Aces Wild. - 2D action game with a dodge mechanic that felt kinda like Bayonetta’s. Also laser dog pee.
Devil Daggers
Devil Daggers has a well deserved 83 on Metacritic, so… too good for this thread.
Most of them tbh. Two examples: Homefront: the Revolution (2016) and Maneater (2020)
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.
Housemarque’s old Zaxxon-like The Reap is a litarally life-changing 7/10 for me for multiple reasons. It won’t be for you, but it’s still a fun game to mess with if you can get it to run. Look it up.
Lots of PC games of that era are unjustly forgotten. Abuse is too good for this thread, but who is playing Abuse these days?
Also, honorable mention to the brand/franchise with the most 7/10s I will defend, Spider-Man. Spider-Man vs the Kingpin was so weirdly ambitious for an early Mega Drive game, Maximum Carnage was so weirdly ambitious for a late 16 bit beat-em up, Lethal Foes looked crazy for a SNES platformer and never left Japan for some reason, Spider-Man Web of Shadows was panned, but had some crazy visual, gameplay and narrative ideas… people were always doing a bit better than they should for the ability or budget they had with those until Insomniac made them big budget AAA.
The bad ones are BAD, though.
Try The Amazing Spider-man (1989) for DOS if you want some sweet webslinging action with tits full of puzzle milk
Oh, man, I bought that on launch. Spidey’s poopy squat is hilarious, you will get murdered endlessly by R2D2…
…and there is a way to clip right to the end of the game from the helicopter on the first screen, at least on the floppy version I had.
Also, the DRM is just a quiz about Spider-Man, which I could beat without looking at the manual, so I did appreciate that they let you pirate the game if you’re enough of a fan.
After looking Warhammer 40k Mechanicus is in the 7/10 range and I loved it. The setting, music and gameplay were all really enjoyable to me.
Alpha Protocol
Well designed spy game, replies on doing nothing revolutionary, just doing everything well.
Came out quite unique and underappreciated.
I loved it, went full stealth build and there was a boss I just couldn’t beat…
My advice… Chain Shot!
The boss killer skill for the stealth build
I’ve been thinking about replaying it for years. I was living it until that weird …cocaine boss?
Hint… Make friends with Stephen Heck before the mission then buy his Intel before going to that mansion. Changes the fight!
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.
Fuckin love PlanetSide. But we’re talking about 7/10’s not masterpieces
Yeah those were the days. Also all those Medic effects. I can’t remember another game having PhysX displayed so prominently.
Still available to play via backwards compatibility on modern xbox consoles in case anyone is wondering. I just picked this up on my series s.
I didn’t even think it was for the Xbox at all
Hell yeah, Planetside 2 was outstanding when it was good. Huge scale, really good interactions (q to tag targets was so cool), really fun land and air vehicles
Fuck, I miss that game now. Shame it’s declined!
“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.
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
I believe so.
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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.
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
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
Tetris Attack and all of the other Panel de Pon-likes. They are exactly what I want from a versus puzzle game
I don’t know that Panel de Pon is a 7/10. I mean, it’s no Tetris, but it’s easily the best Nintendo puzzler they came up with themselves. At least an 8 or a 9, wildly underrated.
What are 7/10 games?
Pick 10 games, but only list 7 of them
Good but not great ones.
Well now I feel silly for asking…but thanks for answering!
Oh, like a 7 out of 10 rating?
Correct.
Well now I feel silly for asking…but thanks for answering!
No worries!
The Shadow of War games.
The Nemesis system was amazing, but the game wasn’t polished and had issues.
They somehow patented the mechanic and no one else can do it. And I steady of WB making a new game with it, they made fucking Smeagole
I rarely get into single player games but I played the second one and loved it. It felt so satisfying building this giant army and wrecking whole castles.
I also loved the Mad Max game that came out around the same time with a really similar gameplay feel
See, that’s a problem with this concept. Shadow of Mordor is easily a point or two better than Mad Max, and probably half as much better than Shadow of War. I think of those Mad Max is a valid choice. Definitely a flat-ish AA thing that you can get into. I never quite did, but I can see it.
But why did they call it Shadow of Mordor when the mountain was called Mt. Doom, that’s what would be casting shadows after all
The driving and driving combat in that game was 10/10 and the world really well done too. The only let down, at least for me, was the main story. I still hop on and blow up some vultures every once in a while.
“Suffer me now!”
If any of you vaguely like LOTR and see either of the titles come up on sale, give them a shot (or watch 5 minutes of playing first to get the feel for it).
I wish they’d come back and produce a 3rd one but the patent definitely kills that idea.
Oh, man, no, if you like LOTR stay away.
If you don’t mind LOTR, then give them a shot, they’re fun. They’re just a lore nightmare.
If anybody has ever dared to be mad about Rings of Power but is out there tolerating or enjoying the Shadow games they need a meeting with the consistency police.
Battletech and the Shadowrun games from HBS.
Add to that ‘The Lamplighters Leage’ from HBS.
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.
Hmmm that’s difficult.
FEAR, probably. It was a 10/10 for my childhood for sure, but it’s probably a 7/10 total ?
I’d love to see a new game for that series. But more akin to the first two not the third lol
nah, I went back to it recently and FEAR still kicks ass. Honestly a little sad that in all the years since, there’s no FPS quite like it. Still absolutely a 10/10, and I’d feel confident calling it one of the best shooters of all time.
I’ve been trying to do a replay recently but I can’t seem to get it to run on my modern day machine, haha. How were you able to play it?
Also, it’s great that you think it’s still 10/10. It has always been held near and dear to my heart.
I didn’t do anything too special to run it, but I bought my copy on GOG, so maybe there’s an issue with the Steam release? I know Warner Bros got really shitty with the franchise on Steam, did stuff like delisting the original and forcing you to buy it as part of the series, so maybe that broke it?
