0:44 Number 10 - Avatar 2:40 Number 9 - Horizon, Forbidden West 5:29 Number 8 - GreedFall 7:39 Number 7 - Outer Worlds 9:55 Number 6 - Callisto Protocol 12:45 Number 5 - Kena: Bridge of Spirits 15:19 Number 4 - Ghostwire Tokyo 17:58 Number 3 - Starfield 20:49 Number 2 - Farcry 6 23:20 Number 1 - Sonic Frontier
Thanks for list. Personally I’d swap out Far Cry 6 for Far Cry Primal. Primal is very underrated IMO and often overlooked because of how different it is
Im fine with 7/10 but personally I thought Forbidden West did just enough differently to feel like a new and better game. There’s new tribes and factions, a completely revamped melee combat system, new ammo types, new swimming mechanic, new machines, and the ability to fly, not to mention the visual enhancements and vastly improved cutscenes. I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea but i don’t agree that it’s just more of the same.
Revamped melee combat system? It literally was the same as the first game. Sure there was that skill tree thing, but that’s not “revamping the system.” Personally I thought the game was very pretty, but I thought the story was bland and Aloy is a boring character compared to Aloy in Zero Dawn. Now the DLC was a major step up, especially that final boss.
@@53knightsthe melee pits in forbidden west prove that the melee combat with the spear is completely different. Tons of different combos you can pull off, ways to energize the spear for heavier attacks etc There was literally a light and a heavy attack in Zero Dawn and that’s it. Much more developed. Not that I used the spear that much.
Hey Gameranx can you please change the background colour of the number countdown so that I dont get flashbanged everytime I watch your videos at night?
As someone obsessed with history and sociology, Greedfall is INCREDIBLY GOOD, since it approaches colonization in the game development and seeing the references they chose for the different nations (Sailors are portuugese, the main empire is french, the inquisitors are spanish, the scientists are Arab) is just precious. Loved it with all my heart, I could easily go through the not so great dialogues, lackluster cutscenes and janky combat. Just because the story and the universe is so freaking good.
how does the sequel seem to you, from the trailers ? I am afraid its too much focused on turned based combat and looks like a MMO imo.I guess we ll see
I'm a little surprised Mad Max didn't make the list. Not one of the best or worse games by any means, but a score of 7/10 seems to be about the right range for it.
Far Cry 6 is one of my friendsgroup guilty pleasures... we played this thing for months. I recently replayed it solo on the highest difficulty and enjoyed it very much
Am I tripping, but why does everybody perceive 7/10 as "mid"? It's literally 2 points above 5 (the literal middle point out of 10) which makes 7 a GOOD score.
It’s Gen Z bs. Gen Z is incapable of understanding nuance and only are capable of thinking between two extreme binary choices. It’s similar to how they call anybody over 30 a “boomer” because they think “boomer” equals “old”, when that’s not the case (just because it happens to be true doesn’t make it the reason, another thing Gen-Z seems to have difficulty understanding).
It's adjusted based on the overall mean score. We get quite few 5/10 (average) or lower games and on the other side of the spectrum, even fewer games that are actual 10/10 masterpieces. So whatever sits in between is good, or in other words 'mid'. That's just how it works.
That's not how it works in rating, what your thinking about is math, 7/10 is mediocre, a good game is 8, 9 is a fantastic game, 10 is a perfect game, try to work under any customer service company and make customer give you a 5 or 6, that's a failing score /mediocre service in your manager eyes
While I do agree that the Forbidden West has quite a few issues like story and tedious crafting/upgrading mechanics, 5:09 you are definitely not "whacking the same machines". Must have easily spent over 300 hours in forbidden west, because the number of improvements it brought over zero dawn was astounding. If anything I would easily give it an 8.5/10
The quality of life improvements are great and I did multiple playthroughs on the PS5 and one or two on the PC. Definitely my favorite game since Ghost of Tsushima.
Sure, the machines look different, but fighting them is always the same. Switch to right ammo type, shoot weak point until it goes down, do some melee attacks to finish it. The fights are too much the same to keep it interesting for me
He forgot the most important addition, machine strike. It wasn't as addicting as gwent but man did I love it. Forbidden west to me is what you want in a sequel. The same but improved. The combat was better, map bigger with more diverse environments. The massive improvement was the climbing, went from the yellow paint to a breath of the wild climb everywhere system. The story was weaker imo but the characters were much better written. And horizon gets points for me because it has some of the most unique worldbuilding in the last 2 decades.
Just seeing someone mention Kena Bridge of Spirits is awesome. I thought it was a fun game early in the ps5 launch year. Also really good difficulty on higher levels.
Heavily agree. It was super fun. It was gorgeous too. They’re definitely right about it feeling a little clunky, but it didn’t detract from the overall feeling of the game, for me
@@shannonhall9814starfield combat is actually pretty clean. Most of the other stuff is comparable, with starfield obv winning length and vfx categories.
@@Matt-md5yt definitely worth it on sale, with the DLC. There's also a 6 episode prequel podcast series starring Gwendoline Christie and Michael Ironside that really sets the tone, called Helix Station.
Finally got round to playing Kena recently and it's a good fit for this list. It's fun and it's charming as hell. I tend to remember the overall enjoyment I got while playing it, rather than specific moments standing out in my memory.
I would’ve swapped Far Cry 6 for Far Cry Primal. I slept on that game so long, but once I played it I was amazed how much fun I had bashing things with just a giant club
Primal is so much better than 6. FC6 made so many game breakingly bad changes to the formula (removal of perk tree for clothes, ammo types, infinitely respawning enemies, breaking silencers, dumbing down of difficulty) without making the game feel fresh. Worst of both: felt boringly familiar, yet different but only for the worse
Primal was awesome. Its the best of the far cry games as far as I'm concerned. The setting was just amazing and being able to tame all those prehistoric creatures was tons of fun. Hell, you could ride on Smilodons, Cave Bears and Mammoths. That game is no mediocre 7/10. It's an 8.5/10 in my book. I absolutely enjoyed it.
I've been meaning to get into that one. I've played most of the others, but I didn't think I'd be very into a Flintstones FarCry. I'll probably get it sometime soon.
