Sounds like it’s time for a PS5 Pro!
I got a switch 2 on a lark and it was an utter godsend when my cross country flight got delayed overnight in Denver.
I mean I was only playing Hades 1 on it, but regardless, made that night fly by.
It’s insane to me that they have not recaptured that lightning in a bottle. They’ve tried now and again, but nothing had the magic of the original.
Control was my goty that year. The world building was weird and so amazing. I scoured the game for every last drop of lore, and it felt like you were in an ep of Stranger Things only weirder. Being able to telekinetically beat your enemies to death with an entire office full of midcentury furniture and OTHER ENEMIES while hovering around like a badass was peak!
I just beat Resonant and while I liked the first one more, it was an amazing game. Gorgeous levels, crazy world-building, not as much Finnish janitor weirdness, but definitely some Remedy insanity, and different but still really fun gameplay. The Alan wake games aren’t my speed, but boy howdy do I enjoy the Federal Bureau of Comtrol!
Ace Combat 8 is excellent. Despite being the same as every other Ace Combat game since the PS1 (fly your airplane that can carry 100 missiles, shoot air and ground targets, fly through a tunnel on the last mission, etc…) it feels better. The characters are better, it’s the first game where I think the bombs are effective (my super hornet gets a guided bomb that hits a whole row of targets and it’s outstanding), and it looks so good.
I’m having more fun with it than I expected, and while I don’t think I’ll ever get to the point where I’m beating every mission with only the machine gun, I plan on going through the story a couple of times. Worth it if you’re into this sort of thing.
I’ve never played it but I’m always profoundly impressed by Microsoft flight simulator.