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Your game of the year 2015.

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Mine is Bloodborne AHHHH.

Second is Mario Maker... I got three medals as i have no friends...

Third is. Witcher 3. I like classic century sex and weapons.. yeah. what was your GOTY?
 
Just bought a PS4 2 days ago and only have BO3.

SO if this thread is still kickin' it in a few months, will cast my vote after I have played a few.

I may look into getting into the Uncharted as I have never played one and heard they are nice. And the 4th one comes out in April.
 
Witcher 3 by a landslide.
 
Shouldn't even be a competition this year. Witcher 3 wins. Nothing else was even close.

I honestly can't even think of a worthy runner up. Metal Gear Solid V was good, but I think it strayed too far from the series' story-telling roots to the point where there just wasn't enough story.

Fallout 4 was addicting but equally disappointing. There's a lot to do, but it's just another Bethesda game with no real heart or soul, and the lack of weapons and armor kind of killed my urge to keep exploring after a certain point.

Life is Strange may make it onto my list, but I've only finished two episodes so it's tough to say just yet.

I'm loving Talos Principle, but that technically came out at the end of 2014, so it doesn't count.

So yeah...Witcher 3 picks up an easy win. It's the game I invested the most hours in (not counting TF2) this year and the story, writing, and voice acting were all excellent and generally made me want to keep playing.
 
Fallout 4

By far the most interesting game, and the game that will continue to be played for hundreds of hours on end. Like Skyrim, I think FO4 will live on for years after everyone has beaten the main quest.

Like Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas, the game is unique and really peerless in it's style of play. Even with it's flaws, the openness of the game puts it in stark contrast with other games out today that do too much handholding and don't allow a traditional Western-style role playing experience.

There's really nothing like Fallout, and it's been such a long time since NV. With the community, mod-ability, open world, and awesome gameplay, it's hard to say another game in 2015 is really better than this.

I think my runner up would be The Witcher 3, or Life is Strange.
 
Witcher 3 and it isn't even close. What a crowning achievement in epic video games.
 
Fallout 4

By far the most interesting game, and the game that will continue to be played for hundreds of hours on end. Like Skyrim, I think FO4 will live on for years after everyone has beaten the main quest.

Like Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas, the game is unique and really peerless in it's style of play. Even with it's flaws, the openness of the game puts it in stark contrast with other games out today that do too much handholding and don't allow a traditional Western-style role playing experience.

There's really nothing like Fallout, and it's been such a long time since NV. With the community, mod-ability, open world, and awesome gameplay, it's hard to say another game in 2015 is really better than this.

I think my runner up would be The Witcher 3, or Life is Strange.

Mine are FO 4 and Life is Strange for different reasons.

Once the modding community gets their hands on FO 4 that game will be the best game and close to the best value for a game from this year (aside from Life is Strange). It will still be an enjoyable game and feel like a new experience even a year from today if you get into adding mods.

Life is Strange was probably my favorite story based game this year. Didn't catch on with people until around the 3rd episode but was really interesting story that went into subject matter in a way most media (or games) doesn't tend to explore. Very dark game once you get passed the hipster setting and some bad dialogue in the first episode or two. The way the rewind mechanic was implemented was also unique imo, causes the player to always second guess every choice being made throughout the whole story..Really a step forward in choice based storytelling imo.

Also Ashley Birch killed the VA role as Chloe in LiS, probably the best VA performance this year (Birch is actually in FO 4 btw voices 2 or 3 npc characters) if not one of the best VA performances over the last decade from a gaming standpoint..
 
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I like Fallout 4 a lot, but I'd put it third behind MGSV and Witcher 3. I couldn't help be disappointed by certain aspects of Fallout 4, whereas the other two surpassed my expectations, so maybe that played a part. I'm also not really into mods so that doesn't do much for me. Jack and I seem to be on the same page with Fallout 4. I hope the next Bethesda open world game attempts to truly push the boundaries.

I said it before but Pillars of Eternity definitely deserves an honorable mention, too, IMO, as does Ori and the Blind Forest. That would round out my top 5.
 
Not from this year, but I'd have to say my all-time favorite VA in a videogame award goes to Stephen Merchant in Portal 2. He killed that role.

By the way, I think the main thing that annoys me about Life is Strange is that the kids in it are supposed to be 18 but they look 13. I had no idea they were in college (the game calls it something else, and some of the other lingo is a bit off as well, I assume because the developer is French) until I read my character's journal.
 
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Fallout 4

By far the most interesting game, and the game that will continue to be played for hundreds of hours on end. Like Skyrim, I think FO4 will live on for years after everyone has beaten the main quest.

