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That's awesome! Why don't you get them Smash Ultimate although Mario Party is a good multiplayer game as well? Mine's also an OLED and I do play quite a bit of Tears Of The Kingdom.

I was looking forward to voting for Hogwarts Legacy but it never made the voting poll, I had to vote for Spiderman but Baldur's Gate 3 ended up winning the best game of the year.

This is really interesting. I have never heard of this Atari system just like @The Blackangel. When did this come out?

Seriously, it has never made any sense to me whenever I see any gamer go at a game in this manner. I'm always like how do they enjoy the cut off in between and jump right to almost the end. It can never work for me playing that way.

Not yet. For the most part, AI is just a gimmick and mainly hype - It's not going to suddenly take over ever aspect of our life. Most of the AI models aren't even refined enough to do the basics without supervision.

Totally agree, games these days are exactly like playing through a very long movie, as was said above, so it makes no sense to take the immersion out of the equation. It's like watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy from the start of The Fellowship and then Skipping to the last 40 minutes of Return of the King. You miss the whole point.

Exactly! Without the game's story, there's absolutely nothing for me to play for. It's the bigger picture for me in any kind of game. It's what lures me into playing any game to begin with.

Kingdom Hearts II, apparently. I was never a big KH fan, so I don't know if it truly was the best game of 2005, but it got rave reviews, I do remember that.

I always play for the story, even games I've played multiple times through, the story is a big part of the experience, so I never skip :)

The storyline of any game that I'm playing is very important for me. It's not something that I would be interested in doing by skipping the game's cutscenes and not bother to following the story. If I do that, I would be feeling left out in a way when playing the game.

Even though music doesn't necessarily make or break a game as you stated, but when your experience in a game is messed up because of one thing or another (music), the game have been broken for the gamer indirectly in my opinion.