Poll of the Day > List your favorite games you have played this year, ok?

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THE GAMES YOU LIST DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE TO HAVE BEEN RELEASED THIS YEAR. They can be from any year, any platform, whatever you want. You don't even have to have finished the games you list. I just want to know the games you have played this year that you really enjoyed, ok?

These were my favorites that I played this year (so far):

Persona 5 Royal
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Yakuza 0
The Last of Us Part 2
Ghost of Tsushima
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order
Devil May Cry 5
Fallout 76
Control
Super Mario Sunshine (Switch)
Vampyr

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What The Golf?

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Super Mario Brothers 64

Bump, ok?

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Xenoblade Chronicles DE
Deception IV: The Nightmare Princess (well, my wife finally played it, I just... helped her at some points...)
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity
Hyrule Warriors DE (played on Wii U years ago, just played DE this past spring, before knowing AoC was coming)
Code Vein
Samurai Warriors: Spirit of Sanada
Bloodstained RotN (played late last year thru early this year, need to go back for the new content...)
Kingdoms of Amalur (early this year, before knowing about Re-Reckoning; it just had been in my backlog for a long time)

Great year for gaming for me. That's like every game I played this year and they were all good or better. Koei-Tecmo dominating the list, I guess...

idk, I guess Dragon Quest Builders 2 and Doom Eternal are the only new games I got this year, the rest are just stuff I had on my backlog forever from sales and such

edit: Of course, I'm playing Siralim 3 a lot before the launch of Siralim 4

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I played a shitton of games this year. To give perspective, I have beaten 1-3 games a year for probably the last half decade or more. This year, before I had even gotten a PS4, I had already cleared out my backlog and beaten about 10 games. With the PS4, I've probably bumped that number up to beating about 30 games this year and I still expect to complete a few more by year's end. Anyway, here's my favorites that I played for the first time this year. Listed in order of when I first played them because I don't like ranking things I like.

Xenoblade Chronicles 2
Suikoden II
God of War
Metal Gear Solid V
Resident Evil VII
NieR Automata
Spider-Man
Ghost of Tsushima
The Last of Us Part II
Red Dead Redemption 2

Most the games I've completed I've enjoyed to some degree or another, but those I listed were my favorites.

Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Among Us

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Aculo posted...

THE GAMES YOU LIST DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE TO HAVE BEEN RELEASED THIS YEAR. They can be from any year, any platform, whatever you want. You don't even have to have finished the games you list. I just want to know the games you have played this year that you really enjoyed, ok?

These were my favorites that I played this year (so far):

Persona 5 Royal
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Yakuza 0
The Last of Us Part 2
Ghost of Tsushima
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order
Devil May Cry 5
Fallout 76
Control
Super Mario Sunshine (Switch)
Vampyr

first off, let me say, what a great list, ok? my list is almost identical, but i haven't tried the final fantasy 7 remake yet, how was it?

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I'm currently playing Final Fantasy VII Remake and while I'm mostly enjoying it, I already know it's going to leave me feeling unsatisfied since it's basically only a prologue. I'm halfway through the game and feel like I'm still in the introduction. Which, if we take into consideration the original's plot, I am.

Age of Wonders: Planetfall: great game, but got hard enough that I stopped playing. will definitely return to it again at some point.

Kerbal Space Program: finally managed to really "get" the game, and once I did, wow. pretty sure this is my favorite game of all time. I really hope KSP2 manages to be even better.

Slay the Spire: fantastic

DOOM Eternal: fantastic

DOOM 64: good

Plague Inc.: oversimplified but enjoyable for such a simple game.

Halo 1: goodish

Warhammer 40k: Inquisitor: good

Warhammer 40k: Mechanicus: great but hard

X: Beyond the Frontier: great

wrote this this morning, guess I'll hit the post button now

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Iceborne
VIImake
TLoU2
Horizon

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Persona 5 Royal
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Devil May Cry 5 Special Edition
Control
CoD Black Ops: Cold War (it's not good, but I'm good at it online)
Skater XL
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2

I feel like I'm forgetting a couple...

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Lokarin posted...

...the rest are just stuff I had on my backlog forever from sales and such

Stupid, read the op, ok?

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Octopath Traveler
FFXIV: Shadowbringers

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Bug Fables in terms of new stuff
Gimmick (NES), Demon's Crest (SNES), Phantasy Star IV (Genesis), Metroid Prime (GCN), Sonic Robo Blast 2 (PC)

I think that's about it. Everything else I've either played before or sucked.

