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Now we've hit December, which system had the best library in 2015?

Carcetti

Member
PS4 and PC have both been on fire this year. On console front Helldivers, Bloodborne, and Until Dawn was a real triple threat.
 

Ozium

Member
PC obviously but as for consoles...

Wii U. Not even close. And X is not even out until tomorrow and Devil's Third still a week away in NA so the lineup continues to be incredible.

Play. The. Games.
 

LiquidMetal14

hide your water-based mammals
PS4 and Xbox mop the floor with WiiU with their console exclusives. I'll give WiiU a good grade on their 1st parrty though but it absolutely gets trounced by PS4. I don't even know why these arbitrary lists exist and ommit that. I'm mainly going by the TC so far.

So we have completely exclusive and console exclusive and I will absolutely ommit multiplatform console stuff (for the sake of not padding a list) but the likes of an XB/PC exclusive like Ori are a notch on MSFT's belt much like Rocket League is on PS4.
 

Kensuke

Member
I think it's pretty obvious that if you have a gaming PC, that's the best place to play. You have access to the best version of most games and a few great exclusives on top of that.

If you don't play on PC, I think PS4 is the next best thing if you're a gamer that loves a wide variety of genres. I put in as many hours in games like Axiom Verge, Galak-Z, Rocket League and N++ as in AAA releases. Then you have some Japanese stuff that isn't on other consoles like Tales of Zestiria, Disgaea 5 and some Warriors games. If you don't care for any of the games above I guess an XB1 or Wii U might suit you better.

I think that's the reason it's pretty much impossible to decide who has the best library. It really depends on what combination of platforms you own and if you like a wide variety of games. That's why you get comments like 'PS4 only had Bloodborne'.
 
I love PC but anyone claiming that it has the best library this year is full of it. Sure most good console games were also on PC, but it had few great exclusives - especialy compared to other systems. I'd say PS4 takes the cake here:

-Bloodborne
-Tearaway
-The Order (yeah it's not great but it's a fun little game)

Few great exclusives yet you have to use a game like The Order to say how the PS4 takes the cake?

Not like Pillars of Eternity, Undertale, Her Story, Contradiction and Downwell all came out this year or anything.
 
OP missing Tearaway and Helldivers and Galak-Z and Rocket League and Axiom Verge and all kinds of shit for PS4.

Bloodborne > anything else anyway. Tearaway came close to my love for Bloodborne. Axiom Verge was the best 2D Metroid in a long time. Helldivers was co-op greatness. On and on.

A single system can't have my favorite SRPG, my favorite ARPG, my favorite sports title and my favorite shooter ( planetside ) and one of my favorite platformers and not come away with winning this little competition.. 2015 has been amazing
 
Few great exclusives yet you have to use a game like The Order to say how the PS4 takes the cake?

Not like Pillars of Eternity, Undertale, Her Story, Contradiction and Downwell all came out this year or anything.

It's all subjective man. As a PC owner, not a single one of those games you mentioned interested me. Pillars wasn't my type of game at all.

This is why these topics always end up as silly discussions overall. Personally, I'd take my Wii u and 3ds over both of my other consoles and PC though I understand that others may have a completely different opinion. Why so many of you act like there is a definite answer to a question where the response will vary from person to person is beyond me.
 

hwalker84

Member
For me nothing beats:

Gears Of War Collection
Forza 6
Halo 5
Tomb Raider
Rare Replay
Ori

I have a PS4 as well but Bloodborne isn't my thing and the Order was complete crap.
 
Bloodborne, Until Dawn, One Piece Musou, and Zestiria. PS4 for me. I also have some supposed to be exellent games in my PS4's backlog.

For Wii U, I still need to play fatal frame and xenoblade X, but it has been underwhelming for me.
 

Vitacat

Member
WiiU and 3DS for me.

I have a PS4 but just haven't found many games on it that appeal to me since LOU:R. But it's a great system. My wife enjoyed the heck out of DA:I on it.
 

KooopaKid

Banned
Splatoon was all over this site when it was released...

As any game within its release date. Not anymore and not nearly as much as the Bloodborne love. It gets tiring. It makes me want to hate it just because. All this gushing and it's not even guaranteed to be in GAF Top 5 this year
(Will probably end up in 4th position)
. Can't wait the see the reality of its popularity here.
 
