Yup. That is what I said.

Starfield? Really?

Hogwarts Legacy, Starfield, Redfall.

I just hope it's not a repeat of the first game open world wise.

I am excited for Spider-Man 2. I've enjoyed first one so far, sadly still haven't played Miles Morales but I surely will :D.

On xbox series, there's quick resume where you can suspend (save state) multiple games, even with the console turned off.

So you can play single player games while waiting for a friend to be ready for online games. Then when friend is ready, simply switch to the online game. No need to look for save point in the single player game.

On Xbox, the dashboard also almost never need to be touched

But it is still nice to have a good dashboard

On xbox series, you don't even need to touch the dashboard most of the time

Elden Ring, Pentiment, Citizen Sleeper, Vampire Survivors and Metal Hellsinger

Ghost of Tsushima released in 2020 iirc, am I wrong?

Dying Light 2

Sifu

Sniper Elite 5

FIFA 23

Stray

Thank you for this perspective.

When you get out of the train onto the open snow landscape in Exodus, that is awesome. Such graphically awesome. I don't like the monsters in the Metro series though. I think they're kinda silly and repetetive (cause there's so many of exactly the same monsters all the time, and it's in multiple of their games), but I never got far in any of the games, so maybe if you get far into the games the enemy types get more diverse.

I can’t think of 5 games I played that were released this year.

1. Stray
2. Elden Ring 3…really can’t think of anything else.

I played horizon forbidden west but I was so disappointed with it that I can’t include it.

It’s incredibly tight and polished. First rate writing, motion capture, voice acting and story telling. Combat can be difficult, but it’s fair and intense. Exploration and puzzle solving are rewarded but not obtuse. My only complaint is it felt like a DLC to the last game and didn’t add anything really new gameplay wise from 4 years ago. It’s a very linear game, but that’s okay because cinematic linear games have their place and it doesn’t try to overreach.

Don’t get me wrong I like Elden Ring and I’m about 50 hours into my first play through, but Elden Ring feels like a couple generations behind in its presentation. It definitely brought a breath of fresh air to the open world genre instead of being a boring map filled with copy paste points of interest, but everything else felt like a PS3 game. Like walking up to a low poly mostly-static NPC and hitting triangle a few times to get a couple lines of boring dialogue at a time until you hit a loop feels like an MMO from the mid-2000’s. Combat (especially boss fights) is mostly trial and error until you memorize when to press dodge. Compared to the dozens of special moves and combos you can bust out in God of War it feels very shallow and two dimensional. I could go on but I don’t want to give off the impression I hate it or everything it tries to do is worse than GoW which definitely isn’t true, it just wasn’t game of the year for me.

How did Ragnarok impress you?

Personally I thought it was awful so I'm wondering what worked for you?

How what?

Really Ragnarok?

How?

I don’t think I played 5 new console games this year, but God of War Ragnarok was my #1. Elden Ring is a distant 2nd. I think everything else I played were older games.

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Nice, I hope you enjoy them.

I've never heard if this, they may be some but everyone now wants an Xbox series x or ps5

I only played two new releases this year, so I’ll share the top 5 that I played (console or not):

1. Elden Ring
2. Tunic
3. Hades
4. Metro Exodus (enhanced edition)
5. Ghosts of Tsushima

Hmm, maybe I should post this on r/patientgamers

ETA: I did play Stray, actually was a game I was really looking forward to, but it didn’t rank as highly for me as the list above did. Never heard of Frogun or ToH, so hose sound right up my alley.

That product was honestly ahead of its time. Something like that for this gen that gets around the Linux limitation would be amazing.

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