Years / Decades:
70s , 80s , 90s , 00s , 10s , 2020
Genres:
2D Platformers, Bullet Hell / 2D Shooters, First Person Shooters, Flash, Horror, Indie, Metroidvania, Point and Click , Racing, Real Time Strategy, Roguelikes, RPGs (Turn Based), Simulation, Sports, Tabletop RPGs, Visual Novels
Welcome back. This part of the series will be primarily focusing on genres. So far I have [Action RPG, Board Game, Arcade Game, Third person shooter, Action, 4X (Civilization-like), 3D Platformer, Dungeon Crawler, Card Game, Text dungeon, Souls-like, Stealth, Rhythm, 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.
Best is a strong word, but two MMOs that had amazing ideas are Face of Mankind and Puzzle Pirates. FoM no longer exists, but it was an open world MMOFPS with economy and politics and all; there is a spiritual successor being developed called Mankind Reborn which will hopefully not have many of the same flaws.
Puzzle Pirates is a game (with economy and politics and all) where all labor is done in the form of puzzles. You'll have one to man the sails, one to load cannons, you have one for when you get into a sword fight, and there are even puzzles for economic stuff like blacksmithing and distilling. Your performance in the puzzle determines how effectively you are working, creating a real skill based game.
I fucking loved puzzle pirates. It was definitely my first “real” computer game and I remember going on an 80-person 24-hour pillage back when there was just a single ocean.
It’s still a great game, but it’s unfortunate—although very interesting—to see what the problems their rising then decreasing player base has caused. Namely, that there’s “too much” stuff for the number of players they have now.
Plus, old heads can only care about blockades for so long before it just becomes a really half-hearted thing people don’t really put much effort in.
I guess I’m just lamenting because, while the puzzles are fun to this day, the social/political aspects were really what made the game special.