Say something negative about your GOTY

Dragon´s Crown

The over all story aint so good and rather generic

Two GOTYs.

GTA V

Story felt a little short compared to IV, and the world didn't feel quite as detailed as Liberty City. Also Franklin is a horrible character.

The Last of Us

Like most ND games, the story dragged on a little too long.

Gran Turismo 6. Has faults dating back to the ps1 incarnations of the game. Wish they would evolve some things a bit. Mostly with the controls. X for gas is just an ancient thing.

I'll consider it a success that two of us chose Rising in this thread.

Last of Us. That fight scene between Ellie and David is some bullshit

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

While the world is expansive, there is a lot of empty space. There was definitely a lot of room for more towns, settlements, quests, and dungeons. Also there were some main and side quests that seemed to just end and go nowhere.

The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds

• The character models up-close look kinda bad.
• The Maiami chirps can get annoying.
• It ends.

Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds - TOO SHORT for me.

Seriously...I finished it in like 3-4 days...I was playing it a fair amount of time, but still... I don't remember other Zelda games going by that quickly. (Game seemed a little too easy, too).

If they made like 2897187572597 more games JUST LIKE THAT I'd play the shit out of em.

Tomb Raider

Early on in the game you had to hurt and survive in the wild. I think it would of been neat if the game overall was a bit more open ended and you had to survive in the wild. I also loved the inner monologues on Lara and wished for more stuff like that.

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies

The cases can be hard to follow at times with the crazy leaps in logic.

The Last of Us

It ended.

Rise of the Triad

It's somewhat of an ugly, buggy mess. Even the server browser is broken half of the time.

Let down of the year.

Matchmaking is still as shit as ever, months down the line.

GTA V / GTA Online

A Link Between Worlds

That fucking bird telling me when I should stop playing! Also, not a fan of the ice rod.

I can do it for like 5 games I liked this year:

• Bioshock: The combat became waaay too easy once you got some of the upgrades (invulnerable sky hook anyone?)
• Assassin's Creed 4: Too many fucking "tail this guy" missions
• Mario 3D world: Getting every single stamp is just stupid. Why would anyone replay the game 5 times?
• Splinter Cell Blacklist: Stop forcing me to kill enemies, it sucked in Pandora Tomorrow and it still sucks now.
• Rayman Legends: I spent 2 months grinding the 1,000,000 lums achievement and all I got was naked Rayman?

The Stanley Parable does not have a jump button.

Animal Crossing NewLeaf

Number of villagers is limited to 10.

Villagers move in anywhere they please unless you try to exploit the game to control where they put their plot.

Villagers move out if you go too long without playing it.

Regional DLC is annoying.

It's not on the Wii U. The Animal Crossing Plaza isn't enough and just makes me want an Animal Crossing that looks that good.

Fire Emblem Awakening

The DLC is too expensive for what it really introduces in the game. The game also does not seem to be balanced around the fact that you can grind your characters. The overall plot was also very meh.

Dota 2

Sometimes I become a terrible monster who hates everyone, even my closest friends. Also some smallish bugs have lasted for a surprising amount of time.

Bioshock Infinite

Last battle was on a fucking timer and if you fail to do what you're suppose to do the screen just fades to black and says "game over lol". Other than that thing Bioshock Infinite kept me engaged for the whole time.

The Last of Us

the game can be quite boring, especially in the beginning
after playing thought it on the hardest diff, something appeared to me, the stealth is somewhat fake, i mean you go though a bunch of lvl's where you dont need to kill anyone, and then you hit a few lvl's that even though you could perfectly stealth your way though it you are forced to kill everyone. it just makes no sense.
your allies can block you forcing you to pop out of cover even in very important cases, this did not happen a lot for me especially when it was just ellie and joel, but when you get a few more they keep getting in your way, blocking your stealth kills forcing you to take a molotov to the face.

if you choose a too easy diff the game is pretty bland other then a good story.
your inventory space is bullshit. you can carry 50 weapons but only X shives, since the items are few you end up having enough shives for a while and while still finding items for it but end up missing a few shive doors due to lack off items suddenly
the multiplayer is fun but get fairly boring fast

Battlefield 4

It's pretty broken.

Eavesdrop and tailing missions.

The Last of Us

The sneaking stuff became tired after awhile.

A Link Between Worlds: That dang save bird tells you to take a break way too often, even when you put the 3DS to sleep and actually do take a break.

Rayman Legends: There's a finite amount of content if you're not counting the daily/weekly challenges. Also, most of the soundtrack is just remixes of the Origins stuff, which is still great.

Super Mario 3D World.

Rosalina ends up being one of the least fun characters to play because once she gets a powerup, she's just the slowest character with no unique ability.

The Last of Us has a slow start after the action packed intro.

