Sure, it doesn’t quite have the prose of Chandler or the cinematography of The Big Heat, but it does have outstanding voice acting, a magnificent Day of the Dead theme (cleverly threaded around the noir aspects), and skeletal carrier pigeons. It’s my favourite Lucasarts adventure, my favourite Tim Schafer game, and even one of my favourite ‘noir fiction’ releases. Tuesday is ‘Kitty Hat Day’ it says it right there over the tannoy. Objectively speaking, I know that some of the puzzles are … let’s say, a little on the obscure side. The title pushing all my formative gaming buttons is Grim Fandango. Some people have Final Fantasy VII, for others it’s Ocarina of Time. Do enjoy that strange convergence of circumstance.Ĭan I choose a game from 1998 for inclusion in a ‘Best Games of 2015’ list? Sure I can.

For some reason, skeletons feature prominently in three of them. Looks like I’m first up, so here are four of my choicest of choice cuts from 2015.

Our more offbeat ‘Alternative Awards’ will be along later this week too. We already ran our Readers’ Awards to let the public decide on categories like ‘Best PC Exclusive’ and ‘Best PC Port/Version’ (because we believe those benefit from a collective approach), and we’re following that up with our staff-centric favourites from the year. It’s our first year under the new PC Invasion name, but this is going to work the same way as it used to back at IncGamers. Time, once again, for some personal best PC Games 2015 picks.

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