Time Magazine Best Video Games 2016
pastebin or fuck off you shill
>No Man's Sky is 15th
Well are you going to post them?
Oh wow, this site is a fucking mess.
So are the contents:
1. The Witness
2. The Last Guardian
3. UNCHARTED 4
>TLG
save me a click
>Time
Uncharted 4 should've been #1
I thought this guy had disgusting bug eyes
Stopped reading right the moment I saw NMS
That's some troll list.
can someone pastebin?
>First game on the list is No Man's Buy
I doubt anyone will want to go through that list, the website is a complete disaster and you have to click through 15 pages if you want to know who won.
Imma post 'em here with random pics to accompany em
>15. No man's sky
>There’s what celestial PC and PlayStation 4 game No Man’s Sky turned out to be, what a vocal minority assumed it would be, and the chasm of misunderstanding that lies between. The heir to a game like Elite it’s not. But taken on its own terms, as a Zen zoology simulator framed by freeform exploration of a procedurally generated universe with bouts of interstellar combat, it’s an extraordinary achievement. If Minecraft is about refining and reorganizing distributed bits of information—all those cubes of dirt and rock and ore into recognizable objects and structures and mechanisms—then No Man’s Sky is a procedural game about instead cataloguing all that visual output while reveling in the five-star views.
>14. Battlefield 1
>Battlefield 1’s multiplayer modes are predictably unimpeachable if you prefer sprawling, thoughtful, micro-campaign-style competition. But it’s this PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One shooter’s anthologized campaign that steals the show this time. Each story offers a unique problem or narrative perspective: a bickering tank crew lost behind enemy lines during the Battle of Cambrai, the latent heroism of a cocksure swindler-turned-aviator amidst “Bloody April,” the remembrances of an Italian war vet relayed to his daughter during a birthday party. All told, they add up to perhaps a half-dozen hours of play, but offer some of DICE’s finest work—an attempt to get around the usual boo-rahs and faux gravitas by bracketing eruptions of carnage with humanizing, indelible accounts.
>13. Final Fantasy XV
>Somehow they pulled it off. Don’t ask me how, but Final Fantasy XV for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One is not the dumpster fire some worried was inbound after years of developmental tumult. It is, in fact, the opposite, a glorious return to relevance for Square Enix’s venerable mix of rideable birds, hopping cacti and emo fashion victims. How often does vaporware materialize, after years of elliptical studio messaging, this lively and focused and fully realized?
>12. Owlboy
>Chances are you’ve never heard of D-Pad Studios’ side-scrolling action adventure Owlboy for PC. Let’s change that. Here is a wonder of a game, an indie Metroidvania 10 years in the making that arrives like the proverbial schoolchild whose long-practiced drawing when finally chalked out makes the blackboard crack. Part platformer, part shoot-em-up, it’s in fact the game’s plaintive, powerful tale of a neophyte owl peacekeeper’s tussles with exterior as well as interior dilemmas that resonates long after you’ve set the controller down.
>11. Thumper
>Studio Drool’s Thumper is musically ingenious, a rhythm game that’s Speed Racer meets Guitar Hero meets space beetles. Players maneuver a glistening scarab down an undulating licorice-whip track as animations that wouldn’t be out of place in Pink Floyd’s The Wall play in the distance. You have to time your taps as squares of light whoosh pass, an insectile drummer skidding and grinding through turns or raising your gossamer beetle wings to graze rings. It’s playable on a TV set, but within the distraction-free ambit of Sony’s PlayStation VR helmet, becomes utterly trance-inducing.
Did I get a different copy of bF1? The fuck is this guy talking about? Campaign was objectively garbage Jesus fuck how are these people so retarded
>10. Virginia
>Variable State’s Virginia, whose makers cite filmmaker David Lynch as an influence, may at first seem maddeningly opaque, but its rewards—best realized off multiple viewings—are rich and many. It challenges players to make sense of abrupt scene transitions, constrained perspectives and general narrative reticence. Other “walking simulators” settle for the museum tour, replete with audio logs and text dumps that fix meaning. Virginia trades that sort of clarity for another: that of the subjective, ever-precarious moment. And what gorgeous, reverberant moments there are in this haunting tale, empowered by its absent words and explanations.
This is a list for best videogames of 2016, not best movies of 2016.
>9. Crashlands
>Old school roleplaying games dole out abstract rewards like “experience points” so you can make your superpowers a trifle more super. New school ones like studio Butterscotch Shenanigans’ Crashlands let you scoop those rewards up off the battlefield, drag them back to your base, then turn them into cool, usable objects. Killer aliens meets goofball storytelling and characters meets a weighty crafting system brimming with hundreds of recipes, Crashlands (for PC, Mac, iOS and Android devices) is everything predictable RPGs aren’t.
