 At the halfway point of the year, readers discuss their favourite new video games so far, from Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom to Dead Space. 2023 is all set to go down as a classic year for video games but for this weekend's Inbox we wanted to know what your favourites are so far, even if there is one obvious pick that stands head and shoulders above the rest… As you'd expect, Tears Of The Kingdom got by far the most number of mentions but there was also plenty of love for Resident Evil 4, Street Fighter 6, and other more obscure choices. Cheats prosper I've probably enjoyed Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Camp most this year, but since remakes are cheating a bit, Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom is probably the brand new game I've had the most fun with. Octopath Traveler 2 and Hob's Barrow would be runners-up. There's nothing this year, thus far, which really comes close to my favourites. But that's not a knock on the quality of recent games, it's just that the genres I really love haven't much changed since the 90s, and those aren't really in vogue anymore. Per that, for the second half of the year, the games I'm really looking forward to are from those genres: Super Mario Bros. Wonder and the Star Ocean 2 and Super Mario RPG remakes. I've loved the originals of those latter two, so unless there's some awful change to them they should be great. Lord Darkstorm Too late to help I haven't played a load of new releases but I really like Street Fighter 6 (Xbox Series X). I've been having so much fun on World Tour, walloping randos in the street, and the arcade mode. And the modern controls scheme option means I don't entirely suck at Street Fighter for the first time ever! And an honourable mention, since I think it was a 2022 release, but I just started playing Marvel's Midnight Suns and that's pretty special so far. The card-based combat is really easy to get into, in part because the game explains it well as you go. S){kind=link}
At the halfway point of the year, readers discuss their favourite new video games so far, from Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom to Dead Space.
2023 is all set to go down as a classic year for video games but for this weekend’s Inbox we wanted to know what your favourites are so far, even if there is one obvious pick that stands head and shoulders above the rest…
As you’d expect, Tears Of The Kingdom got by far the most number of mentions but there was also plenty of love for Resident Evil 4, Street Fighter 6, and other more obscure choices.
Cheats prosperI’ve probably enjoyed Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Camp most this year, but since remakes are cheating a bit, Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom is probably the brand new game I’ve had the most fun with. Octopath Traveler 2 and Hob’s Barrow would be runners-up.
There’s nothing this year, thus far, which really comes close to my favourites. But that’s not a knock on the quality of recent games, it’s just that the genres I really love haven’t much changed since the 90s, and those aren’t really in vogue anymore.