I don't want any of these games since I cannot play them. I'm just happy you're doing this, happy holidays ^^

Elden Ring would be so sick. I've never really played a Souls Game and I've heard and seen soooo much good stuff about this entry. I've recently played through AC6 that was put out by the same developers and the attention to detail as well as the great gameplay itself really made the game a blast to play through. Also, big mech.

Thanks for the giveaway and happy holidays.

Thanks! I love posts like these. What made me happy this year was meeting and getting to know a lot of new people this year, when my year was otherwise full of bad times... how I hope Elden Ring will be

Hogwarts legacy! I have been playing dnd and having a great time with friends

Persona 5 Royal

Thanks!

Elden Ring so I have a reason to upgrade my video card!

Hogwarts Legacy.

Happy holidays, everyone.

How nice, friend! I'd love to be considered for Hogwarts Legacy.

Happy or hopeful stories? Hard. I think the best I have is this: I took an unexpectedly long (6 mile) hike through the woods in autumn, and the stillness and quiet, the world seemed at peace. Because the hike was sufficiently long, I was able to find some of that quiet peace, too.

I've always kind of wanted to play Elden Ring. I don't think its ever been my style, though I've wanted to give it a go on my steam deck for awhile now. Personally, I think any of these other lovelie people would deserve it just as much.

One thing I've been rather happy about, is my life was completely upended by a not so great roommate. Though everything turned itself around when I found some better influences on my life. Now I can happily say I'm a sober man, who's also almost got his shit together.

Hogwarts Legacy

Something that made me happy this year is that I finally found a full time job that I actually enjoy doing.

Thanks for the giveaway and Happy Holidays!

I would love to get Persona 5.

Thank you. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!

Wanted to play God of War for forever but never got myself to buy it. This would be a great opportunity. Thank you for doing this and merry Christmas.

I would love to get Hogwarts Legacy for my son - he just finished all of the books! He's getting a new laptop for Christmas, so we haven't focused on games, etc. yet but I'm sure he'd be thrilled to play!

This is a really fun idea, thanks for doing this!

Happy holidays.

Hogwarts Legacy please. Not my type of game, but I know my partner would love it.

Quick story. In my adult life I've always been into charity. A couple of years ago a friend created his own 501c non profit. He was getting stuff together but then got overwhelmed and depressed and just couldn't focus on it anymore. Fast forward to a couple of months ago. I hit him up to see how he was doing and he felt inspired but still overwhelmed. Didn't know where to pick things up.

I started giving pointers (from my background in project management) and he asked if I would help him get this charity off the ground. Of course I said yes. He voted me in officially and that has been my whole world since then. Yeah I still have my regular job, and yeah the charity thing is solely volunteer, but I'm playing to my strengths and I'm conducting this thing the best I can.

We finally did our first utility relief from donations just a few weeks ago and it felt good. Going to really kick it in high gear in 2024.

Hogwarts looks like a fun game that I could play casually overtime. Happy Holidays!!

Mile morales please.

Cheers.

I'd like tales of arise

I would love tales of arise!!!

Also i came out as trans and my gf family accepts me!!! So so happy about that!!!

Returnal

I recently played BG3 on a Steam Deck using third party wireless Joycons while walking on a treadmill. Lost close to 20lbs. If anyone else has recommendations of other top-down games that aren't camera-heavy that might be good treadmill games lmk! First and third person mess me up a bit. Was thinking of replaying Disco Elysium or finally trying to beat Hollow Knight.

god of war please (i never got round to playing the new series).

story: last week, an old dude crashed into my parked car and totaled it. when i saw the damage i was naturally pissed off but spotted his details on the windscreen. when i phoned him he was really apologetic and explained that he already took liability. that instantly calmed me down.

yes, he screwed up but the guy was decent enough to own up to it, when he couldve ran away. now insurance is getting me a brand new car with no strings attached. the whole incident made me hopeful, even though it was a gigantic pain in the ass, that there are still good, honest people out there in this mean world.

I'd love to try Hogwarts Legacy. I just finished Stray (great game, one of the achievements is a little tricky though) and am now in need of a new "main" game. Happy Holidays and thanks for the giveaway!

There may be a federation issue with my instance but I'd like to submit my entry for Returnal. Thank you! https://lemm.ee/comment/7588553

Hey, thanks for being so generous. Happy holidays.

If I were to pick, I would like to play Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered.

I'll throw my name in for Elden Ring. Cheers to you for doing this OP.

That's super kind of you to be giving away that many great games! Shame I wouldn't have time to play any of them but best of luck to all!

Happy Christmas!

Merry Christmas and a happy new year! I wouldn't mind getting to try Marvel's Spider Man Remastered; I've a few friends that say it's good.

I've been a bit under the weather over the holidays, which has given me the opportunity to try some of the free games I've been accruing from Epic's giveaways. Art of Rally was pretty good. Nice art style, active development, and an interesting concept rooted in historical events.

I'd like to enter for God of War.

So what made me happy this year is that I finally moved out and have less interaction with my extremely toxic family. Also my GF came back from abroad and we're going to be working towards getting a place here so that we can start living together.

