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

Ghost recon wild lands is the definition of a 7/10 ign type slop and I love it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day 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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

Skyrim tbh. I'd even go as far as to call it a 6/10, but i can lose hours into that game like nothing else

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

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.

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

It's almost as good as its prequel game, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] janus2 2 points 1 day 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] 8 points 2 days 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] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Did you get the secret ending where

spoilerYou 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] 3 points 2 days ago

I believe so.

spoilerThough, 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.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just Cause 3. Just a total blast to go swooping around in the wingsuit and blowing up bases.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

“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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I also loved the Mad Max game that came out around the same time with a really similar gameplay feel

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

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.

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

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] 2 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day 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] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Alpha Protocol

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

Came out quite unique and underappreciated.

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

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

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

My advice.... Chain Shot!

The boss killer skill for the stealth build

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

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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] 6 points 1 day ago

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!

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

Fuckin love PlanetSide. But we're talking about 7/10's not masterpieces

https://youtu.be/uLKeaP8XEKk

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

Yeah those were the days. Also all those Medic effects. I can't remember another game having PhysX displayed so prominently.

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

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.

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

I didn't even think it was for the Xbox at all

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days 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] 13 points 2 days ago

TimeShift, an FPS from the Xbox360/PS3 era. It was my first PS3 game played on an HDTV. The time mechanics were fantastic, the graphics were amazing to me at the time, and it was a surprisingly fun time. I would be so happy with a remake/spiritual successor.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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] 2 points 1 day ago

Dark Forces was a sweet game fo sho, I really liked the third and fourth ones

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Pick 10 games, but only list 7 of them

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh, like a 7 out of 10 rating?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well now I feel silly for asking...but thanks for answering!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

No worries!

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