I would recommend playing a mediocre game you don’t intend to replay. If you’re anything like me, I associate movies and games with the feeling of sickness I felt watching it. So Shadow of the Colossus, for some reason, is strongly associated with the feeling I had being home sick playing it as a teenager. I still replay it but have that kind of aftertaste of the memory lol. I similarly associate the movie Dark City with having chicken pox!
Its been a long time since I played this, but I remember that you will have to play it through at least 3 time for each story arc, so pick a faction and loyalty and Stick with it, don’t play both sides.
Also in terms of character class I would suggest some kind of magic user, Tyranny had a cool, quite unique magic system where you can craft your own spells.
There’s a good amount of NPC party members you can find so you’ll be able to fill in any gaps in your party eventually.
It’s a great game, a shame they didn’t develop a sequel, I prefered it to Pillars of Eternity, have fun!
I don’t know what it is about these games that draws me to them. Is it the longevity, the fact that they will probably never end and will theoretically still be around in 10 years? Is it just because I honestly prefer them?
The two groups of games you mentioned are built different.
The staple games are designed around long-term dopamine drip feeds. That’s how they hook you and keep you coming back. The backlog games arguably have something similar in the form of progression systems and story beats, but they’re more finite by design.
If you’re looking to keep both in your life, I’d suggest aiming to split your time between them. So if you have four hours available, you could play Control for two and Warframe for two if you want to have your comfort food to look forward to, or the other way around if you need to zone out first.
I would also advise to go with magic, since you can generate your own spells here, which is really fun. And you will have a high Lore stat, which will help you experience more lore background of this fantastic world.
Given how the story progresses and what ends up happening story wise, a mage/wizard character is probably the “best story” choice as it most accurately aligns with what drives the story.
For the holiday season, I take a list of games my friends and I like to play together, and put them into a spin wheel to help us pick something in these indecisive times. It’s a bit of a different situation to playing alone, but maybe someone should put such a mechanism in front of your steam library to kind of give you a little nudge towards something else for a bit.
oh man I need to play the system shock 2 remake with them.
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