In any case, thanks for this OP and good luck everyone!

Put me in for Hogwarts. Thanks for bringing these to Lemmy and happy holidays

Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered

Insomniac's made some of the greatest games I've ever played

But heck, this game is about 30% of the minimum wage here lol

God of War. FYI, don't send keys over Lemmy private message. Anybody who runs an instance that federates with yours may be able to see your private messages. Just be careful is all!

Hogwarts legacy is very cool

Hogwarts Legacy would be great!

Elden Ring. I've never really played a souls game, and it looks really great.

Not a lot of joy this year, got laid off last year and now find myself in a job where I'm making less and commuting more, but there were a couple of bright spots. I've been running a D&D game set in Mythic Greece, and it's been the best TTRPG I've run or played in years - my players have been absolutely loving it. Plus, I recently spoke to a retirement advisor and found that I'm in very good shape to retire in 10 years, and that makes me very happy.

Thanks for doing this. Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas! I'd like Returnal.

Tales of Arise would be my choice!! I'm glad that you are doing things like this, making Lemmy and this community stronger!!!

Hogwarts Legacy would be my choice.

Thank you CatZoomies and a merry Christmas!

Hogwarts Legacy would be my choice.

This year for the first time I tried to cook a seitan roast with crackling. Also vegan potato dumplings as well as bread dumplings and gravy. It turned out quite okay. I would just like to experiment with better spices to make the taste of the seitan roast more intense.

Thanks for the giveaway. I played Elden Ring on PS5, but now that I'm getting back into PC gaming I'd like to try it again on my Ally.

Persona 5 Royal

Thank you for the opportunity! I've been pleasantly surprised at the quality of games I've played this year. Finally finished Horizon Zero Dawn after it "clicked" for me, and Forbidden West is so far an improvement in almost every way. Spider-Man 2 was nearly perfect (besides using a version of a character that I guess was designed to give you more stuff to do). I bought Hogwarts Legacy for my significant other and was surprised to find how relatively complex the combat was (especially compared to the old PS2 Harry Potter games). And I finally got into Shin Megami Tensei with 4 and have had a blast.

I would like Returnal if you would be kind.

Happy holidays everyone.

Horizon zero dawn please and thank you!

I finally had that moment in life where I could sit back watching TV with my family and just breathe and be grateful for everyone and everything I had. Where most of the stress of day to day was lifted and I could just.... be.

I would like to have Persona 5. I have never played any persona game or any jrpg for that matter.

Also, thank you for the giveaway. I hope you have a wonderful 2024.

Returnal

There are 3 cockatiels living with me(I rescued them, not in Australia) and I had a pen with a string attached to it and was writing when two of them flew over and started fighting over the knot in the string, not an active fight just one would start chewing on the knot and then the other would pull it away and back and forth it went for a good 20 minutes.

I really enjoyed watching them passive aggressively fighting over a toy, it was cute.

Wow you’re very kind! I’d like Horizon Zero Dawn to play with my Steamdeck when the children are asleep because the TV is theirs 😁

I have a new GPU coming and Returnal would be awesome to play on it.

I've always wanted to try God of War.

God of War is my choice.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is a game I played recently that blew me away. It’s a game that is hard to talk about without spoiling the absolute shit out of it. I don’t care for westerns and I always thought, “Ok, cowboy game. Cool. Whatever.”

It’s so much bigger than that. I could write a book about why I loved it so much, but it would spoil it. I’m begging anyone who sees this and hasn’t played it. Put it next on your list. You won’t regret it.

Merry Christmas! Spider-man remastered always looks fun but the price is killer.

Merry Christmas! Have been eyeing up Elden Ring since release but haven't had the time since having a baby.

Happy Holidays, Elden Ring.

A game that I recently played and loved was Bombrush Cyberfunk, I am a massive fan of Jet Set Radio Future and it just felt amazing to play a modern game based off of JSRF!

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered!

Baldur's Gate 3 is probably my game of the year, but lately I've actually been playing Fortnite with some friends and having a blast in zero build mode. The new update is great, plus you can't go wrong with some LEGO survival mode.

Thanks for doing this, you're a kind soul! Have a wonderful holiday, as well as everyone in this thread. Good luck to you all!

Merry Christmas! I've had God of War in my wishlist forever! I remember playin the OG in the PS2 and Chain of Olympus in PSP and I loved them. I would love to repeat the experience in this PC remake :)

Will not participate, but props to you for organising this, it is really nice 🎄

Some of the games in the giveaway are in my wishlist, I hope in the next year I will get some and play them. Best of luck to the participants and wish a great time playing, best of luck to the moderation team, too. Happy holidays

I'll sign up for Returnal.

A few months ago I ran into the demo for an indie game called Laika: Aged through Blood. It came out around a month ago and it's an extremely solid indie game, I'd suggest anyone who likes metroidvanias a shot if you don't mind them being unforgiving as hell.