WiiU and 3DS for me.

I have a PS4 but just haven't found many games on it that appeal to me since LOU:R. But it's a great system. My wife enjoyed the heck out of DA:I on it.

Been loving 3ds. So many fun games.

Just got into Monster Hunter after years of sleeping on it. Damn, it's an amazing game.
 
Wii U loses and will continue to do so on the basis that it has terrible 3rd party support. I didn't have an X1, so I can't judge. To me it was a pretty good year this year compared to solid/ok last year. Upcoming year looks much better. Can we stop counting remasters?
 
I think the xbox one had the most consistently solid line up of exclusives, but to be honest I probably am somewhat biased. That being said, I love the souls games, and I really really would like to play blood borne as it looks excellent. Hopefully I can pick up a ps4 soon because there are auite a few exclusives up coming that I want to play. And i really, really want to play under tale. To the point that its pushing me to just buy a gaming lap top at some point, as the game willl most likely never hit consoles.
 

EGM1966

Member
Factually PC - but y'all throw in your favourite consoles anyway!

I'd say PS4 for console BTW thanks to Bloodbourne and Tearaway with XB1 and Wii U not too far behind.
 
As any game within its release date. Not anymore and not nearly as much as the Bloodborne love. It gets tiring. It makes me want to hate it just because. All this gushing and it's not even guaranteed to be in GAF Top 5 this year
(Will probably end up in 4th position)
. Can't wait the see the reality of its popularity here.

You should spend less time getting annoyed about other peoples favourite game.
 

-MD-

Member
I love PC but anyone claiming that it has the best library this year is full of it. Sure most good console games were also on PC, but it had few great exclusives - especialy compared to other systems. I'd say PS4 takes the cake here:

-Bloodborne
-Tearaway
-The Order (yeah it's not great but it's a fun little game)

This post is unintentionally hilarious.
 
PS4 had a great year and is definitely the winner but i really enjoyed this year on wii u

Kirby and the Rainbow curse
Splatoon
Super Mario Maker
Yoshi's Woolly World
Fatal Frame Maiden of the black water
Xenoblade Chronicles X
Mario Kart DLC pack 2
Super Smash Bros DLC
all the extra splatoon content

to this day i still play splatoon, smash, and mario kart online
 

Phinor

Member
PC easily, but I think all three main console platforms had some good exclusives as well. Despite owning all of these platforms, I don't like exclusives. But then if everything was available on PC, I wouldn't have any need to buy the other platforms in the first place so exclusives remain important for Sony/MS/Nintendo and I think all three delivered reasonably well this year.
 

Deku Tree

Member
The games I played the most this year were BB and Destiny on PS4 (with the highest user base on GAF on PS4 and extra content).

So I vote for PS4.
 

Lucifon

Junior Member
For me nothing beats:

Gears Of War Collection
Forza 6
Halo 5
Tomb Raider
Rare Replay
Ori

I have a PS4 as well but Bloodborne isn't my thing and the Order was complete crap.

I agree. The XB1 had the most solid line up this year, some genuinely great exclusives and then all the multiplatform stuff too. WiiU has been fairly solid, but not spectacular. PS4 has barely had anything memorable for me (I struggled to get into Bloodborne), despite me buying most my multiplatform games for it.
 
I love PC but anyone claiming that it has the best library this year is full of it. Sure most good console games were also on PC, but it had few great exclusives - especialy compared to other systems. I'd say PS4 takes the cake here:

-Bloodborne
-Tearaway
-The Order (yeah it's not great but it's a fun little game)

lol what
 

ArjanN

Member
It's all subjective man. As a PC owner, not a single one of those games you mentioned interested me. Pillars wasn't my type of game at all.

This is why these topics always end up as silly discussions overall. Personally, I'd take my Wii u and 3ds over both of my other consoles and PC though I understand that others may have a completely different opinion. Why so many of you act like there is a definite answer to a question where the response will vary from person to person is beyond me.

Eh, eventually it's always subjective of course, but if we're being real...it's PC. Regardless of which specific games someone likes or dislikes, pure numbers wise it has more exclusive games than any of the consoles, and the best versions of all the multiplatform stuff. So overall it's bound to have the 'best' library for the largest amount of people.
 
