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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is my favorite game:
- Best name.
- In development since the 90s, still looks like the 90s.
- Played hundreds of hours, still never finished it (cause I'm shit).
Salt and Sanctuary (more for it being unpopular vs bad hivemind).
I love Metroidvanias, but combined with Souls-like elements makes for a very fun concoction. This one in particular I have so much fun exploring. The story telling and world building adds to the mystery and the fun of unraveling the story. It has a very good variety of enemies/bosses/items. It also oozes so much atmosphere. One of the better Metroidvanias (I played a fair number of them).
Another one is Dark Souls 2. I get it being disliked; can't be helped as it had a lot of departures from the first. But out of all 3, this one I played x3 as much. I absolutely love the sheer variety of locations (it's ridiculous); exploration is super fun and rewarding.
Is Salt and Sanctuary not a popular game? It's one of the better and well reviewed 2D souls-likes. Salt and Sacrifice did get dunked on for being Epic exclusive and worse than Salt and Sanctuary though.
I love Metroidvanias
Give Ender Lilies a try if you didn't play it yet by the way. Really good Metroidvania and one of my favorites (besides the obvious ones like Hollow Knight and Ori).
It's the impression I get, I rarely hear it discussed or people just haven't heard of it when Hollow Knight comes up.
I actually gave Ender Lilies a shot. I have to admit it didn't grab me for some reason. I don't remember what problem I had with it exactly. BUT it does have a phenomenal soundtrack (Awakening, North).
Have you played Aquaria? I should've mentioned this one instead (slipped my mind) because it feels even more obscure than Salt and Sanctuary.
Have you played Aquaria?
Nope, but I do have it in my Steam library for some reason so I'm gonna check it out soon.
Completely agree on Dark Souls 2, I've played almost all of the Souls games, yet I keep finding myself coming back to Dark Souls 2, I'm not sure what it is about the game, because there are definitely things I don't like about it (Mainly adaptability and hollowfication reducing your health) but it's still easily my most replayed Souls game. I especially love the early game, where you have 4 different paths you can take from Majula, it lets me leave if I am struggling with an area and come back to it later after playing a different path for a while
I've been meaning to play salt and sanctuary for a while, but haven't done it yet. I might pick that game up next time my bank account is a bit more full, because that sounds right up my alley
I also keep wanting to come back to DS2 for the long journey with so many cool locations.
Salt and Sanctuary really holds a special place for me. The atmosphere is absolutely top notch; we're talking Hollow Knight levels in my opinion. The map design is also phenomenal along with tons of secrets and shortcuts. Not sure if the recent patch fixed it, but the combat is kinda unbalanced from what I recall. Heavy armor is more or less useless so you might as well go fashion-souls. And 2-handed strength weapons are king.
Idk where the DS2 hate came from, before DS3 released i remember DS2 being quite well regarded, i put in well over 300 or so hours just replaying the game over and over again trying to create OP builds and beating the game as fast as i could. while DS3 felt super polished with a really impressive map design, it just wasn't as fun as DS2 for me.
I think most of the hate was from the initial release. At this point blatant hate is undeserved and it might be a meme at this point or a bandwagon to hop on where everyone knows "DS2 bad".
Die Hard: Vendetta on the GameCube. Never seen the Die Hard movies but I received this game as a kid and my brother and loved it. It’s bad in a goofy way but it was fun.
Metroid other m. Far from best game in the series, a lot easier than the other games, but i found the presentation really fun.
The dodging and kill moves i found satisfying and the boss fights were. The cut scenes were a bit too long buy i enjoyed the game
Yeah, this really is a game that the story killed. The gameplay is tight and fun, and overall it's a fun experiment in the series that was ruined by the creator of the series completely misunderstanding why people like Samus as a character.
Well part of my unpopular opinion is that the story isn't that bad. To me the flashbacks arent so bad, it makes sense that samus was rebellious, she was young at the time and going through a phase but it also explains why she is a rogue hunter.
The part that is annoying is the present timeline where samus has completely abandoned the rebelliousness and will risk her own life in order to not disobey orders from someone who A) isn't her commanding officer and B) she disobeyed in the past
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days. The game was a commercial and critical bomb, but it's the only cover shooter I've ever enjoyed. It's just such an unrelentingly visceral, disorienting, harsh game, with one of the main aesthetic gimmicks being that it emulates the look and feel of a late 2000s amateur video. It's hard to describe without seeing it in action, but it was audacious as shit for what was meant to be a big budget, AAA title.
I was always a massive fan of the Lost Planet games on Xbox 360. Mixes up my childhood favorite things, giant monsters and mechs.
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There was this platformed called box boy, it was fun. Idk how popular it was but monster hunter stories was a huge part of my life a few years ago idk why I liked it, it was just a fun rpg
Most of the Dark Pictures Anthology games have pretty mediocre ratings, but at this point my friends and I look forward to each release. It's like a 10 hour long horror movie night. They're just long enough to start right after lunch on a sat, and play late into the night, passing the controller around.
Their last release The Devil In Me is rated around 5/10, yet it might be my favorite one to date. It's not uncommon for them to have a rocky release with bugs, so sometimes we give them a few months to patch it up. But honestly, one of the best local coop experiences I've had. Definitely recommend if you have some friends over.
SCRAPS Modular Vehicle Combat. It's so much fun building epic guncars and battling with your friends LAN or over the internet. So sad to see the development abandoned though.
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