Matt Morgans

I think I'd rank my favourite games that I played this year as follows. However, it's worth mentioning that I don't have a PS4; if I did, then games like God of War, Spider-Man, etc. would probably have made the list! I also haven't had a chance to play RDR2 yet... Hitman 2 The Witcher 3 (I know it's a few years old, but I did a big re-play-through as it had been a while!) Assassin's Creed Odyssey Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales Far Cry 5 Monster Hunter: World Subnautica For Honor (I happened to pick it up early this year) Battlefield 1 (I finally got around to playing the War Stories, so this is just rated for those; I didn't bother with multiplayer) Jurassic World Evolution

For me, it's got to be Fallout 76 and Ghost of Tsushima. I really might have to finally get a PS4 for the latter... I can't resist a good period Japanese setting, and the gameplay looks too much like The Witcher to pass up!

Last played Subnautica on PC; really loving its take on the crafting/survival genre. That, and the stark tone shifts between hatching Cuddlefish and the primal dread of trying to avoid Leviathans in the pitch dark. 😆

It really bugged me that no matter how well laid out you got your settlements in Fallout 4, there were always patches of dirt, skeletons, piles of rags, etc. that you couldn't clean up. 😆 I remember using the Minutemen base and the walls were all covered in Mirelurk eggs that you couldn't get rid of.

Can't write noir without a good soundtrack, after all. Cold claws gripped Maxine’s stomach as the memory of Lily’s pale face returned unbidden to her mind; the memory of gazing down at pallid skin as the nurse lifted the white sheet in that awful white-tiled room. The memory of that beautiful blonde hair lying slack and sodden, soaked with filthy river water. She couldn’t forget the details; the dirt under her cracked fingernails, the bruise discolouring her eye. The bullet holes.