Ash
Arcane
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My gaming year. Surprisingly few 90s games this time around. Very few gems left to discover there sadly, but I intend to dive into some niche titles I passed on for 2021.
Bold = released in 2020.
High recommendation:
XCOM: Enemy Within
Spelunky 2
Spelunky 1
Salt and Sanctuary
Doom Eternal
Darkwood
Fallout: New Vegas (modded)
Unreal (Modded)
Recommended if you're particularly interested. I rate them each around 7/10 +-0.5:
The Surge
The Surge 2
DMC4
God of War 3
Hotline Miami
Rage 2
Fallout 3 (Modded)
Dead Cells
Destroy All Humans 2
Ghost of Tshushima
Guns, gore & Cannoli 2
Toejam & Earl: Back in the Groove
Do not recommend/was disappointed:
Bloodstained
Blasphemous
Shadowman
Ori & the Blind Forest (I actually do recommend this one, it's just not for me. I recognize it as a good game nonetheless).
Star Wars: Dark Forces 2
Silent Hill 3
Metro: Exodus
FF7 (PC Version modded -- use PSX emulator and Hardtype mod instead)
Special Complete Trash Rating:
FF7 Remake
Of Spelunky 2 or Doom Eternal for GOTY 2020, it's hard to recommend either as some amazing achievement or honorary accomplishment for 2020. Both are surprisingly good, improvements over the prior game, but could have been better. Ghost of Tshushima was a very interesting title technically speaking and the combat had solid foundation, but the game was let down by the usual modern game design conventions.
No award given. Yet another terrible year it seems. The decline is here to stay, even if it's not as bad as the late 2000s era in particular was, mostly because indies are pumping out some good shit.
I'll look into potentially good 2020 games I may have missed based on other posters ITT.
Bold = released in 2020.
High recommendation:
XCOM: Enemy Within
Spelunky 2
Spelunky 1
Salt and Sanctuary
Doom Eternal
Darkwood
Fallout: New Vegas (modded)
Unreal (Modded)
Recommended if you're particularly interested. I rate them each around 7/10 +-0.5:
The Surge
The Surge 2
DMC4
God of War 3
Hotline Miami
Rage 2
Fallout 3 (Modded)
Dead Cells
Destroy All Humans 2
Ghost of Tshushima
Guns, gore & Cannoli 2
Toejam & Earl: Back in the Groove
Do not recommend/was disappointed:
Bloodstained
Blasphemous
Shadowman
Ori & the Blind Forest (I actually do recommend this one, it's just not for me. I recognize it as a good game nonetheless).
Star Wars: Dark Forces 2
Silent Hill 3
Metro: Exodus
FF7 (PC Version modded -- use PSX emulator and Hardtype mod instead)
Special Complete Trash Rating:
FF7 Remake
Of Spelunky 2 or Doom Eternal for GOTY 2020, it's hard to recommend either as some amazing achievement or honorary accomplishment for 2020. Both are surprisingly good, improvements over the prior game, but could have been better. Ghost of Tshushima was a very interesting title technically speaking and the combat had solid foundation, but the game was let down by the usual modern game design conventions.
No award given. Yet another terrible year it seems. The decline is here to stay, even if it's not as bad as the late 2000s era in particular was, mostly because indies are pumping out some good shit.
I'll look into potentially good 2020 games I may have missed based on other posters ITT.
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