Thank you for the giveaway! Looks like you went out of your way to get a good diversity of games. Awfully kind of you =)

I would like to try for Spiderman: Miles Morales, please

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

Hey there,

Thats Nice of you 🥰🥰,

The best things for me, don't laugh, my life isn't cool lmao, was finishing twice cyberpunk in a month, and then my first use of stable diffusion on my arch station (BTW), I almost did an coming out too :D but this one doesn't count, because its in progress.... ✊

Im applying for Persona5, I really want to give him a go, but if someone is in need prefer this someone, I can buy it after all. That's really lovely from you. 😘

Returnal! Been wanting and just haven't pulled the trigger.

Edit: damn autocorrect changing it to returnable

Really nice of you to do this, thank you. I would like to put my name in the hat for Miles morales. Best of wishes to you and yours.

Having been a Xbox player before getting my PC, Spiderman Remastered had been on my list since it was announced. Thank you for the giveaway and good luck everyone!

Hogwarts legacy please, my kids would love it. Merry Christmas!

I would love to try Returnal! I've had my eye on it since it came out but I never got around to it. Thanks for doing this giveaway! Happy holidays!

My wife doesn't game much buy she is a MASSIVE Harry Potter fan. I wonder if she would play Legacy if we had it.

Thanks for doing good for people.

I would love to have God of war. This year was the first year with my first baby, and seeing her grow over the months has been a joy.

Merry Christmas!

Interested in UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection~

The highlight of my year would be graduating from university. It was tough, but being able to graduate was a significant achievement for myself. Made me somewhat hopeful for my future.

Hogwarts legacy would be rocking!

You're an amazing person :)

I'll try for Returnal

Game: Elden Ring

This year I decided to start biking to work and it's been a complete joy. The commute is fairly long, but it's beautiful and gives me time to reflect and turn my worry-brain off. I'm more productive at work, I feel better about my lifestyle, and my body is really happy about it. I'm lucky to be in a career and geography that allows this, and I'm grateful for all the work that people in my community have done to improve cycling infrastructure.

Thanks so much for doing this!

Game: Persona 5 Royal

The biggest thing that made me happy this year was being home for the holidays. I have a job that often sends me to remote sites for work. I was sent away in the end of 2019 for work, right before all the pandemic stuff started. Soon after that lock downs began and many travel restrictions were put in place, including ones within my own company. Basically I have been stuck very far away from my family for a very long time. The off-shore work contract finally came to an end and even though I am now technically unemployed for the time being, this was the first Christmas holiday period I have been able to spend with my family since 2018. That meant the world to me and one of the things that has made me the happiest in many years, let alone just this year. As far as hopeful, I am hopeful that this will definitely not be the last holiday season I can spend with my family and currently have no plans to leave again like that anytime soon (not that I planned it like that in the first place though anyway lol).

I'd like to win hogwarts legacy, thanks for doing this awesome giveaway!

It's so cool that you're doing this, tysm! I'd love to play God of War if I end up getting rolled, it's been on my list for ages

My happy story is that 2023 was the first full calendar year I spent with my current partner and love of my life ❤️

Happy holidays!

This is really nice. I would like Hogwarts Legacy

I've finally decided to give Cyberpunk 2077 a shot, deciding that it has had enough time in the oven, and... yup. I'm happy to have waited all these years to play something that's a finished product, runs well, looks beautiful and is engaging and fun to play. Honestly I spend half of my time in this game just walking around the city - it's the first city in a game that feels realistic, with all the street markets, food stalls, drunk people wandering the streets at 4 am...

BG3 was overall the best game I've played this year though.

I would like Persona 5 Royal, never really had a chance to get into this series but I've heard good things!

I'd like to get Hogwarts legacy for my wife.

Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered

Hey, I'd be really interested in Elden Ring :)

I'd like to throw my hat in the ring for Tales of Arise!

Merry Christmas and kudos for this giveaway 🎊

I'd love to be considered for Persons 5 Royal (or Returnal), please.

One thing that made me happy this year? I became a father. It's really difficult to say whether that makes me hopeful for the future. On the contrary, it makes me kind of afraid? Like ... I maybe have another 25-30 years left to live, but my child will be the in the peak of their life at that time. And I worry about what kind of world I'll be leaving them in. Everything feels more important now than it ever did...

But anyway, on a happy note, I bought 2 games at release this year and they were both quite good (Hogwarts Legacy and Elden Ring) :)

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales

This year I got back into Destiny 2. I got to level 535 in Season of Defiance, and made a ton of new friends through it and the Discord servers connected to it.

UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection would be great! I've been playing a ton of Dave the Diver, which is a fun game, but I'm definitely need a change of pace.

Happy holidays!

Hogwarts Legacy

I would love Horizon, thanks!

Hogwarts legacy!

Just picked up a new steam deck and would love to check it out on there

Gotta be in it to win it!

Horizon Zero Dawn would be great, never got around to playing those games.

This year has been quite the ride, I started a new job and I've really loved it. It can be a lot of work sometimes, but it's work that I enjoy, so the days sometimes just flash by which is great. As far as gaming goes, I played a lot on my Switch this year. I sunk nearly 200 hours into Tears of the Kingdom. I'm a huge Zelda fan, so I tried to milk it as long as I could before getting the credits to roll.

