Videogame Recommendations. - What cool games have you been playing?

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Here's my list of games you should play.

1- Bioshock. I am amazed that so many people seemingly haven't played this legitimate masterpiece. PLAY IT! It is what I consider to be the "last hurrah" before AAA publishers murdered creative freedom for developers, it's a beautiful and eerie game with amazing writing that you'll never forget.

2- Fallout 1&2. These old games are enjoyable unique and look good even today, definitely worth a try.

3- 7 Days to die. Open world zombie survival game with a tower defense twist where every 7 days a massive horde of zombies attacks you meaning you have to balance resource gathering, leveling up, exploring and building your base.

4- Yakuza: Like a dragon. This is the game that really launched the Yakuza series in the west and it's just genuinely good. Loads of goofy characters and tons of shit to do. It's really fun.

5- Earth Defense Force 5. Intentionally goofy B movie style game where you shoot at huge waves of giant bugs and aliens with horrible voice acting going on constantly. It's just funny and a good time either single or multiplayer.

6- Postal 2. A bonafied must play for anyone new to PC gaming, this game is fucking horrible and unstable but it's a must play and it's just genuinely endearingly edgy and janky. Everyone loves this damn game, it's a snap shot of early 2000s US culture.

7- Psychonauts. Hands down the best action platformer of generation 6 with a unique grotesque 90s cartoon art style, fluid gameplay and a dark sense of humor. It's great.

8- Golden Light. A really weird survival horror roguelike with a PS1 aesthetic. It's so weird it just has to be experienced, it's also a good playthrough as well.

9- Iron Brigade. A fun tower defense game set in an alternate reality WW1 timeline where you play as a guy riding a little mech that you use to fight off advancing enemies. It's a great game to play with friends it's a genuine good time.

10- Medieval Dynasty. A pretty chill village building and management sim where you just build up your own town over time in medieval europe. It's chill and they also have made a japanese version called Sengoku Dynasty now if that's your thing.

11- Post Void. Very weird acid trip of a point to point boomer shooter with rogue like elements. It's very trippy and may fuck with someone with epilepsy.

12- Bullet Storm. It's like gears of war but the characters have personality and charm and the gameplay is over the top and brutally violent. It's a good time.

13- Persona 4 Golden. An older JRPG but it's just the thing someone suffering from western game fatique needs in their life. It helped reignite my passion for gaming and it can do the same for you, give it a try.

14- Metal Wolf Chaos XD. Originally a japanese Xbox exclusive this game is a satire of US politics taken to the extreme with mech combat and a traditional insane japanese story, it's fun and silly and it's on steam.
 
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Am I the only one who hates Tower Defence games?

Anyway, Nine Sols is absolutely awesome. If you enjoyed Shovel Hollow Knight, you'll like Nine Sols.
 
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I've been replaying Super Mario Odyssey. That game was the whole reason I bought a switch in the first place, still worth it.
 
Donkey Kong Country 2
You really can't go wrong with the classics. I break out my retro game collection at all of the parties I host and it's always a hit.
Minecraft.
Modded minecraft in particular, that's a whole other experience that can add a surprising amount of hardware demand to your PC. I'm a fan of the Technic mod platform myself, Hexxit 2 adds so much content it might as well be a sequel but it is super hard though.
Am I the only one who hates Tower Defence games?

Anyway, Nine Sols is absolutely awesome. If you enjoyed Shovel Knight, you'll like Nine Sols.
Give the ones I listed a try, if you've got friends to play with on PC then Iron Brigade is a good game for you, it's made by double fine and they haven't made a bad game yet in my experience. It's on steam and it works fine single player but I haven't tried multiplayer yet.
I've been replaying Super Mario Odyssey. That game was the whole reason I bought a switch in the first place, still worth it.
Oh man that game is just pure classic nintendo fun factor it fucking rocks I was was actually going to recommend it myself but I decided to list less popular games instead to give them attention but it reignited my love of gaming after I got burned out playing shitty copy pasted xbox games and became one of my favorites because of it. A hat in time is a poor man's odyssey as well so it's totally worth checking out.
 
Cruelty Squad is a good game with great level design, lots of options with which to approach your targets, tons of actual secrets and unlockables, great challenge and nauseating audio and video direction.

Do it.

Oh. OP likes EDF so he can't be a bad guy.
 
Cruelty Squad is a good game with great level design, lots of options with which to approach your targets, tons of actual secrets and unlockables, great challenge and nauseating audio and video direction.

Do it.
This is one of the games i've been keeping an eye on! If you like this you would probably like Golden Light and Post void they have a similar abstract PS1 art style,
 
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1. Sacrifice (2000) by Shiny Entertainment

This is an old game that plays like a cross between an RTS and a third-person action game. You play as a wizard that ended up in a different realm after accidentally destroying your world of origin. There are five gods that rule your new setting, each representing different philosophies and aspects, and by choosing which gods you align yourself with you get different units you can summon and different spells to cast. Ultimately, your choices in which gods you serve alter the direction the story takes. The graphics have aged really well and you can scale them up quite a bit.

2. SaGa 2: Hihou Densetsu (2009) by Square Enix

This is a Nintendo DS remake of the 1990 Gameboy Game, Final Fantasy Legend II. Unfortunately, the only way that you can play it in English is if you download the ROM and apply a fanmade translation patch and play it with a Nintendo DS emulator.

The remake takes everything that was great about the original game and story and expands upon the mechanics. Part of what makes this game so fun is that you can have any monster you encounter in the game as a playable PC. By eating the meat of different defeated monsters you can turn your PC into different monsters.

3. SaGa 3: Jikuu No Hasha (2011) by Square Enix

This was originally Final Fantasy Legend III for the Gameboy, and the Japanese-only Nintendo DS release is also superior in every way to the Gameboy release. This has the same interesting character classes as the second game, but it also adds beastmen and cyborgs. Fortunely, there is also a fanmade translation patch for it that you can apply to a ROM so you can play it on a Nintendo DS emulator in English.

4. Paladin's Quest (Lennus I in Japan) (1992)

This is an underrated RPG that came out in 1992 for the SNES. The game portrays a truly bizarre fantasy world, almost like it was inspired by '70s prog, and all of the drugs that probably went with it as it is filled with alien-looking tilesets and strange monsters, and your spells that you cast even change their appearance as you become more adept with them. You can also hire different mercenaries to fill two party member slots as you progress through the game.

5. Lennus II (1996)

This is a sequel to the events that happened in the first game. Unfortunately, it was never officially translated but there is a fanmade English translation patch that will allow you to play it in English on an SNES emulator. It also has the bizarre enemy design of the first game along with truly unique towns and settings. It also has the same mercenary system as the first game.

I am not going to post direct links to anything, but if anybody needs help with finding some of these games, send me a PM.
 
I do not know.

But I will buy it and tell you. Maybe this time the joke is that the game is actually bad.
It's not available for digital purchase because it's abandonware but a game you may be interested in is ZPC AKA Zero Population Count. It's an old school boomer shooter with a unique brutalist art style. I have a sealed big box of it myself, I want to build a retro gaming PC for games like it and I may rip them and upload the ROMS if I can to keep these old forgotten games alive.
 
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