HF Game of the Year 2019 - Nominate Games Now!

[Gardner McKay]

I'll throw one in for Fire Emblem and Pokemon: Sword/Shield.

While Fire Emblem wasn't a game for me, you could certainly tell it was something special. I also really enjoyed Sword/Shield.

Kingdom Hearts 3 was just meh.

 

[FroshaugFan2]

Judgement and Tetris 99

 

[Ryuji Yamazaki]

Bloodstained Ritual of the Night

 

[Tw1ster]

Death stranding. One of my all time favourites

 

[syz]

For some reason nobody else has typed it yet so I'd like to point out that RE2 is on sale right now.

2nd best game of the year.

 

[JaegerDice]

Disco Elysium
The Outer Wilds
Apex Legends
Control
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
Void Bastards
Super Mario Maker 2
Baba is You
Luigi's Mansion 3
The Outer Worlds
Katana Zero
Gears 5
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Hypnospace Outlaw
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

For some reason nobody else has typed it yet so I'd like to point out that RE2 is on sale right now.

2nd best game of the year.

I don't like giving remakes GOTY, personally. Yes, they did a fantastic job bringing up to modern standards, but they had a blueprint to work off of and they followed it pretty clearly. I'm happy saying it's one of my favorite games of the year but I don't think I'd ever argue it's one of the best games of 2019. It was one of the best games of 1998, updated.

 

[Tonneau]

It was one of the best games of 1998, updated.

Calling it an "update" is really underselling what they did with this game.

 

[Leafs at Knight]

You know its a bad year when Fire Emblem is going to win.

 

[syz]

You know its a bad year when Fire Emblem is going to win.

Don't think it should win but it'd at least be better than... literally every other game that has won this poll around here.

 

[Dolemite]

Destiny 2 (Steam)

 

[aleshemsky83]

Sekiro will likely make you want to want to test fall damage in real life, until it clicks. Much like FromSoftware's other titles this decade, Sekiro demands a certain level of mastery from the player to proceed forward. It's initially daunting, but there will come a time where a boss that kills you six times straight suddenly feels like your *****......except for Headless, **** Headless.

I haven't played Fallen Order yet, but from what I've seen I figure the skill set required to beat it is more transferable to Sekiro than Dark Souls'. Only thing the latter prepped me for was patience.

I think the best advice for sekiro is that if you face a boss that's too difficult, take another path and fight some minibosses and easier bosses.

Lady Butterfly and genichiro are 2 big ones you should avoid until you're absolutely ready.

 

[blue425]

Lady Butterfly killed me more than every boss in Bloodborne combined. I'm not kidding. Then I figured her out and it was one of the most satisfying deaths in a game I ever witnessed.

Genichiro on the other hand took far less tries.

Undead mini bosses? I run the other way as fast as I can...for now.

 

[Gecklund]

For me it’s Fire Emblem easily.

 

[Spawn]

Does slay the spire count? I can never tell with games that get released on early access in a year prior but aren’t officially released until the current year.

If it does, that game is my hands down winner.

 

[Commander Clueless]

Does slay the spire count? I can never tell with games that get released on early access in a year prior but aren’t officially released until the current year.

If it does, that game is my hands down winner.

Early Access always makes things weird, but technically yes - Slay the Spire is a 2019 game, and a darn good one.

 

[KingBran]

Apex Legends

It's held my attention all year and will contine I am sure past its original release date.

 

[Bixby Snyder]

Ape Out

 

[missingmika]

It's been a bad year, so I'll go with old games re-released: Links Awakening and Ghostbusters for the Switch

 

[Chris Pronger]

How ‘bout a poll?