Years / Decades:
70s , 80s , 90s , 00s , 10s , 2020
Genres:
2D Platformers, Board Games, Bullet Hell / 2D Shooters, First Person Shooters, Flash, Horror, Indie, Metroidvania, MMOs, 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, Arcade Game, Third person shooter, Action, 4X (Civilization-like), 3D Platformer, Dungeon Crawler, Card Game, Text dungeon, Souls-like, Rhythm, Survival, Sandbox, Shoot/beat 'em up, City Builder, Adventure, Puzzle, Fighting, Turn Based Strategy, Real Time Tactics, Grand Strategy, Handheld, Walking simulator, MOBA, 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.
The original three Splinter Cell games, especially Chaos Theory.
The games have terrible politics, but hand-wringing over media consumption is the 69th form of liberalism.
politics in games are only important if:
a) you can call the devs 'based' (disco elysium)
b) you can make fun of the game for being the equivalent of the missiles with progressive labelling on it (the call of duty pronouns shit)
Or it's Six Days in Fallujah or comparable in terms of awfulness.
Seconding these, they still hold up pretty well. Also the bad guy in Chaos Theory is essentially the founder of Blackwater who is starting a war so that his mercenaries corporation can get paid, which I appreciate even if all of the voice actors in that game did racist accents for their characters.
"I haven't seen you laughing this much since Reagan" has got to be the best worst line ever uttered in a video game.