Video game thread

@Sapphie  
I like to think I’m the same way. Some developers that do an extremely good job or treat their product and/or community well I’ll happily buy at full price and even buy cosmetic DLC to show support, examples being Dead Cells, CrossCode, and Deep Rock Galactic, or remasters that are fairly priced and properly built, such as the .hack//GU collection. Anything else, I try to wait for sales and avoid pre-orders, but sometimes my impulse buying gets the better of me.

I like flight sims and am currently very impressed by Digital Combat Simulator World from Eagle Dynamics, but it is sufficiently detailed and realistic to challenge real pilots, even real military pilots who live and breathe BFM and CAS because they do it for a living. It also requires a serious commitment in hardware. A fifteen-year-old desktop and Microsoft Sidewinder joystick that was bought on closeout at Circuit City in 2004 are absolutely, absolutely not going to cut it, not if it’s to be playable and not a slide show.
 
And I don’t have that kind of hardware right now, so I’ll just watch other people play it on Youtube.

@Anonymous #3456  
If you haven’t a good PC, you should play Baldi’s Basics. Is my favorite game.

@KillswitchEngageHyperFanatic  
It looks very educational.
 
There are less demanding flight sims. You can still find the 2.77 version of Warbirds available for download here and there. YS Flight is also very good, for free Windows flight sims.

@Anonymous #3456  
What about Castle Crashers? Is a good game too. And Friday Night Funkin’ is an amazing game for those who love music.

@Anonymous #3456  
If you dont mind playing a very old legacy version you might actually be able to run it  
the minimum system requirements for DCS World version 1.2 are pretty low
 

 
You can download version 1.2.16 through the Steam beta branch  
alternatively you can use the DCS updater tool to download whatever version you want from Eagle Dynamics servers.  
Since the core engine and SU-25T are free it wont cost you anything to try  
just keep in mind that if you do decide to buy a module you may not be able to use it with version 1.2  
since it may have a higher minimum version requirement
 
Also you dont really need an expensive flight stick to fly the SU-25T  
Some people even fly it using Xbox or PlayStation gamepads so a Sidewinder might work just fine

I’m not sure how I feel about the changes to combat in Mass Effect 1 in the Legendary Edition. On one hand, the bloom and sniper scope sway was insane originally. On the other, it made weapon specialties more impactful and it wasn’t too hard to learn how to pace your shots regardless, and combat looks a little too easy in the remaster. Besides that, what’s the point of the accuracy rating now?

@EverfreeEmergencies  
They couldn’t help themselves. They couldn’t just keep their hands off of it.

@Officer Hotpants  
I’m glad they don’t seem to have screwed with the Mako too much. Except the sounds. The new sounds are awful.

@EverfreeEmergencies  
“These games are revered classics. We should probably unnecessarily change them a bit before we re-release them, huh?”
 
Be sure to update us on what they did to 2 & 3.

@EverfreeEmergencies  
@Officer Hotpants  
From what I know the re-release has mouse acceleration, no ultrawide cutscenes, and no FoV control (even though ultrawide is basically FoV changes already so it would cost them minimal effort).

@Officer Hotpants  

 

Speaking of classics, someone here remember Hot Wheels Extreme Racing? From the original PlayStation. Oh man, that game is a masterpiece. Those were times when the toys companies used to put effort to sell their products.

@Officer Hotpants  
Never played 3, and I didn’t care enough about 2 to be able to tell if anything’s been changed. Even then I don’t own it yet. I’m sure as hell not paying $60 for a bundle of rereleases. Not after MCC.

@KillswitchEngageHyperFanatic  
I’ve heard about it on a few occasions. Never played it.
 
@Anonymous #F9D1  
Three is pretty good, in my opinion. Better than two up until the last 10 minutes or so (which is sad. Fumbled at the 1 yard line). Their inexplicable need to force the dumbass multiplayer mode on you by cutting your fleet score for the final batter IN FUCKING HALF ruined it for a while. Fortunately someone pulled their head just far enough out of their ass for just long enough to patch the requirements to be low enough that a good completionist run was sufficient to unlock all the endings. You know: like it always should have been in the fucking singleplayer game.
 
I wonder if they undid that for the new release. Pretty sure the servers shut down years ago, and I don’t recall hearing a lot of people talking about the multiplayer at all, good or bad, so I doubt they’d start them back up for this. Wouldn’t be the first time I saw a “collector’s edition” or “remaster” get released de-patched, though.

What are some video games besides MMX7, Dead Island, Sonic ’06, MMX6, Battle Network 4, Battle Chip Challenge, Sonic 3D Blast on Genesis, Balan Wonderworld, and maybe also Quake 2, where as poor, okay, or good the gameplay is, the soundtrack is arguably the best part?

@Absol95  
Soundtracks being the best part of a game? That’s tough. NieR Replicant and NieR:Automata could arguably be in such a list. Metal Masters, if only for one aggressively epic song. Probably any Endless Universe game. Guild Wars 2 and Final Fantasy XI, in terms of MMOs…
 
Just looking for good game soundtracks in general?
 
EDIT:  
Unrelated, but I really need to signal-boost a game Kickstarter: StarCrawlers: Chimera. The original StarCrawlers is a decent first-person, grid-based dungeon crawler (think classic Might and Magic, mid-to-late Wizardry, Eye of the Beholder, or Legend of Grimrock), the developer is passionate and interacts with the community (especially if you file professionally-detailed bug reports, as I quickly found out), and the funding goal is really reasonable - $15,000 - for an indie game. Well worth the investment if anybody is the game-backing type.

@Absol95  
Stellaris for sure, still listen to the soundtrack while working on worldbuilding for my own sci-fi story/IP.
 
343 Halo too: nice music, albeit doesn’t really fit into the spirit of the franchise (neither do their games). >.<

@Absol95  
Chrono Cross.

@Absol95  
sunless skies, though the writing is the actual best part of that one (what other game lets you have kinky intercourse with a bat and murder a sun?)
 
company of heroes has a very solid soundtrack too

@TeamBlueplant  
Are you insinuating that this game includes surprize batsecks?

@Absol95  
I don’t know about ‘best part’, but with a more forgettable soundtrack Project Wingman would’ve been far less enjoyable.

@TeamBlueplant  
Mario.

My XCOM 2 campaign got pretty much screwed after five pods patrolled into me. I guess they follow the player’s squad despite you supposedly being undetected. Who knew?

@EverfreeEmergencies  
Fun fact: There’s a hidden mechanic where they can detect your squad members if they sprint (aka use both turns to move) and will zero in on them if you do it.