Your 2015 GOTY List

I have seen a few people posting their personal GOTY lists but I haven't seen just a collection of user lists...

So here we go, no explanations, no judging, just a list (of lists.) Just drop your list here and then read the other user's lists.

1. The Talos Principle

2. Helldivers

3. Big Pharma

4. Prison Architect

5. The Beginner's Guide

6. Just Cause 3

7. Grow Home

8. Sunless Sea

9. Until Dawn

10. Infinifactory

I haven't posted my detailed individual list yet, but here's where I think I've settled.

1. Witcher 3

2. Until Dawn

3. Bloodborne

4. Xenoblade Chronicles X

5. Tales from the Borderlands

6. Starcraft 2 Legacy of the Void

7. Heroes of the Storm

8. Axiom Verge

9. Quiplash

10. Contradiction

1. Bloodborne

2. Rocket League

3. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

4. Invisible, Inc.

5. Ori and the Blind Forest

6. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

7. SOMA

8. Life is Strange

9. Downwell

10. Undertale

Honorable Mention: Axiom Verge

EDIT: Linko

1. Life is Strange
2. Cities: Skyline
3. Resident Evil HD Remaster
4. Axiom Verge
5. Persona 3 FES
6. Persona 3 FES
7. Persona 3 FES
8. Persona 3 FES
9. Persona 3 FES
10. Parasite Eve

Haven't played to many new games this year but that's fine, Life is Strange is the best game of the last 2 years, maybe more. Cities: Skyline is awesome too. I played Persona 3 for the first time this year and is realistically the second best game i've played this year. Also replayed Parasite Eve for the first time in years and it continues to be the best game of 1998 (where is that unpopular opinion thread when i need it?).

Top 10 2015 games

1. MGS V

2. Life is Strange

3. Until Dawn

4. Fallout 4

5. Super Mario Maker

6. Axiom Verge

7. Rise of the Tomb Raider

8. Her Story

9. Batman: Arkham Knight

10: Halo 5

(To be fair, those are ALL 10 of the 2015 games I played)

Top 10 older games I played for the first time this year:

1. Far Cry 4

2. Mass Effect 2

3. GTA 5

4. Ocarina of Time

5: Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance

6: Beyond Two Souls

7: Saints Row IV

8: Halo 2

9: Bioshock Infinite

10: Banjo Kazooie: Nuts n Bolts

1. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
2. Rise of the Tomb Raider
3. Fallout 4
4. Life is Strange
5. Halo 5: Guardians
6. Splatoon
7. Super Mario Maker

1. Life Is Strange

Didn't much like anything else.

Here you go, I think I've decided on this;

10. Helldivers

9. Grow Home

8. Axiom Verge

7. Splatoon

6. Super Mario Maker

5. Metal Gear Solid V

4. Tales From the Borderlands

3. Bloodborne

2. The Witcher 3

1. Rocket League

1. Undertale

2. Bloodborne

3. Witcher 3

4. MGSV: phantom pain

5. Her Story

6. Fallout 4

7. The Beginner's Guide

8. Rocket League

9. Batman: Arkham Knight

10. Soma

I don't think I could construct a list I would be happy with. I didn't play a ton of games and liked very few.

Edf 4.1 is probably at the top of my list.

*edf 4.1

*mgsv

*ummm I don't know.

Congratulations on playing Persona 3 FES for the first time. Love that game and have played through it at least 3 times; right now I've started my 3rd play through of Persona 4 Golden. Here's my list at this point:

1. Fallout 4
2. The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt
3. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate
4. Destiny: The Taken King
5. Life is Strange
6. Her Story
7. Until Dawn
8. Rebel Galaxy
9. Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited
10. Freedom Wars

1. The Witcher 3

2. MGSV

3. Rise of the Tomb Raider

4. Rocket League

5. Pillars of Eternity

6. Life is Strange

7. Fallout 4

8. Wolfenstein: The Old Blood

9. Cities: Skylines

10. Rare Replay

Games I have/own/want to play that probably would have made the cut: Bloodborne, Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Total War: Attila,

Games I didn't sink a lot of time in to that I'll go back to, but they didn't 'hook' me in: Halo 5, Mad Max, Just Cause 3

