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” ™, 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.