by extintor
Aside from playing FIFA 2015 and Don Bradman 2014 on and off throughout the year, this is everything else I played in 2015 and what I thought of it.
January
2014 Shadowrun Dragonfall (Directors Cut). COMPLETED. 5/5
2013 GTA 5. COMPLETED. 5/5
2014 Destiny. REVISITING. 2/5
2014 Lords of the Fallen. COMPLETED. 3/5
February
2015 Resident Evil HD. COMPLETED. 4/5
2014 Far Cry 4. COMPLETED. 3/5
2015 Evolve. ABANDONDED. 1/5
2014 The Maker's Eden. Ep 1. COMPLETED 2/5
2015 Life is Strange Ep1. COMPLETED 4/5
2014 Dead State. ABANDONED. 2/5
March
2015 Dying Light COMPLETED 4/5
2013 Walking Dead Season 2. Ep 1. COMPLETED 5/5
2013 Walking Dead Season 2. Ep 2. COMPLETED 4/5
2014 Murdered. Soul Suspect COMPLETED 2/5
2013 Walking Dead Season 2. Ep 3 COMPLETED 4/5
2013 Walking Dead Season 2. Ep 4. COMPLETED 3/5
2014 Walking Dead Season 2. Ep 5. COMPLETED 5/5
2014 Metal Gear Solid V. Ground Zeroes. COMPLETED 3/5
April
2015 Pillars of Eternity. COMPLETED 5/5
2015 Forza Horizon: Too Fast Too Furious. COMPLETED 2/5
2011 The Witcher 2. COMPLETED (REVISITING ahead of Witcher 3) 4/5
2015 NeoScavenger 2/5 COMPLETED
May
2014 Falling Skies: The game ABANDONED
2014 Dark Souls 2 (DLC) 5/5
2015 Dex 4/5 COMPLETED
2015 Invisible Inc 4/5 COMPLETED
June
2014 Diablo - Ultimate Evil edition 4/5 ONGOING
July
2015 The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt 5/5 COMPLETED
2015 Technobabylon 3/5 COMPLETED
2012 The Silent Age 3/5 COMPLETED
2015 Grey Goo 4/5 COMPLETED
2015 Contradiction 4/5 COMPLETED
2014 J.U.L.I.A. among the stars 3/5 ABANDONED
August
2015 Cradle 4/5 COMPLETED
2011 Bulletstorm 3/5 COMPLETED
2011 Deus Ex. Human Revolution 5/5 COMPLETED
2015 Fallout Shelter 3/5 ABANDONED
2015 Shadowrun: Hong Kong 4/5 COMPLETED
September
2015 Zombi 4/5 COMPLETED
2015 Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain 4/5 COMPLETED
2015 Stasis 2/5 ABANDONED
October
2015 Mad Max 4/5 COMPLETED
2006 Star Wars: Empire at War
2015 Read Only Memories 5/5 COMPLETED
2014 Elite Dangerous 4/5 NOT FINISH-ABLE
2015 Assassin's Creed: Syndicate STARTED (provisional 4/5)
November
2015 Halo 5/5 COMPLETED
December
2015 Rise of the Tomb Raider - 5/5 COMPLETED
2015 Hard West (provisional 3/5)
2015 Fallout 4 5/5 COMPLETED
2015 Underrail
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Games released in 2015: Ongoing top 10 (min criteria = 3/5. Last updated 02 Dec)
01. Fallout 4 5/5
02. The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt 5/5
03. Pillars of Eternity 5/5
04. Halo 5 5/5
05. Rise of the Tomb Raider 5/5
06. Read Only Memories 5/5
07. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain 4/5
08. Shadowrun: Hong Kong 4/5
09. Dying Light 4/5
10. Assassin's Creed: Syndicate (provisional score) 4/5
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other good games scoring 4/5 from 2015 that don't quite make it (in no particular order)
Cradle
Zombi
Mad Max
Contradiction
Grey Goo
Dex
Invisible Inc
Resident Evil HD
Life is Strange Ep1
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COMPLETED (in 2014) Release Year: 2014 5/5 . Revisiting last year's GOTY to roll a new character. This is an exceptional game and rightly won RPG gamer's 2014 GOTY award. Last year's personal GOTY has been further improved and I am pretty excited that Shadowrun Hong Kong will now follow suit.
COMPLETED (in 2013) Release Year: 2013 5/5. Looks absolutely incredible on Xbox One and plays beautifully. The new content isn't anything particularly engaging but the core game is still one of the best to have come out over the last few years.
COMPLETED (in 2014) Release Year: 2014 2/5 . Inexplicably I am still fooling around with this nonsense on a very casual basis. To what end, I have no idea.
COMPLETED Release Year: 2014 3/5 19/01. Like starting to eat what looks like it is going to be a delicious three course meal and then being turfed out of the restaurant after taking a couple of bites of the starter course. A Dark Souls clone with enough going for it combat-wise to be due of a certain degree of praise, Lords of the Fallen is neither large enough, nor are the systems deep enough to compete properly with any of the From Software souls games.
COMPLETED Release Year: 2015 4/5 . A fun half dozen hours of nostalgia and actual entertainment. This holds up well, not least because the re-made visuals are half-decent (if not exactly up to modern standards). The re-worked controls are the biggest plus point with this re-release. Tank controls added to the tension alright but they also brought too much frustration (which is why they mostly don't exist as an option any more).
COMPLETED Release Year: 2014 3/5. enjoyable but not exceptional. After getting 2/3 of the way through this game the lustre starts fading pretty fast. It is clearly a very well made product but it really is super-similar to Farcry 3... and I got really bored of Farcry 3 to the point of putting it down and never coming back to it. The antagonist is interesting, and the ending moments in conversation with him are engaging. All other characters in the game are weak and the 'power-struggle' between your Golden Path allies, Amita and Sabal is unimaginative and does not add to the overall experience. Hunting and wildlife systems are nicely done, world traversal is great, side-missions and activities aren't bad and the encounter design is generally pretty good. All in all though I couldn't recommend the game while at the same time find it hard to outright condemn it so it has to be a 3/5 score.
CONTINUOUS PLAY (Not completable) Release Year: 2014 5/5. Still playing this thing. It is the best cricket sim ever released and there's something to be said for that if you love the sport.
COMPLETED Release Year: 2015 EPISODE 1 4/5. A really well crafted adventure game experience with excellent premise, exposition, characters, and writing.
ABANDONED (after 7hrs) Release Year: 2014 2/5. Nice first impressions. I like the notion that you don't get XP for combat and are instead rewarded for task completion. It makes more sense in the context of a survivalist setting for this to be the case. I'm not impressed by the visuals however. There's quite a bit of 'clunk' in the interface also... worth more of my time... but at the moment I don't think it'll be too much more. EDIT. There isn't enough here to keep my interest. A nice premise that is ultimately under-delivered upon.
COMPLETED (in 2014) Release Year: 2014 RETURN PLAY . 5/5. Broken multi-player aside the value proposition is still excellent.
