Finished Witcher 2 and CoD AW today/yesterday.

Now going for the Veteran playthough in CoD (fantastic campaign).
Also received my GOTY Edition of Dragon Age Inquisition a few moments ago. Can't wait to start the DLCs.
Other than that I'm having a good time with Wolfenstein The Old Blood and Ori.

Great month of playing games ahead :)

Yeah CoD AW actually had a good campaign.

Well it was better than the second chapter but also felt much shorter (because it probably was, as you only needed to leave the city once).
Navigating through Loc Muinne was still pretty damn bad, since you always need to go through some back alley or through someones home/shop to get to the city center or any other point of interest. Map was again pretty much useless.

Overall my views haven't really changed. I'd give it a 6.5 overall.

About Witcher 3, I'm definitely going to wait as the cheapest I've seen was 33€ for it and so far I haven't spend more than 30€ on a game this gen.
Spent 30€ on Gears of War Ultimate and to me it wasn't worth it because at that time MS said that you get Gears 1-3 and Judgement with it, but they changed it some time in mid December to exclude Germany from that promotion and I was quite pissed about that honestly. If it wasn't for that promotion I would've waited for it to get to about 15€ - 20€.
My second most expensive game was DA:I GOTY Edition with 22€ and before that it was CoD AW for 19€. Good games don't need to cost a lot

Yeah, really! I am shocked. Nearly all they could show this year, all those games you listed first, are based on games that were shown last year, correct?

Tango is like the only possible new game they could show, and I don't any trust in that company.

I hope they have a secret shock for us.

I hope Bethesda got taste of this "big publisher thing" by the great reception of last year, so that they'll force Todd Howard and Bethesda Game Studios to create a second dev team. That way we could see a new Elder Scrolls (and Fallout) every 4 years instead of like 7 or 8.

You say "CoD (fantastic campaign)". Which Call of Duty do u mean? Btw did you like the Crysis campaigns? (im kinda comparing them to COD, I like the bombastic Hollywood feel in Crysis when I usually hate it in other games).

And did you really enjoy Dragan Age: Inquisition so much that you're looking forward to the DLC?

I have played 25 hours or something and the changes they made are disgusting. Some cut-scenes are still good but everything else is weak, especially the world design. I hate the MMORPG style maps with respawning trash mobs that are a pain to pass. It's such a chore. I hate these world "hubs" - hubs sprinkled around with collectibles and hubs with monsters, like Witcher 3's abominable monster lairs. It all feels so artificial. I don't understand how their linear worlds felt much more authentic than the open world in Inquisition.

Please tell me Inquisition gets better.

CoD Advanced Warfare. Probably the best campaign since the first Black Ops. I do like Crysis and probably love Crysis 2 even more. For some reason I only played about 3 levels of Crysis 3, so can't really comment on that. I would say not as cinematic as Crysis 2, but close to that.

About Dragon Age Inquisition, well yeah I did everything there is, got all cheevos (except the hard difficulty playthrough) and I'm now looking forward to all the DLCs. Took me 82 hours and from what I hear the DLCs add about 25 hours, so it's going to be above 100 hours in total.

DA:I can be played quite differently and I'm guessing you did it similar to what I did? Basically I didn't really know what main missions were and I simply explored the huge and IMO fantastic designed maps. So basically I did all the side stuff on accident and only went to Skyhold (your main hub) after 40 to 50 hours, even though you could go there much much earlier. Skyhold is also pretty good at showing how alive it is, as it grows (getting rebuilt) with every main mission you do after that point. Only thing these worlds are lacking are cities.

There are respawning monsters, but when they do, the amount is far less than when you first explore these areas. Which I prefer by far to walking through cleared out maps.

I'd like to try out that COD campaign then. I despise those games, but like I said about Crysis (damn, I realize I like those games a lot!), sometimes I really want to play such a Hollywood campaign! Too bad COD games are so expensive!

How would u order COD games based on their SP campaigns only?

Hmm... it's funny that you think the Inquisition world design is good and I think it's horrible. What did you think of Origins and DA2? In general, as games. I love both, and I mean really love.

I came to Skyhold after only like 6-7 hours and I haven't seen any rebuilding yet. And I certainly haven't seen any clearing of monsters either, but that's a big positive you say, that mobs actually respawn less after a while. I hope it doesn't demand activating and picking up all those meaningless collectibles though, checking the flags and activating the orbs and whatnot.

Interesting, but I don't believe Todd Howard would let go of either franchise, plus Canada is far away. So far away that you won't even have many senior developers move there from the Washington area for that new studio to get experience.

Plus, 2018 could easily slip to 2019 and that's already 4 years away from Fallout 4 - exactly the time we expect the main Bethesda game studios to spend making a new Elder Scrolls anyway.

Damn Todd Howard. He not only dumbs down games but he's slow too.

Oh. so Advanced Warfare is seen sort of like a come-back in quality for the single player campaigns at least? I know Ghost got criticism, but I thought all the Blops games were very popular.

^Speaking of widely regarded, I have a question for all you XBOX users.

Is it correct that it is widely regarded that Xbox ONE had the strongest launch and post-launch game library, while this year, 2016 is the year that PS4 is expected to take over?