Still plodding through Tears of the Kingdom and working on the Zora dungeon.
The fetch quests and 'go talk to somebody' quests back and forth between the same two locations kinda sucked, but the gimmick of the dungeon itself is so cool that I can't really be mad about it lol
Glad you're enjoying Tears of the Kingdom!
Nuclear throne for single player
TF2 for multiplayer. I wish I had an actual group to play with though.
Binding of Isaac coop beta is out. There are some issues with desyncs but when it works it's a lot of fun.
Games that I've recently played and completed are Armored Core 6, Like a Dragon Gaiden, and Pikmin 4. I'm currently doing a replay of Final Fantasy 7 Remake to prepare for FF7 Rebirth. I'm planning to play the Metal Gear Solid collection later this month.
Armored Core 6: 8.5/10 great game. I only beat it once and haven't tried the NG+/NG++ stuff yet, but might come back to it when/if DLC comes out. Had a lot of fun blowing stuff up with missiles and grenade launchers lmao
Like a Dragon Gaiden: 8.5/10 another great game. Playing as definitely not the yakuza known as Kiryu and the return to beat em up action was fun. Nice short and sweet game to prepare you for Yakuza 8 coming out early next year. 100% the game and got the plat for it. The ending made me tear up a little it was so great and bittersweet.
Pikmin 4: 9/10 just amazing! Probably a top 3 game I've played this year! The gameplay loop was very addicting and gave me the "Just one more day" feeling. The space dog Oatchi is very cute and useful if not a little bit overpowered and reduces the challenge of the game a bit, but it was still a fun time using him. I really enjoyed the Dandori challenges and battles - splitting up your pikmin and grabbing all the treasures and defeating all the enemies under a time limit that requires all your micromanaging and logistic skills. It was excellent. 
I've been playing and enjoying Xenoblade Chronicles 2 lately. I tried it when I first got and hacked my Switch and bounced off it completely because I didn't really understand the complexity of the combat. I watched a few tips videos and now that I understand a bit more about how to engage with its systems I'm enjoying it.
Recently beat Super Mario Wonder. I have mixed feelings about the game in that I really enjoyed my first playthrough but think going back to it would be a chore. That said I think speedrunners will have a field day with it because of badge tech so I'm happy for them.
Currently playing a combination of Team Fortress 2, Battlebit Remastered, Factorio (Space Exploration mod), and various Portal 2 custom co-op levels with a friend (soon to be Portal: Reloaded co-op once a friend beats the base game).
2023 has been great for me in that spiritual successors/actual successors/revivals of my favorite older games have occured (Battlebit taking the older battlefield mantle up, Team Fortress 2 having a player resurgence, Tribes 3 Rivals on the horizon).
Going forward I expect a lot of time in Factorio and Tribes 3 assuming they make some fairly substantial (and expected) changes to jetpack mechanics (increasing the strength and duration for next week's alpha test as well as testing out 1X vs 1X lobby sizes).
Was playing Terminator: Resistance, in which there are Terminators, and you resist them
Thanks for explaining; for a moment, I thought it was about the Terminators themselves resisting!
In Stars and Time - Indie rpg about a time loop. The game starts with the party resting in town the day before they enter the final dungeon. They trigger a trap early in the dungeon and the main character finds themself sent back to the previous day. They're happy to have another chance to save the party, but their mental health starts to degrade as the number of times they're forced to repeat the time loop increases. The party is very wholesome, and the time loop story is the best I've seen in any game. Highly recommend.
Recently ive been busy so, I've only really been playing guilty gear strive. I intend to go back to outer wilds after exams tho.
2023 is absurdly stacked as a year it had:
Any of which couldve made goty for me in a weaker year.
Mostly been playing Spider-Man 2 lately. Fantastic game. I’m so tired of superhero stuff with the sole exception of Spider-Man, fuckin’ love Spider-Man. Finished the main story a couple days ago, now just swinging around getting the last collectibles and achievements, want to get platinum in it like I did with 1 and Miles Morales.
Also been playing a modded Minecraft game with my partner when we just want to chill and listen to a podcast.
Once I finish Spider-Man I plan to go back and finish Tears of the Kingdom and Baldur’s Gate 3. Biggest problem with Baldur’s Gate is I need to like, actually pay attention to it lol.
Doom via GZDoom. It still slaps. Gonna play some newish WADs after I get through Doom 1&2
Awesome! Sounds fun!
Played a million different games over the year, always come back to Pokemon and Minecraft.
I'm building my huge black marble illuminati upside-down pyramid in Valheim. I'm mostly done now, hopefully the new expansion will be out soon.
Currently playing Tevi. It's a cute anime metroidvania with bullethell elements. Not quite got the charm of its predecessor Rabi Ribi but still enjoying it.
The soundtrack is fantastic, reminding me of Ragnarok Online with some of its tracks.
I started playing Naraka which is a Chinese free to play melee-focused BR game too. I'm very bad at it and the low western population seems to mean matchmaking puts me in with people who have thousands of hours regularly so I get bodied.
Lol, so I actually don't do much in the way of regular gaming on my own nowadays. I'm big into the potentials of VR, but I'm also poor, so when I do play it tends to be HalfLife:Alyx again or some campaign someone made for it.
I'm playing the Talos Principle II. It started out really strong posing what I thought was an interesting & pertinent dilemma about degrowth/living in harmony with nature and expanding exponentially. Unfortunately past hour 5 or so the game really just starts fully leaning into the whole "anything other than exponential growth spreading the nuclear-powered light of consciousness to the universe is death, nature has no inherent value unless witnessed by a conscious entity" so whatever, I'm going along with the puzzles at this point because they're pretty good.
I wonder how much of this is related to your choices - I've definitely told all the other people in the game that I think growth should be checked, and at least I was able to convince the squad, but yeah that "nature has no inherent value unless witnessed by a conscious entity" thing was a bit silly IMO. I can't really put my finger on why, maybe it's just not expressing itself well. Took a break from it before the last 1/4 and will get back to it eventually...
edit: I actually really enjoyed talking with the characters about moral things in the game, but it seems that's dropped off a bit.
I was going for a Diaspora-type "yeah let's progress technology and distribute our society to avoid extinction events but still the scourge of exponential growth must be avoided at all costs" but idk whether that's actually a viable option in-game.
I just got to one of the terminals where Athena was all "anti-nuke protesters R dum" and it all felt a bit reddit honestly. I'm about to finish the sixth island.
I'm currently playing Dragon Quest Builders 2 (for the third time lol), Final Fantasy X and Cult of the Lamb.
The only new games I've played this year are Sea of Stars and the Pokemon DLC (which I'm looking forward to the second part of)
I recommend everything here especially Sea of Stars.
Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
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