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.
Thief: The Dark Project is a first-person stealth game which has never been surpassed, either by other types of stealth games or by its imitators. Its appeal is not only in the challenge of navigating an environment unnoticed, but in the environment which is actually being navigated. The world is unique and interesting and you learn about it organically by eavesdropping on its normal inhabitants' conversations and rifling through their personal writings.
Thief isn't the best stealth game only because that's Thief 2.
I think TDP is better, personally.
I'm not a fan of the undead, spiders and burrocks. T2 feels more like it knows what it's trying to do.
Nah, Dark Project knew exactly what it was trying to do. It's a game about being a D&D rogue without a party. Sometimes you're navigating houses to steal some rich asshole's stuff, other times you're exploring ancient dungeons, avoiding traps and monsters. And at its core, it's a game about being a Thief. As much as people complain about there being undead and animals in a lot of missions, the core of most of TDP's levels is, "go find the things you're looking for and steal them." Thief 2 got a lot more complex, and not always in a good way.
Thief is great. Don't forget to get TFix if you pick up thief gold on steam! otherwise you'll miss the cutscenes
That depends entirely on your hardware. And I would highly recommend that no one ever use full Tfix. Use Tfix lite if you ever want to install tfix.
For me, olddark with ddfix (the version which comes with steam) runs just fine if I set it to run as administrator, cutscenes and all.