#Top ten games of 2016 jackgrags full#

Marcus Holloway is a fantastic lead, and his use of RC cars and aerial drones to complete missions without him ever even entering a building at times finally made it possible to make this game feel like it was finally based around hacking rather than gunplay. Switching locations, protagonists, even gameplay styles made Watch Dogs 2 the hacking-centric game everyone always wanted, but never got with the original.

#Top ten games of 2016 jackgrags full#

Watch Dogs 2 turned UbisoftвЂ™s open world series from a bore to something that realizes its full potential. I have to give a game credit when it looks at its predecessor, makes a list of every single thing it did wrong, and fixes practically everything.

But in the end, I really did love a lot about Final Fantasy XV, and that somehow totally overwhelmed the aspects which I vehemently hated. I wish the game had been structured differently, as it makes strange use of its open world paired with linear missions later on, and again, itвЂ™s hard to remember a game with worse sidequests in this modern era of games. Though the main storyline loses its way the longer the game goes, the fundamental relationship between Noctis and his friends is one of the best-realized arcs of friendship and brotherhood IвЂ™ve seen in a game.

I absolutely loved the intense new combat system which made the game feel more like Bayonetta or Devil May Cry than the tired turn-based games of years past (though thatвЂ™s still an option as well). But my readers urged me to give it a shot, and IвЂ™m certainly glad I did. This was a game I was going to skip altogether, given that IвЂ™ve only played one Final Fantasy game to completion, and it was a decade and a half ago.