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I would risk saying that Paradox games due to their nature have a lot of replayability potential

>>62292
which one are your favorites? i would love to see you rank the ones you played from least favorite to most favorite.

>>62294
>from least favorite to most favorite from ones I played
>Europa Universalis
I just hate the mana as a concept, I find the events to be absurd and I only play it when I play a megacampaign
>Imperator:Rome
it has fine mechanics with the exeption of families and family holdings, but it is pretty much impossible to play tall. Also, the AI Rome always does the worst bordergore- I've never seen them conquer mainland Carthage (Or any medium-large southern state) but they often conquer beyond Rhine and Danube
>Hearts or Iron IV
love the production and division autism. Fighting is ok. I could even stomach national focuses, but the problem is boredom during peacetime. I know this is a war game, but there is almost literally nothing to do before war starts but wait. Also, the fact that 1/4 of the mechanics is tied to DLCs is scummy
>Darkest Hour
iirc correctly it is modified version of Hoi2. It is the definition of simple but fun. It as more tech (up to 1960s) than Hoi4. Same probelm with peacetime. Fewer provinces means that that it feels too much like a boardgame than a simulation.
>Crusader Kings 2
I think I'm the most familiar with this one, as I have over 600 hours in and still haven't played 10% of all content. The main problems are too much time (almost 700 years long campaign with earliest start) and all-or-nothing type of gameplay. Both of those things mean thta when you accomplish your goals you just wait till the end date, as playing suboptimal means losing all progress to some AI character, and they run player kingdoms to the ground. I also think that mechanics fail to represnt the period faithfully, especially earlier dates.
>Victoria II
When it comes to the gameplay, I like the idea that a lot of things are controlled indirectly, in contrast to previous games. It is closest to a "simulation" a paradox game have come to. Time period is both good and bad- industrialization is fun, but the political landscape means Europe looks the same every game unless something crazy happens like Bavaria becoming a Great Power. I would also change some aspects of RGOs and goods, as the way it is handled in the game cause some problems that would never happen irl.

Can anyone tell me why Ocarina of Time is so popular? I've never played it in the 90s, I have only tried it couple of years ago and I thought it's pretty boring and extremely ugly (everything is puke green and brown, faces are ugly). I am genuinely curious. Is it because I haven't played it back in the time it was popular so it's charm is lost on me as my standards toward games are much higher?

>>62305
did u play on some lousy emulator with your keyboard?

ur supposed to play on RMG with paraLLEl RDP plugin with a proper controller with vibrate support like 8bitdo 64 (tho any other gamepad would be passable too, just map yellow C buttons to right analog), and try to beat at least the first boss, and it has to be ROM version 1.1, NOT 1.2 (or the GCN or VC/Switch ports), they ruined the music and censored the game in those

Starcraft 1 is underrated, yes the game is legendary, but for me is like art, is a fantastic sci-fi world, amazing cinematic and lore.
It have books, comics, etc. Better history and universe than Star Wars

>>62335
How do you feel about Warhammer 40k?

>>62305
Playing it as a child when it was released was really special. I'd never seen anything like that before and it left a deep impression. Just going around and exploring a big 3D world like that was awesome.

>>62337
Never played that game, but looks good to

I do have a few games I keep going back to, and a number of them are not even particularly good but I played them so often over many years they became like home in many ways.
Fallout 3 would probably be my favorite of all time, then, in no particular order, Medieval II Total War, Comix Zone, X-Men 2 Clone Wars, Quake, Baldur's Gate and recently I've played Marvel's Spider-Man and Robocop Rogue City quite often, to the point I think they'll be coming into the roster. Probably only Fallout, Total War, Quake and Baldur's Gate are the ones people would contentiously call 'objectively' good.

The very, very best game I've ever played though is Ultima Online, but that title is very dependent on a community, and I find the gaming culture I enjoyed for so long during those days disappeared over time. You can still play UO today, but it's not the same thing. The wild west days of the internet and online gaming are over. I tried to go back but it's just a little depressing, now.

>>62291
if you're into RTS wiz you gotta take a look at Warzone 2100
Old gem with fancy mechanics

Morrowind Daggerfall Skyrim and Warband

>>62478
I already play TES games, but how is Warband? Is it like TES games? I know it has TES oriented mods.

>>62479
It’s nothing like the games on either of our lists. You command armies, manage villages, towns, and castles, and travel across the world map. But when it’s time to fight or enter a location, you drop straight into real-time combat by controlling your character directly in 1st/3rd person, leading your troops and fighting beside them on the battlefield. There’s so many systems in mechanics there as well.

>>62481
So it's more a RTS? Damn, I don't like those personally. The real-time combat part sounds fun at least.

I used to think X-Com: UFO Defense was playable forever. I started playing mods when OpenXcom came out and seeing every mod just being a copy/paste of each other really deflated me. I've played a minimum of 1 full campaign per year since '94 up until maybe 3 years ago.

>>62483
Not quite an RTS, more like a mixture of RTT and action combat. You can give basic commands mid-combat (charge, halt, line up, etc). Depending on your faction, your playstyle will vary, so a Rhodok player would be more meticulous with placement of soldiers and defensive lines, while certain other factions are more conductive to just issuing a charge order and running around fighting.

