What's the last game you played and you thought 'this is truly fantastic'

[DanteSparda504]

The last one was probably Red Dead Redemption 2. I was expecting it to be good, but I went in expecting it to fall short of the first because of how amazing John and his story was. I didn't realize that over the next 87ish hours I would fall in love with Arthur and his surrounding cast, and just constantly think about him and his journey.

I played a string of amazing, life changing games back at that same time. Breath of the Wild, God of War 2018, and Red Dead Redemption 2. I was constantly telling myself how amazing they were as I experienced them, and nothing since then has grabbed me even remotely like they did.

 

[TheGreatMightyPoo]

Splatoon

 

[E.T.]

PS4 - Ghost of Tsushima
PS5 - Spiderman Miles Morales
PC - Hades

 

[Fabtacular]

Hades for sure. As a first time player, I also felt that about FF7R.

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Oh man, I may have to check that out when it comes to Xbox. (I wonder if, given that all the FF seems to be on GamePass, FF7R will be included when it arrives as well?)

I really only played the OG FF and FFII/IV back when they were on the NES/SNES. That said, part of me just wants to binge the whole thing in ten years once they finish the entire game. (Although that didn't work out will with KRO.)

 

[Litigator]

In the last month Persona 5 (lttp), Last of Us 2, Astrobot.

 

[Keefe the Thief]

Fire Emblem Three Houses and Octopath Traveller.

 

[BobbeMalle]

Two concecutive times:
Immortals: Fenyx Rising
Monster Train

 

[Mauricio_Magus]

I finished Hollow Knight yesterday and I am in the process of doing all the post-game stuff.

It's one of the best games ever made.

 

[Duncan]

The last game I truly felt that way was God of War (2018)

I was just floored about how they really gave this franchise a true facelift and was just blown away by all of it. Hell of a game to have next to a near media blackout over.

And I just loved the narrative of a guy like Cory Barlog just coming back to the company he once worked for and just rolled up his sleeves and took it to new heights. Watching that live reaction of his own Metacritic score was awesome.

 

[haotshy]

I played Outer Wilds and Control in the last few months for the first time and both are probably top 10 games of this gen for me.

 

[Jolkien]

Yakuza: Like a Dragon. I platinumed it yesterday. Absolutely fantastic game.

 

[MrWonderworld]

Breath of the Wild.

 

[Rockodile]

Doom Eternal This year
RE2 and Sekiro last year
BOTW in 2017

 

[Cloud-Strife]

FF7 Remake
The Last of us 1 and 2
Hades

 

[Scheris]

Rabi-Ribi (Switch)

My first playthough I didn't look up or know about any of the hidden techniques, but the core Metroidvania-like gameplay and the surprisingly good narrative hooked me.

Then I found out about the hidden techniques and how it lets you utterly sequence break the hell out of the game (and said achievements you can get for doing so). Replayed it a bunch of times thanks to that, since there's endless ways you can do a NG+ run (and the game records said loops so there's an incentive to do so).

 

[TolerLive]

Ori and the will of the wisp.

 

[Staf]

Cyberpunk 2077.

 

[Finaika]

i played through that a few months ago and was impressed because it had such a bad reputation. i remember the egm write-up from when i was a kid!

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Glad you enjoyed it!

 

[mhayze]

HL: Alyx
I still can't believe all the little touches like the fizzy drinks that actually behave and look right and the endless fun with physics. I even play headcrab matador and see how long I can play with a monster without shooting it. It's amazing. I hope Valve makes more games in this universe.

 

[Garlic]

Return of the Obra Dinn

 

[Mollymauk]

Thronebreaker

It just scratched every itch for me. Great strategic gameplay and card management, fantastic art, and a fun and interesting story with challenging choices.

 

[AkaiShiki]

Final Fantasy XIV Heavensward
Did Final steps of faith last week... People who did this fight will understand.

 

[DecoReturns]

I manage to play 3 fantastic games last year amazingly enough.


Hades, fantastic game alright, unique and fun to boot. Love they way they did their story in a rougelikes

the first Ace Attorney is also there. Tho is does drag near the end, it still is a wonderful game

Xenoblade Definitive Edition. Felt like a classic JRPG from the PS1 era. Great music, looked beautiful and didn't have a convoluted story for a JRPG. Plus party member were enjoyable. Sometimes JRPG struggle to with that. Combat is enjoyable once you get further into the game tho if you're even a bit over level it sucks the fun out the game.

 

[Nephilim]

Lots and lots of games in the last 5 years or so. Too many to list all of them.

