Years / Decades:
70s , 80s , 90s , 00s , 10s , 2020
Genres:
2D Platformers, Bullet Hell / 2D Shooters, First Person Shooters, Flash, Point and Click , Racing Games, Real Time Strategy, Roguelikes, RPGs (Turn Based), Visual Novels
Welcome back. This part of the series will be primarily focusing on genres. So far I have [Action RPG, Board Game, Tabletop RPG, Arcade Game, Third person shooter, MMO, Action, 4X (Civilization-like), 3D Platformer, Dungeon Crawler, Card Game, Indie, Text dungeon, Souls-like, Stealth, Rhythm, Metroidvania, Survival, Sandbox, Shoot/beat 'em up, City Builder, Adventure, Simulation, Puzzle, Fighting, MOBA, Turn Based Strategy, Real Time Tactics, Grand Strategy, Handheld, Walking simulator, Tower Defense, Sports, Miscellaneous, and Casual] as available genres. Let me know if I missed something, and I will try to get it added.
This is eventually all going to get compiled into one megathread for people who want gaming recommendations from Chapos specifically. Other consoles and genres 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.
Oh good, another genre I've never played. Anyway, here's the thread.
SOMA is one of the best games I've ever played. Despite being billed as horror, the jumpscares & monsters are the weakest parts of the game, its strength is solely in the story. The horror here is psychological, just the slow realization of how terrible things actually are.
It's the only game that made listening to audiologs and piecing together the scattered pieces of lore exciting.
I think outlast was pretty good.
At the time amnesia the dark descent was awesome and revived spoop games but it’s model was beat to death afterwards.
Soma, not super scary but good existential dread.
When Machine for pigs first came out I wished it had a bigger budget so it could’ve lived up to The Dark descent
Now I just wish it had mancops with sirens welded to their faces.
Well part of the difference is that mfp was made by a completely different studio than dark descent with only a little bit of input from dark descents designers, but i feel you. Soma is my favorite thing they’ve ever made tho, IMO they really came back swinging on that one
I wish they'd continued their Penumbra games after Amnesia, instead of making Amnesia 2 and SOMA
People call Yume Nikki a horror game. IDK if it is, but I will take any opportunity to recommend it.
Eternal Darkness on Gamecube was pretty awesome. It famously demolished the fourth wall to fuck with the player's mind.
Clive Barker's Undying was also pretty good.
I'm a huge fan of the Chzo series, aka the Trilby series by Yahtzee Croshaw. It's point and click adventure, but my favorite is the third, which is the only one to feature the great old-fashioned text-parser.......great shit
The When They Cry series is great horror, though calling it a game is somewhat questionable. There's no gameplay, it's a totally linear visual novel
