Best of 2022: masterpieces & disappointments

Dear folks, the end of the year draws closer. We are still bickering about pixels nobody gives a damn about so lets take a moment and talk about the games that really mattered this year. The games that caused some true emotions, wether they be bad ones or good ones.

Please vote in this style:

Best games of 2022

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Most disappointing games of 2022:

1.

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3.

Worst games of 2022:

1.

2.

3.

Favourite System warrior of 2022:

Me

Now quit what you were doing and vote already. You might even win some goodies like:

Another year on Gamespot

And many, many other surprises!

Best

• Sniper Elite 4
• Spiderman (PC)

Disappointing

• Callisto protocol

Worst

• Gotham Knights

Fav system warrior

• uninspiredcup

Thanks for voting, my friend. I find your list surprising and exhilarating.

I too have Sniper Elite 5 as my GOTY of 2022, will be posting my list here soon ;)

Halo/Forza/Gears. ;o

Sorry, I'm just so lazy these dayzzz. lol :P

2022 is worst year since 2014. all good games delayed like System shock, STALKER 2 (due to war), Atomic heart.

has all been released it would be been amazing year.

Would it help if I changed the thread title to best Gamepass games? :)

Best Games of 2022:

1. God of War: Ragnarok
2. Elden Ring
3. Tunic
4. Dying Light 2
5. GhostWire: Tokyo

Most disappointing games of 2022:

1. Pokemon: Scarlet/Violent
2. Splatoon 3
3. The Callisto Protocol

Worst games of 2022:

None for me in 2022

Favourite System warrior of 2022:

1. @R4gn4r0k
2. @xantufrog
3. @BassMan
4. @goldenelementxl
5. @Archangel3371
6. @kvallyx

2022 was pretty good for the games I've played, and none of them were not the worst games. Just about all of them met my expectations.

@davillain: Thanks for the shoutout, I read between the lines that you had a great gaming year in 2022. Here's to lots more 🥳

Best

1. Kirby and the Forgotten Land
2. Xenoblade Chronicles 3
3. Splatoon 3
4. Bayonetta 3
5. Neon White

Disappointing

1. Eldin Ring
2. GoW: Ragnarok
3. Horizon Forgotten West
4. Callisto protocol

Worst

1. Didnt play any

Systemwarrior of 2022

1. @KBFloYd

I'm not even sure I've purchased a game released in 2022. I've been catching up on PS4 titles on my PS5. :/

Best games 2022:

- Elden Ring

- Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak

- Kirby and the Forgotten Land

- Xenoblade Chronicles 3

- Bayonetta 3

Most disappointing games:

- The Callisto Protocol

- Pokémon Scarlet/Violet

Worst games:

- Didn’t play any

System warrior of 2022:

- Me

Best:

Elden Ring

Ragnarok

Xenoblade Chronicles 3

Horizon Forbidden West

Sniper Elite 5

Disappointing:

Gran Turismo

Pokemon Scarlet

Splatoon 3

Scorn

Callisto Protocol

Worst:

I don't have time to play bad games.

Best warrior

Davillain

R4gn4r0k

Kvallyx

Best

• GOW Ragnarok
• Stray

Disappointing

• Callisto protocol

Worst

• Pokemon: Scarlet/Violent

Fav system warrior

• @SolidGame_basic

Best, I'll change to good, because nothing I played this year is the best. I only remembered Elden Ring being this year because of Archangel.

Good: Elden Ring

Favorite system warrior of 2022:

Hardwenzen (Funny to read)

Mesome713 (Just exudes Nintendo)

Archangel3371 (Most level headed I've seen)

Archangle is happy go lucky. enjoy sunshine and rainbow. never talk bad about any game.

@ghosts4ever: And I don't talk about bad games either. You however just aren't an open-minded gamer like me and Archangel.

ok. what about warmblur? he talk more bad about games than me.

I'm usually a year behind on games, so my input isn't all that significant. The only 2022 games I played I think were Stray and Horizon. Loved them both, for what it's worth.

Fav System Wars Warrior: Pedro hands down.

Best games of 2022

1. Symphony of War
2. Kirby: Forgotten Land
3. Pokemon Legends Arceus
4. Infernax
5. Crusader Kings 3 (I got it this year so yeah :P)

Note: I am not including Dwarf Fortress here because I just played it. But so far my early impressions have been VERY positive. As in, it could overtake Symphony as my personal GOTY.

