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Video Game Suggestions
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A place to find suggestions for video games! For example, you might create a post looking for recommendations for a game to play with a friend, or a game that is easy to play if you just broke your dominant hand. Or you might post a list of games that let you use a whip as a weapon. A lot of rules for conduct here are pretty obvious (don't be a jerk, stay on-topic) so I'll bold the weird ones.
Rules
- Please stay on-topic: post requests for games that match some criteria you specify, lists of games with a certain element, or something otherwise relevant to helping people find games that match certain criteria.
- If you're looking to find the name of a particular game or video game series you forgot, you should go to !TipOfMyJoystick@retrolemmy.com. This community is for fielding suggestions for games, not for finding one specific video game.
- If you're making a post that is suggesting games, it should be a list of games. This is partially to help prevent the community from being overrun by people just suggesting their favorite game, and devs suggesting you play their latest game. This is about posts, not comments. It's okay to comment on a post asking for gaming suggestions with just one game.
- Don’t be a jerk. This covers bigotry and discrimination, which includes but is not limited to homophobia, racism, sexism, etc.
- Please don’t directly link to pirated content.
- When advertising something you have worked on, please use common sense for what is spammy. Self-promotion isn't totally banned: if someone asked for an RPG where you can play a lich, and the game you worked on is an RPG where you can play a lich, you can definitely answer with your RPG. I reserve the right to change this rule to be more specific about what exactly counts as spammy and what does not, but I feel I’ll know it when I see it and trust most posters to operate in good faith.
- Please indicate spoilers when necessary. The following format works on both Lemmy and Kbin, but if you are using an app it may not. See this comment for which apps handle spoilers. Note that spoilers in post bodies will just show the text in the preview if you link the post in, say, Discord, instead of spoiling it.
Spoilers for SomeGame
Something that happened at the end of the game!
Something else that happened at the end of the game!
will appear as
Spoilers for SomeGame
Something that happened at the end of the game!
Something else that happened at the end of the game!
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Spec Ops: the Line. The story is simply unforgettable.
Warcraft 3 and the Frozen Throne expansion, while very old by now, have amazing storytelling. Arthas' fall, the orcs' second round of corruption and attempt at redemption, the night elves getting their shit wrecked by everyone and fighting back. It's easy to see why so many people got hyped for World of Warcraft back then.
Another old game that is totally worth it for the story is Soul Reaver, which received a remaster last year. The voice acting alone carries the game, it's a tale of hate fueled revenge with Shakespearean dialogue. The downside is that you can't skip cutscenes (this used to be a real bother back when you had specific places to save, dunno how it is on the remaster)
Lastly, Elder Scrolls 3 Morrowind. If you can get past the jank, or mod some of it away, and follow the main story, you'll be surprised at how much thought went into the world building of the game. You can use OpenMW to also get rid of some bugs and have an overall better technical experience with the game (better resolution and graphics options, almost zero chance of crashes, better support for current systems)