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[Animagic]

It was an awesome year for Japanese developed games (I mostly played Switch).. I had a blast playing games this year.

Astral Chain is my GOTY

 

[cireza]

I found it pretty good. Everything happened on Xbox One (for me), except for House of Fata Morgana on Vita and God Eater 3 on Switch.

If every year could be like this, I would be quite happy actually.

My games this year :
Dead or Alive 6
Hitman 2
FF XIII and XIII-3 on Xbox BC
Code Vein
House in Fata Morgana
Xeno Crisis on MegaDrive
Plague Tale
God Eater 3

 

[Storm Prelude]

This thread looks like a race to who has the best taste smh
I'd say it has been a pretty good year, "stained" by the fact that we're coming from 2 exceptional years

 

[Ryu Kaiba]

Death Stranding
Resident Evil 2
Kingdom Hearts 3
A plague Tale

haven't tried Days Gone Atelier Ryza or Sekiro yet

 

[GymWolf]

for me it was a great year.

 

[ResurrectedContrarian]

Yeah but.... Super Mario Maker 2 (and Luigi's Mansion, to a lesser extent) is basically the kind of event that keeps me gaming, and that brings great joy to my gaming time with the family. So, I'm perfectly happy.

 

[EverydayBeast]

I could have seen Last of Us 2 releasing, Days Gone doing better but I thought it was a good year overall.

 

[KorbinDallas]

WoW Classic was released, at the behest of a solid fan-base. Despite the original game release in 2004.

 

[Lionel Richie]

Like every year in the past 10 years or so, it was a bad year only if you don't play mainly japanese games. Glorious nippon (with some help from eastern europe) has been keeping the industry alive for quite some time.

 

[DESTROYA]

Great overall Nintendo had a very good lineup this year, Switch games I picked up

Astral Chain
Luigis Haunted Mansion
Fire Emblem 3 Houses
Dragons Quest XI
Atlier Ryza

Never mind cross platform

Sekiro
DMC5
Darksiders Genesis
Metro Exodus
Bloodstained
Katana Zero

And many more I’m missing.

 

[Väinömäinen]

It was a very good year.

 

[Jeeves]

Maybe if you don't like Nintendo. I haven't felt this inundated with games to play in years.

 

[Diddy X]

Nah lol, I won't ever complain about the games that came out during one whole year, last two gens have been fuckin legendary, every year of them.

 

[Fake]

If you hate 2019 I have bad news for you about 2020.

 

[DragoonKain]

I think it was a solid year. It didn't have any of the "elite" titles but it had a lot of depth. A lot of games I really like. RE2, Control, Star Wars, A Plague Tale, Bloodstained, The Outer Worlds, Borderlands 3, Zelda are all games I loved. Plus others I've yet to play but will soon like Luigi's Mansion 3, Astral Chain, Death Stranding, Sekiro.

I think it was a good year. 2020 will probably have more generational titles, but maybe less overall depth, but we shall see.

 

[brap]

Please remove the opinion tag. This is a fact.

 

[Thabass]

i agree. only bought Sekiro and The Division 2. hardly even touched The Division 2.

played Star Wars fallen order which was "free" as part of a subscription. it was enjoyable to run through but pretty mediocre.



opinions and stuff...

your list is mostly junk as far as i'm concerned.

Yeah you have bad opinions

That said, even though there's a lot of good games in there. None of them are really standouts aside from maybe RE2 Remake, Sekiro, and the Pokemon games.

 

[Naibel]

There were great games released this year but we were spoiled, I mean SPOILED, by 2017 and 2018 ! It was ridiculous how packed with GOTG-material games those years were ! A solid year like 2019 seems lean in comparaison.

Astral Chain, DQ XI S are easily my GOTY picks. I like Zelda and Luigi as well but not at the same level. I was mostly retro-gaming and going through my backlog this year though (thanks again 2017/2018).

