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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Team Fortress 2

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (2 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] 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Only downside is Microsoft’s greedy ass owns it

I feel compelled to mention Luanti here, just in case it's not on your radar. Also VoxLibre.

It's uh, well it's done.

And it's fully open source so it continues to grow.

And it's lighter and faster and has cleaner network code than MineCraft.

And it doesn't have M$ enshitifying it.

Disclaimer: I love this game and want to see the community grow and grow forever. It's so good and I want to keep playing it until I die.

Edit: I forgot to mention it's completely free and runs great on Windows, Linux, SteamDeck and Android.

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

Otherwise known as M$

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

Portal

Breath of the Wild

Alan Wake 2

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

Slay The Spire. Really excited for the sequel.

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

Satisfactory

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

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

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

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

Valheim and Prey (2017)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Mother 3

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

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

Factorio.

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 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 4 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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Wealth beyond measure, sera.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 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] 7 points 4 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] 7 points 4 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 2 days 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 3 days 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 2 days 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] 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days 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] 12 points 4 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] 1 points 2 days ago

Either Chrono Trigger or Pokemon White

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days 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] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Minecraft, circa 2015. It was a religion.

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[–] otp 9 points 4 days ago

Star Control 2

The Ur-Quan Masters

Free Stars

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Metal Gear Solid 3

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

The Mass Effect Trilogy. By the time I was fighting in London I wondered where this game had been all my life.

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

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] 1 points 17 hours ago

Yeah. Tomb Raider is wayup there.

I remember being relieved when I survived the encounter with the bear, knowing that it was definitely going to be the scariest creature I would encounter. Lol.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Breath of the wild.

Played it on a friends new Switch and bought a Switch and that game three days later. I was so immersed in this weird and wonderful world...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Barbie horse adventures

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

No idea. Too many to pick from.

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