I don't play as many video games any more but here is what I've enjoyed the most.
Day of Infamy is one of the most well crafted games with one of the best dev teams I have seen in years, the guns, movement, tactics and voice acting all sync together amazingly in game. extremely underrated and needs more spotlight. It's also pretty cool that you can finally play as Canadians, Australians or other armies that showed lots of courage during the war. Pretty impressive for a source engine game.
Finally bought this game and it's dlcs recently, the characters, story all feel very gritty and realistic at times. Niko is less of a criminal with no limits and more of a person who's gone through a lot in life and is just trying to make his way out of the horrible experiences he has had to go through in life. Much more enjoying playing as him than any other GTA character if you ask me.
The s.t.a.l.k.e.r. games are honestly some of the most unique experiences I have had, there is just nothing out there like it. The atmosphere is incredible and can make the game just as impressive as modern day games, I find myself staying in locations for a while just taking in the beauty of the zone's Eastern European / Ukrainian landscaping and visuals.
When this game came out, people said it was "awful" and hated it just due to it not having a military setting,it could have used a bit more content at launch but if you put aside that for one second you would realize how fun this game was with all of its new gameplay ideas (interrogations, car chases, etc.) and modes (hotwire, blood money) and how much the developers at Visceral cared about it. This is one of the best battlefields released recently out of all of them.
half life 2 is a fun shooter game that tries too hard with its narrative sometimes but i still enjoy it
i like this game more than new vegas
I don't know what it is about the original fallouts but there's something so uncanny and atmospheric about it, its probably due to the 90s 3d models and effects but aside from that the soundtrack, visuals and story had this too. Fallout New Vegas returned to this kind of atmosphere so that was good.
That's all I could think of right now
