2024 was a solid year for gaming. We saw releases of incredible games like Helldivers 2, Marvel Rivals, Space Marine 2, Black Myth: Wukong and many others! But it was also a year for big stinkers like Concord, Dragon Age the Veilguard and Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.
It’s time to take a look back at The BEST and WORST Games of 2024!
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____TIME STAMPS____
Intro – 0:00
The Layoffs Begin – 1:29
The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered – 2:10
Palworld – 2:32
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy – 3:44
Tekken 8 – 4:12
Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League – 4:29
Helldivers 2 – 5:43
Skull and Bones – 7:43
Balatro – 9:02
Respawn’s Star Wars Game is Cancelled – 9:28
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth – 10:25
Akira Toriyama Death – 10:56
Star Wars Battlefront Collection – 11:13
Dragon’s Dogma 2 – 12:26
Stellar Blade – 12:54
The shutdown of Tango Gameworks – 13:50
Animal Well – 15:11
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 – 15:38
XDefiant – 15:59
Paper Mario: TTYD Remaster – 16:49
Destiny 2: The Final Shape – 17:20
Shadow of the Erdtree – 17:45
Black Myth Wukong – 18:59
Concord – 20:01
Star Wars Outlaws – 21:50
Astro Bot – 22:16
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 – 23:12
Starfield: Shattered Space – 23:41
Silent Hill 2 Remake – 24:15
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero – 24:34
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 – 24:52
Dragon Age: The Veilguard – 25:19
S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2: Heart of Chornobyl – 26:23
Marvel Rivals – 27:12
Path of Exile 2 – 27:55
Indiana Jones & the Great Circle – 28:10
The Game Awards – 28:25
Conclusion – 29:08
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Concord 2 or Concord Remastered? Which game are you most looking forward to?! And what were YOUR PICKS for Best & Worst games of the year??
Also, Saquon Barkley has passed 2,000 yards so that joke aged tremendously well
NO MENTION OF METAPHOR? In absolute shambles rn.
This comment probably wont get any traction, but you did kinda snub The Final Shape. Just talking about all the awful stuff with bungie instead of at least hitting on the fact that it was an objectively GOOD, if not NARRATIVELY GREAT expansion, for a variety of reasons that people more educated than me have already touched on. We D2 guys don't get a lot of positive press these days, thus it was a bit of a kick in the balls to just glaze over the ending to the 10 year ride we all went on.
Act man putting a glowing review out on a cod and then deciding its shit? Never.
Probably pal world wasn't nominated cause the game its not out. its an early access.
I've been holding hope for Republic Commando 2 ever since I was a young lad. I have to know what happens after the end of the first game..
Ugh Starfield, the annoying thing about that game is that the non-random areas were actually really fun for me. I loved a few of the missions and areas, and when you get to a story that has a DESIGNED story area, like the Iced over City for the Xeno-whatever missions, that place was great! The one section where you pull a Titanfall2 and go between timelines, also amazing.
Its like, the bland open world RNG planets sucked ass, but the curated, hand made areas were awesome.
Think they kinda just spent too much time on said boring RNG planets, where if they spent more time on the hand made areas the game would have been really good, like their past titles.
no nomination for atlus new game? :C
I remember playing dragon age a long time ago, surprised theyre still going
Dragon's Dogma 2 is inferior to DD 1. but it's still a fun romp
hellblade 2 had one of the best art directed sequences that i played last year. it would have been the best, but i also played alan wake 2 and we all know what sequence i'm talking about.
You gotta try Indiana Jones and the Great Circle I have found it to be really fun and actually interesting.
Did you forget about metaphor
I guess we’re ignoring shadow gens…
Is Veilguard really that bad? I've heard people call it woke but I didn't know that the actual game was bad
Dont forget in april manor lords came out and sold 2.5 million copies in its first week
Smh no Infinity Nikki mention. Act Man I know you’re playing dress up over there
I'm sticking with Skyrim over Dragon Age.
not talking about lethal company ?
Indiana Jones was absolutely everything a video game should be. Great platforming segments, puzzles, action, story. It was faithful to the characters, and honestly what a huge surprise coming from bethesda. I could tell the dungeon designers from the elder scrolls and mainly the dishonored team cooked with this game. Phenomenal, also, screw the first person camera haters this game could only work with that perspective.
Would love for Sony to send some titles back to XBox. Microsoft are just giving everything away.
“Ooooo, get a Game Pass, day one releases”.
“But they are all shit”
“Yeah, but you’ll be the first to find out how shit they are”
Game Pass is like Netflix. Yeah, you have 50 films and television shows coming out in the next month. I’ll probably not give a shit about any of them.
Best: space marine 2
Worst: concord
13:36 BUTT that ASSpect 😂
I think this year is gonna be the continuation of 2024 for gaming as in we are gonna continue the wake up call to game devs
Oh
Right. Starfield. It exists. Okay… well, back to helldiving.
🫡 For SuperEarth
You paid literally 5 seconds to Path of Exile 2, clown.
https://youtube.com/shorts/2YBUV2_IId4?si=81FUnpimc-zJYiH7
The game that won best RPG award? Hello?
I was still playing Helldivers 2 back before Escalation of Freedom but after the Creek when 5k Helldivers was the norm. I loved how I never spent a single cent(my uncle gifted me the game on steam) on this game yet I have 2 premium warbonds just from collecting Super Credits, AH studios made a game where F2Ps like me can be on par with P2Ps and I love them for it.
Best game: Helldivers 2
Never have i had a game just completely envelope my entire being like this… not since fallout New vegas have i been itching to get home and play some more.
Worst game: Not the worst game i know, but i was immensely disappointed in space marine 2, the campaign was great but has little to no repayable attributes and the coop is not only short (8 missions) but its also insanely limiting (wanna have three guys with heavy weapons? Well you cant because f**k you thats why), the weapons are all very weak feelings and samey, I had an entire weekend to enjoy Space marine 2 and before the work week even showed up i was already done with the game and back on helldivers 2.
Maybe comparison is truly the thief of joy but honestly having to start my space marine all over again because a friend used the same class stole a lot of joy as well.
Heres hoping for a new year with more great games and less layoffs!
And heres to you act man 🍻
Metaphor ReFantazio is a fantastic game. I still haven’t finished it so I can’t say wether it should’ve won GotY or not… but it should at least be mentioned as another great game in the year of 24
There is nothing wrong with laying off the type of people that design games like Concord and Failguard.
The biggest problem with Marvel Rivals is that no one with motion sickness can play it, the camera swap is just too much
XDefiant shutting down is really bad for the industry and is far from a good thing for competition in the industry. I only played the beta and I will be honest it didn’t wow me. Even tho it wasn’t for me, RIP game. You gave it a good try. I wish the best for the devs.
Saquan does have 2,000 yards tho😂
I just can't wrap my head around a poker simulator with rogue-lite mechanics got nominated for game of the year. Just makes no sense to me.
If anyone makes chess 2… With the pieces having awesome combat animations (where they actually fight for a bit) and random fucky abilities like jokers in Balatro.. add some epic ramping up music (as there are less and less pieces left) and you have your self a fucking game! have multiple skins for the pieces, the boards, surrounding environments.
The reason nobody talked about stellar blade was because it was bad, generic at best
And all the marvel characters look great. All the girls are sexy and the guys are masculine
We got poker 2 before gta 6
Best game: wukong worst game: suicide squad
Act Man. You wanna know why people aren't talking about Indiana Jones??
It's cause you're required by LAW to have a GPU that can run Ray tracing to play it!!
elden ring DLC was amazing and used a small area and made it feel big