Baldurs Gate 3 and it isn’t that close, I really liked Tears of the Kingdom and finally getting to Cyberpunk too though
Yeah, I was absolutely astounded by how good BG3 was. It blew my other picks out of the water
Same for me. 650 hours in I’ve got the platinum trophy and golden dice and I started a new character yesterday (gith paladin) because there is still stuff i havent seen.
Wow, thought I’d be in the majority with this but Baldur’s Gate 3.
Followed closely by HiFi Rush and Sea of Stars.
Dave the Diver
Good?
Disco Elysium for sure. The story enraptured me and the characters had so much depth
Yeah, enjoyed quite a few games this year, but nothing got into my head quite like DE. I hope so bad that we could expect some kind of follow-up to that masterpiece.
Favorite so far was probably Talos Principle 2. It was excellent, best movie of the year. And the puzzles were fun too.
I loved Talos Principle 2.
Final Fantasy 7: Remake. I now understand what all the fuss was about and why it’s probably the most famous out of them all (I might be wrong on that). I haven’t played the original so this was a great introduction.
FF7 (original) is famous because it was a huge jump from 2d pixel to 3d models. The original iteration had tank controls, and the game was long. But largely empty and slowed down by random encounters.
The new one changed the story dramatically. The next game will further deviate from the original.
Huh, well I still like the remake nonetheless. I’m planning on playing it after the story is completed but thats going to be a while.
For sure. I loved the new one and I like what they’re doing with the story. Feels appropriate.
Definitely CrossCode, I didn’t expect to love it as much as I did. I still need to play the DLC.
It’s so amazingly polished!
Dredge, surprisingly enough. What a memorable game
Lingo. It tickles my brain in wonderful ways. I’m currently working through the custom level Liduongo, sequel to an earlier map named Duolingo, and I continue to be surprised, delighted, and utterly perplexed.
It’s a rules-based puzzler that doesn’t tell you the rules buried in a confusing labyrinth. The only downside is that it requires a strong grasp of English, limiting its audience.
Lingo was amazing! My husband and I played through it together; he’s better at 3d navigation so he navigated, and I’m better at word games, and we had a blast. We should try some of the custom maps!
Diddy Kong Racing.
Nice. I started Ratchet & Clank on PCSX2 yesterday. Holy hell is that Emulator a work of art. The graphical options for the emu make that PS2 game still shine and the gameplay is lotsa fun. Sadly the libretro core for Retroarch/Emulationstation bugged out for me and was slow compared to standalone PCSX2.
Also I’m still puzzled how it’s possible there are so many retro-achievements for so many games. I looked up how to implement them and it’s really complicated. I totally underestimated how big the retro games scene still is. I really want to get into the netplay thing.
I finally took the time and played through the souls series. I’m still going through 3 right now but they are all great games (2 less so). I’m not a complete stranger to the series (I’ve beaten Bloodborne, Demon’s Souls, Elden Ring, and Sekiro) but I’ve never actually sat through the main series. Gotta say it did not disappoint. DS2 had some moments that were a slog but even with the dip in quality it’s still a great game, just the worst of the Souls-like games.
Also been playing BG3 and Disco Elysium in between.
Next few years are gonna have a lot to compete with in terms of the sheer quality of games I waited to play until this year.
The Talos Principle 2. It’s a game about communism. Play it.
I also really enjoyed Blasphemous 2. Great metroidvania with some gnarly Spanish Catholic art.
Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead - Sky Islands Mod: By far and away the most interesting survival singleplayer game I have ever played. Complex? Yeah there is a lot of stuff but don’t let anyone convince you CDDA has an obtuse UI, it has easy to remember keybindings and the interface is easy to navigate. Can’t remember the key to do something? Hit “?” and type the name of the action and boom there it is.
Sky Islands turns CDDA into a run based game (sort of like tarkov I guess? idk) and it is just what CDDA always needed for me. Instead of being free to roam the procedurally generated landscape of CDDA going wherever you want, each time you venture out from your island in Sky Islands you spawn in a random place and must make it to a portal home within a couple of hours or you die. There could be any number of obstacles in your way between you and the portal including zombie infested cities, swamps, craters, mass graves, massive fungal towers with deadly spores or shudders worst of all RIVERS… (No joke, surprise rivers you get stuck on the other side of will more thoroughly doom you than anything else).
If you reach the portal home you can only take back through the portal what you can hold in your hands and on your back. Stay as long as you want on your sky island before returning for another run but don’t exhaust your critical supplies and remember that with every day that passes in CDDA the monsters grow more horrific…
Okay, but I’ve just created a functional train in the normal game, so that’s one thing sky Islands don’t have
Baldur’s Gate 3. Boring answer but it’s just very goddamn good.
Snagged Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy for $3.50 and have been enjoying it with the config files altered for higher damage/dismemberment with lightsabers.
Makes fighting force users really tactical because you have to avoid their saber too, dismemberment affects you and is an instant death. You can get cool kills like rolling underneath their saber throw and Darth Maul’ing them while they’re unable to deflect you, etc.
Incredible Jedi power fantasy, as much as I like Fallen Order it just doesn’t sell you on the fact that you have a lightsaber in your hands as much as Outcast and Academy do with the damage increased. Hell you can kill stormtroopers just by walking into them and moving your blade slightly, now that’s a lightsaber!
Look up the Movie Battles II mod if you plan on taking that game online. It enhances the already great lightsaber combat and still has a pretty active community (I’m pretty sure you can also jump into single player with the mod for the quality of life features it adds)
Thanks!
As a kid I used to have keybinds setup in Jedi Outcast (bind k “NPC spawn stormtrooper”)that would let me spawn different enemies on me while notarget was on and g_saberrealisticcombat at 3. Hours of entertainment till the game would inevitably crash from too many enemies
