New Year's Eve game playing: Ark, single player mode

Gaming in 2016: Terraria Otherworld, Terraria 2, Terraria 1.3.1, Minecraft 1.9, and more Ark!

Cheerful Ghost doodles, then Battlefront, then probably tequila, which will be followed shortly, I'm sure, by slumber.

In 2016, I'm looking forward to VR, and how that plays out. No Man's Sky and ABZU are my most anticipated non-VR titles. Beyond that, I'm determined to make my 2016 conclusively more positive and productive than 2015. I'm so done with 2015.

Decisions, decisions, decision. Dang it. I'm having trouble deciding on Triple A Game of the Year. I thought this was an easy win for one of those games, but another got included. I'm thinking I just may vote for the one I have more gaming hours logged.

I'm skipping out on Mobile Game of the Year. I don't know if Fallout Shelter has come to the Kindle yet, but I'm definitely unfamiliar with the others.

I just deleted a post where I had cast my votes in the comments, rather than going to the polls linked above. I'm a little slow today. Still recovering from the flu. Hope that didn't mess anything up!

One thing that was in that post was a vote to update the GotY system for next year. Triple-A vs Indie seems to be less relevant as the years go by. Maybe categories of technical execution, artistic impression, or even genre would be more evocative in presenting our tallies for quality experiences. Update of the Year was a nice addition this year. Something more like that. Anyway, just my $.02 .

@scrypt I hope you feel better soon, bro!!! I also like your categories ideas!!

As I kinda mentioned, this is pretty much why I decided to see The Force Awakens. I wanted to join you guys and I was so glad that I was able to.

Sorry I was late, I was busying playing Ark. =) I finished with Fallout 4 and moved on to Legacy of the Void, but I've run into some difficulty and Ark came out with another seasonal event.

=) It was cool being able to watch the roundtable live and particpate. It took me a bit to figure out how to ask a question, but I obviously figured it out. I'd love to join again in the future!

I don't know about the "have enough games for the next couple of months." Ark is in development and is frequently updated, so that could continue to keep me occupied. I took a break from it to play Fallout 4, but then finished with that. Legacy of the Void keeps snagging me. I saw some of the games on sale, including the Star Wars bundle I mentioned, but I still don't know. I can't really think of anything I really want. I absolutely hate the feeling of finishing a game and moving on to something else, or rather especially when I don't know what to move on to. That creates a hole I seek to fill.

Cool interview, it made me want to play Starship Rubicon again! I like Jon's Jar Jar Binks question, but I won't hold Wick's answer against him. Hahaha

I think the neuroscience project he mentioned was really cool. I'm not really interested in neuroscience, but I think that finding a creative way to explain a complicated subject is interesting. I think it's cool that he's tried to make a program to help him and others learn more about it.

Keep up the good work, Wick!!

John de Lancie!!! I can't wait to hear that one!

I think in the end, I'm more of a Terran player. I like the Siege Tanks and the Battle Cruiser. I also LOVE being able to call down a nuke strike with Ghosts!!

I only slightly disagree with you here regarding difficulty. I've found LotV to be a challenge, even on Normal difficulty. Maybe it's because it's been a while since I've played any StarCraft. I've actually looked up some help on most of the missions.

Also, I'm having a video issue. It's hard to explain. I just finished helping Raynor and got the...what's it called again? Crystal? Rune? Something like that. When I freed the big ship and was able to select which planet to visit, I went for Korhal. So, I just finished those two missions. I went back to the Bridge because it said a conversation was available and Artanis was talking to a Terran, but because of a video glitch, I couldn't see his face. Something similar occurred before and I think it had to do with a shadow.

Also, take a look at the picture below. The panel on my Blizzard.net looks funky after I play the game.
http://i.imgur.com/goT9vR1.png

My drivers are up-to-date as of 12/21 at about 8am. But, yeah, you're right. I'm not sure how to get a screen shot in-game, which would be helpful to show Blizzard tech support. I could probably find out though. I do wish the game had an in-game browser like Steam, though.

I finished LoTV a month or so ago and I thought I'd share my experience with you, sorry this is so late. I'll be completely honest with you, I found it to be a bit challenging, perhaps a little too much for my taste. I know I could have turned down the difficulty, but I didn't. I was hoping to get those Normal Difficulty achievements, although what I'm about to tell you contradicts that. There are a few of missions that I decided to cheat on. That would be the last one in the main quest line and then two of the missions in the epilogue. By the time I reached those missions that I cheated on, I was ready for it to be over. I'm not saying it was horrible, but the difficulty was frustrating and I wasn't enjoying it very much. Two of those missions were VERY difficult. The last one in the epilogue with the Zerg, I decided "f" it, I didn't feel like continuing with the challenge.

It took a little while for me to get used to playing SC2 again and with the Protoss, but I managed to get through most of the missions on Normal difficulty without cheating. I often made as many peons (those things that mine minerals) as I could, that was helpful. I often used the ship's ability to harvest vespene gas for me. I enjoyed some of the other abilities with it, too. I did enjoy some of the units, in fact I think I really liked many of them a lot.

Anyway, I just thought I'd share with you my progress on the game. Like I said, I'm sure it's been a month or more since I finished it.

Well, that one character died in the beginning, that was unexpected. It'd be a spoiler to reveal his name, I think I remember it. I liked the John de Lancie voice over, that was cool. I liked how pretty much all the factions needed to come together. Ok, that's a bit of a spoiler. LOL. I liked the ending, I think. I liked that the two Terrans were reunited, one, it seems, was granted salvation.

I pre-ordered the new Ghost missions about the time I started playing LotV. I'm hoping they'll be more fun, kind of like when you control certain named powerful characters. I'm not sure if I recall any of those missions in WoL, but I believe there were some in HotS. There was at least a mission or two where you did that in LotV. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.

Update of the Year: Terraria 1.3
Early Access GotY: Ark: Survival Evolved
GotY Noms: Fallout 4 and The Witcher 3 I'd kinda like to nom. Legacy of the Void, but I've hardly played it, which will probably change soon.

I think it'd be cool if some of us made a post on the site talking about our favorite games that we've played this year. This includes games that are new or ages old.

Are we submitting single nominations for each category? If so, my nominations are:

Indie: Rocket League

AAA: Psych! I'm nominating The Talos Principle. Fallout 4 is epic, but it's practically the only AAA game I played this year, besides Destiny, which makes me feel kind of ashamed. I feel like I would nominate Bloodborne, if I had only played it :(. Maybe I'll go rent it tomorrow...

Update: Terraria, especially since it was my first time playing.

Every year GameFAQ's polls become a competition between games, people vote on which is better. Final Fantasy VII usually wins, or at least makes it to the end. This year it was defeated by Undertale. I downloaded the demo and briefly played it.