Kenshi is infinitely replayable, imo.

From the alternate starts, to the different ways you can even play the game (wanna be a lone trader, traveling from town to town buying and selling goods? Want to be the ultimate warrior who can go toe-to-toe with the Spider King? Wanna build a city/outpost where you can be totally sufficient and build up your own personal army to take over the world?), to the sheer size of the world. Plus all the awesome mods that can add so much to the game that already has a lot. You start off with your skills at 0 or in the low tens, and you will get your ass handed to you on an iron platter until you actually train up a bit; but even a high or max level character can still get fucked up by the wrong group of enemies.

I have mods that add a couple new factions (the fungoids are OP), flesh other factions out a bit more with more weapons and gear, and other building mods and some QoL mods so I can truly tailor my experience how I like it.

It plays kinda like an RTS with a mix of RPG elements.

That’s how most games are lol. Of course you have your fanatics who have to play the new game and nothing but the new game (looking at the Abiotic Factor discord server), but once I finish the current content I’ll move on to something else until a new update.

I’m cycling through Abiotic Factor, Selaco, and Going Medieval right now.

I’ve heard that this Sakurajima update (wild name, btw) is pretty huge, bringing an entire building system overhaul, new pieces, as well as new pals and an entire new map.

It’s not “decades” old but Xbox One had a screen recording feature that I used a few times.to save fun clips.

One time, I was playing AC: Odyssey and attacking a fort. Some general guy noticed me and followed me back to the edge of a cliff where I just went over the side. This motherfucker just hops off the edge and I watch him fall all the way down and slam into the rocks below. It was hilarious.

I think the Battle for Middle-Earth games deserve remakes.

It’s been too long since we’ve had a good LOTR game, let alone one that was an RTS.

Damn I never finished Blood & Wine, but Hearts of Stone was fantastic imo

I mean that goes for pretty much every major city, even the touristy ones.

I support this movement

Unrelated, but I met Casper at a convention last summer, and he was super cool. He seems like he’d be a fun guy to know.

No one here has mentioned Hellpoint. If you like sci-fi and/or horror elements, this may be one you want to check out. It has a big map, plenty of secrets and shortcuts, creepy lore, cool weapons and armor sets

Or even either of The Surge games. You can target individual limbs and depending on how you kill the enemy you’ll gain more experience or more resources to upgrade your gear.

I really liked Greedfall, but I didn’t finish the story. It felt like Dragon Age with guns, and it fits surprisingly well, especially with the rest of the world crafted around the game.

Uh, OG Half-Life is a decent game in 2024.

Though I’ll say Black Mesa gives that same feeling of playing the OG for the first time as a kid.

I really enjoy The Ascent. It’s got a great setting, the gameplay is pretty fun, there are various play styles and builds you can spec into.

The only issue is that the devs seem to be done working on the game, and there are issues. Namely, the last mission of the DLC being bugged so you can’t officially complete it. And it’s been like that for two years at least.

The storyline they added a couple years back with voiced NPCs was actually pretty interesting. Not enough to keep me engaged with the game, but enough to let me see what was happening with it.

SquEnix does for a lot of their newer games. WB requires one for Multiversus, which that one requires your fucking address for some damn reason?!

And yeah, most F2P and MMOs require one. I don’t even remember mine for SWTOR.

I haven’t played with mods myself, but one I’d recommend would be a third-person camera mod, and maybe one that lets you customize vehicles.

You don’t need one for Horizon, God of War, or Spider-Man. And I’m sure you don’t need it for Uncharted or Day’s Gone.

Lol shut up.

Sounds like normal gamer bullshit to me, lol.

Carry on with our days.