I've been half writing stuff
for the past 4 months… and I've left them all half-finished. I want to start
writing every so often about video games so this will hopefully be my first
finished piece.
I've played almost every
major release this year, so I feel like I'm in a pretty good position to rank
them in some kind of top 10 list.
I
started by just writing down all the games I could remember playing off the top
of my head…
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Digimon Cyber Sleuth
·
The Division
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Doom
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Quantum Break
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Overwatch
·
Dark souls 3
·
Yo Kai Watch
·
Uncharted 4
·
Mafia 3
·
World of Warcraft Legion
(Expansion)
·
Battlefield 1
·
Titanfall 2
·
Call of Duty Infinite
Warfare
·
Gears of War 4
·
Final Fantasy 15
·
World of Final Fantasy
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Pokemon Moon
·
Forza Horizon 3
Then
I started deleting all the games that I didn't think were worthy of being in
the top 10.
And here's
the 10 games I'm left with:-
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Digimon Cyber Sleuth
·
Doom
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Dark Souls 3
·
Uncharted 4
·
Mafia 3
·
World of Warcraft Legion
(Expansion)
·
Battlefield 1
·
Gears of War 4
·
Final Fantasy 15
·
World of Final Fantasy
Time
to put them in some kind of order right?
10. World
of Final Fantasy
I've
kind of surprised myself by putting this on my list, it's mainly here because
of the nostalgia it provides. It mixes many places from previous Final Fantasy
games with their characters and mashes it all into an old styled final fantasy
package. Then someone places some Pokemon magic into the mix.
The game has you collecting
different monsters and building stacks of these monsters. These make up your
party during fights. The whole game is super cutesy and on the surface will put
many people off. But if you see beyond that you'll find fun and in depth old
school jrpg with many complex systems and an interesting story.
09.
Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth
Digimon
story came out way back in January and what a fantastic way to start the year.
It tells a crazy story of hacking and digital worlds crossing real worlds.
Admittedly I haven't finished this game yet, and its top of my backlog list to
go back and finish it, to see how this story comes to a close.
Some of the most fun in this game is
catching new Digimon and seeing what they evolve into. It takes the basics from
Pokemon games in terms of catching monsters and puts it into a dark
story.
08. Mafia
3
Mafia
3 has a whole bunch of problems. It’s a game that's probably 15 hours too long
with a load of boring missions that you have to complete to progress the story,
and some pretty boring side missions. But if you wade through all that you'll find
a deep interesting story that goes places that other video games haven't. It
tackles subjects relating to the 60’s and doesn't hold any punches exploring
these topics.
07. Gears
of War 4
Gears
4 is a great GOW game. The campaign opens up the start of the next saga in the
gears universe with some incredible set pieces. However, the campaign ends at a
rather strange moment and it feels like there's an act missing to tie things
up. The multiplayer is fun with a great selection of maps.
06. World
of Warcraft Legion (Expansion)
The
legion expansion reintroduced me to my addiction. I’d gotten clean way back in
2010, then had a brief relapse back in 2012 before I met my now wife. Obviously
dabbling here and there, but nothing like what happened when Legion came out
this year.
Legion has made Warcraft great
again. Its breathed fresh life into a 12-year-old game. It gives you the same
feeling that Wrath of the Lich King did way back when it came out! Admittedly I’m
not playing as much as I was during the first couple of months of the release
of Legion, but I’m raiding every week and getting tons of fun out of it.
If you haven’t played Warcraft for a
few years, now is a great time to return to it.
05. Battlefield
1
The
multiplayer in BF1 is my favorite multiplayer game this year, and the campaign
has a moment in it which hit me harder than any other first person shooter has
before.
During the opening mission you play
as a bunch of different soldiers during the first world war. You have no way of
surviving this mission. Basically you’re running into what is a sure death. One
of the soldiers you play as is a gunner in a tank, as you’re laying waste to
the endless sea of German soldiers running towards their death, you can see a
German soldier sat by a wall crying in his hands, while explosions and gun fire
is going off all around him. This moment hit me like a ton of bricks, the
solider was scared and instead of fighting to try and live, he had just given
up. This mission single handily conveyed the horrific reality of war. However, the
rest of the campaign failed to deliver impactful moments such as this.
