End of the year time, bring out those favorites! Seemed like a very mixed year, where a lot of AAA hyped titles were disappointing or faded quickly, but there were lots of good smaller titles, or how Nintendo just seemed to kill it this year.
Shovel Knight - Awesome game I helped to Kickstart that turned out to be way better than I expected and it really embodies the best of the NES era of gaming from Duck Tales to Mega Man to Castlevania, but does it in its own way that makes it stand out. Can't recommend the game enough.
Bayonetta 2 - While I never beat Bayonetta 1, I decided I was going to dive right into Bayo 2 and I loved it. It's just batshit crazy, which is what Platinum does best. It's simply a spectacle to behold that always continues to get bigger and more crazy.
Hyrule Warriors - To be honest, while most of the Dynasty Warriors stuff outside of the combat itself is real "meh", having that crazy action mixed with Zelda became something that was a whole lot of fun. There's just so much to collect and accomplish in the game and I'm still playing it off and on today to try and unlock new alternates of weapons and skins.
Dragon Age: Inquisition - To me, its just a mostly solid fantasy RPG. The combat is abit kinda bland hotbar auto attack, the AI isn't so great, and the PC had some quality issues, but I enjoyed the story and setting and the character interaction with your companions made me want to continue on as I learned more about Iron Bull who is a badass, or Cassandra's enjoyment of a certain type of book, or that Blackwall has a mysterious past, or that Sera is an ass, but a lovable one lol I put like 75 hours into the game at something like a 90% completion and I actually want to go back through with another class type, try some of the different story paths, see where that takes me.
Honorable Mentions
Mario Kart 8 - Always a solid kart series, but it's not something I play regularly on my own and after playing Sonic All Stars Transformed, I really want to see the next Nintendo kart game to basically be Smash Kart like the Sonic game or Diddy Kong Racing 2 lol
Smash Bros - I know people are nuts over the game and it's a good game, but I feel most of the extras in the game are pretty poor and it's again not something I want to play a lot on my own. Local multiplayer with some friends sure, but I don't do that often.
Wolfenstein: The New Order - Solid shooter that does a good job at mixing the old school and new school shooter action, combined with some entertaining characters and wild story.
Might've missed a game or two that I feel I could include as I played a lot of games this year, but some stuff just didn't hit me as being as good as I wanted, like Dead Rising 3 on PC or Far Cry 4 and I haven't played games like Mordor, Alien, or Borderlands: Pre-Sequel. Also some titles like Metro 2033 Redux, while a great improvement on the original and I love that series, it is just not technically a new game.
