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Lol. There is no hope left. AI will be all you have to choose from. You cannot stuff the genie back in the bottle. In less than a year YouTube has become a sea of AI generated nonsene, and the money men will never, ever be able to not go cheaper.

I played a grand total of one new release for the year. So Ghost of Yotei is the winner of everything. Where do you all find the time to play all this stuff?

Had to bail on Jedi Survivor. Worst map ever. Bad enough that it's ridiculously difficult, but the map makes the game nearly unplayable. Whoever designed that map should be jailed for crimes against videogaming.

Uncharted 2. Couldn't pass up the Drake collection for $6. Game holds up incredibly well. I bought a used PS3 just to play this game, in 2010(?), and it was one of the very few games in 50 years of playing I would give a 10 out of 10 to.

Who cares at this point? The guys that actually made Skyrim are long gone, Starfield was an epic disaster, and if Todd Howard told me the sky was blue? I would double check. Who here thinks Bethesda can deliver ANYTHING that would even remotely come close to Skyrim?

@Oram77 I bought a used PS3 just to play Uncharted 2. Another really underrated game is Bioshock 2. Again, not as good as the original, but a game that got way too much hate.

I think its extraordinarily rare for direct sequels to surpass the original IP you fell in love with. The only games that fits that particular niche for me are Uncharted 2 and Witcher 3( I have never played the original Witcher, so Assassin of Kings was the original to me.) I usually gravitate toward an original idea, I definitely liked Zero Dawn better than Forbidden West, and Jin Sakai's journey just resonated with me more than Atsu. Ghost of Yotei was an excellent sequel, it was a ninety five out of a hundred, and I loved it. Sucker Punch did a phenomenal job, but at the end of the day? It is still a sequel.

About to finish Ghost of Yotei, but my backlog is such that I can't justify any new games for a while. I have Metaphor Refantazio, the Cyberpunk PS5 edition and the first Code Vein as my choices. What do you all think I should play? And the first Outerworlds was way too short, and frankly underwhelming. And it didn't get glowing reviews. That's going to be a wait for me.

Closing in on the 100 hour mark, and I am nowhere near finished. They packed this game to overflowing with stuff to do. Would I buy DLC? I would, because Sucker Punch has earned my trust. Would I prefer Jin continuing his story? Probably. That said, these are the pinnacle of games in the current gen, and I am on board..

I have at least 1000 hours between the 2 games. And have zero desire to watch any movie or show based on it. I consume no Hollywood product anymore, they are incompetent, bereft of talent and ideas. Go remake Matlock.

@Greifchen My walking instead of riding thing has me way behind you. I will have 150 hours minimum, because I use no guides and am an obsessive forager. I did max out 2 weapons and have lots of stuff. But, apparently, I am glacial.

Base PS5. Horizontal. 70 plus hours. Not a hiccup,crash, nothing. Game runs perfectly. I also am mystified by the ridiculous nerd nitpicking over things like Raytracing and Performane modes. Dude, I played Donkey Kong on a Colecovision. On a 9 inch CRT. I am astonished at how gorgeous this game is. Utterly flabbergasted. Never once looked at the settings, until I needed to up the brightness because I am old.

@Titntin As a fellow old person, you are not alone in doubting that anything else will get played besides Ghost of Yotei for a good long while. There is just too much content in this game.

Finally got some time to get seriously into Ghost of Yotei. This is very deep game, with a ton of really well thought out and well implemented side content..Spectacular visuals, fun and frenzied combat and plenty to do.

Solid nine . Just different enough. Packed with side stuff.Is it a radical departure? Nope. But it's gorgeous and the combat is fun. Pretty steep learning curve, but it gets to be fluid and effective as you progress. I give Sucker Punch mad respect here, because sequels to solid tens are difficult to get right. And this keeps the feel of the Ghost.