@@LordYggdrasill it's totally worth it. Note that the start is a little slow. Like normal for the FC series, but particularly slow as it really gets going once you start picking up on some key abilities. But the stealth is top notch. Some of the best base gameplay loops since it's so melee-heavy
the callisto protocol is actually better than people say it is, i think the problem was the "by the creator of dead space" attachment which made everybody expect another dead space but as a standalone not compared to anything type game it is a pretty decent game. i agree with the horizon take, a good solid sequel, a few additions here and there, better melee combat, more weapons/ammo types, new machines, underwater exploration, flying (which should have been a thing earlier in zero dawn tbh) bigger scale, more lore stuff, tribes (regular world building shenanigans) but all in all just more zero dawn which isn't bad at all tbh, actually platinumed lol
Kena was one of my fave games played in the past year. I wish it was longer with more content directed at the story instead of the end game "skill tests" for achievements. For me though, it's simplicity and more forgiving Souls like game play are why I enjoyed it. It was just a relaxing fun game with rich environments and ideas.
I'm currently playing Rage 2 on gamepass while I wait for indiana Jones and so happy I gave it a chance. I get how many might find it boring, but I absolutely love checking things off a list in an open world. Fun as hell gunplay too.
It wasn't boring there is just not much to it. It has like 10 main missions and that's it. The rest is mindless copy & paste open world objectives. The gunplay is incredible, though.
As soon as I saw Callisto Protocol, i knew this was going to be a respectable list. My ultimate 7/10. If the game came out during the PS2 era, it would’ve gotten a bigger and badder sequel with no issue, despite all its flaws
Took me a couple hours of going "meh" in Avatar until I started liking it. And then it turned out to be surprisingly fun and I enjoyed it! Beautiful graphics too
@ I totally get all the hate this game gets. I ran into a couple of bugs, and the frame rate dropped in a couple places, but I think they patched most of the issues. I played it on my base ps4, it ran fine for the most part
I went into Kena: Bridge of Spirits pretty blind and I ended up loving it. It has amazing art, fun gameplay and a few challenging bosses. Highly recommend.
Absolutely power fantasy for those who just want to feel like a BA and go to town on everyone. I remember either IGN or GameSpot complaining saying they “made the player too powerful” and so gave it a bad review… which was the whole point of the game. So when P2 came out, they didn’t get sent a review copy and complained 😂
I believe P2 doubles down on the power fantasy aspect because the utterly ridiculous feats you can do in that game. Killing and eating the brains of humanoid kaiju whose fist is a size of a building? sign me the f up.
I really hope we get more games like Kena: Bridge of Spirits (number 5 ) or even a sequel. For a first game from a studio, it was incredibly well-made and charming! The main story takes about 10 hours to complete, or around 20 hours if you aim for 100% completion. I played it when it first came out, finished it ( actually played it twice, it has New Game+ mode) and now I’m eagerly hoping for more!
Look, i'm not ashamed to say I've returned to Callisto Protocol for subsequent playthroughs. I REALLY like the first 2/3rds of this game. They were onto something with that setting. We need more Riddick/Callisto/Suffering prison settings in games. Funnily enough, in hindisight, it does melee/gun combat is way better than Silent Hill 2 Remake, which you could argue wasn't the point of the game, but still.
I loved outer worlds, it was an amazing balance of options and rails. I don't want the game to take 600 hours to finish a play through, I am more happy with a 20 or 30 hour first playthrough then like 12-14 hour replay playthroughs to try everything and all options. So many games like it I just will never play/start because its overwhelming before you even install the game lol either because lore from previous games, people/publishers hype, the studio only making games X way and so on. As for my hot take game everyone should have played, mass effect andromeda. I had a great time playing that game.
I will say about Ghostwire Tokyo is that it had a big update many months back that added more content new powers and more enemies which made the game a lot better. I'm not sure if Gameranx is going off their initial review or if they tried the new update stuff. It's a great game either way. I'd say get it on deal for $20-$30.
It's funny, I was just talking about something similar. "I'd rather play a dozen 7/10 games, then consistently replay 2 or 3 9.5/10 games". This was in reference to how I was enjoying playing Enotria (a 7/10 game), then I was, playing Elden Ring on ng+. I'm actively playing 33 different games, across different systems. I enjoy fresh experiences, different mechanics, different genres. And I'm happier with this method, then I ever would be replying any modern Fromsoft game, or Skyrim, or whatever other great game. Anyways, thank you gameranx, for talking about this topic! It's bizarre to me, how obsessive people get over one game, or series, when there's dozens of other fun and interesting 6, 7, or 8/10 games to play.
There’s something to be said about “innovation” and pushing the frontiers with sequels. I love far cry. I want more far cry. It’s stupid fun, and as long as Ubisoft gives me a new story and works out the niggles from the previous game, I’m happy. The times where they have gone and tried to bring something new are the times I’ve hated the franchise the most. Innovation isn’t always what’s needed or wanted
Thank you for giving Kena bridge of spirits some love! Despite its flaws it’s one of my all time favorites. So much emotion in the story, beautiful scenery, and almost souls level difficulty when you play on Master level.
It definitely was. I believe it was a part of the DLC, right? So unfortunately it was one of those instances where they learned the valuable lesson after main development was complete and game release. Fan feedback. Another good example from this list of the same thing is The Outer Worlds and the Gorgon DLC.
Kena Bridge of Spirits had some bosses that were more frustrating for me than any soulsborne boss. And that was on Normal. I still enjoyed the game, but egads... Fun Fact: There was a way to cheese the last boss, which people loved and used to actually beat the game on hard. Then the devs patched it out. Despite that blessed period of time, the percentage for the trophy beating it on hard is incredibly low and only getting lower. 🎉
Avatar Frontiers of Pandora is easily one of the technically best looking games of all time. The amount of detail in the ground cover and vegetation is mind blowing. So underrated.
I actually really liked the Callisto protocol, surprisingly good atmosphere and i actually found the combat fun. I do absolutely hate how they handle the save system, though.
5:34 Thank you. We have literally 10 numbers on the scale... but everything is 6-10 6-Bad 7-Okay 8-Good 9-Great 10- Near perfect Should be 1-3 Bad 4-5 Okay 6-7 Good 8-9 Great 10 PERFECT
Agree about Starfield. The faction quests were fun, the cities looked good, the first play through was fine, but the lacklustre planet exploration and the shallow character building just killed it for me in the end. Haven’t bothered with Shattered Space.
Play Kena: Bridge of Spirits on the hardest difficulty and you won't think it is so forgiving :P Good but slightly flawed game though. Definitely excited to see where the studio goes from here.
Kena Bridge of Spirits is so good. It helped keep my mind off of things while I was going through a tough time in my last relationship. I really would love a second game.
