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
“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.
I also loved the Mad Max game that came out around the same time with a really similar gameplay feel
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.
Just Cause 3. Just a total blast to go swooping around in the wingsuit and blowing up bases.
“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 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
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.
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.
What are 7/10 games?
Good but not great ones.
Oh, like a 7 out of 10 rating?
Correct.
Well now I feel silly for asking…but thanks for answering!
No worries!
Well now I feel silly for asking…but thanks for answering!
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!
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.
Hmmm that’s difficult.
FEAR, probably. It was a 10/10 for my childhood for sure, but it’s probably a 7/10 total ?
Battletech and the Shadowrun games from HBS.
Add to that ‘The Lamplighters Leage’ from HBS.
Most of them tbh. Two examples: Homefront: the Revolution (2016) and Maneater (2020)
Tetris Attack and all of the other Panel de Pon-likes. They are exactly what I want from a versus puzzle game
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.)
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.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.
The game reminds me of Dishonored and the first 3 Resident Evils. Good story, good acting, interesting puzzles. But the stealth parts are laughably poor. The game encourages you to hide bodies, but there’s literally no point cause the AI is deaf, dumb, and blind. You can be as loud as you want, take down a guy who is literally a meter away from another guard, and they won’t hear or see a thing. Still enjoying the game, though. The ray traced effects are really pretty.
It’s almost as good as its prequel game, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
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.
Aces Wild. - 2D action game with a dodge mechanic that felt kinda like Bayonetta’s. Also laser dog pee.
