…OR I will refer to records as “vinyl CDs” like I did last time.
You have been warned.
Don’t test me; I will do it!
Current games I have on my sights are:
The original Deus Ex
Ib
Infinity Nikki
Remnant II
Silent Hill II (through emulation)
Dragon’s Dogma II
Slay the Princess
ELEX and ELEX 2
Dread Delusion
Daggerfall
Morrowind
Hylics 1 and 2
RuneScape 3 (not RuneScape Classic… I know, I know, don’t hurt me!)
Currently playing:
Elden Ring (finishing it)
OMORI (slowly taking my time in finishing it)
Fallout 76 (much better than what it was at launch; if anyone wants to play with me, they may ask me)
Recently finished:
Disco Elysium
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous (y’all should play both Pathfinder CRPG games)
Love:
CRPGs
MMORPGs (yes, even now)
Open-world games (…yes, even with the over-saturation)
Decision-making
Stealth games
Pacifist runs
Minor horror elements? Eh, idk, nothing, like, over-bearing, ig
Macabre horror (basically, horror that isn’t horror; just has the aesthetic)
3D platformers (like Super fucking Mario; you know, the Italian-American voiced by Chris Pratt)
Mods, mods, mods
Not too fucking long; let me finish a game when I want to easily (so, basically, not, like, Persona 5-levels of long, idk)
Anything like Majora’s Mask
“Nautical games” (Wind Waker, Dredge, etc.)
“Classic games” (basically, games through emulation)
VR games, oddly enough
“Cozy games”
“girl games” shovel-ware (basically, the precursor to “cozy games”; the type of shit you found on the Nintendo Wii)
Interactivity outside of the actual game (I don’t know much about Pokemon Go… but what I do know is Pokemon Go to the polls)
Dungeon crawlers (think: King’s Field)
Music with lyrics, idk (I don’t know much about Quavo… but what I do know is Quavo go to the polls)
Good music. Banger music, even.
No loading screens; seriously, let me start up a game and just play. I feel like starting up a game nowadays is sometimes a whole process.
Non-Western games (…Eh, tbh, I don’t really have a bias, I’m just sort-of interested in how they’re developing and what they have to bring… SO think: Chinese, Vietnamese, Russian, Indian, African, Latin American, etc.)
Nintendo games…
…or anything LIKE a Nintendo game (with wacky gameplay, idk)
Autistic games… Okay, so far, I think OMORI is, like, the only “Autistic game” out there, but surprise me.
LGBTQIA+ games
BIPOC character games
… okay, that’s all, you don’t even have to follow these requirements at all; hell, be a little creative and use your own insight.
Okay… now…
…SHOOT!
(No, wait, put the gun away!)
I can recommend 2 games.
The first is Dying Light, a first-person open-world parkour game with weapons based combat set in a quarantined city where a virus has transformed most inhabitants in zombies. What sets it apart, for me at least, is the parkour. It is one of the few games i have played where most of the time i refuse to fast travel because it is more fun to parkour my way to the objective through the zombie infested areas.
The second recommendation is The Messenger, an 8-bit platformer. The gameplay is good, the areas are well crafted and story is enjoying. The higlights here are the music and the relation dynamic between the main character and the shopkeeper. The person behind the sountrack is a genius when it comes to retro music. Most of the ost is straight bangers one after another. The game is oozing with passion and it pains me that so few people know about its existence.
Dungeon crawlers
Have you heard of Vaporum? It’s a neat little dungeon crawler in the vein of Legend of Grimrock but steampunk.
Darkest Dungeon probably doesn’t count since it’s more of a rogue-like than a crawler, plus pretty much everyone’s played it or heard of it.
CRPGs
I suppose since you’ve played Pathfinder you must have played Pillars of Eternity too. If not, I highly recommend it, it’s one of the best modern CRPGs imo, very much in the vein of the classics like Baldur’s Gate 2.
Divinity: Original Sin was good as well. And of course there’s Dragon Age: Origins which is great, but sadly the rest of that series is fairly mediocre. I’m not a big Bioware fan.
Macabre horror
Have you played Little Nightmares? There’s also a couple of creepy Point and Click adventures that i really liked such as Fran Bow and Little Misfortune.
“Nautical games”
This isn’t a genre i’m very familiar with but I’ve heard Sunless Sea is quite good if you’re into that sort of game, and it’s got a bit of a Lovecraft-y aesthetic/lore. Haven’t played it myself though.
Open-world games
This is a long shot since these games are so old by now that probably most people interested in open world RPGs have played them (or haven’t given them a try because the graphics/controls are too outdated) but Gothic 1 and 2 are some of my favorite open world games of all time.
That’s about it for what I can recommend in the genres you mentioned. I’m more into strategy games myself (mainly turn-based but also some RTS and city builders), i can recommend a bunch of those if you want but my experience with other genres is a bit more limited.
I’ve been neck deep into fallout London since it was released. If you want to play you’ll do yourself a huge favor if you get fallout 4 goty from gog, no downgrade process and way easier to setup. But I’ve been a really big fallout fan since 3.
I also play fallout 76 on PC. I’ve completed the season so I’m only hopping on to do biv’s dailies since they work again, but once the season turns I’m sure I’ll be on a lot more again. Message me if you want my steam name
Honestly, I do like Fallout 76 so far, but I should probably try Fallout London soon enough.
Certainly some glitches once you get it running but as I understand the first patch is coming. It’s a whole new game in the universe, really blown away by how much they did. If you come into it expecting Bethesda jank you won’t be disappointed, but holy cow is it such a different game than 4
Lately (or for a long while now) I’ve been mainly playing gachas, so there’s hesitance to reccomend them no matter how great they are (if you’re still curious though; Reverse 1999 and Honkai: Star Rail are the ones I’d probs recommend most). And others have mostly mentioned titles I liked, and then there are the well-known names that feel a bit too obvious to recommend… (Hollow Knight, Hades, and Monster Hunter: World as some choice ones if you’re asking though)
If you want a neat little game with platforming and where you control spiders, though, Webbed is a fun one. Peglin is also a neat pachinko-roguelike game. Astral Ascent is also great (roguelike platformer). And Ooblets (farming-Pokemonlike nonviolent cozy game) is also amazing.
Also, since it came to mind recently when thinking on
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if kinetic VNs (ie. no choices involved) are your thing, Seabed is great.
Have you tried Noita? It doesn’t directly hit most of your points but comes kinda adjacent.
It’s a 2d pixel art roguelike where you play a witch searching for the ultimate secret of alchemy - turning base elements into gold. It uses a falling sands style physics engine and coding-like spell creation that allows you to create spells of truly obscene power (you can somewhat judge the power of a spell by how many fps you lose when casting) along your journey, though reaching the bottom of the dungeon and beating the final boss is generally considered the tutorial. The real secrets of the game are found in discussion boards where people have worked together to discover hidden things and unlock their uses, and start with going any direction but down and eventually reaches skipping across parallel universes to get more copies of what you’ve already taken from the original world.
You can do big multi hour runs that take forever but generally I find I get killed within 30-40 minutes of starting a run.
