It's that time of year again; the time where we all decide to quantify all the video games we've played these past twelve months into a numbered list! As usual, I often have trouble ranking things into a list but I've given it my best shot.
I'm huge a fan of turn based strategy games and Fire Emblem Awakening did not disappoint. Great visuals, simple controls, and quick pacing make this the best strategy game of 2013!
Although these games are a bit too far on the easy side, I still found myself enjoying the new 3D world of Pokemon X/Y. They've made a lot of underlying changes to how the games work that lay a great groundwork to build future games on in the series. Overall, not the best Pokemon games ever made but a good start to a new generation.
This game has devoured my time like few others have this year. The Castlevania-esque gameplay mixed with the randomized generation system have kept me coming back for more over and over!
It seems a shoe-in but this years sequel to the original Link to the Past succeeds not only at tugging at the nostalgia centers of your brain, but also at being a damn good game in it's own right.
Despite all the flaws this game faced at launch, I still found myself sinking dozens of hours into this game. It certainly helps that Creative Assembly has done a fairly good job of patching a lot of the issues out and tweaking the gameplay. Still doesn't quite top the original Rome as my favorite in the franchise, but it's still a pretty good game.
A massively addicting survival sim game with a wonderful Tim Burton-esque art style and a crafting system that kept me playing to see what kinds of contraptions I could build out in the wilds.
This game has a button that makes you slide across a room on your kness and then cut a man in half with a space-katana.
Yeah yeah, I know. I played a wrestling video game this year. But I gotta say, there's some good stuff here. The game is probably the least broken Yukes production yet, and the 30 Years of Wrestlemania mode is jam-packed with nostalgic memories of the days when wrestling was watchable. That said, PLEASE use a new engine in 2k15 guys, seriously.
No better game to chill out with while listening to podcasts!
I'm so bad at the game people literally think I'm trolling, but I can give it credit for being the best Dota-type game out there!
