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[Explosive Zombie]

I want to start a series of threads for GAF's favorite games of each year starting with 2019 and going backwards, if people care to participate. I didn't start with 2020 because it's not done and if people game like I do the follow-up year is often spent playing games you missed the year before. How often is your GOTY decided before that year even ends? For me almost never, though I often have a good idea if something big enough launches.

So... here's my top games of 2019...

(These are in order)

Spoiler

There are games I still haven't gotten to, some games I listed I haven't yet beaten and it's unclear how thorough my source is for everything released in 2019, so who knows if I missed something.

Sekiro is the main game that could rise when I get deeper into it. As a big fan of From's Souls games it should have instantly been my number 1 but the way they handled combat with Sekiro was and has been tough for me in a way the Souls series only ever was when I first engaged them.

 

[Raven117]

Ya know....last year really didn’t blow my hair back. I guess Days Gone (surprisingly)

 

[Explosive Zombie]

Ya know....last year really didn’t blow my hair back. I guess Days Gone (surprisingly)

Hey I appreciate you making my thread not dead!

 

[Raven117]

Hey I appreciate you making my thread not dead!

Weekends are slow. No worries

 

[marcincz]

Ace Combat 7
A Plague Tale
Kingdom Hearts III

 

[Monado X]

Fire Emblem Three Houses
Katana Zero
Resident Evil 2
Astral Chain
Steam World Quest

 

[Old Retro]

Days Gone for me but it was not a runaway winner. It, like my other favorites, were sequals or remakes - RE2, Division 2, Bloodstained/Castlevania SOTN clone. I'll throw in COD MW, it's pretty damn fun (except for rampant multiplayer cheating) and still going strong.

 

[Danjin44]

For me.
Astral Chain

Sekiro

Fire Emblem Three Houses

Luigi's Mansion 3

Link's Awakening

Atelier Ryza

Resident Evil 2 Remake

Kingdom Hearts 3

Bloodstained Ritual of the Night

Dragon Quest XI S

Tales of Vesperia Definitive Edition

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Ya know....last year really didn’t blow my hair back.

Same. I liked a few games but can't say I loved them or anything.

 

[Northeastmonk]

RE2, Sekiro, and Bloodstained were my joyous moments of last year. I had Days Gone and a bunch of the other titles too. Astral Chain was one hell of an experience. DMC5 and Kingdom Hearts III were also good. Their final encounters were

 

[Goro Majima]

Probably Judgment and Control were my favorite games of 2019.

Maybe Imperator Rome also but it was a pretty barebones release.

 

[GaviotaGrande]

Death Stranding = masterpiece
The Division 2 = the only game as a service I ever enjoyed
The Outer Worlds = mediocre to the bone, I miss Fallout 1/2
Days Gone = piece of shit

 

[ProgenitorCastle]

Another one for Bloodstained

 

[kunonabi]

Haven't got around to playing much of what I bought so at the moment:

1. Shenmue III
2. Death Stranding
3. Samurai Shodown

Had the Leon portion of the RE2 remake not been such trash I might have included it.

 

[TintoConCasera]

For me it was Sekiro, DMC V and RE2.
Didn't liked Astral Chain, and The Outer Worlds was a huge disappointment.

Edit: totally a jap year. What are western developers doing?

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

So far my favorite 2019 games are Death Stranding and Sekiro, but I still haven't played most of the other big hits from last year.

 

[Northeastmonk]

I didn’t get Blasphemous back when it came out. I just got it because of the OP. On sale over at the NA PSN store. Interesting how New Dawn made E Explosive Zombie top list. I talked to someone who said it felt like they forced finding resources and it was such a slug to get through because of that.

 

[Woggleman]

Days Gone. It is actually in my top five of the gen.

 

[Bolivar687]

Modern Warfare was both the return to form and evolution I had been hoping to see from the series. CoD had been stagnating with its three-lane hallways and these maps added just enough asymmetry and verticality to revive the series emphasis on situational awareness and moment to moment decision making. There were a ton of new innovations and while not all were successful, this managed to simultaneously return to its roots and herald a new era for the series.

 

[Tesseract]

apex legends

sekiro

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

I want to start a series of threads for GAF's favorite games of each year starting with 2019 and going backwards, if people care to participate. I didn't start with 2020 because it's not done and if people game like I do the follow-up year is often spent playing games you missed the year before. How often is your GOTY decided before that year even ends? For me almost never, though I often have a good idea if something big enough launches.

So... here's my top games of 2019...

(These are in order)

Spoiler

There are games I still haven't gotten to, some games I listed I haven't yet beaten and it's unclear how thorough my source is for everything released in 2019, so who knows if I missed something.

Sekiro is the main game that could rise when I get deeper into it. As a big fan of From's Souls games it should have instantly been my number 1 but the way they handled combat with Sekiro was and has been tough for me in a way the Souls series only ever was when I first engaged them.