Eden Ring.

My son (first child) was born last December, so I got to spend all year watching him grow and turn in to a little human.

I absloutely bloody love to try Elden ring/spoderman sign me up woooo

Entering for Marvel's Spider-man: Miles Morales.

I recently got back into Elite: Dangerous. It's an mmorpg where you're first person flying a spaceship, it's pretty realistic too physics wise except for a top speed in space. But without it, there would be no dogfights. So instead of getting into risking my hard earned virtual money refreshing my skills I decided to risk someone else (significantly less) money by joining a strangers crew. We went bounty hunting for space pirates, the dude was very friendly and all went well. I would launch from a tiny ship stored on board of his larger ship and give him fire suppoty. It was great until some npc rammed me, and I started spinning, rapidly, along two axis at once. Oh did I mention I was playing in vr? Unpleasant was an understatement.

So I've now bought a gigantic passenger ship, painted it chromatic blue and called it the vengabus. I listen to audio books while piloting it. It's very relaxing. Definitely better than becoming increasingly dizzy from the faster ships in the game.

Persona 5 Royal.

Got a new job this year! Will start next year and I'll have some time off in between so I can visit my family.

Either spiderman game would be pretty fun on deck so I pick the first one, it's not like I got a lack of games though lol. Just about to start playing most of the GTA games.

Thank you kindly, CatZoomies!

I would like Elden Ring.

I'd love to try 5. the spiderman game!

I'd love elden ring.

Entering for persona 5 royal 😁

Hmm this year I played a lot of slay the spire never played a card game before but this one is so accessible but rewardingly difficult too

Returnal

Something that made me happy or hopefully this year would be my cat recovering from a rather nasty infection. He's a very good boy.

Spiderman: Miles Morales has been on my wish list for a long time. Been excited to play it ever since beating the first one!

It’s good to see giveaways like this coming to Lemmy. Always commented on the ones on Reddit but have yet to get lucky. Nice to see them around though!

Entering for Elden Ring

this, my last year of college, I've made several new relationships because of dark souls. Recently, because of this group, got a girlfriend, and I would love to gift her with the game!

Congrats to the winners and Merry Christmas!

Missed out on the elden ring hype last year and still haven't been able to pick it up, fingers crossed and good luck everyone!

recently I played bullet witch and enjoyed it quite a bit despite it's notorious reputation for its jankyness. something about it has a charm that the late 2000s really mastered aesthetically.

Persona 5 Royal!

I hear so many great things about this game and have been wanting to play it. My friend played it and let me play it a little, but I feel like this is a game that must be experienced from the very beginning to properly enjoy. The music is great, the art style is fantastic - it seems like an awesome game.

Regardless if I win or not, thank you for giving these away to people. I hope you and everyone in this thread have happy holidays, and if you're not celebrating any holidays, I hope your days are still blessed with cheers and wonder.

Would love to try Elden Ring!

Elden Ring is definitely my choice. I've played some but it wasn't my own copy so I haven't really been able to play it anymore, and for some reason I just never pulled the trigger myself.

Returnal seems cool

Spiderman remastered would be very nice, actually.

This year I had an unexpected GOTY (released last year but whatever) in Tinykin. It's a fun 3D platforming collectathon type game that I 100%'d because I liked it that much. The sound effects are perfect, the gameplay is rewarding and it all comes together so well.

This will be my first ever Lemmy reply! I've been holding off on buying Elden Ring until it drops in price, so I would love to get it in a giveaway!

Persona 5 Royal

First thank you, and happy holidays.

My favorite game recently was Mario Wonder. It just made me happy to play. It brought back joy from being a kid. I finally beat Elden Ring this year and even though it was an amazing game, there was a ton of frustration too. I don’t have many hours to play in a week because of work. When I played Mario Wonder, I knew I would enjoy it every time I sat down.

Elden Ring! I choose you!

(optional story) Few days ago I bought Saints Row 2022 and I LOVE IT! The world is so interesting and beautiful, characters are nice, few bugs here and there, but the newest update makes a huge difference from the release version. I don't get the hate so many folks throw at this game. It's just not for them I guess.

Wow thanks CatZoomies, I'd love to receive Horizon Zero Dawn! Merry Christmas! Something that made me Happy? My newborn :)

Hello there, and happy holiday too! Thank you OP for hosting such nice event for everyone.

Persona 5 Royal maybe?

I am long time SMT fan from PS2 era (Nocturne, P3 and P4), Persona 5 is the only game that I have not yet played from the spin off Persona series.

To be honest while it's bit up and down this year, I managed to graduate from College and succesfully fund myself a small workshop, and at the moment I am in process of applying job for my dream career.

Once again thank you OP!

Thank you for setting this up CatZoomies. I already have one or two of these games and the other ones are not really the kind that I play. However, would you be open to allowing other people to donate more games to your giveaway? I think we should have more than 10 games for the community.