Then how do you explain this
This year has been so shit that NMS is on the list, holy fuck, please 2017 save us.
>shill
Time or Rolex?
>No mNa's Sky at 15
Not even reading the rest because its bullshit
>8. Dragon Quest Builders
>Dragon Quest Builders is a beautiful, voxel-informed, crafting-focused, thematically relatable fantasy roleplaying extravaganza that’s better because of its constraints, not in spite of them. It’s the sort of thing those who’ve avoided playing Minecraft but still find it intriguing should pay attention to—an exquisite, LEGO-like builder deftly equipoised between structured and freeform play.
>7. Super Mario Run
>With Super Mario Run, a $10 vamp on Nintendo’s iconic series about a turtle-clobbering plumber for iOS devices, the Kyoto masterminds have managed a mobile finger-tapper that’s knock-your-socks-off good. If you’re able to make peace with the game’s always-online mandate, Super Mario Run impresses in ways I wasn’t convinced this approach to the character could. This, let’s not forget, is Nintendo on someone else’s hardware making good. Who else can stroll this assuredly into a stranger’s house, size up the joint lickety-split, then remind us of how much we have yet to see?
>6. Cave explorer
>nothing beats excavating a dark, moist, cave, and with this new virtual reality game you'll be able to explore caves whenever you're in the mood, so long as you have another person nearby. An interactive experience that let's you actually feel the warm, crushing, sensation first hand, cave explorer interacts with the physical environment around you in a breathtaking way. While other virtual reality games try to immerse you in the experience through moving and shooting, this game let's you immerse yourself with your own hands.
jesus christ its been out for, what, two days?
>selecting a game that's only been out for a few days and is just a shitty mobile game
>6. Burley Men at Sea
>Brain&Brain’s folklorish Burly Men at Sea is a whimsical romp for PC, Mac, iOS and Android starring three bearded adventurers that speaks in plaintive accordion tunes and whispers, airy sighs and polyphonic hoots—one that marries quirky activities with starlit encounters and aquamarine serpents plucked from Norwegian myth. If you delight in minimalist visuals, waggish writing and artful a cappella sound effects, this is both a treasure-house of those things and for you. It’s a little bit The Old Man and the Sea, a little bit O Brother, Where Art Thou? And a reminder that every journey is a circle, filled with both farce and delight.
oh u
literally what are these games
lol vagina
The whole list smells of "quick, google games of 2016 and just list the first 15 results."
>5. Tharsis
>If you like brutal, exacting clockwork puzzles with appalling dilemmas, you’ll adore Tharsis, an ingenious turn-based space strategy game for PC and PlayStation 4 by the folks who gave us the quirky Bit.Trip series. It looks like a dice-driven board game, where the board is a spaceship split into modules you maneuver astronauts between, trying to repair damage from random “events” over a 10-turn journey to Mars. Completing the journey is predictively and repeatably possible—anyone who claims otherwise is objectively wrong—but it’s also not for the faint of heart.
Dragon Quest Builders isn't that unknown, is it?
And nobody could've missed the NMS debacle.
You're pretty right on everything else though.
>DQ Builders
Well at least they got one thing right
>4. Inside
>What makes PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One puzzle-platformer Inside interesting isn’t its dim woodlands, creepy factories, moody bunkers or underwater mysteries, but the craftsmanship of its puzzles and platforming challenges. Imagine the ethically rudderless zeal of Josef Mengele in The Boys from Brazil folded into the nihilism of screenwriter W. D. Richter’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers. This now feels like where studio Playdead’s last game Limbo was headed all along.
>3. Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
>Stealth-play wasn’t impossible in the earlier Uncharted games, but it’s so much more satisfying when you manage to sneak up behind one of Uncharted 4‘s smarter, hyperaware adversaries. The best in studio Naughty Dog’s rollicking pulp adventure series by a country mile, its embiggened levels become enthralling tactical playgrounds, brimming with wraparound overhangs and organic hiding spots that include swathes of waist-high grass or broad leaf undergrowth you can hunker in or creep through.
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is that majikoi?
i have to finish that someday
>2. The Last Guardian
>For all of the decade it took to pull together, The Last Guardian feels years ahead of its time. There’s never been a character quite like Trico, the creature players must figure out how to communicate with to make the world’s sublime logic wheels turn. It feels momentous, a design breakthrough I wasn’t expecting, and an experience that seems more likely to stand the test of time than others to which we like to point. It calls out some of what’s crass about this industry while showing us another way forward, the shape of things to come.
>literally who: the list
Never ever PCuck. Now go back to petitioning.
Isn't Time like a big publication or something?
