Which game you played on 1st January 2016?

Was collecting triforce shards in wind waker lol. It's a pretty great game though :)

Splatoon, Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival and Pokemon Alpha Sapphire.

I played: CS: Go

Counter Strike: Global Offensive, followed by Rocket League.

Warframe, Unreal Tournament (alpha)

@indzman: Oh, I "beat" Ground Zeroes. I just have to go back and do all that side stuff and speed run etc. Which amounts to a whole crap ton of stuff.

Replaying persona 4 (PS2)

@drinkerofjuice: >Implying Metal Gear as something serious and not intentionally comical. I'm not sure about you, but things like Big Boss' epiphany about the cardboard box were what MGS was all about... in between supernaturally-powered antagonists, and giant bipedal robots.

I get what you are saying, but coming from where MG has been, and where plenty of people fell in love with it, you have to admit that Hayter, despite how "poor" of an actor he might have been, *was* Snake.

I devirginized 2016 with Halo 5.

I was retrofitting Windows XP on my old 2010 netbook. It took all day to find drivers for it. So......

MechCommander 2

Quake 2

Dungeon Keeper 2

Command & Conquer 2

Warcraft 3.

The above are a few games that run great on an Atom N550/Intel GMA 3150.

The Hobbit for Gamecube- saw it for $5 at a flea market, remembered playing it at a friends' house a long time ago.

It sucks but I'm gonna give it a go.

I'm also playing BLOPS3 on Xbone and Smash for 3DS

Planescape Torment.

Is this your first Zelda game?

@freedomfreak: "Dying Light"

How is the entire game as I only played the trial demo.

@charizard1605: Nah fourth. Have played (to completion) A Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time, Majoras Mask and now I've just finished Wind Waker.

Edit: actually that's incorrect. I've also finished Links Awakening and Minish Cap :)

Either...

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

Soul Calibur IV

Tekken 6

Noice! I never realized you were into Zelda games! Which one has been your favorite so far?

@PSP107: Having a blast with it. It's like a refined Dead Island with parcour.

Yeah I haven't owned a Ninty console for a while... I guess A Link to the Past is my overall favourite as that was my first. It really is kind of the standard I hold other games. For example if you compare ALTTP's open world, where every collectible is obtained in a unique way and every activity is handcrafted, with games like Assassin's Creed it kind of feels like a step back (obv AC has a much more complex world, so the comparison is somewhat unfair).

Ocarina of Time was mindblowing when it came of course. Never gonna have an experience like that again :).

What's your favourite?

A Link to the Past is my favorite Zelda game, and for about 20 years, was my favorite game ever, too. I still hold it to be the only example of a perfect game, ever. I like Ocarina of Time, though that hasn't aged as well, but it's still a great game, Majora's Mask is a very disturbing piece of art, Wind Waker is probably my second favorite Zelda game overall, if only because of the charm, Twilight Princess may have some of the best dungeons in the series, and Skyward Sword is trash.

A Link Between Worlds, thankfully, was a step in the right direction, and it gives me hope for the upcoming Zelda game as well.

But I agree- Nintendo's open worlds are just large levels, that are still crafted with every bit the detail that their individual levels are- its why I have so much hope from the upcoming game, I am hoping that Nintendo can rewrite the book for open world games, show that all that space doesn't have to be filler, that it can integrate into the main gameplay experience meaningfully.

I finished Tomb Raider on the 30th, so I was playing Until Dawn. It is surprisingly fun.

Metal Gear Solid V, Smash 3DS, and Counter-Strike: Source.

Pokemon Rumble World!

FFVII

Of course, but given the narrative circumstances of TPP and/or Ground Zeroes, he wouldn't have been the ideal fit. Both games are considerably darker in tone, and with Big Boss reaching mid-age, Sutherland's voice matches the character's body and face much more suitably. Keep in mind the last time Hayter tried to channel an older Snake was with MGS4, and it was downright laughable at best. Metal Gear has always been a zany series, but it's also not without a fair share off very serious and oddly profound moments. So with TPP having Boss saying things like "It's alright Kaz, I'm a demon already" or "I won't scatter your sorrow to the heartless sea", Sutherland is able to put in enough dramatic weight into those lines without it sounding very contrived.

