Howdy partners!
Since the year is closing out and this is still (ostensibly) a gaming board I thought it might be kind of fun to talk about what we played this year, what our GOTY was, the biggest disappointments, etc.
I didn’t really purchase many new AAA titles this year, I think Elden Ring and The Callisto Protocol were it. Of the two Elden Ring met my expectations and was excellent, and TCP was monumentally disappointing.
I spent most of my gaming budget on indie titles this year, and while I loved Elden Ring it was narrowly edged out by Infernax as my Game of the Year. Infernax was a huge surprise for me, I don’t usually expect much from the indie-retro-nostalgia bait but it blew me away. A love letter to classic NES titles like Castlevania 2, Link’s Adventure, and Faxanadu, it combines gorgeous pixel art with a banger of a soundtrack and a fun story with multiple endings and unlockable characters and I can’t recommend it enough.
A close second would be Cultic; some people have complained that Boomer Shooters are reaching over saturation by now but I play the shit out of every one and I think Cultic is the best of the lot. The shortest way to describe it would be Blood crossed with Resident Evil 4; you’re a cop fighting a crazed cult and demonic monsters in the seventies, there’s a fun arsenal of upgradable weapons, cool levels to explore, and a shitload of monsters to kill, everything a fps ahould have in other words, go nuts.
As far as what I thought sucked ass The Callisto Protocol is the only big letdown I can think of, and I’ve bitched about it enough so now I want to hear what you guys have been playing, what surprised you, disappointed you, and what you recommend.
Cheers all, and have a Happy New Year!
I am also having a blast with retro shooters, and not getting bored with it one bit. Cultic is one of those that I am looking forward to playing.
The ones that I have gotten around to play and liked a lot were DUSK and Project Warlock.
The ones that I have not played yet, but have wishlisted are: the two new Postal games, AMID EVIL, Nightmare Reaper, Ion Fury, Chasm: The Rift, and the likes.
According to Steam Replay, I have spent the most amount of time this year in AC Odyssey, which reinforced to me that these games are just too long. The more it went on and on, the less I wanted to keep playing it. Still went for 100%, because I am retarded.
Close second to it was Frostpunk, which I would nominate for GOTY for me. It reignited the "plan shit out on paper" lunacy for me, something that I have not done in at least a decade, if not more. There simply wasn't a game that made me do it, besides Frostpunk. It shows how much I enjoyed it that I immediately wishlisted the sequel.
My graph in Steam Replay shows that the types of game I have played the most are City Builder, Horror, Open World Survival Craft (probably because of The Forest, which I have also liked a lot), Programming, Vampire, and Puzzle Platformer.