This game is graphically beautiful
and every multiplayer game you play unfolds differently.
04. Uncharted
4
If
you asked me off the cuff what my favorite games were this year, I'd completely
forget about uncharted 4. It would only be an hour or so after you'd asked me
that I’d remember it and that I bloody loved it.
It's the best Uncharted game out of
the 4. The moment to moment scenes with no gunplay and talking and exploring
are my favorite. One of my favorite scenes is when Nathan and his brother are
sat in an old bar in a hidden pirate town chatting.
Uncharted 4 looks incredible and is
the smoothest Uncharted experience to date. If I could remember it faster, it
would be rated higher on my list.
03. Doom
Hey
there's a new doom coming out this year? Haha yeah that trailer looked alright
and they did a decent job with Wolfenstein the other year but I bet that doom
games gonna be arse garbage. WRONG!
What a fucking game. I'm swearing
because it's that good! It fast, it's got metal music, awesome weapons, great
bosses and tells a pretty decent story for what is a game about exploring mars
shooting demons. It's got an alright multiplayer too.
If you didn't play doom this year,
stop what you're doing right now and go and play it.
02.
Dark Souls 3
Dark
Souls 3 is what I'm calling my first souls experience. I played dark souls up
until the grave yard, got killed by a skeleton and turned it off. I played a
decent amount of blood borne and really enjoyed it. But DS3 is the first souls
game I played from start to finish and invested a whole bunch of hours into.
What a game. I laughed, I cried, I
threw my controller and I cheered. It's a fantastic fantasy game in a dark
world. It reminds me a whole lot of old resident evil games. Survival is a
massive part of it. It's most definitely my second favorite game this
year.
01. Final
Fantasy XV
Final
Fantasy XV hit me in the face like a truck this year. Seeing that trailer back
in 2006 and watching it change from Final Fantasy versus XIII into Final
Fantasy XV until it's release. I went from varying levels of hype. From being
super hyped to not very hyped at all, to being hyped and skeptical. Watching
the anime and then watching the film Kingsglaive all added to the experience of
it. What a breath of fresh air it was to pick it up and finally play it.
The combat feels super fresh and
fun. Graphically it's outstanding. And the story has some weird and at times
confusing Arcs but with worthwhile pay offs at the end. Every minute I'm not
playing Final Fantasy XV I'm questioning myself as to why I'm not playing it.
If you haven't played a Final Fantasy game before I'd recommend you picking up
this one. My game of the year and worth the 10 year wait. I'm 100% hyped for
what square brings to the final fantasy franchise in the future with this
engine and this game play.
1.
Final Fantasy XV
2.
Dark Souls 3
3.
Doom
4.
Uncharted 4
5.
Battlefield 1
6.
World of Warcraft legion
7.
Gears of War 4
8.
Mafia 3
9.
Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth
10.
World of Final Fantasy
List
of games I never played, never finished, or played for a small amount of time
that would/could have been contenders for this list:
Watchdogs
2
Firewatch
Inside
Last
guardian
Psvr
(selection of games)
Tokyo
mirrage sessions sharp FE
Dishonered
2
Once we'd gathered our juicy intel (it was about as juicy as a prune) we headed for the location of our hit. It took us to a drug production plant. Well, a building with a load of science-y stuff and very old PC's, which I assumed was used to access the dicky dark web. When we got there we shot some dudes and headed down stairs. Looking through some glass we witnessed a guy being tortured by the guy we had to kill, and a fat lass in a night dress. Me and a friend burst through the door and filled both of them with lead. Unfortunately we were too late as the guy being tortured was dead. He was in a pretty bad way, so I was doubtful that if we'd have arrived much earlier we'd have been able to save him. This was pretty much the end of the beta. You had the option to carry on roaming about, but honestly why would you want to. 
It's such a shame as everything prior to this had me excited for the game. All the trailers and gameplay demos id seen previously looked fun. Nothing about the beta was fun. Overall it was a boring experience and I'll be making a hard pass when the game is released in March. 
