looks pretty good honestlyAnyone looking for a great recent non-RPG should immediately try Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children, a squad-based tactics game with intricate character customization and progression, excellent encounter design, and engaging mechanics.
Troubleshooter has been finished, in the sense of playable from beginning to end, for well over a year, although the developer, DandyLion, couldn't resist adding still more game mechanics via updates while also working on a quasi-DLC (White Lion and Black Witch) that isn't quite complete. This is regrettable, IMHO, since I would prefer they were working on the sequel, instead.looks pretty good honestly
I was always a fan of fft and other games like it
is it a finished game, how many hours
see I have to ask things like this and do extensive research cause this is the state of gaming
I beat fell seal arbiters mark a few years ago was pretty good
Pathologic 2, Subnautica, Paper Please, Rain World, Return of the Obra Dinn, Kingdom Come, Factorio, No One Lives Under the Lighthouse, Sunless Skies, Cultist Simulator, Darwood, EYE
Of cource then you have indie mega projects like: Star Sector, Kenshi, CDDA, Dwarf Fortress, yada yada
I am sure there's more out there...
oldies grew up with pure gameplay
You mean like Disco Elysium
Because that sure was a popular game among all the "old good, new bad" oldfags here
everything is just dogshit now
Always was, we were just younger and didn't know better.
That's why RPG Codex exists, so once you grow up, you can have a place to get together with other gamers, and discuss why every single game in existence is dogshit and we hate it.
We are in a golden age of gaming because now we can emulate all the old good games! We have also so many remasters now, more than ever!
Uh... Wait a moment.
Bottom-of-the-barrel iq strawman, no surprises.Ah yes, because tech is the only qualifier of creativity and experimentation in videogames
You know those things are very closely connected, right.Not gameplay concepts or anything
well i just stumbled on a early access arpg in the same vein as Path of Exile and Grim Dark called Last Epoch from the codex thread and its great
https://store.steampowered.com/app/899770/Last_Epoch/
You know it's over when half of RPG codex is the only place* that consistently acknowledges it is over -- because everyone else has such low standards and/or ignorance of classic glory (never played enough old games)...the two go hand-in-hand really. If nobody acknowledges the decline, this allows it to go on unchallenged and has for nearly two decades. Old standards are forever lost, hence it is game over man.
*Mind you I don't even go to other gaming sites for discussion anymore. But I doubt things have changed. Tards everywhere.
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Gaming is great, actually. Lots of choices, both past and new. Obviously AAA publishers like EA and Activision have been releasing (mostly online focused) garbage for quite some time now, but they are not the only game in town anymore.... It doesn't help that gpu manufacturers have created a cartel and have been doing price fixing constantly for the last 5 years or so. Plus shortage of new consoles. This means AAA developers don't have incentives to really invest in AAA experiences for the next gen due to high costs and low potential playerbase. But things are going to improve in the next 1-2 years, especially since Intel is releasing dGPUs soon to rape Nshitia and Aayyymmmshit assholes.
Until that happens, and masterpieces like Starfield get released, you can still play Skyrim SE and Fallout 4. Life is good.
Bruh, he is a codex forum member, he knows all about the garbage the codex suggests... Obviously he doesn't like those because he is a normal human being and not an autist living in his mom's basement.
Let's be honest, it's been a rather shitty two+ years:
https://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/score/metascore/year/pc/filtered?year_selected=2021
https://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/score/metascore/year/pc/filtered?year_selected=2020
If it wasn't for VR which blew a bit of fresh wind into the industry, Indie games, some good shit still coming out of Japan and a few exceptions like Half Life Alyx and Death Stranding or older games, which make up the brunt of what I've been playing lately I wouldn't know what games to spend time on. If I was forced every year to only play games released that year or give up on gaming I might choose the latter in the current situation.
This isn't helped by all the "Remake" and "Remaster" mania lately of 10-20+ year old games when gaming was in a generally better state like Mass Effect, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1/2, Command & Conquer, Mafia, Crysis, Diablo II, Quake, Halo, Grand Theft Auto, WarCraft III, Age of Empires, Commandos, Saints Row, Kingdom of Amalur etc. since the industry is increasingly creatively bankrupt, some of which have been botched or marred by stupid creative or technological decisions, and even if they wanted to make something new their new "diverse" hires would likely equally fuck it up.
Thankfully even some of the big commercial evergreen/golden goose franchises seem to have been somewhat dented, lost their luster lately and are showing signs of drying up due to this. Far Cry 6, Call of Duty: Vanguard and Battlefield 2042 seem to all have had abysmal ratings and sales compared to earlier outings. Maybe there will be some change, but I won't hold my breath or be fabulously optimistic about it.
https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/far-cry-6
https://metro.co.uk/2021/10/18/far-...on-far-cry-5-games-chart-16-october-15441755/
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/u...n-four-years-on-far-cry-6-worries-11634214278
https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/call-of-duty-vanguard
https://metro.co.uk/2021/11/15/call-of-duty-vanguard-sales-are-lowest-since-call-of-duty-4-15602780/
https://mp1st.com/news/report-cod-v...lack-ops-cold-war-worst-uk-launch-in-14-years
https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/battlefield-2042
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1517290/Battlefield_2042/
If you ignore AAA shit as I do for the most part games are doing fine. One must understand that AAA trash like Call of Duty or AssCreed is not being made for gamers, but for the kind of subhuman that thinks watching a Marvel movie is two hours well spent. Might as well view them as a completely separate market.this isn't helping the games are just fine argument
There's a lot of quality titles being made by passionate devs catering to a verity of niche audiences, and we're seeing a revival of genres and ideas that were long thought dead. Lots of great games released in the past 10 years would never have been created in the 90s or 00s either.
I'd even argue that while games nowadays tend to be formulaic, at the very least many of them achieve average playability, which was not always the case with more experimental games from decades past. What we see as a trend towards the derivative is merely natural selection at work - developers don't feel the need to reinvent the wheel because someone already came up with the most optimal solution to a given problem.
I'm not going to pretend it's a new golden age, but the industry is certainly much better than it was around the XBox 360/PS3 era.
Also, and this must be said, people simply tend to forget just how much shit was being released back in the 90s and early 00s, only remembering the good games that have stood the test of time.
Just how many Doom clones came out during the 90s that nobody talks about nowadays?
I disagree. While Dead Space takes a lot of inspiration from System Shock 2, it's a very different game that aims to do different things. Also, even if the two were to be compared directly, no one can deny that DS1 does a better job in some aspects than SS2.Also Dead Space was done better and earlier with the System Shock games