The second one sounds like Incredibots!!

Glad you’re here making great use of your life judging others on an online forum 👍

Jet Island was the game for me that grew my VR legs, Windlands sounds similar except you also have Ironman thrusters and a skate board. After that I could then spend hours in dirt rally 2.0 which poetically would’ve gave me a bad headache before.

I’m convinced that the name may be GTA6 but in reality it will be GTA:O2

I thought the windows MR lineup filled that gap pretty well. Much cheaper than most of the other alternatives back then but it never really took off and MS has quietly dropped it.

Not everybody’s cup of tea but genshin impact is unironically a very good game. I was extremely skeptical at first but got drawn in by the world building, the soundtrack, the combat system, and it also filled the void of a new world to explore that WoW left behind after I quit.

A lot of them are trash but some are better than even RDR2.

It’s been in the top 10 (and often in top 5) concurrent players on steam since release so I think you just don’t like it, but many others still do.

Even just making the gear you find randomized would add so much replayability

Have you heard of the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, which you’ll soon be able to play with an even further expanded free trial which you can play through the entirety of A Realm Reborn, Heavensward and the Stormblood expansions up to level SEVENTY for free with no restrictions on playtime?

I think people had their expectations too high. People are expecting it to be as good as skyrim was for 2011 but in 2023, but I went in expecting it to be as good as (vanilla) skyrim is now and so far that’s what I feel like I got.

Long haul flight simmers must really confuse you

Is this just a first party alternative to bluestacks?

Most anticipated game of the century

Thinking of it that way makes sense, but it doesn’t change the fact that they were (idk if they still are, stopped watching years ago) advertising themselves as Canadian content creators, with a fair bit of emphasis on being Canadian. As far as I could tell they were trying to appeal to Canadians by pushing that angle, however their videos used US pricing and availability which may as well have been in beans because it means nothing to me.

I’m talking about for videos along the lines of “$500 build guide” not for their merch.

RDR2, I eventually caved and bought it after months of friends telling me how good it is. But the movement and control scheme are just so bad it instantly ruined the game for me. Even qwop has better controls.

LTT marketing themselves as a Canadian company/channel but using only US prices and availability was always a red flag for me.

I’ve ran into some conversations were some of the characters lines noticeably sound like they’re recorded from a different mic/in a different studio. Other than that it has been nice to have so much of the game voiced.

Seconded elite dangerous, especially if you have VR. If you also have the joysticks for 6DOF control it is super super super fun docking at stations and having dogfights.

If they’re going to force PC players to wait years before the game is available, don’t be surprised when they wait a few more years.

They probably aren’t your cup of tea but thought I’d add some more variety.

Final Fantasy XIV; an mmo with focus on story and the story arc from the past 9 years is wrapped up and brought me lots of tears.

Honkai Impact 3rd; ARPG gacha game (I know, I was skeptical) also with years of story following a relatively small cast of characters.

Did you mean to link the same post as OP did?

Voices of the Void. It’s a free “job simulator” game from itch.io with a creepy atmosphere that is pretty unsettling.

Maybe I’m the odd one out but I like the individual game launchers. Having everything grouped into steam, epic, ubisoft, etc can be convenient but then you run into issues when those services have downtime. Not to mention they include lots of bloat (if I want a program to download and run 1 specific game, I don’t want to download an entire store, library, forums, and social network along with it).

My roommate and I played so much borderlands using nucleuscoop

To me BotW was a more fleshed out copy of the 2013 game Cube World. Then the building with ToTK could be seen as a copy of GMOD or even kerbal space program if you squint a bit.

This doesn’t make the game any worse though. If anything it makes me more likely to try it because I played similar games and enjoyed them.

While it may not have explicitly taken inspiration from other games I’d imagine it’s been subconsciously inspired by other games. After so many years of video games being made, any time now when a developer claims that their game is completely original is a red flag for me.

There’s nothing wrong with a game being inspired by (or even a “copy” of) another one. Thinking every game needs to be original is like a car company thinking they need to reinvent the wheel.

It’s just going to be GTA:O2. Look at how they abandoned V.

The amount of content available for free in genshin has made me question why I would ever pay the full AAA price for a game with half the content.

I hope it comes to PC before long. Platform exclusives are lame.