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@TheCollector316 most Ubisoft games are soulless affairs now too. Their games used to be so unique but now they’re 150+ hours of nothing.

@Daleaf I watched the first five episodes back to back and the last five episodes (after the time jump) back to back and I’m glad I watched it that way, rather than week by week. I was completely absorbed by it.

I enjoyed the slow burn as you witness this dysfunctional family tear itself apart. You can see where the story is heading and you know there will be bloodshed but you still hope everyone will work it out and get along. But by the end of the season you realise there’s no stopping what’s about to happen and all hell is going to break loose. Season 2 is going to be insane. Already counting down the days haha

I agree with @LN78 Paddy Considine gave a masterclass performance as an ailing King Viserys. Highlight of the season for me. He deserves to win all the awards for that performance. Ramin Djawadi is also on top form as usual with an excellent score. One of his best imo.

Is it worthwhile watching all the movies before this game releases (never seen any of them)? I feel like I’d get more out of the game if I knew some of the lore.

@LN78 yeah me too. I’ve only seen the final episode once in full. On repeat viewings I turn it off when Dany gives her speech on the steps of the Red Keep. That’s the ‘real’ ending for me lol

@starbuck2212 Yeah, especially now we know a cure isn’t even possible. It makes Joel’s decision at the end of the game absolutely the right one.

House of the Dragon was so good. Can’t wait for season 2.

Really enjoyed TLoU too.

@themightyant if Spider-Man was a multi platform game, all of those extra skins would have been dlc. That’s one of the good things about Sony studio’s.

Just watched the first episode and I liked it.

I couldn’t even finish it. The game just wasn’t fun to play. And I was rooting for it too. The DeadSpace comparisons didn’t help - this game is nowhere near the same league as DeadSpace. It’s like comparing Sharknado 5 to Jaws.

@InternetUser the Childish writing is a huge problem - worse than the bloat honestly.

@InternetUser there’s the Avatar game (Frontiers of Pandora) that looks promising. I’m picturing Far Cry gameplay in the rich world of Avatar. Hope we get more news soon and maybe confirmation of a late 2023 release 🤞

@Ralizah I liked GB 2016. Much more entertaining than GB Afterlife which put me to sleep. Can’t beat the original GB though.

I haven’t played the demo but the game is on my rental list. I’m just not entirely sure what it is? The trailers I’ve seen haven’t done a great job at explaining what the game is actually about? I’m not expecting much but I’ll give it a try.

I’m waiting for the whole show to become available. Not here for this weekly release rubbish.

@CWill97 oh no haha. Just picturing Kratos standing at the Blacksmith bench with his arms crossed because he doesn’t have enough Iron Ingots for the upgrade: ‘I wanna speak to your manager! I’m not leaving!”

I liked them all honesty. It was great how ice enemies were weaker against the Chaos Blades, fire enemies were weaker against the Leviathan Axe. It encouraged you to switch things up. Once I got the spear though, it became my main weapon of choice - I loved it.

I did go through a short phase (early game) where I enjoyed Atreus’ Bow too but once Kratos’ weapons were upgraded to a certain level (and you unlocked a few special moves), Kratos was an unstoppable beast and switching back to Atreus didn’t feel as good as playing Karen.

Elden Ring may be excellent but it doesn’t appeal to everyone. I think people just voted for what they played (and liked). But seriously, more of ya’ll need to check out Ghostwire Tokyo because it’s really fun. It reminded me a lot of the early inFamous games but with a supernatural twist. Just wandering the deserted streets with the rain falling was so eerie and tense. Not to mention the abandoned hospital and residential buildings to explore. Amazing atmosphere from start to finish. Don’t know why it’s been so slept on.

Really looking forward to Robocop Rogue City. Teyon did an amazing job with Terminator Resistance.

@JudgeDredd Ghostwire Tokyo was so good.

The thing that connected with me most was the relationship between Kratos and Atreus. It felt so genuine. Kratos wanted Atreus to have a better life and he didn’t want to revert back to being the hate-fueled person he used to be. He wanted to be a better person to set an example for his Son and not to repeat the same mistakes of the past. Atreus meanwhile does what all kids do and sets out to find his own path - even when that means disobeying his Fathers orders. And although they don’t fully agree to begin with, it was touching to see how Atreus still respects his Father and even tries to mimic him. I laughed so hard when Atreus tries to punch open his first chest (Kratos style) and fails lol. It’s the little details like this that raise the game to another level and GOW:R is full of them.

@jrt87 with all due respect, it isn’t enough. Other game studios are going above and beyond what is expected to make their games accessible to everyone. FromSoftware games are known for their difficulty and Elden Ring is no exception. They need to do better.

@Max_the_German I disagree in this instance. Elden Ring would be exactly the same experience on ‘classic difficulty’ (for those who want a challenge) but adding an ‘easy’ mode wouldn’t change anything. There’s an elitist attitude to FromSoftware games and a game/studio that isn’t willing to embrace people of all abilities shouldn’t be awarded GOTY imo. I’m surprised more hasn’t been made of this issue tbh.

@Stonecold I agree, games should be accessible to everyone. The old ‘git gud’ mentality feels so outdated in 2022. Sony studios go the extra mile to make their games accessible for people of all abilities. For all the advancements Elden Ring brought to the open world genre, they are lagging way behind in this area. It would cost them nothing to add difficulty options.

Glad GoWR will be #1. It could have gone either way tbh.

It wouldn’t be Christmas without replaying Uncharted 2 for the hundredth time 😁 hearing the amazing theme song from the main menu brings back so many good memories.

GoWR soundtrack was so good. It was used in a subtle way but when you actually listened to it, it was brilliant.

