (the Fallout 4 knockoff) and Dungeon Rats (which I only played an hour of before my computer collapsed and I have yet to reinstall it again.

So out of those ones I suppose Dragon's Dogma? It's fun to run around as a little girl, slicing and dicing through enemies. Even if the travel distance in the game is tedious and the game gets quite repetitive with its lack in enemy variety. Still, it's a fun little hack n slasher where you grope giant monsters in the bum.

2015 was a far better year for games. Hotline Miami 2, Underrail, Dropsy, Fallout 4 (I still enjoy Fallout 4 on its own merits and I'm certain that with mods I can tweak the health scaling and shit I don't like and I treat the plot like a bad b-flick which I don't take too seriously), Pillars Of Eternity, Resident Evil 1 Remake re-released on Steam (it counts in my book), Nuclear Throne finally exited its Early Access stage and became a full proper game.

There was far more games I was interested in and were really damn good in 2015 vs 2016. 2016 really did suck.
 
There hasn't been any really good games this year, quite a disappointment, which is why I nominate Crusader Kings 2 - A Reaper's Due for the title. It's a DLC, but it changes the game quite a bit.

I also would like to nominate Nuka World, because it also changes the game quite a bit, and by a bit I mean destroy a 20 year old franchise. I mean, talk about game for your money!
 
Mr Fish said:
Fallout 4 (I still enjoy Fallout 4 on its own merits and I'm certain that with mods I can tweak the health scaling and shit I don't like and I treat the plot like a bad b-flick which I don't take too seriously)
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You fucking heathen. May your head be crushed by Frank Horrigan.

:googly::googly::googly::googly::googly::googly::googly::googly:
 
Mr Fish said:
It's the best shooter Bethesda's made so far. :shrug:
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This title still belongs to Terminator: Future Shock as the shooting part in FO4 is still FO3 but with reduced spread and flashy animations and sfx. Still meh in my book especially after... Damn, every single other modern shooter.
 
I don't play many shooters tho'. Best shooter in 2015 was FO4 for me. I had fun with it. The typical Bethesda issues are there, like always, but if they're going to move into a direction of just mindless fun then in some ways they succeeded. I'd prefer it if they lost the IP and it went to someone who'd produce proper cRPG's but that's a pipe dream. Fallout is dead and out of the nu-Fallouts (3, NV, 4) I think Fallout 4 was the most enjoyable as a game to play. As great as the RPG elements and writing is in FNV its gameplay is utter shit.

As to Terminator Future Shock, I just looked up its gameplay on youtube and uh... Nah. FO4 is the best shooter out of Bethesda. TFS looks like utter shit to me. Like a hollow and bland Doom.
 
Mr Fish said:
I don't play many shooters tho'. Best shooter in 2015 was FO4 for me. I had fun with it. The typical Bethesda issues are there, like always, but if they're going to move into a direction of just mindless fun then in some ways they succeeded. I'd prefer it if they lost the IP and it went to someone who'd produce proper cRPG's but that's a pipe dream. Fallout is dead and out of the nu-Fallouts (3, NV, 4) I think Fallout 4 was the most enjoyable as a game to play. As great as the RPG elements and writing is in FNV its gameplay is utter shit.

As to Terminator Future Shock, I just looked up its gameplay on youtube and uh... Nah. FO4 is the best shooter out of Bethesda. TFS looks like utter shit to me. Like a hollow and bland Doom.
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So you play Fallout games for their gameplay? That has never been the main things about Fallout. It has always been about morals, choice and freedom.
 
therealyesman said:
So you play Fallout games for their gameplay? That has never been the main things about Fallout. It has always been about morals, choice and freedom.
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Oh for fucks sake.
Let me break it down real simple like, kay?