Stonekeep

A little bit of League of Legends.

None

I haven't played any games this year yet, will soon though.

super Mario maker.

I can believe what you say about OOT because it seemed to me like WW was mechanically very similar and it did feel old at times. But WW of course has a much more timeless aesthetic (like you say it has charm in droves!). It just that the movement and the aiming gadgets (for example) doesn't hold up to a modern game like Arkham with really smart auto-aim features and quickfire acces to all gadgets without the need to go through a menu. Much better and fluid animations/movement etc.

Makes me glad to hear TP has better dungeons, will play that game in a while. I thought the dungeons in WW actually were a bit too linear. In alttp the levels were more interconnected in that you used one room to fall to another and so on. There was some of that in WW, but for the most part the dungeons played like a linear succesions of seperate rooms. I pretty much never used the map.

I hope you are right about the next Zelda. What worries me a bit is that it could be the other way around. In other words Nintendo may try to modernize Zelda by making it more like Assassin's Creed // Dragon Age etc type of busy work open world. However one of the reasons TW3 was so popular (to my understanding) is because it was able to break with this formula by offering a more narratively dense experience. So perhaps the tide is turning and Nintendo are able to create an open world with actual gameplay variety where you are allowed to explore and figure things out on your own!

Btw Makar is just the funniest character in a game ever. When he started playing I just bursted out laughing :D

Gyromancer (PC)

Dodo Pop (Mobile)

I'm on holidays so I don't have my gaming rig around. ;)

riddick: escape from butcher bay (360)

The Binding of Isaac..................very fun game.

Ori and the Blind Forest - I don't know why I thought this was going to be more platformer, and not more Metroid, because it's definitely pissing me off that some random studio in the middle of bumba **** can do this, but Nintendo can't produce a quality 2d metroid yet? The game is fucking fantastic on the production value front, awesome music, killer art direction, and all around beautiful world design. Everything animates nicely the settings just pop in a way that most other 2d games can only dream of offering, each area of the forest connects nicely, and I feel the game does Metroid upgrading in a way that maintains that world designs atmosphere, without the lazy color coded doors (even if it is a brand of that).

It being a platformer helps, and the core game feel is superb on that front, I wish the wall jumps felt better. Sometimes it feels like there is not enough hang time to it, but alas we can't all be Super Meat Boy. I can take or leave the boss sequences, and there were stretches where I had to carry an orb, those were pretty lame. The story doesn't do anything for me, but the gameplay and structure of that game world? Legit as all hell, easily one of my favorite Metroid-like games of the last few years. Since it takes more cues from Metroid, and less from Symphony of the Night aka the lesser game to Super Metroid.

Farcry 2...apart from some annoying gameplay mechanics, I love the African setting much more than i thought I would...major factor why i'm trudging through it even though I was a little turn off by insta-respawning checkpoints. And the game gfx holds up pretty damn good.

Diablo3 on ps4, little break from xenoblade X

Gunpoint.

Mass Effect (PC)

Xenoblade X

Pokemon Shuffle cause I'm a casual pleb.

Bravely Default

Fallout 4

Halo 5 for me. Everything else has been put on the back burner until I unlock every req. I'll play other games here or there (100% Yoshi's Wooly World, worlds 1 & 2) but I imagine myself playing Halo 5 for a LONG time. Or at least until April when Uncharted comes out.

Rise of the Tomb Raider and man, the game is a blast and worth the price of admission, easily, great stuff. :D

Battlefield 4. It took DICE so long, but finally, it works mostly without hiccups.

Didn't play anything on January 1. The first game I played this year though was Xenoblade Chronicles X. Aside from the camera controls, the game is an absolute blast to play.

Destiny with my friends. Please forgive me system wars.