My Favorite Moments Of Gaming In 2024

[@Nxtlvlcontent]

Rogue Trader being in great shape now, Space Marine 2, STALKER 2, finally getting into BG3, and with how good PoE2 I feel like I haven’t felt this happy as a gamer in a while

[@timmurray2945]

With you on BG3. Bought it last year to play over the holidays. Couldn't get into the combat. Tried it again recently and now have 80hrs+ invested. Still haven't finished Act 3. Loving it

[@dangeroushandles]

Get the UI and storage management mods if you haven't already. Saves so much time.

[@Dracobyte]

Also Metaphor Re Fantazio and FF 7 Rebirth being great games, as well as Silent Hill 2 beating all expectations.

[@briankelly1240]

What changed with the combat that got you into it? ​@@timmurray2945

[@lucien4980]

All tits no brakes

[@davidb3800]

I played Disco Elysium early this year. Being intentionally vague, but best moment easily the big finale. I thought I had failed the earlier search mission so I was blown away. Really special experience to have at 4am after gaming through the entirity of one of my very few free days.

[@Onionbaron]

I saw @BringitDon playthrough of Disco Elysium and that was like watching a Grimm story, so awesome!

[@magicgiskard3276]

I've also played Disco Elysium this year and it is easily the best written game I've ever played

[@GianinaoBoss]

same for me, I was speechless the last 30 minutes of the game, not just that, the part that we talk with the communist and we see the nsulindian phasmid at the end was just... magical.... and i forget the tribunal part, bro this was insane tense, one of the few times i got so hyped that i almost passed out in a game XD top 5 game of all time for me

[@SuperLocrian]

On my list for 2025👍

[@rodrigocavazzani9382]

For me, the single best moment of the year was writing a poem as Jin Sakai, alongside his Uncle, while leaves were falling and the sun was setting.

[@SuperLocrian]

Had to take a few days away, hand injury. I'll drop two quick: Played New Vegas and Prey for the first time this year. The entire opening of Old World Blues ingrained an indelible imprint on my brain and a permanent smile on my face - Top-Notch Writing! There are too many great moments in the terrifying first run of Prey, but I will NEVER forget my first encounter with a Poltergeist: crouched, scared, sneaking around the corner into a large room when the music stab hit, and chairs and tables started levitating😲and I put it in reverse and "noped" my way back out! Glad I found your channel this year! Thank you!

[@loonyman83]

Playing Wrath of the Righteous for the first time this year is definitely a highlight of mine. As well as experiencing the final act of Dragon Age The Veilguard. You can say what you want to about the game as a whole, but that last act when you do your final assault on the Elven Gods is super good and entertaining with a satisfying finish (at least for me).

[@kkech1]

You're my favorite moment in gaming, bro ❤

[@cmmosher8035]

I am just about to complete my big gaming moment. I played all of thd mass effect game and the first one multiple times however i never played the dlcs and i played 3 at launch so i never even saw their updated ending. I bought the LE when it came out but soon afterwards i got so sick i was off work for over 2 years. So gear i am, near the end and i just completed the Citadel DLC last night. I am about to go for the point of no return. So excited that i am finally about to complete a full playthrough.

[@armelior4610]

What is cool with the DLC is if you don't like the ending you can pretend Citadel is the real one

[@nibbz2751]

Happy Holidays, Mort! Happy to have found your channel. Enjoy your vids!

[@d1MnZz]

your channel is among my favorite gaming-related things in 2024 for sure, thank you for your videos!

[@dermotlouchart191]

I finished my True Aeon run of Wrath of the Righteous a few days ago and I’ve been thinking about it since. What a brilliant game and what a brilliantly bittersweet ending.

[@Syoung1200]

The king's funeral in Metaphor, finishing up some of the ultimate raids in FF14, the new routes in Slay the Princess, and going through Still Wakes the Deep as kind of a scary movie night with friends on discord were some of my favorites. On a technical side the various improvements games have made to darker skin tones and different hair styles like in Dragon's Dogma 2 and Veilguard have been really great to see.

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

FF 7 Rebirth was also great!

[@xs10shul]

Legitimately, my favorite gaming this year was firing up Red Dead Redemption 1 and seeing old friends. It's more arcade-y than RDR2, but I there's a charm to racing about on your horse without worrying that an errant tree will send you flying. Undead Nightmare is also so much fun to play, with the silliness and moody atmosphere.

[@ITCamefromthePage]

This is awesome! I love this format for a video.