Except there's not a thousand threads about it. We'll see where they land respectively in the NeoGAF GOTY thread.

Plenty of people bang on about Splatoon like it's the freshest thing in forever.

Probably not as much as Bloodborne though, I'll give you that!

It's cool with me that people are passionate about whatever game they are into, but you should never let the prevailing opinion determine your attitude/approach (not saying you do, just that's it's a common trap). I've felt an aversion to games before because they are praised too much, and sometimes I've ended up feeling sheepish when I finally play the game and find out I love it. Other times I've bought into the hype and walked away feeling underwhelmed. True objectivity is hard I guess.
 

Coxy100

Banned
I can't comment on the Wii U - I've never liked Nintendo ...

But in terms of PS4 vs XB1 for me Microsoft won.

Whilst Sony had the best game in Bloodborne - the XB1 for me had the best lineup..

Ori and the Blind Forest (which in many ways for me was better than Bloodborne actually)
Gears Of War
Forza 6
Halo 5 (which was a massive disappointment - but multiplayer is good)
Tomb Raider
Rare Replay
 

Rosur

Member
My choice is:
PC > PS4 > XB1 > WII U > 3DS > Vita

If we where doing just exclusives I would go:

XB1 > PC > PS4 > Wii U
XB1 is first due to PS4 games being mostly indie and not having Tomb Raider, Rare Replay and BC.
 

Skytylz

Banned
By what I've played: PC > XBONE > WIIU > PS4.

Until dawn is the only game I bought on PS4, I don't like souls games and think they are kind of bad.

Wii U was mainly Mario Maker for games this year. I preferred it to Until Dawn. I only just got a Wii U so I was playing some other games on it not from this year.

XBONE I bought a handful of games, mainly because they were pretty well priced. Halo has solid multiplayer and Forza was a solid entry in the franchise so that probably got it ahead of PS4 and Wii U for me.

PC is where I play all multiplat games and Starcraft along with some random indie games easily puts it in front.
 

Bolivar687

Banned
2015 was another mediocre year for first party offerings. With a slew of great multiplatform games stealing the show, Wii U comes in last by default. I played Witcher 3 on PC and everything else on PS4.

On PC I really enjoyed Grey Goo and the Unreal alpha but like so many PC exclusives, the community just never took off for either and they both suffer for it. Magic Duels was great and shows a lot of promise, counted as an exclusive because of how unplayable it is elsewhere. Path of Exile and Dota continued getting strong support.

PS4 did a better job filling out the year for my tastes, between Dragon Quest, The Order, and the indies that came between. As the lead platform with the biggest communities for the multiplatform standouts, PS4 did it for me.
 

Kolgar

Member
For my money, Xbox One in a landslide.

I have come to peace with the fact that the true worth of a video-game console is not measured in clock rate or shader count. It's the games I want to play.
 

KooopaKid

Banned
You should spend less time getting annoyed about other peoples favourite game.

Probably! But it's difficult when it's all over your face and the vocal minority are pretenting the other games just don't compare.
Splatoon is my GOTY but I'm not going to pretend that after playing it, the other games are worthless.
 

phanphare

Banned
Plenty of people bang on about Splatoon like it's the freshest thing in forever.

Probably not as much as Bloodborne though, I'll give you that!

It's cool with me that people are passionate about whatever game they are into, but you should never let the prevailing opinion determine your attitude/approach (not saying you do, just that's it's a common trap). I've felt an aversion to games before because they are praised too much, and sometimes I've ended up feeling sheepish when I finally play the game and find out I love it. Other times I've bought into the hype and walked away feeling underwhelmed. True objectivity is hard I guess.

I'm the same way. if a game (or movie or tv show, etc.) gets a ridiculous amount of praise and I wasn't there at the beginning to experience it without expectations I make myself wait a bit before diving in.
 

Max_Po

Banned
Xbone for me, been disappointed with ps4 this year. Another fall with nothing to show. Have a word Kaz

For me Xbx 1 only has Rise of thw Tomb Raider.

The rest are just remakes and sequels.

I don't even bother getting multi platform gmaes on xbx 1 due to inferior framerate/resolution.

PS4 and PC have been a beast.

The Witcher 3 on PC is fantastic.
Fallout 4.

Overall pretty below average year in my opinion.
 
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