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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)
Game jam mods add new content
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.
Morrowind! And I will.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Saints Row 1.
Only one in the series that was strictly a console exclusive. It never left the 360. 😔
If you have an Xbox one or series whatever both sr1 and sr2 are backwards compatible. Locked to 30fps cause of how the emulator used deals with vsync though. Annoying, cause you could disable the vsync on 360 and have the game run at a unstable AF 30-50fps, but it is what it is.
Or run it on a PC via Xenia. Needed a bit of tinkering to get it running back when I tried it a few years ago, but even then the game ran pretty damn well, and didn’t have any major issues running at 60fps.
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
RuneScape, but it also needs to be 2005.
Im doing this now. Playing on vidyascape and going through all the quests :)
NBA Street
NFL Street was my jam. Reminded me of playing football with a group of neighborhood kids.
EA Big was top notch
Return of the Obra Dinn.
But I can’t.
Because I already know the names and causes of death. 😭
I’m horrible with names, so I could probably play it through again like new, haha
I’m gonna try it again. I brick walked at a certain point like the witness.
I’d like to replay satisfactory but that is like choosing to waste another 300 hours of life lol
Thst game is so incredibly well made
I’m on my 6th attempt to finish the game. I’m further than I’ve ever been, I just unlocked nuclear power and drones last night but went to bed before I started messing with either.
im only still on my first playthrough and at 300 hours and just finishing a massive 36x8 block of fuel generators running the nitro rocket fuel recipe. i chose this over nuclear because it seems that nuclear is massively inefficient by comparison albeit easier to set up but on the other hand i never have to touch my power again and i have 70kmw at my disposal.
That’s pretty staggering. I hate moving fluids up long distances like that, so I’ve grown to expand those guys horizontally rather than vertically.
I built this a while back, but its the BFF (big fucking factory) that I’m most proud of, it’s my current aluminum processing plant (built where your power plant is, coincidentally) that perfectly efficiently runs all 6 of the pure bauxite nodes into aluminum ingots.
Nitro rocket fuel is a gas so it doesn’t need pumping which was pretty freaking magical to learn when I realized this
Ay yo?
Trackmania, the improve grind never stops :D
Portal 2 Co-op with someone that never played it could be good. I played it with a lot of friends already, but it still felt like a different experience with each of them.
As of a game I’m currently replaying, Last Command B-Side on Nightmare difficulty. Cleared hardcore difficulty previously, but Nightmare mode doesn’t let you play safe.
For a game I cannot replay, Overwatch 1. Overwatch 2 doesn’t give the same vibes as OW1, everything feels more clunky to the point I quit it. I didn’t really like OW1 that much to begin with, had like 200 hours tops on it; but really felt its absence after OW2.
Headbangers: Rhythm Royale was also another game I really enjoyed that didn’t really took off after launch. I still play it at times, but it’s entirely bot lobbies and they suck at the game. I miss needing to try hard to win a round on it.
