What game or game series do you wish more people would play?

[Flatline]

Obsidian is pretty well known for their Pillars of Eternity games.

I found the plots for Pillars 1 and 2 to be so boring. The first game suffered from a dull story propped by hours of reading walls and walls of text. The second cut the walls of text with a larger map, ship management, and other extras, but they still couldn't save the story.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

The McPixel games. Just to bring more joy and laughter into peoples lives. There's no need for a fandom, there is nothing to discuss, the games are perfectly self-explanatory. Just get some tea and play the damn games.

 

[Shart Attack]

Retroactive, but I wish more people I know had owned a PSP back in the day. I never got to play co-op Monster Hunter or God Eater with anyone.

 

[Judge Dredd]

I don't know if its bad rep comes from its sorry launch, its perceived inaccessibility, or its asshat fans (somewhat true).
The worst part is that the game died for Darktide which despite riding the live service fagtrain and suffering many many QoL downgrades, can't pull in more players than a five year old VT2.

I think I have the answer for that.

Somewhere between VT2's release and Darktide, all my friends declared they were "done" with horde mode co-op shooters. They might dabble in the occasional game like Risk of Rain 2 and Deep Rock Galactic, but whenever I'd ask if they getting games like Darktide they'd say no.

I don't know why this shift occurred. I suspect they are just burned out on the genre just like World War 2 games back in the day, or they soured on the genre because of bad games like Back 4 Blood, World War Z, and Redfall.

As for VT2's bad rep. Did some influencer or glitch compilation channel feature the game?

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Wishing more people would play a series you like in current day is definitely a monkey's paw situation.

Maybe a better question for users would be which game series they used to like that they wish fewer people would've played.

Except inasmuch as it effects design what other people do about a game I like doesn't effect me. But, I'd say Undertale and Paradox games. Undertale was a good game but it attracts a cringey fanbase. Paradox games were ruined by filthy casuals swarming it that didn't appreciate the old simulationist and historical approach and just wanted to press X to make the whole world become Anarcho-Monarchist Katanga with Chinese characteristics. I blame Isorrowproductions especially for helping to spread this garbage.

 

[The Last Stand]

Battlefield. I'd like to have more options for servers that aren't empty.

 

[Scarthew]

tenchu, any/all of em. Bug fables.

 

[Asian tech support]

I think I have the answer for that.

Somewhere between VT2's release and Darktide, all my friends declared they were "done" with horde mode co-op shooters. They might dabble in the occasional game like Risk of Rain 2 and Deep Rock Galactic, but whenever I'd ask if they getting games like Darktide they'd say no.

I don't know why this shift occurred. I suspect they are just burned out on the genre just like World War 2 games back in the day, or they soured on the genre because of bad games like Back 4 Blood, World War Z, and Redfall.

As for VT2's bad rep. Did some influencer or glitch compilation channel feature the game?

The skinny is just that the onboarding experience is awful for new players and Fatshark is (still) constantly at odds with their most hard boiled players. I don't think the game ever got popular enough for big youtubers to poke fun (although they did with Darktide).

Maybe sometime after Darktide dies in a ditch, I'll put together a late and unnecessary post cataloguing all the drama and autism surrounding VT/Darktide/Fatshark because not much is widely known outside of their forums. The CEO and their community managers are borderline cows.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Wishing more people would play a series you like in current day is definitely a monkey's paw situation.

Maybe a better question for users would be which game series they used to like that they wish fewer people would've played.

GoldenEye 007 because of the speed running community.

Sly Cooper and Banjo-Kazooie because of the furry community.

 

[gaystoner]

Naruto Shinobi Strikers...

The problem is matchmaking being shitty. morale of playerbase is low. amount of players is low. Hackers are high. Team up sweaties are prevalent.

 

[Girl Named Sandoz]

GoldenEye 007 because of the speed running community.

but then we would have never gotten this masterpiece

 

[skykiii]

There's a Switch game called Burgertime Party, which for some reason got massively overlooked despite being really really good. It's not perfect, but I feel like its issues are things that could be fixed with a patch (and might've been if the game had gotten more attention).

I think you can still download a demo on the Switch eShop, which is how I discovered it.... so do that and give it a spin. Please?

 

[AnsemSoD1]

Kangdom Hartz n shiet

 

[Die Oberste Direktive]

If only a little-known FPS from 1998 was popular, we could've gotten the third entry into the trilogy. I'm amazed that this underground gem was lucky enough to get two expansion packs and a sequel, and then two-thirds of another sequel after that.

And then a VR game.

WHERE THE FUCK IS HALF-LIFE 3 GABE?!

 

[SIMIΔN]

Tyranny. In the world of CRPGs, Obsidian is pretty well known for their Pillars of Eternity games. But their abandoned bastard child Tyranny is much more interesting and fleshed out in terms of writing and worldbuilding. Only downsides are that it's much shorter and the setting is quite unusual for CRPGs. That might be why it's not so popular.

I agree, Tyranny is a great game, but the difficult morale choices put off all the players looking for a self-insert power fantasy.
Another 'evil' campaign I'd recommend is Neverwinter Nights: Mask of the Betrayer.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

If I had to pick a game... I think Starsector could use more people, indy devs always could use more money and the community could always use more talented modders. Especially since the guy who was up keeping the awesome Diable Avionics faction is moving on to other things.

Maybe a better question for users would be which game series they used to like that they wish fewer people would've played.

Basically any Japanese game. Once they get big in the West, they start making little changes to better fit western sensibilities, aka the people that bitch the loudest.

 

[The Backwards Man]

Anything that requires a VR headset that's not tranny infested like VRchat.

 

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I found the plots for Pillars 1 and 2 to be so boring. The first game suffered from a dull story propped by hours of reading walls and walls of text. The second cut the walls of text with a larger map, ship management, and other extras, but they still couldn't save the story.

The series had some interesting story beats but yeah the pacing is just fucking atrocious.

 

[Sqwe-wi_Farmer]

Whilst at one time a Mainstream series I've never known a person who played any Metal gear games before meeting me.

"MGS: 3" Should be on most people's bucketlist

 

[Tsukasa Kadoya]

Perfect Dark on the N64.
I've always liked it more than Goldeneye and aside from short levels its a great game that most people forget exists.
That and Conker.
Even PD Zero isn't TERRIBLE, its just underwhelming.