That's the best title I can come up with. I'm not very inventive.

Anyway. 2015 was a bumper year for video games. It was the first time in a long time I felt that there was maybe too many video games happening. Between indie titles and triple A's there was something new happening every other week. So much so that there are a tonne of games from this year that I wanted to get around to but just didn't have the chance. And 2016 looks like it'll be just as good if not better.

Spoilers may follow.

10) Super Mario Maker

I don't own a WiiU. I haven't bought one yet either. But I've gotten such a great amount of enjoyment out of this game. Watching the GB community levels, watching Patrick vs Dan and just seeing how people took this thing and went with it. The levels that are being made are not Mario levels at all. This is Mario mixed with Dark Souls. My one complaint is that people keep using the wrong tile set, the correct set to use is Super Mario 3 although I understand they're using World because of the abilities.

9) Destiny - The Taken King

If you asked me two weeks ago would this game be on my list I'd have said "fuuuck nooo". I liked the mechanics of Destiny. The shooting was good, the movement was good and it looked good. But the game was a mess and didn't have enough content in it and I never bought into the season pass so by the time TTK came out it was going to cost me as much to catch up. Then the game went on sale and I could get up to speed for about €20 and that was a price I thought was ok. And they fixed a lot. The quest system is simple but guides you. The Dreadnought is full of secrets and challenges that I always wanted from Destiny. The loot system is actually a loot system. I'm not sure how long I'll stick around and I'm interested to see how the game continues into year 2 and beyond with them saying they're dropping big expansions but I'm still enjoying my time with this almost daily since buying it.

8) Undertale

I was never sure if I was going to like this or not. I'm not big on "those" sort of games but I liked Undertale. The music was great and I enjoyed the combat, though could have used a bit less of it and thought it spiked in places at moments that seemed a bit unfair. I still need to go back and play it but there were a few moments in it that really made me laugh and others that really made me go "oh shit". On my first play through I killed Toriel because I couldn't see any other way. At the end of the game after the fight with Asgore it dawned on me that she was married to him and how upset and pissed he was going to be. Then Flowey killed him, the game shut down and the next time I opened it a fight straight out of Binding Of Isaac happened. I've decided to go back and keep playing to see what happens

7) Grow Home

Grow Home is the best Assassins Creed game ever made and it drives me mad that Ubisoft are able to make great small games like this, Child of Eden, Valiant Hearts and to an extent Rayman but they can't figure out how to make AC good (at least for me). But here's Grow Home, a game about climbing stuff and collecting stuff, which is a lot of what you do in AC games but Grow Home makes it enjoyable. It has great controls, even if the robot walks like a drunk and the upgrade system really pushes you to want to go grab just a few more crystals and explore every nook and cranny.

6) Until Dawn

This is another game I didn't play myself but I sat with my girlfriend as she played through it all the way through. I'm not good with horror games, I get scared easily by jump scares and freak myself out by worrying that one is coming while she loves horror. I didn't think Until Dawn was going to be very good but it really was. It's a David Cage game that doesn't shit the bed half way through. There's a few twists that are telegraphed a bit and are easy to figure out before they happen but they're still satisfactory. The only thing neither of us liked was that my girlfriend managed to save everyone but two people right up to the very end and then everyone but two characters died because we didn't realize they where all too stupid to run out of the house from the gas explosion. I hope there's more like this from that team.

5) StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void

I don't think there's going to be a StarCraft 3 although if there is I really want to play as Alarak and not any other boring ass Protos. The game took way too long to come out but the campaign missions where really enjoyable and I liked the special campaign abilities. The story was just the stupid sort of ending I wanted for StarCraft. I'll go back and play through it on a harder setting in time and chip away at the co-op missions when I get a chance.

4) Fallout 4

I haven't finished this game yet, because I've spent a lot of time wandering around looking for resources to build my towns up and exploring everything I come across. My buddy Nick Valentine and I have been bringing peace to the Wasteland a couple of bullets at a time. I don't get peoples hang ups on what Fallout 4 is. It's just more Fallout 3 sure, but that's all they sold it as. I don't get annoyed at Crusader Kings 2 for not being what I want it to be because that game isn't for me and they never tried to sell me on it otherwise. I accept Bethesda's games warts and all because nobody is out there doing what they do on the scale that they do it on. The changes to shooting, vats, crits, rads and power armour are all great and I love that junk is actually useful now. And I really, really enjoy spending time fixing up my garage. I've got my magazine rack, my flag behind my power armour, the radio playing. I've a kennel for Dogmeat with a seat next to it and a cooler of beers. I've a shotgun that I customized for maximum damage at minimum range under my pillow. I can see myself playing this game for a long time to come.

3) Cities: Skylines

This is what Sim City should have been. The moment that this game totally clicked for me was when I thought I had it figured out. My city was growing, doing well, making money. But then I discovered that my roads where too small so garbage trucks had some trouble getting down them. So people got sick because the garbage couldn't be collected. So then the ambulances got stuck, which causes people to die, which made more people sick, and then suddenly I had an epidemic and 80% of my city was wiped out. The sewage system got backed up and it looked beyond repair. So like any good sim-mayor I loaded up a new zone and started again. That one went much better. I bought the expansion for it but I've yet to play it, I just wanted to give the developers some more money for making such a fantastic city builder.

2) Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

The best playing game possibly ever made? Great combat, great music and a pretty good story if you like Metal Gear. I don't think there's anything I thought of trying to do that it wouldn't let me do. "Hey I wonder if I can shoot a rocket off the back of this horse... WOW I TOTALLY CAN!!!". It's a shame that this game wasn't perfect, that the second act feels thrown together. If that wasn't the case then it would've been such a perfect end to the series. I didn't see the twist coming but I liked it. I like that Venom Snake is not the real Big Boss. I thought it was a great way to reinforce that Big Boss is actually a massive dickhead.The soundtrack was so enjoyable, it was like mixing your action movie fantasies with The Wedding Singer.

1) Bloodborne

The first Souls game I properly got into. I wasn't playing console games much when this came out and I'd heard so much about how janky the PC version where that although I own a copy of Dark Souls I didn't play it. Bloodborne though hits all the right boxes for me. The audio is great with music being so memorable. The visuals are great too. I've seen a lot of complaints about the city looking too similar which I feel is a weird complaint. That's what they where going for. I didn't think the city melded into each other, I could navigate my way around the map, through zones and identify landmarks in it without any real problem and the visuals really made it look like this was a real city. The combat moved quick enough, the weapons were interesting and fun to use. I mainly used the saw cleaver for most of the game and the kirkhammer for farming. The story is hidden just enough to make me interested in trying to uncover it and once I saw that the game wasn't just about werewolves and monsters and had this full on Lovecraft thing going on I was sold.

Here's to 2016!