We’re getting towards the mid-point of the year, and (unless I’ve missed it) I can’t seem to find a thread for discussing what our favourite games of the year have been.
So, what have been your favourite gaming experiences so far?
Tears of the Kingdom without a doubt so far. Enjoyed every second of it.
Honorable mentions are Hi-Fi Rush, RE4 Remake, Diablo 4 - even Jedi Survivor (especially if it didn’t run like shit).
And I fully expect Starfield, Spiderman 2, and Baldur’s Gate 3 to give TOTK a run for its money. Honestly a great year for gaming despite some shitty PC ports.
100% TOTK
Has to be Street Fighter 6 for me but as a long time lover of the series I can’t help but feel they delivered extremely hard on this one. But from a sheer “oh wow” point of view TotK is outrageous like man what a game. I just like clickity stickity action.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
Stay patient dudes.I still have to get into this game. Played like the first few hours and just never came back to it, but always hear great things about it.
No Man’s Sky. It had a really rough launch but the devs have put a lot of work into it these past few years and its pretty good now. Excellent game for just chilling, flying around and exploring.
I like NMS, but I’m not a fan of the gameplay loop. After a while I end up getting bored. For a game focused on exploration it feels like there’s not much to explore when almost everything you find is the same.
I enjoyed NMS more and more each year. I wish I didn’t instantly get migraines from VR headsets or I’d get a PSVR2 just for NMS.
Tears of the Kingdom is in the running for my favorite game of all time… So I’m gonna say Tears of the Kingdom.
Although TOTK doesn’t give me the same touch and vibe of BOTW, so far it is still my favorite game of the year… Looking up to Starfield in the second half of the yeat
TOTK for sure, but honorable mention: Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed. Yeah, it may just be DLC, but XC3 was easily my favorite game of 2022, and this extra content pulling together so much from literally a decade of story and games is awesome.
It’s like that feeling in Endgame where everyone shows up to help fight and you’re like, “Holy crap, they made it work!” They put all of this stuff together from all these different places and it works. That’s how I felt with XC3 and Future Redeemed.
@danielholt Tears of the Kingdom for sure. Starfield isn’t out yet, but I think it’ll be down to those two
TOTK
Definitely Resident Evil 4 Remake! I never played the original and had such a blast with it
The RE4 Remake really knocked the ball out of the park for me, I was worried it was going to disappoint between how much was cut from RE3 and how much more the original RE4 had that they had to live up to. It’s probably the most faithful modern recreation of RE4 I could imagine, and they vastly improved on a lot of systems I didn’t even realize needed improvements in the original, while adding some new things that I really liked.
So far, I’ve had a ton of fun playing Hi-Fi Rush and Tears of the Kingdom. Looking forward to FF16 when it eventually gets a PC port, as I’m not buying a PS5 for just one game
System Shock remake. I’ve adored playing through it and, while it is certainly retro in design elements, it was engaging the whole way through.
For me, weirdly, it’s a tie between TotK and Street Fighter 6. Every time I sit at my couch, it’s a coin toss of which one I’ll be feeling. I’ve never been that into fighting games, but SF6 is really clicking with me. Then of course is the unbridled freedom and creativity of TotK. It’s a tough choice.
I also need to download the FF16 demo. Heard it’s amazing.Yes! TOTK has been such a breath of fresh air and SF6 feels like Capcom is back to making SF2/3 caliber fighting games again. Loving both of them.
Honkai Star Rail. It’s kinda, uh, the default, since it’s the only game that’s released this year I’ve played lmao.
I was pleasantly surprised by HSR. I didn’t expect much but it’s been a good game to pick up. Once you’re caught up on the storyline, the daily time commitment is pretty small so I’ll probably continue it for a while.
Does it have to be a new game? If not, then Destiny 2’s newest dungeon, Ghosts of the Deep.
If yes, then how about the Lies of P demo. Next best thing to a Bloodborne 2 I’ve seen so far.
Hi-Fi Rush was so good that it sent me back to play through the Devil May Cry games for the first time. I had played DMC3 way back in the day but didn’t really understand what I was doing, and HFR made it all make sense.
Street Fighter 6 has just supplanted Hi-Fi Rush, and I still need to play System Shock.
