The best games (and other stuff) of 2022

50 thoughts on “The best games (and other stuff) of 2022”

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2. Oh boy the physical media thing. That's why I gravitate towards Youtubers that speak like a real person. I'm playing Death Stranding right now and still at the beginning, they mentioned how people missed. the human factor of deliveries. it's the same with the content we consume, consume being the key word. I don't want to feel like I'm wasting my time watching CPU approved content

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3. Horizon all the way, to me game is masterpiece. Right after that GoW Ragnarok.

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4. Scorn is the best thing I have experienced this year.. I was always in love with HR Giger's art.

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5. "like everyone else I was excited about callisto protocol"
   I wasn't, I don't get excited for games that have terminal cancer (denuvo) in them. If I buy a game I buy a game that I'll be able to play whenever I want. It's also kinda ironic that almost every single game that has denuvo in it is trash and I don't want to play it anyway. They pay insane amounts of money to stop pirates playing a game they wouldn't want to play in the first place, hilarious.

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6. Great video. Elden Ring was my GOTY. I spent 220 hours on a single play through and fully intended for a second, but actually decided one was perfect and to leave it on a high.

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7. The Witcher TV series has nothing to do with the video game so I dunno why you keep mixing them up. they are both just different adaptations of the witcher books

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8. I think that the fact that FromSoftware had to patch a notification in Elden Ring to let people know when they can upgrade their flasks and how much each type of rune worths (just to mention a few) is proof that other open world designs had to influence Elden Ring and why it won't make that much of an impact on open worlds in the future.
   Despite how successful Elden Ring became, deep in its core it's still a souls game and the wider, more casual (not in a pejorative way) playerbase simply can't handle or don't want to get used to its mechanics.

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9. What a banger of a year from your team, ShillUp! So ready to continue consuming all your videos like drug next year. Take a rest, and Happy New Year!

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10. Not gonna lie, I completely forgot about Scorn until you brought it up again, I'll probably will forget about it again soon enough though, Scorn doesn't exactly catch my interest.

    All that being saiiiiid, I played Horizon Forbidden West, even while Elden Ring Fever was spreading throughout the gaming community, and I don't regret it one bit. Though Strangers of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origins was the closest thing to a Soulslike I played this year, but that was mostly due to the mid 2000's dialog and character expression in a 2022 video game more than anything else, which was made by the very developers responsible for making Nioh 1 & 2 no less. I haven't exactly beaten

    Metal: Hellsinger, now THAT turned out to be a surprise hit for me. I wouldn’t say it's my GOTY, more so due to me not wanting to put a game on a pedestal. As I've played other games that came out this year, which were just as great as Metal: Hellsinger in their own way, but it was a pretty sweet game to cap off 2022 on nonetheless!

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11. I appreciate the huge effort you put into this, and all of your other videos, bringing it all the way around full circle with gaming culture and not just games.

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12. you got me so bad when you didn't mention Arcane hahaha

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13. "There hasn't been a single day I haven't touched my deck"
    Quote of 2023 already.

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14. what you said about the deck and switch is 100% true. I have both and 2 switches including the OLED model but if the game is on steam hands down i'm buying it there.

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15. But Scorsese was right about Marvel movies…they are theme park rides often created by commitee (with scenes specifically for Twitter "yas queen" retweets).

    Nothing wrong with that…I like rollercoasters, but Skinamarink they ain't.

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16. @33:50 are you trying to say RRR? 🤔

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17. I enjoyed Horizon a lot, also avatar 1 and 2 lol but my only suggestion’s for Horizon 3 will be, make it smaller or more rewarding?, the world is gigantic, exploration is good for a while but the beauty of the world can only take it so far, and you can really invest 150+ plus hours on that open world until you realize the best gear is acquired at the arena instead of the exploration, and that on the open world you just get stuff for upgrading stuff, and finally the grinding for upgrading feel’s unnecessary on a game like this, by the time you get to San Francisco you are already bored of exploring and still have a big chunk of open world in there

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18. I don't know and haven't seen a bad word on horizon/west. It's fantastic ….

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19. Dying Light 2 not even barely mentioned in this video, rightly so. Such a disappointment

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20. Saying a game that is less than a year old is a GOAT is silly and irresponsible. It hasn't stood the test of time yet. We don't need this kind of sensationalism. Especially a game that is literally a game that doesn't engage but tricks you into playing it more by pushing your brain addictions to keep playing.

