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Game of the Year 2015

Unfortunately due to my pending trip to the land of the rising sun I was unable to buy many of the games I wanted to play this year. There are plenty of things I would love to get a crack at like Xenoblade Chronicles X, Just Cause 3, Splatoon, Cities XXL and more. I just either didn't want to put the money down for a full priced game or wouldn't have the time in the case of Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward.

Still despite not playing many things this time around here are my top 10 games of 2015.

Also editors note: Persona 5 would have made this list without a doubt if it wasn't delayed :(

List items

  • Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is a paradox. It must have come from some alternate dimension. A game that has the tightness and detail of a linear corridor shooter like a Call Of Duty with choice and content of the wide open world like a Grand Theft Auto. It seemingly has a endless supply of things to do without watering it down with pointless side quests like mini games. It is all in service of it's core mechanic and that is stealth action.

    My favorite thing about this game is the stories you can tell as a player. I could tell you about the mission where I had to extract 6 children in the middle of a thunderstorm with no long range weapons. I can tell you the story of how a fought a helicopter with a rocket launcher on horseback.

    What's funny to me is that the biggest complaint I've heard about Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is the lack of content. A game with literally hundreds of missions that can be tackled dozens of ways is somehow bereft of content. Sure, there are things we can nitpick on but these nitpicks are mere scratches on the battleship that is this game.

    I can say without hesitation that Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is the best action game ever and easily my personal Game of the Year for 2015.

  • Rocket League was a perfect storm. It came out at exactly the right time for a audience that didn't even knew it wanted it. It's a game so deceptively simple yet devilishly hard it makes you strive to become better at playing it. It's controls are damn near perfect, it's customization and support is second to none and it all looks great. A game so conceptually sound that you could show a match to anyone and they'll pick up on it's rules almost instantly. It's one of the rare games that makes you have as much fun watching as you do playing.

  • When you come at the King you better not miss. Telltale Games got it's multi-studio, multi-franchise asses handed to them by a French indie developer's game about teenage girls. Life is Strange is not a story driven game where you just go point to point to the next character interaction. It a world that you dive in head first. Naturally awkward writing that make the characters feel like real people, interactions that have meaning to them that you actively seek out and the best environment design I have ever seen in a video game, Life is Strange is hopefully the game that tells the industry that there is no story too niche for the medium.

  • I bought Destiny last year and thought it was middling. So middling in fact that it was beaten out of my top ten last year by Walking Dead: Season 2. However during the beginning of the year there was a drought of games and not wanting to put money down I decided to finish the last bit of Destiny. Then I bought the two expansion packs. Then I bought The Taken King and before I knew it was fell in love with Destiny. The Taken King is probably the best piece of DLC I have played in years. Say what you will about how much content is in it, the content that is there is light years ahead of the competition. It gave me a sense of wonder I haven't felt since World of Warcraft. I am very interested to see what Year 3 will bring us.

  • Persona 4: Dancing All Night is easily the biggest surprise of the year for me. Not in a sense that I thought wasn't going to be good. I knew it was going to be at least okay but what I didn't expect was how good it actually was. An amazing looking game with a soundtrack to die for and a story mode that has absolutely no right to be anywhere near as good as it was, Persona 4: Dancing All Night was a perfect spin off game to one of my favorite franchises ever. Now we just need to wait for the main course...

  • Super Mario Maker has seemingly done the impossible by making a creation game where the playing and the creating is equally as fun as the other. I love seeing what people have made in the months since launch. I love being able to have vague ideas in my mind and execute in the creator with almost on issues. It hits that sweet spot of complexity and simplicity where if I had concept I want to act about I can do it. With what looks like limitless content Super Mario Maker is going to be stuck inside my Wii U for a very long time.

  • One of the very few games that I bought in early access and kept tabs on until release Viscera Cleanup Detail is one of those games that make me feel like a weirdo for liking it. While on the surface it may seem like a game of Space Janitor (and it is) it's a lot more than that. The environments aren't just generic rooms with stuff thrown everywhere. It tells a story as you're trying to piece together what even happened in this blood soaked room as well as trying to collect backstory or door codes for more rooms. It's extremely relaxing and dark as hell, Viscera Cleanup Detail is a great game for people looking for something a little different.

  • While Halo 5: Guardians's single player campaign was not as amazing as prior entries it's multiplayer is where Halo 5: Guardians really shines. Out course it has it's top of the genre arena multiplayer that fans have loved for 15 years but it's additions is what make it a must play. Warzone is a genius way to capitalize on Halo's strengths with vehicles, weapons and how to counteract them. Plus it's REQ packs system is extremely reasonable and it makes you come back for more. The completely 100% free map DLC is a nice bonus too.

  • Bloodborne is 'Subvert your Expectations: The Video Game'. Oh so you think you know a Miyazaki FromSoftware game. They give you the refine core of the Souls games but remove everything you know from the outer rim. Think you can hide behind a shield? Think you can run head first into a boss over and over again? It's enough of a familiar feeling to make you feel comfortable but as soon as you feel safe it throws you in the deep end. A perfect stop gap between Dark Souls 3, Bloodborne is a challenge every fan of action RPG's should take.

  • Mortal Kombat X is something of a rare breed. Take an existing franchise, rework almost everything about it: Story, characters, mechanics and construct it together to form something better than what you had before. It is something Mortal Kombat has tried to do multiple times in the past with limited success but the folks over at Netherealm Studios have finally nailed it down with it's alternate universe story, fresh new characters and bring a new light to older characters. Not to mention the superb first-in-class fighting game mechanics. Mortal Kombat X should be on the shelf of any fighting game fan.
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