Comment on What were the best and worst games you played in 2023?
OrgunDonor@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Favourites, not really ordered
- Street Fighter 6 - Really really good fighting game, definitely a recommend if you want to play one.
- Baldurs Gate 3 - It is BG3, what more needs to be said?
- Octopath Traveler 2 - It is more of the first, but more refined and better at tying the characters together.
- Dead Space Remake - If you like the original, you should really play this, it is incredible.
- Remnant 2 - Great game, a good refinement of the first remnant, and fantastic in co-op.
- Last Epoch - I really like the leveling systems(Character and also Skills). Not perfect, but fun and chaotic.
- Crab Champions - Crab goes BRRR. Not many games I go out of my way to 100% but this games feels incredible to play.
- Spiderman & Miles Morales - Finally pick up on the cheap, if you enjoy the Batman Arkham formula, these two are fantastic. Miles Morales definitely feels like a large DLC though.
- Driftwood - Longboarding Sloth, super chilled out and relaxing. Just enjoy carving down the hills on sticks of butter.
- Lumines - The best game on the PSP, and still love it(picked up for cheap with Tetris, but prefer Lumines)
The not so good.
- Ghost Runner 2 - I want to like this more, I loved the first game, but the wide open levels and bike traversal just don’t feel good or fun.
- Diablo 4 - Play Last Epoch instead, D4 feels boring and bland and uninspired after finishing the story.
- Blasphemous - Didnt click with me, the combat felt good and the movement was good, but never stuck with it, will probably try again at some point.
- Hyper Light Drifter - I have tried a few times, and I keep bouncing off it.
- Ori and the Blind Forest - I also want to like this game, but bounced off it again.
While Street Fighter 6 is my Favourite game of the the year, Baldurs Gate 3 is definitely the GOTY. I would strongly recommend any game from the favourites list. I haven’t played any really bad games this year, Diablo 4 is probably the worst I have played, do not recommend it. Unlike the other games which I would be tempted to suggest under certain circumstances.
Sigh_Bafanada@lemmy.world 6 months ago
On Ori and the Blind Forest - if you generally enjoy platformers, I would encourage you to give the sequel a shot, Ori and the Will of the Wisps. I played BF years ago and like you, I bounced off it. Then a couple of years back I tried WotW and loved it.
I subsequently went back and retried BF, and I realized that every issue I had with the gameplay had been fixed in the sequel.
The story of the first game only factors into the second game in minor ways, so you’ll be fine if you skip it.
OrgunDonor@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I will give it a try, pretty sure it is in the steam library, but probably be a couple months til I get round to it now (Granblue is being an absolute blast).