Twas the What We Played before Christmas, and so we’ve spiced up this edition by also sharing what we’re hoping to have dropped in our laps on Monday morning (depending on which Christmas traditions you adhere to).
I’ve been playing a mixture of things with a little more Baldur’s Gate 3, a return to Vampire Survivors for the daft Among Us DLC, and making my way through Hi-Fi Rush after we decided to award it our Best Gameplay award for GOTY 2023. As for presents? Well, my backlog is daft enough and my gaming habits so out of whack that I’m not hoping for any games. I would quite like Garth Merenghi’s Incarcerat though, because I’ve been enjoying the first book quite a lot.
Aran got the ball rolling this week by talking about Clash: Artifacts of Chaos – “I’m only in the opening stages but it is decent so far. Combat is a bit haphazard but the level design and artstyle is very good.” He’s hoping to have a bumper crop of Assassin’s Creed Mirage, Spider-Man 2 and Final Fantasy XVI under his tree.
While he’s had a nasty bout of the C-word to get over this past week, Tuffcub has braved it out to pop his PSVR 2 on and play Resident Evil 4 VR and Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxies Edge, alongside the flat screen gaming of Destiny 2 and Dredge – which won our Best Independent award for GOTY 2023! He’s jetting off on a fancy Christmas holiday, so don’t expect to hear about his gaming for the next couple weeks!
Having snagged the platinum for Persona 5 Tactica, Nick P’s started playing the Dead Space remake again, as well as Assassin’s Creed Mirage, and he’s still got Street Fighter 6 and Dead by Daylight on the go, of course. He’s hoping for “anything new I haven’t played yet” from Santa, so we’ll see what the jolly fella pulls out of
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