This is a followup to @SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net ‘s recent thread for completeness’ sake.
I’ll state an old classic that is seen as a genre defining game because it is: Myst. Yes, it redefined the genre… in ways I fucking hated and that the adventure game genre took decades to fully recover from. It was a pompous mess in its presentation and was the worst kind of “doing action does vague thing or nothing at all, where is your hint book” puzzle gameplay wrapped in graphical hype which ages pretty poorly as far as appeal qualities go.
So many adventure games tried to be Myst afterward that the sheer budgetary costs and redundancy of the also-rans crashed the adventure game genre for years.
HZD. Got it as people were raving about how great it was and I thought the dinos seemed neat. Then got to the point where the game open up and how much of an arrow sponge the bigger ones are, tried to see if I was doing something wrong and then realised that it was actually intended. The combat is way too clunky for that to work for me.
The rest of the game also didn’t make up for it, so I just dropped it after I went to the big city to see if there was anything there which would hook me.
Also played FF7 on the PC back in the day and it bores the shit out of me.
Gta V was a downgrade from Gta 4 in all the ways that mattered.
All of the dark souls shit, Steelrising is the only one that looks promising.
I could not get into Terraria no matter how many times I tried.
Path of exile is a bloated, convoluted mess with shoehorned multiplayer elements. The mtx are also awful and do not get nearly enough hate as they should.
half life 2 was a glorified tech demo with so many bloviating “immersive first person cutscenes” that it felt like a parody.
Halo 3’s campaign was not good and the multiplayer was just ok. Forge was not revolutionary, it only seemed like it because it was locked to console with no mod tools.
Borderlands, tried two different games over the past 7 years and neither time was it fun. Fps games should not have arpg items.
The mario, zelda, and pokemon series. The little I’ve seen of them made me never want to play them, like pokemon is literally just cock fighting but with epic wacky monster-pets.
Diablo 2 resurrection, the remaster, does not have a skill bar unless you use a controller. I will never willingly put myself through garbage controls straight from the 2000’s when I could just play Grim Dawn instead.
You dislike such a wide swath of games I have to ask what you actually do enjoy
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I really like Gta 4 and every few years I return to it. I don’t usually finish it because I think the last bit of the game with the mafia kind of drags a bit. The driving is really good even if it’s a bit too weighty and shooting guns in it is great. I liked Gta 3 a lot and occasionally I’ll play through it again although its age is showing and last time I tried my save got corrupted. Used to like Vice City a lot but last time I tried it I just couldn’t get into it.
Kenshi is amazing, I recommend everyone try it. Perfect amount of jank and a ton of mods available. I really want to play it again after I complete Baldur’s gate. Actually progressing was kind of hard at first and it wasn’t until like my 3rd character where I got the hang of it.
Nightmare Reaper was something someone recommended here and it’s fantastic, I didn’t think I’d enjoy it so I pirated it and I was completely wrong. Bought it almost immediately after, it just rocks. Also found Selaco through it which also seems very promising if it ever releases.
Project Zomboid is awesome, one of the first games I’ve managed to get a high playtime in a while. Very atmospheric and we even have a server.
Grim Dawn is great and the best arpg to date. Since it came out anytime I try a different arpg I just end up playing this one again. 3rd xpac was just announced so next year I’ll definitely return to it. Diablo 2 is good but it’s old and I don’t want to bother fiddling with the weird skill changing or making an ahk script to do it.
Mount and blade Warband + Bannerlord. Warband was mindblowing the first time I tried it and Bannerlord is mostly just an improved version.
I discovered Barony at the start of this year and it was a ton of fun.
Kingdom Come was pretty fun even though it’s not nearly as hard or realistic as the gamers like to claim.
Dos2 and Baldur’s gate 3 are terrific. I’ve been thinking about trying Dos2 again sometime after bg3 but I’ve also already been thinking about doing another playthrough of Bg3 even though I haven’t completed it yet
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I’ve been regularly playing Halo 1 for the past 20 years and I played a lot of Minecraft a few years ago. Every now and again I play Squad but it’s really hit or miss. I started playing Dex a few months ago but I got distracted by Nightmare Reaper, the little bit I played of it seemed cool and I want to return to it. I think someone on here got me to try Scratching Melodii but I found it hard to play on a keyboard so I just learned one of the songs instead - the little bit I did was fun though.
I really liked Swat 4 and played a ton of it in 2018, it’s not what it sounds like and you cannot play like an actual pig. After Bernie lost I played Age of Wonders 3 and it was fun. I used to play a lot of Payday 2 stealth but I think I finally hit my limit on that. I completed Feeding Frenzy twice, really cool little fishy game. Replayed Chaos theory a few years ago and it was pretty fun despite compatibility issues and bad politics. I played the ww2 Rising Storm very briefly and I played the Vietnam one during the beta but never bought it. I got Remnant for free 2 years ago and had a lot of fun doing a playthrough of that. I used to really like Killing Floor but I got very burnt out on it.
Something applicable to the Soros thread would be Area 51 I think, I really like that game despite its mediocrity. I really wanted to like Alice Madness returns but the port is so bad that I just gave up, very unfortunate because the game itself seems really good.
I have Disco Elysium, Partisans, Cyberpunk, hidden gem Geraldo, Control, Steelrising, and Bright on my maybe to do list. Gog keeps recommending me more boomer shooters and rpgs that I’ll probably end up trying someday too.
You actually have a pretty cool taste in games. You seem to favor sandbox style stuff and RPGs. That’s cool.
If you’re into boomer shooters, the Hypnospace Outlaw devs made a Duke Nukem 3D style game: Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayer. It’s hilarious. Zorch is also worth a shot.
You may or may not like Shadows of Doubt? It’s still in early access, but it’s shaping up to be really intriguing. Big open city where you’re a detective solving mysteries however you may please.
I loved Halo, but I played so much Halo back in the day, and a couple of stretches since, that now when I jump into any part of halo 1, 2 or 3 I am instantly bored to tears. I played it all on like Legendary and half the time I was reloading to keep every Marine alive or some shit. I have seen every corridor just tooooo many goddamn times
Oh also despite being that much into Halo, I never finished Infinite. Didnt hate it just had no motivation to keep playing. I think the meaningless ally respawn farms were part of it
Bastion, the hack and slash is too mechanically simple to be engaging and the narrator shtick gets old real quick.
Papers Please. However, Obra Dinn is one of my favorite games.
Pretty much all Blizzard games if you exclude SC and WC customs.
Elden ring, sure felt like the 9th demon souls just more barren land added to it, really didnt help that open world are just tacked on shit and an overused trope now.
Horizon Zero Dawn. It felt more like a tech/graphics demo than an actual game. Still haven’t finished it and can’t see myself doing it. I don’t know how they managed to make robot dinosaurs so boring.
Also every call of duty after the original modern warfare 3. Yes, including black ops 2. I actually think black ops 2 was one of the worst call of duty games, the overuse of the three lane cookie cutter map design really screwed up multiplayer FPS games for a good 5 years after its release.
Also another controversial take, skill based matchmaking is good and more games should implement it. It forces you to actually play people at your skill level and prevents pointless pubstomping. If you want to have mindless fun with long killstreaks, just play against the AI/bots.