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Due to being so sick I haven't played that much. The stand outs in no particular order are probably:

Nioh 2
Ghost of Tsushima
Persona 5 Royal
Daughter of Essence
Yakuza: Like a Dragon

Nioh 2 is the best.

I guess technically dark souls 3 and monster hunter world but I didn't first play them this year.

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YoukaiSlayer posted...

Yakuza: Like a Dragon

how are you liking it??

yakuza 0 was my first yakuza game, and i loved it. so i'm ready to go through the rest of the games now, ok?

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Destiny 2
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Hollow Knight
Mega Man Zero Collection
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Persona 5 Royal
Ghost of Tsushima
Fall Guys
Spelunky 2
Super Mario Bros. 35
Crash Bandicoot 4

I enjoyed everything

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Among Us

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Yakuza 0
Super Mario 35
Blasphemous
Dragon Ball FighterZ
Pokemon GO

Sure:

• Final Fantasy VII Remake
• The Last of Us part 2
• Yakuza 0
• Hitman/Hitman 2(new ones)
• Dreams
• Dragon Quest XI
• Divinity 2

I'd imagine Cyberpunk 2077 will be added to this list come next month.

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Ghost of Tsushima
The Last of Us Part 2
Spiritfarer
Metro Exodus

(I would say ACNH but it's a love/hate relationship)

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Aculo posted...

Stupid, read the op, ok?

I did, I'm something of a monogamous gamer so I didn't play much other than brand new games this year

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Aculo posted...

yakuza 0 was my first yakuza game, and i loved it. so i'm ready to go through the rest of the games now, ok?

Like a dragon is practically a spin off. It's more like dragon quest set in a yakuza game. I liked it quite a lot but it did have some issues. All in all still totally worth playing IMO. Just be aware the combat is turn based rpg combat and not normal beat em up yakuza gameplay.

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City of Heroes.

Heck it's the only game I've played so far this year. ;)

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KJ StErOiDs posted...

City of Heroes.

Heck it's the only game I've played so far this year. ;)

I've been considering getting back into that myself:)

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Yakuza 0 through kiwami 2 (I love how many people got into yakuza this year)
Shovel Knight (game of the year every year baby)
Hollow Knight
Octopath Traveler
Digimon Cyber Sleuth
Golf Story

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@Aculo

I donno where else to say this, but ima miss you the most ziggi


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Spider-Man
Bloodstained
Nier Automata

Pretty much everything else is stuff that I play regularly, like Yu-Gi-Oh or GTA.

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Hades
Last of Us 2
Slay the Spire
Undermine
Skyrim

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I only played like 2 newly released games this year:
One Step From Eden
Trails of Cold Steel 3

idk maybe I will get some games for Christmas (Hatsune Miku game on Switch, idk what else).
Anyone have any ideas?

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Valhalla, GTA5, RDR2, soon Cyberpunk.

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Control, The Council, Rise Of The Tomb Raider, Detroit Become Human, Uncharted 4, What Remains Of Edith Finch, MGS TPP, and The Last Of Us 2.

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Oh shit I forgot Slay the Spire.

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Half of these games came out 5+ years ago.

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Topic didn't specify games that came out this year

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Forum Games

I played Tanks

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Judgmenl posted...

I only played like 2 newly released games this year:
One Step From Eden
Trails of Cold Steel 3

idk maybe I will get some games for Christmas (Hatsune Miku game on Switch, idk what else).
Anyone have any ideas?

go stink up another thread, ya wet blanket, ok?

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Judgmenl posted...

Half of these games came out 5+ years ago, ok?

Aculo posted...

They can be from any year, any platform, whatever you want, ok?

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I'm gonna have to actually work to remember what games I've played this year. Let's see... In approximate reverse chronological order:

-Secret of Mana (Wii VC) - Just started, can't really comment on it

-Factorio - Had it for a while (Early Access since 2016, formally released in August), started a new map a while ago. It remains one of my favourite games period, let alone this year.

-A Hat in Time (PC) - Delightful game. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

-Finding Paradise (and also a replay of To the Moon right before it) - More of the same as To the Moon, which was great. Manly tears may have been shed.

-The Bridge - Artsy indie puzzle platformer. Nothing special. Reasonably entertaining for a couple hours of lateral thinking, but I'm more glad to have cleared it from my backlog than to have had the joy of playing it.

-Subnautica (PC) - This is a really cool game. A little rough around the edges, but thoroughly enjoyable.