I really enjoyed The Calisto Protocol, but it can be very frustrating to play. Had they allowed for more freedom in the combat and featured a normal dodge mechanic, it would be an 8/10.
Man as someone who doesn’t have access to internet at home and preordered it for ps4pro I had a horrible time it was unplayable worse than cyberpunk and I never picked it back up when a game is released it should be ready to go not some 60 gig day one patch that actually makes the game playable that was the last straw when it came to preordereds for me
I really liked the setting of Far Cry 6 and I generally don't dislike the Ubisoft formula. That said, I have to say that game is broken by concept. Instant respawn of enemies the moment you turn away. Enemies who exactly know where you are even if they never saw you. That makes stealth gameplay quite useless. And when you take over a certain number of areas, enemies only will get stronger. Maybe that is fixed by now, but actually I don't care anymore. Won't play that game again 😢
Yeah, generally like FC games at least for 1 play through. But FC6 really disincentivized stealth, totally changing the dynamics of how you play a FC game.
I'm currently playing through Dead Island 2 and I'm surprised at how much I love it, I can't put it down. I thought it would get repetitive but it's constantly throwing more weapons and abilities and enemy types at you. It feels like an old-school game-ass game in the best way.
As a fellow 7/10 I agree with this list. I will say though since i played far cry 6 somewhat recently with a friend, you can actually switch ammo types on the fly, i thnk you aim down sight and hit k or L until you get the one you want. Still not as clean but at least you can roll with what weapon you want. Honestly just ran through the game with 3 armor piercing and 1 rpg for vehicles.
You say "obviously Horizon is better than Greedfall", but I don't agree with that at all, personally. I thought they did a fantastic job with Greedfall. Absolutely loved it.
Yo, same. Anecdotally all of my friends and have played both games and none are a "fan" of Horizon. But everyone of them agrees Greedfall is fantastic.
Pretty sure he’s joking guys 😂 Gameranx has talked about how it’s odd there are people that think mid = bad, and that 7/10 = not good. The irony is that the people that think this way are more than likely below average humans 😂
As someone who is a huge Avatar fan I was hesitant to get the game but grabbed it a few months ago when it went on sale..and I love it already over 200+ hrs and grabbed all the DLC. What kinda really sold it for me on how good the combat felt was I was able to learn stealth and I went into Horizon after my first play through and the shooting a bow felt....almost clunky compared to the Avatar now I am not sure if there is an auto aim or some mechanic that makes it feel so smooth and natural with some of the other movements. Yes it definitely has its flaws but as my friend and I aren't a fan of the Far Cry story lines having a game like this gave us a chance to enjoy the mechanic without dealing with some of the more questionable aspects of other story lines...I wish Ubisoft had promoted it more but it does seem like its picked up traction since there has been a hint of a second game or even more DLC....so maybe they realize there is a crowd for it and will give whatever they do next with the ip some more love and attention.
The Forbidden West DLC was awesome. The game itself picks up immediately after the first. So it would be weird to have this insane jump over the first one. Kena is a solid 10 in my book.
Just cause feels like a good game for this list. It's not great, but certain aspects of it can be a lot of fun. The stories kind of suck but just messing around is great
Farcry 6 was the first farcry game I’ve ever played and I loved it so much. I was gonna work my way backwards and go to 5 & new dawn, then 4, 3, etc. what do you think was the best in the series that I should jump to first?
Personal opinion, the outer worlds is more like a 9/10 for me, but obviously subjective. Kind of same page i am with the rest. Good list, keep up the good work lads. 👏
Everyone needs to stop acting like a 7 is just ok... It leaves no room for distiction between games that are just good and games that are amazing but not masterpieces. Ratings should go; 5: good 6:Pretty Good 7: Great 8: Amazing 9: Verging on Masterpiece 10: Masterpiece
Played Rage 2 when it came out and always thought it was a hidden gem. Lots of stuff wrong with it but it was a fun ass game. The abilities were fun to mess with.
Avatar is definitely great. I think Ubisoft messes up when they make massive amazing worlds but then have very little that you can interact with. Not like it has to be a full RPG but worlds like cyberpunk feel so good to walk around in because you feel like you are apart of it as opposed to being an observer
@@chivasroco1752 alright. I don't agree but I see what you mean I think. You can interact with more things in cyberpunk I think though, even if it's a lot of vending machines and junk on the ground that you can pick up. It just felt like I could touch more if that makes any sense
@@ImDefNotFamous can't really say how it is now, but when I played it at release I thought it was really bad. At the time you had the vending machines and the occasional NPC to interact with, while in TW3 you had different shops, taverns and more varied environments were different things were happening.
I’m playing Frontiers of Pandora now because of the holiday sale and I’m really loving the world. Story and writing is fine but they created an incredible version of Pandora!
Great list! I’ll get slack for this but go big or go home. Games like Kena Bridge of Spirits gets a 7/10 for having a heartfelt story that is charming and beautiful but lackluster gameplay while Last of Us has a story we’ve seen a million times in media and underwhelming gameplay is a goat…for some reason.
Couldnt agree more with Horizon 2 being a 7/10. Also the first game was a 7/10 but kids these days are a bit hyper excitable with their 4090s and what not.
been playing some farcry 6 recently and is a good comfort game at this moment. Very casual and the exploration is fun. Sometimes is just fun to fly on your buggie and take some bad guys once in a while to distress without having to try
Maybe a hot take but what ruins Horizon for me is how the ammo/crafting works. I’m someone who will never use any limited item in fear that I’ll need it later, so I end up just using the standard arrows almost exclusively. If they made all ammo function on cooldowns or something similar it’d probably be one of my favorite games.
Agreed, and maybe slightly lower prerequisites to upgrade gear. The grind to upgrade legendary gear kinda got to me. If you naturally got the items through side quests, that would be better. Instead, I'm fast traveling between Slitherfang locations hoping it will drop the parts I need. It also feels like the removable parts disappear, but it could be I just can't find them.
I LOVE Forbidden West, but when I went on to other games with simplified/streamlined crafting and upgrading, I realized that was one aspect of the Horizon games that felt overburdened to me. Still love the games, but, yeah. Oof.