It kinda reminded me of Manhunt.. forced stealth with a very limited arsenal. BUT holy crap, does that game get better. I couldn´t stop playing.. oh my god Winter.. Winter is the fucking best. And the giraffes. And that ending.

Rocksmith 2014

It's a great supplemental tool, and can make getting into playing guitar a lot more fun - but it's still not going to serve as the one tool that will make you good all by itself like they sort of push it to be. You'll still need proper instruction, be it through a person or at least a video tutorial series.

Saints Row 4.

It ends. Also, there's still no custom music station like was in GTA IV's PC version.

Bioshock Infinite: The combat still has a stiffness to it that I cant describe but it's not the best part of the game or the reason to recommend it.

My game of the year list is too heavily influenced by me being a white, male so I will only further the cause by talking good or bad about it.

Gone Home

Some of the items that you find toward the end become too conveniently, bordering on carelessly, placed. That took me out of it a little bit.

1. Bioshock Infinite. Booker felt too fragile during the fire fights. I feel that way about most first person shooters though, and most of them are even worse about it.

2. Last of Us. The combat in Winter sucks, because it funnels you into a specific gameplay style that was exactly the opposite of the way I wanted to play. Also it takes a couple hours before the combat gets good to start with.

3. Pokemon Y. The main campaign is waaayyyyy too easy, I actively tried to make it hard on myself and still breezed through it. Also there wasn't any significant end game content, and the low number of new Pokemon is a bummer.

4. Fire Emblem Awakening. Big difficulty curve problems. The story wasn't as good as I've seen the series do before.

5. Gone Home. They wouldn't let me read the sex note. What's up with that man? I paid my twenty dollars. ALSO! That game cost 20 dollars. What the fuck?

6. A Link Between Worlds. I don't have any nostalgia for LTTP, so recycling so much stuff from that came across more lazy than awesome to me.

7. Grand Theft Auto 5. Car glitch was a total bummer, Franklin didn't get the props he deserved, that dockworking mission is boring, the game felt like it could've used a couple more heists, and the online is dumb.

8. The Swapper. Puzzle games are haaardddd.

9. Pikmin 3. Should have had a couple more maps, could have shaken up the mechanics a little more often like in the arctic area.

10. Papers, Please. The endings were kind of unsatisfying because they were only a couple pictures and a few lines of text.

Tomb Raider

The multiplayer is garbage.

Bio-shock Infinite.

It should not have been so successful, that is asking for trouble every time.

Bioshock Infinite - could've used a stronger middle section, best parts of that game are the beginning and that ending.

@nmc2008 said:

There's multiplayer?!

I wonder if there are people that only play the multiplayer and never even touch the campaign :o

The Last of Us

The combat could of used some fine tuning. More variety, more enemy types.

The Last of Us: I love the game but there's a few combat scenarios that I really didn't like. Most notably the part where you're in the sewers and you get trapped in the room with Sam.

The Wolf Among Us

They only released one episode so far. The formula is pretty known by now and not much have been added, if anything.

The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds

• It's a bit too easy and so...
• It's a bit too short

Other than that, it's amazing. I haven't enjoyed an original (non-remake) Zelda game since Wind Waker and I did not like what I saw of this game when they first showed it off. The closer it got to release, the more interesting it looked and then, about a week before release I had sudden, simultaneous urges to play a Zelda game and to buy a 3DS XL finally. So I bought the limited edition XL and I'm so glad I did. In a year with as many exceptional games as this year, it's both weird and awesome that Zelda out-charmed everything else I played.

Fire Emblem Awakening

Ehh... the characters you get in the free downloadable paralogues are acquired really late in the game's story, and for good reason. In a lot of cases, though, they have an extremely limited number of possible support conversations. I wanted more drama and freak-outs after I recruited Aversa! Someone in the army has to have had something to say about me marrying the crazy evil sorceress chick.

Grand Theft Auto V's online was to ambitious for it's own good.

@pr1mus: that's interesting - when I started the game for the second time, on Survivor, I specifically didn't upgrade weapon sway at all because it felt more "reallistic" to me. It's hard to aim a weapon, especially when someone/something is trying to kill you.

To actually add to the topic - in The Last Of Us the Shiv doors (and the trophies) discouraged me from ever using a shiv in combat.

In GTAV the heists felt weird to me, because the actual plan was hidden to the player until the actual mission occured. Why do I plan a heist, picking options and stuff for something I don't know how it will go? It should have been a clear plan that then could go wrong. Instead we got a part of a plan, rest revealing itself during mission while changing at the same time.

Bioshock Infinite:

The "absolute power corrupts absolutely" Daisy Fitzroy turn was lazy and poorly executed.

Saints Row IV

The writing is relatively inconsistent, while the highs are just as high as 3 there just seems to be a few points where its just kind of treading water.

Sad that "Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon" haven't been in any sort of discussion this year. I had so much fun with that game.