Amazing Games You Have Played Recently.....

[Snotnarok]

Wolfenstein New Order.
It's kinda taking a serious tone but manages to be batshit bonkers. Okay in the game you have these all metal massive shotguns that look like they fire 40mm rounds, you can dual wield them while sliding at like ..30mph and blow holes in nazis like they got hit by a cannon ball.
To top all this off, B.J. has these moments of literal insanity where he mutters to himself saying psychotic things that just made me laugh a bunch. It's over the top and fun.

Alien Isolation.
Everyone cites Resident Evil Nemesis' main antagonist, Nemesis as the best survival horror antagonist and while I think he's one of the best, it always irked me that you were not only able to defeat him at points but you were encouraged to as he dropped some great gear.
Alien Isolation on the other hand not only has you pitted against survivors but also killer androids that are immensely creepy and hard to deal with. They feel unpredictable at times as ...well sometimes they're not looking to kill you. They are just doing their thing.

But then the Alien, straight up the best antagonist in survival horror, it's big, nasty and hunts you down and it feels really engaging. When it 'patrols' it's entirely randomized, so you can't memorize some scripted path or whatever, you have to rely on skill, luck and hearing often.
Yeah they give you a motion tracker...but it can bloody hear it! So you have to be careful in everything you do because it's a 1 hit kill and you can't kill it, only stun it or hit it with some fire ...which only makes it come back more angry.

It's also intimidating as hell. The thumps of it's feet, the sound of it's tail too...like metal grinding on metal. It's an imposing thing and it's really, truly scary to be anywhere near it.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

I guess the latest one was either Saint's Row 4 or Max Payne 3. I needed a third person shooter fix, and I found it in these two.

Saint's Row 4 was funny, had great sidequests, awesome abilities, and was generally one of the best open world games ever.

Max Payne 3 was like eating warm bread with nutella slowly. The story was engaging enough and not too obvious, the shooting mechanics are the best there's ever been in a third person shooter, and bullet time is still awesome.

 

[SweetShark]

Copy Kitty - Turbo Edition

You control a little strange humanoid kitty who have the ability to copy the attacks of her enemies, like Megaman.
9-10

 

[SweetShark]

Choice of Robots, the Heroes Rise trilogy, and Mecha Ace.
They're a bunch of choose your own adventure games from Choice of Games on Steam. They were brilliant.
Choice of Robots made me cry a bit. Well, so did the Heroes Rise games, especially on the third game.
If you like reading, they're definitely worth a go. I think I need to play through them a bunch more times, and I'm really looking forward to The Hero Project 2. And the new feudal-style one that is meant to be out now or soon.
I think Choice of Robots is my favourite of the bunch. Good enough that I memorised and then wrote down the route I took so I could replay the feels later.

I tried to play Heroes Rise, but at some point I get bored...
If you like these game, then I can suggest you to play "Choice of Zombies". I really like it. Also it is free.

 

[SweetShark]

I just started playing Kentucky Route Zero, The Cat Lady, Resonance and Downfall.

All four games are pretty retro and rough around the edges, but they have something that sucks me in completely. Especially 'The Cat Lady' which starts with a depressed woman who wants to kill herself and gets cursed with immortality and 'Kentucky Route Zero' because of it's dreamy art style.

It's a nice change from AAA titles that bore me in the last months.

I heavily recommend to finish playing The Cat Lady. Just a warning: Play first Downfall, THEN play Cat Lady. You will see why.

 

[Xerosch]

I heavily recommend to finish playing The Cat Lady. Just a warning: Play first Downfall, THEN play Cat Lady. You will see why.

Wow, thanks for the tip! I was just about to concentrate on Cat Lady before finishing the other games.

 

[Vendor-Lazarus]

Hmm, an Amazing game you say..

Outcast (not Jedi), Deus Ex (1), Beyond Good & Evil, Freelancer, One Finger Death Punch, Distant Worlds - Universe, Fallout 2, Escape Velocity Nova, Dwarf Fortress, Anno 1404, Anachronox, Knights of the Old Republic 1&2, Harbinger, Startopia, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines.


Most recently played: Either One Finger Death Punch or Distant Worlds - Universe..I can't remember.

OFDP is a really bare-bones brawler game, you only have 2 buttons with which to fight, yet it delivers an amazing feeling of really being that awesome.
Something about the emergent rhythm and the visual feedback makes into a must play for practically everyone.

DW-U is rather the reverse of OFDP with an unholy amount of stuff going on at the same time.
A pausable real-time 4X game that makes you the emperor of your own galactic civilization, if you want to.
Because one of the unique options in that game is the ability to turn on or off certain segments of the typical 4X experience.
And by turn off I mean put it into the hands of the A.I. which does a reasonably good job of it.

Still, all-time favorite is probably Freelancer though.

 

[happyninja42]

OFDP is a really bare-bones brawler game, you only have 2 buttons with which to fight, yet it delivers an amazing feeling of really being that awesome.
Something about the emergent rhythm and the visual feedback makes into a must play for practically everyone.

Yeah that's the game that I was going to list. One Finger Death Punch is surprisingly fun and simple. The sound and music of it, mixed with the non-stop combat makes for a very enjoyable experience. One of the best impulse buys I've had in years.

 

[razor343]

Gothic.

It's not my first time playing the game, but every time I get around to playing it I always seem to come out of it with an even better opinion of the game.