-Disgaea 5 (Switch) - Lots of disgaea-licious fun there. The grindy SRPG thing isn't for everyone, but I like it, and this does it very well.

-Daemon X Machina (Switch) - I've liked what I've played of it, but it's generally ended up taking a back seat to other games and I haven't played all that much. I should play more of it.

-Phantasy Star Online 2 (PC) - Played this for like four months straight. Tons of fun right up until it started feeling like I was playing it because I felt obligated to complete daily tasks instead of because I wanted to play it, at which point I dropped it hard for Disgaea. This often happens with "live service" games for me; I had almost exactly the same experience with Warframe, Animal Crossing, and probably some others I'm forgetting. Still, great fun.

Crystalis (Switch NES Classics) - I was enjoying it, right up until my Switch's battery died and my in-game save disappeared, meaning the only one I had was the save state I'd made a few hours prior. I kinda ragequit after that. I'll go back some time and redo the parts I lost, but the experience of losing a save kind of soured me on that.

-Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Tons of fun, drifted away because I hit a point where all I had left to do was execute a design for my island/house, and I never really nailed one down (not helped by the sense that I had to wait for more items to show up in the shop to be able to maximize my options and end up with something perfect, which was a slow process) and also because PSO2 came out.

Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon - Been in my backlog roughly since it came out. I made it about halfway through before Animal Crossing stole my handheld focus. Generally pretty fun, though it hasn't hooked me like the first one did and the mission-based formula has gotten a bit stale (it results in a lot of repetitive backtracking). I'd like to finish it at some point, but it's not a priority.

Dark Souls 3 (PC) - Lots of fun, started drifting away when I got stuck on one of the DLC bosses, and PSO2 put the nail in the coffin because trying to play both at the same time wouldn't work (there are enough similarities in how they play that I'd just get their controls confused). I keep meaning to go back now that PSO2's out of the picture, but distractions abound.

Zelda: Oracle of Ages (3DS VC) - Had it for ages (pun not intended), finally finished it. Good stuff, I quite enjoyed it. At some point, I'll play through Seasons as well (also on 3DS, since I never had the original GBC games).

Zelda: OoT 3D - Had it as long as I've had my 3DS, finally felt like replaying OoT and did so. It's OoT, which I like. Big fan of the improvements made in this version, otherwise, not much more to say about that.

Duck Tales Remastered (PC) - A fun, classic-style platformer. I quite enjoyed it. Not much more to say than that.

Yooka-Laylee (PC) - I remember this getting a lot of hate back when it first came out for not being as good as Banjo Kazooie, and while I'd say it definitely falls well short of that bar, it was pretty enjoyable. A little rough around the edges, and it just didn't have the same level of character that BK/BT had (the comparison to A Hat in Time is inevitable, and it beats YL handily in this regard), but I enjoyed playing it well enough to want to play any more 3D platformers Playtonic puts out (I've got Impossible Lair in my free Epic library, but haven't played it yet).

Transistor (PC) - Enjoyable, but not my favourite. I definitely liked Bastion better in pretty much every regard. A lot of it just felt kind of awkward to play, which wasn't ideal. Still, a reasonably good time.

That takes me back to February, which is as far back as Steam has records of me playing new stuff. My 3DS activity log only has entries this year as far back as March, and while the Switch doesn't give dates on its activity log, I think I've covered everything from this year (possibly Diablo 3 at the start of the year, which I could believe, but I don't remember when I last put time into that one). I think that's it. To pick any sort of actual favourites from that list (again, reverse chronologically):

-Factorio
-A Hat in Time
-Finding Paradise/To the Moon
-Subnautica
-Disgaea 5
-Phantasy Star Online 2
-Animal Crossing: New Horizons
-Dark Souls 3
-Zelda: OoA
-Zelda: OoT 3D
-Maybe Yooka-Laylee, but it's borderline

... I guess it's been a pretty good year. Some of those have been in my backlog for a long time. Being laid off and staying home for large chunks of the year has been pretty good for working my way through my library.

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Noop_Noop posted...

@Aculo

I donno where else to say this, but ima miss you the most ziggi

Fuck is he gone already??? Damn man, I'll hit you up on steam!!!


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Fire Emblem Three Houses
Resident Evil 3 Remake
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Persona 5 Royal
Doom Eternal
Danganronpa V3
Catherine Full Body
Horizon Zero Dawn
Tony Hawk's Proskater 1 + 2
Radiant Historia
Nier Automata
Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity
The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild

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