I have had my PS5 since slightly after launch. I have bought 9 physical releases. Maybe the same number of digital releases, but some of those were older 2 and 4 titles. I have bought one controller, and that's probably from dropping it on the floor, or getting food on it. Any digital games I purchased were heavily discounted on the PS store. So, I average maybe 4.5 games a year, and one controller in 4.5 years. I did buy way more games for older systems, and my biggest complaint about the PS5 is that there just haven't been enough games that really interest me. That number has recently gone up, I grabbed Ghost of Yotei on launch day, and the new Trails remake/remaster is a possibility, and Claire Obscura looks like it may be a buy. I have other interests besides gaming, but the winter months are my heavy gaming time., but my backlog will get me to the golf courses opening in the spring. I work full time, play golf twice a week from April to October (sometimes 3 or 4 times), and I also own guitars. I have PS4 games from years ago that have never been played, lol. If a game grabs me? I play it until I beat it, and if I pay full price?No guides or cheating.Yotei will be well over 100 hours for me, and I am always 20 to 40 hours behind whatever reviewers and other players say a game takes. I have seen people who buy dozens of games year, and have never been able to figure out where they get the time.

Ghost of Yotei, with some Balatro mixed in. Yotei is just different enough to keep it fresh, while retaining what made Tsushima so compelling. My backlog should have prevented me from buying anything new, but I couldn't pass on this. I have hundreds of hours of games unplanned, so nothing new until I thin out what I already have.

It is up as of 7 am EST US time, if a bit overpriced. That's a wait for me.

@PaulCapp Suprisingly not on the US PS store, either. I wanted to check the price.

I am buying a copy. Sucker Punch has earned my interest. The original GOT is one the best games I have ever played, and certainly the best game I have played on my PS5. Female protagonists don't bother me, crappy games do.

@PuppetMaster I own that. Never could get into it. Playing FFX-2, lol. Could have been special. Is sort of not special.

I was 33 years old or so. I had not really played games for a while, I had gone through a very rough break up, and was living at my childhood home. My life long friend, Patrick , (we are playing golf tomorrow), calls me up on the phone, and asks me to help him out with this new game he has. That game was Resident Evil. He brings over his PS, and on my 9 inch Sony color tv( yes I had a 9 inch Sony color TV, it had a handle that popped out of the top), we spent an entire night trying to figure out how to open the door that leads into the main mansion. We finally got it around 4 am, lol. We had cut our gaming teeth on the Mattel Intellivision, so this was some sort of epiphany for me. I actually yanked my broken hearted head out of my ass, because I absolutely HAD to have my own PS and a copy of RE. Which lead to Tomb Raider. Which lead me to read an advertisement for some game called Final Fantasy VII, which breathlessly touted it as being "Quite possibly the greatest game ever made". Probably Game Pro, December 1997. Well, 30 years, and 5 Playstations later, I still have a copy of FFVII on my hard drive, and played for the umpteenth time this year. It still holds up.

Bioshock is an all time classic. Unquestionably one the best games ever made. Bioshock 2 was maybe the most underrated game I can think of. I never understood why it missed with the general public to the degree it did. Infinite was a miss for me, despite some insane battles, it just felt cold. And the story was a confusing , disjointed mess. Good luck. You're going need it.

@Nyne11Tyme Exactly this. I don't care about Digital Foundry's techno geek breakdowns. I don't lose sleep over "textures" in a demo video. These gerbils are never happy with ANYTHING, and you start to wonder why they ever play anything. I am all in, because GOT is the best game of the last 6 years, on any platform. I will buy a copy because Sucker Punch earned my interest.

GOT is the my favorite game of the last 6 years. By far. For me, I have never been obsessed with graphics or framerates, or any of the things techno geeks fawn over. It's really about the overall style and vibe, and does the gameplay make me obsessed with winning. GOT did that better than any game since Horizon:Zero Dawn. So, I am not watching previews, or reading every article. Sucker Punch is going to get my money, no questions asked, because they nailed the overall vibe for me.

The only game I am looking forward to.