CURRENT GAME THREAD

[Santilli]

Hi
I hardly ever play games.
That said, the current gaming market is new, different, and crazy.
I'm after a first person, stand alone shooter, that doesn't require steam, or works.

That said, what does anyone play,, what do they think of the current games, and what suggestions do you have?

So far, I'm still on Call of Duty 4, Modern Warfare...

If you want to suggest something, please tell how to get it, disk, download,etc.
How much it costs, and how good the support is.
Thank you, in advance

 

[Santilli]

Call of Duty/Quake/Far Cry/Halo: combat evolve/Cyberpunk 2077/Prey/Doom Eternal/Fear/Halflife 2/Bioshock/Titan Fall 2/Wolfenstient:The New Order/World of Warships/

 

[Santilli]

Trepang2/Selaco/Witchfire
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[Mercutio]

The games industry has sucked a lot of fun out of games in general.

You might do well to look at the genre called Boomer Shooters. These are meant to be 90s shooter throwbacks, so everything is fast and the fun is finding all the new weapons and powerups. Ion Fury, Amid Evil and Dusk are some better examples of the genre.

I almost always deal with Gog but since my partner is more of a gamer than I am, there is Steam in the house now. Xbox Game Pass is also relevant to the discussion. She's playing Atomfall right now, which is a Fallout/Oblivion-style first person title.

 

[Santilli]

Thank you for the suggestions.

 

[Mercutio]

Mullet Madjack is complete insanity. Doom on crack. You just run down halls. You have 10 seconds to kill somebody. You can do melee kills or environmental kills or just shoot everything, but something has to die or else you do. And it's all set to 16-bit, Patrick Nagel neon graphics with a synthwave score.

Neon White is an FPS shooty parkour title where a big part of the fun is in your freedom of movement. Nadia loves it and I think it's great fun to watch.

Levels of both these games take under 60 seconds to finis and you can buy them both for around $15 each.

 

[sedrosken]

Selaco is flat out running in the GZDoom engine. Zortch is another boomer shooter I enjoy. You might also like Ultrakill, but that can get pretty difficult and the visuals might be a bit... much at times. The Nightdive ports of Powerslave, Blood, Quake/Quake II, and Doom/Doom 2 are also all very good. I think they might have done some other ports -- maybe a Duke3D anniversary thing, maybe Shadow Warrior? I'm not sure.

Of course if you own the data for Doom/2 already you can get some mileage out of a source port like GZDoom. Lots and lots and lots of mods available. Some particular ones I like are Colorful Hell paired with Maps of Chaos, Reelism 2, The Golden Souls 1 and 2, and The Adventures of Square, a total conversion that's actually available separately I think for free.