Is my favourite bike racing game of all time
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The Emperor’s light only seems dim down here because you aren’t fully embracing your hatred for the alien, the mutant, and the heretic.
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WOW! Is this that Necromunda/Hired Guns game?
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Gran turismo 2 (decent copy) and 3 A Spec arrived today.
I got them all. I’m elated!
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Darktide, it’s pretty alright.
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On a related note, what’s was everyone’s “game of the year” for 2024? Hands down for me it was Stalker 2 which I’m still playing almost daily.
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Same. It’s too good not to be.
Stalker 2 100%
At first I was about to say that I don’t have a GOTY for 2024. Until I had a look back at the ones that I did purchase and play… Yes, I have a growing Steam library of shame, which left me exactly three games to choose from:
- Le Mans Ultimate
- Sea Power - Naval Combat in the Missile Age
- The Forever Winter
It was a coin toss between #1 and #3. They both brought something new to the table. LMU revitalised what (for me) was becoming a bit of a stale genre and which I now consider the gold standard for racing sims. Forever Winter because it dared to be different and offered a style of gameplay that I had never seen before, and the devs keep listening to the players & incorporating their feedback + it is a heck of a bargain for US$30.
And the winner is:
Le Mans Ultimate simply because, of the three, that is what I have played the most.
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For me stalker2 too, but the star wars game with the little thief and her pet comes a close second.
My Game of the Year 2024 was Ready Or Not. Yes it was released in December 2023, but that’s about as up to date as I ever get on playing games 
If you haven’t played it, gritty SWAT simulator with amazing environmental storytelling. In some ways it looks a bit janky - the game never moves your player character, which is a good call for a game where you can get pixel sniped, but it means you just make the lockpicking animation in the air next to the door for example. In other ways, it looks and sounds amazing - Neon Tomb (set in a nightclub) is as visually confusing and auditorially overwhelming as a real nightclub… then you turn the music off an everything is quiet 
The themes in the game are strong. It is not a game for kids or those with gentle sensibilities.
I’m glad it wasn’t “cancelled” (both literally and twitter-ally), as it has lived up to the standard that Sierra’s SWAT games set years ago, at least for me!
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Very weirdly for me GOTY 2024 is…
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(Yes, it’s actually written exactly like that)
It’s a technically simple Rogue-lite that me and my son Gabriel have enjoyed incredibly - run after run - for a combined total of 80 hours.
And it released in November.
Graphically gorgeous and wonderfully stylized, hard but fair, with a constant baseline of progression that is never lost (unless you want to Gamble it after the end-game for an extra character and some bells&whistles), banging soundtrack and the controls are tight as ■■■■. I really mean this.
Anything else than perfect controls would have crippled this.
Sometimes it feels like playing isometrical DooM.
The only barrier is the initial 20 runs, when it almost feels unfair.
Almost.
Phenomenal. And I don’t like rogue-like games.
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I was thinking of buying me some old GT titles also but then had a second thought … when am I going to play them all ?? I have GT4 on PS2 and played it very little.
I am gravitating towards buying only GT7 for PS4 now . but then found out there is free My First Gran Turismo title on PS store . maybe I wont need to pull my wallet after all , for now 
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I absolutely adore Gran Turismo - all of them! - but for me there’s a moment when cars and races get too powerful and too fast respectively, and it stops being fun. 
I find the early gameplay hours the absolute best.
I need a racing game with slow cars. 
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In the Forza Horizon series you can choose certain classes with “slow” cars. Good fun for kids and adults, although the physics are… very arcade.
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I got my fill of that with the original Forza Motorsport or the ORIGINAL X-Box.
Driving around with my Duke controller.
So perfect.
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I like going back and comparing the driving physics. GT 1 Feels as fast as heck. Its so exciting compared to the later games. Gonna try GT2 tonight if my new memory card arrives
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I loved GT1 and 2 splitscreen competitive racing.
We need more splitscreen.
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Strangely, the demo does not like my PC/hardware setup. I’m unable to properly control the aircraft (I suspect ghost inputs). Because of that, I’ve avoided purchasing the full game.
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I am unable to pick a game of the year because I am not able to compare them all with each other just because I play them on my PC.
Beyond comparing say a game with its sequel or another entry in its series, maybe. F1 2021 vs 2024? Ok.
I cannot compare Ready or Not with Star Wars Outlaws, or Automobilista 2, or DCS, or Gunner HEAT PC. I find the differences so vast as to make comparison meaningless.
For example, Company of Heroes 3 is the best WWII RTS I played last year. But I can’t compare it to Sins of a Solar Empire 2, that’s a SF future RTS. Not even close, simply being an “RTS” isn’t enough. So I can pick best games in a given category, but I define them more narrowly than almost anyone else.
Now while number of hours spent is a valid metric, it’s also not nearly enough unless a lot of other aspects are equal. Would that imply that a game like Portal 1 is vastly inferior to Total War Troy because you can play it in less than a fraction of the time? Or make iracing or some other MMO the best game ever? Of course not.
So unless I only play a single game in an entire year I can’t pick one.
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