I picked up scribblenauts unmasked for like 90% off, I’ve always loved the series (though I find unlimited has fewer puzzles…)

Across different systems, probably Chronotrigger… Maybe civ 1. Not bloody 3, not bloody 5, 1.

Holy moly, the orange box was the second game I ever activated on steam, way back in 2008, 16 years ago.

Protip: You can see when you bought different games by using the link https://store.steampowered.com/account/licenses/

Kind of a trip down memory lane, and a real reminder of how far the gaming industry has fallen. 2013 was just page after page of great games, 2014, still lots, and slowly it peters out until the last few years fit on one page on the screen. I bought games in the years before that, but many of them were just catching up with the banger years around 2013!

I think I’ve played NFS1 the most, the original one for MS-DOS. The non-circular tracks felt like they were set up for the love of driving, and I really enjoyed driving those tracks without even worrying so much about winning the races.

It’s actually pretty decent as a generic 90s square RPG, but fails miserably as a sequel or even as an addition to the Chrono trigger universe to the point that I’m pretty sure most people just pretend there was never another entry in the Chrono series.

Anyone who owned doom 1 and doom 2 got a new item in their steam or gog library with damn near everything included including stuff like sigil and a new episode they just made.

There’s a new doom 2 RTX mod that clips into that version and it combines ray tracing with voxel art to give the most impressive raycast doom 2 I’ve imagined so far. Well worth a look especially since it’s free for a lot of gamers.

I find a lot of AAA games don’t really do couch coop these days which is disappointing.

One game I always come back to (and it’s ancient and Free to Play) is Awesomenauts. It’s a cartoon sidescrolling hero shooter type thing, but it’s a lot of fun.

Creative industries in general have been somewhat stagnant including TV, video games, movies, and so on.

Part of it is the raw bureaucratization of society where box checkers and rule followers are getting into creative positions and being uncreative.

That’s also why there are good things out there in niche spaces, because creative people didn’t disappear they’re just keeping low.

I think the fact that it doesn’t have the same gravitas GTA has is part of the reason why it’s so good.

Gaming journalism has been dead for so long the body’s nothing but bones.

The key is to use an alternative that’s actually good, and most of these companies were never going to make an alternative that was good, just one that was exploitative.

Most of my purchases the last few years have been gog. The only game service where you actually own the game afterwards.

The DS bonus content is pretty crap though…

Makes you realize just how tight the original game is because the new stuff didn’t have the same tight design.

There’s a Chrono trigger+ out there that restores cut content and adds a new time period to an original ROM, it’s done much better imo.

Oblivions shivering Isle expansion was really good. Quick and dense.

If you liked the Stanley parable, I feel like spec ops: the line would be up your alley. Quite different games with a common narrative method.

Based on the puzzle games and games with character on your list, it seems like psychonauts would be a good choice. (Its technically a platformer, but so is tomb raider)

The Scribblenauts series is a fun puzzle game that’s sort of unique, though it’s a side scroller.

Beaming is a racing game that’s heavy on the physics simulation side of things.

Doom had worse technology, but the sound and art direction is in a other league.

I think stuff like the limited color pallette may have been due to technical limitations where they would need to fit solid gradients of every color into a 256 color pallet to do the convincing dynamic lighting and the like.

I played it on the first day, and played it for days. It was actually really fun and I had a lot fewer issues with it than I had with Dragon Age 1 that I played a little while beforehand.

Supposedly the console releases were particularly bad. I played it on a laptop with a 2060.

It took like 15 years for Daggerfall to not be totally broken, so it isn’t really a “new” normal.

I remember SiN was unplayable when it first came out, but a couple years down the line it was a pretty decent game (as long as you weren’t opposed to its aesthetic, which I wasn’t)

You’re free to disagree and think it’s a perfect sequel that has everything you ever wanted out of a chrono trigger sequel. Lots of people like it. I just don’t feel that it’s a real sequel.

As I recall it’s the time devourer which is lavos after merging with part of schala, but it takes more than a final boss to make something a real sequel to another thing.

Nothing surpasses chronotrigger even after all these years.

Two contemporaries of chronotrigger that were much different but still quite good are terranigma and seiken detensu 3.

Two games that claimed to be trying to do something similar mechanically that are RPGs are septerra core and anachronox. Both are for PC and should run on a potato these days.

The legacy of Kain series and in particular the soul reaver offshoot has a great story and time travel elements, but they’re more action puzzle games.

Really good final fantasy of the era, but not a real sequel to Chrono trigger.

You only really own a PC game you bought on gog. Everywhere else you’re just renting.

Guess I’ll be buying fallout 4 again then.

Oh noooo!!

I usually hit civ 1 for ms-dos, civ 3 for windows, and I think I have civ 5.

But I like the first for no good reason. Same as my favorite version of simcity is the snes version.

Oh, one thing I can’t really do anymore (for now at least) is some old school multiplayer gaming in doom, duke3d, quake, all those old games. That was my childhood, but not playing online – playing where I can look over to my little brother and shit talk him for that kill or whatever.

Hardwar is something I wanted to play but didn’t think I’d get a chance to, but it’s up on steam now (so I just bought it)

I want to play baldurs gate 1 and 2 to completion but I just don’t have time for it

I never did play through Final Fantasy 7, and it’s a chonker of a game to play through

I’ve played through the later Final Fantasy Tactics Advance games, but I never got very far into Final Fantasy Tactics.

I own all 5, but my main focus in life has been my little guy.

And as a bonus… I kinda want to have game of civ… one more turn!!!

I could swear there was already a modern warfare 3? Or is this another berenstain bears moment?

The saddest thing is that with the destruction of the media over the past 20 years, I’m still waiting to hear whether it’s actually any good or not.

Absolutely, but at least they made a few games before shutting down the good studios!

I don’t think anyone expected them to go full EA before going full EA.

Daggerfall. Once you’ve played that everything else has the volume turned down.

And on gog there’s a version for free that comes with a highly modded daggerfall unity that looks and plays much more like a modern game.

Honestly, I’ve been considering minetest the real successor to minecraft. It’s just really decent, and it doesn’t have all the risks of minecraft being controlled by someone else including opening the game being gatekept by their centralized servers.

It’s the internet. Eventually if you’re popular enough, some jerk off will say something dumb.

It’s cheap and easy to do it! Watch: I’ll kill you!

The internet is not your friend.