> 1. The Witness
>In Jonathan Blow and studio Thekla’s The Witness, mysteries abound on a deserted island that may or may not exist. The island is beautiful but oblique, sublime yet functionally inscrutable. Glowing screens with maze-like grids are everywhere, connective cables snake through sun-dappled underbrush or down into cavernous passages. All of it leads players to ever-more bizarre, seemingly impenetrable line puzzles. It’s weird and gorgeous and categorically defiant, a glorious repository of sublime mysteries and revelations.
The larger the publication, the less they know about vidya.
Well, at least it has gameplay. Seeing Uncharted this high made me worry.
>first on the list is No Mans Sky
I vocalized by confusion at this by laughing out loud.
>one of the biggest media outlets in the world
>watch how someone idolises someone else
>stocking stuffers
>multiple clickbait articles ala top 10 format
>best video games
journalism was a mistake.
not so great bait
bit overdone and the texture is a little off
3/8
My PC is shit and can't run anything from 2013 onward, I only play on PS4 now.
Uncharted 4 is still a shitty movie with no gameplay.
contrarian/10
how did NMS make the list?
Mediocre game but this year sucked.
My guess is that they googled other lists and tried to fill their own list with games no one had chosen.
Oh the author is a pretentious douche. It all makes sense
>not best movies of 2016.
Uncharted 4 wouldn't even be in that running either.
did 2016 have no games?
Good number 1 and 2, but shit list overall
A-2 patch, lads.
Remember when Jonathan Blow decided to make his own programming language for video games?
nothing comes to mind no
I mean XCOM2 was good, but ran like shit. Dragon's Dogma was great but that's cheating. Tomb Raider wasn't bad either. Oh and Doom. DXMD was disappointing. That's it.
Battlefield 1 should be top 5
It fucking rules and your hatred of everything EA can't do anything about it
>giving a fuck about multiplayer FPS
You must be 18 to post here.
No one cares user, it's your money after all.
>I dislike this genre so everyone should
what's wrong with multiplayer FPS
More like i'm ambivalent about MP FPS and i don't see how anyone can have strong feelings about them either way.
They're nothing but board room approved cash-ins designed for the mindless sheeple masses, and they lack artistic merit or depth.
meme game
>ample space to the right
>NOPE, MY AD GOES RIGHT FUCKING UNDER THE TITLE, EVEN IF IT HAS TO SHOVE THE ARTICLE ITSELF TILL IT'S CRUSHED UP AGAINST THE SIDE LIKE THE FAT GUY ON THE BUS JUST PICKED THE SEAT NEXT TO YOU
You gotta be fucking kidding me, even pokemon deserved to be on that list not shitty super mario run
BF1 is gorgeous, some of the best graphics ever
go play Gone Home you fucking faggot
FURI
Tyranny
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
meme response
>No Mans Sky at 15
>some indie pixelshit above FFXV and Battlefield
Into the trash it goes
They did, but I would argue a different set of games which deserve the title of "best".
> no man's sky is actually, unironically on the list
entire thing is 100% invalidated. a steaming piece of shit directly from my asshole would be more believable on a "best games" list
>the witness
>what a vocal minority assumed it would be
I like how everyone still blames consumers for the shitfest. Even with the millions of montages of sean just lying on camera some asshat will always say it was the consumers who were wrong
Sony has a lot of money to fund PR.
Don't forget that directly under the list is an add to buy a PS4 right now.
Guilty revelator.
duke nukem eternal was released?!
Did they just take a bunch of indie darling games that even the crowds that circle jerked it forgot about it the week after and added it to their top 15 list so that they appear *in* and *with it* ?
>anime reaction picture
>or any reaction picture for that matter
Move over, Sup Forumsga's.
>No Man's Sky immediately
>followed by a list of mostly non-games
>a fucking $10 ios game
jesus christ the media is such a joke
at least they ended it with something a bit more out of the ordinary than another movie of the year award going to Uncharted
>what a vocal minority assumed it would be
These people cannot be this fucking delusional. Did they actually play the game? Did they even look at the reviews fucking EVERYWHERE?
>DOOM and Dark Souls 3 not on the list
This. Some of the few good AAA games this year, replaced with walking sims and low-poly art "games"
I have never heard of this game.
>doom is below average
The protagonist literally hates the plotline happening around him, ACFag, and you only have to get invested when you want to. The rest of it is mowing down demon flesh like it should be
It's kinda sad that this year was dry compared to last year, considering I'd have to put Dark Souls 3 in my top ten and it was mediocre. DOOM was fantastic though.
literally no one has, nor should they
When I saw Mario Run I was really surprised their number 1 wasn't Pokemon Go due to its "cultural impact" or some retarded shit.
But funnily enough, the top 3 were PS4 "exclusives", coincidentally the console that is plastered all over the ads on that website. Fucking A, NMS is on the list at all and they try to praise it as a misunderstood masterpiece.