Most disappointing games of 2022:

1. Elden Ring

Worst games of 2022:

1. Elden Ring
2. Lost Ark

Best Posters

1. R4gn4r0k
2. Archangel
3. Solidgame_Basic

Funniest Poster

1. Hardwenzen

Trolling Elden Ring yet again. Aren't you tired? I am tired of hearing it, but you're not tired of spamming it on SW every chance you get. Enough is enough.

Rock on man, that's great to hear!

Best games of 2022

1. Elden Ring

2. Xenoblade Chronicles 3

3. TMNT Shredders Revenge

Most disappointing games of 2022:

1. Pokemon Legends Arceus

2. Callisto Protocol

3. GhostWire: Tokyo

Worst games of 2022:

1. Pokemon: Scarlet/Violet

2. Scorn

Favourite System warrior of 2022:

Pedro

Best games

1. God of War : Ragnarok

2. Elden Ring

3. Horizon Forbidden West

4. TMNT: Shredders Revenge

Most disappointing games

1. The Callisto Protocol

2. Gotham Knights

Worst games

1. Pokemon: Scarlet/Violet

I can't vote on favorite system warrior haven't been on here enough.

@silentchief: That's ok, I read Ragnarok in your list so I'm just gonna assume you meant me :)

Best

• Halflife 2 VR

Disappointing

• Shadow Warrior OG

Worst

• • Shadow Warrior OG

Fav system warrior

R4gn4r0k

Ghosts

Conan

These are the only good users, most of the other users (i.e. almost everyone above) are mediocre stains on a dying forum.

Haven't been gaming much this year. Barely bought any new games. Halflife 2: VR was the clear highlight, it's a magical experience, like playing it again for the first time through new eyes.

I'm not done playing stuff but will vote based on what I've played. I suspect GoW Ragnorak will be in my top 5 for this year once I play it, but that likely wont be for a bit.

Best:

1. Elden Ring
2. Plague Tale Requiem
3. Grounded
4. Pentiment
5. Modern Warfare 2 (2)

Disappointing:

1. Isonzo
2. Call of the Wild: The Angler
3. Elex 2

Worst:

- I feel confident I didn't play any of the actual worst games that came out this year.

Seems like you gave a lot of different games and genres a try.

I'm already discovering games yet that would end up in the top five. And I've yet to give Ragnarok and Horizon FW a fair chance.

What makes you say Isonzo is disappointing? :)

I'm just going to go by what i played this year because i am way too lazy to check for release dates.

Best games of 2022:

1. Monster Hunter Rise. More Monster hunter: nuff said. I switched from the Lance to the Greatsword for this one so i found it tough in places. GS is kinda the opposite of the lance in play styles. Still need to get to the sunbreak content though.
2. Xenoblade 3. Monolithsoft are mostly back on track. great game....thank god.
3. Doom Eternal. Manic fun. It's bonkers and it has a wry sense of humour.
4. FF7 Remake. I liked most of it. Some bonkers decisions and some wait and see elements but great combat, it does well when it builds on the base material and just all round good game (except for that one boss fight which is BS).
5. Ever Oasis on the 3DS. A neat little adventure and town development game. A nice way to start a saturday morning.

Disappointing of 2022:

1. The Interlude Chapter in FF7 Remake was pretty meh.

Worst of 2022: ^^^^^^.

I didn't like the game mode compared to the previous games from the devs, and the maps were super choke-point heavy. attacking was just not much fun, you'd just be running into endless grenade spam and artillery.

I really liked Tannenberg so it was a letdown, despite looking quite nice for a budget game. I'm pretty sure Tannenberg had bigger maps and a higher player count which gave more options for flanking etc. and the only fully automatic weapons were mounted machine guns.

I realize they had to make some changes for the different setting just not a fan of the direction they went in

Forgot this had a sequel.

Not surprising though PB tend to be hit and miss.

Yeah I get ya, I started playing and to me it instantly felt familiar as I played basically nothing but Operations in BF 1 and Breakthrough in BF V. I never played the previous WW1 games.

But yeah the grenade spam soon turned into a issue, grenades got nerfed several times.

Getting killed by call ins isn't fun and I get Ins sandstorm flashbacks where I'm not having fun getting killed by unbeatable air units (I never had that issue with RO 2 or DOI call ins, as it seemed playing smart there would get you a lot further than blindly running into an obj).

I join matches of Isonzo now and I'm just completely lost: am I on the attacking team? Am I on the defending team? I wish the game would've done even more to copy Battlefield succesfully, and perhaps even sacrificed historical authenticity in favor of team, if the end result turns out better.

Every year is a good year to mention Doom Eternal!

You mean integrate in FF7? The Yuffie DLC?

