Have not owned a new gaming platform in years but getting our son a PS5 for Christmas. What are your favorite games? Thanks and Merry Christmas!

Ooooh boy. Lots of options depending on who's playing but I'll just list a few off the top of my head.

Clair Obscur Expedition 33 (Best modern game I have ever played.)
God of War and God of War Ragnarok
The Last of Us (not sure about The Last of Us 2, I couldn't get into it.)
Crash Bandocoot N sane trilogy (also CTR if yall like racing games.)
Battlefield 6 is excellent for a MP shooter type game.
Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West.
The Outer Worlds (1 & 2)
Death Stranding (1 & 2)
Hogwarts Legacy
The Witcher 3
Cyberpunk 2077
Burnout Paradise remake

Probly many others I'm forgetting but that's a decent start there.

Buy a year of PS Plus Premium.

Games on PS Plus Premium worth trying:

Bloodborne
Celeste
Control
Cyberpunk 2077
Dave the Diver
Days Gone
Death Stranding
Demons Souls
Detroit Become Human
Deus Ex Mankind Divided
Dishonored
Dishonored 2
Doom
Doom Eternal
Dredge
Fallout 4
Final Fantasy VII Remake/Intergrade
Ghost of Tsushima
God of War
God of War Ragnarok
Grand Theft Auto V
Hogwarts Legacy
Hollow Knight
Spider-Man
Spider-Man Miles Morales
Nioh
Overcooked
Prey
Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart
Red Dead Redemption
Returnal
Tomb Raider
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Sackboy A Big Adventure
Shadow of the Colossus
Silent Hill 2
Sword of the Sea
Turtles Shredders Revenge
Terraria
Skyrim
The Last Guardian
The Last of Us Part I/II
Uncharted 1-4 + Lost Legacy
Undertale
Until Dawn
Untitled Goose Game
Wolfenstein games

Lots of Lego games

How old is he and does he have any favorite games/genres?

For a kid I would say:
- Astro bot
- Fortnite / battlefield if they are into those
- Ratchet & Clank
- Lego games
- Spider-Man 1 & 2

Agree with the above... get a PS+ subscription (I'd recommend the middle tier) and you'll have access to a crap ton of "free" games. And these are top tier games, not crap that nobody wants to play.

He is 9 loves games like undertale, hollow knight, silk song, portal. I will be playing as well haha.

Astro Bot and Astro Bots Playroom. Sackboys Big Adventure on PS+ Premium.

hph6203 said:

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Astro Bot and Astro Bots Playroom. Sackboys Big Adventure on PS+ Premium.

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This. All bangers for all ages.

Kage00 said:

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He is 9 loves games like undertale, hollow knight, silk song, portal. I will be playing as well haha.

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For you, Arc Raiders, if you like extraction shooter type games and have friends to play it with. It's a lot more fun playing as a team with people you know.

I just finished The Last of Us Part 1 last night and it's incredible. Dark and depressing but incredible.

Yeah, first question should have been "age?"

Some of these recs, I would not let a 9yo play.

Thanks everyone! Merry Christmas!!

Even if you don't like the movies much, my son got me Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora a while back and it is super fun. It's an open world game on Pandora and you get to fight a lot of cool battles. Think Red Dead Redemption 2 but with Avatar lol. It's really a LOT of fun and surprised the heck out of me.