Happy holidays everyone! I'd like Persona 5 if I win.

Played some Voices of the Void recently, the game is really good at making you paranoid lol. I somehow managed to go out of bounds by jumping around in the base. At first I thought that the aliems got me, turns out I was >just sent to the backrooms!<. Anyway, I reloaded the save the game made before that and proceeded to microwave >the radioactive capsule!< I found in the middle of nowhere

Hi, I loved the new spider-man movies and also always loved the character. I would love to play Spiderman remastered these holidays!! Thank you for the giveaway OP!! Happy Holidays to everyone too!

Been looking at Elden ring for a while but dont feel like spending even more money on games. Would be amazing to get it!

Hey there, I'd really like to play God of War! Never really got a chance to play it. Happy holidays everyone!

Hi, Spiderman remastered would be my choice. Merry christmas to OP and lemmynation!

Spider man for me please.

For my story, it is about tetris effect.

It was on game pass awhile ago, but I got to try it out for little while. It was much needed break from daily stresses of work and everything going on. It reminds me of when I was young, and would play tetris with my late father on the NES.

I miss him, so this was a nice looking back moment. The game has moved off the service now, but I am saving up to get it for myself, hopefully by his birthday next year.

Happy holidays to you all, and spend time or talk to those people who you hold dear.

I would love to try Persona 5 royal, one of my friends loves the series so would be fun to try. If people wanna try a good and fun game then I would highly recommend the psychonauts series. The humour and gameplay are top notch, and number one is pretty cheap. Number 2 was without a doubt my favourite game of the year

The uncharted collection looks fun

I'm putting in for Spiderman Remastered! It's the next game on my list when I finish Stardew Valley. Thanks for doing this, excellent community building!

spiderman remastered please

hopefully I'm not on Santa's naughty list this year

I would like Uncharted.

I learned to scuba dive this year and learned how many diverse are committed to trying to preserve whats left.

Elden Ring would be cool!

I had been having a hard time getting motivated to play anything new over the last few months then saw a post about Dave the diver here on lemmy. Decided to try it out and it was just such a nice experience. Now I'm feeling a lot more motivated to try new games, mostly smaller indie-ish stuff.

Cheers

Happy holidays :) put me in for elden ring, thanks!

Elden Ring, please.

Thanks for this, and Merry Christmas! Hope yours is wonderful!

Happy Holidays everyone!

I’d be interested in Horizon Zero Dawn

Happy holidays to you, this is awesome! I think Spiderman Remastered gets me the most from this list. Never had the opportunity to play it.

I'm in for Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered. Merry Christmas :-)

Would definitely be interested in Returnal, my friend worked on the PC port for it so he's been trying to get me to buy it since it released, was just hoping for a good enough sale.

My happy story was starting to contribute to an open source Minecraft mod and getting invited to join the offical development team after a few months, definitely makes me feel like I'm actually good at programming :D

Elden Ring. For the story, I remember those days that you stay up with your friends doing a full run! Not much time to do that these days, but the nostalgia always kicks in this time of year. :

Haven't had a chance to play God of War yet so that would be sweet, happy holidays and thanks for the giveaway

Well this is just very sweet. I'm hoping for a spiderman or P5 royal. Merry Xmas!

I'll put my request in for Persona 5 Royal. Buddy of mine is obsessed with it and has been trying to get me to play. Thanks for giving people the opportunity to win one of these games!

Returnal looks like so much fun!

Definitely P5 Royal, played it for a bit on Playstation when it came out and would love to finish.

Would be pretty happy with Persona 5 Royal. I played it on ps4 back before I had a good PC but I never got far because playing on console is very inconvenient for me!

As for something that made me very happy recently, they finally announced the next monster hunter game, my favourite game series of all time! AND it's finally a pc release on launch! I'm definitely upgrading my computer when that one comes around! Also I passed all my college courses that I was really worried about failing, but you know, priorities.

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered would be awesome. I keep waiting for it to be 50% or more off but I have to be a patient gamer.

Thanks for doing this. Good luck to all.

Spiderman remastered

This year, my 6 yr old nephew got super big into Pokémon. Everytime he comes over, he shows me his Pokémon cards that he's collecting and all the new Pokémon he's caught in Let's Go Eevee. Eevee is his all time favorite Pokémon so when he leaned that was your starter in the game, he was jumping up and down with joy! Gotta love seeing the same excitement I had with Pokémon red back in the day.

I'm hoping I get picked for persona 5 royal. Happy holidays everyone.

Happy holidays! I’d like a chance to win Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered. Still haven’t had a chance to play it and forgot it’s on PC now. Thanks!

Horizon zero dawn has been on my mind for a bit, so that would be pretty dope.

Hey, cool giveaway! Unfortunately I can't run any of these games yet, stuck with a potato laptop, but I'll enter for Tales of Arise just so I can finally know what that series is about. Some discord peeps I know love them so yeah. Here's to me getting a pc that can run these games in a few years.

I'll enter for God of War, I watched a few YouTube videos of it with my son and it looked fun and a good story. Thanks for this idea, it's fun. Good luck to everyone.