Thread is about the best and worst games of the year. I merely gave my answer. Get over it.

Oh yeah :D And I will also try that Half Life 2 mod later on once I am done with TO:R. So many games in the past few month.

mainly it just felt unfinished. Like, the first 15-20 hours was typical PB game stuff with some fun quests checking out the different factions and the usual bad combat but you are super underpowered which makes it kinda fun cause the world feels dangerous. Enjoyable enough.

but then the next 20 hours the fun quests pretty much vanished and replaced with just "go to x location and kill y enemies" so it was just bad combat and very few fun quests. Like they didn't have time to populate the second half of the game with proper quests so just filled it with endless battles to stretch it to 50+ hours.

i never did finish it.

Thanks to everyone who voted for me. I'm not voting my GOTY until 2022 actually ends 😮 Cause, you know, there are still games I need to play..

GOTY/The only new games that I played for more than 2 hours:

1. Sonic Frontiers
2. TMNT: Shredder's Revenge

My actual most played games in 2022:

1. Dokkan Battle
2. P5R
3. SoR4
4. Sonic Frontiers
5. Sonic Adventure 1 & 2

Best users: SolidGame_Basic and Jag85

Best games of 2022

Most disappointing games of 2022:

Worst games of 2022:

@warmblur said:

Best games of 2022

Most disappointing games of 2022:

Worst games of 2022:

lets forget. this is worst possible year since 2014.

lets talk about who is your best system warrior?

Yeah. The DLC was meh I thought. it didnt really add anything. The Fort Condor Minigame was a laugh but it was forgettable otherwise imho.

@Maroxad: I will never get it over because the game doesn't deserve to be trolled by you.

yuffie DLC was trash. sure.

the base game is incredible. but its 2020 game console and 2021 game for PC.

I think last year was pretty good.

Hitman 3, Deathloop, FF7.

Best games of 2022

1. God of War Ragnarok

2. Elden Ring

3. Horizon forbidden west

4. Sifu

Most disappointing games of 2022:

1. Halo infinite (I know it's a late 2021 release but theyre still finishing it)

Worst games of 2022:

1. Stray

Favourite System warrior of 2022:

Hardwenzen

Best games of 2022

1. Elden Ring

2. Vampire Survivors

3. Cyberpunk 2077 (played it late)

Most disappointing games of 2022:

1. God of War 2018 (I played it late)

2. God of War Ragnarock (just assuming it's bad based on the weight of 2018)

Worst games of 2022:

1. God of War (2018), I'm amazed at how bad the combat in this game is and what's with the camera?

Favourite System warrior of 2022:

Alright here it goes. I think a lot went wrong this year in gaming, games I had been hyped about for years (Dying Light 2) turned out mediocre and full of unfulfilled promises, but overall this has been a fantastic year for me, and I think I played more games that released in the current year than ever before.

With games that can be described as art (Stray), games that genuinly surprised me (Need for Speed) and even games that are yet to release this year: tumble time.

Best games of 2022

1. Sniper Elite 5

2. Entropy Zero 2

3. Need for Speed Unbound

4. Starship Troopers

5. Stray

Most disappointing games of 2022:

1. Grid Legends

2. Dying Light 2

3. Ghostwire Tokyo

Worst games of 2022:

1. The Quarry

2. Life is strange remasters

3. Warzone 2.0

Favourite System warrior of 2022:

@BassMan

@uninspiredcup

@SolidGame_basic

@davillain

@TheEroica

Best games of 2022

1. GOW:R

2.Elden Ring

3. Sifu

I only play game that i like and i dont have much time to play games.

Most disappointing games of 2022:

1.

2.

3.

N/A. I dont play games that doesnt interest me one bit.

Favourite System warrior of 2022:

Solidgame_basic and hardwenzen

@___gamemaster__: Sifu is a fantastic choice, I love what they managed to achieve through mods

Good to hear you had a solid year in gaming ;)

@Macutchi: As a big fan of Horizon I could also not get into the sequel. It's not the characters, it's not the side missions, those are all great.

For me it's definintely the combat. The melee combat was supposed to have this huge improvement... I didn't notice it, it felt as clunky as before.

In Zero Dawn the combat requires you to be smart and stay on your feet, movement and precision are key to taking down huge enemies, while using the right bow or arrow is also a big factor.

In the sequel none of that seems to matter: precision, that really doesn't play a big role. The only thing that matters is using the right element against the right enemy.

What that meant for me in practice is that I had zero fun switching between all 12 ammo types that I had with me and enemies always seemed to require that 13th elemental ammo type.