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So here is a generic question, I feel like I've been sharing too many news articles. My favorite so far is Final Doom - The Plutonia Experiment however it seems like Celeste can take it's place. How about you? Bonus question: What is your favorite genre? I love First Person Shooters most myself.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Fortnite. I dont care if i get cancelled

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

REEEEEEEE! /s

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

Probably the first Portal. It's one of the first games I had on PC that I didn't pirate (technically the first, but I bought like 5 of them at once, so...), and it's also the one that got me into the idea of recording and editing gameplay, which basically got me started into the path of the job I have today, even if it's not directly related by it.

And it still holds up, that's what's the most amazing part of it. There's been alrady 8 years since I played it and it's still a simple, amazing game. Where the sequel went for a more flashy and film-esque approach to its story, this first game gets the mood way more, in my opinion.

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

the portal games are absolute gems! I still haven finished portal 1 (finding it a bit tougher to beat that portal 2) I really hope valve make a portal 3 some day, the games have such a great atmosphere.

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

I unironically think Euro Truck Simulator 2 is one of the best games ever made. I don't drive or have interest in car / trucks. But it's a great game to play while listening to a podcast or some YouTube video. It's really atmospheric and relaxing, zero stress.

Aside from that, Rimworld, Stellaris, Counter Stringe GO, Fistful of Frags.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

ETS2 is such a chill game. It helped me relieve stress as a student. I wish I could give it a go in VR with my Logitech G29. Sadly, VR is expensive :-(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

A friend of mine was big into ETS 2, don't know if my PC can handle it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Some of my favs, in no order whatsoever

  • Super Metroid
  • Mega Man X
  • Super Mario World
  • Tetris
  • Mario Kart
  • Max Payne
  • Duck hunt
  • Time crisis
  • Street fighter 2
  • Contra 3
  • smash bros
  • counter strike 1.6
  • Warcraft 3
  • red alert 2
  • virtua tennis
  • Wii sports
  • lost vikings
  • lemmings
  • Halo
  • Diablo 2
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

A fello retro gamer I see :) On this list I probably love the Tetris the most followed by Super Metroid or Max Payne

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Max payne is a guilty pleasure for me, I replay it every year. Cheesy at times but I love film noir.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago

I didn't find it very cheesy myself, that thing is real dark. I should play the sequel sometime.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago
  • Kingdom Hearts series
  • Final Fantasy series
  • Dynasty Warriors series
  • Left 4 Dead series
  • Uncharted series
  • Spec Ops: The Line
  • Duet
  • Detroit: Become Human
  • Never Alone
  • Shadow Of The Colossus
  • (and many more...)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago (1 children)

I may have spent thousands of hours in Civilization V, Rimworld, Europa Universalis IV and Pokémon games, but if I had to choose…

  • Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – One of the first big RPGs I played. It was the 3DS version and I loved every second of it.
  • Animal Crossing: Wild World – Even though the graphics were shitty on the DS, I adore the cozy feel of the game. Everything is so smol and tightly packed together, and visiting friends in this tiny world was the shit back in the day.
  • Minecraft – Maybe it's the early nostalgia in me, but I feel like I'll never really grow out of this game. Caving and building are just so fun, and I could always return to a new save and start exploring some of that b1.7.3.
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (5 children)

Celeste is definitely my favorite game of all time, but favorite genre would have to roguelikes

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

I love Celeste too, but it is certainly quite a tough game, I couldn't finish it and I took a break that was too long and now I'm gonna have to start over because all the muscle memory is gone :(

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago

Celeste

they made a whole subreddit parodying that one, so it must be a hidden gem.

It's quite a good game though.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (1 children)

Crypt of the Necrodancer is pretty great (and has one of the best soundtracks ever).

Stellaris is a great game to sink time into.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

I really should give NecroDancer a try once I'm done with my current games it looks really cool. Shame they made it into a Zelda crossover :(

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Shame they made it into a Zelda crossover :(

You don't have to play that one ;)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago

Well I can't play even if I wanted to, I don't have a switch. Thankfully I don't.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

My favorite multiplayer game is Counter-Strike (source and GO) and for my fav singleplayer game i'd say Assassin's Creed Brotherhood. FPS are clearly my favorite genre :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (2 children)

Counter Strike and most multiplayer stuff never looked good to me to be honest :/. Looks toxic and not skill based. I do enjoy playing Xonotic aganist bots tho, it's really fun in short bursts.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Looks toxic and not skill based

it's very much skill based, but also very toxic. Most multiplayer skill-based PvP games are toxic as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

When I died in games like this it never felt like I did something wrong. I couldn't even see the enemy player, guns are hitscans so you can't avoid them. Painfully slow movement doesn't help. It's about reflexes and memorizing map layouts, I personally don't find it fun at all.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago

How many hours do you have in that game? If you play Casual with a new account you have at least 1 cheater in every game statistically.

It gets better when you're ranked in the top 20%, but that also takes lots of hours (200+) and good reflexes.

You don't only memorise the map layouts, you also have to know when and where to smoke, when to reload, how to approach bombsites, how to communicate with your teammates etc. – the game has a very low bar to entry but a veeeery high skill ceiling and a steep and bumpy learning curve until you get there. The best CSGO players can outplay a whole team.

The higher the rank, the more CSGO becomes like a variant of battle-chess crossed with rock-paper-scissors. Aim and reactions become less and less important at high levels.

it never felt like I did something wrong

I understand where you're coming from, but I'm certain you did something wrong. A few years ago I put a wiki page together to help people get into the tactical aspect of CSGO: https://wiki.tilde.fun/guide/csgo

It's probably totally outdated by now since I didn't play this for a long time now, but most of the basics still apply. If you watch one or two guides, you'll certainly know what you did wrong. I ordered them chronologically, so you can start at the top and it gets more sophisticated at the bottom of the list.

It's totally understandable you don't want to put work into a game which is supposed to be enjoyable. I also don't have the time to do that currently, so I play more casual games nowadays – to say that you "can't avoid" guns, the game has "slow movement" and it's "all about reflexes and memorizing map layouts" just tells me you're used to play an arena shooter with totally different dynamics.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago

CS has clearly a toxic community but it's really skill based though. I've never tried Xonotic but it reminds me of Cube 2: Sauerbraten so it seems really fun ^^

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (3 children)

Metroid Prime

I can't put into words how much I love that game.

I really can't decide between RPG, Metroid-like or just good plain Adventure for my favorite genre, but most of my favorite games are one of those.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago

Please, do! From soundtrack, to ambiance, to gameplay, it's all just so good, and the game aged like wine.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

I want to try that game but I don't think setting it up on Dolphin with mouse and keyboard would be the most straightforward.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago

I believe there are guides for exactly that. You can even use the mouse as the Wii cursor if you play the MP Trilogy version, it's definitely worth a try.

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