Years / Decades:

70s , 80s , 90s , 00s , 10s

Genres:

2D Platformers, Bullet Hell / 2D Shooters, First Person Shooters, Flash, Racing Games, Real Time Strategy, Roguelikes, RPGs (Turn Based), Visual Novels

This is eventually all going to get compiled into one megathread for people who want gaming recommendations from Chapos specifically. Other genres and years will come in sporadic subsequent threads. Please contribute to previous threads if you missed them. This is meant to be an exhaustive list.

Expanding on your choice(s) is definitely a plus. Not everyone knows about or has played non-mainstream titles.


Hello, this is the special edition of [Chapo Recommends]. We will be focusing on the best of 2020. I gave it a month so that people could finish up their backlogs of the stuff that came out last year. My computer is shit and the last console I purchased was the Playstation 3, so I look forward to playing your suggestions in 5 years. Feel free to add phone games if you want as well, since they've pretty much taken over mobile gaming anyway.

We will be back to our normal programming later this week.

  • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Black Mesa had Xen added in 2020 and it's beautiful. It really proves to me the truth of Shigeru Miyamoto's quote: “A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever.”

    • Pynchonesque [undecided]
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      4 years ago

      Oh shit, it's finally out? Totally missed that, time to play through Black Mesa then.

      • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Get hyped

        https://youtu.be/TAIJich73NY

        Yes, the graphics look that good in game.

  • Woly [any]
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    4 years ago

    It was a pretty terrible year for games, the only one I can think of that I really enjoyed is Doom: Eternal. I don't know if it's the best, but it's definitely up at the top of the list.

  • Doomer [comrade/them,any]
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    4 years ago

    I just replayed old games for most of the year. Hades and Doom were pretty good though.

  • GuyWTriangle [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    I only played 2 games that game out in 2020, Fall Guys and Crusader Kings 3, so I'll go with CK3

    However, Fallout New Vegas won my game of the year for the 10th year in row

  • RandyLahey [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Desperados III - it's pretty much a wild west reskin of Shadow Tactics, which itself was pretty much a remake of Commandos, but it's just really well done and having active pause is incredibly good

    Crusader Kings III - Doesn't have all the features that II had with its million expansions, but it's a really solid foundation with way more content than II had on launch and it's really well thought-out. Still very much all about incest and child murder

    Green Hell - I think it came out of early access in 2020 so I'm counting it. A bit like a jungle version of Subnautica, but with a heeeaaaaavy emphasis on survival and the million ways that the environment will try to kill you. Sweet if you're into that sort of thing.

  • moonlake [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Monster Train is an awesome deckbuilding game that came out this year, had a ton of fun playing it.