Good question.
If this was 2015 I could lay out a bunch. But 2016 has been pretty good to me.
3) DOOM - the campaign ended up being OK, but hardly as transcendent as earlier games. And multiplayer was a bore.
2) PS+ - just a bad year overall for Sony's "free" games line-up.
1) TMNT: Mutants in Manhattan - I love me some Turtles co-op brawling, but this title was just so anemic.
But...
This has been a year full of happy surprises too!
5) Pokken Tournament - never expected a Pokemon brawler to be one of the best fighters of the gen
4) Song of the Deep - Insomniac struck gold with this ingenious "Metroidvania"
3) RIVE - Two Tribes triumphant farewell is a twin stick shooter for the ages
2) Gears of War 4 - I've spent all gen doubting MS' first-party studios, but The Coalition proved me wrong
1) Severed - the best game of the year is a first-person dungeon crawler on PSV, 3DS, and WiiU? Color me surprised.
