You’re welcome!

The story is alright, but the combat is pretty good.

Everspace 2 (first one was a rogue like, you don’t need to play it to enjoy the sequel)

Rebel Galaxy Outlaw (also a sequel, the first one doesn’t have a Y axys so you may not like it)

Chorus

All three are a lot of fun, neither are AAA games so they lack a bit of polish but aren’t vanilla as hell either. I enjoyed each one better than Starfield but neither as much as ME 1-3.

Also I’ve had some luck with https://www.50gameslike.com/ finding games.

Here’s mine.

Agreed!

One of the games from the VGAs I’m excited about!

Their other two games struggled but got good enough that I enjoyed them. So I’ll wait and see if they figure their crap out.

If you’re itching for a factory game that’s not as well known yet Dyson Sphere Project. I picked it up about a month ago and am nearing 200 hours in it and am hooked!

I also loved Satisfactory and Factorio.

I’m pretty sure you just won comment of the year! This is great and very helpful.

I’ll start calling my kid that, see if they figure out why! 😂

My memory doesn’t serve me, I don’t remember the mini games. The FF I loved best was 9. My middle child (now an adult) is named after one of the characters.

It’s from a different time, when it was new it was amazing. But I’m old and was young when it came out.

I dunno, I loved the original and find the remake is so over produced it’s boring and tedious.

It’s a cross of factorio (major influence) and planetary annihilation (light influence).

Like factorio and satisfactory it’s a factory game. Build this, then automate it, then do it again but bigger and bigger. The formulas for making stuff is simple compared to the other two but the scale is giant. You start in a solar system and take every planet over, then you take over multiple solar systems. 64 in all.

It also encourages you to have multiple games going by rewarding you in a way that makes additional games easier.

There is an enemy called the fog which is a lot of fun to deal with as well. They’re optional but totally make the game better IMO.

Lastly the scale of the game is amazing and it’s gorgeous at scale. I just started sending solar sales around the sun to gather energy and it’s beautiful. Sometimes I just stare at it.

And yeah I’m addicted, it’s as amazing as the other two factory games I mentioned.

I play it with my son, it’s a riot together!

Your game selections go well with your art!

🤞 don’t be shit, don’t be shit, don’t be shit 🤞

I saw that too but that one setting fixed it for me completely. Plus I use frame gen with a vsynced FPS at 119 (to prevent tearing).

I’m also using a 4090 with an overclock 10700k.

I think I put 70-80 hours into it and found it quite good and bug free. The one nVidia setting for the better ready traced lights was the only issue and turning it off solved all the issues.

Stealth was fine, but the rocks were annoying for sure. I think the biggest issue was not selling it on steam and the terrible Ubisoft launcher.

I enjoyed it as is. Probably put 40 hours or more into it. But I played it on PC so maybe it has patches to make it better by then?

I’m shocked to see just how many of these games I played as a kid. I think I need to buy it now…

Lol thank you! Though I hadn’t considered the whole library. I should have though. I was more thinking of making my own game as a game. Then I could make anything I could think of and then play it. I’ve always wanted to make a video game, this would be a good time to start I guess.

Maybe this is cheating but RPG maker, ACC or maybe ACE if it’s out in time with a great rig, and probably Minecraft.

I have, but I think each time that I’ve had my fill and won’t be playing it ever again.

One day I’ll stop reinstalling this game… It won’t be this day.

Great interview, thank you for sharing! I loved this game when it first hit beta as a young adult and it was about all I played with exceptions for the first StarCraft and EverQuest.

I feel this a little too much.

I’m glad to hear that, it’s a great game that I suck at!

I mean, I was hopeful for this but it looks like Ubi shit…

Same, and it’s great! I can’t wait to dive back in. But I need to read the stuff more because I get lost and I feel like they’ll tell me what I’m supposed to be doing.

The sound of Internets!

I swear when I had dial up I could tell how fast my connection would be by the sound of the static. If it didn’t sound clean I’d get a crap connection and just hanging up and dialing a different connection number would do the trick.

Good point! They could have even had a period accurate trailer, with that guy with the really deep voice like in movie trailers back then “A game, 20 years in the making…”

Oops… 2021. Fail me!

Been on my wishlist since 2001! I can’t wait to have time to play.

I haven’t played long enough to tell for sure but it feels like a good bit of stuff here.

I’m waiting to play more in VR this weekend instead of flat screen.

I’ve played the expansion for a few hours. If you were looking for a more focused and direct single player experience this might be it.

I’d be willing to give money to that too!

Them and Tech Jesus are my last vestiges of good YouTube content for gaming content on the more technical side.

Does this mean digital foundry will turn to shit?

Exactly! I spent an entire night playing a football game over and over in my head that didn’t happen and wasn’t important to the team. But John Elway just could not throw for a first down to save his life…