Gothic seems like the kind of game that bunch of friends made because they loved video games and wanted to create their own one (not unlike Doom) and it definitely shows when you play it. The game executes atmosphere, progression and overall game flow beautifully, and doesn't neglect the fact that it is first and foremost a Role Playing Game (let's face it, what games let you hide in a barrel just for the sake of hiding in a damn barrel?).

It's problems come mainly from the more technical side of things, the engine that Piranha Bytes have created is impressive especially considering the game came out a year before Morrowind (and manages to look better than it too) but despite being patched multiple times after release, the engine remains somewhat unstable and certain (admittedly semi-rare) bugs have been fixed haphazardly. Case in point, during one of the main quests in the game a certain NPC is supposed to follow you around a temple. Occasionally, the NPC will refuse to follow you and the only way to fix this problem is to activate the developer console and spawn a BOOK which, when read, will have the NPC follow you.

The main problem that people have with Gothic is that the controls are unintuitive, and while I can totally see their point, this is simply a matter of getting used to a new control scheme which omits the mouse and focuses on the keyboard.

 

[Fijiman]

Well if we're talking games that leave me speachless and satisfied then that would be no game because no one has produced a game that is universally praised as the greatest game ever of all time by literally everyone who has ever liked a video game. Now if we're just going to going with what the title asked us the that would be Rayman Legends and Far Cry 4.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Far Cry 3. It's everything I thought it would be, and more.

 

[The Random Critic]

Portal 2, It's everything I thought it would be, and possibly more. (Haven't gotten to the co-op/modding yet)

 

[Clearwaters]

Just played the Resident Evil Remake for the first time since it was released on the current gen consoles. Honestly it's amazing I'm already on my third play through and still having a great time.
I love how difficult the enemies are to completely put down and how you need to carefully pace yourself and the limited supplies you had and could carry with you. Choosing to bring along more firepower or healing items is always a difficult choice to make.

Also I like how certain things are different depending on if you play as Jill or Chris. More games nowadays need to do that, since it makes things different enough that a second play through feels fresh even though your really just treading the same ground.

 

[Ramus]

I honestly didn't think I would like Dying Light as much as I do, but I spent the entire weekend glued to the game. It's basically far cry has a baby with mirrors edge who grows up and marries dead island. It's fast paced, it controls well, its beautiful and it actually has a somewhat interesting story. The character models alone make dragon age graphics look like a terrible joke! Day night cycles change the game from a stroll in a park to the zombies-will-fuck-you-up-apocalypse. I am lucky and appear to be one of the PC configurations that aren't having frame issues, though I do occasionally lag during certain zombies attacks (spitter poison overlay). Overall though it's another great open world entry along with Mordor and FC4 these past months. By far my favorite take on zombies so far.

 

[sageoftruth]

Well, I re-played Ninja Gaiden Sigma after a couple years, and it's still amazing.

I hardly need to say much, since the game's gameplay is already legendary among the community. I'm impressed that after all this time, I'm still learning new ways to play the game. It also handles difficulty better than most games, since it changes so much more than just how hard you hit and how hard you are hit.

 

[Jarmam]

Gravity Ghost. It's gotten a lot of hype from various reviewers, but manages to live up to it all by being exactly as fluffy as it sells itself as. A nice little surprise.

I tried the Heroes 3 HD remake and it was total ass, but it made me get the Heroes 3 series from GOG and replay it a bit. Yep, it still holds up.

 

[JennAnge]

If we're talking about games rendering one speechless: Middle Earth: Shadows of Mordor.

I'd heard it was good, but I'd never played AssCreed or Arkham, I only had experience with the Thief series and other sneak-em-ups. So I was expecting something slow and sneaky and a little bit plodding. I crept up on a ledge above my first orc, clicked the stealth-attack-from-above button...

...skewered orc 1 through the neck on the fly, turned, parried, countered and kicked orc 2 that'd been hiding behind a bush, vaulted over bellowing orc 3 that turned the corner, beat off orc 4 that followed him, turned and stabbed orc 2 again, stuck my dagger up his jaw as he flopped on the ground, sprang up and parried orc 3-

A couple minutes later I was standing at the end of the line of a lot of dead orcs going ".......F--- hell! I'm batman!"


It wouldn't be at the very top of my overall top fav games (though it would be somewhere on the list, I think). But it's the only game that left me speechless.

[I also now have Arkham Asylum on my Steam Wishlist]

 

[Quiet Stranger]

I've started playing Guild Wars 2 and I gotta say, MUCH better than Guild Wars 1. A lot easier to figure things out and it's so much fun to play.

 

[FPLOON]

-double the snip for just one snip-

Hey hey, a comrade in gaming then!

Having never played Birth by Sleep before, I really wasn't expecting much, but My god is it fun. I especially love using Maleficent's dragonfire to voip a line of totally-not-heartless. It's just too bad Terra (the person I started with) Is bland and kinda stupid. Hoping the other two are better.

Spoiler: Vague BBS Spoiler

As someone who has played the OG PSP BBS to 100%completion, I can honestly say that the other playable characters (Ven and Aqua) are better than Terra in their own way... especially in the dodging category... (Seriously, Terra... Your dodging sucks...)

Also, I'm not much of a CoD player in general, but's they're just something about playing some spitscreen multiplayer and always shooting my friend in the ass (because he forgot to turn around again) that just makes me smile for some reason...