[@Blasted2Oblivion]

Probably my favorite moment was in Destiny 2. You defeat the witness and you get a beautiful view of the Traveler with your fireteam. I had been playing Destiny since the D1 beta and having the screenshot of me with the fireteam I had been with since those days after defeating the game's primary antagonist was a beautiful bookend for a game that was a part of my life for so long.

[@paolo2696]

Silent Hill 2 Remake. It captures the spirit of the original and genuinely unsettling to play. Loved it!

[@DaxterKing]

Love your channel, keep it up! Merry Christmas!

[@exiledyoda2351]

Just wanted to say your channel is the one that got me into pathfinder and I personally love it more than baldurs gate 3. Love your videos and guides, will be using them when I do all the mythic paths

[@venelinstoyanov2300]

- A certain crpg companion making a genestealer salad while jumping around and yelling "let not the righteous fear, may their blades be sharp" (the delivery of the quote in this case even better than what it says). - The whole Void Shadows actually, not just the above - The "banner moment" from Space Marine 2 - Realizing that siding with Aeldys turned out to be my favorite ending faction-wise in Deadfire :D

[@guyinapandasuit2691]

Playing Rogue Trader after Void Shadows came out sorta robbed me of how impressive the DLC is on its own. Not that I don't love it, but not knowing what was and wasn't DLC at first kind of took some of the impressiveness out of it for me. I started my MC as a Blade Dancer and haven't enjoyed a class that much since Baldurs Gate haha. My most memorable gaming moment from this year is Hard to decide. I'd also argue my answer would change if I played a couple other games. But the first thing that comes to mind is Black Myth Wukong, the King Beatle fight, with the Sage playing the Drums. I've played a lot of souls likes and seeing a Boss Sized NPC hop in to help tag team an already gargantuan Boss was insane. I was so hyped. The true Final fight for Wukong was way cooler in my opinion, but the Beatle fight was so awesome out of nowhere, I'll give it to that moment. I want to give a shout-out to Rogue Trader as a whole. I started it this year, but there are several moments in just the first couple acts that leave me speechless. There are multiple moments that could content for most memorable this year just from that game alone. See, it's very hard for me to choose just one haha.

[@ChattGM]

Playing Pathfinder Kingmaker for the first time and completing Vordakai's Tomb on my first try. I went into that dungeon not prepared at all and my camping supplies was less than ideal so I had to be very conservative when it was time to rest to replenish spells and health. When I reached the end to face off against Vordakai I didn't think I had any chance in defeating him but when I did boy did I feel this sense of satisfaction and accomplishment.

[@goldfish1837]

Pacifique Drive & PoE were the only " new games " I've played this year. Both were really good. Aside of that I'm just playing and completing my backlog. Some highlights this year -The Systemschock remake -Assasins creed Unity ( The city is unbelievable and if you can speak french I highly recommend the french dub) -The Forgotten City -Elden Ring ( Base Game)

[@mattlee4618]

happy holidays mort thanks for teaching me how to play BG1-2 and WOTR

[@dr_ubo]

Hard for me to tell what was my best gaming moment this year. On one hand there Elden Ring’s SotE and beating Promised Consort Radhan by myself without any crutches. This year I decided to really nail my backlog and I’ve played some gems like Wizorb and Virtua Unlimited Project which I’m happy for. I’ve also really started enjoying cRPGs this year thanks to DOS2.

[@emceeunderdogrising]

Poe2 might be my favorite game so far this year. Beating bosses feels amazing.

[@Notsram77]

It's been fun... But the bosses feel a little anticlimactic to beat. I feel like the rewards could use a little tuning (at least in act 1)

[@redikalJ]

For me, CRPGs have never hit it for me. But giving baldurs gate 3 a 2nd chance. Boy, it’s like my 3rd favourite game this year. It could go further up after my first play-through. Its awoken me to whole genre i haven’t bothered with. I love it. ❤

[@Zettern96]

Just yesterday I finally finished Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous after 1100 hours, I have a problem in RPGs were I keep restarting when I get a new character idea. It was funny that on daring The Echo and Areelu were super easy (Arushale killed Areelu in one round of attacks from full health) while the galu strormcallers were far more annoying.

[@Raganui]

Ah yes, Alt-itis is a terrible disease that many people suffer from.

[@gameharmony8775]

I played back through Assassin’s Creed Black Flag for the first time since my initial playthrough about a decade ago. A phenomenal game with an incredible story and something that brought me back to that era of my life in the best way.

[@theviniso]

Probably still the last relevant Assassin's Creed game.

