The best games I've played in 2024 did not come out in 2024 – this is your sign to tend to that backlog
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Righting some wrongs
I’m playing Cyberpunk 2077 for the very first time, and it’s making me question everything I knew about how an RPG should look and feel
You might balk when I tell you that I’ve not actually playedDragon Age: The Veilguard,Helldivers 2,Space Marine 2, orFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirth. Nor do I have any interest in doing so right now. But the truth is that I had the same attitude towardRed Dead Redemption 2,Cyberpunk 2077,Ghost of Tsushima, andthe whole Mass Effect trilogyuntil curiosity got the better of me. Somewhere over the last 11 months, finding increasingly fewer new games of interest, I decided to swallow my pride, challenge my black-and-white decision making, and see what made the biggest games I’d never played so darn good after all. And man, you guys were not kidding.
I kicked off this parade through the annals of time with Quantum Break. Fresh off the back ofAlan Wake 2, the biting January chill left me scouring Xbox Game Pass in search of some more Remedy action. With a new monitor acquired – a Christmas gift to myself to commemorate my first year at GamesRadar+ – I sat down to enjoy the first of what was to be many nights of exploring all the things I’d perhaps been missing in the weird and wonderful world of video games.
Not every year has to be my year for games, but I’ve found a way to make it feel so anyway.
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