October was a pretty good month for high scoring titles, which made our internal Game of the Month poll a tough one to call. As always, five titles are nominated for our prestigious monthly award, but only four make it into these articles – and from those four, only one can be crowned our Game of the Month. So, which release claimed victory this time around? Place your bets, and then read on.
Bronze Trophy: Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition
A hardcore role-playing game that captured the imagination of reviewer Stephen Tailby, Divinity is one of those titles that can suck you into its fantasy world for hours at a time. "A splendid RPG that tests your skills and your brain, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition is a challenging, sprawling, and enchanting title from the very start," Stephen wrote, concluding that it would "be a sin" to miss this particular adventure. It was granted a divine 9/10 in our review.
Silver Trophy: Dragon Quest Heroes
Yep, we couldn't even include Dragon Quest Heroes' full title in fear that it would bugger up our formatting. Daft names aside, we reckon that this is one of the best hack and slashers that Japanese developer Omega Force has ever produced. "Even if you're not a fan of Warriors-style gameplay, we'd still heartily recommend Dragon Quest Heroes to anyone on the lookout for a joyous jaunt in a lovingly made fantasy world." That's a 9/10 right there.
Gold Trophy: Tales from the Borderlands: Season 1
Concluding last month, Tales from the Borderlands has been a very enjoyable ride. Developer Telltale has somehow taken a franchise not known for its storytelling and injected some genuinely good writing into its world. Reviewer Graham Banas reckons that "Tales from the Borderlands just might be the best series that Telltale has released to date", and that "the game is a consistent joy, fusing humour and touching emotions into one product".
Platinum Trophy: Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection
Urgh, those bloody fanboys at Push Square are at it again, giving Game of the Month to an HD collection, of all things. Seriously though, combining two – or three, depending on your opinion – of the best games on the PlayStation 3 into one neat package, The Nathan Drake Collection is an absolute must if you haven't already travelled the world with Naughty Dog's daredevil treasure hunter.
It isn't just a great bundle of top notch titles, though, as port masters Bluepoint Games managed to tweak and enhance all three games, making them play better than they ever have. "Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection is probably the best PS4 remaster thus far – and the system's had more than enough of them to give that statement weight," wrote editor Sammy Barker. Describing the collection as "30 or so hours of solid gold", the package received a 9/10 in our review. It looks like Nate's finally got his hands on a worthwhile treasure: our Game of the Month award.
And that's it for another month of great PlayStation gaming, now safely secured in our Game of the Month archives. But did we get it right? What was your favourite game of October? Vote in our poll, and let us know in the comments section below.
What was your Game of the Month for October 2015? (57 votes)
- Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition
- Dragon Quest Heroes
- Tales from the Borderlands: Season 1
- Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection
- Other
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That Uncharted Collection trailer gets me every time. Playing for the first time and recently started the second game. Loving it so far. Well deserving of first place.
Great shout, on 3 at the moment and bring my first ever playthrough I'm a big fan.
I have uncharted sitting there ready to play but been too busy with Assassin's Creed Syndicate which would be my pick of the month for October. Absolutely brilliant game, though I guess if you are sick of the whole AC formula you won't enjoy it ... but personally I'm not!
Finished off the platinum last night, so its onwards and upwards - Uncharted collection next, the only Uncharted game i've played was the vita one, so I'm looking forward to it!
My personal pick for October is Rockband 4. Sure, the vanilla set list is kinda lame, but there's so much legacy DLC available, and I've already added a ton of new tracks to my game. My second pick of October is Tales Of Zestiria. It has a very anime-like feel to the story telling, which I very much enjoy, plus the cel-shaded graphics and the combat is pretty fun. Only complaints are that the dungeons are kinda lame, some environment textures are a little ugly, and despite having a more open world feel, it's still a little restricting in what you can do, but it's still pretty solid.
