• Toes♀
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    124 months ago

    A Hat in Time. Is a phenomenal platformer collectathon. It flirts with many themes and is overall one of my favourite games.

    Here’s where it falls short. The online co-op is junk and doesn’t work how you’d hope. The DLCs are kinda bad but it’s nice to have more.

  • @[email protected]
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    44 months ago

    Gunfire Reborn. It’s a roguelite FPS that is fun to play with friends. It’s very jumpy shooty. I really dig the handling in it, and there are lots of weapons and abilities and play styles and due to the rogue like nature of it, you get to experiment with lots of stuff. It’s lots of fun, but not super deep.

    Phasmaphobia. Been playing this one for years somehow. It’s a ghost hunting game but you don’t actually hunt ghosts, you collect evidence to identify the type of ghost that is haunting a place. The ghosts will kill you though. It no longer makes me scream like it used to, but I still get chills from it. If you’re looking to soil your underwear, it’s a good time.

  • @[email protected]
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    114 months ago

    Planetside 2. That experience of actually fighting with thousands of players on the same map is something no other game can give. Otherwise it’s not really a super good game and the graphics actually got worse at some point by largely removing PhysX. Sadly the company owning it doesn’t want to put money into it and the playerbase is much smaller today than some years ago.

  • @[email protected]
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    214 months ago

    Superliminal

    “Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.”

    It’s a fun first person puzzle game that has a surreal theme and game mechanic to it. Most of the puzzles and levels will make you really think. While there was a puzzle that really stumped me, I ended up having to look online to figure it out because I had been going at it for over 30 minutes and had tried numerous things to get it to work. But as a whole, I found the game puzzles to be worthwhile, to obtain the ending game. The storytelling and narration is similar to The Stanley Parable, which was an interesting game but too short for my liking. And unfortunately, so was Superliminal. I’ve clocked 3.4 hours in-game and at least 30 or so minutes of that was just trying to figure out one of the puzzles in a room. I honestly was hoping for the game to provide me with at least 4-5 hours of gameplay. So… a 7/10 is what I would end up giving it.

    • BougieBirdie
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      54 months ago

      Did you get the secret ending where

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      You find a pawn in the control room?

      I did on my first playthrough, thought the game ended far too early before I realized I had gone down an alternate route.

      It’s still pretty short though

      • @[email protected]
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        34 months ago

        I believe so.

        spoiler

        Though, this was a while ago. Back in May of 2023. But I do recall messing with a pawn near the end… but there were plenty of pawns throughout the game. Now you have me second guessing and it makes me want to play through the game again to make sure I didn’t miss anything haha.

    • spicy pancake
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      24 months ago

      I also encountered a bug that broke a puzzle and my buddy and I wasted 2 hours being incredibly frustrated before we caved, looked it up, and realized we solved it immediately but the game was just taking a shit. That sole bug brought it down from 9/10 to 7/10 imho. Still very much enjoyed it, perfect example

    • @[email protected]
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      84 months ago

      I ended up breaking the game when I kept going through the hallway that makes you smaller. Eventually the game couldn’t handle everything being so large lol

    • @[email protected]
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      114 months ago

      JC3 and 4 were pretty great. JC4 was really just JC3 but more of the same which was fine with me.

      JC2 was amazing, I really should go back and replay that.

  • Stern
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    24 months ago

    Aces Wild. - 2D action game with a dodge mechanic that felt kinda like Bayonetta’s. Also laser dog pee.

  • defunct_punk
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    44 months ago

    Most of them tbh. Two examples: Homefront: the Revolution (2016) and Maneater (2020)

  • Björn Tantau
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    94 months ago

    The First Tree

    A beautiful personal little game about death and mourning. Got it for free because the developer gave out keys to an old forum dedicated to Dark Forces 2 editing, which basically started his career.

    The Dark Pictures Anthology

    Basically Until Dawn and The Quarry with lower budget. It shows but I can overlook that. They are nice little short stories that are very chill to play, considering the genre.

    Biing!

    A silly little sexy hospital management game. Never got far as a kid. When I managed to get further a little while ago I saw that there really wasn’t that much more to the game. But it’s silly and it’s sexy and tickles my nostalgia.

    • @[email protected]
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      34 months ago

      I loved Until Dawn but couldn’t finish House of Ashes and was very disappointed in Man of Medan. I thought The Quarry was also a part of The Dark Picture Anthology. Is it much different?

      • Björn Tantau
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        34 months ago

        The Quarry isn’t part of the anthology. It’s its own thing. I love it. Personally I think it’s better than Until Dawn. Much more variety in the outcomes you can have.

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    34 months ago

    Sled Storm. I picked it up again recently and it’s still a lot of fun. The racing is competent but probably nothing exceptional, although apparently it was one of the first snowmobile racing games so maybe it doesn’t belong on this list? The tracks aren’t super open, they’re more like Mario Kart tracks with shortcuts which my family always liked, you couldn’t really get lost. I played so much couch co-op with my family in that game.

    10/10 soundtrack though, it introduced me to Rob Zombie’s music as a kid. (Funny story, the only Rob Zombie film I’ve ever seen was the Devil’s Rejects in a Waffle House in rural Florida at 3am on an employees’ shitty laptop.)

    • @[email protected]
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      24 months ago

      Duuuuuude. This is a blast from the past. I had a Pizza Hut PS1 cd with a bunch of demos on it and Sled Storm was one of them. It has such a great physics feel for back then. I loved that game.

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    94 months ago

    Future Cop: LAPD

    Though the game wasn’t groundbreaking it was fun going around LA in a giant Mech blowing stuff up.

    I really liked the ability to transform from a bipedal mech to a fast hover car which also helps with the pacing of the game.

    It did introduce me to a tower defense PVP style multiplayer that my best friend and I were hooked on for a solid couple of months.

    • MudMan
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      34 months ago

      That and Fire Fight are in a breed of Desert Strike-alikes that people don’t talk about much at all anymore and were way more fun than you’d expect.

      Fire Fight is so obscure now that even searching for “Fire Fight gameplay” videos, as I did for that link doesn’t spit it out as the first result. Such a travesty.

    • @[email protected]
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      34 months ago

      Honestly, I think playing it with a friend might even bump it to 8/10. I had a blast with it despite the lack of innovation and repetitiveness of the gameplay

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    34 months ago

    P.N.0.3. is an objectively mid game for gamecube with repetitive gameplay and environments. However I love the style of it and playing it brings me a lot of nostalgia.

    I suppose some people might consider Godhand and Killer7 to be 7/10 games - at least based on contemporary reviews - but they’ve always had a cult following and have had a re-assessment here as modern classics in recent years.

  • @[email protected]
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    74 months ago

    Alpha Protocol

    Well designed spy game, replies on doing nothing revolutionary, just doing everything well.

    Came out quite unique and underappreciated.

    • Nope
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      24 months ago

      I loved it, went full stealth build and there was a boss I just couldn’t beat…

        • Nope
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          24 months ago

          I’ve been thinking about replaying it for years. I was living it until that weird …cocaine boss?

          • @[email protected]
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            24 months ago

            Hint… Make friends with Stephen Heck before the mission then buy his Intel before going to that mansion. Changes the fight!