[@spacesloth9529]

Spent the first half of the year playing through Elden Ring for the millionth time to prepare for the dlc and then proceeded to play through the dlc twice before getting burnt out. I ended with like 2000 hours in that game total. After that it was rise of the ronin, astro bot, black myth wukong, all amazing games. Then, a huge surprise to me, I ended up putting 400+ hours into space marine 2. I got really addicted to the operations mode. I did not expect to be playing that game 2 months after launch. Finally got burnt out on SM2 and decided to replay Remnant: FTA and put 100 hours into that. Didn't realize how much of that game I didn't get to see on my first playthrough. Currently playing through Remnant 2 for the first time and I'm having an absolute blast. It's so good. Over all it was a very good year. I don't play a lot of games right as they're coming out but the new and old games I played this year were an absolute blast.

[@undeadamerican1107]

Your WOTR Lore video was amazing. I've run the tabletop module it's based on many times in a variety of systems (PF1, PF2, 5E) and it never goes exactly as expected, but I've directed my players to your video after they've finished the campaign. Owlcat's version of the story is superior to the original and your lore walkthrough is the only place were it is all summarized in one place!

[@Dream-Reaver]

What made Oblivion unique compared to other games is that you’re not the hero. You’re the guy who helps Martin so that he can defeat mehrunes dagon and save the world.

[@tombooker2679]

I love these videos, thank you.

[@diederickkastner]

It was the last boss of the Void Shadows DLC for me. Owlcat did an amazing thing, we probably will never see for a long time in 40k.

[@Ser_Godric]

This year was the year of Fromsoft for me. Elden ring was my first Fromsoftware game and is now one of my all time favorites. So I finally decided to play the Dark Souls Trilogy, Bloodborne and Sekiro. Some amazing games. I was always afraid to play these games because I thought they would be too hard but now they are up there among the best games I’ve ever played. It sounds silly but I feel like I really accomplished something important (to me at least). I love these games!

[@TimSedai]

*I played RE4 in vr, and it was wild. *Credits rolling in Metaphor Re Fantasio were quite satisfying. *The entirety of the DQ3 Remake *Finally 100% Slay the Spire after years of off and on rng grind *Getting back into Project Zomboid on a server with friends

[@Dracobyte]

Nice gaming compilation!

[@Nivomandasrail]

I had an unforgettable modded playthrough of Cyberpunk 2077 themed around Thor and the modded Mjolnir hammer. Electric damage, fist fighting, berserk invincibility, and throwing Mjolnir around. I also played Forgive Me Father 1 & 2, did 5 playthroughs of BG3, played both Space Marine games, and next up is Rogue Trader and Boltgun. I also played a 2D platforming game called Neva.

[@clifcorcoran9917]

2024 Favorite KZbin Jazz 🎶

[@bobbybee2975]

Helldivers, Space Marine 2, and Lethal Company were awesome with friends. But the game i played the most recently is Mount & Blade 2 Bannerlord. Got it on sale and its so much more than i expected. Thought it was just a battle sim of sorts but its an RPG with city management too. Story is barebones but the battles and party management is so fun i can't stop playing it.

[@HubertTheMad]

Great list! I enjoyed 2024 releases as a whole, and , 2025 seems like it'll shape up nicely for us gamers as well!

[@nickjanecke6688]

Morrowind is my GOAT for open world games. Nothing else really holds a candle to it in terms of the epic scope, for me personally. Blew my mind the first time I played it, I was in high school 😆

[@Celtic_Canadian]

Finally had to time to replay BG3 with the improved ending, was a fantastic resolution to an amazing game.

[@briankelly1240]

I enjoy a lot of what you cover, but enjoyed the Beta for The Bazaar and Wildfrost have had my favorite gaming moments this year. That, and finally beating BG3 in hardest difficulty!

[@dzill95]

I gotta play another crabs treasure 🦀

[@GUMPritchard]

Sitting on a crane looking over the zone in STALKER 2 was mine. Maybe the prison in Silent Hill 2 as close second

[@odessastepsmag]

When I saw the title,I knew Another Crab’s Treasure would be on the list. 😊

[@AA-ke5bd]

I replayed the Arkham series and did all the side stuff. It felt pretty good and despite what I had in mind it wasn't as imposing at all. Getting the Riddler in Arkham knight felt like a true achievement

[@Dryblas002]

Shadow of the Erdtree for me. Just entering this new DLC area for the first time and seeing how huge and beautiful it is. Realizing that my favourite game of all times just got new incredible content.

