Hades II is a fantastic roguelike that sucked me in for weeks.
I got convinced to play Project Zomboid by a couple friends. I get the hype now.
Project Diablo 2 is an excellent revival of LoD with rebalancing, new features, and controller support. So much fun on the deck.
Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii was yet another great addition to the off the rails nonsense that is the Yakuza series.
Yakuza 0 Directors Cut was also a good remaster and English dub. People shit on Yong Yea as Kiryu but I like his performance. Could be because I never played the game in Japanese.
Also spent a lot of time playing Subnautica. An oldie but a goodie, especially with a multiplayer mod.
Yup, this was a good year for gaming.
EDIT: Oh! Can’t forget Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound. Pretty fun, challenging but sometimes a bit cheap in the challenges. One optional challenge relied on firing a knife through a narrow gap, but there was no reliable way to line yourself up. And since it was timed and at the very end of the challenge, if you mess up you have to do the whole thing all over again. Other than that, really fun.
I got Monster Hunter: Wilds finally, but surprisingly, I have not dropped a lot of time into it despite playing the franchise since the first, with usually 100-250 hours spent on any given title I purchased in the series. TBF, my PS5 controller is in a terrible state right now, forcing me to use K&M, which is genuinely surprising to me that they added support for it in the PS5 to begin with. As far as I know, that is very rare. And while I’m no stranger to K&M, I’ve never used it for Monster Hunter and I just don’t dig it much.
I’d actually have to give my personal GOTY to a game that’s not at all new. I’ve eyed Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous for some time, even though I don’t think I’ve played a traditional CRPG since Planescape: Torment (granted not in 1999, I bought it thru GOG, so it had to be sometime after 2008.) And despite it being a CRPG and me knowing that, I played it via Playstation+ on PS5… with my controller, which still had stick drift at the time but not as bad. I sunk between 200-250 hours into it and I still have not beat the damn thing. I kept remaking my party as I grew more familiar with the game’s system. My last and favorite being subclassing all my regulars to have dinosaur pets. Game went on sale for like 6 or 7 bucks a little while ago so I just went ahead and bought it permanently. I’m sure I’ll revisit it again just like I do Elder Scrolls and Borderlands franchises.
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.
If I’m not sure about a game, I try to find a long play online somewhere. If at any point I find myself wishing I could take the controller and play that part myself, then it’s probably a game I should buy.
Start watching someone else pay the games in your backlog and see if any of them make you want to play them for yourself.
If I didn’t already have a Miyoo Flip v2 I would buy this version in a heartbeat. The love the clamshell design and portability of these things is a huge upside and I take it everywhere with me. I have been using MinUI on mine and it works great (especially quick save state and resume on open) but after reading your article I decided to change it up and move over to Knulli which has a lot more options.
If that’s okay (and if still have keys) may I ask one for my sister too? She doesn’t have Lemmy. She likes RPGMaker (or similar) games, it shouldn’t have any explicit content but horror is fine to some degree I think.
I played Fantasy Life I: The Girl Who Steals Time when I was sick. It’s a very chill game where you can run around and do different “jobs” like fishing, woodcutting, mining, various crafting, and combat.
Along with Hello Kitty Island Adventure which is similar to Animal Crossing in some ways but heavier on quests and befriending the characters. There’s a lot of reading though but I skim through most of it.
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