[Question] The Gamingforce Game of the Year 2015: Too many massive RPGs - voting edition

Mine is stereotypical Skills crap, as per normal.

Interestingly enough, all my stuff this year is all heavily flawed in some capacity. Nothing Mario Kart like where you literally have to stretch and contort to find any significant issues.

Monster Hunter 4 - 30 points.

360 hours in, still not done all content. Still punching dinosaurs in the grundle with CHz. Has problems with guild quests and some UI stuff but the core of this game is too fantastic. Fuck it. Need MHX like a cocaine fix or something.

Rocket League - 20 points.

Love how well this did, even if it created a poisonous eSports community. Its sublime, the skill ceiling is somewhere in the stratosphere and Mo0 got to say "1v1 me bro" in a non-ironic context. Awww yiss.

Transformers: Devastation - 20 points.

Not lying, there is more to this game's combat than Revengeance. There is a combo and cancelling system here that is sublime, deep, and extremely rewarding. You can't miss it. The UI and item management problems aside, the only real issue with the thing is the scoring is too abusable. The rest is pure gravy and the combat has to be seen to be believed. Fuck you for not buying it. The sales figures were atrocious.

Xenoblade Chronicles X - 20 points.

GET SAWALTY ABOUT IT. Amazing music in a game with more content than it has any right to have. I can see why some people might not like the structure or the narrative, but they are wrong. It's fine. We can still be friends with them if we like. There is actually a lot to discuss here about how the narrative and the game structure work together to create this interesting world where a simple scifi trope turns out to be compelling and believable, but it's spoiler filled so I can't. Not here at least.

Undertale - 10 points.

I am not on the same level of love with this as everyone else seems to be, but the ending to this has a lot of interesting meta elements to it that raise this game beyond the Earthbound comparisons (which are all BS anyway outside of the superficial) it seems to be getting. The game has a lot to say about the medium in which it exists and what playing games is actually about. Which is why it edges out a lot of other things. Brilliant analysis of what it means to make a narrative decision. Music rules too. One of the more interesting games to actually talk about outside of pure mechanical discussions.

Notable runners up include Yoshi's Woolly World , which rules but was edged out by Undertale ever so slightly.


Jam it back in, in the dark.