The Badarse 2016 Awards: Biggest Gaming Fail of 2016

There been loads of great games in 2016, it's actually been a good year gaming wise. Which you can check the best game of 2016 on more on that. This is not the best where I'm not Mr Nice Guy. There's been a lot of shit too. Triple A publishers still rushing out games like it's the end of the world, some indie titles rip people off, developers try to sue people's criticisms, not releasing review copies of games to critics, some backdoor shady arse kissing and broken promises from a total lying cunt (I'll get to that, keep reading). 2016 had it's shares of shit and gaming did too. So this awards is for the games that fucked up big time. The ones that pissed people off, the ones that sucked and of course the ones that didn't live up to expectations. These games are shite. You shouldn't get these. Just like Alien Colonial Marines.

The nominations are:

MIGHTY NO 9
So I didn't had high hopes for this like everyone else did. Cause I didn't played the Mega Man games. I want to, especially the legends ones. Basically it's from the same guy behind the success of the Mega Man games. Sound like a good idea and people went to support it on Kickstarter. Sounded like a good idea that in the end turned into a uninteresting sidescroller that didn't lived up to expectations or the promise it made. People who supported it are rightfully pissed off. None of what they were promised happened. They didn't got the awards they were promised by backing it on Kickstarter. Also not to mention the fucking trailer that mock the audience that it was aiming for.  https://youtu.be/YngbHOz--oc

Yeah pretty shitty marketing there. I don't know what they were thinking. The game itself is dull. Level design sucks, with gameplay you played before in better games. Only it's just uninteresting. Story is bland, voice acting sucks and its not the best looking game in the world. Mighty No 9 is basically a Mighty No Zero. Speaking off.........

STAR FOX ZERO
Yeah I hate to put this in but I have to. I love Star Fox, I'm a Nintendo fan. It's been with me since childhood. One of my first games I've played was Star Fox on the Super NES. Star Fox 64 is awesome and hell even Star Fox Adventures on GameCube was underrated, I thought it was enjoyable. This one was basically not up there. It's forced gamepad controls ruin the gameplay, it was short as hell. But it's biggest offence. IT'S STAR FOX 64. Yeah it's basically 64 without the awesome. It confuses me since we had a remaster of Star Fox 64 on the 3DS. And you can check Star Fox 64 on the Wii U shop and it's cheaper. And it has better controllers. I don't know what Nintendo were thinking. They sure make a lot of fuck ups with their time with the Wii U. This was a big disappointment. Star Fox Zero is a Zero indeed. Also unnecessary since it's Star Fox 64 without the charm. Just check Star Fox 64 on Wii U eshop instead.

NO MAN'S SKY
Oh my God, where to start with this one. Seriously you readers probably already know this was going to be on here. I never seen the backlash this game got. I mean in the way it's well deserved. It's a flop. Luckily I didn't brought into the hype like everyone else. I don't know everything about the game. Even from the reveals, trailers, Sean Murray claiming stuff, etc. Basically this game was One Man's Lie. Nothing that was promised was in this game. Looks like a game that came out on the Xbox 360 tbh, it looks like crap in my opinion. And the gameplay was a chore. Scan, next planet. Scan, next planet. Scan, next planet. Over and over again. That's the whole game. Sounds like fun right. Not only failed with expectations but in my view it failed as a game. So boring. I rather play Ride To Hell than this. Yeah at least with Ride To Hell, you can laugh at it for how awful it is. With No Man's Sky you can't. You feel like you're time has wasted. And that's not great. Games are supposed to be fun. If it fails at that then it's really awful. No Man's Sky is shite. No excuse, it's shit. I mean Hello Games can make great games. The Joe Danger games are great, go play them. Their cheap as hell at the moment. This one may killed a developer that wasn't ready for Triple A. Way over their heads.

Those are the nominations. As usual here are the dishonorable mentions of games that sucked as well and also was a disappointment but didn't made the nominations:

Mafia 3
Umbrella Corps
Street Fighter 5
Ghostbusters the game
The Division
Battleborn
TMNT: Mutants In Manhattan
Quantum Break
Homefront The Revolution

And now the winner of the biggest fail in video games of 2016 goes to..........

NO MAN'S SKY
There's no surprises here. It's an easy choice. I had to narrow it down to three nominations cause there's not many bad games this year. It's been pretty good tbh. But this one sucked. I know people will say "oh come on it's not a bad game, it's relaxing" and I'll say. No it fucking isn't, what are you on about? How is choring around planets, scanning and collecting materials relaxing? It's not. It's boring. Video games are supposed to be fun and enjoyable. Not competitive or a chore to play. No Man's Sky is a chore to play with no pay offs whatsoever. It's a dud basically and nobody should play it. It is the most overhyped piece of shit ever from a studio who wasn't ready to make Triple A games. Unlike CD Project Red, with their superb The Witcher games. Their now a Triple A developer cause they work their arses off and didn't lie. Unlike Hello Games and it's founder Sean Murray. Who fucking did. Just like that cocksucker Peter Molyneux with the Fable games and Randy Pitchford from Gearbox Software for the failure that is Alien Colonial Marines before him. Basically it's another lesson to people out there don't pre order and DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE.

