Years / Decades:
70s , 80s , 90s , 00s , 10s , 2020
Genres:
2D Platformers, Bullet Hell / 2D Shooters, First Person Shooters, Flash, Horror, Indie, Point and Click , Racing, Real Time Strategy, Roguelikes, RPGs (Turn Based), Sports,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, Text dungeon, Souls-like, Stealth, Rhythm, Metroidvania, Survival, Sandbox, Shoot/beat 'em up, City Builder, Adventure, Puzzle, Fighting, MOBA, Turn Based Strategy, Real Time Tactics, Grand Strategy, Handheld, Walking simulator, Tower Defense, 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.
My personal favourite is definitely Euro Truck Simulator 2. It takes the good parts of driving long distances, giving you time to yourself just to think, and strips away the annoying bits like the lack of comfort and the cost. My dream game would be ETS 2 with AAA budget, but sadly it'll never happen. The main downside to ETS 2 is that it makes me want to buy a third monitor and dumb peripherals.
It's certainly unlike any of the other games that'll get mentioned, but The Sims (and to a lesser extent its sequels) is undeniably one of the best.
I prefer American Truck Simulator, I'll put on some Coast to Coast FM and have Art Bell spout 90's conspiracies at me while driving through New Mexico.
I've been meaning to try ATS, mainly because large segments of ETS 2's map are inexcusably bad without ProMods - most notably the UK, the Netherlands, and Belgium, all of which look horrific. Being from the UK, at least I'll be less likely to notice if the American locations look shit.
I'm also European so driving down European highways just isn't interesting. I want deserts and mesas and tumbleweed.
Hell, I wish there was a mod that let you glimpse UFOs during the night.
Seconding The Sims
specifically 2 or 3 (2 has the best overall gameplay, while 3 has an open world that almost makes up for its pudding-like character design)
Don’t know how similar it is to ETS but my husband spent a lot of hours on Snow Runner this year.
That seems more about navigating difficult terrain than long relaxing drives though.