Commissar SFLUFAN Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 As 2019 draws to a close, we're starting to get the lists from media outlets as to what they feel are the best games of 2019. I figured we might as well use this thread to compile them as they come in - feel free to post the lists when you see 'em! Washington Post (no particular order) Death Stranding Telling Lies Neo Cab Disco Elysium Observation Sunless Skies A Plague Tale: Innocence Outer Wilds Gears 5 Sayonara Wild Hearts Paste Magazine 30. Mortal Kombat 11 29. Dear Reader 28. The Outer Worlds 27. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order 26. Neo Cab 25. Mutazione 24. Grindstone 23. Tetris 99 22. Type Dreams 21. Yoshi’s Crafted World 20. Astrologaster 19. Gato Roboto 18. Super Mario Maker 2 17. Sunless Skies 16. Falcon Age 15. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice 14. Hypnospace Outlaw 13. Judgment 12. Ape Out 11. Shenmue III 10. Pathologic 2 9. Heaven’s Vault 8. What the Golf 7. Fire Emblem: Three Houses 6. Disco Elysium 5. Telling Lies 4. Baba Is You 3. A Plague Tale: Innocence 2. Outer Wilds 1. Control Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaku3 Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 I am waiting dor control on game pass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slug Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 How wildy out of touch am I? I've played nothing off the Post's list and only 3 of the 30 on the Pastemag list. o_0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 3 minutes ago, Slug said: How wildy out of touch am I? I've played nothing off the Post's list and only 3 of the 30 on the Pastemag list. o_0 You should quit gaming ASAP! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paperclyp Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 It’s hard to name 5 better games than Sekiro this year, so I will immediately be throwing out any list that has it outside that range. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 Neither of these lists has Resident Evil 2. Did people forget it came out this year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 I'm happy to see someone list Baba is You. It's one of the most inventive games I've ever played. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShreddieMercury Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 Happy to see Outer Wilds, which is probably my favorite this year. I agree that the lack of RE 2 is baffling. My favorites are probably those two, Ape Out, Control, and Luigi's Mansion 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
projectmayhem Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 9 hours ago, Slug said: How wildy out of touch am I? I've played nothing off the Post's list and only 3 of the 30 on the Pastemag list. o_0 I only played Sekiro and the demo for Neo Cab. These lists can get to fuck, not having RE2 there is a joke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moa Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 Sayonara Wild Hearts fucking blows and I'm mad I bought it. The levels are so short and with the exception of the song in the trailer the music is bland electronic noises. The gameplay is a sloppy temple run that doesn't interact with the rhythm at all. The game is absolute trash and everyone needs to know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 Astral Chain is inevitably going to be overlooked. As a Switch exclusive by not-Nintendo, it’s not even hipster enough for the niche-friendly lists. I’m still surprised Slay the Spire is being left out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 14 hours ago, Slug said: How wildy out of touch am I? I've played nothing off the Post's list and only 3 of the 30 on the Pastemag list. o_0 Don’t feel too bad. It’s been a down year for gaming as far as AAA releases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutSurgen Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 Not only have I not played most of those games, I have very little interest in playing most of them. Except for Baba is You. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutSurgen Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 Interesting comparison (to me at least). Follows are the top ten selling games so far this year: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 Anthem outsold SSBU? That's a surprise. It may have been deemed a failure, but Smash sold ~16M copies, maybe 5M were sold that first month, so that would put Anthem sales somewhere above 11M copies. Not entirely a flop I guess. Glad to see Outer Wilds get recognized. I really should try some of these small games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutSurgen Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 1 hour ago, TwinIon said: Anthem outsold SSBU? These numbers would exclude international sales as well. I assume SSBU did very well in Japan relative to Anthem. I suspect SSBU did much better in Dec' 18 than you are suggesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 29 minutes ago, AbsolutSurgen said: These numbers would exclude international sales as well. I assume SSBU did very well in Japan relative to Anthem. I suspect SSBU did much better in Dec' 18 than you are suggesting. I missed that it was only the US. That changes things quite a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 2 hours ago, TwinIon said: I missed that it was only the US. That changes things quite a bit. It also doesn't include digital sales for Smash since Nintendo doesn't report on their own digital sales. That's what the asterisks is for. These lists never include Nintendo's own digital sales. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 I've played two of those games, but not yet beaten them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XxEvil AshxX Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 Shenmue III almost made the top 10 on that Paste list. RE2 doesn't make the list but Yoshi's Crafted World makes #21. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutSurgen Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 Vulture 10) Apex Legends 9) Card of Darkness 8) Dragon Quest Builders 2 7) Slay the Spire 6) Death Stranding 5) Baba is You 4) Control 3) Fire Emblem: Three Houses 2) Outer Wilds 1) Untitled Goose Game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 1 hour ago, AbsolutSurgen said: Vulture 10) Apex Legends 9) Card of Darkness 8) Dragon Quest Builders 2 7) Slay the Spire 6) Death Stranding 5) Baba is You 4) Control 3) Fire Emblem: Three Houses 2) Outer Wilds 1) Untitled Goose Game The hipster list. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paperclyp Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 2 hours ago, AbsolutSurgen said: Vulture 10) Apex Legends 9) Card of Darkness 8) Dragon Quest Builders 2 7) Slay the Spire 6) Death Stranding 5) Baba is You 4) Control 3) Fire Emblem: Three Houses 2) Outer Wilds 1) Untitled Goose Game Goose game #1 is an abomination. Dear god. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodger Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 On 12/5/2019 at 11:05 AM, Slug said: How wildy out of touch am I? I've played nothing off the Post's list and only 3 of the 30 on the Pastemag list. o_0 ive briefly played gears 5, other than that nothing from the Post list. I’ve played 2 on the other and I didn’t get close to finishing Sekiro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 On 12/6/2019 at 5:46 AM, AbsolutSurgen said: Not only have I not played most of those games, I have very little interest in playing most of them. Except for Baba is You. Same here except I would INCLUDE Baba is You as I don't know what that is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLeon Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 Baba is You is probably fantastic, but I'm just too stupid to enjoy it. I got stuck hard in that game pretty early on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 Gamespot GOTY list. Winner chosen 12/17 Resident Evil 2 Apex Legends Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice A Plague Tale: Innocence Outer Wilds Fire Emblem: Three Houses Control Disco Elysium The Outer Worlds Death Stranding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 How about most innovative game of the year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 IGN'S GOTY LIST https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/12/05/igns-2019-game-of-the-year-nominees RESIDENT EVIL 2 REMAKE SLAY THE SPIRE SEKIRO: SHADOWS DIE TWICE OUTER WILDS FIRE EMBLEM THREE HOUSES CONTROL THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: LINK'S AWAKENING REMAKE DISCO ELYSIUM THE OUTER WORLDS POKEMON SWORD & SHIELD STAR WARS: JEDI FALLEN ORDER Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 The Outer Wilds so good it was listed twice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moa Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 There's only one list I care about, and these ain't it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercury33 Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 That IGN list is surprisingly decent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikachu Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 Control wins IGN GOTY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nublood Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 I'm getting Control and Star Wars: FO for Christmas. I basically know nothing about either one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firewithin Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 On 12/5/2019 at 10:05 AM, Slug said: How wildy out of touch am I? I've played nothing off the Post's list and only 3 of the 30 on the Pastemag list. o_0 OK boomer Disco, Plague Tale, and Telling Lies definitely deserve top spots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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