Anyway that was a lot of my chest lol. Got a video game that failed that I missed? Comment away your least favourite game of 2016, let me know. Thanks for reading and I'll see you in the next blog. Have a good one peeps! 👍

The Badarse 2016 Awards: Best Game 2016

Before you read this. I have a few mentions on this category. I have rules. First off no multiplayer only games, so Overwatch is not nominated. While a good game. It's multiplayer only. For me it has to have single player and multiplayer. Single player only games is allowed cause single player offers more and it's the best experience around. And I'm not a multiplayer. So if you don't like it, tough. There's a lot other samey top tens on YouTube and other media that have Overwatch number one but not here cause to me it's overrated. This is my awards and no Overwatch. Also last but no least, no mobile games. Games or "games"  like Pokemon Go & Super Mario Run are not on here.

So that's my rules. Got it? Good.

Anywho the Nominations are:

DOOM
I think it's a year of comebacks in my view. Long time franchises coming back from the grave and kicking arse again. Doom was no different. A superb game that was a old school Doom, with a modern twist to it. Gameplay was fantastic, it's so cool ripping off limbs off Demons and execute them in different ways. The weapons were cool as fuck. Enemies are cool and have a great sense of challenge. Soundtrack was great and even Multiplayer wasn't bad either, ignore the ppl who say it is. It's better than some of these multiplayer only games (Evolve anyone?). Only flaw I have is the story, it's a bit underdeveloped imo. But overall this game is excellent. Great comeback from the Daddy of the Shooters

WATCH DOGS 2
The first one was plain average. Sure I think the hate was over the top but the first game wasn't bad. But yeah it wasn't superb either. But the second one was awesome. Out of all the open world games I've played this year. This one was the most fun I had. It stopped the melodrama bullshit from the first and made it less serious and more of a good time. Enjoyable story with a likeable main character this time as you play Marcus. A newbie in the hacker group DeadSec. You and your buddies hack around San Francisco to take down Blume. It's a big time improvement over the first game. Side missions are great, the graphics are one of the best this year, gameplay is solid, soundtrack is great and multiplayer is good too, improving from the first. Watch Dogs 2 is a sample of it's better the second time around. Such a shame nobody mentions this game but luckily I am. It's great, go get it.

UNCHARTED 4 : A THIEF'S END
Hopefully it's not the end of Uncharted but I couldn't think of a perfect ending to an awesome franchise than this game. It's a real Triple A game. You get what you expect from Uncharted. Great storytelling, superb characters but I love the improvement to combat by giving you a choice of go in guns blazing or be stealthy. And probably the best graphics on the PS4 bar none. It's a rival to the best looking PC games. It's an instant classic and if it's an end of Nathan Drake's adventures, then it's a great to go off. I'm looking forward to the next Uncharted. Also big pops to the Crash cameo, so looking forward to the remasters!!

INSIDE
I normally don't like Indie games, but their are a few that I do. Inside is one of those games. It's eerie as hell, creepy and original. It's better to play it than talk about it. But overall the game is great platformer and also a horror too. Cause it's got this creepy feeling to it. Like something is going to happen. I haven't completed it yet by the time I write this. But it has won me over for being a game that gets me emotionally interested in it. Not many games do that. It's freaking good. Solid game I recommend checking out now. It has to be played to believe. Definitely pick it up, it's cheap.

RATCHET & CLANK
I know it's a reboot of the first game that came out years ago but I have to nominated this. Cause I feel reboot or remake deserves to be in the best of year awards. Cause most modern games are not up to the standards and it's more style over substance. Multiplayer over single player, dlcs, season passes and fucking micro transactions. So yeah I rather nominated this cause it's a better game than these games. Sue me. I never had a chance of playing the last couple of Ratchet and Clank games. So this is my first and I'm a big fan already. Fun story, great characters, superb platforming, graphics are great and it's just fun. Remember when games are fun? Not competitive? Oh those were the days. I feel that games like Ratchet and Clank do remember that. Funny, smart, enjoyable and it's a superb comeback from the duo. Great game!

Before I award my favourite game of 2016. A few honorable mentions to awesome games that didn't make it in the nominations but still awesome games to pick up:

Deus Ex Mankind Divided
Final Fantasy 15
Forza Horizon 3
Gears Of War 4
Battlefield 1
Titanfall 2
Pokemon Sun and Moon
Dishonored 2
Hitman
Abzu
XCom 2
Banner Saga 2
Batman Telltale series 1
Lego Star Wars The Force Awakens
Dark Souls 3
Firewatch
The Witness
And Dead Rising 4

OK now to the winner of the Badarse Game Of The Year award for 2016 goes to:

UNCHARTED 4
To be honest it was a easy pick for me. I fucking love the Uncharted franchise from the beginning. Naughty Dog has done it again with another cracker. If it's end of Nathan's adventures, it's a great way to end it on a very high note indeed. It's just an awesome game that if you have a PS4, go get this game. It's so awesome. Love the relationship between Nathan and his older brother Sam. Both voiced superbly by Nolan North and Troy Baker, who have very good chemistry together voicing Nate and Sam. Great dialogue, but that's expected in Uncharted. Naughty Dog knows how to make great games. I don't think they made a bad game yet still. It's just 100% awesome.

Yeah I feel like a lot of YouTubers and certain game awards are wrong awarding multiplayer only games. It's total bullshit in my opinion. Like great games like Uncharted 4 will be replayed for years to come. Cause it has strong single player but also a strong multiplayer as well. Hell even Titanfall 2 has a single player now and it got better reviews. Reasons why some games got honorable mentions instead of a nomination is I haven't played them yet but I have seen gameplay footage of it. So it's a honorable mention. Anyway hope you like it guys. Got a favourite that's not on this, comment below you're own list. Love to see it , agree or disagree. Anyway thanks for reading and I'll see yous all next time!!