In a year of stellar action RPGs, NieR: Automata was one of the most unexpectedly rewarding. Yet the best part may be what too many games lack nowadays: the feeling of fist-pumping accomplishment and satisfaction that comes with finally, finally beating that boss that brutally murdered you three thousand times in a row. The years it spent in development hell were worth the unrelentingly adorable bullet hell that followed. The game is as difficult and devilishly challenging as it is gorgeously animated, which is to say: very.

If you put Fleischer Studios’ animation, Contra, and old-school Mega Man games into a blender, then poured them into a nice mug, you would get Cuphead.

Platforms: PC, Xbox One (coming soon) Cuphead The 100-person battle royale shooter is filled with epic kills, unexpected encounters, and the most satisfying chicken dinner since the original horrifying ending in the director’s cut of Chicken Run. But once you mute your fellow players, I’ll be damned if PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds isn’t one of the most addictive, tense, and thrilling shooters in ages. Are you likely to spawn into a server full of people in their underwear screaming racial slurs at you? Yes. Most often, you never heard about it in the first place, but there are also the ones that go viral for a week and then disappear off the internet entirely.Is it riddled with bugs? Yes. Updated by Gabrielle Huston on March 10, 2022: There are plenty of reasons you might have missed a game. Along with games that we all know and love like those, the console is also home to some lesser-known games that not a lot of people have checked out, but that definitely deserves to be played through at least once.

While those games are wonderful, just about everyone has played them and those huge games aren't the only ones that are available on the PlayStation 4. Huge games are constantly being released on the PS4 and they often garner a lot of attention from gamers and game critics. With games on it like The Last of Us and Grand Theft Auto V, it's not hard to see why so many people have one of these in their living room. The PlayStation 4 is a hugely popular console.

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