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2024 GOTY

by slowram (Premium member)

Another fun year for gaming.

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Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown

1. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown

Longest Metroidvania I've stuck with thru it all and enjoyed. Some of the platforming can be a pain, for me, not being a platforming lover, but they give you a free pass on many of them if you want which is amazing and unexpected. Aside from a couple boss fights I really enjoyed them. The fast travel/teleportation system is very perplexing.. why they didn't just allow fast travel between wakwak trees is mind boggling as many (especially after the start of the game) have nearby fast travel. Hate that I can't fast travel unless at a fast travel point. This game deserves more press. It's got me exciting to find other games in this genre.

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2. Horizon Forbidden West

Loved this sequel. Stormed thru the content racking up the hours and completed it all with the DLC. Tempted to put this above Prince of Persia, not doing so simply because it's very similar to last release whereas The Lost Crown was a whole new mechanic for Prince of Persia.

Star Wars Outlaws

3. Star Wars Outlaws

Thought this was, for moment anyhow, my GOTY but forgot those other titles that came out earlier. This game is great, many years it would be GOTY. Having a lot of fun chipping away at it days on end. Game does have it's annoyances, largely the save system, but fun overrides the negatives.

God of War Ragnarök

4. God of War Ragnarök

PC Edition, Wow this game has so much content and diversity. The other day I was thinking what was that game where I was riding a beast and exploring with a girl and then remembered, to my surprise, it was this one.

Ghost of Tsushima

5. Ghost of Tsushima

PC version, only version I've played. It's great. Thank goodness we're getting some of the best ps releases on pc even if it's much later than I'd prefer.

Backpack Battles

6. Backpack Battles

Too easy for me to dump hours into this, playing each class in a lengthy run. Has been a blast to play.

Nine Sols

7. Nine Sols

Surprised how much I've enjoyed the combat in this, at least early on, haven't gotten to midgame yet.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

8. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

Opening blew me away, after that so so, but I hear it picks back up after a couple hours. The opening was amazing, best opening of any game that I can recall.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard

9. Dragon Age: The Veilguard

This is the best game I've played that didn't hook/addict me. I play it and it's fun, but it has no draw to keep me going/returning.

Last Epoch

10. Last Epoch

Finally, claiming it hit 1.0 though their bar for 1.0 is far below any 1.0 metric I've seen before - the campaign isn't complete, they say some skills don't have trees built out for them (though, fortunately, I've not found one missing skill buildout), seasons/cycles add nothing aside a leaderboard currently, and the servers were problematic for a week (seemed really good tonight), and I've seen some people have some issues staying connected via coop and heard that the devs said be wired not wireless (which seems like a copout, and a poor expectation), also odd to me when using town portal dropped loot in area is gone (hopefully that gets updated), and when teleporting after a boss fight I had to repeat the boss fight on my portalling back. Fortunately the game is enjoyable with diverse buildouts.