Games from prior years that I played more of than I should as it used up a bit of my other gaming time: Rome 2: Total War, XCOM Enemy Unknown/Within

Games that disappointed me big time: Arkham Knight, NBA2K16 (only in terms of the Spike Lee part of the Career mode which was WAY worse than my already extremely LOW expectations. On the court the game is better than ever and post Spike Lee, the career mode is pretty good)

Games that just missed the cut: Ori and the Blind Forest, Broken Age, Tales from the Borderlands, Game of Thrones

1.GTA5 PC

2.Witcher 3

3.Fallout 4

4.Dying light

5.Wolfenstein the old blood

Can't come up with any more new ones I'm sure Rise of the tomb raider would be on this list if it came to PC this year.

Long version

Short Version:

10. Ori and the Blind Forest

9. Divinity Original Sin: Enhanced Edition

8. Dying Light

7. Fallout 4

6. MGS V

5. Cities: Skylines

4. SOMA

3. Bloodborne

2. Rocket League

1. Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

This was one of the toughest years I've had with a GotY list in quite some time. And what's more crazy is that 2016 looks to match it or possibly even surpass it!

@captain_insano: Words can't express how stoked I am for XCOM 2 :)

My Favorite games of the year:

1. Life Is Strange

2. Her Story

3. The Witcher

4. Assassin’s Creed Syndicated

5. Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture

6. Rocket League

7. Game Of Thrones

8. Tales From The Borderlands

9. The Order 1886

10. Destiny Taken King/FFXIV Heavensward

1. Kerbal Space Program

2. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

3. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

4. Pillars of Eternity

5. The Order: 1886

6. Her Story

7. Batman: Arkham City

8. King's Quest

9. Life Is Strange

10. Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China

1. Super Mario Maker

2. Rise of the Tomb Raider

3. Halo 5

4. Witcher 3

5. Mortal Kombat X

6. Ori and the Blind Forest

7. Call of Duty BO 3

8. Transformers Devastation

9. Rock Band 4

10. Star Wars Battlefront

Version with additional text

1. Fallout 4
2. Darkest Dungeon
3. Mad Max
4. Rise of the Tomb Raider
5. Resident Evil HD Remaster
6. The Long Dark
7. Wolfenstein: The Old Blood

8 is always the drop off point for me for some reason.

1. SOMA

2. Splatoon

3. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

4. Xenoblade Chronicles X

5. Life is Strange

6. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number

7. Ori and the Blind Forest

8. Yakuza 5

9. Just Cause 3

10. Metal Gear Solid V

Working on a writeup list proper to put up, but a quick summary of my list, taking into account I played very few 2015 games this year, and many of these games I haven't even finished. 2015 was totally a backlog year.

1. Heroes of the Storm
2. MGSV (Have not finished)
3. Starcraft 2: Legacy of the Void
4: Infamous: Second Sons
5: Dying Light
6: Assassin's Creed: Syndicate
7: Stein;Gate
8: The Order: 1886
9: The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth
10: Final Fantasy Type-0 HD

@addfwyn: Heyyyyyy, Heroes of the Storm rep! :D Who is your personal favorite hero, mine is Kharazim.

1. Heroes of the Storm
2. Super Mario Maker
3. Undertale
4. Life is Strange
5. Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
6. Infinifactory
7. Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void
8. Axiom Verge
9. Rise of the Tomb Raider
10. Splatoon (Testfire)

You can read more about these picks here. Also check out my list of top 10 rereleases (Top 3 are Rare Replay, Majora's Mask and DKC2) and the 5 awards I awarded this year.

You guys aren't just using the list feature on the site for these? Seems like a way smoother option.

Edit: Here, so I'm not just blowing smoke up everyone's ass. My Top 10

1. The Witcher 3

2. Ori and the Blind Forest

3. Pillars of Eternity

4. Bloodborne

5. Fire Emblem If... (Fates)

6. Rise of the Tomb Raider

7. Cities: Skylines

8. Kerbal Space Program

9. Metal Gear Solid V

10. Her Story

I've barely played 10 new games this year, my list would be.

