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Halo 3 is hands down one of the best games ever made.
Unquestionably the best console shooter ever made, indisputably the best splitcreen co-op and multiplayer game ever made.
I understand pc gamers or people who didn’t grow up with an xbox might find those statements in their expansiveness hard to accept, no halo 3 was fun but it wasn’t that good though… to which the only correct answer is yes it is.
It isn’t marketed primarily as a racing game or a high speed driving game, but it just feels so damn good I have put SO many urgent taxi job miles in that game it isn’t even remotely funny.
I regret none of that time lol
I also love doing urgent taxi jobs and cruising in multiplayer while being around players doing radically different vibes of driving jobs.
It makes the whole driving experience so much more interesting than when everyone is just driving lamborghinis and ferraris are 200mph and the rest of the vehicles are AI. The map just ends up feeling “more alive” somehow in Motor Town, idk I love it.
Motor Town, Operation Harsh Doorstop, Easy Red 2, Sailwind, Hydroneer, Liftoff!, Shredders, Old Market Simulator, Cold Waters Dot Mod, Nebulous Fleet Command, From The Depths, Helicopter Gunship DEX and Out Of Ore are all great “sims”.
I also consider extremely mechanically deep rpgs with realistic systems like Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead or Unreal World to be simulators and both are superb.
I am trying out Ships At Sea but don’t have enough experience yet to give a thumbs up or down yet on it (Check out Sailwind!).
Sailwind is a “sailing simulator” as in actual sailing!
Steam sale IS NOT A REAL SALE.
Consumers have associated the experience as a sale, but the last few steam sales I have only found very very niche stuff actually on sale, everything else isn’t really on sale it just has meaningless percents next to them.
Edit wow so I am really not in the majority here with my opinion haha, ok, maybe I am seeing this wrong? Honestly, the last couple steam sales I have compared the sales going on to previous sales <1 month previous or less away and the sales just didn’t look that good from that perspective.
I am not saying games aren’t going on sale in the Steam sale, I am arguing the sales are mediocre compared to random sales throughout the year, but again… I probably just have a warped vision of this because clearly people think otherwise.
Well guess they shoulda named it “Legion Go Get A Grip” then.
Having detachable joy cons is great, this space is incredibly vibrant right now and has all the hype people were projecting into stuff like VR except it is real and organic this time.
I love my Steam Deck but I love it because I could see Valve was creating a new market that according to my estimation was going to point the way forward to the broader pc gaming industry and yet it never seemed like Valve was interested in pre-emptively making a walled garden around that future they got to first.
Seeing devices like the Legion Go succeed in the sense that people are using them and loving them gives me hope, there is zero “my device is better” crap just like… .damn I am thankful Valve didn’t really try to make a total walled garden and I am thankful other hardware makers hit the ground running and didn’t get utterly left in the dust or totally at Microsoft’s mercy when basically the entire industry shifted to gamepass.
Try Xonotic with gyro aim!
Giant Bomb drops the best kind of Giant News Bomb!.. but I am left bothered by the question of whether it is truly correct to describe this as “dropping a big news bomb”, or whether in a strangely precise way this is somehow a sort of reverse “bomb undropping”, blast damage from unnecessarily destructive practices lifted with the wave of a capitalist wand that frees a denied landscape to regrow into cool shit, so should I actually say Giant Bomb Undrops The Bomb And It Is Bomb ? ?
At that cost stop wasting your money and directly commision an artist to make a cool work of art with your character that you can hang on your wall and look at even when you aren’t playing Diablo.
Artists desperately need your money, which includes artists working for Blizzard, but casinos like this never give a fair cut to artists in the end.
Nice! If you want to keep looking and find some new RTS games/keep up with news in the genre I enjoy this youtuber’s videos
Operation Harsh Doorstop - I have been missing a moddable big map team based vehicle shooter for… a decade? EA really screwed this space over and for years and years mods like Forgotten Hope 2 and Project Reality stayed on the Battlefield 2 engine because no new alternative came. OHD is that game, and it is free! Flying helicopters in multiplayer is a mental challenge and rush like no other. Still early access and a lot of rough edges, but the core is so good that I have been totally addicted and spent a lot of time helping noobs figure out the game because I like it so much.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/736590/Operation_Harsh_Doorstop/
Motor Town: Behind The Wheel - Recently there has been a big increase in multiplayer servers with 20+ people on them, which this game ABSOLUTELY deserves and even more excitingly I have started to see custom race events organically pop up in populated servers which I think will become really popular since Motor Town is a fantastic racing game that just happens to also be a fantastic driving job simulator. It is a blast to organically meet up with some other drivers on a server and do a couple of races together and then go off and do other driving jobs.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1369670/Motor_Town_Behind_The_Wheel/
Out Of Ore - Really I don’t know I hadn’t gotten this game before, I am a geologist and I like big machines, in this game it is like one of those satisfactory/factorio games… except you ACTUALLY mine instead of all the fun bits being abstracted away leaving only the fiddly automation parts. There are a plethora of loaders, excavators and trucks and digging and terraforming land with them is a blast in this game. I haven’t played for super long but it is already a huge recommend for me!
If you want a game that has fun movement in it and isn’t being suffocated by late stage capitalism, check out the indie game Splitgate (and the soon to come out Splitgate 2).
The gameplay is halo—ishh with a really well integrated jetpack.
The gunplay is VERY tight and there is a lot of movement and positioning skill to the game, I always have a blast when I play!
Fuck Ubisoft.
If you want a good open world racing game, well Motor Town: Behind The Wheel isn’t strictly a racing game… nor technically even focused on being a racing game, it is an open world driving job simulator and there are lots of sports cars and you can do lots of jobs where you are racing against a clock.
There is also multiplayer and a custom race system (as well as actual race tracks interspersed in the world).
The reason I really recommend it though is the driving feels better then just about any other game I have ever played, especially tire grip modelling. I don’t know how to describe it other than it makes me uninterested in driving cars in most other games lol.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1369670/Motor_Town_Behind_The_Wheel/
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I mean forge is really awesome, Bungie didn’t have to give a shit like that but they did.