When a game recaptures your faith in games.

Negotiator101

Negotiator101

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So I'm sure as you get older it's harder and harder for games to keep your attention, and if you're like me you find yourself returning to an older game to get that enjoyment back.

I was playing Indiana Jones and the Circle of life and after a few days found myself losing interest once again and was close to restarting RE4 as The Village was the last game i re-completed after giving up on Doom the dark ages.

There it was staring at me all this time, a game i enjoyed but that didn't blow me away as I thought it would first time round.

So with trepidation and an open mind I restarted and found myself wondering why I wasn't blown away by this incredible game the first time I played it.

I'm now at the point where i think this is possibly the studios finest hour. I'm talking about the obvious game to play coming from Indy and the game maybe Indy should have copied 🤔

I'm talking about the game that had the finest E3 showing in history, yes you guessed it! It is of course Uncharted 4.
 
Uncharted 4 had the same effect on me that Indy and Doom had on you. I'm a lost cause. To be fair, Indy and Doom also had the same effect on me.

The last game that truly blew me away was Returnal. Though the frustration that comes packed in with rogue-likes kept me from finishing it for quite some time, I did finish it last month and man...what a ride.
 
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I enjoyed the campy vibes of Indy, but I was getting bored in the jungle area. I thought Uncharted 4 was the worst Uncharted, though. Had a strong 2nd half, but that first half was 4/10.
 
Cyberpunk 2077 is the only game in recent many years that I've replayed more than 4 times. Hell, as Im writing this Im thinking about reinstalling it again.
 
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Splatoon 1
Pentiment
NieR
Rusty's Real Deal Baseball
NieR Automata
Hi-Fi Rush
Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Bayonetta 3
Starfield
Streets of Rage 4
Metroid Dread
Bayonetta 3
The Ascent
Demon's Souls
Donkey Kong Bananza

I'm sure there's lots more. I never am lacking stuff to play.

I thought Indiana Jones was a joy to play. Felt like a dream project honestly with perfect voice acting, and a better story than any of the movies have had in decades. Uncharted 4 was fun, insane spectacle moments that no one else can do. Probably the only Naughty Dog game I liked.
 
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Expedition 33 showed me that a small studio can make a game with good visuals and tell a better story, better music, better character and a better turn base combat system than vast majority of triple A studio with big budgets that no one really knows where they spending the money.

I just re-purchased last week Cyberpunk 2077 and Witcher 3 for PC, already finished the games on PS4 and PS5 2 times and im ready to start a new run in both games on PC now.
 
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Punished Miku said:
Starfield
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Great games come out literally all the damn time. We're spoiled rich.

This year alone, I'd say these games fit the bill of what OP is asking:

  • Donkey Kong Bananza
  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
  • Split Fiction
  • Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
  • Blue Prince
  • DOOM: The Dark Ages


Videogames are fucking awesome lol
 
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Without sounding like a broken record, Clair Obscure this year, for me, made me feel like I used to about games, especially as a kid. It hit everything perfectly in that sense.

A few years before that, Inscyption had the same sort of impact on me. 2 very different games, but they gave me that feeling I thought was lost in this day and age.

Silent Hill 2 Remake also had a major impact on me, but it being a remake of a series I love, probably added some nostalgia bias. (And an honourable nostalgia mention to Monkey Island)

The Darkness from the 360 era also had a strangely positive impact on me. I loved that game and that is with no connection to the comics or lore etc.
I think around this era with the beginning of microtransactions and companies no longer hiding their obvious greed, gaming started to slowly lose some of its magic.
 
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Never lost faith in games. Just in some of the folks making them. Thankfully, for every utter failure like Bioware, we seem to get devs like Sandfall Interactive bringing games like Clair Obscure to pick up the slack.
 
Games within the last few years (around 4 years) that were good enough to get my hopes back in gaming were

Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart
Resident Evil Village
Resident Evil 4 Remake
Space Marine 2
Stellar Blade
FFVII Rebirth
 
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Uncharted 4 is a special game. Not perfect, but it's rare that a story - in any medium - ends in a way that doesn't fuck over any of their characters and actually allows them to gracefully bow out.
 
