@ivdamke: Eh, honestly from what I saw of the two streams the GB guys did, Heart of Stone was way more interesting than Blood and Wine. It just looked a lot fresher and more interesting, and the tone of it was a nice change of pace. I get quantity on the B&W side mind you. Now if Heart of Stone had a combat overhaul as you mentioned and actually made me like the combat in that game, now we'd be talking. :) I get why Witcher 3 fans really like B&W don't get me wrong. And it's not up to me to tell anyone how to do their top 10, but it's not like it's a super unique piece of DLC. It just bucks the trend of bad, short DLC attached to season passes we've tended to see lately.
I'd say it's a better candidate for DLC of the year (a category I wish they'd bring back). Like The Old Hunters last year needed some recognition as if I had played it prior to GotY, it might have pushed Bloodborne up to first or second on my top 10. That is maybe my favorite piece of content FromSoft has ever done.
@cav829: No doubt Hearts of Stone is more interesting, but honestly that's an incredibly hard precedent to top. If you're basing your opinion of Blood and Wine off of what Vinny streamed you're pretty much seeing the beginning and absolutely 0 of the best parts of that DLC. There's some really fantastic stories in there and some brilliant characters.
Rise of the Tomb Raider (Pc version which came out in January)
Dark Souls 3
Firewatch
Xcom 2 (I've only put 6 hours into it so far and I like it.)
Those are the only 2016 released games I've played any of this year. I've got doom, hyper light drifter and Fire emblem on the backburner, so I'll start those at some point. But my Goty thus far is either Overwatch or Stardew.
@ivdamke: I understand your logic, I just don't share it. But you do raise some interesting points... if CD came out and said this is The Witcher IV, we'd have to treat it as a new game. Apparently I'm drawing the line at what a dev tells me a product is. Which might not be smart in all cases.
@oursin_360:Nah, Star Wars is about action and a dumb story. There are barely any interesting alien species in that franchise. All of them are amazing in Mass Effect though.
Semi-ordered from most-to-least positively remembered:
The Witness (finished all but the Challenge)
Dark Souls 3 (30 hours in, unfinished)
Mirror's Edge Catalyst (only a few hours in)
Pokken Tournament (played a dozen hours or so)
Stellaris (Also played a dozen hours or so)
Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster [PC] (I will use any excuse to reply FFX again, haven't played it enough to see how good a port it is, but it seems like that fast forward stuff could make grinding up the sphere grid play like a dream)
List of games I've played is here. I don't add games to it until I've started playing them so there is a couple I'm yet to play like Doom (I intend to, I'm just saving money at the moment and Uncharted 4 won out this month) and haven't listed some upcoming titles.
The witness - Fantastic puzzle-game that I feel somewhat too stupid to complete.
Dark souls 3 - A return to form and fantastic supposedly last entry in the series.
Mirrors edge: Catalyst - Despite its flaws no other game has made it so fun to get from point A to point B the fastest way possible. Not even the original.
PvZ:GW2 and Overwatch easily take the top two slots and account for 70% of my gaming hours. Lots if Minecraft in there and hoping there will soon be lots of Stardew in there too.
I'm usually really bad at these threads because I'm perpetually behind the times when it comes to current games, but I'm doing better this year. So far I got:
Dark Souls 3
Overwatch
Doom
Uncharted 4
Street Fighter V (as a $60 package, it blows, but the core fighting is top notch if you overlook the lack of peripheral features)
- Doom (Its funny people thought it wore thin towards the end, thats how I feel about almost every game I play and to me Doom was actually the rare exception )
- new Mirrors edge
- Tokyo mirage something hashtag whatever.
- Overwatch
- Firewatch + Ps4 Gone Home
- Hitman
Thats already more AAA Games than I loved last year.And I really should get back to the witness I loved what I played so insanely much.
I have a feeling that Hitman will end up on my list by the end of the year, considering how much I got into Blood Money, but I just haven't played it yet.
In terms of games from this year....uuuhhhh Doom is the only game from this year that I have played. Everything else is from years past, Smite, Kotor 2, I played Alan Wake for like an hour.... I think I played Dragon Age 3 for a few hours....That is all I can think of without my PC in front of me.
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