Fun: Pleasant Surprise

Mr E

Rules
- No more than 3 Nominations per person, please.
- This is for the most pleasant surprise of 2016.
- Must apply to a game that was released on or after January 1st 2016 (search for the game on http://www.gamefaqs.com and look at the "Release Data" menu item for a release date). Also see here for a list of games that were released in 2016.
- Top 6-8 will go forward for the Vote (exact number dependent on number of nominations received).
- This is the second group of nominations (out of 3 groups). The survey for voting will be up after the 3rd group has closed.

Titanfall 2
Final Fantasy XV
Battlefield 1

SeantheMan

Doom. (Didn't expect it to be sooo good)
Hitman (The best use of episodic gaming to date)

Stone Deaf 4evr

1. Titanfall 2 - campaign was my favourite thing in gaming this year
2. Gears of war 4, was nervous about the new cast, but it all came together awesomely.

Zero-Cool

Watch Dogs 2
Hitman
Resident Evil 7: Beginning Hour

YouSavedMyLife

Doom (Like above didn't expect it to be sooooo good, GOTY)
Tyranny
Battlefield 1 (Haven't played a Battlefield game in a while and this kind of blew me out of the water. Surprise for me, maybe not for the rest of the world)

Retr0gamer

Doom (had disaster written all over it. Ended up being a GOTY contender)

Xenji

Doom
World of Final Fantasy

johnny_ultimate

Stephen's Sausage Roll
Titanfall 2
Virginia

pablomakaveli

Stardew Valley. Came out of nowhere and turned out to be amazing.

Deano7788

Titanfall 2
Doom
Watch Dogs 2

GhostInTheRuins

Doom. I wasn't expecting much but it turned into the best game of the year.