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For me it's been Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. Glad to see people are still able to make actual RPGs and not just open-worlds full of checkmarks.
 
Recently, Stranger of Paradise did it for me. I enjoyed this game way more than I had anticipated. Team Ninja are really excellent, they know how to make great games, where gameplay is at the center, and you simply have a ton of fun.

And the story was very good, which I didn't except at all ! The main character that looked bland as fuck as a first impression ended being simply awesome.

Looking forward to Code Vein 2 and Metroid Prime 4 ! And remasters of 2 and 3.

Also Shadow Generations is the best 3D Sonic game. It was too short though :(
 
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Something that has been on my mind for several years, or probably more than that, is that the best of gaming is in the rear view mirror. That's not to say that there aren't still great games, there are. In fact, I firmly believe the average quality of games is higher than ever, but because of a lot of factors (genre maturity, agreed upon standards in things like controls and camera systems, budgets ballooning in such a way that the widest possible nets need to be cast, etc.) the highs rarely hit the highs we saw in the past. and the valleys between those peaks is far wider. I miss the days of experimentation when genre conventions and tropes were still being defined. And before someone says it, that's not something the indie space excels at either as for every Lucas Pope, there or hundreds if not thousands of others chasing the latest trends a la vampire survivor or trying to being back something from their childhood that has largely been left by the wayside a la current boomer shooter craze. In the rare occasion that I do feel optimistic about our hobby, it does feel like we are due for another revolution, something that spits in the face of current trends and it's been a while since Demon Souls.
 
Breath of the Wild. Gave up console gaming shortly after the ps2 came out so I'm guessing I was pc only for about 15 years. BOTW was a blind buy, never played a Zelda game before. What an introduction to the series and reintroduction to console gaming.
 
Learn tech from college and do it %110 cause your degree is a %100 your responsibility. If you did it a %100 from your ego "with experience of course" then any hobby will be on your side.
 
MrJangles said:
Breath of the Wild. Gave up console gaming shortly after the ps2 came out so I'm guessing I was pc only for about 15 years. BOTW was a blind buy, never played a Zelda game before. What an introduction to the series and reintroduction to console gaming.
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Shouldve played it on PC
 
I don't think I'd say I've lost faith in gaming, but Donkey Kong Bananza has definitely reminded me why I game. I enjoyed my time with games like Expedition 33 and Avowed, but DKB has brought back the feeling of being a kid playing with toys. And that's truly something special.

The two Switch Zelda games did the same thing. If you had told me 6 months ago that a DK game would be in my top 5 games of all time, I'd have called you a "no good son of a bitch!" Today, I'd say, " what are the other top 4!"
 
Negotiator101 said:
I'm talking about the obvious game to play coming from Indy and the game maybe Indy should have copied 🤔

I'm talking about the game that had the finest E3 showing in history, yes you guessed it! It is of course Uncharted 4.
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On your own with that one. Uncharted 4 imo was a repetitive entry that added nothing new but a rope + a car you use for a few sections, padded out what should've been its normal 7-10 hour campaign into 15 hours, and ended with a lame QTE knife fight.

Indy wasn't incredible, but it had far better level design/encounter variety, the melee combat options were fun, and it capture more of the vibe of Indiana Jones stuff than just the spectacle moments.

Last time a game recaptured my faith was back in 2011 with Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Big games had devolved into linear scripted movie bullshit for much of that gen, and having a game with a nice degree of choice where player actions (not just dialog) effected the experience made me happy again.
 
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That happened to me once. in the PS3 days it seemed like games over a certain price were were evolving into shit. Then demons souls came out and i was alright.

Otherwise, I am always looking forward to playing something and something else coming out. Except when i'm not, which is fin. I always come back.
 
This gen is pretty weak, but for me , its Stellar blade, Astrobot, and Death stranding 1 DC & Death stranding 2 gave this generation hope that makes me still interested with gaming.
 
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