Most recent ones:
I'm still not finished with Cyberpunk 2077, for me it is a fantastic game, even if it's a mess.
My replay of Alien Isolation made me realise that it is a masterpiece.

 

[ventuno]

Final Fantasy VII Remake and Hades since I switched between one and the other.

 

[TheSpaceBetween]

Super Meat Boy Forever.

 

[Monodrone]

Most recently: Ori and the Will of the Wisps and Yakuza: Like A Dragon

 

[NANA]

Replayed Halo 3 last week and thought, yep, still the best Halo. It's sad how no Halo after 3 reached the same highs again.

It's the perfect cap to the best FPS trilogy.

 

[Ushay]

Dragon Quest 11 on Game Pass, game blew all my super low expectations away. Granted, there were some obvious shortfalls and questionable things the way they dealt with Jades's character, overall I loved it.

 

[Splatbang]

Hades. Was constantly in awe of this game. The amount of attention to detail that went into this, the way it looks and plays. You can tell the devs put everything they had into it, and it paid off.

 

[Angie]

The Last of Us Part 2

 

[furfoot]

Played for 3 hours this weekend and I thinkt it might actually be the best VR game on the market right now

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Oh it is, just sad that it's by such a long shot.

 

[EVA UNIT 01]

Last of us 2
Demons souls

 

[clickKunst]

I was just playing Robocop vs Terminator on actual Mega Drive hardware just a moment ago. I'm very easy to impress though - I thought Cyberpunk was fantastic.

 

[ArchStanton]

TLOU 2. Before that, Doom Eternal.

EDIT: most recently, the Demon's Souls remake.

 

[Timppis]

Hollow Knight, but I played it just last year on Switch.

Other recent ones are BotW, Super Mario Odyssey, Mario + Rabbids, Spider Man, Enter the Gungeon.

Probably others too.

 

[Estizzle]

FF7R was the most recent, played it back in December right before the Sephiroth Smash reveal trailer haha.

 

[Valkerion]

Final Fantasy 8 with x3 speed on. 100% serious. I kind of hated this game before and dreaded replaying it and other old RPGs but this feature alone is just great.

 

[kenta]

Probably Astro Bot Rescue Mission (Playroom was good but Rescue Mission is fantastic)

Outer Wilds and Yakuza 6 are close runners-up though

 

[Sir Hound]

Replayed BOTW and currently RDR2, and it's only hardened my feelings that these are two of my top 5, absolutely sublime experiences.

I played the Outer Wilds for the first time and that made me feel like a kid playing the Atari ST with no idea how any game worked, it was really on another level for me. This has been an amazing generation, it's crazy to me that games are still getting better and better.

 

[Nuclear Muffin]

Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & The Blade of Light

So ridiculously ahead of its time! And actually more entertaining than most modern FE games!

 

[sunkcostfallacy]

Demon's Souls remake and Mortal Kombat 11. Demon's Souls in a hall-of-fame, best of the medium kinda way, and Mortal Kombat 11 in an indulgent, having some kicks slapping fools around kinda way.

 

[Ojli]

Earthbound Beginnings. Played it last week and for a NES game it's really good

 

[Masterblaster]

The Last of Us Part 2. Masterpiece of a game all the way through.

 

[Estro]

I played both If Found... and Sayonara Wild Hearts for the first time this weekend, so that's twice in the last week.

 

[zon]

It's Hades for me.

 

[Tiny Hawk]

Resident Evil 2 and Yakuza: Like a Dragon

 

[not_smiff]

In the last few months, Astros and BOTW.

 

[ryushe]

Control.

I originally played a few hours of Control on the PS4 Pro, and found myself not enjoying it as much as I thought I would, which was surprising for me because I'm a pretty big Remedy fan. Fast forward about a year where I decided to give it another shot on PC after getting a new video card, and what a night and day difference that made.

What a beautiful, unique take on a Metroidvania. The story is kind of whatever, but the lore and gameplay are both so damn good. Also, the Oldest House is one of my favorite locations in a video game.

And about a week before that, Yakuza Like A Dragon. It wasn't surprising that I'd like it, but I did not expect to consider it one of my favorite JRPGs ever.

 

[Dalek]

I'm playing Dishonored 2 right now and that's exactly what I'm feeling. Though I wish I was better at the game. I want to sneak around undetected and knock out everyone non-lethal - but it's not happening. One person sees me and in 10 seconds the entire god damn town in charging towards me.

Last year I finished RDR2 and TLOU2 and they were both once in a lifetime experiences. Moved me very deeply.