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Outer Wilds.
But I can’t. It’s a game you can only really play once. I keep trying to get the wife to play, so I can live it again through someone else’s eyes.
I’m thinking to wait 15 years and then replay it. Maybe I’ll have forgotten enough by then.
(I didn’t play echoes yet so I still have that going for me)
Control.
So good the first time
Counterstrike with my friends at the cafe 20 years ago
Outer Wilds, like it was the first time all over again 🥺
Ah yeah, what a cool game. The DLC was quite different, but I enjoyed that too.
I wish there was an Outer Wilds 2 but you probably couldn’t do anything too similar, so I guess what I’m saying is I wish the devs made another game of some sort.
RuneScape, but it also needs to be 2005.
Im doing this now. Playing on vidyascape and going through all the quests :)
Halo 3. Peak online console, it was all downhill from there.
Halo 3 multiplayer is why to me modern multiplayer always feels like shit.
I’m glad i experienced it but it hurts knowing I physically can’t anymore. MCC is missing a lot of what made the online experience what it was sadly, even though it’s very good for a lot of the other aspects. It just does not carry the same feeling at all, I don’t even really get THAT much of a nostalgia hit from it either.
I think SOMA. The first time I played it, I had no clue it was a horror game. It has such great atmosphere. A balance between mystery, adventure and horror, all while keeping it calm and slow.
Firewatch.
I replayed it recently after first playing it around 2019 and found it just as enjoyable as the first playthrough.
Tap for spoiler
Since you now know the big mystery has a pretty mundane explanation, you’ll pay more attention to all the small details the devs put in. There was a lot of minor things I don’t remember noticing the first time around.
RPG with an eclectic, humourous storyline.
If you mean go back and play it from scratch, guild wars 2. Fuck. I had so much fun playing it in the beginning.
Guild wars 2 was magical during the beta. It felt so different than anything else at the time
Morrowind! And I will.
ETA: If memory wiping is on the table, I’m gonna have to roll a d3 between Titanfall 2, Nier: Automata, and 1000xRESIST
If my memory isn’t getting wiped, then give me an opportunity to play Advance Wars 2 again. I know I can just emulate it, but it isn’t the same without the no backlight, AA powered Gameboy Advance
Get yourself a no backlight AA powered Gameboy advance then
I reply the Starcraft campaigns at least once a year. Love those games
Still want to know why clicking the Terran Academy building plays and agonized scream
That was a weird sound choice
There was this game by Maxis called Sim Town. It was my first experience with sim games as a kid.
https://archive.org/details/SimTown_1020
you can play it in your browser.
might also want to check out Sim Park as well. I enjoyed both.
Ah, the early SIM games were so comforting. Thanks friend.
Ever play Sim Tower or Sim Copter? Never really hear about them but I remember them being so fun
I didn’t, I did hear about them. I didn’t have much access. I think the next one I ended up playing was sim city.
Invisible War. The controversial sequel to Deus Ex. The PC port ran like shit on the best PCs, but I have Macs. Xbox might be the best way to play it but it’s still gonna suck. The game itself was good but the tech was complete trash. Literal downgrade in every way from the first one. And yet it was still a gem.
I played it for the first time this year. Finished it in like 5 hours, so can’t say it would be worth full price…but I still enjoyed it a lot for what it was.
Deus Ex is my favorite game. This is the only sequel I haven’t played.
Honestly you’re not missing much. There are good things in Invisible War, but the software was just bad.
The problem with Deus Ex was, they made a great computer game, but it could not run on Xbox and they had to struggle to get it on PS2. They had to basically remake the thing. They developed Invisible War for the Xbox first, PlayStation never (AFAIK), and the PC port was a bad port that suffered the problems of the Xbox version. (This was OG Xbox, not even Xbox 360.)
If you get a chance to play Human Revolution (the third one/reboot/prequel), definitely do so, it’s very good. Came out on the 360, but plays well on Series X and PC. Had a yellow tint to everything (like the Underworld films and their blue tint). A Directors Cut came out later removing the yellow tint (though you had the option to bring it back) and integrating the DLC. Great game.
What I liked about Invisible War was, it didn’t care what ending you picked in the original. It assumed you picked the Helios ending, but explains that you couldn’t contain Helios, so the New Dark Age (destroy the compound) happened anyway, and the Illuminati moved in (so Illuminati ending is canon, but so are the other two). Invisible War’s Helios ending is awesome and terrible at the same time. You basically invent the Borg from Star Trek. The Illuminati ending is creepy, but seems like the most reasonable. Another has all the leaders killed, and I also remember an alien invasion. In short, there are no good choices. What was cool was the rival coffee companies and what you learn if you do all of their quests. And the Britney Spears/Taylor Swift chatbot.
And the ugly? In the original, though they never come out and tell you, the human race is a couple generations from extinction as the youngest woman in the Deus Ex universe is in her late teens. There are little boys, but little girls are extinct. They’ve all grown up. And once the youngest one hits menopause… no more boys will be born either. Invisible War flips this around. Now the only children in the world are female. (And you can still kill children in Invisible War, just like you could in the original.) Humanity is still doomed, but we got a reprieve of maybe a decade when girls were being born who, when they got older, could be used to continue the species. Of course, neither of these things are actually canon to the world of Deus Ex. It’s just technical limitations. It would be years before Skyrim would figure out you could use one body for both boys and girls, and just give girls longer hair.