Something that made me happy this year: my son tested into advanced math placement at school and I still can't get over how amazed I am with the poor genes I passed in to him. Couldn't be more proud as it was something he wanted and of his own choosing spent extra time practicing math. Don't know how I lucked out, but he's pretty impressive to me

i'd like to play elden ring

Marvel's spiderman remastered would be freakin awesome! Thanks for the chance

Happy holidays!

I'm interested in Elden Ring.

Thank you for your generosity!

Elden Ring for me. Thanks for the chance to win.

Entering for Persona 5, always wanted to try the game out but it was a console exclusive for the longest time

It's actually pretty cool to see giveaways happening on Lemmy of all places, thank you for this.

I would love Elden Ring, but so would many of the others..

Optional. What fills me with hope is knowing there are still people like the OP who are willing to giveaway to those of us who missed so many good games.

Merry xmas

I've been eyeing Spider-Man Remastered for awhile, but never pulled the trigger due to price and the amount of time I have. I'd love to explore that world though!

Thanks so much for doing this.

I'm really only interested in GoW so I can give it to my brother. He's a dad of 2 and needs some quality games in his backlog.

I'm gonna throw my hat in the ring for Elden Ring! My favorite game I've played this year is gonna have to be God of War. Getting a chance to revisit a matured and wise version of Kratos, after having experienced how he used to be when I played the original games on PS2 was great.

hey thanks for doing this! I'm interested in god of war. I've been meaning to play it for a while but I haven't had the cash to buy it 😭

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered

Thanks for the giveaways! I'm thankful for the new job. Same job. Better place. Got a Steam Deck a year ago to catch up on my back log of games I haven't had time to play. I'm up to like 2013 and playing Shadow Warrior, atm. Lol

How about Elden Ring.

Fun thing for me this holiday was solving a puzzle for another Lemmy user. Figured out the movie they couldn't recall for years was New Friends, 1981, and they are able to share that and the online video of it I found with their sisters for the holidays. Bonus points, there's was a monetary reward that's now going to charity. Was very entertaining.

I've always wanted to try out Elden Ring but have been holding off on it to work through my backlog. Just finished Bully for the first time and I gotta say it was one of the best open world games Rockstar has made despite the PC jank. Everything about it was just so charming it's hard to believe conservatives lost their shit to this game just for the title of the game.

Not entering as I have most of these treasures but thank you for the Lemmy giveaway!

Elden Ring please (and thanks -even if I don't win).

A friend recently recommended the Persona series, so I think I'm gonna have to go with Persona 5 Royal.

Something that made me happy this year (and gaming related) is that we finally got a remote Dungeons and Dragons group going with that friend, our significant others, and our mutual friend group. After a little hemming and hawing over how to set it up, we went with Foundry Virtual Tabletop (which we find suits our needs). It's good to be DMing for these friends and new faces again!

For a game recommendation/story, our tabletop group had been bandying around throwing in some one shots to try out some different systems and Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader came up.

I'm pretty excited to test it out and recently found that Owlcat released a Rogue Trader crpg. I've been pretty busy near the end of the calendar year, so jumping into some science fantasy lore to share with my girlfriend has been great. I'll have to talk with the guy GMing that one shot about the similarities between the crpg and the tabletop system, but we're already brainstorming characters for the one shot and beyond (if we like it).

Hope this reply finds you all cozy and enjoying the season. This giveaway is a really cool idea and good luck everyone!

I’ve been making posts like crazy to fill the fediverse Critical Role group with content and have had an unexpected amount of fun with screenshots and labeling pop culture references over the holidays so far. The big group that has been doing it, CritRoleStats, is shuttering updates, and it’s kinda inspired me to do this. People whose grasp of American English and slang is limited, or those with disabilities are the main groups I have found to be helping and that’s pretty cool.

Thanks for doing this, btw. My top 5, in order: Tales of Arise, Persona 5, Elden Ring, Hogwarts, God of War.

Cheers,
Gramps

Entering for horizon zero dawn :)

I'd love a chance at winning Hogwarts Legacy. Thanks for doing this generous giveway.

Put me in for Elden Ring!

A game I've been playing recently is Bread & Fred. It has put the pure fun factor back in games for me. No competitiveness, no completionist motivation, just pure fun.

I'd throw in for Persona 5

I'm happy that after a really lame start to the year (getting canned from my long time job and bouncing from job to job for a couple months) I finally got settled making way more money that lets me be home every night & weekend with my wife, and practice music with some good friends

I wouldn't mind Persona 5. Happy holidays.

Very cool of you to do this! I would love to check out Uncharted, I've never played it.

My happy/hopeful story is that the company I work for is looking pretty good for next year and this year was already pretty good. So I'm looking forward to the new year!

Elden Ring, please.

Elden Ring

Elden Ring

Hi, thanks for doing this! I'd love God of War 😁

I've sunk almost 500 hours in to baldurs gate 3 since it's release. Despite that, my favorite game I've played this year is probably going to be Tony Hawks Underground. I recently got hit with the nostalgia wave and have been playing THUG 1 and 2 which were major foundations of my childhood; the soundtracks are unbeatable ("Deadly Sinners" on the same playlist as "Burning Ring of Fire"? Who makes games like this anymore?) and the story and characters are the perfect level of bad.

