... So yeah, this year, not quite as straightforward reminds me a bit of that 2021 year where we had like some really cool indies and then like Elden Ring and God of War Ragnarok, but otherwise it felt like COVID kicked loads of games down the tracks. ...
In recent years, I've come to depend on indie games or third party developers to provide those experiences, maybe more so than I ever had in previous generations, where I feel like I've had a moment this generation with Playstation games, for example, like playing Spider-Man or Uncharted 4 or God of War from last generation. Certainly impressive games along the way, and I think there is potential for them to get something like that out before the end of the generation, but it might just be a bit of familiarity…
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... So yeah, it's not really been, certainly not compared to that, you know, embarrassment of single player riches for next year. This year's bit felt pretty thin, I don't know if you experienced the same. In recent years, I've come to depend on indie games or third party developers to provide those experiences, maybe more so than I ever had in previous generations, where I feel like I've had a moment this generation with Playstation games, for example, like playing Spider-Man or Uncharted 4 or God of War from last generation. Certainly impressive games along the way, and I think there is potential for them to get something like that out before the end of the generation, but it might just be a bit of familiarity at this point because these games are all in a kind of similar character driven mould, they are all distinct in terms of their mechanics, but there are certainly a sort of character driven element to these games that has come to define that whole Sony sort of like bracket of single player games. And on the Nintendo side, it's a bit sporadic, there's usually like one to two Nintendo games in my list each year. And this year there is only one, but it is a game that I thought was really impressive and did not make me regret buying a Nintendo Switch 2 without revealing what that very ...