Short Pause: "2015 has been a strange year in gaming for me. So many fantastic titles released this year that I wanted to play, but I just couldn’t find the time. New responsibilities at my full-time job and a busy family life prevented me from gaming as much as I would have liked to in 2015. And it’s a shame because, by all accounts, this could go down as one of the best years in the history of gaming. Truly epic titles in the form of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Bloodborne, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and Fallout 4 — to name but a very few — hit store shelves to both critical and commercial acclaim. Open-world game after open-world game released to the masses, and I was left on the sidelines watching from afar. It seems for me, much of 2016 will be spent catching up on what 2015 had to offer. It’s not all doom and gaming gloom for me this past year, however. While I missed out on some of the biggest titles released this year, I still played a ton of great games and had fun doing it. My favorite games of 2015 are an eclectic mix of superheroes, “old” platformers, and games imitating “old” platformers. I can say with a great deal of certainty that my list will not look like anyone else’s this year."
Games such as Mad Max, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Batman: Arkham Knight desperately deserve a modern-day revisit.
RDR2 still looks astounding on PS4 Pro. i cannot imagine how it could look with a next gen upgrade.
It's obviously never gonna happen since Sony killed the game and studio, but Driveclub. Even in its current state, 10 years after release, it still puts many competitors to shame ...
Mad max ikr! Far cry primal, it amuses me how ubisoft just left ac unity hanging, sadly most of the good staff left from rocksteady while being forced to make that abomination smh
One way or another, these games provoked strong reactions.
I don't think Days Gone divided fans. For the most part, gamers loved it. It was the reviewers who were divided. Self-loathing racist pieces of shit that took exception to the main character being white. This was a fantastic game, one of the best open-world games I ever played, and I've played them all.
For the most part, when it comes to Last of Us 2, incels, homophobes, and closet national socialist types didn't like it. I repeat not all, but most.
Days Gone is a great game and it was attacked by the leftist socialist people that are actually closet fascists. As a great poet once said: "Socialism is the mother of fascism."
The Order got hit from anti-Sony Xbox fans.
Out of these 3, Last of Us 2 stands above as being a work of art. It's still generating a ton conversation to this day.
Amazing gameplay, but TLOU2 had one of the worst, most convoluted and uneccessary plots I ever seen in a sequel. Terrible story and the characters were forgettable. I didn't give an F about anyone in the story.
I don't think any of these divided fans, other than LoU2. The rest were either victims of biased reviews or just generally agreed that they weren't as good as they could've been or just overall disappointing.
Batman: Arkham Knight wasn't in the best shape when it swooped onto Switch at the end of last year. Fortunately, the game has today received a monster 16GB update, one that's guaranteed to fix all of its problems, right? Well...
Another rushed port job, it's disappointing to see better looking games run/perform better than a game from 2015
Dummying down a game that is meant to run on XB1 and PS4 is going to be challenging to run on a system that is probably as powerful as a PS3. I give them a congrats for bringing it to the Switch and I hope this challenge pays off for them. As for me grabbing Arkham Knight on the Switch I am good I have the PS4 version.
Batman: Arkham Knight Still Runs Poorly On Switch Despite Massive Update........ But is still a better game than suicide squad *fixed the title*
I love Axiom Verge, and it really does have one of the best soundtracks in gaming. I enjoyed what I had played on PS4, but like the author says, I really think this game will be at home on the PS Vita. Still amazing to think this whole game was created by ONE person. Kudos to Tom Happ for single-handedly delivering one of the best games of the year!
Super Meat Boy is such an excellent port on the Vita. It really took me by surprise this year how much I enjoyed that game on Sony's handheld. It's super addicting!
So your list of top 5 2015 games has 2 games that actually came out in 2015 ok.
Those types of comments aren't welcomed here.