They keep on giving away these crappy, niche market basketball and baseball games, year after year. It's such a waste. This month is the worst in a very long, long while.

Really excited about Mafia Remastered--held myself back from purchasing the game at full price, or even discounted price, and it seems the wait was worthwhile.

Also impressed by last month's Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order...another game I wanted to play for a while.

If a purely console gamer came to this article, they will think PC gaming is utterly boring and PC gamers only play random, indy games.

This is a trollish article and the author didn't have a clue about what he was supposed to write about.

"Mark is GameSpot's Guides Editor, meaning he tries to keep his backlog short. His favorite genres are battle royale, sports, and horror, but he'll play pretty much anything other than fighters or JRPGs"

Tells us what kind of a PC gamer he is.

I never got to play GTA III when it came out--I didn't own a strong enough PC nor a console. Right now playing it on my gaming laptop with 4 GB graphics and 16 GB ram....the game runs smooth. Played about an hour, and I faced no bug at all.

I am not really bothered about the character models deviating from the original. It's a good, old fashioned GTA for modern PC's and I am loving it.

I stopped buying NFS games a while ago. I check them out if they're given out for free on PS Plus, and I must say, almost all of the recent games made me excited initially, but it gets boring way too soon. I think they should bring back the burnout series and focus on making a separate simulation game. This current attempt at blending these styles, along with the latest 'comicbook' inspiration isn't working at all.

Also, the story mode should totally be optional. There should be free races and other offline game modes where people can just drive and enjoy customizing their rides without getting forced through hundreds of cliched dialogues.

Probably half of these games won't even get released next year.

I'd so love to see a Sleeping Dogs sequel, Yakuza Kiwami 3 and some more single player focused, story driven games.

Also, no Dragon Age: Dreadwolf? Sims 5?

@fursecu: I only started playing Fifa 22 when it was given away for free on PS Plus. Hope Fifa 23 will be given away as well.

Battle for Middle Earth 2 was a much better game than the first one, and it had a great expansion, too. It's in my all time best RTS game's list. Also, nothing beat the joy of suddenly spotting Gollum in the battlefield amid the chaos; trying to do away with the 'ring', beating him to get it and summoning Galadriel or Sauron himself.

Also, little joys like summoning the Balrog or Aragorn's army of dead--it was just too fun.

@thecupidstunts: 'Should', but do they? I am talking about spending more than a thousand dollars with the hope that all new games, and ones that will get released within the next 4-5 years will run on 'max' with the latest Rig I am getting.

But in reality, a game comes out within a couple of months that makes my 1000 dollar star a peasant.

I don't want to turn this in to a console vs pc flame war, but with a console, I can stay assured that until its lifecycle ends (at least 5 years), all or most games released on the platform will run smooth on it.

With all PC versions of console games, no matter how 'awesome' a rig you own, there will always be a bigger and better PC waiting to be assembled that will 'run better'.

This is what dragged me away from PC gaming about 7 years ago. The only thing I miss now are the RTSs.