Easy Resident evil II Remake and Sekiro

Days Gone is one of the worst actually.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

For me.
Astral Chain

Sekiro

Fire Emblem Three Houses

Luigi's Mansion 3

Link's Awakening

Atelier Ryza

Resident Evil 2 Remake

Kingdom Hearts 3

Bloodstained Ritual of the Night

Dragon Quest XI S

Tales of Vesperia Definitive Edition

Amazing list!!!

 

[Hobbygaming]

Resident Evil 2 remake
Days Gone
Death Stranding
Control
Judgment

These alone made it a great year IMO

 

[DForce]

Resident Evil 2 Remake
Days Gone
Control

 

[MrS]

1. Death Stranding
2. Sekiro
3. Apex Legends
4. Days Gone
5. RE2
6. Bloodstained ROTN
7. Control
8. Cat Quest 2

 

[brian0057]

1. Resident Evil 2.
2. REmake 2.
3. The remake of Resident Evil 2.
4. RE2.
5. Metro Exodus.

 

[SpiceRacz]

Pretty lackluster year. I didn't play as many newer titles, but what I did play was mostly underwhelming. These ones stood out the most to me.

Apex Legends

Bloodstained

Slay The Spire

Blasphemous

Control

 

[EverydayBeast]

For me it’s Metro Exodus

 

[Walter Matthau]

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[Golgo 13]

So initially when I made this post I’d regarded 2019 as a mediocre year but then I remembered games like

The surprisingly brilliant Luigi’s Mansion 3 — the best 3rd party Nintendo game I’ve ever played.

DMC5 — one of the best games in a genre defining series and a shockingly good return to form.

Sekiro — FromSoft are brilliant, and although this was probably my least favorite game by them, it was still good. Damn good.

Disco Elysium — where the fuck did this game come from? Did this game just revive the point-and-click detective genre with a... brilliant game?

Jedi: Fallen Order: Surprisingly competent Star Wars Uncharted-lite, with some Dark Souls mixed in. Finally a Star Wars game that wasn’t an embarrassment to the brand (it’s actually better than any of the movies of the last few years).

Pretty solid year, now that I think about it.

 

[Investor9872]

Haven't tried Sekiro yet, because I'd seen enough videos of people throwing their controllers and TVs out the window, and I love my electronics. But judging from all the comments here, I'll give it a go this holiday. I started playing Days Gone day-1, no pun intended, and it was a mess. The developers, Bend Studio, released almost daily patches the first couple of weeks, but the frame rate still would drop drastically, abysmally when I was riding around town. Got quite dizzy playing it. I did plat the game, and like what I saw, so maybe I'll give it another play through now that everything has been sorted out.

Nioh was my favorite 2019 game
Jedi: Fallen Order was my 2nd favorite

and the following in no particular order:

Horizon Zero Dawn
RE 2
Borderlands 3
Gran Turismo Sport
FFVII PS4 (haven't played the remake yet)
COD: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
COD: Modern Warfare (I was having a lot of fun with the multiplayer until the game grew egregiously too large, and I had to delete it)
Monster Hunter World

Animal Crossing: New Horizon
Ring Fit Adventure (playing it daily with my wife still)
Octopath Travelers
Let's Go Evee
Cat Quest
Mario Odyssey
Mario and Rabbits
Luigi Mansion 3

 

[Explosive Zombie]

I didn’t get Blasphemous back when it came out. I just got it because of the OP. On sale over at the NA PSN store. Interesting how New Dawn made E Explosive Zombie top list. I talked to someone who said it felt like they forced finding resources and it was such a slug to get through because of that.

New Dawn isn't great but if you want to explore a similar but different environ to Far Cry 5 with added super powers it's pretty fun. My top list is pretty generous, as in there aren't many games I played that didn't make the list, but there were a few.

 

[Virex]

Sekiro and Fire Emblem

 

[Touch fuzZy. get BizZay]

I like to post my top 10 with nice screenshots in the voting thread each year

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/neog...endly-up-closed.1516465/page-2#post-256647432

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/neog...endly-up-closed.1516465/page-2#post-256647447

Maybe I'd add Judgement now that I've played it

 

[Krappadizzle]

Metro Exodus and Control both on PC were my games of the year last year. They both are fantastic for different reason and it's hard for me to pick one over the other.

I was stunned that more people didn't give Metro Exodus the attention it deserves. It's one of the best looking games on PC and the immersion is second to none.

 

[Northeastmonk]

Metro Exodus and Control both on PC were my games of the year last year. They both are fantastic for different reason and it's hard for me to pick one over the other.

I was stunned that more people didn't give Metro Exodus the attention it deserves. It's one of the best looking games on PC and the immersion is second to none.

I thought it was trying to do more ambitious things than Last Light did. Last Light felt like it wasn’t hard to get lost in. Exodus had some areas where it was just one big open area. Last Light was an excellent title of last gen. It prolly showcased the best games could get before the next gen of games arrived.