XBOX One had a better year than a lot of people give it credit for, while I wouldnt rank it above the PC or the Wii U, I would rank it above the 3DS and PS4.

As always, PC Wins. And with Divinity: Original Sin, blows away the competition.

However, the Wii U really surprised me this year. Definately the best of the consoles, any multiplats I can play on the PC anyway. Best version too.

Engine limitations (joking). But seriously, most players go with swords in RPGs, sadly. I almost never go with swords, and tend to use the most exotic (but believable) weapons I can find. I use the Immersive weapons addon, and quickly found myself using a quarterstaff.

Edit: the list. Splatoon is now 3rd and War for the overworld replaces Kingdom Come

1. MGSV. I dont care if this has the freeroam cancer, at least it looks fun as hell.
2. War for the overworld: Who doesnt want to be the dungeon keeper?
3. Splatoon: Looks charming and fun, an interesting twist to the shooter genre.

Worth mentioning,

Zelda: I am a huge zelda fan. But seeing the supposed world sized killed a lot of my hype, now it is wait and see. Freeroam cancer may have killed this game for me. It all rests on the dungeons now.

The Mandate: My most hyped game, But I dont think this will release next year. If it does, it will easily take the top slot. I can comandeer a spaceship, and run the crew, totally feeling like a boss.

Bethesda delivers what they are good at and what their fans want. To see them do differently is like seeing Valve make a console exclusive, Nintendo make a cinematic cover based shooter or BioWare make a game with good gameplay again.

I thought they already did that with The Elder Scrolls 4.5: Capital Wasteland :P

That looks pretty bad. The same banal stuff we have seen dozens of times already. The kill animations looked terrible too. QTEs too many cutscenes... blegh.

The tech demonstrated in the game does NOT look like 1886 tech at all. I recall seeing machine pistols and assault rifles in there. And zeppelins werent flying around until 1900.

My party is awesome :D

It is because of stuff like this full party creation ftw. Who needs generic hero X, when you got Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris?

Despite owning most games there, I did find myself stocking up quite a bit on 4X games and RPGs.

Loving Wasteland 2 thus far.

Seems like there is a pretty strong dislike of the game on most of the communities I go to. Either way, people here seem to like it so BioWare must have done something right, I dont think it is overrated, but I sure as hell strongly dislike it.

Anyways, this is why I avoid these huge open world games. They all fall for the same traps. The most overrated game I have played this year would probably be... Dark Souls 2.

Look, I think Half Life 2 is an incredibly bland and boring shooter.

But of all the things it got wrong, the pacing was not one of them. Pacing was arguably the strongest point of Half Life 2. Frequently changing things up, through the use of brilliant set pieces, and introduction of new toys.