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What games can you recommend that didn't get the appreciation that they deserved? (lemmy.world)
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I've been recently been thinking about Arkane Studio's Prey which is a immersive sim, with a pretty good rogue like dlc, that probably has one of the strongest hooks of any game I've played. If you liked Halflife, System Shock, or Deus Ex it's definitely worth a play.

Are there any titles that might not have been commercially successful that you feel everyone should give a shot?

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[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago

I feel like Outer Wilds was drowned out by Outer Worlds, and the two often get mixed up, usually to Outer Worlds’ favor.

One of my top 10 games.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

Seems to me like Outer Wilds outshone Outer Worlds if anything. I never hear anyone talking of Outer Worlds anymore, but Outer Wilds is still brought up as one of the greatest indie games out there.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

In a way, yeah! But I stand by the fact that a lot of people bought Outer Worlds thinking it was Outer Wilds.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Outer Worlds is an actual work of art that still manages to play and feel great.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

the PC version is pretty fucked in the “feel great” department. the engine itself renders frames at arbitrary framerates just fine, but the animations (including the camera) only update at up to 60 FPS, with no in-game option to cap the frame rate to that animation rate. vsync doesn’t work properly with high refresh rates, and external framerate limiters aren’t able to get a good match. it’s borderline impossible to get this game to feel smooth with proper frame pacing, even with a vrr display.

best i could get was to use external tools to force the game to set my monitor to 60 hz, then turn on vsync in game, but this added a ton of input lag

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Ah that's too bad to hear, it felt just right on PS4

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Mannnn. Outer Wilds is so freaking good. I had put it off for a while, but then last year I decided to go through it. It managed to be the perfect game at the perfect time. Raw intrigue and fascination turned into somehow helping me cope with the loss of my sister and dad who I had lost very recently at the time.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Best game ever made, really is. First I'd played in years that felt like a fresh new experience.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It really did

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Really unfortunate they both came out around the same time. Although I think the actual target markets were different.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah, completely different markets. My friend bought the wrong one and for months he wouldn’t try outer wilds because it “wasn’t his sort of game” when it totally was.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I've never heard about Outer Wolrd, however, have been recommended Outer Wilds and it was supposed to be my summer game (but I forgot)

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