Board 8 > What are your top 10 Games of 2019?

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Hey every year I collect top 10 lists from people then add them together to get a goty made up of people I know from RL, discord, the moon, etc

If you are interested in submitting a list here in post or PM me
1.Only 2019 games
2.List up to ten, if you only played 3 2019 games thats perfectly cool!
3.Realize whatever you list as " 1. " will get 10 points, 2 will get 9, etc

Deadline is 12/3 to submit a list, ALL are welcome hope you submit!

Example lists from last year I got
1. Monster Hunter World (<- the top slot earns 10)
2. Super Smash Bros Ultimate
3. Spiderman
4. God of War
5. Shadow of the Tomb raider
6. Detroit Become Human
7.
8.
9.
10.

1. Dragon Quest XI
2. Monster Hunter: World
3. Yakuza Kiwami 2
4. Beat Saber
5. God of War
6. Donut County
7. Ni No Kuni 2
8. Detroit Become Human
9. Shadow of the Tomb Raider
10. State of Decay 2
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If your curious how voting has gone in previous years
2011: Arkham City (Runner Up: Saints Row The Third, Portal 2)
2012: Halo 4, (Runners Up: Asuras Wrath, Borderlands 2)
2013: GTAV (Runners Up: Pokemon X/Y, The Last of US )
2014: South Park: The Stick of Truth (Runner Up: Mario Kart 8, Smash Wii U)
2015: Fallout 4 (Runner Up: Metal Gear Solid V, Bloodborne)
2016: Overwatch (Runner Up: Final Fantasy XV, Dark Souls 3)
2017: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, (Runner Up: Persona 5, Super Mario Odyssey)
2018: Spiderman (Runner Up: God of War, Smash Ultimate)

Even more detailed voting available upon request
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Initial deadline is 12/3, revisions accepted until 12/15
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1. Disco Elysium
2. Slay the Spire
3. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
4. Fire Emblem: Three Houses
5. The Outer Worlds
6. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
7. AI: The Somnium Files
8. Raging Loop
9. Katana Zero
10. Samurai Shodown (2019)

Games that might make the list if I play more of them/play them at all: Astral Chain, DMC5, RE2, Judgment, Code Vein, Indivisible, Romancing SaGa 3

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1. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

That's all I got. Until Fallen Order comes out which will probably take the 2 spot.
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1. Devil May Cry 5
2. Resident Evil 2
3. Blair Witch
4. Pathologic 2
5. The Glass Staircase
6. Metro Exodus
7. Daymare: 1998
8. Them & Us
9. The Outer Worlds
10. Layers of Fear 2
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man that's hard to say with how many games just came out or are just about to come out
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Tag for later. Gotta play more Death Stranding and some Pokemon Shield before I submit.
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1. Untitled Goose Game
2. Fire Emblem Three Houses
3. Ring Fit Adventure

uhh that's it

I made many poor buying choices in 2019

for fun here's the other games I bought that aren't good enough to rank

Bloodstained
Just Cause 4
My Time at Portia
Little Town Hero
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1. Apex Legends
2. Control
3. GRID
4. Creature in the Well
5. Descenders
6. Outer Wilds
7. Mario Kart Tour
8. Slay the Spire
9. Lonely Mountains: Downhill
10. Eagle Island

I'm probably forgetting some games, but I could only think of 12 games that I have played from this year.
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Tag so I can play Fallen Order before finalizing, but I can say right now that DMC5, RE2make and Sekiro are looking like a pretty unstoppable top three.
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I'll let you know on Dec 31st
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1. Fire Emblem: Three Houses
2. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
3. Cadence of Hyrule
4. The Outer Worlds
5. Outer Wilds
6. Fate/Extella: Link

Initial list. I also played Control and Dai Gyakuten Saiban, but they weren't good enough for me to want to give them points.
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I copied all these down to my doc
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MegamanX posted...

1.Only 2019 games

Is this by original release or NA release

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Persona 5 was counted as 2017, so that'd mean NA.
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Snake5555555555 posted...

[a bunch of horror games]

No Man of Medan? I just picked it up, hoping it's even half as good as Until Dawn
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Johnbobb posted...

Snake5555555555 posted...

