The best gaming experiences I’ve ever had were Halo 1 and 2 split screen with friends, combined with Xbox live back when everyone used mics and weren’t screaming obscenities at each other (at least not as much/only when deserved ). What a time.
I remember the mods where you could pilot Scarab walkers and fly bombers dropping nukes on them, good times.
The learning curve is steep, although the developers are working on that, but once I got the hang of it, the scale and open nature of the combat really hooked me.
More XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Currently on a Classic (second hardest difficulty) run with Marathon (everything takes longer and costs more), and accidental Damage Roulette. Early game felt like headbutting a brick wall, but sloooowly I’m making progress. As soon as I get an alien containment facility up and put satellites over Brazil and Argentina to get the instant-autopsies-and-interrogations bonus, it’ll be a massive leap in my gear development speed.
That, of course, while hoping that no more countries withdraw before I get the satellites up or I’ll game over DX
Almost done with Metro 2033 Redux. Radial dynamic light sources like fire, anomalies and muzzle flashes have a very weird “bubble” effect on my screen because my graphics card is a rotten potato, but otherwise the game runs really well. Not sure if I like it more than the old 2033, but at least it’s more consistent with the sequels (Last Light and Exodus).
I recently revisited Empyrion. Still a great game, and to be honest I have no idea why it didn’t get bigger than it did/has.
The building possibilities are huge and you can lose hours just designing ships of various classes and bases etc.
The AI seems to be the biggest let down to me, it’s pretty pathetic to tbh. I have never played it multiplayer.
Old video, and a lot has been improved now, but it sums it up nicely!
I'll play any FPS that isn't just about all cut scene video and little in the way of gameplay that's on sale for less than $30.Less than 10GB is a plus.
Oi, nice to see a fellow Empyrion fan! I don’t have it but loved watching Let’s Plays of it a while back when I was too broke to buy it, so much so that I’ve seen it grown from the very first alpha. It’s underrated as heck, you’re damn right about that.
Prey is excellent and usually on sale. But you can just play TF2 or CS:GO for free anyway if you wanted.
Anyone into games like System Shock? They're like Deus Ex and Prey too. I am looking forward to the remake of SS1, System Shock 3, and hopefully there is a Prey 2. I do not consider Bioshock to fit in this genre, I guess its called an immersive sim. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersive_sim I hope Cyberpunk 2077 is like that too.