Welcome to Game/Life Balance U.S.! On our web site and weekly podcast, we plan on serving up content that goes beyond playing video games and explores real issues, such as how to best strike a healthy balance between gaming and life-ing and whatever else you want to be doing. But for our first post, we’d like to take a look back at the games we played in 2015 (keeping in mind that not all of these games were actually released in 2015)!
When we hosted the Unqualified Gamers podcast, we hosted a best of 2013 episode and a best of 2014 episode, so we feel beholden to a best of 2015 episode, in which Jon and I will unveil our favorite games of 2015. And as I did last year, I want to preface our “favorite games” episode with a list of the video games we actually played this year. So, without further ado, here is a list of the games that we discussed on the Unqualified Gamers podcast last year, in rough reverse chronological order:
Games only Jon played (for the first time):
- Assassin’s Creed Syndicate (not yet reviewed)
- Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree’s Woe and the Blight Below
- Super Meat Boy
- Broken Age
- Until Dawn
- Rocket League
- Dying Light
- Final Fantasy XIV
- Crypt of the Necrodancer
- Heroes of the Storm (and more)
- Don’t Starve (multiplayer)
- Warframe
- The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (not to be confused with his Binding of Isaac review from the first podcast we ever recorded together)
- The Swapper
- World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor
Games only Cody played (for the first time):
- Civilization: Beyond Earth – Rising Tide (not yet reviewed)
- Broforce
- Final Fantasy: Type-0 HD
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (multiple episodes)
- Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
- Elbow Room
- Civilization V: CivAddiction’s Multiplayer Modpack (mod)
- Geometry Wars 3
- Final Fantasy Record Keeper
- Transistor
- Mount Your Friends
- Flappy Fish Surge
The only game both Cody and Jon played:
Don’t forget to tune in this week to hear which games made our list of favorite games of 2015, and while you’re anxiously awaiting our favorites, please feel free to check out the end-of-year special from our Australian friends on their Game/Life Balance podcast. Here’s to a great New Year!
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