God of war, please

Marvel’s Spider-man: Miles Morales.

My son played the hell out of the first one and would probably like that one as well, so I’ll try for that. Thanks so much for doing this and Happy Holidays/Merry Christmas.

I’ve kind of had my eye on Returnal for a while! I’m afraid it might kick my butt, though. Thanks for the giveaway!

Ooooh Returnal! I’ve been wanting to play it with a mate for quite some time but that price tag has been quite the hump to get over… Best of luck everyone in the giveaway! Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays to everyone! Hope you all have a better year than this one~

I'd love to get Hogwarts Legacy

I already own/played most of these. A very kind action on your part!

I will go for the uncharted games as I fear the Elden* ring is beyond my gaming capabilities :').

I've recently been playing Jedi survivor. While I feel my pc isn't entirely up to the task anymore, streaming it downstairs through the steam deck really makes it more enjoyable to play!

Best of luck to everyone! May the odds ever be in your favor! Have a great Christmas/new years/2024.

Shout-out to the person doing the giveaway! It's a very generous year end gift to do for strangers.

Merry Christmas OP! I'll pick Persona 5 Royal

Here's what made me happy this year:

• I got married!
• I landed my first job as a programmer (and got promoted a month after)

Happy holidays everyone

I'll try for Elden Ring.

Thank you and Merry Christmas.

Always fancied elden ring but my inability to git gud has held me back.

Thanks for your generous spirit, brought a smile to my face.

Horizon Zero Dawn would be appreciated.

Returnal

Considering BG3 is not on this list, you should absolutely consider giving it a playthrough. I've never played a crpg I liked, and my wife had never played one at all, and now we're on our 4th playthrough. It is a legitimate masterpiece and the hype is well-deserved

Thank you for the opportunity and for being so generous. I've been interested in God of War for quite some time. Funny enough I played Persona 5 Royale all the way through this year, and it was the first time in quite a while I got the opportunity to give the time necessary to complete a game.

Happy Holidays!

I'm not wanting to enter the giveaway but just wanted to say what a lovely thing to do for the community.

Happy Holidays everyone

Returnal.

What a cool thing, thanks for doing this.

As a fan of titles like Hades and Control, Returnal's unique mix of gameplay elements is right up my alley. My budget has been maxxed lately so I've just been replaying the stuff in my steam library.

Happy everything to everyone!

It would be so cool to win a Spiderman game or that Hogwarts game!

Something that made me happy this year? We got a new dog after our last dog got sick and died right before Christmas. The most curious part? The death day and birth day are the same somehow

Pretty sweet man, been Wanting to play returnal for a while but haven't had the time lately

This is fun! I'm in for Hogwarts Legacy! Happy holidays to all y'all filthy animals!

I'll throw my hat in the ring for Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered.

Things that made me happy this year? I started a new job in Jan that has been great. Company treats it's employees like people the work is enjoyable.

Thanks for doing this and happy holidays.

That's very awesome of you kind sir/ma'am. I would be interested in #5 spiderman.

I don't need any games but wanted to say this is an awesome idea. Good on ya.

God of War would be a great one to have! I've only played the one version on PSP like 10/12 years ago and loved it! Thanks

I'd love to get Miles Morales! I started playing the first one this year and my son (who adores Spider-Man) would regularly sit and cuddle with me on my lap while I played it. Easily my favorite experience from the year.

Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition

That is quite a list of games, thank you! This year I met someone in the most random way and we really like having each other in our lives. It's awesome to have a new friend who might turn into much more!

Elden Ring. I've been meaning to try it out. My friends have been hounding me to play it, but I've not had a chance to play any Souls Like games so I've been hesitant to purchase. Whether I'm a winner or not, thank you for the generous giveaway! Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays! So awesome you're doing this!

Been wanting to try out Elden Ring, so add me to that drawing please! And thank you!

So, a friend of mine and I were playing Hunt: Showdown in duos. We find the target, but someone else already had. Multiple someone elses. For those who play, the target was at Sweetbell, and we approached from Arden Parish. I'm rocking a lebel marksman variant, so I take a look into one of the windows. Someone's there, so I pop him. Headshot. We move, rotating south and getting contacted but coming out victorious. I take a look in again at the bounties, but neither is giving me a window shot. I happen to see one move though, and headshot him through the wall. "I'm getting reported for that one" I comment. We continue to rotate clockwise around the building, and I ascend the tower between Sweetbell and Fort Carmic. I quickly get draw a bread and drop a player. This time his partner returns for and gets me. My own partner remains hidden for long enough that they look elsewhere to more immediate threats, and he picks me up. Eventually, as we're rotating north, they make a break for it, and get an area away by the time we finish looting their kills. I suggest going after them, and my partner expressed doubt. I mention that we have scopes, and hop onto some stairs to see if I can spot them. I do, and take my shot, downing one. The other scurried into the brush. I hold the view, waiting for the partner to make his move, and after a short pause my partner checks his map and says the other target made a break for it. We collect one of the bounties and leave via the same path. When we check the teams that round, we realize that I only killed one of the pair in that building... ever. The morale damage that must've done in order that the other just abandoned his buddy. My friend and I now use that player's username as a verb for when we down a player more than three times, and in particularly... efficient manner. For the game, I'm interested in Returnal.