A Plague Tale Requiem soundtrack was great too. The main menu theme reminded me of The Winds of Winter from Game of Thrones.

@bozz the first game was way more grounded though - it was well-written sci-fi. The story in Forbidden West could have worked but it was badly written. The bad guys are too silly to be taken seriously, like villains from an Austin Powers movie or something, flying around like Avengers in their space suits. I could overlook the super eloquent tribespeople but it reached a point where I just couldn’t take it seriously anymore. It jumped the shark and they can’t undo it.

@AhmadSumadi God of War Ragnarok at #2 and Elden Ring at #1. I would switch their positions though personally.

@LN78 it just didn’t have anything interesting to say sadly (and went in a ridiculously absurd direction with the story), which is why it’s been largely overlooked at the game awards this year. Story is so important in a game like this, especially when the story in the first game was so good. Expectations were high.

Guerrilla are a very talented studio but they just can’t undo those terrible story decisions in the next game - they’re stuck with them now - and this instantly kills any hype I have for a third game. It’s a real shame honestly.

HFW looks and plays so good. It’s just a shame the story really drags it down. I hope they hire a better team of writers for the next one.

@Ichiban it was the story that smashed expectations - so many twists and turns and the side content adds even more layers of richness to the world. The gameplay was mostly as expected but also improved/refined. It could have failed to live up to expectations (like Horizon Forbidden West did for me) but it delivered more than I could have hoped. I think Uncharted 2 was the last game to achieve this feat (being better in every way to the first game).

Saints Row was good too, I don’t care what anyone says. That game was pure fun.

Ghostwire Tokyo by a mile. That game had atmosphere in spades. One of my favourite games of 2022.

I wanted to like Dying Light 2 but it was so bad. It’s like they binned everything great about the first game, when they should have built on it. How not to do a sequel.

Edit: Horizon had huge expectations, which it didn’t meet and I haven’t played Elden Ring (not my kind of game).

Really enjoyed this game (got the platinum on PS4 and PS5). It gave me the same feeling as God of War (2018) in that it felt like a prologue to a much bigger story. I’m hoping Jedi Survivor is every bit as good a follow up as Ragnarok was to God of War. One of my most anticipated games for 2023.

I’m just not excited for ND’s next project, whatever it is. Happy to be proven wrong but as of right now, they’re Sony’s least exciting first party studio. Which is crazy because a few years ago they were considered the best.

@middyone yeah I won’t spoil anything. It is a good game - I got the platinum so I did enjoy it. But it just wasn’t where I wanted the story to go. It just becomes so fantastical that it pulled me out of the game. I would have preferred it if they stayed faithful to the tone of the first game. It just didn’t feel like a real world with real people, if that makes sense? It needed to be darker/grittier but they went in the opposite direction. Early human civilisations were brutal but we didn’t see anything like that in the game - it just felt hollow.

@middyone I know but the first game was way more grounded and plausible. Forbidden West suddenly had everyone talking like college graduates and people flying around like super heroes. I liked the game overall but the dialogue and story were atrocious compared to the first game.

I liked HFW but I hope the characters (and the story) are written more realistically in the next one. The term ‘jumped the shark’ comes to mind when I think of the silly direction it went.

Everyone’s top 5 GOTY list will be different but I thought the games had to be released in the current year? I’ve played loads of games this year that were released in previous years and my top 5 would look very different if I chose games that I played this year (that were released in 2020/2021).

I need to revisit CP2077 though because I had the invisible man glitch, where I couldn’t see the skin of my character, just his empty clothes moving around 😂

The last sonic game I played was Sonic Generations but I am curious about this. I’ll probably pick it up in the New Year.

I voted TLoU but I really enjoyed the Legacy of Thieves collection too.

I only played the Left Behind dlc once before on the PS3 so I didn’t remember a lot of it - it was like playing it for the first time again.

I bought a few games to keep me occupied this Christmas (Evil West, The Callisto Protocol, Chorus and Destroy All Humans 2) and never in a million years did I expect Chorus to be the game that took the crown. I’m having such a blast with it. It reminds me a little bit of Starlink Battle for Atlas in some ways but is fully space combat (you don’t visit any planets like you do in Starlink). It’s so good.

Every once in a while a game comes out of nowhere and takes you by surprise - that game for me this year is Chorus.

Merry Christmas 😁

I didn’t enjoy the story in Horizon Forbidden West or A Plague Tale Requiem but I still enjoyed the games.

The story in God of War Ragnarok however, was everything I hoped it would be and more.

@somnambulance I’m not sure I can agree with that. The price at release was absolutely ridiculous but it’s such a huge improvement over the original PS3 version. New gamers who were too young to play the original might see this remake and decide to give it a try, when they might not have bothered with the PS3/PS4 versions - that’s a good thing imo. And I’m so glad they didn’t make any drastic changes to the original game’s story or level design because you really can’t improve on perfection.

It’s hard to vote if it should be higher or lower when I don’t know what the rest of the games in the top 10 are yet lol

I really enjoyed this remake. The price was crazy but I’m glad I played it again.

GT7 was my first GT game and it won’t be my last. Brilliant game (and I don’t even like racing games usually).

@djhegzy I’ve tried to play it three times over the years and I do find the combat a little archaic. I keep trying though because I felt the same way about Red Dead Redemption 2 and I ended up loving that game. I’m counting on it clicking with me eventually 🙏

Yep, I agree with all of those GOWR wins. That reminds me, I need to download the GOWR soundtrack - it was so good 🙌

@Colour voted for by the community.

@Deljo I play my PS5 at a desk. Feels weird any other way. Like eating your tea on your lap in front of the tv.