Don't mind the end.

I have a couple of examples:

Hell Let Loose: Hopefully I'll never actually need this one: In the game, if you hear a gunshot and you're still standing, you have a split second to react before the next one. The game forces you to learn situational awareness, instinctively process directionality from sound and visual context and cover mechanics. These are concepts that an "average european" like me, not at war, doesn't typically think about on a daily basis.

Civilization III: If you zoom out enough, whole-timeline view of "civilization" gave me a strange kind of insight (even if still inexact) into how real societies work. At that scale, history stops looking like a series of unique events and starts looking like patterns repeating, the masses behaving somewhat predictably, expansion, resource competition, empires extending and collapsing. It's made me see real-world news and history through that "zoomed out" lens ever since, contemplating what I would have done if X or Y, rather than "it is what it is"

Im leaving Playstation, whats the best pre-built gaming PC for $2k US dollars? I dont want to learn how to make a PC. Thank you

I’m a sucker for a phone game but it’s so infuriating having to pay to advance or watch a ton of ads. I miss buying a game and playing it without having to spend anymore on it.

I loved playing Harvest Moon, Sims The Urbz and cooking Mama

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So real question: what made Expedition 33 "Amazing" to you guys? I'm not gonna say it's bad. It clearly took a lot of work and polish, especially by a smaller than average team. The unique combat mechanics for each character was a great idea and there's nothing particularly wrong with it. But I gotta say: I just don't see it.

The enemy designs are so bland they're like robots made out of stone, the world isn't interesting to explore, the menu system is just bad, there are cutscenes like every three or four fights which kills my momentum, and while I love the premise of the plot I genuinely got less and less intrigued the more things went on as the characters just kept wallowing in despair. What am I missing?!

For reference: I love the bleak oppressive atmosphere of FromSoftware games, but those at least had SOME level of self-aware silliness to them. I enjoy interactive turn based games like Paper Mario and the South Park games. And I like rpgs to the point I got the Platinum in BG3 and Metaphor: Refantazio this year alone. So why am I struggling to enjoy playing this on my first playthrough when everything is newly presented? Help me see what you guys see.

Thanks for reading.

I love the old-school console wars. I always remember my friends arguing over Mario vs Sonic and such.

I’m looking for something I can just chill and get completely immersed in. It doesn’t have to be your favorite game of all time—just one that’s especially fun to play while you’re high.

Some obscure ones in there that age me. I wanted to add more fun screens of them hanging out but I can only post one image at a time, apparently

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Too many remakes are being pumped out, it makes the industry look bankrupt on ideas or too scared to do something different and would rather rely on fame or nostalgia to sell copies. Most of the remakes are changing up aspects of what made the originals memorable to boot. Communities seem mostly positive on them because most of the people feeling positive about them are people playing these games for the first time, though of course not entirely.

There are still new games being pumped out by the same companies fully investing into remakes but most of the new entries have evolved into different genres so if people want an experience akin to older games, most of what they have to look forward to are remakes after remakes after more remakes.

I would much rather see new games being made in the spirit of the originals instead of remakes, with a similar scope and budget and not be delegated to being a lower budget side project. This is just conjecture but I think remakes are a ticking timebomb and eventually gaming communities will get tired of them as a whole. What I fear is that when this happens, the industry wont conclude that older styles but new games are needed, but rather older styles have lost all appeal and abandon them entirely leaving small studios with new IPs to pick up the slack which isn't the worst, but it isn't the same as a new entry of an older genre and IP.

TL;DR - Remakes are fulfilling a place in the market for older styles of games instead of just making newer games in the pre-existing IPs that capture the older style. If you prefer older styles of pre-existing IPs, all you have to look forward to are indie titles that may or may not be what you want or just more remakes that may or may not capture the identity of the original.

Edit: A lot of people are missing the point I'm making and responding with details I address in the post. Indie games rarely match or outpace the games they were inspired by and even when they do, there is no replacing Metroid, Final Fantasy, etc. so saying just play indie games is dismissive and missing the point.

With the recent news about Fallout being given to obsidian by Xbox , it infuriates me so much that cause of Bethesda’s ( Todd’s ) greed, nobody could make any Fallout game.

You think there were studios wanting to make new isometric fallout game, or new FPS fallout? 💯!!
The fact that Howard had a note on his table, after he purchased Fallout ip, “ Fallout is mine” tells a lot about him, and his character. Owning something is more important than doing something with it.

He reminds me of gollum and the ring.

Games are not just entertainment, they do save people lives, help with addictions, loneliness , help make friends . And Fallout is loved for its unique atmosphere, lore , style.

Knowing that we could have more amazing games in the universe hurts me, for real . But it is what it is.

I just booted up my PS5 and saw that a bunch of games on my wishlist are on sale. However I don't think I should buy any of them because of the whole "Sony cancelling discs" thing. I don't know what to do. One one hand these are great deals for these games that I can only get on PSN. But on the other hand if I do buy them I feel like I'm part of the problem giving Sony my money for digital games with everyone and their mother is doing the "no disc no buy" thing. Any advice (that's actually helpful)?