God I love mid video games. Gotta shout out the 7/10 (and lower) games of the past. Share the love. DarkSector, Ghostbusters 2009, Kane & Lynch 1 and 2, Damnation, Prince of Persia 2008, Prince of Persia The Forgotten Sands, Inversion, Mini Ninjas, Enslaved Odyssey to the West, Binary Domain, NeverDead, Dead to Rights Retribution, Wanted Weapons of Fate, BRINK WAS OVERHATED
Yeah, you got me to engage in the comments, but calling Horizon Forbidden West a 7/10 is downright disrespectful. It's like me calling Zelda Tears of the Kingdom a 7/10 because I find it boring. I do, but.. it's not a 7/10. Nor is Horizon, arguably one of the most "triple A" games on the market from a quality standpoint
Horizon's sequel has some amazing things, like paragliding, or flying on the bird, but it is still 7 I agree, something missing in the story part, I had a higher expectation and I bought it at full price, but after a couple of hours I wasn't excited about story and just finished it only because I paid for it. I found the FarCry 6 setting interesting, but there was just a few cutscenes with the villian, which was painfully less.
I'm only upset Forbidden West is considered a 7/10 because I give it a 9/10. My biggest problem with it was that I had to adapt to the changes in combat, and once I did that, none of my other problems with it were worth mentioning, let alone dropping points for by themselves. The one point is a drop for all problems combined.
Days Gone has too many highs and top tier first party designs (which too many people carelessly overlook) to realistically be a 7/10. And going off the widely common occurrence of this game showing up in people's top zombie game list, a lot of people would agree.
*I'm* playing Avatar still. It is a solid game. I like the story sometimes but it does offer a reasonable excuse to keep playing. But if I put it down for a while I inevitably start thinking about it again and want to pick it back up. I'm surprisingly impressed.
I'd say that you're right with ditching the numbered review scores. Sites like IGN are incredibly confusing metrics wise these days as they have so many reviewers with quite polarised opinions compared to each other.
As a fan of the first Horizon game, Forbidden West was exactly what I was hoping for, more of the same thing. All I wanted was more machines and more tools. The crafting was not an issue for me. Farming materials just meant more combat and that's where all the fun is. It's an 8/10 at the least imo.
I did like Outer Worlds. It was a game that had a decent system and was done well. I did like it wasn't super long and didn't overstayed its welcome but at the same time needed a little more. I was very happy to have played it, especially on the Game Pass. It did feel like it could have been the first in a series with the second game taking it to where it needed to be.
For me Far Cry 6, Outer Worlds and Horizon Forbidden West are 8/10. They just fall off near the ending to a 7/10. A lot of 8/10 games have highs that are like 8.5 or 9.0 and they also have lows that are like 7.0 or 6.5. Like Spiderman 2 was a 9 that has highs of 9.5 but damn it has some lowpoints that feel like 7.5.
0:44 Number 10 - Avatar
2:40 Number 9 - Horizon, Forbidden West
5:29 Number 8 - GreedFall
7:39 Number 7 - Outer Worlds
9:55 Number 6 - Callisto Protocol
12:45 Number 5 - Kena: Bridge of Spirits
15:19 Number 4 - Ghostwire Tokyo
17:58 Number 3 - Starfield
20:49 Number 2 - Farcry 6
23:20 Number 1 - Sonic Frontier
Thanks for list. Personally I’d swap out Far Cry 6 for Far Cry Primal. Primal is very underrated IMO and often overlooked because of how different it is
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@@Lawrence_Talbot You're welcome. Thanks for the tip on Primal, I've always wondered if I should try it. Stopped after FC3 & 5.
@@marstedt Thanks hero. It was already in the description ¬¬
Naw the description is just numbers, little bro
Im fine with 7/10 but personally I thought Forbidden West did just enough differently to feel like a new and better game. There’s new tribes and factions, a completely revamped melee combat system, new ammo types, new swimming mechanic, new machines, and the ability to fly, not to mention the visual enhancements and vastly improved cutscenes. I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea but i don’t agree that it’s just more of the same.
Forbidden West was a solid 9/10 for me. I loved it.
Revamped melee combat system? It literally was the same as the first game. Sure there was that skill tree thing, but that’s not “revamping the system.”
Personally I thought the game was very pretty, but I thought the story was bland and Aloy is a boring character compared to Aloy in Zero Dawn. Now the DLC was a major step up, especially that final boss.
I agree.
@@53knightsthe melee pits in forbidden west prove that the melee combat with the spear is completely different. Tons of different combos you can pull off, ways to energize the spear for heavier attacks etc There was literally a light and a heavy attack in Zero Dawn and that’s it. Much more developed. Not that I used the spear that much.
Yeah for sure, it was a 9/10 for me.
Hey Gameranx can you please change the background colour of the number countdown so that I dont get flashbanged everytime I watch your videos at night?
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As someone obsessed with history and sociology, Greedfall is INCREDIBLY GOOD, since it approaches colonization in the game development and seeing the references they chose for the different nations (Sailors are portuugese, the main empire is french, the inquisitors are spanish, the scientists are Arab) is just precious. Loved it with all my heart, I could easily go through the not so great dialogues, lackluster cutscenes and janky combat. Just because the story and the universe is so freaking good.
I totally agree. I recognize it's janky, but I just loved it. The story and setting were so interesting.
Definitely agree. I love Greedfall and can’t wait for the sequel
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how does the sequel seem to you, from the trailers ? I am afraid its too much focused on turned based combat and looks like a MMO imo.I guess we ll see
The beauty of Greed fall is in its immersion
I'm a little surprised Mad Max didn't make the list. Not one of the best or worse games by any means, but a score of 7/10 seems to be about the right range for it.
I was expecting it, but I think it's established Gameranx cannon now.
Jake probably fought to keep it off this list. He's admittedly biased in mad Max's favor
I absolutely loved that game and in my heart its a 10/10
@@carboodle610 completely agree. Awesome open world, gameplay was a lot of fun and a solid story.
I just bought mad max for ps4 pro. Haven't played it yet, heard both good and bad, but heard it was really fun
Far Cry 6 is one of my friendsgroup guilty pleasures... we played this thing for months. I recently replayed it solo on the highest difficulty and enjoyed it very much
I feel like far cry 6 got way too much hate.
Am I tripping, but why does everybody perceive 7/10 as "mid"? It's literally 2 points above 5 (the literal middle point out of 10) which makes 7 a GOOD score.
Same reason 4 out of 5 stars on ebay is considered a negative score: People not understanding how math works.
It’s Gen Z bs. Gen Z is incapable of understanding nuance and only are capable of thinking between two extreme binary choices. It’s similar to how they call anybody over 30 a “boomer” because they think “boomer” equals “old”, when that’s not the case (just because it happens to be true doesn’t make it the reason, another thing Gen-Z seems to have difficulty understanding).