Like Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas, the game is unique and really peerless in it's style of play. Even with it's flaws, the openness of the game puts it in stark contrast with other games out today that do too much handholding and don't allow a traditional Western-style role playing experience.

There's really nothing like Fallout, and it's been such a long time since NV. With the community, mod-ability, open world, and awesome gameplay, it's hard to say another game in 2015 is really better than this.

I think my runner up would be The Witcher 3, or Life is Strange.
How is Fallout 4 compared to 3? I loved 3, but I just got an Xbox One, so I'm still catching up on old stuff. Starting with Destiny and DA:Inquisition.

Plus I've been caught up on my PC gaming w/ Heroes of the Storm and such, but Fallouts down somewhere on my list.
 
I like Fallout 4 a lot, but I'd put it third behind MGSV and Witcher 3. I couldn't help be disappointed by certain aspects of Fallout 4, whereas the other two surpassed my expectations, so maybe that played a part. I'm also not really into mods so that doesn't do much for me. Jack and I seem to be on the same page with Fallout 4. I hope the next Bethesda open world game attempts to truly push the boundaries.

I said it before but Pillars of Eternity definitely deserves an honorable mention, too, IMO, as does Ori and the Blind Forest. That would round out my top 5.
Had never even heard of Ori and the Blnd Forest until the other day, but really looking forward to playing it now that I saw some trailers and read a couple reviews.
 
Had never even heard of Ori and the Blnd Forest until the other day, but really looking forward to playing it now that I saw some trailers and read a couple reviews.

It's so damn good. I wish they made more games like this now days. Couldn't recommend it enough.
 
How is Fallout 4 compared to 3? I loved 3, but I just got an Xbox One, so I'm still catching up on old stuff. Starting with Destiny and DA:Inquisition.

Play Fallout on PC, bro.. c'mon... :chuckle:

But Fallout 4 is very comparable to Fallout 3. It is to FO3 what Skyrim is to Oblivion.

If you've played FO2, the comparison is even more apt. FO2:FO3:FO4 is very similiar to Morrowind:Oblivion:Skyrim.

In other words, the game mechanics are different, more streamlined, but also more simplistic.

But it's still very much Fallout, and if you like FO, you'll like FO4. I find that folks that don't like FO4 aren't really hardcore FO fans.. and that's okay, it's not a game for everyone, it's always been a niche kind of game.

Plus I've been caught up on my PC gaming w/ Heroes of the Storm and such, but Fallouts down somewhere on my list.

Fallout 4 is the game I play the most; for me it's the game that is the most fun to play, and it's the game that I know I'll still be playing 2 years from now.

Just be sure to play it on PC. Playing it on console is a joke, they're not remotely the same experience.
 
By the way, I think the main thing that annoys me about Life is Strange is that the kids in it are supposed to be 18 but they look 13. I had no idea they were in college (the game calls it something else, and some of the other lingo is a bit off as well, I assume because the developer is French) until I read my character's journal.

They are in a prestigious technical school which is essentially an art institute.

The main protagonist does look young, but the fact that sex is a primary theme of the game does pretty strongly suggest they are adults.
 
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I like Fallout 4 a lot, but I'd put it third behind MGSV and Witcher 3. I couldn't help be disappointed by certain aspects of Fallout 4, whereas the other two surpassed my expectations, so maybe that played a part. I'm also not really into mods so that doesn't do much for me. Jack and I seem to be on the same page with Fallout 4. I hope the next Bethesda open world game attempts to truly push the boundaries.

My only concern with some of the criticism of FO4 is that people want it to be less like Fallout and more like a different kind of RPG. Essentially, it seems like for them Fallout is just a name or a setting (post-apocalyptic) but they don't really get (or like) the unique aspects of the game historically.

This is obvious whenever someone compares Fallout to The Witcher. I can't help but think they're not fans of Fallout 1 or 2 and only maybe casually played FO3/NV. Beyond that, they might not be familiar with more traditional Western-RPGs like TES, Planescape, BG, etc.

Folks want more story driven characters, writing, narrative, etc ... and I can't help but to reiterate that, again, that isn't what Fallout, or really Western RPGs were ever about.

If Fallout were more like the Witcher it'd be less like the Fallout series and less like other games of the genre -- I'd rather that not be the case.

The story is something that you imagine in your own mind. The character isn't traditionally even supposed to be voiced. Many games totally eliminate primary character narration entirely. This isn't about being a dated style of game, but instead it's a dying breed of games that leave the concept of the character and story to the player's imagination.
 

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