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I'm a 41-year-old married life-long gamer with limited gaming time. Still, I play all sorts of games, have several subscription services - always looking for that next masterpiece ****. I rarely come across masterpieces nowadays and I've completed very few action or RPG games the last decade. And then came Elden Ring. Elden Ring is a masterpiece. I just finished putting just over 200 hours into my first playthrough, during which I searched every nook and cranny, tried to fight every enemy and boss, tried to find every item, tried to finish every quest, and accomplished most of that. A masterpiece. Beautiful. It's a modern and mature Zelda, a new gen and darker Skyrim with greater difficulty and less time-consuming and useless systems. It's grand. It's art. And I recommend it to every gamer. If you can get over the difficulty, you will be rewarded. And I never liked Souls-type games one bit before ER, but I see dopeness and beauty even in death in Elden Ring - how cool the enemy looks as he stalks over your body, the environment, the graphics and grandeur of it all. A masterpiece. Bravo, FromSoftware.

I'm a 38 year old life-long gamer. Subnautica is one of the best games I've ever played and one of the few I've finished in years. It's beautiful, it's immersive, it's terrifying, it's exciting. I just finished my first play-through. Or maybe I didn't. I think I'll go back to my last save and just continue exploring this beautiful alien planet, uncover more of its mysteries, pimp out my base, and see if it's possible to kill a ghost leviathan. Great concept, tight and interesting story, stunning graphics, completely immersive. Dope.

FUN! FUN! FUN! Hands down, Rocket League is the absolute funnest game I've played in a long time. In the last couple of years, I've loved games such as Destiny, Halo 4, Gears of War Judgment, The Division, The Witcher and more - all great games with great features (graphics, story, gameplay, multiplayer, etc.) - but none as much fun as Rocket League. I tried Rocket League on Steam over the weekend because it was free-to-play. I ended up buying the PC and XOne versions because it was so much FUN. I highly suggest it.

I really like Titanfall. I can't give it a higher score because it doesn't have a campaign, and that makes me feel cheated to a certain extent, but it does multiplayer very well. It brings freshness to the FPS with unique features like the titans and wall-climbing. It's fast, smooth, and just lots of fun. I wish the graphics were more next-gen, but they're still good. If you like multiplayer (Halo, COD, Gears), you have to check it out.

I was excited for this game in light of the small selection of games on Xbox One. Gotta say I'm disappointed. It feels like Watch Dogs tries to do GTA but it doesn't come close to doing GTA as good as GTA does GTA (if that makes sense). Hacking is unique and brings a good amount of cool features. Otherwise, it feels like a poor man's GTA. That's the best I can describe it. Multiplayer is clumsy - you can invite friends to the same game, but I haven't figured out how to assure we're on the same team. Driving isn't as smooth as you'd like. Graphics are straight, not spectacular. Haven't felt like playing it much, already back on Titanfall more regularly. It's not awful but it's ok.