Voted 'other' because I thought Assassin's Creed: Syndicate was the best game of October (even over Halo 5 and Halo is my favorite franchise). I don't vote for remasters but the Uncharted Collection is certainly extremely well done. Bluepoint should be the studio everybody goes to from here on out.
@Gamer83 lol it's true. Bluepoint's does incredible work!
Witcher 3 dlc / expansion ftw.
@get2sammyb
Bluepoint better be the group EA is talking to about the Mass Effect Remastered trilogy that makes too much sense not to happen.
Where's Disgaea 5? There's like zero love for this masterpiece. The game is a dream. Absolute master class. Doods sort it out Dood.
Unchartered 1 was a bit rubbish if I'm being honest - put me off jumping into 2 - although I know its the better game.
"Urgh, those bloody fanboys at Push Square are at it again, giving Game of the Month to an HD collection, of all things."
My work here is done
@Boerewors
I actually feel like remasters should be disqualified, even if very well done. They're older games. Bump everything else up a spot, and give the Bronze to a different game. The problem is in this case, it would mean Tales from the Borderlands moves up to the top spot and given the irrational hatred for that series I've seen on this website, that would never be allowed to happen.
Divinity looks really fun!
Uncharted for me, even having played them all before it's still head and shoulders above anything else out last month.
Divinity is absolute class, 40 hours in so far - bloody loving it. Really scratched an itch I've had for a while. Game of the year for me!
Bit of a weak month in my opinion. The best game is the 'remastered' Uncharted compilation - 3 great games I know but as I have beaten the PS3 versions, I haven't exactly been in any rush to play this with all the other games I have. I would certainly recommend it for anyone yet to play the series so far but with all the new releases an new experiences, this can sit on my shelf.
Who cares...fallout in mere days, lol. I kod, uncharted is absolute perfection. Great set of games. Wanna try divinity, but right now it's all about fallout baby!
@LieutenantFatman Only reason it wasn't included is because it's not available as a standalone slice of DLC. Otherwise it would have got my vote for sure!
@Gamer83 Just because me and Sammy think Borderlands is a trash-tier franchise doesn't mean that every member of staff thinks the same. It got the Gold Trophy here, and it was only beaten by a single vote.
We never used to count remasters in Game of the Month, but we came to the conclusion that we may as well. If a remaster is truly well done, it should be in with a shot if it gets enough votes.
Disclaimer: I don't really think Borderlands is that bad. I quite like the games themselves - it's just their 'attitude' that really irks me.
Did the controls get updated, or character movement and aiming improved? I don't recall hearing details.
@ShogunRok Have to say, I'm happy to see you mention the attitude of the Borderlands devs. A lot of people give them a free pass on that but I've been really upset by their attitude & behaviour over the years. To the point I've refused to buy any of their games and I've never done that with anyone else.
@ShogunRok Makes sense to me, curious to see if the next Witcher expansion might be stand alone as they've suggested it will be huge.
i didn't get The Uncharted Collection, i'm happy with the PS3 versions at the moment so i picked Dragon Quest Heroes The World Tree's Woe and The Blight Below as my game of the month
I played the first episode of Tales from the Borderlands and loved it so much I bought the whole series and played them back to back. The Walking Dead series 2 feels too serious and gloomy compared to Borderlands so I can't get into it even though I loved the first.
Where's Tales of Zesteria?
Like, for real? Tales of the Borderlands? Got the wrong Tales there guys...
@JaxonH Zestiria was considered, just didn't make it into the top four. Glad you're enjoying it though - I thought it was pretty great.
I want somebody to kick Robert's ass. Dragon Quest Heroes is so bad and boring game =(. It just blows my mind how as bad game as that can be considered game of anythng. I really bought DQH because of his review and was dissapointed beyond any beyond. The story is boring and empty. Heroes are not hwroes, but statists. Gameplay is as boring, even more boring than in typical musou games.
@Gemuarto Flog him in the town square I say!
"Other" Disgaea 5 easily.
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