Games

Yeah - Hogwarts, TOTK, Baldur's Gate 3 and Starfield is quite an amazing run.

Don't know, I have spent the entire year playing Apex.

Yes. 2023, at least from a AAA perspective, is probably the best gaming year we’ve had in at least half a decade. Many of the covid delays are finally reaching their conclusion this year.

For indies/AA it’s always hard to tell until the end of the year because so many things come out of nowhere. But with stuff like DREDGE, Darkest Dungeon II, Wildfrost, and Hifi Rush already out plus demos for future 2023 games like Jumplight Odyssey and Norland being great it seems like a pretty solid year on that front as well.

For sure, and not even because of those five. PSVR2 and FFXVI were released this year which have been awesome

And we still have Starfield, BG3, Phantom Liberty to come before the end of year! Possibly Silksong? GW2 expansions is coming as well, Remnant 2 is releasing,..

We had some colossal disappointments too but I gotta admit it's looking like a pretty good year overall.

Huh, MWII released 2022.

Would've expected to see Diablo IV here. Isn't it like the best selling Blizzard game ever or something?

It's going to be awesome. Starfield and Phantom Liberty look amazing.

Zelda tears of the kingdom is probably my favorite open world game uptil now, there's just so much to do and the building mechanics make the game a lot more fun. I've spent more time building and exploring rather than doing the main story, also collecting outfits and farming is fun as i figure out new ways to kill hoards of enemies. Can't wait to see how other open world games get inspired by the new zelda.

Diablo 4 for me.

For all the hate COD gets, the new one is honestly great for someone who hasn’t played in around a decade.

I could do without the silly skins, but I guess that’s what sells these days.

I'm gonna say it's been pretty mid so far. Lots of great games but many marred by technical issues at launch. Of the five in the image, Jedi Survivor, Hogwarts Legacy, and TOTK all suffered from pretty bad performance of varying degrees (worst case scenario for TOTK is on a 2017 Switch, to clarify). Modern Warfare II was chock-full of crashes, broken features, and bugs. Resident Evil 4 was mostly solid, but for some reason the Xbox version had an issue where the deadzones were markedly worse on controller than any other platform.

Hoping it gets better as the PS5-Xbox-PC workflow is improved and Nintendo finally launches a Switch successor that gives their developers more headroom. Game design quality isn't going down (except MWII), but games are dropping from an acceptable functionality standard with an annoying "fix it later" mentality.

I am very happy to see RE up there. Can’t wait until we get another mainline game!

I've spent sooooo many hours in TOTK and looking forward to many, many more.

HiFi Rush is such a unique banger both in terms of art direction and game design, shame it released so early in the year.

I hope it's not forgotten when awards season rolls around.

That Jedi Survivor is in there is worrying considering the issues the game has/have…

It’s gonna be interesting too see where Only Up! ends up.