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So sure, you could wait until later this year, when the PS5 is released, but you’d be missing out on some of the best video games ever made.
Before you buy, however, consider the following:
With those caveats in place… on to the games.
Here are some of our favorite PS4 games currently available.
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The Final Fantasy VII Remake is one of those games that turned out better than anyone could have realistically expected.
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Endless online discourse about its difficulty aside, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is another masterpiece from Dark Souls creator FromSoftware.
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It’s a complete reinvention for one of the PlayStation’s most consistent series.
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I mean obviously.
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Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is a very big game. It takes around five hours for the opening credits to roll and, depending on how fast you go, it might take around 20 hours for the game to properly hit its stride.
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Well this game came out of nowhere.
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Horizon: Zero Dawn is like Video Games: The Greatest Hits.
It has the sprawling mission structure of The Witcher 3, Metroid Prime-style scanning, Tomb Raider-esque bow and arrows and survival.
And it has fricken’ robot dinosaurs with fricken’ laser beams.
It also — somehow — weaves its ludicrous high concept into a story that not only works, but is actually incredibly compelling, affecting and features great writing and layered characters.
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FromSoftware doesn’t make bad video games. It makes classics, stone-cold classics, one after another.
But Bloodborne might be the best FromSoftware game yet.
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The Witcher 3 is glorious.
A mind-bendingly massive open world that somehow doesn’t sacrifice depth. Visually glorious. It also features surprisingly good writing and a mission structure that makes traditional side-quests feel meaningful.
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Do you like inter-dimensional, high-school drama anime featuring tremendously good-looking teenagers fighting demonic manifestations from another universe?
Boy, do I have the video game for you.
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From a storytelling perspective Metal Gear Solid V is a brutal, unfinished mess.
But that doesn’t even matter.
Because the absolute core of Metal Gear Solid 5 — the sneaking, the moment-to-moment cat-and-mouse game of evading guards — is just so mechanically dense and polished.
Metal Gear Solid is simultaneously the most accessible Metal Gear game ever made and the most complex. I’m still scratching my head as to how they achieved that.
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Rocket League is soccer with cars and it is so good I can’t even believe it exists in this broken, corrupt world.
It’s not quite as popular compared to when it was initially released and everyone was going crazy, but Rocket League still has a massive core community.
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Uncharted 4 isn’t the strongest entry in the series (that’s still the bar-setting Uncharted 2) but it’s still a benchmark in visual storytelling excellence.
It’s a little bit too long, with way too many shooting sections, but Uncharted 4 does some truly ground-breaking things in terms of video game storytelling.
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The Witness is designed to make you feel like a complete idiot.
In a good way.
You know how games like Metroid and Zelda sort of guide your progress by slowly giving you items that act like keys to unlocking brand-new areas?
The Witness is sorta like that, only it upgrades your actual brain. With puzzles.
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Undertale is for people who have played a lot of video games.
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Punching Nazis: The Video Game.
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A unique, story-focused game that’ll pique the interest of folks that liked Gone Home, Dear Esther or games of that ilk.
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Nier: Automata was released in the same calendar year as games like Breath of the Wild, Mario Odyssey and Horizon: Zero Dawn, but there are people who think Nier: Automata was better than all of those video games.
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Every so often Resident Evil becomes awesome again. There’s a cycle.
Resident Evil 2: awesome. Resident Evil 4: very awesome.
Resident Evil 5 through to 6: not awesome.
Resident Evil 7: extremely awesome.
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Just when you think it’s safe to write the first-person shooter off as a banal genre devoid of innovation, along comes Titanfall 2. Titanfall 2 is like any other shooter except wall running, double jumping, turning into gigantic robots and uh…
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You already know about Overwatch.
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Did you like Destiny? Do you like replaying the same levels over and over, grinding till you can grind no more with your friends? Abandoning the real world in search of ephemeral pleasures?
Boy, do I have a game for you.
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Dark Souls 3, like all Dark Souls games, is an acquired taste. But once you acquire that taste, everything else is ash in your mouth.
These games are good.
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Inside is short, disturbing and stays with you long after you’re done.
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Monster Hunter: World is the new kid on the block.
In a lot of ways it feels like a coming out party for the Monster World series, which has always been huge in Japan, but has only flirted with success in the west.
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Doom Eternal rules. It’s very much in the vein of the Doom reboot that launched in 2016, but that’s a good thing. We say it’s the most metal game ever made.