It's adjusted based on the overall mean score. We get quite few 5/10 (average) or lower games and on the other side of the spectrum, even fewer games that are actual 10/10 masterpieces.
So whatever sits in between is good, or in other words 'mid'. That's just how it works.
That's not how it works in rating, what your thinking about is math, 7/10 is mediocre, a good game is 8, 9 is a fantastic game, 10 is a perfect game, try to work under any customer service company and make customer give you a 5 or 6, that's a failing score /mediocre service in your manager eyes
Fan is short for fanatic and sites like IGN has made a "7" a mid score.
While I do agree that the Forbidden West has quite a few issues like story and tedious crafting/upgrading mechanics, 5:09 you are definitely not "whacking the same machines". Must have easily spent over 300 hours in forbidden west, because the number of improvements it brought over zero dawn was astounding. If anything I would easily give it an 8.5/10
The quality of life improvements are great and I did multiple playthroughs on the PS5 and one or two on the PC. Definitely my favorite game since Ghost of Tsushima.
Sure, the machines look different, but fighting them is always the same. Switch to right ammo type, shoot weak point until it goes down, do some melee attacks to finish it. The fights are too much the same to keep it interesting for me
Favourite game ever for me deffo 10/10
He forgot the most important addition, machine strike. It wasn't as addicting as gwent but man did I love it.
Forbidden west to me is what you want in a sequel. The same but improved. The combat was better, map bigger with more diverse environments. The massive improvement was the climbing, went from the yellow paint to a breath of the wild climb everywhere system. The story was weaker imo but the characters were much better written. And horizon gets points for me because it has some of the most unique worldbuilding in the last 2 decades.
@@imALazyPanda Yes! The datapoints are quite interesting
Just seeing someone mention Kena Bridge of Spirits is awesome. I thought it was a fun game early in the ps5 launch year. Also really good difficulty on higher levels.
Really a gem of a game, wish more people checked it out
I think it is a hugely underrated game. I think its more in the 8.5-9 range but I feel it at the very least deserves an 8
It’s a sleeper
Played it on original PS4 hardware and it struggled hard... finally got a new PC and not only is it awesome, but gorgeous too. Really great.
Heavily agree. It was super fun. It was gorgeous too. They’re definitely right about it feeling a little clunky, but it didn’t detract from the overall feeling of the game, for me
Kena and Forbidden west are two games I genuinely loved playing. Horizon might be one of my all time faves
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You just talked me into playing Kena.
Oh, I didn’t even realize Outer Worlds was a 7. I loved that game.
I am still trying to understand how that game could be a 7/10 and not a 12/10.
It was pretty meh
If you enjoyed it thats what counts.
So much more enjoyable than Starfield
@@shannonhall9814starfield combat is actually pretty clean. Most of the other stuff is comparable, with starfield obv winning length and vfx categories.
What are you guys talking about? Callisto protocol was great and for me the best part was the combat. It was grounded, close and sweaty. It was fun.
Glad to see The Callisto Protocol make it in a positive list, however flawed it was 😁
You and me both!
still need to try it
Its a fun game if you can ignore how repetitive it got
@@Matt-md5yt definitely worth it on sale, with the DLC. There's also a 6 episode prequel podcast series starring Gwendoline Christie and Michael Ironside that really sets the tone, called Helix Station.
Anyone that wants the Dead Space experience in Calisto Protocol play it on Disememberment mode
Finally got round to playing Kena recently and it's a good fit for this list. It's fun and it's charming as hell. I tend to remember the overall enjoyment I got while playing it, rather than specific moments standing out in my memory.
I would’ve swapped Far Cry 6 for Far Cry Primal. I slept on that game so long, but once I played it I was amazed how much fun I had bashing things with just a giant club
Primal is so much better than 6. FC6 made so many game breakingly bad changes to the formula (removal of perk tree for clothes, ammo types, infinitely respawning enemies, breaking silencers, dumbing down of difficulty) without making the game feel fresh.
Worst of both: felt boringly familiar, yet different but only for the worse
Primal was awesome. Its the best of the far cry games as far as I'm concerned. The setting was just amazing and being able to tame all those prehistoric creatures was tons of fun. Hell, you could ride on Smilodons, Cave Bears and Mammoths. That game is no mediocre 7/10. It's an 8.5/10 in my book. I absolutely enjoyed it.
I've been meaning to get into that one. I've played most of the others, but I didn't think I'd be very into a Flintstones FarCry. I'll probably get it sometime soon.
Far cry 6 is the worst one
@@LordYggdrasill it's totally worth it. Note that the start is a little slow. Like normal for the FC series, but particularly slow as it really gets going once you start picking up on some key abilities. But the stealth is top notch. Some of the best base gameplay loops since it's so melee-heavy
the callisto protocol is actually better than people say it is, i think the problem was the "by the creator of dead space" attachment which made everybody expect another dead space but as a standalone not compared to anything type game it is a pretty decent game. i agree with the horizon take, a good solid sequel, a few additions here and there, better melee combat, more weapons/ammo types, new machines, underwater exploration, flying (which should have been a thing earlier in zero dawn tbh) bigger scale, more lore stuff, tribes (regular world building shenanigans) but all in all just more zero dawn which isn't bad at all tbh, actually platinumed lol
Kena was one of my fave games played in the past year. I wish it was longer with more content directed at the story instead of the end game "skill tests" for achievements. For me though, it's simplicity and more forgiving Souls like game play are why I enjoyed it. It was just a relaxing fun game with rich environments and ideas.
True!!
The game was a masterpiece, it was one of the most unique games I've ever played and even the challanges were super fun!!
The village leader trial on the highest difficulty in Kena is harder than anything Sekiro or Soulslikes throw at you. It was insane.
I'm currently playing Rage 2 on gamepass while I wait for indiana Jones and so happy I gave it a chance. I get how many might find it boring, but I absolutely love checking things off a list in an open world. Fun as hell gunplay too.
Eh think they went too hard on being goofy and the open world part of it seemed rushed. First one felt a lot better.
Rage 2 was so much fun. I'm glad I picked that up and played it.
Rage 2 needs to be played on Hard. It makes it a power trip with a challenge.
It wasn't boring there is just not much to it. It has like 10 main missions and that's it. The rest is mindless copy & paste open world objectives. The gunplay is incredible, though.
