Game Of The Year 2016: 2016 has been another fantastic year for gaming. Whilst the sheer number of games coming out has probably declined again, the overall quality is up – the only thing really missing nowadays is solid experiences ‘in the middle’ – everything is either big-budget, ‘AAA’ games or smaller indie titles, with few episodic titles sat as a kind-of, sort-of bridge rather uncomfortably in the middle. Whilst that’s a shame for the industry in general, there’s still been loads of great titles this year, perhaps most notably five fantastic shooters in Doom, Gears, Battlefield, Call of Duty & Titanfall, all of whom take their respective games in new directions and improve over their predecessors in meaningful ways. As ever, each of our main writers have listed out their own personal top five games of the year – enjoy and please leave a comment if you disagree!
"They want you to believe the devs under them are super stoked to work generative AI into their processes," continued Gaider, "but I assure you what they took as excitement was really a veiled wail of despair not unlike the time that team was informed of their new 'really cool' live service mandate.".
I think anyone with some common sense knew this, im glad i don't support their games anymore, what a sh!t company.
One modder produced an unofficial, modern-day take on the Game Gear.
The president of Nintendo expects the game development cycle to be more complex and more lengthy in the future.
*Nintendo clutching Cease and desist letters*
"FAN GAMES? Who. What. When. Where"
That's why this guy gets paid the big dollars...no one else could of worked that out...
Shooter: Battlefield 1
Linear: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
Open world: Dark Souls III / Final Fantasy XV
Platformer: Inside
Racer: Forza Horizon 3
Nice list!