I love Fallout.
Fallout means F1/F2/FT/FVB and I tolerate FNV.
I don't think that nu-Fallout is proper Fallout, which is F3/FNV/F4.
I would much rather like to have a proper Fallout game over nu-Fallout game.
I don't intend to support Bethesda because of how they ruined what I once loved.
I think that writing, RPG elements and gameplay are all equally important for a good game and especially a good Fallout game.
But putting aside my bias towards Fallout 4 as a Fallout game and judging it merely as a game on its own merits, then I do find it to be an enjoyable experience when it comes to its gameplay.
So yes, a part of the reason I play Fallout games is because of their gameplay.
Fallout 4 lacks all three of the things I like in a proper Fallout game.
But it provides a 'different' kind of gameplay that I happen to enjoy greatly.
 
GOTY. #1: Dwarf Fortress: Another year, and it only gets better and better. Oh. Its also free. And yes. It has material values.

The rest I honestly cannot figure out.

Too many nice indie games came out, but they're all kinda 'meh'.

Better than the usual AAA garbage though.
 
GWENT (close beta) didn't play anything else from 2016
Owlboy looks like something I would enjoy but didn't play it yet.
 
By far 2015 was one of the best years in gaming history and better than 2016 with the witcher 3, fallout 4 (I agree its not a bad game by any means just disappointing when stacked up against its predecessors) MGS5, Bloodborne, SOMA, Pillars, Underrail, Wasteland 2 directors cut (counts in my book), RE1 remaster remaster, and NEO scavenger.

out of the 14 or so games I played this year I really enjoyed 8, thought 3 were good but not that great, and 3 kinda sucked.

I mean I really liked less games this year but I still ended up liking a lot. Overall not an awful year for games but not amazing either.

coming in 2017: RE7, Torment, Routine, Prey 2017, and Mass Effect: A.
 
I'm not ranking nor rating, but here are my highlights:
  • Starbound: Relatively rare for an explory-crafty-miney Indie; it has come out of Early Access oficially. While I may not like some of the changes since the Beta (Dash spam <3), it's a great little game that i've seen grow.
  • Dark Souls III: While in perspective of the whole series it comes to me as the weakest, especially when it comes to originality, content, Online and mechanics; it's still a Dark Souls and a ton of fun. Just don't expect to play it more than twice and enjoy yourself as much. The first DLC is kind of crappy and if the second isn't good...
  • Stellaris: My first 4X Grand Strategy game. Will play every two updates or so and watch it develop until it's solid.
  • Enderal: Up to you if it can be called properly "a game", I think so. SureAI's work is mind-boggling. While some of the things that dragged down Skyrim are still there, namely the affixed to the Creation Engine (combat), most of the rest were removed. The kind of RPG it is is more akin to Gothic/The Witcher in that, while there's an Open World, the experience is more directed and areas are more distinctively difficult in exchange to level scaling.
  • Tyranny: While I could never get into Pillars of Eternity, this one sucked me right in. I can see that it was mostly becouse of streamlining, but what the hell, t'was fun. *keeps flinging javelins around*
  • Hyper Light Drifter: A bit obtuse on its mechanics and chose to not have proper text beyond the tutorialistic one. A fine descendent of the 2D Zelda games, whith a cranked up difficulty maybe coming from Souls.
Honorable mention: DUST: Survival Simulator (v. 2.0) overhaul for Fallout: New Vegas. Not much to say about it, that didn't think that I had seen evrything in the Mojave. I was right, but anyhow...

Not the strongest year, definitively.
 
From the OP list I only played mankind divided and only eight hours.

For a personal favourite I would have to choose stardew valley. A farming simulator with some rpg elements inspired by harvest moon.
 
If expansions could win, Blood and Wine (TW3) easily.

If not, Dishonored 2. And it only beats out Hitman because of Hitman's stupid online only.
 
Eh, Blood and Wine really is a better video game than most.

I really think they could have sold it and Heart of Stone as a single game.

Hell, you don't even need Heart of Stone.

Blood and Wine is worth 60 bucks by itself.
 
I didn't touche much of 2016 titles, except for DX:MD, Doom and TW3: Blood & Wine. Other than that, Far Harbor by nu-Bethesda low standarts is bretty okay. But this time, I have no personal GOTY-2016.
 
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