1. Rocket League
2. Fallout 4
3. GTA V
4. Kerbal Space Program
5. Heroes of the storm
6. Life is Strange
7. Her Story
8. Halo 5
9. Rare Replay
10. Forza 6

I'm pretty sure you could add Witcher and MGS to that list when I finally get round to playing them. (Possibly Just Cause too)

Can't comment yet. Still playing through The Phantom Pain and still need to play Rise of the Tomb Raider. Will probably post mine sometime in January.

1. Tales From the Borderlands
2. Fallout 3 (yes, Three)
3. Assassins Creed Chronicles: China
4. Super Mario Maker
5. Destiny TTK
6. CoD Black Ops III
7. Rocket League
8. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
9. Rock Band 4
10. Batman Arkham Knight
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11. Mad Max
12. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate

1. Cities: Skylines

2. Nuclear Throne

3. Call of Duty: Black Ops III

4. Assetto Corsa

5. Super Mario Maker

6. Downwell

7. Football Manager 2016

8. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

9. StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void

10. Elite: Dangerous

With text.

I like indie games a lot so, with that in mind:

10. Life is Strange

9. Fallout 4

8. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, It has so much interesting gameplay elements that I can forgive a lot of the shittier parts of it.

7. Snakebird, Best pure puzzle game I have played in a long time.

6. Plug & Play

5. Bloodborne

4. Super Mario Maker

3. Everybody's Gone to Rapture, That game is completely misunderstood by the mainstream press. I understand that the slow pace would turn people off and it's totally fair to not like it, but the pace is part of what make me like this game so much.

2. Her Story

1. The Beginner's Guide, I think using level design aesthetically with such intent was incredibly potent.

A bunch of honorable mentions:

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, it is for me the most impressive looking world of the year. I could never get past over the feeling of the combat, which I thought was awful. Still it had plenty of great moments, the Baron questline being the best. I have finished the game but I think I should've stopped after 20 hours. I kept listening to people telling me I had to see it through. I really didn't care anymore by the end of it.

Quiplash, it made me laugh so much.

Helldivers, I actually enjoy failing at this game.

Until Dawn, I love the deaths in this game. They're amazingly gross which made me enjoy doing stupid horror movie shit.

Rocket League, Had a lot of fun playing with friends.

1-5's are locked in stone and were the easiest to decide. After that, there's about 10 games that could go on this list for me depending on when you ask.

The Long Version

The Short Version:

10. Stella Glow

9. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate

8. Dying Light

7. Steamworld Heist

5. Splatoon and Rocket League: I was switching these so much between the two I ended up just tying them

4. Xenoblade Chronicles X

3. Rise of the Tomb Raider

2. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

1. Super Mario Maker

The Long Version

The short version:

1. Life is Strange
2. Super Mario Maker
3. Metal Gear Solid V
4. Bloodborne
5. Ori and the Blind Forest
6. Fallout 4
7. Undertale
8. Splatoon
9. Rocket League
10. Rise of the Tomb Raider

Until Dawn and Witcher 3 were brutal cuts to narrow it down to 10 games.

The Witcher 3.

Best RPG ive ever played, hands down.

Finally got mine up. Boy I tell ya it was tough this year, I feel like it's till very fluid because there is so much good stuff.

Long Version

http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/slag/lists/goty-2015/355103/

Fast Food Version

1. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
2. Witcher 3 : the Wild Hunt
3. Splatoon
4. Final Fantasy Type 0 HD
5. Transformers Devastation
6. Shadowrun: Hong Kong
7. Life is Strange
8. Axiom Verge
9. Super Mario Maker
10. Until Dawn

1. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

2. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

3. Rocket League

4. Fallout 4

5. Undertale

6. Tales from the Borderlands

7. Ori and the Blind Forest

8. Majora's Mask 3D

9. Shovel Knight

10. Bloodborne

I still haven't finished writing up all my top 10s. I probably should.

This is the first time in many many years that I can't actually make a full top 10 list, have to shorten it down to top 5.

1. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

2. Pillars of Eternity

3. Fallout 4

4. Until Dawn

5. Dragon Quest Heroes

6. ???

7. ???

8. ???

9. ???

10. ???

