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Shmee’s Top Five Games Of 2016!

I got to play a lot of video games this year, and for the most part they were good.  All the ones I played but didn’t like, generally I didn’t pay for, so that was nice.  This list was harder to make than my movie list because the game selection was so good this year, but enough of my rambling, to the games!

5: Overwatch

I wanted to hate this game.  They charged $60 for a multiplayer only shooter, but I don’t hate it.  I love it, and if my friends played it more so would I.  Yes Overwatch is pretty much just Team Fortress 3, but since Valve didn’t make Team Fortress 3 then I am happy that Blizzard did!  With Blizzard’s signature polish.

4: Hyper Light Drifter

My brother told me to back this game, and I am glad that he did.  It is a fantastic throwback.  Hyper Light Drifter plays like you remember Super Nintendo games playing, so in other words it is better than they ever were.  It is a little on the hard side, but never frustratingly so.

3: Titanfall 2

I don’t love all the changes they made to Titanfall 2’s multiplayer, but the single player they added was pitch perfect.  I never play single player campaigns twice, but I am jonesing to get back in to Titanfall 2’s.  It is great from beginning to end.

2: Forza Horizon 3

Forza Horizon 3 is my favorite racing game of all time.  I never thought any game could be better than Project Gotham 2, but Forza Horizon 3 is, and by a wide margin.  If you have a PC or an Xbox One you need to get Forza Horizon 3.  It is the realization of the open world racer that studios have been trying to make for years.  I am not sure how they will make a better Forza Horizon, but I hope they do.

1: Hitman

I thought 47 was a goner after Absolution, but Hitman brought him back with style.  This is the best Hitman game that has ever been made, and you should buy it post-haste.  You feel stealthy and lethal in just the right ways, and every mission seems to get better.  I cannot wait for season 2!

My Honorable Mentions go to Batman: The Telltale Series and Pokémon Go.  Batman: The Telltale Series is the Bruce Wayne simulator I never knew I wanted.  I hope I don’t have to wait as long for season 2 as I have been waiting for season 2 of A Wolf Among Us.  Pokémon Go is light on actual gameplay, but it merges the real world with the video game world in a way that has not been tried before.

This has been a great year for games, and it is also the year that I got back in to first person shooters.  I thought my FPS days were behind me, and that I would be playing only RPGs from here on out.  I was wrong, and I am glad that I was.  What were you top games of 2016?

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Lost Odyssey Starts With Two Hours Of Nothing!

Let me recap my first two hours of Lost Odyssey.  I fought in an intro battle for fifteen minutes, and then I walked around and talked to people (well people talked to me) and kicked stuff for an hour and forty-five minutes.  Good times were had by all.  Well okay, boredom was had by me

Granted the world was interesting enough for me to keep playing for that two hours, and now I think I am finally to the part where I start to play the game ‘for real’, but you never can tell with JRPGs.  I mean this game had a ten minute dream sequence that was just scrolling text.  I got thirty achievements points for reading it which was nice, but you would expect more from a dream.

This game has a lot of fans, so I am going to give it another chance or two, and it is hard to complain about a free game (until the end of December), but something more interesting had better happen soon.  I don’t know if I can kick any more garbage cans or probe any more pots.  I am just kidding I love to probe pots.  They are full of all sorts of possibly useful potions and stuff.

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Batman: The Telltale Series Ends Beautifully!

I have reviewed most of the episodes of Batman: The Telltale Series individually at this point, and for the most part they have all been successful.  Of course my worry was that they would stumble with the fifth and final episode.  They did not.  Batman: The Telltale Series Episode 5 “City of Light” wraps everything together wonderfully.

My only complaint would be that it is too action heavy, and by action I mean quick time event heavy.  Granted this ups the tension quite a bit, but these games are all about decisions, and due to this being the final episode there aren’t many major decisions left.  Just the results.  Really they just should have combined Episode 4 with Episode 5.  Oh well.  It is still really good, and I am just pointing out its minor flaws.

Now that the season is wrapped up the price on the whole season should be dropping rapidly, and if you have not bought Batman: The Telltale Series you really should.  If nothing else for comic book fans it lets you play as Bruce Wayne instead of Batman, and that is a treat in and of itself.  The series ends with a setup for Season 2, and trust me I will be playing.  Though I hope I get a Wolf Among Us Season 2 as well.   Honestly just give me a DC Telltale Series channel and it will be all I play and watch.

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Titanfall 2’s Multiplayer Is Just Missing Something…

I have had a chance to play Titanfall’s 2′ multiplayer, and for the most part I like it.  The shooting mechanics are great, the maps are well laid out, and the Titans are cool, but it still feels like a step back from the first Titanfall.  With Titanfall 2’s maps’ focus on lanes and paths it lacks that unique danger from everywhere hook that kept the original Titanfall so engaging, and I don’t feel unstoppable in my Titan anymore.  It is not bad per say, just different, and for me it is not a change I am enjoying as much.

I will still probably play it on and off.  Like I said the shooting is top notch, and there is still nothing more fun than dropping Titans from the sky, but I just don’t feel the need to play it like I used to with Titanfall 1.  Maybe if my friends were playing it I would feel differently, but as of now it is just a good game to waste time with once and a while.  Thankfully the DLC is all going to be free and the single-player is amazing, so I think it is still worth picking up.

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I Need To Play Mass Effect: Andromeda Now!

I cannot wait until Spring to play this game.  It looks amazing.  I just hope that BioWare learned its lessons from the fan fallout from Mass Effect 3.  The only thing that concerns me are the rumors that the multiplayer will be hooked in to the main story.  I want to be able to play this game by myself.