Games

Yeah - Hogwarts, TOTK, Baldur's Gate 3 and Starfield is quite an amazing run.

For sure, and not even because of those five. PSVR2 and FFXVI were released this year which have been awesome

Don't know, I have spent the entire year playing Apex.

Would've expected to see Diablo IV here. Isn't it like the best selling Blizzard game ever or something?

Zelda tears of the kingdom is probably my favorite open world game uptil now, there's just so much to do and the building mechanics make the game a lot more fun. I've spent more time building and exploring rather than doing the main story, also collecting outfits and farming is fun as i figure out new ways to kill hoards of enemies. Can't wait to see how other open world games get inspired by the new zelda.

And we still have Starfield, BG3, Phantom Liberty to come before the end of year! Possibly Silksong? GW2 expansions is coming as well, Remnant 2 is releasing,..

We had some colossal disappointments too but I gotta admit it's looking like a pretty good year overall.

Yes. 2023, at least from a AAA perspective, is probably the best gaming year we’ve had in at least half a decade. Many of the covid delays are finally reaching their conclusion this year.

For indies/AA it’s always hard to tell until the end of the year because so many things come out of nowhere. But with stuff like DREDGE, Darkest Dungeon II, Wildfrost, and Hifi Rush already out plus demos for future 2023 games like Jumplight Odyssey and Norland being great it seems like a pretty solid year on that front as well.

Diablo 4 for me.

It's going to be awesome. Starfield and Phantom Liberty look amazing.

Didn't get any of them. I'm so over triple a games.

Huh, MWII released 2022.

For all the hate COD gets, the new one is honestly great for someone who hasn’t played in around a decade.

I could do without the silly skins, but I guess that’s what sells these days.

It’s gonna be interesting too see where Only Up! ends up.

I am very happy to see RE up there. Can’t wait until we get another mainline game!

That Jedi Survivor is in there is worrying considering the issues the game has/have…

HiFi Rush is such a unique banger both in terms of art direction and game design, shame it released so early in the year.

I hope it's not forgotten when awards season rolls around.

I've spent sooooo many hours in TOTK and looking forward to many, many more.

I'm gonna say it's been pretty mid so far. Lots of great games but many marred by technical issues at launch. Of the five in the image, Jedi Survivor, Hogwarts Legacy, and TOTK all suffered from pretty bad performance of varying degrees (worst case scenario for TOTK is on a 2017 Switch, to clarify). Modern Warfare II was chock-full of crashes, broken features, and bugs. Resident Evil 4 was mostly solid, but for some reason the Xbox version had an issue where the deadzones were markedly worse on controller than any other platform.

Hoping it gets better as the PS5-Xbox-PC workflow is improved and Nintendo finally launches a Switch successor that gives their developers more headroom. Game design quality isn't going down (except MWII), but games are dropping from an acceptable functionality standard with an annoying "fix it later" mentality.

meh. still playing guild wars 2 and none of those games could keep long enough away from it

But i must say I only did play hogwarts and modern warfare 2...still waiting for the rest on gamepass/ea to play (except zelda, I don't give a fuck about it and the last one was overrated as heck imho)

So pretty normal year so far. At least we got the great Aliens Dark Decent and Battlebit, those games on the other hand are some great fun and hard goty candidates for me!

played tons of games but I wouldn't call it good year for games. I have moved from playing AAA titles to lots of indie titles on steam. so there is that.

Don't get me wrong, 2023 has been and can continue to be a great year for new releases. But all the massive releases so far haven't exactly lined up with my preferences. Don't get me wrong, I am very happy for everyone who is enjoying the new Zelda and Diablo 4, etc. It's just not my thing.

I was feeling very catered to in 2022. I'm still playing the crap out of Elden Ring, and Victoria 3 was my big release for the second half of the year (despite its very real shortcomings). Then there were various indie releases like Cult of the Lamb, and Dwarf Fortress finally came to steam with tons of QoL. 2023 has some stiff competition if it wants to be an even better year.

That said, 2023 still has some great potential. I'm on the fence about getting Starfield. If the release isn't a disaster, and it's as cool as the marketing makes it look to be, that could be awesome. And of course, the sequel to one of my favorite games of all time is finally coming out after ~8 years. Helldivers 2 is going to be something of a genre shift, moving to a 3rd person perspective, but I have a lot of faith in Arrowhead to deliver an amazing co-op experience. Hopefully 2023 delivers.