Tough list, I'm only 100% comfortable with my #1 pick:

1. Undertale
2. Nuclear Throne
3. We Know the Devil
4. Bloodborne
5. Invisible, Inc.
6. SOMA
7. Read Only Memories
8. Her Story
9. Splatoon
10. Kerbal Space Program

The Honorable Mentions Pile (In No Particular Order)

Tales From the Borderlands, Rocket League, Until Dawn, Metal Gear Solid 5, Fallout 4

The Still Need to Play Pile:

Life is Strange, The Beginners Guide, Cibele, Galak-Z, Cradle, Hacknet,, Cities: Skylines, Axiom Verge

I think this is my final list:

1. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

2. Rocket League

3. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

4. Fallout 4

5. Project CARS

6. Grow Home

7. Downwell

8. You Must Build a Boat

9. Lara Croft GO

10. Prison Architect

Long Verison

Illustrated Version:

10. BOXBOY!

9. Splatoon

8. The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt

7. Grow Home

6. Rise of the Tomb Raider

5. Ori and the Blind Forest

4. Super Mario Maker

3. Batman: Arkham Knight

2. Fallout 4

1. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Played a lot of games this year, but only really dug into and thoroughly enjoyed a few sadly.

And they were:

1. Fallout 4

2. Dragon Age: Inquisition

3. Destiny: The Taken King

4. Forza 6

5. Elder Scrolls Online

Excited to play soon from this year:

Starcraft 2: Legacy of the Void

Divinity Original Sin Enhanced Edition

Elite: Dangerous

Maybe Rise of the Tomb Raider too.

Old game still obsessed with: Diablo 3, every new update/season, lol.

Would like to wish everyone here in this great GB community a happy new year and great gaming experiences in 2016. :-)

1. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

2. Rocket League

3. Life is Strange

4. Fallout 4

5. Helldivers

6. Her Story

7. Nuclear Throne

8. Galak-Z: The Dimensional

9. Dragon Ball Xenoverse

10. Rebel Galaxy

The Long.

The Short.

5. Splatoon

4. Dragon Ball Xenoverse

3. Super Mario Maker

2. Transformers: Devastation

1. Borderlands: The Handsome Collection

One to Ten
Life Is Strange
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Until Dawn
Her Story
Rebel Galaxy
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Super Mario Maker
SOMA
Rocket League
Invisible, Inc.


I can see some of you are getting "cute" with your lists. But for the sake of making it easier for these lists to get mined for data, could you ALL do a clean list from 1 to 10 at the top. Then if you want to explain it do so below that list. Making it clean will allow someone to grab your list to grind through an algorithm.

1. Bloodborne

2. Arkham Knight

3. Witcher 3

4. Rocket League

5. Helldivers

Mario Maker and Fallout 4 would be in there somewhere if I played them.

1. Witcher 3

Soma

Tales from the Borderlands

Ori

Rocket League

Until Dawn

Tomb Raider

MGS5

Grow Home

Batman AK

I can't say I played 10 contenders. However:

Metal Gear Solid V

Bloodborne

Rocket League

Contradiction

Grow Home

Witcher 3

OlliOlli 2

Also, The Fall came out on PS4 this year. I thought it was mint. Frig, Yakuza 5 should be on this list. A 2012 game that fucking hangs high with this group because it's developed into the Japanese Saints Row.

Here's my list in blog form

Here's my list in...uh, list form:

1. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
2. Life Is Strange
3. Rocket League
4. Persona 4: Dancing All Night
5. Super Mario Maker
6. Her Story
7. Until Dawn
8. The Beginner's Guide
9. Undertale
10. Heroes of the Storm

1. Life is Strange

2. Rocket League

3. Metal Gear Solid V

4. Hotline Miami 2 : Wrong Number

5. Fallout 4

6. Batman: Arkham Knight

7. Bloodborne

8. GTA V (PC)

9. Until Dawn

10. Destiny: The Taken King

1. Until Dawn
2. Yakuza 5
3. Tales from the Borderlands
4. Contradiction: Spot the Liar
5. Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
6. Rise of the Tomb Raider
7. SOMA
8. Technobabylon
9. Life is Strange
10. Mad Max

1. The Witcher 3

2. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

3. Life is Strange

4. Until Dawn

5. Fallout 4

6. Tales From the Borderlands

7. Mortal Kombat X

8. Contradiction: Spot the Liar!

9. Downwell

10. Broken Age