RickSanchez
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I'm talking about games that are/have:
The best examples are the Half Life & Portal series, the Dead Space series, Bioshock, the Deus Ex games, the Metro series, the older Splinter Cells, and the old Arkane Studios games (Prey, Dishonoured). I would even include action titles like the new Doom and Wolfenstein games into this. There were some banger indies like this too.....Soma, The Stanley Parable, Tacoma, Remember Me, What Remains of Edith Finch (not exactly linear) etc. The most recent example of such a game that i can think of is.......... Sniper Elite 5....i think ?
I know indies are still trying to keep this genre alive. Stray (the cat game) comes to mind. A Plague Tale was great, but it does not exactly do the kind of environmental storytelling im talking about. Scorn seems to be in a similar vein but i am yet to get to that one.
My point is there are fewer and fewer games like this being made today and i find myself simply going back and playing these old favourites (which is fine), but i would like something new every so often. Is there any recent games that has all the attributes i described above that i might have missed ? Suggestions welcome. It feels like every new game coming out is either a generic AAA open world RPG or an indie Metroidvania or Roguelike. Where are my new Half-Lives and new BioShocks, gaming industry ?! come on!
- single-player
- mostly first-person
- progress in linear chapters/levels
- there is only one main quest-line to follow, side-quests are either very sparse (and add to the narrative) or not present at all
- no metroidvania backtracking, no open world, not much in way of exploration
- anywhere between 8-20 chapters/levels and total playtime of about 20 hours
- story is unravelled bit by bit, mostly through in-game environment rather than cutscenes, environmental storytelling was a strong point of such games
- There are little or no RPG elements like skill-trees or gear upgrades.
The best examples are the Half Life & Portal series, the Dead Space series, Bioshock, the Deus Ex games, the Metro series, the older Splinter Cells, and the old Arkane Studios games (Prey, Dishonoured). I would even include action titles like the new Doom and Wolfenstein games into this. There were some banger indies like this too.....Soma, The Stanley Parable, Tacoma, Remember Me, What Remains of Edith Finch (not exactly linear) etc. The most recent example of such a game that i can think of is.......... Sniper Elite 5....i think ?
I know indies are still trying to keep this genre alive. Stray (the cat game) comes to mind. A Plague Tale was great, but it does not exactly do the kind of environmental storytelling im talking about. Scorn seems to be in a similar vein but i am yet to get to that one.
My point is there are fewer and fewer games like this being made today and i find myself simply going back and playing these old favourites (which is fine), but i would like something new every so often. Is there any recent games that has all the attributes i described above that i might have missed ? Suggestions welcome. It feels like every new game coming out is either a generic AAA open world RPG or an indie Metroidvania or Roguelike. Where are my new Half-Lives and new BioShocks, gaming industry ?! come on!
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