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.
Metal Gear Solid V is my favorite game of all time. Kojima Productions, after a half dozen iterations, turned a series with really janky gameplay into one that plays as smooth as butter, set across three open world environments that have tons of ways to navigate, things to do, ways to fight or stealth, and has more guard interactions than you're likely to find without a hundred hours of experimentation.
Some people complained about the story, but I loved most of it. The couple places where Kojima decided to go full edgelord are the only parts that don't work for me, outside of those moments the characters are distinct, and the plot is suitably strange, that it's on a level above any of the series' other entries.
The only problem with it is that they sectioned off Ground Zeroes into it's own game. Imagine if the Tanker level for MGS2 had been sold for $40. Plus the way Konami (and Kojima) treated the devs for this game is absolutely criminal, it all leaves a bad taste in your mouth, like most AAA game development.
I still want a few new takes on the ‘mother base simulator’ style game. If it could be communist guerrillas, that’d be great.