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[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Satisfactory

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

Portal

Breath of the Wild

Alan Wake 2

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

Factorio.

Dwarf fortress but I haven't played that in a long time. It will outlast most other games however.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Team Fortress 2

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Minecraft. Even with all the shitty updates there is so much to be done in Minecraft that it’s honestly mind boggling. Almost anything is possible especially with mods. Only downside is Microsoft’s greedy ass owns it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Otherwise known as M$

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Slay The Spire. Really excited for the sequel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Valheim and Prey (2017)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

Either Chrono Trigger or Pokemon White

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Mother 3

it feels like it was made for my brain specifically to enjoy it lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

No idea. Too many to pick from.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Portal is amazing, also the community DLC but unfortunately not my greatest.

I'd go with something like Satisfactory or Dota 2 (gasp).

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

My favorite game, the game I can always come back to, is The Elder Scrolls III - Morrowind

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

WHAT A GRAND AN INTOXICATING ANSWER

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Wealth beyond measure, sera.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Grim Fandango. Despite the weird tank controls, it created such an amazing world - and all in a point-and-click adventure. My home PC is named Manny, our NAS is Eva, the router/firewall is Glottis, and so on.

Also, Psychonauts. Just a perfect 3D platformer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Grim Fandango is an amazing story about life and death and love...

... Built upon an engine where the protagonist walks around at sloth speed. Manny Calavaras just sashays along, and there's no way to speed his ass up. I wish you could hit escape or something to skip him walking in and out of scenes, but nope! I'm forced to watch him drag his feet from location to location.

But the most touching parts of the story stick with me after 20 years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Have you played Psychonatus 2? How does it compare? I haven't, but I've been wanting to, but I also have limited time, so I'm looking for the next game after Baldur's Gate 3, which I'll complete in the next 3-4 months with my availability lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I have. In fact, I backed the development of it.

Definitely worth playing. Maybe a bit less memorable than the original, but also a bit more consistent. There are no huge difficulty spikes like the Meat Circus in the original.

The story is a bit more complex, and a bit more muted. Most of the levels are less memorable. But absolutely worth the time to play and enjoy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Detroit: Become Human

It was the only story ever that has pulled me in completely. I wasn't just playing it, I was living it. It took me 2 more days to come down to earth after finishing it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Dwarf Fortress.

They're even making sequels to "the carp stands up" now. They added exercise to the game, and now carps get fucking ripped as fuck just swimming upstream, so when they start walking on land they're there to just destroy you and everything you hold dear.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I wasn't going to say df but I'm realising now after thousands of hours in that game there's STILL new things to learn, that was a wild ride thank you

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I'll probably always think that Tetris is the greatest video game ever. The inherent dramatic arc that comes with watching the blocks stack up is tension directly within you the player, not you watching tension unfold for characters on the screen. It's different every time, even if the shape of the arc is similar, because you improve as a player. It's the kind of emergent involvement the most designers could only aspire to create.

That said of course Shadow of the Colossus is also a favorite. That one probably feels a little more obvious, but I'm okay with that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Tomb Raider 1.

I'm replaying the remastered trilogy for the first time since I was a teenager. The level design is outstanding. Very clever re-use of the same areas, just at different heights.

It's inspiration from side-scroller prince of persia (also played this obsessively as a young child) is palpable. The movement system is revolutionary.

And the enemy progression is hilarious. First you fight some bats, then you fight some wolves, then you fight motherfucking Velociraptors, then a goddamned T-Rex. And thats not even close to the weirdest enemy you'll fight. Boss battles are evenly spaced until they aren't. when you have two boss battles immediately one after the other.

And then eventiually, you get to the pulsating flesh caves...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Cyberpunk 2077 for me, it has everything, an amazing story with great characters, fantastic gameplay, a banger soundtrack, and an interesting world that's fun to explore and feels like a real place.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I’d say Baldur’s Gate 3.

With Demons’ Souls a close second. For those of us who got to play that game before Dark Souls became a thing, when we knew next to nothing about what to expect, it was an almost revelatory experience.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

And later, Emerald Mine on the Amiga. So many hours of my life, gone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I never had a C64 and was pretty jealous of this series.

I played a few DOS based clones and various ports and they were pretty cool but from what I've seen everything they've done with the franchise since 2000 has been soulless.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Metal Gear Solid 3

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Last of Us part 2.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was always a discworld mud player... Lots of time there. But I bounced around many :⁠-⁠P

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I tried finding others but kept coming back to the one. Helped that i read a lot of fantasy and they used a lot of content i was already familiar with, but it was also the remorting system that entranced me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, there was something special about the communities that built up around these games...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I simply cannot agree more

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Baldur's Gate 3. Hands down. Red Dead Redemption 2 is probably number 2. That said, I have more hours in World of Warcraft than every other game combined. It was an entire lifestyle for a few years back in the day. But WoW was good because of the people, not because of the gameplay.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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