>>62479
The cool thing about warband is the freedom you have to do whatever you want. Bannerlord is their newest game, but isn't as deep as Warband.

Modded New Vegas & Skyrim.

Mario kart double dash ,Tony hawk 4, Warcraft 3 starcraft, faeria, Star wars pod racer, smash Bros, heroes of the Storm, windjammers

Zephon and Gladius(40k as a civ3 type game)
F-zero X
Super Smash EX
classic JRPGs with trippy plots ( Earthbound, Legend of Mana, Final Fantasy 8)
Superhot

my picks are: combat mission. ive got shock force 2, red thunder and the old ones. the fallout games.

>>62291
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist of the Roses is it for me. It mixes Yu-Gi-Oh! as we know it with chess and board games in general, feeling a lot closer to the early manga versions of Duel Monsters, with cards moving around, where their positions matter, and of course their field advantages and disadvantages. It's also one of the few titles where it's not about mixing a bunch of OP cards with no real synergy besides being good or broken, you have an incentive to build actual decks around a strategy, type and archetype, it's how it should be. My favorites were my Insect/Beast Forest deck, and my Dragon/Harpie Wind deck, so fun to build and use!

>>62968
it has nice music. do you play it on ps2?

>>62970
I don't have my PS2 anymore, so I only emulate it now. The OST is really something else, I agree 100% there.

Dota 2. It never gets old.

>>62968
It's a very charming game in it's own way and I agree with the fact that the unique rules implemented make it feel more interesting than a generic yugioh sim but I can't see myself playing it for more than a week, certainly not a game to play forever. Both of the branching paths can be completed in a day each and the rest of the content isn't that interesting.

tetris

>>62291
Skyrim (even the vanilla game but especially modded), Terraria, the Rune Factory games

I used to play lots of Stardew Valley but have recently switched Fields of Mistria

I'm in my 30s and mostly prefer more casual games these days, I don't have the mental energy to play CRPGs like Baldur's Gate anymore

I've been playing jet set radio future a lot just to chill out. Bomb Rush got very close and I'm looking for its sequel, but something was just missing from it. I've also been going through a lot of older games to play. Finished Majora's mask cause I never finished it as a kid (OoT is better), now playing Skies of Arcadia and it seems pretty good so far, just got to Sailors island. I do wanna play blizzards old catalogue again someday, I was very in to Warcraft 2/3 and starcraft. I'm afraid to try Starcraft 2 to be disappointed tho.

>>62291
Winning Eleven 2002 (PlayStation) is the one that comes to mind, at least for me as a major football/soccer fan, and fan of the 5th console generation, retro in general. It's the peak in gameplay from that generation, the core that every title in the genre had as the stardard from that point onwards, and it's still getting free patches/mods from fans for pretty much any competition you'd like to play, with the actual teams, squads, stadiums, tactics and kits! It's cool to see and I'd rather play this than EA or eFootball.

Modded Minecraft, especially with Custom NPCs and building mods.

Half-Life + Garry's Mod stuff + some full-blown fan episodes + PORTAL + Portal 2 + challenge maps

Fucking this. No other game has such a good atmosphere. If you have never played it before you HAVE TO. Walking around Santa Monica the first time is such a great feeling. The haunted house, the cemetery in Hollywood etc. Insane that there have been almost no RPGs that can compare after all these years.

>>62291
>Ocarina of Time
How does this game make your list, yet literally no other proper action game title not do so?

No
>Ninja Gaiden Black/2/3re/4
>Bayo 1/2/3
>DMC1/3/4/5
OoT is filled with combat so bad it makes Dark Souls look deep, puzzles so easy that it makes "Wait a minute that card" look like Baba is You, and a world so barren it makes the average Final Fantasy map seem fun to explore.

I'm not going to say OoT is a shit game, but comon, its basically FF7-tier where nostalgia and hype overrides any actual sense of criticism or analysis.

Not to mention I highly doubt you actually play Starcraft/Quake3/Warcraft online, maybe you do, but I've not met many who play multiple 1v1 games that require such dedication to. In the past there were more lobbies in those games about doing fun and dumb minigames, but now the only population is for hardcore TDM and 1v1, CTF for Quake maybe. Age of Empires ought to also be something you list, but didn't, despite that actually still having SP campaign updates and a population that enjoys some more casual fun like black forest, x256 tech mod, forestnothing, etc.

Honestly I think you're just a poser who listed some "classics" in order to lend some legitimacy to bitching about nothing you have any qualifications to bitch about.

>>63268
>Not to mention I highly doubt you actually play Starcraft/Quake3/Warcraft online, maybe you do, but I've not met many who play multiple 1v1 games that require such dedication to
To be fair, if anyone has the free time to do so, it's a wizard

>>63269
I just don't see it, usually competitive online players obsess over a single game, even finding someone who actively plays something like LoL AND Dota 2 regularly is harder than you might think, let alone Starcraft/Warcraft and a totally different genre like Quake. Personally I think it just comes down to the fact that eventually the competition is what drives you, and you'll get better faster by focusing on one single game. Realistically I don't think loading up your 20,000th game of CSGO is "fun" in a normal sense, but testing your skills and getting better than others might still be fresh and exciting.