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21. Love these, and I fully embrace the move to "things". Now I look forward to the next one even more. Also, printed media definitely needs to make a comeback. I work with kids and can tell you, the amount who struggle with deep reading is worrisome.

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22. 10:33 it's just boring

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23. Horizon and God of War bad, actually

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24. Thanks for a year of wonderful content!

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25. I can't deny how addictive Vampire Survivors was…for a little while. Once it became clear that the end goal was "get so powerful everything around you in a circle can't even touch you" I just didn't want to play anymore.

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26. I am surprised power wash simulator didn't make it into the game of year

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27. Thank you again for another year of enjoyable, robust, and very competent gaming-world coverage; you continue to be my go-to media for all things video-game and I love what you’re putting out there 😉

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28. Your acknowledgement/distinction of Elden Ring as "GOTY" and God of War: Ragnarok as "game you enjoyed the most this year" is extremely important because it highlights that both games are of equal excellence, but they serve two different purposes. God of War is a high-effort, crowd-pleasing and emotionally-satisfying epic; Elden Ring is simply the best Soulsbourne of all-time. Neither of those facts are mutually exclusive, and as far as I am concerned, both are GOTY this year.

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29. Thank you for an absolutely incredible year of deep insightful coverage on an industry I am deeply in love with <3

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30. Horizon was a good game, but the dialogue was too poorly written, and there was just too much of it.

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31. love watching you mr.shillup. i might not support you monetarily on patreon or anything but I watch pretty much all of your stuff on release. keep it up man, love the content.

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32. I touch my Deck every day too, Ralph. It's normal.

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33. I only very recently finished echoes of the eye so I really appreciate the outer wilds segment of this video

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34. I think you really hit on some good points about your first experience and the thing I enjoy the most which is exploration. I’ll never forget that harpy singing in the background as I discover a castle walking around with 4 legs the first time in elden ring.

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35. ‘*my* new show’

    Really?…

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36. I just cannot agree on God of War and ultimate enjoyment this year. God of War disappoints in its CONSTANT FKIN PUZZLES! There's a god damn puzzle every five stupid minutes!!! God of Puzzles is far more accurate of a title. Incredible story, characters, good combat etc, but my fucking god the puzzles are present in such vast quantities it is absurd and so annoying I WILL NOT BE DOING A SECOND PLAYTHROUGH, just because of obnoxious quantities of puzzles. Also the worlds as beautiful as they are feel very randomly assembled and jumbled up compared to the GoD4 which was built like an actual world. Oh and Atreus has a strange nose.

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37. The only people that talk bad about Horizon are weirdo Bots, it's pure jealousy, instead of just buying the platform that makes games it's easier to talk shit and make stuff up about the other brand, 3rd person action games suck now cuz Xbox hasn't had on in 10yrs

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38. I am going to leave gotcha games to the dumb-dumbs 😉

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39. ANNO: Mutationem has to be one of the most surprising games i have played this year

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40. I’ve also been an EDGE subscriber for decades

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41. Great video!

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42. Audio transitions in this video are all so 🔥🔥

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43. Dude put a Mobil card game on the list how embarrassing😂😂😂😂

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44. I just think, how great would it have been if Cyberpunk 2077 is as good as Witcher 3 (amount of quests/side quests, aspects that they let us explorer through the quests).

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45. Got baited by the Outer Wilds theme. Well played. It tears me up a little bit

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46. Everyone thinks they're good at Snap until they finally start playing against humans in the upper-mid ranks. That could take months for a casual new player, but once you get there the overall fun and feeling that you're actually good at the game diminishes drastically. The simplistic mechanics lead to RNG-based outcomes that put Hearthstone to shame. It's brilliantly designed to hook casual players, but when I hit that wall I realized the game was just not for me.

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47. Happy New Year and thanks for providing us all with a great year of content mate!

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48. So glad you mentioned nobody saves the world I hadn’t heard of it and just started playing it on new years on gamepass and that games amazing and so fun appreciate it skillup!

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49. Just here to mention, like I do whenever people talk about Scorns combat, that you can avoid 99% of combat in this game easily. I can think of one spot you need to actually shoot an enemy to get by without dying and if you do it’s one of the rare spots where the admittedly terrible checkpoint system works great and reloads you 20 feet away from where that happens.

    But then there is the half-baked and tacked on bossfight at the end that I absolutely hated and cannot defend. But other than that, the creatures will largely leave you alone if you just get away from them and let them live their lives.

    Which I loved

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50. 21:15…WISDOM

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