 

[jshackles]

Games I finished (or am almost finished with) that released in 2019 that I really liked:

• Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition
• Crackdown 3
• Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon: Every Buddy
• Yoshi's Crafted World
• Cadence of Hyrule
• Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
• Mortal Kombat 11
• Dragon Quest Builders 2
• The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
• Link's Awakening Remake
• Final Fantasy VIII Remastered
• Oninaki
• The Outer Worlds
• Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
• Atelier Ryza
• Pokemon Sword

For me, 2019 was an amazing year for gaming. There are quite a few games that came out this year that I haven't got to yet and will be diving into deeper next year. Like Dragon Quest XI S, Resident Evil 2, Death Stranding, Goose Game, Plague Tale, Planet Zoo, and Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers.

2020 looks like it also has some great games coming out, but if you didn't find something fun to play this year, I almost feel like that's on you.

 

[ChadDaddyWarden]

There has been plenty of good games released this year. The comparisons to 2014 are hyperbole.

 

[Vawn]

It's 2019????

I'm confused. My top two GOTY candidates are Resident Evil 2 and Link's Awakening.

 

[Roufianos]

Yea. Star Wars and RE2 were great but nothing generation defining.

Link's Awakening, Judgement, Control and The Outer Worlds were decent.

COD, DMCV, Pokemon and Days Gone all disappointed.

Still got Death Stranding and Luigi's Mansion to try.

 

[Elektro Demon]

It wasn't a bad year, you just have to expand your taste in games a little more and try out new things.

 

[Slings and Arrows]

ITT: My list of mediocre games proves I am right and your opinion is wrong.

TBH, it's been a meh generation for games. I keep thinking back to games I really enjoyed and realised they released on the 360...

I won't be looking back at this gen with the fondness I have for previous gens. Other than Bloodborne, all I can remember is shitty mtx, shitty season passes and £97 for Borderlands 3

 

[hariseldon]

Disco Elysium happened. No, 2019 was fucking magnificent.

 

[SantaC]

Games I finished (or am almost finished with) that released in 2019 that I really liked:

• Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition
• Crackdown 3
• Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon: Every Buddy
• Yoshi's Crafted World
• Cadence of Hyrule
• Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
• Mortal Kombat 11
• Dragon Quest Builders 2
• The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
• Link's Awakening Remake
• Final Fantasy VIII Remastered
• Oninaki
• The Outer Worlds
• Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
• Atelier Ryza
• Pokemon Sword

For me, 2019 was an amazing year for gaming. There are quite a few games that came out this year that I haven't got to yet and will be diving into deeper next year. Like Dragon Quest XI S, Resident Evil 2, Death Stranding, Goose Game, Plague Tale, Planet Zoo, and Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers.

2020 looks like it also has some great games coming out, but if you didn't find something fun to play this year, I almost feel like that's on you.

Your list was pretty decent until I saw Crackdown 3.

 

[jshackles]

Your list was pretty decent until I saw Crackdown 3.

I unironically enjoyed Crackdown 3. It wasn't my favorite game of 2019 by any stretch of the imagination, but the campaign was fun and it reminded me of the first game (which I also really liked). I didn't play any of the multiplayer, didn't buy into the "power of the cloud" nonsense they were pushing, but yeah I enjoyed it for what it was.

 

[ColonialRaptor]

I also agree, I’ve only enjoyed Jedi fallen order this year.

I picked up control but I’m not sold on it yet. I’ll give it another session to see how I feel about it but mostly I think I’m not in love with the setting and have never been a big fan of creepy / horror stuff which is probably where it’s losing me because the basic gameplay premise I really like along with the destructive environments.
2020 is shaping up to be huge and I’m looking forward to many games to be released next year

 

[Dane]

A good year IMO, trash year was 2014, lots of hyped games flopped.

 

[Hinedorf]

Compared to last year I tend to agree. Although I will say 2018 had more quantity of great titles, this year has brought me some new loves that I consider better than last year.

