Definitely the newest XBox controllers. I’ve always preferred the shape and the offset sticks. Plus the D-pad isn’t too bad this time around either.

The DualSense controllers are pretty close. It helps that they’ve slowly just morphed towards being like the Xbox.

SP with the NES color scheme for sure.

I don’t really care whether a game is indie or AAA. I just see a game that I want to play and looks interesting, and then I’ll play it.

But I will say, that once I had kids and began having limited time to play (or at least limited time to focus on games for more than small chunks of time), I’ve tended to favor AAA games over indie games. Mainly because there are plenty of games out there in the AAA space if you have varied insterest in genres.

In the last six-ish months I’ve played Destiny 2, Diablo IV, LotRO, Elden Ring, Code Vein, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, emulated FFII (still AAA), Lost Odyssey, Diablo 2 Resurrected, Disgaea 5 Complete, Atelier Ryza 2, Pokemon Violet, Skyrim and Vagrant Story. The games that might be considered indie that I’ve spent time on is Hades and SOMA.

There just isn’t a lot of room to fit in other indie games between all of those. And I’m still not even playing all the games I’ve technically purchased in that time period which includes Shin Megami Tensei V and Tales of Vesparia for the Switch.

Starfield and Armored Core VI in that order.

Been playing Skyrim for way to long and really hoping for a new game to scratch that itch.

It’s hard to get excited about Microsoft’s game offerings these days as it feels like it’s been a while since they’ve had a big win on the game side of things. If a had to predict anything it would be that MS doesn’t come out with anything to surprising, they keep it simple and focus on building hype for Starfield.

Which, btw, I hope turns out great both because Xbox needs a win and no game since Skyrim has scratched that same gaming itch for me, so I’m really counting on Bethesda coming through.