Because it’s progression system/locks is about what you know (you, the flesh and blood person playing it) it’s really hard to explain why it’s so good without spoiling some aspect of the game
Outer Wilds is indeed a masterpiece. It’s not really what I would call a “shooter”, though, so it might not be what OP’s after, it’s more like Myst and so on. But it is absolutely excellent.
Gotta be Cyberpunk 2077 right now, for me at least. The stories are engaging, the choices you make will actually affect the game, there’s so much combat variation that you can replay the game a million times and have a different style every single time, and to top it all off the eye candy is the best I’ve seen in any game so far.
Why do I only see people talking about the graphics but either never mention gameplay or say it’s too mundane or dull and not worth the hours to get through it?
I see it a lot used as a benchmark but no or very little mention of replay value.
Personally, I adored the gameplay. I put maybe 60 hours in and still had the energy to start a second playthrough (though never got far in it). That’s rare for me with such long games. Usually by the time I finish the game, I’m like “yup, I’ve had enough”. The story is fantastic and the gameplay is super open. Can go in guns a blazing (with all sorts of weapons, including “smart guns” with target seeking bullets), be stealthy, slow time and get up close and personal, keep your distance and use hacks that can even spread from enemy to enemy, and more. The romantic interests are great and also feel realistic. The plot is dark and doesn’t shy away from what I envision a dystopian sci-fi reality being like.
And yeah, it is a beautiful world, too. I found it highly immersive because of that.
It’s not perfect. Civilian, police, and driving AI is by far its weakest point. The world feels vibrant and interesting, but don’t expect much from civilian interactions, drivers are basically on rails, and police teleport to you. But those issues were fairly minor to me. I’d give it a 9/10. Obligatory mention that I played on PC. I’ve heard older consoles were buggy, but I didn’t see much for bugs on PC.
(Typing this up made me wanna play it again, but I gotta wait for the DLC.)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R Anamoly is free and a great single player fps with a great vibe to it. Doesn’t quite fit your criteria though as I wouldn’t say there is much of a campaign. Very interesting dynamic world and AI system though.
Edit. Highly recommend the GAMMA version. Get installation files @ their discord.
I’m assuming you’re looking for emphasis on shooters, so I’m excluding games like Fallout, which are heavily RPG.
All the Metro games are fantastic. Not too long, interesting setting, and fun gameplay.
Far Cry is probably my favourite, specifically Far Cry 5 but really all except the first one (New Dawn is super RPGy and 6 is a fair bit, too). Some of its games get a bit more RPG heavy, but 5 and earlier are more heavily shooters in open world sandboxes. Despite that, some of them have really great character driven stories. The villains are always the highlight in this series.
Receiver and Receiver 2 are both wonderfully strange first person shooters. They’re slower paced games, with more tactics and running away than most fps games.
My main gaming computer died before Receiver 2 came out, but I still play the hell out of the first game. (on minimum settings…) It mostly plays like a first person shooter, but you start with a random gun, and then have to load and reload it with various button presses.
The limited ammo and somewhat deadly enemies turn it into more of a stealth game with massive skill requirements for shooting accuracy.
The world is empty except for turrets and flying gun drones, which somehow makes it rather creepy.
Overall, it’s a great game, and I wish I had the time and money to rebuild my main rig so that I could play the sequel.
How old is your system? Would it not be inexpensive enough for you to build a new cheap system for a performance upgrade? What hardware do you need to have a fully functional system working again?
Right now I’m on an old laptop. As to getting my main system going again, It would be easier to just rebuild it from scratch. It was old enough that I needed an upgrade, and then I started getting random faults, but nothing that I could ever identify properly.
Windows stopped loading properly, so I switched over to Linux, which kept things going for another two years… And then that stopped working properly.
And then I ended up having to move, and now I don’t have room for a large gaming rig, which is another reason why I’m on the old laptop.
I’ve been saving up, but well… I can at least say that my bills are paid and I’m not in debt.
I’ve found that in my life, I either have money for a fancy gaming rig, or the time to play games, but never have I really had both at the same time. Sometimes I have neither.
I played through Prey again recently and it holds up incredibly well. It’s like a more polished Dishonored imo. Your story choices had more impact, the abilities feel smoother, and lots of really funny moments and character interactions.
Prodeus is such a trip, I think the first playthrough of that map where you navigate down with a boss behind glass and into the arena full of blue imps was absolute boomer shooter nirvana
Easy to forget as it’s difficult to get it in… prime condition for PC, but Metroid: Prime is my favorite.
Starts off like any game should - cool dramatic overview of your character and then immediate control. Shooting got better on the wii and enhanced to perfection with PC mods!
In a weird way, it’s like a more chill Doom.
… Morph ball doesn’t count as third-person, does it? :)
I am hugely into the 2D Metroid games and bought the new Metroid Prime remake on switch and I just could not get into it.