Very reminescent of Borderlands,esp 1
This list really hits it stride at Number 7
As soon as I saw Callisto Protocol, i knew this was going to be a respectable list. My ultimate 7/10. If the game came out during the PS2 era, it would’ve gotten a bigger and badder sequel with no issue, despite all its flaws
Took me a couple hours of going "meh" in Avatar until I started liking it. And then it turned out to be surprisingly fun and I enjoyed it! Beautiful graphics too
Callisto was probably my favorite 7/10. I played it for Halloween, and I really loved the sound design and atmosphere
Game was unplayable at launch for me on ps4pro and I will not forgive them
@ I totally get all the hate this game gets. I ran into a couple of bugs, and the frame rate dropped in a couple places, but I think they patched most of the issues. I played it on my base ps4, it ran fine for the most part
I went into Kena: Bridge of Spirits pretty blind and I ended up loving it. It has amazing art, fun gameplay and a few challenging bosses. Highly recommend.
I'd throw both prototype games in there. especially the first one was awesome for the amount of combos you could pull off
Absolutely power fantasy for those who just want to feel like a BA and go to town on everyone. I remember either IGN or GameSpot complaining saying they “made the player too powerful” and so gave it a bad review… which was the whole point of the game. So when P2 came out, they didn’t get sent a review copy and complained 😂
I loved Prototype, but I think it was overshadowed by Infamous at the time & seen as the poorer of the two, but I enjoyed both.
@@joet6434 thats true. ina tually never olayed Infamous i just dug the 'virus Monster slaughter sandbox' over 'lightningdude that can glide'
I REALLY enjoyed the 1st one!!!
I believe P2 doubles down on the power fantasy aspect because the utterly ridiculous feats you can do in that game.
Killing and eating the brains of humanoid kaiju whose fist is a size of a building?
sign me the f up.
Callisto was fun as hell, it gets way more hate than it should. I loved it!
I platinumed GreedFall and the best way to enjoy it is by going through technical skill tree. Have fun with playing traps.
I really hope we get more games like Kena: Bridge of Spirits (number 5 ) or even a sequel. For a first game from a studio, it was incredibly well-made and charming! The main story takes about 10 hours to complete, or around 20 hours if you aim for 100% completion. I played it when it first came out, finished it ( actually played it twice, it has New Game+ mode) and now I’m eagerly hoping for more!
Look, i'm not ashamed to say I've returned to Callisto Protocol for subsequent playthroughs. I REALLY like the first 2/3rds of this game. They were onto something with that setting. We need more Riddick/Callisto/Suffering prison settings in games. Funnily enough, in hindisight, it does melee/gun combat is way better than Silent Hill 2 Remake, which you could argue wasn't the point of the game, but still.
Couldn't agree more. It was actually a very good game. And if anything was a little short.
But the gun/melee play was better than a lot of 10/10 games
I never could understand all the hate. The dodge system got a little boring though and the story was short that’s the only thing I didn’t like.
I loved outer worlds, it was an amazing balance of options and rails. I don't want the game to take 600 hours to finish a play through, I am more happy with a 20 or 30 hour first playthrough then like 12-14 hour replay playthroughs to try everything and all options. So many games like it I just will never play/start because its overwhelming before you even install the game lol either because lore from previous games, people/publishers hype, the studio only making games X way and so on.
As for my hot take game everyone should have played, mass effect andromeda. I had a great time playing that game.
I will say about Ghostwire Tokyo is that it had a big update many months back that added more content new powers and more enemies which made the game a lot better. I'm not sure if Gameranx is going off their initial review or if they tried the new update stuff. It's a great game either way. I'd say get it on deal for $20-$30.
especially cause its a real place its more eerie because of that, i thought i wont like this game but it grown on me
It's funny, I was just talking about something similar. "I'd rather play a dozen 7/10 games, then consistently replay 2 or 3 9.5/10 games".
This was in reference to how I was enjoying playing Enotria (a 7/10 game), then I was, playing Elden Ring on ng+.
I'm actively playing 33 different games, across different systems. I enjoy fresh experiences, different mechanics, different genres. And I'm happier with this method, then I ever would be replying any modern Fromsoft game, or Skyrim, or whatever other great game.
Anyways, thank you gameranx, for talking about this topic! It's bizarre to me, how obsessive people get over one game, or series, when there's dozens of other fun and interesting 6, 7, or 8/10 games to play.
I played Frontiers of Pandora with my brother. We quite enjoyed it. It is just Far Cry but it's fun and we're big Avatar fans.
Same, I thought Massive did a great job flushing out Pandora.
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That's such a good idea for a list. So many great games are ignored simply because they are not 'masterpieces' but they are still tons of fun to play.
Far Cry 6 is such a surprise, feels like playing far cry 3 again
There’s something to be said about “innovation” and pushing the frontiers with sequels. I love far cry. I want more far cry. It’s stupid fun, and as long as Ubisoft gives me a new story and works out the niggles from the previous game, I’m happy.
The times where they have gone and tried to bring something new are the times I’ve hated the franchise the most.
Innovation isn’t always what’s needed or wanted
Finally a list where Far Cry 6 gets some love. Very underrated game.
It does seem to get overlooked :)
Other controversial 7/10:
Ghost of Tsushima
FF7 Rebirth
Thank you for giving Kena bridge of spirits some love! Despite its flaws it’s one of my all time favorites. So much emotion in the story, beautiful scenery, and almost souls level difficulty when you play on Master level.
Yeah lot of love for that one! :)
The school part in Ghostwire was so epic. I wish they could have leaned more into that.
It definitely was. I believe it was a part of the DLC, right? So unfortunately it was one of those instances where they learned the valuable lesson after main development was complete and game release. Fan feedback.
Another good example from this list of the same thing is The Outer Worlds and the Gorgon DLC.
What’s on your radar to play in 2025?
Kena Bridge of Spirits had some bosses that were more frustrating for me than any soulsborne boss. And that was on Normal. I still enjoyed the game, but egads...
Fun Fact: There was a way to cheese the last boss, which people loved and used to actually beat the game on hard. Then the devs patched it out. Despite that blessed period of time, the percentage for the trophy beating it on hard is incredibly low and only getting lower. 🎉
Avatar Frontiers of Pandora is easily one of the technically best looking games of all time. The amount of detail in the ground cover and vegetation is mind blowing. So underrated.
@BadManiac gameplay is so boring though.
I actually really liked the Callisto protocol, surprisingly good atmosphere and i actually found the combat fun. I do absolutely hate how they handle the save system, though.
What games are you looking forward to playing in 2025?
Great work as always gameranx
Thanks again!
