If you want to rant about GPU prices, why randomly call out one/two specific games? Not like it doesn’t apply to any other modern release. I don’t get this post
Also I looked up some benchmarks and you can get 60FPS on medium with an RX 6600 (about 200 USD curently in the US) in both finals & helldivers. Could possibly get away with a cheaper card on Low settings
It’s a rant, kinda like a “offmychest” post if you want. And I’m “calling out” these games because they where really fun imo, and I am a bit sad knowing there is a very low chance I’ll get to experience them at peak player count.
they’re just prequels really, I can’t remember anything groundbreaking. It’d /maybe/ be better to play 3 and vice city first, but it’s mostly just callbacks. Liberty city stories protag is just a quest giver. Neither super spoils the other but I might be wrong.
Making a new comment off my other reply because I have more niche recommendations: Carnage Hearts EXA, you program robots to fight each other, actually quite in depth.
Good RPGs: Valkyrie Profile Lenneth, Legend of Mana (originally PS1)
Phantasy Star Portable 2: pretty decent PSP version of the phantasy Star online game.
Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy, kind of a weird "fighting" game, very unique mechanics, but really fun, lots of fan service, and tons of really really excellent music from across the final fantasy series
SoulCalibur Broken Destiny: solid entry in the series even on portable
And Castlevania Symphony of the Night (originally PS1)
If you’re looking for bifl bag I have to give the obligatory shout out to Goruck. The GR1 has molle on the inside that you can attach a holster to and I’m sure that some of the others do as well. It’s a pack that’s meant to thrive in rough conditions and if you happen to damage it it’s covered by their scars lifetime warranty. I’ve had mine for 7 years now with no issues. The only Velcro it has on the outside is for a patch and I’m sure you can remove it if you don’t want it.
Final Fantasy XV (Windows edition): What a strange experience so far. I don’t see myself as a fan of the franchise, but I’ve played many of its titles over the years, starting with the first one as a child.
The opening title mentions the game has been made for “fans and first timers”, so I expected some degree of nostalgia, despite it looking so different from its predecessors. I was served some… but in such weird ways. Let’s start with the composition of the Four Warriors of Light:
The brat: Noctis, emo prince of teen attitude, as well as protagonist.
The urban dad: Ignis, cooks elaborate meals and drives (always responsibly) the brat around.
The country dad: Gladio, went to the school of life, must protecc the brat.
The brat’s best friend that eats and sleeps at home so often he kind of becomes family: Prompto.
As Ignis was driving the warriors around in a fantasy rural North America, a desolate car centric landscape in which each road’s main destination is the next gas station, Prompto was making comments about playing video games. The car’s radio was playing FFIV’s Main Theme over and over again. Then it hit me: the nostalgia trip was not limiting itself to referencing lore from previous games, it was aiming to remind older gamers of how it was being a kid infatuated with classic RPGs. (A side note on the embarrassing haircuts the warriors are rockin’: back in the 90’s there were posters of these all over hair salons despite nobody ever getting one, but I guess this is really about modern jpop/kpop boy bands or something.)
It’s like FFXV is aiming for the worst possible kind of nostalgia: the kind that makes you glorify past experiences out of regret for the time when you were a pampered selfish kid.
Anyways I’m probably way off, but that’s my thoughts on FFXV. Oh also there’s chocobos so it’s not all bad. Thanks for reading.
I’ve typed up so many comments about FFXV over the years, so I guess it at least didn’t end up being forgettable. I’ve been looking for the right wording , I think. It’s the worst game I ever loved? It has no right being as enjoyable as it is considering its issues? Something like that. It has so many problems, but there is also something there underneath it all. If only they didn’t spread it out so thin.
I hope you have the Royal Edition, the DLCs really do flesh out the story a lot. They should honestly just have been integrated into the main game. I recommend pausing the main story to play Episode Gladios and Episode Prompto whenever the respective characters briefly leave the party (you’ll know when). I’d play episode Ignis after chapter 10, but be aware that it contains a possible alternative (non-canon) ending depending on your choices.
Oh also there’s chocobos so it’s not all bad.
It also has one of the best fishing minigames out of any game out there, really! It has its moments.
OP asked for games that too few people have played, not for hidden gems. That is not the same. For example, compared to the 500.000 reviews Baldurs Gate 3 has on steam, Divinity: Original Sin II, despite also being one of the best rpgs, has only 150.000.
FTL, which is easily in the top 5 of the best roguelites ever made has only 50.000 reviews, which is very little compered to Hades for example, which has 200.000.
Into the breach was never really popular, it has only 15.000 reviews on steam.
If you ask most gamers about those they usually have never heard about them or at least have not played those themselves. I would not call them particularly hidden but I think they deserve to be played by more people and that is what OP asked about.
I ended up playing my physical copies way less than digital ones because I can’t be arsed to juggle disks and cartridges.
I sold most of my physical collection when upgrading from PS4 to XSX and bought those games digital there since Microsoft has proven to be solid when it comes to backwards compatibility.
All of my portable consoles (Switch, Vita, DSi, N3DS, Analogue Pocket) are jailbroken and digital only because memory is so cheap that I can hold all noteworthy games on a single SD card. In time current systems will end up in a similar state so there’s little point getting attached to dust collecting boxes.
A short but memorable puzzle-type game where you have to put together scenes and characters to create a story. Actions in previous scenes affect how characters behave or appear in later ones.
If you’re ok with point and click/puzzlers, the rusty lake games are probably some of my favourite storylines. Extremely well written imo, creepy and with a few jump scares to keep you on your toes.
I hooked my wife with Rusty Lake Hotel, which is probably the easiest entry point into the whole series.
Then we went into a few cube games, and then Rusty Lake Roots, which is so well made and where all the best lore is.
Did some more cube games, and right into Rusty Lake Paradise and Samara Room, and Underground Blossom.
I also didn’t tell her The Past Within is also a Rusty Lake game, so when she saw the connections while we were playing, her excitement went through the roof.
"One Shot", it has a few achievements that might require going back to try to complete.
It is puzzle top down story adventure game( it does the whole look into your actual files for solutions thing), once I finished the main story I felt satisified. It allows for playing after the ending but doing so feels hollow and unsatisifying which is the point. It asks the question of why do you still want to play, but oh well I will allow it and makes it possible.
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