Last GREAT game? Elden Ring. As for GOOD games, there are a handful of AA titles that are enjoyable with minimal woke crap. For example, Focus Home Interactive produces consistently good games that aren’t preachy diatribes on leftist politics. Vampyr, Greedfall, Styx, the Surge, are all fun games that are meant to entertain and not proselytize. Even the Plague Tale series, which features a teenage girl as the protagonist isn’t the standard “I am women hear me roar” bullshit, as the game is stealth based and getting too close to an enemy is instant death. It was very refreshing to see a game acknowledge that a grown man would beat the living shit out of a 15 year girl in an actual fight. The main enemy is the Inquisition but the game makes a point of showing they are actually a cult hiding in the Church, and there are multiple monks, priests, and bishops you encounter that are decent and honorable men. What’s more of a shock is that Focus Home is based in France of all places, yet their games are pretty apolitical and fun.

Basically for mainstream gaming at this juncture, if the game comes from: From Software, Focus Home, or Japan, it’s most likely worth checking out. Otherwise? Anything after 2016 is probably going to be trash. Though that’s true of all entertainment and art. The rot became pronounced in 2012 but the trash completely takes over by 2017.