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There's gotta be what, like 5 other video games that you could be playing instead of the wizard game. Tetris, Farming Simulator 19, Jagged Alliance 2, Myst (1993), and XCOM: Enemy Unknown. There might even be more than that but I'm not sure.
Dwarf Fortress is the only state approved game.
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Is he a joke to you? :tequila-sunset:
Nope, that's all of them unfortunately. We only get a new game every several years, and Wizard Game was the one this cycle.
Honestly, I feel like we already have enough games at this point. Like, how many options do we really need, 10? 20??? Where does it stop?
15 of those 20 games being Final Fantasy titles.
Five year state planning of video games was a mistake.
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Long War is still goated if u can past the learning curve.
Jagged Alliance 2 eh, I see at least one other person on here isn't a lib.
Everything I know about guns I learned from playing Jagged Alliance 2 1.13 mod
There's at least 5 games that have come out in the last 2 months that are more worth playing than this shit
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I just read the Wikipedia article on Myst and found out that they made it a whole series and also there's even VR Myst which honestly sounds dope because I know I'd just get stuck on one of the first puzzles like I did when I was 8 but wandering around the island aimlessly in VR actually sounds kinda nice (too bad I don't have VR). Also the sound designer for the game was named, no joke, Chris Brandkamp. His name's Bandcamp and he's a sound designer lmaooo (Bandcamp wouldn't even exist for another 15 years)
Also you can tell my taste in video games by the fact that I tried to make this list as random as possible but still ended up including two TBT games, but "XCOM: Enemy Unknown" felt like a really funny title to end the list on and "Jagged Alliance 2" fit the off-the-wall feel I was going for and is also obviously a sequel, but I love the idea that it's just called that like there's in game lore where there was previously a jagged alliance and somebody's like "Now we must once again form a jagged alliance - a Jagged Alliance 2"
There's also a really bad parody called Pyst that had John Goodman in it.
It's crazy how popular Myst was when it came out, feels like a niche game these days but it got a ton of sequels, at least a few of which were even good.
I think the idea of a beautiful, peaceful puzzle game with enchanting art was so new that people couldn't resist. it. Myst was truly beautiful, the story was intriguing, the puzzles were genuinely challenging in a mostly pre-internet time. There had been lots of puzzle games before but not really anything like Myst.
It's still a very difficult series. I don't think I could've finished Riven without help from a guide, but it's a fantastic game in terms of worldbuilding and tone.
Of course, it's a lot more playable now that you don't have to swap between five disks as well...
What a problematic favorite of mine that is. You play hired mercenaries fighting to restore the "legitimate" monarch of an impoverished country... but it's like an 80s action movie done as an RPG. :sicko-pig:
Tbh I forgot everything about the story. I mostly played Unfinished Business and most of what I remember is the 90s-ass computer and the shitty gun most of the mercs start with that can't hit anything more than 10 ft away and how nice it feels to get rid of it.
It's too bad that Unfinished Business got rid of the open ended strategic part of the original Jagged Alliance 2. It was fun to plan how to approach the Queen's fortress, which towns to take, which logistics conveniences were worth the risk of securing (from a helicopter to an ice cream truck), and even a weird "sci fi" toggle mode I avoided that involved Aliens-style creatures coming out from underground tunnels that were just extra stress and a waste of ammo.
I actually kinda liked that it didn't have that. For whatever reason Unfinished Business was my introduction to the game and when I tried the base game I found it kinda... disorienting? Without the open-ended strategic element, I felt like you really had to manage resources carefully and think creatively about how to solve problems with the tools you had instead of just building up strength and going in super well equipped. But like I said I didn't play much of the base game so I can't really judge it and I think I'd have experienced it differently if I hadn't started with the assumptions in Unfinished Business.
I just pretend like the "legitimate" monarch is actually Lenin. :lenin-disguise:
Although Fidel might be more apropriate. :fidel-bat:
It's such a cool game. All the mercenaries have backstories and a lot of them are mixed in with each other. You can hire a divorced couple who hate each other and it'll be a problem if you try to deploy them together. Some people won't work with others, some people will only work with specific friends, some people will leave if a friend dies or you commit specific actions they don't like. It was such a neat system with a lot of depth and made the game fun and repayable. Losing a mercenary was never just an "oh well time to grab a new character" because they all had distinct personalities, skills, and relationships. When somoene died they were gone and you wouldn't get that indvidual back.
I was also a Wizardry 8 enjoyer, so when I heard Magic's voice as Saxx in that game, I wished that Saxx would stick around and be as awesome as Magic was in JA2. :sicko-wistful:
What they should really do is play Noita and totally dead-pan pretend its the terf game and make lots of harry potter references and talk about how perfectly the game captures the enchantment and magic of hogwarts and never break character.