games

I had a lot of fun playing Far Cry Primal but the story is practically nonexistent and the gameplay eventually gets super repetitive (although this probably goes for all Far Cry games). It's one of those games where you're having a good time while you play it, but afterwards feel guilty for spending so much time on it when there are practically infinite clearly superior games you haven't played yet.

World of Tanks.

The premise is 15v15 tank battles, simple enough. You must penetrate the enemies' armour to inflict damage. Easy.

The core issue is that each tank can carry regular shells and shells that do the same damage and just simply have higher nominal penetration, but cost more in-game currency.

Like how the fuck does that make sense.

Piranha Bytes Gothic and Gothic 2 are some of the best RPGs ever produced in my view. The atmosphere, the sense of progression and danger, the way every single item and enemy is curated and placed in the world with care and thought, the way the game doesn't hold your hand and characters actually behave like human beings - including the player. All wonderful.

Unfortunately, the graphics were ugly as shit for 2001-02 and the combat is unbelievably janky. A large part of the game's difficulty curve comes from how fiddly and frustrating the combat is. So, it is really hard to recommend.

Old School RuneScape. It's bigger than ever and just had their winter summit where they announced a bunch of stuff coming down the pipeline. It's decades of work by different people piled on top of each other to make this world where you interact with all the resources to qualify to complete quests. The name of the game is self-motivation instead of following a path that's laid out for you. In that way, people have made these breathtakingly beautiful accounts and projects like fighting the hardest boss in the game having access to only a restricted capacity to navigate around the game map to collect supplies and gear.

The gameplay itself, however, is akin to having a double wide chest in Minecraft and clicking around your inventory for 12 hours. Then you have the requisite herblore level for a quest which is a click and point adventure where you talk to people and solve a puzzle for them. Then you have access to another training method which is 15% faster than what you were doing. Then you only spend 22 hours instead of 25 grinding out requirements for the quest you actually wanted to do in the first place. Every breakthrough moment allows you to do an even longer grind than you had just completed to get the breakthrough.

World in Conflict is the best ww3 game and it was breathtaking for its time, but somehow didn't really succeed and capture a permanent following/sequel cashcow

I mean def the most forgotten-to-the-sands-of-time game i've played is Wet. I rly enjoyed it at the time as a suburban teenager with nothing better to do, but I can't recommend because in hindsight it was pretty mid and it didnt come out on pc, so you'd have to put in the extra work to emulate and its not worth it lol

i'm not afraid to recommend jank.

that said, i struggle to convince people to play The Longing, a game where you're creature that shuffles slowly through a system of caves while you wait for 400 real world days for your dad to wake up.

RuneScape - too much of a 'you had to be there' value. OSRS gets away with this more because you're also going there to play a 'vintage' game with some new content. But I don't really vibe with rs3. The entire plot is all over the place, although the individual quests are extremely well-written. Also, RS3 gameplay isn't all that fun and full of mtx, but OSRS is still worth giving a look.

RS3 is a bad MMO, but it's my bad MMO.

Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura remains my favourite game ever. But it is showing its age, it looks much like one of many generic story-based isometric RPGs of its time, and it's hard to understand what the fuck is going on with the gameplay, but once you learn, you realise it's just that the mechanics go scarily deep, the story is astounding, multi-layered and genuinely inspiring. The voice acting is silly in bits, but overall very impressive, and same for the soundtrack. I can still just daydream about the infinite possibilities and characters from that setting. It's just.. so much more. I've played it through 10+ times.

I might go play it again now. I need to see what interactions happen if you get a high enough Charisma to gather all the voiced followers in one big party.

Marvel vs Capcom 3. It's a sick fighting game but it is also totally fucking psychopathic. I put over 10k hours in that mfer and going back and looking at how ungodly fast and fucked up it is makes me wonder how the fuck I managed to play it at a high level. Playing competitively is unbelievably fuckedd up.

Dungeon crawl:stone soup

Some of my favorite memories are from that game but I can’t recommend people wade into the awful pile they’ve made it into. Every successive update seems to be devs fishing things out of the soup because it detracts from the stone.

A really obscure 90s title called Millennia: Altered Destinies. Unusable UI, but fuck the concept of guiding 4 alien civs through time travel to become peacefully co existing powers ready to defeat an alien invasion was amazing.

Tribes Vengence singleplayer was great and you can fucking fight me Tribes 2 fans I've been around since Earthsiege 2.

I actually liked doom 3

Mine probably has to be Unturned. I love the game, and it's free so the jank is really forgivable. But it was originally a Roblox game before the developer made it a full game.

Fallen London. Some of the best writing in any game, DEEP LORE, with the greatest secret ending I've ever played all in a F2P browser game. But it's a real time investment

This is the game that launched Sunless Seas and Sunless Skies if you've played those

I couldn't recommend most people play MGS 1 or 2 in the current year, but they are amazing works of art.

I wish more people could experience those games in full, but yeah...

My favorite jank? GTA: San Andreas Multi Player.

Its a mod for GTA:SA that allows better multiplayer action than GTA online does.

Ive been playing it since around 2007 or 08. I like to roleplay as a homeless dude from Blueberry who goes around quoting Carl Marks at everyone. It’s pretty fun, and I’ve been doing it enough that im known around one particular server for doing it.GTA:SAMP isn’t really obscure, but at this point it’s old as fuck, and nobody really talking about it anymore.

War Thunder, this game has so many bad things going for it I probably could rant about it for hours, but I find it really fun. If you do ever end up playing this game, please please don't spend money on it, high tier is an absolute mess and isn't worth spending money on it or grinding for it, just play the game to have fun and unlock things as you go even though it takes fucking forever.