I played it for about half an hour and then died, and there were no save points along the way anywhere, so I’m forced to restart a game I didn’t enjoy from scratch knowing I need to last even longer than that in my next playthrough before I can just save the game.
I really want to like it but my god this game is asking a lot
That’s a shame. What do you think you’re struggling with in Prime? Do you play a lot of FPS games?
I recognize that losing 30 minutes of progress is frustrating, but generally when the game is exciting it drags you back in regardless so I’m curious what was missing from your perspective to give it that spark especially as a Metroid fan.
I do play FPS games, but not on controller. Beyond that I can’t really say - there was nothing that grabbed me in 30 minutes of playtime, and every other metroid game had at least something interesting at the beginning with some intrigue. With Prime, it seemed like the Interesting Thing were the mechanics themselves, which, on their own, didn’t do it for me.
It gets a lot better once you’re on the planet. Great atmosphere while exploring alien ruins, expected metroid-style exploration. Multiple save-points lol!
The space station doesn’t do the mechanics justice, but I’m also going to add I don’t imagine they’ll ever blow you away especially if you’ve been exposed to a lot of FPS games. But I do think you’d have a good time down there. It spawned a trilogy for a reason!
Also if you hadn’t and do go back, try using the pointer controls. The ability to actually aim with your joycon adds convenience and immersion. :) and maybe one of the other options would click with you.
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I always find myself going back to Borderlands 2. It’s just very nostalgic to me at this point and I find a lot of replay value out of it.
I got each of the Boarderlands games from the free Epic giveways but I have never played thfough them. I will try them
OuterWilds. It’s a masterpiece.
Because it’s progression system/locks is about what you know (you, the flesh and blood person playing it) it’s really hard to explain why it’s so good without spoiling some aspect of the game
Outer Wilds is indeed a masterpiece. It’s not really what I would call a “shooter”, though, so it might not be what OP’s after, it’s more like Myst and so on. But it is absolutely excellent.
Wow. I completely missed the title….
Gotta be Cyberpunk 2077 right now, for me at least. The stories are engaging, the choices you make will actually affect the game, there’s so much combat variation that you can replay the game a million times and have a different style every single time, and to top it all off the eye candy is the best I’ve seen in any game so far.
Why do I only see people talking about the graphics but either never mention gameplay or say it’s too mundane or dull and not worth the hours to get through it?
I see it a lot used as a benchmark but no or very little mention of replay value.
Personally, I adored the gameplay. I put maybe 60 hours in and still had the energy to start a second playthrough (though never got far in it). That’s rare for me with such long games. Usually by the time I finish the game, I’m like “yup, I’ve had enough”. The story is fantastic and the gameplay is super open. Can go in guns a blazing (with all sorts of weapons, including “smart guns” with target seeking bullets), be stealthy, slow time and get up close and personal, keep your distance and use hacks that can even spread from enemy to enemy, and more. The romantic interests are great and also feel realistic. The plot is dark and doesn’t shy away from what I envision a dystopian sci-fi reality being like.
And yeah, it is a beautiful world, too. I found it highly immersive because of that.
It’s not perfect. Civilian, police, and driving AI is by far its weakest point. The world feels vibrant and interesting, but don’t expect much from civilian interactions, drivers are basically on rails, and police teleport to you. But those issues were fairly minor to me. I’d give it a 9/10. Obligatory mention that I played on PC. I’ve heard older consoles were buggy, but I didn’t see much for bugs on PC.
(Typing this up made me wanna play it again, but I gotta wait for the DLC.)
Titanfall 2’s single player campaign is fantastic.
I’m downloading it now. I already own it but I never finished it
MANKID IS DEAD
BLOOD IS FUEL
HELL IS FULL
lmao mankid, i’m leaving it
S.T.A.L.K.E.R Anamoly is free and a great single player fps with a great vibe to it. Doesn’t quite fit your criteria though as I wouldn’t say there is much of a campaign. Very interesting dynamic world and AI system though.
Edit. Highly recommend the GAMMA version. Get installation files @ their discord.
https://discord.gg/stalker-gamma
I’m assuming you’re looking for emphasis on shooters, so I’m excluding games like Fallout, which are heavily RPG.
All the Metro games are fantastic. Not too long, interesting setting, and fun gameplay.
Far Cry is probably my favourite, specifically Far Cry 5 but really all except the first one (New Dawn is super RPGy and 6 is a fair bit, too). Some of its games get a bit more RPG heavy, but 5 and earlier are more heavily shooters in open world sandboxes. Despite that, some of them have really great character driven stories. The villains are always the highlight in this series.
You are correct aboutemphasis on shooters. I can’t get into sci-fi and RPG for me feel like a way to fill time without actual new gameplay happening.
I really don’t like walking around tying to find random items, in my opinion it’s too much of nothing
I have the Metro games, I’ve played each for several hours but never finished any of them.
