Had a look at my stats today and I have put near enough 3 days into GTAO, that is since the beginning of November.

For me that is an insane amount of time, still so much to unlock, so much to be added by R* (for free I will add).

If you've only played 5 games all year, for example, wouldn't that 5 automatically form your top 5 list, regardless of quality/enjoyment?

hylian_elf wrote:

If you've only played 5 games all year, for example, wouldn't that 5 automatically form your top 5 list, regardless of quality/enjoyment?

I don't think it should.

So, on the off chance I dont get to post again before holidays end, I'll put my current placeholder votes down.

The one theme this year for me was so many games I didnt get to play a decent amount of, mainly due to a few major time-sinks.

1. Fire Emblem Awakening. Scratched an itch I never knew existed. Went through once on normal/classic, and am about 70% through on hard/classic. Game clock at the moment is combined over 170 hours. It also helps the story is somewhat clever, albeit cliched, but it caught me off-guard and the sentimentality of it reminded me of Chrono Trigger somewhat. The sheer satisfaction of seeing one unit successfully hold off the tide of an enemy onslaught and turning a mission single-handedly was worth the price alone.

2. The Wonderful 101. And I hated the game at first. So much content, so many deaths and so much absurdity. Wonder Red's verbosity and the end-game crescendo (really packing in more climaxes than most AAA games of last gen combined) are unmatched in my experience. The game is hard, it took me a few weeks to get to grips with the mechanics, but when it did click the game became a joy to play even despite ongoing difficulty spikes.
Best bits: buying a credit card from mixing fruits and putting it in the Commander's name when you buy something expensive. Also, pause the game and it asks you if it is Mission 1 or Mission 2.

3. Pikmin 3. Just a wonderfully organic environment to explore, and the greatest villain in the history of Nintendo games - Louie.

4. Super Mario 3D World. Time will probably push this higher up the list, but I'm not able to plough through more of the game for a few weeks by which time my skills will be rusty. The levels are still bite sized, and the timer is a bit of a pain, but there are a lot of great ideas and moments within the game that nothing else does. Music is catchy too, and nothing beats running around a level with 5 Toads armed with fire flowers.

5. Lego city undercover. I know it has shit loading, but Frank Honey's endearing stupidity plus the ability to ride a trex in an astronaut suit made this my favourite sandbox game this year.

Deus ex relegated due to ineligibility.

Games I still need to get stuck into: Bravely Default, Link Between Worlds, Animal Crossing New Leaf.

Scanning through here and seeing a lack of Bioshock Infinite confirms my suspicions that the game will not age well.

I just think it played the same trick as the first game - put it this way, I don't have any desire to play another game under that name.

TheDJR wrote:

It was the biggest gaming disappointment of the year.

It really was.

3 times I tried to get my teeth into it & 3 times I failed.  Liz aside, it was wank.

Edit:  Good list Vela, very Ninty but the rules will not allow you number 5 which is a shame as MH3U would defiantly take a spot in mine.

I played it for 90 minutes and gave up.  There are better games to play and better films to watch.  Plenty of nice touches but my free time is too precious to waste 14 hours on something I'm not overly keen on.

I didn't. I played the demo, shrugged, went 'meh' and deleted it.

Whilst I enjoyed Bioshock 1, I didn't get the hype and didn't feel the need to play the sequel.

Cheers.  Shame that, looked very good in the videos I watched.

Sounds like a perfect game to pick up cheap and play through with cheats on.

If anyone's interested, I got bored before the end of Bioshock 1, so never finished it or bothered with the second.

And it went nowhere

Eh?! Sublime did you take the blue pill?

I played a couple of sessions but haven't gone back to it. It's a shame because the setting is rather lovely and the two main characters work really well together. But yeah the gameplay is just dull, and I seem to spend more time than anything searching the scenery for money and health items. I got a bit bored of that in Dishonoured as well, but at least there was some meaningful stuff to find there.

Maybe one day I'll just try and race through to see what happens.