I'd love a chance at Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered! Thanks for doing this, and happy holidays :)

Horizon zero dawn please! Thank you so much for running this, is there a place we can offer a kickback to you?

Thanks for being so generous with this! I've been meaning to try out Returnal for a while now so that would be awesome to get. Something that made me very happy this year was my dog. We got him just over a year ago as a puppy and I'll be honest it was pretty tough at the beginning, puppies are a lot of work and he's a stubborn little boy, but this year he's just got progressively better and better and it makes all the work we put in at the beginning so worth it.

Hope you all have a great Christmas and New Year!

Would love to have uncharted. Thanks for the giveaway it's awesome that someone is doing something for the Christmas spirit

Joyous Holidays and I hope y’all have a happy new year!

Thanks again for doing this giveaway it’s always a hoot.

I’d like to throw my hat in for Miles Morales if I could. I really like the Spider-Man series even if my graphics card hates me for playing it.

And for my Happy Thought: If you’re one of the people who still hasn’t seen the new Spider-Verse movie, oh you’re gonna have a great time watching it.

Thank everybody

Spider-Man Remastered, thank you!

Persona 5! Thanks for opportunity!

Ho wow ! Only here to thank you for this giveaway! Good luck everyone! And merry Christmas 🙃

Heyyy, happy holidays! I'm interested in Elden Ring :)

I don't have many hopeful stories this time around, but I hope next year will be a good one in spite of it all.

Good luck everyone!

I'd love to win God of War

Sick idea! Elden Ring would be sick, have really wanted to try it on my Steam Deck

This year I graduated from my undergrad. No good job yet or anything but, it's feels like a new section of my life for now, hopefully my first full year out of school will be a good one :)

Thanks for the new years treat!

Thanks for doing this!

I would personally be interested in Spider man remastered.

As for a game I played recently and loved, I've been playing Xenotilt and Demon's Tilt and they're both amazing pinball games. I loved Metroid Prime Pinball as a kid and these are the first pinball games that really capture that same appeal.

This is very nice of you. I'd love to have elden ring.

Man, no one wants God of War.

Wow thanks! Would love to get the UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves collection. My brother and I grew up playing Uncharted 1-3 on the PlayStation over the our summer breaks and those are some of my favorite memories. Coincidentally, this year I feel our bond has been growing again. Though it's been a tough year, moving back into the family home has meant I spend more time with him and we've been going back and playing the nostalgics, recently BO3 Zombies, and it's really felt great to have a friend and brother again. Would love to play more uncharted with him.

I've been eyeing returnal but couldn't bring myself to buy it. I want returnal from the list thanks

Thanks for the giveaway. I am interested in Hogwarts Legacy. I am happy that the steam deck has help make gaming on Linux possible.

I don't want anything out of this for myself, as I currently have enough on my plate as it is. I'm just commenting to boost engagement. I love that you're doing this, though! Happy holidays, everyone! *<|:-)

I would love the uncharted collection, loved watching my dad play the games as a kid and its always been my favorite, used to even wear a copy nathans ring, havent gotten to play it in years since I sold my ps4 and havent had the money to buy a fullpriced playstation game!

Some things that made me happy this year:

• My best friend has some issues that occasionally make interacting with them difficult. This year I got a lot better at handling those moments in a more graceful way, which has led to less stress for (hopefully) both of us.
• I got a lot better at handling my time in a productive way this year.
• I made a lot of big steps toward significantly changing my work situation in a way that I'm hopeful will turn out for the better.

And some games I enjoyed playing this year include Hogwarts Legacy, Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Pico Park with my niece, New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe, Crash Bandicoot 2 (From the trilogy game), Super Mario Wonder, Stray, and Manifold. I 100%'d all of those except Zelda and Manifold (Which I'm still playing).

Hard call for me between Horizon Zero Dawn and either Spider-Man game since I've had both on my radar for a while, but I'll go in for Spider-Man Remastered 🕷🕸 Happy Holidays ♡

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Miles Morales!

Played the Forest one in PS4 and haven’t had a lot of time to try out new games since starting a new job.

Happy holidays, and thanks for being a generous soul!

I just wanna say you're so cool for doing this. Merry Crimmas 🎄

I've been waiting to try out Returnal!

Spiderman Remastered would be cool.

Whoa this is cool, thanks for doing this. I'm interested in Hogwarts Legacy. I've played Elden Ring, God of War, and HZD. I really struggled with HZD, though. Couldn't get into it for some reason.

Thank you for the generosity, that's wonderful of you to do. There's no games of interest to me on that list, but thank you for doing that for others.