2013 Games that potentially have made my top 10 but I haven't played them yet:
Project X Zone
Shin Megami Tensei IV
Tales of Xillia
Saints Row IV
Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan
Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl
Deadly Premonition Director's Cut
NANOMACHINES SON. Seriously, the game is amazing. My only gripes are the camera (mostly getting screwed by offscreen RPGs + lockon camera is a little wonky at times) and it's reallllly short. Breezed through it (excluding 2 parts) on Hard in like 5 hours.
Aside from me apparently being terrible at the game (which I don't hold against it), my only real complaints were that the plot pacing seemed off; the game seemed to be over very quickly with a lot of time spent on some parts but not on others story-wise in kind of a weird way. With how it was unfolding I was expecting it to be much longer. Gameplay-wise I wasn't fond of how the entire goddamn map of enemies would usually start all moving in on you at the same time. Also still not a big fan of the staple FE trope of multiple waves of reinforcements that can easily fuck you if you don't already know where and when they're going to spawn. It's much worse in this game than I remember in the previous games. That said everything else is pretty stellar, and the characters and their interaction makes it for the most part.
Awesome game that is horribly blemished by the worst minigames of all time (namely octoball) that tie heart containers behind them. Also the game is reallllllly easy, like shockingly so. Not saying I want a balls-bustingly hard game, but come on.
This game is fantastic; the ending sequence is top 5 of all time, it is fucking insanity. The environments graphically get pretty repetitive, and the humor is a bit hit or miss, but the game is short enough where it doesn't overstay it's welcome.
I'm in the camp on this one where it was (for the most part) an amazing story and cast, but the actual act of playing the game was so-so. Wasn't bad or anything, but I've just never really gotten too into the gameplay/combat of any of the ND games. Also never got used to that weird motion blur effect they use a lot in the game with camera movement.
Less a game and more of a simulator, I feel like this has to be on my list if nothing else because of the sheer amount of time I put into it (~200 hours). I'd probably still be playing it if there was some minor quality of life improvements implemented like being able to lock one or two villagers from being able to move, etc. In that regard the game suffers a lot from the typical Nintendo plodding pace and hand-holding; having to re-confirm dialogue for simple actions every single time you do them, menus, etc. Had a blast with it, but made myself stop playing when it felt like I was working a second job just to maintain upkeep on the town.
While their pre-release talk about wanting to protect Lara and make her a strong origin story wound up being complete bullshit in-game, the game was a blast to play and it was fun just running around and exploring the world.
While I still had the same problem with this game as I did the first BioShock in that I didn't think the combat was super awesome, everything else is pretty top notch. While maybe not quite on the level of Rapture, it's great world that makes you want to explore everywhere, and while I think the plot jumped the shark a bit at the end it was still a pretty good reveal and interesting.
First GTA game I actually finished. Has weird pacing issues - Franklin is kind of ignored honestly, and the whole (required) quest chain with Michael at the end with the movie stuff was just kinda weird. It's an amazing world to mess around in though.
Also GTA Online is hot garbage.
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