With the end of the year, people are talking about the games they played, and it reminded me of something. Obviously I've been playing games this year, but in terms of games that came out in 2014, feels like I didn't play a lot. I couldn't make a top 10 because I haven't played 10 new games, unless you count expansions/addons/dlc...even then I don't think I hit 10 games. What 2014 games did I play, and what did I enjoy the most this year?
-mario golf world tour
-diablo 3 reaper of souls
-warlords of draenor
-ultra street fighter 4
-civilization beyond earth
-legend of grimrock 2
I kind of enjoyed all of them to be honest. Favorite out of that list is easily diablo 3 reaper of souls, I put the most time into it, and it turned an awful game into a fantastic game that I still look forward to seeing new content for. Blizzard did a fantastic job of analyzing the problems with the original game, and implementing features to make the item hunt great.
Warlords of draenor was enjoyable, first time I got a wow character to level cap since...lich king. I got what I wanted out of the game and have since stopped playing, but I had a great time with it.
Mario golf was pretty fun, I just haven't been in the mood to get some multiplayer going on with an irl friend who also has it. Still, feels like an improved version of the gamecube game on the go, with online play and dlc courses from the n64 game.
Civ beyond earth seems to be a bit disappointing right now, but I did enjoy what I have played of it. Currently waiting for firaxis to do what they do, release an expansion and make everything better. Don't get me wrong, the current game is good, it just has some issues.
Ultra street fighter 4...is what it is, another balance update, few new characters, some new features. I could probably write a huge essay of the things I like and dislike about it, but i'll keep it short since this is a small place and nobody here cares about the genre. My characters, gen, bison, e honda, chun. My main out of the 4 is e honda, and he's like a bottom 3 character now, and that sucks. Chun, and bison are great now, and some of the stupid nerfs gen got during ultra...got reverted a few weeks ago, so gen while still good after nerfs, is a bit better now. I don't really think I could not like usf4 even if all my characters got nerfed into the ground, id find another one, or do what i do and still play e honda regardless.
Figure I would leave what I am currently playing for last, and that's grimrock 2. I beat the first grimrock this october, and I was motivated to play that game by grimrock 2's release. I recently started playing grimrock 2 about a week ago, and it's like grimrock 1...but...better...and it's really REALLY friggin good. Go buy it and play it right now, or look up videos on what it's about, basically a grid based first person rpg dungeon crawler along the lines of old pc games like dungeon master. Plus like it's a fantasy setting, but you don't have super generic fantasy races or even ways to mix class and race. You have human, minotaur, lizardman, insectoid, and ratling. No stupid elves in this game, or no played out dwarves either. My current party is a FRONTLINE mage insectoid named JUDGE MATHIS. A frontline lizardman barbarian named KEITH DAVID. The back row is an insectoid melee fighter...BACK ROW, MELEE FIGHTER. Final character is an insectoid alchemist that also acts as another mage. So like im running 3 bugs and a lizard, the bugs are mages at that, I have a frontline spellcaster(rocks heavy armor, and a shield, but no melee attacks beacuse MAGIC CASTIN), and a backline melee fighter(skill to melee attack from back row, lower health for more energy to do melee special attacks)...and it's viable and I am playing through the game fine. I just don't see that happening in many games. I think it's really cool that my stupid unorthodox party can be totally viable, and not even just "viable" but totally pretty good. If we want to judge progress as getting the 4 orb things to get to the final boss, I got 3 so far, so I feel im a decent way through the game now. It's a good ride so far!