[@andrehenderson7820]

Finally got to play veilguard after the 10 year long wait and it felt great to get back into the world of my favorite franchise, also finally started WOTR and even though I’m still in the first act I can tell I’m going to put hundreds of hours into this game

[@bjorksBOSSlevel]

Unicorn Overlord knocked me off my feet. I randomly decided to play it and sunk 90 hours in without even a thought. Holy SHIT what a good game.

[@sass2836]

I love your approach to end of year gaming lists, Mort, it's extremely refreshing. My favorite gaming moments this year were in Veilguard, Metaphor, and Rebirth - plus all of Astro Bot!

[@brendenmacintosh]

My friend lent me his psvr2 so I got to play through Resident Evil 4 remake in vr. It was such a fun and cool experience. Playing through Mario and Luigi Brothership was super fun too, to the point where I’m playing through other entries of the series now.

[@antoniotruong5647]

First attempt at Honor Mode in 2024. I got my golden dice in Baldur's Gate 3 after 196 hours of grinding by fighting anything and everything. One of the best feeling ever but I will never try that again.

[@altairfaltore7261]

Iconoclasts, the ending is gut-wrenching. I would not be surprised if Robin suffers some serious PTSD after the nightmarish experience she went through.

[@briankelly1240]

Interesting, just beat iconoclast last night, guess because of the twists in the story?

[@ilttheDude]

top 5 youtube channel in my eyes.

[@frozenwing123]

Didnt expect to love veilguard as much as I did. I had way too much fun with that game

[@lobsterboy2020]

Dammit how am I 58 seconds late to this

[@alexbayswood4847]

My favorite gaming moments: 2v8 in DBD, DRG season 5, getting through the bugs in Stalker 2, and resisting the urge to play League of Legends despite Arcane.

[@tjtj7161]

FF7 Rebirth was my favorite this year, despite the mini-games starting to become a bit much. After that, I'm having a lot of run with Rogue Trader and the new WoW expansion (although, I put that down). I'm looking forward to the Everquest-like Pantheon Steam release on Friday so I can just chill out in an old-school feeling MMO. I miss that over the OCD stuff we have nowadays.

[@elliotwatson3964]

Started Rouge Trader and bought void shadows, shockingly well implementedd into the base game, thought I was just playing another quest and Kibellah is crazy OP

[@M-yt1zk]

Hi Mort, have thought about looking into caves of qud at some point down the line? Keep up the good work!

[@GianinaoBoss]

First for me was the Tribunal part on Disco Elysium, this is one of the most tense scenes for me of the all games i played, i got goosepumps everytime i remember. Second probaly is beating the final boss of Elden Ring Shadow of Erdtree(DLC), 3 days trying to beat him in ng+3 was a challenge for me that i got so immersive playing this DLC for 5 days nonstop. My third is the comeback to Final Fantasy 14 and playing again the new tier of savage of the new DLC with my old static members, is was so fun finishing the raids, especialy the first raid, i laughed every single wipe. The last for me is playing again the Persona 3, but the remake version, Persona 3 Reload, i just cant hold my tears on the end every single time i play this game, i just love Persona series, especialy Persona 3.

[@bananana5714]

I played all 9 mainline yakuza games this year so all the highlights are from these games for me

[@keeganbate8935]

I have finally beaten rimworld. Might be my greatest gaming accomploshment in 5 years

[@peters6345]

Void shadows was really good, some of the fights were pretty gnarly tho even with my pyromancer-blade dancer :D

[@SageofStars]

This is, for all the downs, a pretty up generation for gaming in general. The indie scene is full of bangers, the triple A, while being filled with its usual drek, still has some awesome titles, and the double A scene is just hitting a stride that it really never has before, thanks to the ability to sell relatively easily across a vast majority of markets.

[@llllb2]

I don't know if You've played Barony, but I'm telling you dude give it a shot such a great game with a small dev team

[@simonstrane]

That is a cool thumbnail 😊

[@willrun4fun]

I also finally played Morrowind and loved it. Other games I have really enjoyed are Satisfactory and The Great Circle.

[@ronuss]

yeah i agree that the RT dlc was top quality stuff. Really put RT as my fav owlcat game. There ofc have been other great moments, seeing 40k world come to life in space marine 2, ff7 rebirth feeling like a proper FF game again after so long ext

[@TechnoLawyer]

So I was behind on things, and this year among others I played through WOTR. My favorite moment was the Camellia reveal and how much my subsequent decision making totally messed with the morals of my Angel run 😅 I sort of thought something was up with her, but I thought it had to do with her father. Then I walked into that house where she’d gone with the missing soldier and, uh…

[@henrychang2267]

Thank you for your sharing in your video. There are some exciting upcoming games worth keeping an eye on: TRPG "Urban Strife", TRPG "Flint: Treasure of Oblivion", CRPG "Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy". Looking forward to your check-out videos on those games. 🙂

[@bunnysmacker77]

Animal Well is probably my game of the year. I don't count DLC unlike the Game Awards. Even if I did spend more time with Shadow of the Erdtree. Add in Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom and overall a fun year with various experiences.