I’m interested in Far Cry 6 but I’ve also seen strong criticisms of the gameplay so I don’t know if it’s worth buying.
Receiver and Receiver 2 are both wonderfully strange first person shooters. They’re slower paced games, with more tactics and running away than most fps games.
Receiver 2 looks very interesting. How do you find it to be playing with a floating gun?
I could see you being interested in Unrecord.
My main gaming computer died before Receiver 2 came out, but I still play the hell out of the first game. (on minimum settings…) It mostly plays like a first person shooter, but you start with a random gun, and then have to load and reload it with various button presses.
The limited ammo and somewhat deadly enemies turn it into more of a stealth game with massive skill requirements for shooting accuracy.
The world is empty except for turrets and flying gun drones, which somehow makes it rather creepy.
Overall, it’s a great game, and I wish I had the time and money to rebuild my main rig so that I could play the sequel.
How old is your system? Would it not be inexpensive enough for you to build a new cheap system for a performance upgrade? What hardware do you need to have a fully functional system working again?
Right now I’m on an old laptop. As to getting my main system going again, It would be easier to just rebuild it from scratch. It was old enough that I needed an upgrade, and then I started getting random faults, but nothing that I could ever identify properly.
Windows stopped loading properly, so I switched over to Linux, which kept things going for another two years… And then that stopped working properly.
And then I ended up having to move, and now I don’t have room for a large gaming rig, which is another reason why I’m on the old laptop.
I’ve been saving up, but well… I can at least say that my bills are paid and I’m not in debt.
I’ve found that in my life, I either have money for a fancy gaming rig, or the time to play games, but never have I really had both at the same time. Sometimes I have neither.
You can live at ease with not having any debt weighing on you.
I was thinking maybe you could do a 4 core i3 13100, B660 board, 16GB DDR4, and RX 7600.
That would beat a 8700K and Radeon 580.
I actually had a nice gaming rig all priced out before my recent, surprise move.
Now I’m looking at laptops. They might lack the raw power of a full gaming rig, but the space savings are more attractive at the moment…
But that’s something for the future, I have to rebuild my savings a bit more before I start thinking about spending large chunks of it.
I love FPS’s, they’re obviously my favorite genre.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
I own it and finished a few times but I still play it.
Halo 3 ODST. Uses Halo 3’s engine, so it has the same incredible physics as it, with great vibes to it as well.
Bioshock
Prey is pretty great, really enjoyed that.
I played through Prey again recently and it holds up incredibly well. It’s like a more polished Dishonored imo. Your story choices had more impact, the abilities feel smoother, and lots of really funny moments and character interactions.
Great shooter campaign!
There’s more but these were the first that came to mind.
Prodeus is such a trip, I think the first playthrough of that map where you navigate down with a boss behind glass and into the arena full of blue imps was absolute boomer shooter nirvana
And everything feels so beefy. Just thinking about that SSG makes me want to start another playthrough.
My only critique is that they shouldn’t have added reloading. The rest of the game is just so fast paced that it feels weird to stop and reload.
Easy to forget as it’s difficult to get it in… prime condition for PC, but Metroid: Prime is my favorite.
Starts off like any game should - cool dramatic overview of your character and then immediate control. Shooting got better on the wii and enhanced to perfection with PC mods!
In a weird way, it’s like a more chill Doom.
… Morph ball doesn’t count as third-person, does it? :)
I am hugely into the 2D Metroid games and bought the new Metroid Prime remake on switch and I just could not get into it.
I played it for about half an hour and then died, and there were no save points along the way anywhere, so I’m forced to restart a game I didn’t enjoy from scratch knowing I need to last even longer than that in my next playthrough before I can just save the game.
I really want to like it but my god this game is asking a lot
That’s a shame. What do you think you’re struggling with in Prime? Do you play a lot of FPS games?
I recognize that losing 30 minutes of progress is frustrating, but generally when the game is exciting it drags you back in regardless so I’m curious what was missing from your perspective to give it that spark especially as a Metroid fan.
I do play FPS games, but not on controller. Beyond that I can’t really say - there was nothing that grabbed me in 30 minutes of playtime, and every other metroid game had at least something interesting at the beginning with some intrigue. With Prime, it seemed like the Interesting Thing were the mechanics themselves, which, on their own, didn’t do it for me.
Interesting!
It gets a lot better once you’re on the planet. Great atmosphere while exploring alien ruins, expected metroid-style exploration. Multiple save-points lol!
The space station doesn’t do the mechanics justice, but I’m also going to add I don’t imagine they’ll ever blow you away especially if you’ve been exposed to a lot of FPS games. But I do think you’d have a good time down there. It spawned a trilogy for a reason!
Also if you hadn’t and do go back, try using the pointer controls. The ability to actually aim with your joycon adds convenience and immersion. :) and maybe one of the other options would click with you.