Hello everyone. Hope everyone had a good christmas season. Since this is the final Gaming Sunday of 2024 I thought we'd all share our favorite games that we played in 2024, either one's that came out this year or others. I played a grand total of one (1) 2024 release, Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, which i thought was a fantastic expansion to Elden Ring. My favorite game that I played in 2024 however is Baldur's Gate 3. As someone who has never touched DnD or anything related to it I found it easy to slip into thanks to a great cast of characters and combat that rewards experimentation. I hope everyone has a good start to their new year 🫡🫡🫡
My favorite game of the year was Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader. Owlcat finally got it right with the ship battles as the "mini-game" and their TTRPG bona-fides really shined with this. Great writing, cool characters, nice voice acting. The choices, while not necessarily true "choices matter" (TM), allow for some great RP moments. The battle system is a little chunky at times since so many characters need to recast buffs most turns and so that gets a little repetitive, especially when you get stuck doing some of the "random" encounters while bouncing around in your space ship.
But, small details aside, it's a long, text heavy, rewarding CRPG. With BioWare's corpse jacked by EA, Owlcat has really become my go to for CRPGs. I honestly like it more than BG3.