[a bunch of horror games]

No Man of Medan? I just picked it up, hoping it's even half as good as Until Dawn

It was a pretty big flop in my eyes. Uninteresting characters, plot filled with holes and non-sequiturs, and it pretty much only relies on jump scares to scare the player (and boy is the game chock full of 'em). Also, the game just doesn't feel as polished or graphically rich as Until Dawn was.

I've heard it's better playing with a partner, since apparently it makes the story make more sense. Haven't tried it though.
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01. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
02. Resident Evil 2 (2019)
03. Fire Emblem: Three Houses
04. Kingdom Hearts III
05. Devil May Cry 5
06. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
07. Super Mario Maker 2
08. Astral Chain
09. Blair Witch
10. Mortal Kombat 11

Do expansions count?
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aw that's a shame. Is the story different with a partner? I just kind of assumed it'd be the same

just started a little bit today, and it's... off to some kind of a start
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iiicon posted...

Do expansions count?

Shadowbringers is eligible
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Johnbobb posted...

aw that's a shame. Is the story different with a partner? I just kind of assumed it'd be the same

just started a little bit today, and it's... off to some kind of a start

From what I know, the story is the same, however, with a partner, you experience a more cohesive narrative, since you both will experience different perspectives at once. I think it leads to some especially interesting narrative moments down the line especially. I would like to try it out one time.
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1. Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers
2. Disco Elysium
3. Monster Hunter World: Iceborne
4. Devotion
5. Super Mario Maker 2
6. Baba Is You
7. Control
8. Apex Legends
9. Destiny 2: Shadowkeep
10. Eliza
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1. DMC5
2. Iceborne
3. Judgment
4. Resident Evil 2
5. The Outer Worlds
6. Baba Is You
7. Link's Awakening
8. Code Vein
9. Borderlands 3
10. KH3

Still need to play/finish some notable releases like Sekiro, Three Houses, and Astral Chain, and we have more to come this year so this may change.
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What's the policy on early access

UF8 posted...

What's the policy on early access

no go
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Darn fight crab's out then

I started Afterparty today and can already tell it will make my list when done.

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1. Hypnospace Outlaw
2. Ace Combat 7
3. Katana Zero
4. Umihara Kawase Fresh
5. Untitled Goose Game
6. Metal Wolf Chaos XD
7. Reserved for fight crab if it manages to leave early access in time otherwise see 8
8. Touhou 17: Wily Beast and Weakest Creature
9. I hate this game
10. Ord

HMs: AGARTHA which i didn't count because it was only localised this year, it's the backup 10

Note: i haven't actually played ac7 or metal wolf myself, i just watched playthroughs because i have nothing that can run them lol

also i wanna get luigi's mansion 3 by the end of the year and i still have around 10 steam games i haven't gotten around to and also i haven't played any vns from this year i bought yet oops so this list may change

hypnospace outlaw was so good
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That reminds me, i also played something called Online Simulator. It was only about an hour long at best but it was a thing

Not sure if I can get to 10 but in order of best nonetheless:

REmake 2
Sekiro
Baba is You
Bloodstained
Untitled Goose Game
Metro Exodus

Changing my list to...

1. Disco Elysium
2. Slay the Spire
3. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
4. Fire Emblem: Three Houses
5. The Outer Worlds
6. Hypnospace Outlaw
7. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
8. AI: The Somnium Files
9. Raging Loop
10. Katana Zero

Missed Hypnospace, whoops.

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1. Kingdom Hearts III
2. Fire Emblem: Three Houses
3. Untitled Goose Game

It's a shame I didn't play more of this year's games there are some that look really good

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bump
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1. Trails of Cold Steel 3
2. Death Stranding
3. Resident Evil 2 (2019)
4. Astral Chain
5. Kingdom Hearts III
6. Fire Embem: Three Houses
7. Goose Game
8. Wargroove

1. Kingdom Hearts 3
2. Dragon Quest 11
3. Shakedown Hawaii
4. Yokai Watch 3
5. Pokemon Sword
6. Super Mario Maker 2
7. Link's Awakening
8. Resident Evil 2
9. Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes
10. Mario Kart Tour

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bump

Not sure I've played 10 games this year...

1. Apex Legends - Way too many hours put into this game for it to not be #1 (currently at 150 hours). Played with a buddy the entire time and it's been a total blast. I'd absolutely pay $60 for this free game.

2. Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Definitive Edition - A very solid RPG that I'm really glad exists. Checks all the boxes except for maybe a more complex plot, and the difficulty is a tad easy (even though I know you can modify this, I didn't because I was new. Didn't realize how easy it was.)

3. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening - My first Zelda from way back when, just as great as then, if not better. A total delight to play again with the unique updated graphics. I flew through this game so quickly, all for the better.

4. Assassin's Creed Odyssey (including The Fate of Atlantis) - When it was good, it was really good. But there's so much stuff that it brings the experience down. I enjoy the gameplay loop but wish there was more substantive content that doesn't feel cut & paste. Overall a good experience, though I didn't 100% it unlike Origins.

5. Fire Emblem: Three Houses - Haven't beaten yet but it's really good, if not a tad repetitive. I find the monastery a little jarring, somewhere between amusing and shallow. Combat is tricky enough (on hard) to keep me invested, and the characters have been pretty good. It's a WAY better game than Fates.

6. Luigi's Mansion 3 - A little less enjoyable than Link's Awakening, a quick tour through a strange hotel. Some floors had me hooked, others had me mildly bored. Combat is shallow and I feel like the game isn't fleshed out enough, even though it's very polished.

7. Kingdom Hearts III - A tad disappointing, though it still hooked me enough to see to completion. Everything felt like it was held together by duct tape though. Story was garbled, pacing was shot, but the combat and environments were really enjoyable.

8. ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove! - T&J 1 & 2 are two of my favorite games (or they were as a kid) so this was a great throwback, but it didn't hook me like the first two. I'm not as big into roguelikes as I used to be. Once I beat the game I didn't want to go back.

9. Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled - Had never played the original, decided to see if it compared to MK. It didn't. I think it's more skill-based... but just not nearly as fun. Really repetitive with little variance race to race. Beautiful tracks though. I also dropped the game once the company began to introduce micro-transactions to keep me hooked with daily doses of rewards. I quickly realized I wasn't enjoying the game enough to trick myself into continuously playing.

10. SteamWorld Quest: The Hand of Gilgamech - Kind of a shame given how much I love Dig 1 & 2. Quest should be my cup of tea given I'm pretty receptive to card-battlers and RPG's, yet this one felt restrictive and kinda clunky. Small in scope, the gameplay loop didn't grab me, and the final battles were so drawn out and kinda difficult that I just decided to not even bother.
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Peridiam posted...

Assassin's Creed Odyssey

came out in 2018
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1. Kingdom Hearts III
2. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
3. Borderlands 3
4. Ape Out
5. Hypnospace Outlaw
6. Life is Strange 2 (ep. 1 came out in 2018 but the rest was this year)
7. Untitled Goose Game
8. Baba Is You
9. The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
10. Team Sonic Racing

putting this here for now but it's 100% going to change later this month. Offhand, Pokemon Sword and Afterparty will almost definitely make the top 10, and that's not counting the handful of much larger games I just haven't gotten to play because they all came out around the same time
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1. Kingdom Hearts 3
2. Link's Awakening
3. Resident Evil 2
4. Super Mario Maker 2
5. Catherine Full Body
6. River City Girls
7. Bloodstained Ritual Of The Night
8. Pokemon Sword
9. Fire Emblem Three Houses
10. World Of Warcraft Classic
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Johnbobb posted...

Peridiam posted...

Assassin's Creed Odyssey

came out in 2018

If you're including Shadowbringers, what about The Fate of Atlantis?

Consider "Assassin's Creed Odyssey: The Fate of Atlantis" my #4.
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Yes The Fate of Atlantis is good
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Subject to change if I manage to get something in before year's end.

1. The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III
2. Fire Emblem: Three Houses
3. Judgment
4. Kingdom Hearts III

...I didn't really play anything new now that I think about it. Early part of the year was mainly playing Dark Souls 3 and Divinity: Original Sin 2, lol
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Tag.

Honestly don't know if I've even played ten new games this year
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banananor posted...

Tag.

Honestly don't know if I've even played ten new games this year

@banananor thats fine, list what you can
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so board 8 just isn't playing death stranding or...?

every time I've booted it up I've seen at least 5 B8ers playing it
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