[@fillinthevideogameblanks914]

My personal favorite game i played this year is dragon ball fusions on the 3ds. I fast paced turned based rpg which i beat twice this year, restarted about 10 times because it has one save slot and am about to beat a third time.

[@Odisseia-hh2td]

Hey, have you reviewed Skyrim yet? Fun fact: it is rocking 24h peak number of players compareble with Elden Eing (check the special edition + vanilla)

[@MortismalGaming]

Not yet, probably in 2025 though

[@soheil4471]

For me it was the comeback of pop with 2 awesome games

[@notCalle]

Rogue Trader itself should be eligible for GOTY nominations this year, given that it released in the middle of awards season, and who can blame someone for having their judgement influenced by Void Shadows.

[@Firepaw420]

Baldur's Gate 3 Mods, Shadow of Erdtree dlc, Dragon Age the Veilguard. Just being able to play a modern Dragon Age game is a great experience, Beating Dragon Age Inquisition finally. Dragon's Dogma 2 was also very fun though very controversial. I understand that everyone doesn't love that game. I get it I just follow my own will. Those are my best moments.

[@GKJusticar55]

Mine was Space Marine 2. Never was I more afraid that a game was gonna be trash. The 2005 human being in me resurfaced, the Warhammer fan that clung to Dawn of War 1 for 15 years.

[@armelior4610]

I only played Jedi Fallen order this year and while it's not amazing it reminded of back when Star wars was exciting. So I also replayed Kotor and it's still great even with the pretty repetitive combat

[@123456Luck10]

Hell yeah KZbin jazz let's go

[@echernaut]

let's go!!

[@_ack_]

Really value sharing your personal thoughts/feelings on this one!

[@shawngillogly6873]

The only issue I have with Rogue Trader now is how early you hit level cap. To the extent that, honestly, I think it needs to be bumped to 60, and perhaps progression slowed in the Exemplar levels.

[@coconutologist]

Thanks for the video. Alright, so is a "good" game a game that has more good moments than bad? Or is it just a game that simply has no bad moments? Onward to 400k. All glory to the algorithm.

[@rashidfarhan6223]

Bro played and finished, Morrowind and oblivion in the same year while I never completed the main quests of Skyrim😢 :S

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is my Game of the year!

[@EastyyBlogspot]

Gaming awards having November cut off still drives me crazy lol

[@ideathief871]

What games are you thinking of?

[@SlickMajic]

The thumbnail reminds me of leon the professional

[@soundninja0]

Voted for Shadow of the Erdtree for GOTY. Didn't think any other game came close to being as fun. Wukong especially was lackluster.

[@razvanambarus7905]

Really need some help. Was trying to build a melee Biomancer as my first playthrough. Operative. Is it a fail? Still tring to understand the systems.

[@Benu54321]

I really liked the twist in Void Shadows. This person, who seems down to earth, loyal, sensible, willing to sacrifice a lot for you and your ship, betrays you. They don't really act against you (they do take some steps to further their plans, but they aren't overtly hostile) till the very end, because they are one of many pokers in the fire for this particular enemy.

[@kaidorade1317]

Mort releasing this video in 2025 since we still have 3 week left in the year and anything can occur!

[@jeremiahkisimba5938]

The goat 🐐 uploaded peak video

[@dylanfuller8146]

I really enjoyed dragons dogma 2 up until the ending 😂

[@astroman129]

I beat Pentiment for the first time. My goty lol

[@Duckman8213]

Should’ve said either the Titan or Bahamut fight in FF16. Fights are amazing.

[@Grogeous_Maximus]

Should he?

[@TheGronkus]

Gronk!

[@nickjanecke6688]

Shadow of the Erdtree may essentially be a small game in its own right, but I just don’t like DLCs being nominated for GOTY, on principle.

[@Onionbaron]

Oblivion was much larger than everything else at the time, much like a prequel to Witcher 3. I really went down it's universe... With pleasure!

[@LilFeralGangrel]

I finally played Baldur's Gate 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 this year and I had a bunch of fun with both. I started a new playthrough of my absolute favourite game Prey (2017) but I ended up not finishing it because I got so distracted by Cyberpunk lol. Will have to do reinstall it and get that human playthrough I've wanted to do for a while.