5:34 Thank you. We have literally 10 numbers on the scale... but everything is 6-10
6-Bad
7-Okay
8-Good
9-Great
10- Near perfect
Should be
1-3 Bad
4-5 Okay
6-7 Good
8-9 Great
10 PERFECT
Agree about Starfield. The faction quests were fun, the cities looked good, the first play through was fine, but the lacklustre planet exploration and the shallow character building just killed it for me in the end. Haven’t bothered with Shattered Space.
Callisto Protocol is legit awesome. if you can get it running well and looking good, you are in for a great time overall
Play Kena: Bridge of Spirits on the hardest difficulty and you won't think it is so forgiving :P Good but slightly flawed game though. Definitely excited to see where the studio goes from here.
“You can spear dudes hardcore” that hit a little different haha
Kena Bridge of Spirits is so good. It helped keep my mind off of things while I was going through a tough time in my last relationship. I really would love a second game.
Yeah maybe we’ll see a sequel!
I really enjoyed The Calisto Protocol, but it can be very frustrating to play. Had they allowed for more freedom in the combat and featured a normal dodge mechanic, it would be an 8/10.
Man as someone who doesn’t have access to internet at home and preordered it for ps4pro I had a horrible time it was unplayable worse than cyberpunk and I never picked it back up when a game is released it should be ready to go not some 60 gig day one patch that actually makes the game playable that was the last straw when it came to preordereds for me
Man, I loved outer worlds. Maybe it was just the smaller scale, but I enjoyed it more than most Bethesda games I've played.
Calisto Protocol ruuuuuuuuuuules!
I disagree it was unplayable for me day one on ps4 pro and I can’t forgive them
@@Stinkmean ugh, I hear you, that sucks. Playing it like a year or two later on PS5 for me was a cool experience.
I really liked the setting of Far Cry 6 and I generally don't dislike the Ubisoft formula. That said, I have to say that game is broken by concept. Instant respawn of enemies the moment you turn away. Enemies who exactly know where you are even if they never saw you. That makes stealth gameplay quite useless. And when you take over a certain number of areas, enemies only will get stronger. Maybe that is fixed by now, but actually I don't care anymore. Won't play that game again 😢
Yeah, generally like FC games at least for 1 play through. But FC6 really disincentivized stealth, totally changing the dynamics of how you play a FC game.
I would add Immortals Fenyx Rising and Dead Island 2 if this list had 12 spots.
Fenyx deserved more love
I'm currently playing through Dead Island 2 and I'm surprised at how much I love it, I can't put it down. I thought it would get repetitive but it's constantly throwing more weapons and abilities and enemy types at you. It feels like an old-school game-ass game in the best way.
As a fellow 7/10 I agree with this list. I will say though since i played far cry 6 somewhat recently with a friend, you can actually switch ammo types on the fly, i thnk you aim down sight and hit k or L until you get the one you want. Still not as clean but at least you can roll with what weapon you want. Honestly just ran through the game with 3 armor piercing and 1 rpg for vehicles.
You say "obviously Horizon is better than Greedfall", but I don't agree with that at all, personally. I thought they did a fantastic job with Greedfall. Absolutely loved it.
Yo, same. Anecdotally all of my friends and have played both games and none are a "fan" of Horizon. But everyone of them agrees Greedfall is fantastic.
Farcry 6 was my first farcry game and I really enjoyed it ❤
Did you go back and play the others?
@gameranxTV I've tried a couple but they didn't really grab me for some reason
Ah yes, Now this is the Battle of Mid.
Mid is 5 on a 1-10 scale. 7 is usually good, not great.
Learn what mid means.
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Pretty sure he’s joking guys 😂 Gameranx has talked about how it’s odd there are people that think mid = bad, and that 7/10 = not good. The irony is that the people that think this way are more than likely below average humans 😂
7/10 is not mid lol
As someone who is a huge Avatar fan I was hesitant to get the game but grabbed it a few months ago when it went on sale..and I love it already over 200+ hrs and grabbed all the DLC. What kinda really sold it for me on how good the combat felt was I was able to learn stealth and I went into Horizon after my first play through and the shooting a bow felt....almost clunky compared to the Avatar now I am not sure if there is an auto aim or some mechanic that makes it feel so smooth and natural with some of the other movements. Yes it definitely has its flaws but as my friend and I aren't a fan of the Far Cry story lines having a game like this gave us a chance to enjoy the mechanic without dealing with some of the more questionable aspects of other story lines...I wish Ubisoft had promoted it more but it does seem like its picked up traction since there has been a hint of a second game or even more DLC....so maybe they realize there is a crowd for it and will give whatever they do next with the ip some more love and attention.
The Forbidden West DLC was awesome. The game itself picks up immediately after the first. So it would be weird to have this insane jump over the first one. Kena is a solid 10 in my book.
Just cause feels like a good game for this list. It's not great, but certain aspects of it can be a lot of fun. The stories kind of suck but just messing around is great
It would be cool to see a similar list but for games of last generation,5, 10,20 years ago. A bit of a retrospective
or for different genres, 9/10 of the games listed are 3D action shooters :/
FIRST TIME i have EVER heard an honest review about Outer Worlds!!! FINALLY!!!
Farcry 6 was the first farcry game I’ve ever played and I loved it so much. I was gonna work my way backwards and go to 5 & new dawn, then 4, 3, etc. what do you think was the best in the series that I should jump to first?
Honorable mention to Rise of the Ronin. A little outdated, unfocused, but with a lot of heart and super fun.
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Rise of the Ronin is my personal GOTY. It's my favorite combat system of all time.
Personal opinion, the outer worlds is more like a 9/10 for me, but obviously subjective. Kind of same page i am with the rest. Good list, keep up the good work lads. 👏
Horizon: Forbidden West is 10 out 10 game for me! it's perfect. I have no a single idea why dose people give it 7.
Hey we’re glad you love that one! What games are you looking forward to most in 2025?
Everyone needs to stop acting like a 7 is just ok... It leaves no room for distiction between games that are just good and games that are amazing but not masterpieces. Ratings should go;
5: good
6:Pretty Good
7: Great
8: Amazing
9: Verging on Masterpiece
10: Masterpiece
Played Rage 2 when it came out and always thought it was a hidden gem. Lots of stuff wrong with it but it was a fun ass game. The abilities were fun to mess with.
I agree on Horizon. It is a 7 in my books too.
