It's more modern Tomb Raider, if you enjoyed Tomb Raider 2013 and Rise of the Tomb Raider, chances are you'll enjoy this one too. As the Tomb Raider, you must explore, platform, solve puzzles, hunt, shoot bad guys in the face, upgrade weapons, then shoot bad guys in the face even harder. Then you must raid tombs to discover the lost art of making improvised assault rifle grenades. Be very wary in some of the bonus tombs, as Cras'Tek (The god of game crashes) might randomly decide to smite you if he is having a bad day.
Yet another quality Night Dive remaster that remakes models, textures, animations, FMVs, and so on, along with some quality of life stuff. Though if you aren't hurting for visual improvements that much, the original SS2 is about 95% identical, minus the graphical assets and a few other things. The original still plays just fine and is much cheaper if you don't feel like spending more on the remaster. As for the game itself, it's System Shock 2, a classic FPS RPG where you find various gear, upgrade stats and skills, complete objectives, and shoot mutants, cyborgs, and robots in the face. The game can be slightly cryptic at times, but most of the time the objectives are fairly straightforward.
Breath of Fire is my favorite JRPG series (other than Chrono Trigger/Cross, if you call 2 games a series), and BoF 3 is my favorite in the series. Next to that, would be BoF 2 and 4 roughly tied, then last would be 1 and Dragon Quarter, those games are kinda funky, but still good. We don't talk about the 6th one. In BoF tradition, your party consists of nothing but demi-humans and anthros, because if you had even 1 human in your party, that would be weird (for Breath of Fire). In both BoF 3 and 4, there is a unique enemy skill learning system, that almost no other JRPG has done (all I can think of is some FF games with Blue Magic and Enemy Skill materia), where you examine enemies and wait for them to cast a learnable skill, then whichever characters were examining them has a chance to learn it upon the enemy casting it. Only 1 instance of a skill can be learned at a time, but they can be transferred to other characters via use of a Skill Ink. There is also a Master system in BoF3/4, that influences stat growth, as well as teach characters useful abilities. Breath of Fire 3 had the far more interesting dragon system, where you find dragon genes throughout the game, and combine up to 3 of them in battle for many different wacky combinations of dragons, with different stats and abilities. In BoF 4, you just find the dragon lads playing hide n' seek after a certain point in the game, no derg combo system. There is the dragon summons, at least. There's also a Faerie Village system (also present in 3) where it's a town building minigame, where you build up useful item/weapon shops, among other things. BoF 4 also has a cool combo system, where you cast spells in order to unleash a more powerful combo spell, such as Fire + Wind = Simoon, etc. All of your party members are with you at all times in battle, with reserves being in the back row. Kind of like FF10, but better. Amazing JRPG series, wish Capcom would bring it back. Or at least port more games in the future.
It's kind of like Doom 3, where you played as Doom Dude (not to be confused with Doomguy, completely separate person), but less messing around with wacky touchscreen interfaces, and more shooting imps in the face with a (not an RNG rubber chicken) shotgun. Ft. Serious Sam crescendo events where many demons spawn in an area and you have to shoot them in the face to proceed. The Oblivion remake isn't coming on here for many years, but this is a pleasant surprise. Thanks lads.
Much more arcadey than it's survival horror counterpart. Capcom threw survival horror out the window the second you could buy supplies with points you get by killing hordes of respawning dinos. Still a good, fun action game in it's own right, though. P.S. - Can we get Breath of Fire IV next? Thanks in advance.
Resident Evil with dangerous bullet sponge dinosaurs, and excessive amounts of tight latex- I mean squeaky kevlar. It's a little more convoluted than your average RE game, and I feel like the ghost composer from RE1 phoned in a few tracks, but it's still a classic nonetheless.
It's essentially Max Payne + Superhot + F.E.A.R. and naturally + Trepang. You're in a big bad government building, and near endless waves of jabronis in tacticool SWAT gear want you dead. Insert Metroid Prime arm cannon for maximum facesplosions, and you're good to go. Parkour, slide, slidekick, wallrun, wallkick, then face kick, and throw your gun that's just run dry into his buddy's face. Here's how to do the Max Payne face and then dive shot.
Never played BG 1 and 2, but I have played other D&D games before, such as Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2, loved NWN 1 (2 not so much) BG3 is essentially a heavily modified Original Sin 2, if you liked Larian's other RPGs and/or Dungeons & Dragons type stuff, you're most likely in for a good time. Unlike the first 2 BGs, this one is turned based, while the first 2 were group based cooldown combat (AKA MMO RPG-esque type combat). I feel like turn based works better for something with so much metaphorical (and literal) dice rolls. You can make a custom character, or you can pick a pre-existing unique character, which I recommend, since they come with their own unique personal sidequest, just like in Original Sin 2. I picked Karlach, because a demon woman that's constantly on fire because she has a hellfire engine up her ass, and recently escaped hell, was the most immediately interesting character to me. The other origin characters are pretty rad, though. All bangers. All the origin characters have tons of personality, and everyone even whispers when taking a command while in stealth. Speaking of stealth, feel free to pickpocket as many merchants as you want in turn based mode, take a few things, run away, exit turn based mode, and then quickly fast travel to evade prosecution, and then swindle the wares you stole back to them right after giving them a critical wedgie. STONKS. I've never seen a top-down RPG with such verticality, and the game even has a jump option (gasp). Not only does this give the game platforming, and the option to immediately explode your skeleton upon impact of a 50 foot drop, but it also gives you more options to avoid traps, on top of the Larian style put-a-potlid-on-a-trap-vent-to-block-it. Larian's talking animals are always a hoot, always make sure you have Speak to Animals active. This game is fairly well optimized (hint: It ran fairly well on low settings on a mid-ish range laptop. Buy this over STALKER 2 winky face ;)
This was made by the same guy who made Mistake, Mistake -1, and Grey (Half-Life 1 and 2 mods) If you're partial to that kind of stuff, or Afraid of Monsters / Cry of Fear, you'll probably like this. It's a semi-nonlinear FPS horror game with a lot of exploration, puzzle solving, and shooting ungodly horrors in the face, all while venturing through uncanny, and unsettling locales. And like any good horror game, it has an inventory system, and relatively scarce resources.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzIKZIjUBec Eating while getting shot in the face simulator. Hopefully, it will have been worth the weight. *crash*
