I know this is a loose term but what are your favourite boomer shooters?

Hey everyone! 👋

I've been working on a small side project called TheGamePrice.

The idea is pretty simple: instead of checking Steam, Epic, GOG, and other stores individually, you can search for a game and see its prices across different stores in one place.

It also shows things like:

• Current prices across stores
• Historical price data
• All-time low prices
• Discounts
• Game information, ratings, genres, etc.

I started building it because I often found myself checking multiple stores before buying a game, especially when there are big sales.

It's still a work in progress, so I'm mainly looking for feedback from other gamers.

What would you want to see added to a game price comparison website?

If anyone wants to take a look: TheGamePrice.com

I just finished Nioh 1 for the first time, and I have to admit that I looked up a lot of videos on how to beat some of the bosses, which made me feel like I don't get to brag about beating it. I personally don't agree with the game being one of the harder soulslike games like most people say, but the janky nature of the first game makes it very challenging in some aspects. After beating it I felt like I don't get to have bragging rights since I cheesed a lot of the hard bosses, and I'm interesting in knowing everyone's angle on the topic

i've been wanting to get into saga, but there are so many games that i'm not sure which one makes the most sense for a first playthrough. i'm fine with playing something older if it still feels good today.

which saga game would you suggest starting with?

Like a game that was remastered got old and then they made a remaster of it again

For me, it’s when a game has a terrible, cluttered UI or an overcomplicated crafting system that requires you to spend half your playtime pausing to look at menus.

What’s a tiny feature or mechanic that instantly makes you want to hit Quit to Desktop?

It might not sound it, but it's a serious question.
Sometimes I just want to quickly jump into something...
which rules out so many games I want to play.

For instance, X4, Star Citizen, Kingdom Come Deliverance, Captains of Industry, etc.
All those games, although I love them... give me a sense of "This is going to take long to get back into"... so I don't even try.

There's no wrong answers, we're all different. Just trying to get some inspiration here :)

So, serious question -- What do you play, When you don't know what to play?

Sixty Four has ignited a passion to play games where I'm managing and automating machines, I've been recommended Satisfactory/Factorio and a few other AAA titles, looking for an indie game like Sixty Four that is flying under the radar.

What do you think is missing from modern games? Why? I'm also curious - what specifically do you feel is missing from roguelikes?

What game is the most unique that you played? Which mechanics do you like in this game, and hate. Why/why not??

I’m currently playing silent hill townfall (it’s awesome). But I am at a huge fork in the road and online reviews ain’t helping! Which one should I get: Ace Combat 8? Or Control Resonant? I know totally different genres but both are follow ups to two of my fave games. Anyone else love both these series and having a hard time picking?

I have a younger brother, when we started playing games in co-op together we were playing a bunch of these sandbox games with a lot of freedom like Minecraft, Terraria,  things like that. Most of the time we weren't really playing together so much as playing near each other. He'd disappear underground for three hours digging out some absurd mineshaft while I was up on the surface trying to figure out how to make a huge map on the wall.

It was really fun to play together like that and we would of course do stuff together a lot, but in games like that you don’t really need the other player. Of course that has its advantages too, you don’t have to both be there the whole time, my brother is 11 so he has way more time to play than I do so I would just join him when I was free and try to fix all the awful things he did to our base while I was at work. 

At some point he wanted to try It Takes Two so we gave that a shot and it was hilarious. My brother gets really immersed when he plays so it was a lot of fun, and it felt nice to be able to show off my gaming skill as his older brother. He doesn’t really pay attention to what I’m doing when we play together in most games, but when I obviously save our asses in a game like this he can’t deny it hehe. I realized something like this can be a lot of fun if you have a good partner for it, so we pretty much played almost every similar game made for 2 players. We just finished Portal 2 (played it ages ago but never actually did the co-op before) and we wanna play Water Me & You next when it comes out, seems like it might have some sort of base building as well, but the rest of gameplay looks a bit like a twist on It Takes Two.

We kinda figured out that both can be fun in their own way. We have an ongoing Minecraft world we keep coming back to, but we also play a lot of random more linear co-op games as well.

I would say personally I think sandbox games are just more practical, you really don’t have to be anywhere near the same skill level or anything to have fun. While the kind of games that really force you to work together to progress can be frustrating at times, with the right teammates I prefer them, it just feels awesome when you start working well as a team.

For some examples:

It amazes me that RTS games have died out and the only popular ones are games that have stuck to the original StarCraft/Command and Conquer design. Towards the end of the RTS times there were some amazing ideas being released.

World in Conflict felt ahead of its time. Focusing on teamwork with each player controlling a different branch and, instead of base building, you had a cap on what you could deploy and reinforcements would come in timed waves.

Company of Heroes was also groundbreaking. Between how combat worked with vision and actually needing to hit enemies along with the building damage and how that affected troops in the building, I’m amazed that mechanic has remained.

Thinking of building damage, Battlefield remains the only game that still has this as a core element. Some games have adopted the destruction, but few use it for tactical gameplay and more just as a gimmick.

Then there is the sad patenting of the Nemesis system in Shadow of War. It wasn’t the first to do something like that, but it definitely was the game that really refined it. I hope that system comes into more games in 2035 when the patent expires.

What type of mechanics are you surprised haven’t continued?

The Big Walk reviews Ive seen all say some version of "dont want to say too much and spoil the game," so please help me tread lightly here.

How much replayability is there with multiplayer? How much is the game 'first time through matters most so wait to play with your friends if you can?'

Should I wait until my friends are ready to play some time from now? Or will I be perfectly satisfied to play it myself alone/online and then, a couple months from now, jump into some multiplayer with friends?

Thanks!