With so many
fine games released each year, some had to be left out.
Not exact matches
Without a doubt the
finest WWII
game released this year, and if other gamers agree a prime contender for the PC Game of the Y
game released this
year, and if other gamers agree a prime contender for the PC Game of the Y
year, and if other
gamers agree a prime contender for the PC
Game of the Y
Game of the
YearYear.
This all hinges off what you've said above about the fact Double
Fine has
released over 20
games in the past 10
years.
Metroid Prime,
released 15
years ago today, was not only the first Metroid
game I experienced, but one of the
finest action - adventure
games I've ever played, a flawless conversion of the Metroidvania formula to 3D space, and arguably the greatest GameCube
game out there.
Slightly Mad has worked hard to
fine - tune all the driving aspects of the
game to provide an even more accurate and realistic experience than the original Project CARS, which was
released two
years ago.
«Who Cares» The defence for this
game is amazing Oh it's
fine about all the shit they promised for over a
year, since the very start and then failed to deliver, it's totally
fine, they made it up by
release free updates to us which offers us like a small fraction of what they originally promised in the full
game at launch Good grief.
I'd be
fine with waiting if the
game had a
release date, but three
years out it's still just a vague «2018» aside from some places saying March without providing any official statement.
Although the core
game is mostly unchanged from its
release on the Wii U four
years ago (save for some touch - ups with the graphics, and some new character animations), DKC: Tropical Freeze is more than worth another go on the Switch, as it remains one of the
finest platformers ever made.
It's been one of the
finest indie
games to be
released in recent
years and as a result has been a phenomenal success.
«Prior to starting work on Brutal Legend, the Double
Fine team had spent the previous 5
years developing Psychonauts — the last two
years of which consisted of a giant, grueling crunch wherein the company lost its initial publisher and nearly shut its doors before ultimately
releasing the
game.
After a successful crowd - funding campaign that ended with a
release on Windows and Playstation 4 in 2014, it's now finally available on Xbox One; that's four
years the developers have had to
fine tune and perfect the
game.
I do think that Sticker Star was a
fine game on its own merits, but it did end up feeling too watered down for its own good, and I still stumble upon fans griping about the
game years after its
release.
And who knows, perhaps when Double
Fine releases the second act of Broken Age next
year, Tim Schafer and his colleagues will have figured out how to integrate the challenges required for a player to complete a
game with the meaningful choices that every truly convincing character must make to finish their story.
In December, EA announced that they had inked a deal with Double
Fine, who are the developers of Brutal Legend and would be
releasing the
game sometime later this
year.
I have always felt that Grim Fandango was a masterpiece when it first
released, it was
released at a time when graphic adventure
games seemed to be going away, but here we are, the
year is 2015 and I have just finished, for the third time since it first
released, one of the greatest adventure
games of all time, Grim Fandango, thank you Double
Fine, from an old fan, thank you.
The company's recent efforts at pushing Intelligent Systems» Fire Emblem series on their handheld have been hugely well received, and Monolith Soft's Xenoblade
games on the Wii and Wii U are widely regarded as two of the
finest RPGs
released in recent
years.
Despite being one of the
finest games to grace the console, SEGA's vibrant, Canvas Engine - powered tactical RPG has remained something of a cult classic over the
years, never quite garnering the attention it deserved when it was originally
released despite a glowing reception from fans and critics alike.
New
Releases for week of 4/28: DiRT Rally — PC Early Access — Racing — Codemasters Shovel Knight — XB1 — Action - Platformer — Yacht Club Games MewTwo DLC for Super Smash Bros State of Decay
Year One Survival Edition — XB1 / PC — Action / Adv — Undead Labs Shadowrun Chronicles: Boston Lockdown — PC — Tactical RPG — Nordic Games Omega Quintet — PS4 — RPG — Idea Factory International Broken Age — PS4 / PS Vita — Adventure — Double
Fine Project Root — XB1 / PS4 / Vita — Overhead Shooter — Kiss Ltd Sketchcross — PS Vita — Puzzle — Spiky Fish Games WWE 2k15 — PC — Wrestling — 2K Risk — PS3 — Board
Game — Ubisoft Entertainment Tropico 5 — PS4 — Simulation — Kalypso Media Paranormal Pursuit: The Gifted One — PS3 — Adventure Puzzle — Alawar Entertainment Paper Mario — WiiU — Mario RPG — Nintendo
Of course, there's a whole truckload of extras being worked on and some
fine - tuning to be done before the
game's
release in Q4 this
year.
Last
year Double
Fine started off the video
game Kickstarter trend with a bang, last week the title formerly known as Double
Fine Adventure was finally revealed to be Broken Age and today they
released the debut trailer for the
game.
The recently -
released (and quite fantastic) Wii edition of Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 has done a
fine job of restoring our confidence in the PES series, which over the last couple of
years has had to battle with online shortcomings and increasingly stiff competition from the impressive next - gen FIFA
games.
Objectively, I do agree it was a
fine game for the Wii, perhaps the best for the console in 2009, although I have not played every single
game released on the Wii this
year (far from it in fact).
The developers have been hard at work
fine - tuning the
game in order to get it ready for
release before the end of the
year, and it will even appear on Xbox as a console exclusive this fall / winter.
But when it comes to
games released either earlier this
year or last
year, the VT2DR256 should perform just
fine.