1. Mordhau has absolutely taken a stronghold in my life as just about the only game I'm playing anymore. I so very much want to get more invested in Death Stranding but I just cannot get enough Mordhau from the time I get home till bed. I quickly reached a 300+ hour mark for play time.

2. Death Stranding is my personal GOTY and I likely wont play the bulk of it till 2020.

3. Crossroads Inn - Steam game with a pretty fantastic story, good comedy, basically you build your own tavern/inn while following a pretty cool story. Still a bit buggy but has improved recently. This little gem brings me tons of joy just as a micromanagement sim

4. Tropico 6 - One of my all time favorite game series to me it felt like they increased the difficult significantly. Tropico 4, 5, 6 are all fantastic

Biggest meh moment for me this year was Red Dead Online. Once you play enough of it you realize it's a hollow existence of a game that stands to serve as a reminder how ripped off we all are compared to just getting DLC in the primary game. Everything in RDO could've seamlessly been translated to Arthur or even John, instead it's all built around Rockstar paywall.

 

[Cliff Underside]

I feel like this year saw more good games than usual but very few great games, so it was kind of mediocre in that way. On the other hand it was a great year for PC gaming, as there were many ports of amazing (former) console exclusives.

 

[Touch fuzZy. get BizZay]

I do feel like it was a step down from recent years which were quite good. Not a trash year but not a standout one either. Still some great stuff and I haven't played some of the big games yet.

But some of those big games just don't suit me - Star Wars is so dead to me after everything that's happened that I just can't care about Fallen Order. And I enjoyed Sekiro, but I usually enjoy Souls games for years and years murdering other players online, so the lack of multiplayer makes the pleasure a relatively short lived one for me. Outer Worlds really fizzled out for me, I thought it was gonna be like a much better Fallout, but it ended up being mostly a chore with some good moments.

Going to try and squeeze in some more of the big games like RE2 and Disco Elysium and hope I like them, or my top 10 list for 2019 is just gonna be moderately budgeted 8/10 style Nintendo Switch games.

 

[Gargus]

Don't know about you but I've had a lot of fun playing games this year.

 

[ethomaz]

I found it pretty great.

One of the best gaming years in my life.

Death Stranding alone put this year above others years.
Plus Sekiro, Control, Borderland 3, Destiny 2 Shadow Keep, Days Gone, Resident Evil 2, more games games and games.

 

[Pidull]

2019 had a lot of really good games, but I feel like it missed in terms of true excellence. There is something for everyone but this is the first year in a while where I haven't thought 1 or more games were head and shoulders above the rest.

Highlights for me included RE2 and Control, but RE2 is not quite RE4 in terms of gameplay variety (2nd best in the series IMO), and Control is not even close to the pinnacle of Metroid-likes.

Next year should be nuts though. February through April? I almost want to quit my job.

 

[Golgo 13]

Agreed that 2019 was the worst year for gaming since 2014, easily. There were some good games but nothing that really left a mark (although I still haven’t played Disco, it doesn’t look like my cup of tea).

 

[Doom85]

I had a good-excellent time with RE2 REmake, Days Gone, Fire Emblem Three Houses, Control, River City Girls, Borderlands 3, Man of Medan, Death Stranding, Pokemon Sword, and Jedi: Fallen Order. Haven't even gotten around to Kingdom Hearts 3, Devil May Cry 5, Astral Chain, Code Vein, Link's Awakening, Yoshi's Crafted World, Daemon x Machina, Plague Tale, Outer Worlds, Atelier Ryza, Greedfall, etc.

I'm not saying 2020 might not be better (RE 3, Last of Us 2, FF VIIR, Elden Ring, Cyberpunk, Watch Dogs Legion, etc.) but 2019 still brought me a lot of fun and there's a ton from the year I haven't even had a chance to try out.

 

[Griffon]

It was an alright year, far from worst but not the best either.
It's always telling about a particular year when my favorite discoveries are old games (Diablo 1 was the big one for me).

