It's been a decent year for gaming with me, but not because of new releases. Financial situations preventing me from trying out anything new meant I spent most of the year playing catch up with my backlog. On the bright side, I've decided that the PS4 has largely been worth the investment, which is great for me since I still regard the PS3 to be one of the weaker consoles I've owned. I mean I am Setsuna, FFXV, Bloodborne, and Persona 5 all back to back will make most people happy. I still have The Last Guardian and Fallout 4 to look forward to as well as Type-0. I still need to pick up Dark Souls III and Guilty Gear Xrd as well.

Of the new releases I've played this year, Persona 5 was fantastic and Marvel vs. Capcom Infinity looks like a return to form for the series after the lackluster MvC3 entries. It's still not as good as MvC1 or the earlier Marvel and Vs. fighters (give me my six buttons back Capcom!) but it's much more engaging and feels a bit better balanced outside of Monster Hunter being a weird character that can switch from being a heavy to a light weight bruiser. Overall, I may pick it up once the roster gets a bit bigger.

While I have not had a chance to play the full releases, I had a blast with the Nier:Automata and Resident Evil 7 demos. South Park:The Fractured But Whole was a surprising improvement over the Stick of Truth in just about every way except maybe story. I also can't wait to pick up Romancing SaGa 2 which sounds incredibly interesting. I've also been having a blast with FFXII: The Zodiac Age, which has enough changes and improvements to feel like a very different game from the original. Hell, the number of rereleases and throw back entries were kind of high this year. Next year is looking good as well since I still have the Secret of Mana remake and Dissidia NT to look forward to in the first few months and Mega Man 11 isn't too far away either.

Honestly, this has been Nintendo's year, and the whole year just feels like one long sting of reasons to own a Switch cause Mario Odyssey, Breath of the Wild, and Xenoblade 2 all look great or at least interesting. Not to mention Samus Returns on the 3DS. They've definitely been hogging all of the spotlight this year.

Overall, while I didn't play a whole lot of new games this year, I felt it had some great entries released that have me pretty excited, and my wishlist has only been growing over time.