Just finished Expedition 33. GOTY material for sure. It's easily on my top 5 of all time.

Good game, despite all the QTE/dodge/parry bullshit being very annoying.

Playing it on Story difficulty mode just so that I don't have to bother that much with those annoyances and just beat everything (not extremely easy even at that level) and experience the story.

Also can't figure how to operate the Verso's skillset. It's so weird with the additional conditions which are very hard to control (easy to overshoot the required level). Compared to other characters' skills, it's very inconsistent with the additional triggers. Even Lune's skills are not that weird.

Which are the other games in high regard for you, btw?

@iiii KCD2 is the other big challenger

@Tounai challenger in what?

@iiii for the GOTY

@Tounai oh. I don't really care about those penis-length competitions. Games are either good, okay or bad. Does not really matter which one is "the best", especially when it's very much subjective and depends on a particular taste. Just like I find any sort of QTE mechanic in a non-musoc-rhythm, and especially in a turn based combat, game annoying as fuck, while many people (allegedly suffering from ADHD) praise it for making them "engaged in combat during enemy turn".

@iiii I'm very bland when it comes to my normal choices of games. I like narrative heavy games and usually go for something straightforward like fps. I don't play multiplayer at all because I will never be as good as a 12 year old.

I played Undertale. It was pretty good for what it was.

I want to like the Elder Scrolls and Fallout games, but I'm not interested in the kind of micromanagement needed to properly build a character.

The only Pokemon games I really like were the early gen games because there really wasn't much focus on minmaxing while also not being so handholdy that it's a babygame.

I've played Hollow Knight and Sifu and loved them because they're very fast paced and smooth. I tried Furi but couldn't get the hang of it. I refuse to play any of the Souls games because I don't find watching a broken animation system kill me to be any fun.

I avoid visual novels mostly because the art direction is almost universally cringe.

So basically, whatever looks neat.

@iiii I love Halo: CE and the Valve fps games. Whether or not that's because they were my first games, I don't know, but I still like them a lot. When I had more free time, UT2k4 was where I spent a lot of time.

I love the Everspace games. And Freelancer. And Star Trek Bridge Commander. I wanted to like Chorvs but it was definitely not for me.

@cuddlyogre Some old school classics there. I saw a guy yesterday with a black t-shirt that that just said "Black Mesa research facility".

I am getting myself one of those for sure.