With the exception of quake map jams and the game I contracted on earlier this year, I have yet to purchase or play any game at all in 2015.

But I'm kind of intrigued by Dropsy. 

2015 wasn't a good year for games, at least for me. I think the only games I bought that cost over $5 were Wolfenstein and Shadowrun Hong Kong, both of which I enjoyed.

I did buy a handful of older games from GOG that I'd been wanting to try, but couldn't really get interested in most of them. None were more than $3, so no problem.

I sure hope Fallout 4 saves the year for me. 

I've got loads of stuff downloaded or started, dunno if they are 2014 or 2015 tho. 

Just the Steam games I've played and enjoyed this from this year:
Snakebird
Axiom Verge
Ori and The Blind Forest
868-HACK
Crypt of the NecroDancer
Cities: Skylines
Kalimba

Still Early Access, but own:
Darkest Dungeon
Besiege

Not 2015, but I played them a lot this year:
Hexcells Infinite
Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (expansion in Oct!)
Broken Age (The second half came out this year)
Nuclear Throne (Early Access)
Path of Exile (Got an expansion this year) 

(that's saying nothing of the tons of crazy amazing tiny/smaller games on itch.io or that have been made in game jams this year.) 

And as far as big AAA games, I haven't played many this year, but the Witcher 3 was awesome. 

Sure, all of the above, but I was commenting more on my slow disconnection from gaming, not on what 2015 has been like. 

Well I was commenting more on Rick's "2015 wasn't a good year for games". 

 

Because nothing comes out in the last quarter of the year.

I've been enjoying Blizzard's continued series of Diablo 3 patches, which I call "Oh God, Oh God, We're Sorry, You Were Right, We Were Wrong, Forget About Jay Wilson, He Can't Hurt You Anymore". Still nowhere near the original Diablo, but it's a lot more fun of a slashy action game than before. 

yeas i know so was i
fuck it whatever just talk about games 

 

That makes us all players. 

I was saying "Boo-urns" 

What you guys think of that new Star Wars game that will be out in mid-november 2015 ?

A few awesome previews :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwWLns7-xN8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXU5k4U8x20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg_ht2GfQJU

A player testing the alpha version on Hoth, in Multiplayer mode :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43E0wPYZ3hQ

A player testing the alpha version on Tatoo�ne, in SP mode :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bXkIH7kZfo

Both first and third person views are available.

From these previews, it's looking pretty awesome, and there are several common points with Quake3 in multiplayer mode. 

Star Wars is a BIT meh, but this looks like a superb representation of it. The style and vibes of the snow stuff is ace.

But...

MP only can suck my dome inside out. That is all.

Next! 

Whenever Hambler mentions "sucking my dome" I can only imagine it refers to a bald old man. 

When I said 2015 wasn't a good year for games, I did qualify it by adding "at least for me".

There are some types of games I rarely even consider trying. Pretty much any 3rd person shooter/fighting game falls in that category, or any game that can be described as being "roguelike". 

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is free for the next 24hrs on Steam. Horror game, believe it was what started the current trend of first person horror games, and most weren't as good as it.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/57300/ 

Picked up the game after reading your post. I doubt I will play it through though, as I am usually too scared to finish horror games. 

One of my favorite games ever.
Don't miss this one. But be warned, it's not for weak hearts. 

Cryostasis did the horror atmosphere quite well too, I actually remember that more than I remember Amnesia. But Amnesia had better gameplay.

Alan Wake has a good horror atmosphere too, and better gameplay than both, and doesn't feel like a budget indie game. I'm yet to find a survival/horror game I'd classify as great, though. 

I lost interest when I figured out that whenever a monster appeared you just stuck your head in a corner until it went away.

The original design docs for it had weapons in - I really hope they include guns in SOMA, I reckon they'd do a great job with them.

I can imagine a situation where you fire your plasma rifle as a last resort and all hell breaks loose, enemies closing in from all sides and that was the only charge the weapon had... 

I would rather have minimal and ineffectual weaponry to fight back with in last resorts and carefully assessed situations, rather than no weaponry at all. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvOZEj6VaiE

Great footage, the 2nd go with Joe checking out all the animations, looks amazing, this is the PC game portrayal of the Warhammer world we've been waiting for!!