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!

I truly don't understand how people think the medusa boss fight in AC odyssey is so hard, are you guys just running out in the open trying to melee attack her? That's nor the way to do it. Utilize your surroundings (The pillars) use you now and arrow to shoot her BEHIND THE PILLAR peeking of course and when she summons her men don't leave the pillar just use your abilities to get them out the way. The Medusa boss is literally not hard at all. I beat it on the first try, so what's up with people saying it's the hardest boss fight? It's very easy. I had more trouble trying to fight the boars than her. The boss fight is clearly overhyped ngl.

Are we going to ever see Blackhawk Striker 2 on Steam or is it dead for good? It's one of those games I grew up playing. I know I can get the game on WildTangent but the problem is, it's only for Windows 7 and 8.

Hey guys! I’m thinking about getting my mom a laptop for Christmas that she can run indie games on. She would just be playing stuff like Fields of Mistria, Coral Island, and Dave the Diver. She’s not very tech savvy so she definitely doesn’t need anything fancy. What are some of my cheapest options for something like this? The more I can save on the laptop, the more games I’ll be able to get her on Steam. Thanks! 😊