I also played through this for the first time this year and liked it alot.
The reviews for the game didn’t do it justice. It wasn’t breathlessly paced like the first Mass Effect game (which I liked), but it was really quite fun.
Final Fantasy XIII-2, modded with HD upscaled textures, community fixes, and Reshade. 2K Resolution w/ Improved AA + Color Correction + Motion Blur + Ray Tracing made this game look modern af 😎
And for the best game this year part, the developers really said “so FFXIII was linear? Well how about time is not linear!” Jumping back to old locations surprised me in that I actually wanted to go back to them and do optional content. And beneath the extra ass music (lol), is some of the most down right horrific/sad stuff shown in a FF game. Like the straight up Zombie apocalypse-like C’eith outbreak in the future that Serah even being near causes people to turn, she apologizes to them in battle as the turned enemies try to use remedy on theirselves to no avail. Being the last human alive and having to deal with seeing the last people alive dying off till it’s just you on the planet. The cruel fate of some characters and the risks taken storywise and gamewise really surprised me.
ADACA and Signalis just came out last year so not far behind but they were fun. ADACA is billed as Half-Life meets Halo meets STALKER by reviewers and it’s a fun, light FPS. (although I couldn’t get into the more open Zone Patrol mode)
Signalis though, that oozes atmosphere, an excellent soundtrack, and offered feels in a neat fleshed out world. I enjoyed the gameplay quite a bit, a callback to top-down survival horror from an era I never really played. I really appreciate a lack of jump scares except one enemy’s presence when you enter a room making your screen/radio go haywire but hardly FNAF material which I will only watch.
I just started playing Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and man alive is it good. I’ve never been a fan of the soulslike genre but apparently all I need to fall in love are the samurai aesthetic and a mother frickin PARRY ability!
Sekiro is my favourite game. Once you complete it 100% though you’ll struggle to find something to compare, which sorta sucks. I wish there were more games like Sekiro
The worst part about Sekiro is that when you’re done with it you feel like you’re good at it and you want more but there’s nothing else quite like it 😥
Child of light
Had it on my radar for some years, then in my Steam library for many more. Finally played it. Really nice vibe and combat system with amazing art direction and narrative.
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I have been enjoying on and off Immortal Redneck.
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I also played through this for the first time this year and liked it alot.
The reviews for the game didn’t do it justice. It wasn’t breathlessly paced like the first Mass Effect game (which I liked), but it was really quite fun.
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Final Fantasy XIII-2, modded with HD upscaled textures, community fixes, and Reshade. 2K Resolution w/ Improved AA + Color Correction + Motion Blur + Ray Tracing made this game look modern af 😎
And for the best game this year part, the developers really said “so FFXIII was linear? Well how about time is not linear!” Jumping back to old locations surprised me in that I actually wanted to go back to them and do optional content. And beneath the extra ass music (lol), is some of the most down right horrific/sad stuff shown in a FF game. Like the straight up Zombie apocalypse-like C’eith outbreak in the future that Serah even being near causes people to turn, she apologizes to them in battle as the turned enemies try to use remedy on theirselves to no avail. Being the last human alive and having to deal with seeing the last people alive dying off till it’s just you on the planet. The cruel fate of some characters and the risks taken storywise and gamewise really surprised me.
ADACA and Signalis just came out last year so not far behind but they were fun. ADACA is billed as Half-Life meets Halo meets STALKER by reviewers and it’s a fun, light FPS. (although I couldn’t get into the more open Zone Patrol mode)
Signalis though, that oozes atmosphere, an excellent soundtrack, and offered feels in a neat fleshed out world. I enjoyed the gameplay quite a bit, a callback to top-down survival horror from an era I never really played. I really appreciate a lack of jump scares except one enemy’s presence when you enter a room making your screen/radio go haywire but hardly FNAF material which I will only watch.
My backlog is so big I figure any game that I’ve played would qualify.
Ticket to Earth would be mine.
I am working my way through Yakuza 5 though which I’m really enjoying.
I’ll share three based on how much I want to play them again soon
Can’t believe the hate that days gone gets. Except for the walking cut scenes fuck them
Volcanoids is a fantastic co-op game that I keep going back to. Also just started playing Hardspace: Shipbreaker, interesting so far.
I just started playing Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and man alive is it good. I’ve never been a fan of the soulslike genre but apparently all I need to fall in love are the samurai aesthetic and a mother frickin PARRY ability!
Sekiro is my favourite game. Once you complete it 100% though you’ll struggle to find something to compare, which sorta sucks. I wish there were more games like Sekiro
Now I wanna replay Sekiro
The worst part about Sekiro is that when you’re done with it you feel like you’re good at it and you want more but there’s nothing else quite like it 😥
Lords of the fallen can be parry based depending on your build. That said there really is nothing like sekiro
Lies of P is amazing get around to it. Parry is a bit more clunky but still amazing.
It’s early access so I don’t think it counts, but I played the demo some time ago: Gloomwood
Probably Manifold Garden. I just finished it last week and it was a consistently good experience. Highly recommended.
Perfect Vermin. It takes only 15 to beat, it’s fun, and it has a cool theme/concept/story
Mass Effect Legendary Edition (the full trilogy)
Toem. I heard it was pretty good but I was surprised how cozy it was to play. A great example of Iyashikei in gaming
Grounded, The Forest.
Good on a steam deck.
Child of light Had it on my radar for some years, then in my Steam library for many more. Finally played it. Really nice vibe and combat system with amazing art direction and narrative.