RE2 was very good and Sekiro was nice, but I had pretty notable gameplay gripes about both. And then the rest of the year was super barren imo. We have had much better in the past (but also worse, to be fair).

 

[majestix1988]

epic game store civil war on pc, microtransaction bonanza troubles and downfall of a studio named "Bethesda"

Games are okay

 

[Romulus]

Cyberpunk, Iron Man, and Half life Alyx will make up for it in early 2020 for me.

 

[Belmonte]

2019 was one of the best years in this decade for me. Lots of gameplay focused titles like Sekiro, RE2 and DMCV instead of cinematic experiences.

 

[Terenty]

What outstanding games came out in 2018?

God of war? No. Spider man? No. Fallout 76? No. Asscreed? No. Detroit become human? No.

The only good game worth buyng was Rdr 2.

 

[Damien Crowley]

What outstanding games came out in 2018?

God of war? No. Spider man? No. Fallout 76? No. Asscreed? No. Detroit become human? No.

The only good game worth buyng was Rdr 2.

So tell me what games were so great in 2018 so that 2019 is total shit in comparison

Is this satire? Did you mistake the years with each other? Something is up with your post, but I can't put my finger on it.

 

[Lanrutcon]

What outstanding games came out in 2018?

God of war? No. Spider man? No. Fallout 76? No. Asscreed? No. Detroit become human? No.

The only good game worth buyng was Rdr 2.

Horse Pooping Simulator 2018 was this man's GOTY.

I smell a fetish.

 

[Damien Crowley]

Horse Balls Shrinking and Expanding Simulator 2018 was this man's GOTY.

I smell a fetish.

FTFY

 

[mejin]

2019 was a solid year imo. maybe 1st half was a bit better, but overall a good year. The only year I felt it was underwhelming was 2014.

2020 will definitely be better. the transition of gen for playstation is always nuts, almost like the whole industry works hard to bring their best to the table.

 

[Saruhashi]

How did you come to this conclusion?

Elden Ring
Cyberpunk
FF7R
Tales of Arise
REmake 3
Nioh 2
Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition
Biomutant
NMH3
Maybe YS9
Maybe the new Zelda

You have 2 "maybe" releases on your list.
Surely 2020 can't be judged until 2020 is actually well underway?
Also, Isn't this a really subjective thing?

I think the best way to judge a year in gaming might be to judge by the amount of money being made.
Realistically for every person saying "there are only 4 games I really liked" you are going to have someone else who has a list of like 20 games they loved.

One thing I feel like I've noticed about 2019 is that there seemed to be a lot less "hype" surrounding the entire industry.
Sony pulled out of E3 and their marketing of their own exclusive games has been very lackluster.
I don't know if this is because the next generation is coming up and large parts of the industry are changing their focus already?

There are plenty of great games but everyone is starting to look ahead to the new consoles.

Even a widely hyped up game like The Last of Us 2 comes with a conversation about whether it will be cross-generation or if they will have an enhanced PS5 edition at some point etc. So there is a kind of built in hesitancy about everything leading up to the next gen.

 

[Typhares]

So far I would agree with OP.

My favorite games so far are Katana Zero and Bloodstained probably. (And Obra Dinn but that's a 2018 game played this year)

I have not touched Death Stranding or outer worlds yet.
Resi 2 was good but I'm not a massive fan either, played the story once and I have enough.
I did not enjoy Control, fallen order or KHIII much.
Gonna play Luigi's mansion 3 soon, I think that will be quite good.

Borderlands 3 could have been a great one for me but I'm waiting for Steam release.

 

[OutrageousFacts]

100% agreed. It's actually the first year ever where I can't name a #1 goty, because nothing amazing stands out.

People who think this year was good will never have a bad year. Lowered expectations must be nice

 

[IKSTUGA]

One of my favorite years in a long time. I love Japanese games and 2019 most definitely delivered on those. DMC, RE, Mario, FE, Zelda, Pokemon, FF, Tales, DQ, Astral Chain...