Since the normies are starting to do their GotY thing.
I think mine’s Hardspace: Shipbreaker, although 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim continues to grow on me.
Bloodborne, Sifu or Hyper Light Drifter.
I don’t really want to pick between the three, but I’ll go with Sifu, because it’s got a little of that super tough, Fromsoftiness built in.
Runs like a dream on my Steamdeck too, and has some genuinely really impressive moments of beauty that I wasn’t expecting from a super-hard-beat-people-up-with-a-pipe game.
I opened up Bloodborne again a few weeks ago. Performance isn’t good, but it’s a lot less miserable than the time I played before that. I definitely like the mechanic of dual mode weapons. The chain-cane is pretty fun to approach enemies with.
I wish it was on PC for steam deck though. I’m not in front of the console as much.
Same. I ended up playing it on my partner’s PS5, and it ran well enough (30FPS be damned). Put that on my Steamdeck though, please.
Last time I tried it was a slide show. I never got past the first area because it was just such a choppy piece of shit, on the original PS4 and with/without boost on the pro. So not that is a big step forward.
But it’s still stuck to a TV or bad streaming and I don’t really want either.
Edit: finally pulled the trigger on a PS5, killed the boss I’d been stuck on on the actual first try running it on there. So maybe performance was still an issue.
Horizon: Zero Dawn.
Captivating storyline combined with interesting fights and beautiful visuals.
The second one, forbidden west, is good too. But I find the world building and architecture of Meridian and the surrounding towns very interesting and very beautiful in many ways. I think I prefer the first one, the mechanics got changed a bit and I don’t really like that you can just fly everywhere in the second one.
Final Fantasy XIII-2, modded with HD upscaled textures, community fixes, and Reshade. 2K Resolution w/ Improved AA + Color Correction + Motion Blur + Ray Tracing made this game look modern af 😎
And for the best game this year part, the developers really said “so FFXIII was linear? Well how about time is not linear!” Jumping back to old locations surprised me in that I actually wanted to go back to them and do optional content. And beneath the extra ass music (lol), is some of the most down right horrific/sad stuff shown in a FF game. Like the straight up Zombie apocalypse-like C’eith outbreak in the future that Serah even being near causes people to turn, she apologizes to them in battle as the turned enemies try to use remedy on theirselves to no avail. Being the last human alive and having to deal with seeing the last people alive dying off till it’s just you on the planet. The cruel fate of some characters and the risks taken storywise and gamewise really surprised me.
Xenoblade chronicles X. I finally got a beefy pc that can emulate it with all the graphical upgrades the Wii u can’t even fathom, and this game is so much less of a slog now that I’m an adult with a finer appreciation for menus stacked in menus sacked in menus
Doom Eternal, Team Fortress 2