Avatar is definitely great. I think Ubisoft messes up when they make massive amazing worlds but then have very little that you can interact with. Not like it has to be a full RPG but worlds like cyberpunk feel so good to walk around in because you feel like you are apart of it as opposed to being an observer
"Apart" means separate from "a part" means some of
ehhh maybe cyberpunk is not the best example, felt pretty lifeless. I would say TW3s open world was better
@@chivasroco1752 alright. I don't agree but I see what you mean I think. You can interact with more things in cyberpunk I think though, even if it's a lot of vending machines and junk on the ground that you can pick up. It just felt like I could touch more if that makes any sense
@chivasroco1752 I thought it felt lived in.
@@ImDefNotFamous can't really say how it is now, but when I played it at release I thought it was really bad. At the time you had the vending machines and the occasional NPC to interact with, while in TW3 you had different shops, taverns and more varied environments were different things were happening.
I’m playing Frontiers of Pandora now because of the holiday sale and I’m really loving the world. Story and writing is fine but they created an incredible version of Pandora!
Great list! I’ll get slack for this but go big or go home. Games like Kena Bridge of Spirits gets a 7/10 for having a heartfelt story that is charming and beautiful but lackluster gameplay while Last of Us has a story we’ve seen a million times in media and underwhelming gameplay is a goat…for some reason.
Couldnt agree more with Horizon 2 being a 7/10. Also the first game was a 7/10 but kids these days are a bit hyper excitable with their 4090s and what not.
been playing some farcry 6 recently and is a good comfort game at this moment. Very casual and the exploration is fun. Sometimes is just fun to fly on your buggie and take some bad guys once in a while to distress without having to try
i love these passive aggressive vids 😅 like yeah, only a weirdo would get mad at a 7/10 and think that it’s a bad rating
Maybe a hot take but what ruins Horizon for me is how the ammo/crafting works. I’m someone who will never use any limited item in fear that I’ll need it later, so I end up just using the standard arrows almost exclusively. If they made all ammo function on cooldowns or something similar it’d probably be one of my favorite games.
Agreed, and maybe slightly lower prerequisites to upgrade gear. The grind to upgrade legendary gear kinda got to me. If you naturally got the items through side quests, that would be better. Instead, I'm fast traveling between Slitherfang locations hoping it will drop the parts I need. It also feels like the removable parts disappear, but it could be I just can't find them.
I LOVE Forbidden West, but when I went on to other games with simplified/streamlined crafting and upgrading, I realized that was one aspect of the Horizon games that felt overburdened to me. Still love the games, but, yeah. Oof.
God I love mid video games. Gotta shout out the 7/10 (and lower) games of the past. Share the love.
DarkSector, Ghostbusters 2009, Kane & Lynch 1 and 2, Damnation, Prince of Persia 2008, Prince of Persia The Forgotten Sands, Inversion, Mini Ninjas, Enslaved Odyssey to the West, Binary Domain, NeverDead, Dead to Rights Retribution, Wanted Weapons of Fate, BRINK WAS OVERHATED
Thought I was the only one who remember Enslaved Odyssey to the West. That game was pretty cool
Forbidden west as a 7/10 is just criminal😂
Avatar Frontiers of Pandora is a lot of fun! I love playing it on my Ally X!
I enjoyed Greedfall way more than Horizon Forbidden West. Sadly. So I actually agree.
People just need to think about what 7/10 means.
I really liked the avatar game just thought it was too short
Yeah, you got me to engage in the comments, but calling Horizon Forbidden West a 7/10 is downright disrespectful. It's like me calling Zelda Tears of the Kingdom a 7/10 because I find it boring. I do, but.. it's not a 7/10. Nor is Horizon, arguably one of the most "triple A" games on the market from a quality standpoint
Horizon's sequel has some amazing things, like paragliding, or flying on the bird, but it is still 7 I agree, something missing in the story part, I had a higher expectation and I bought it at full price, but after a couple of hours I wasn't excited about story and just finished it only because I paid for it. I found the FarCry 6 setting interesting, but there was just a few cutscenes with the villian, which was painfully less.
I'm only upset Forbidden West is considered a 7/10 because I give it a 9/10. My biggest problem with it was that I had to adapt to the changes in combat, and once I did that, none of my other problems with it were worth mentioning, let alone dropping points for by themselves. The one point is a drop for all problems combined.
Though I'm a fan of the game too, it really just boils down fetch quest and it gets tiring.
@bena5150 i still love the gameplay loops.
My biggest issue was the story but I'd give the game an 8.5.
I actually loved calisto the only downside to that game was it needed more enemy variety but the melee to me was fun idk why people dont like it
Any games you think should have been featured in this list?
Days gone , evil with in 2
Are really underrated game
Days Gone has too many highs and top tier first party designs (which too many people carelessly overlook) to realistically be a 7/10. And going off the widely common occurrence of this game showing up in people's top zombie game list, a lot of people would agree.
*I'm* playing Avatar still. It is a solid game. I like the story sometimes but it does offer a reasonable excuse to keep playing. But if I put it down for a while I inevitably start thinking about it again and want to pick it back up. I'm surprisingly impressed.
Now the opposite: 10 Worst 7/10 Games You NEED TO AVOID
I'd say that you're right with ditching the numbered review scores. Sites like IGN are incredibly confusing metrics wise these days as they have so many reviewers with quite polarised opinions compared to each other.
As a fan of the first Horizon game, Forbidden West was exactly what I was hoping for, more of the same thing. All I wanted was more machines and more tools. The crafting was not an issue for me. Farming materials just meant more combat and that's where all the fun is. It's an 8/10 at the least imo.
I did like Outer Worlds. It was a game that had a decent system and was done well. I did like it wasn't super long and didn't overstayed its welcome but at the same time needed a little more. I was very happy to have played it, especially on the Game Pass. It did feel like it could have been the first in a series with the second game taking it to where it needed to be.
Horizon Forbidden West is a clear 8
Metacritic and opencritic 88 Users 80, and Game of the year contender in 2022.
For me Far Cry 6, Outer Worlds and Horizon Forbidden West are 8/10. They just fall off near the ending to a 7/10. A lot of 8/10 games have highs that are like 8.5 or 9.0 and they also have lows that are like 7.0 or 6.5. Like Spiderman 2 was a 9 that has highs of 9.5 but damn it has some lowpoints that feel like 7.5.
Starfield feels like a sub-par sci-fi tv show that gets canceled after the first season.
I can add remnant2, mortal shell, some yakuza and assassin creeds games in that list
Basically you can pick all these games 60-80% in the upcoming Xmas sales - holiday gaming sorted 👍🏻
I feel you hard for frontiers of Pandora. I really enjoyed living in that world and it was a really fun time!