Hot Game of the Year 2015 Spoiler Alert: Jeff still hates everything.
Personally, I thought that Syndicate reboot was equal parts well-made and totally forgettable. Like, I remember the shooting and hacking in that game being satisfying but I couldn't tell you another thing about it.
If it makes you feel any better, I finished Oracle of Seasons when I was hot off A Link Between Worlds, imported my stuff over to Oracle of Seasons, and did like the first 3 dungeons before burning out.
It's super weird that Final Fantasy IV has been fully remade twice. The one for the DS is in 3D and has fully voiced cutscenes, but the PSP version has pretty redrawn sprites (not the smoothed-out garbage like the iOS ports of V and VI) and redone music.
@dankempster: The thing is, I mostly played new games this year and my old game list is just going to be a top 5 because I don't think I could muster 10 old games that I played for the first time this year. You? You played the 5th Tomb Raider game, which I must imagine is that series' equivalent to one of the disliked late-model NES Mega Man games. And also the HD version of the PS2 Remake of the GBA Kingdom Hearts card battle game. Because you could, and that's awesome. I should do something like that in 2016. There clearly wasn't enough playing of old games going on this year.
I'd much, much, much rather have another season of The Wolf Among Us than I would another season of The Walking Dead. That first season was a great, self-contained thing that didn't need to be followed up on (also it's one of those things where if I played it again I'd probably not like it nearly as much as I did in 2012) whereas there's plenty of room to expand (and... improve) in a second season of The Wolf Among Us. I really liked that game, but I also think I would've enjoyed it far less if I played it from episode to episode instead of in one big chunk.
@antivanti: Nah, Jake has been on 8-4 play a lot and from listening to that he's basically a baptized and confirmed convert to the ministry of VR. He's a good dude and fun to listen to, but I find his zealous "this is the future of video games " tech evangelism kinda irritating.
Alpha Protocol is a game I appreciate more in retrospect than I did when I played it like 4 years ago. As a game, it falls into a dead-zone between "RPG", "Shooter", and "Stealth Game" in a really awkward, clumsy way and the boss fights are legendarily terrible for a reason. However, even though it plays rather poorly and clearly was meant to be more ambitious I don't think there's another game out there that reacts to the player's choices to the same degree, even if the story acting as a wrapper is a pretty stock-and-standard modern espionage tale.
It's also good to hear that Mario 64 still holds up for someone who has never played it before. Even if the 3D platformer genre is sort of out of vogue these days, there's no denying how absurdly, monumentally influential it was for Video Games as a whole.
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