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After having played the recent Maiden demo, I’ve come to the realization that everything but this aspect has taken the leap with this new generation. Fidelity, Detail, Sound Design, Scale, Character Models, and Framerates, all of these have taken a noticeable leap with the next generation of consoles. But the enemies have not. The enemies typically always play the same way.
With shooters it’s either their bigger bullet sponges, slightly smarter from a tactical perspective, or you have more tools are your own disposal to take them out.
With melee focused games it’s much of the same. Though depending on the scale of difficulty you may have to be more cognizant of dodging and waiting for sequences to end so you can strike.
I realize it’s just the demo for Maiden, and they took away your ability to fight back against the enemy. But you know how that conflict will be resolved in the full game. There won’t be any sort of revolutionary way to take care of …
I can’t tell how much that bugs me. Why are so many games putting “My Documents” as default save game folder. There is literally a “Saved Games” folder created by microsoft but only a handful of developers put the save games there. Why? I have my PC files neatly sorted and it annoys me unnormally, that I can’t really use the documents folder for documents because there are so many game titels. Especially because I want to synchronise my save games and my documents seperately with my cloud server. It’s frustrating to no end.
With so many games releasing nowadays, I think it’s easy for the good ones to get lost in the shuffle. I’m going to list 20 highly anticipated Indie/AA games. I’m sure there’s many great ones I’ll probably miss (like I said, there’s so many it’s hard to keep track sometimes), so please let me know what other ones I should look out for. I’m going to order them by release date. If the game does not have a tangible release date, I’ll place it in the list based on what I think is more likely to come out first, based on marketing material and release date delays.
1. Cyber Shadow
Picture: Link
Trailer: Link
Steam Page: Link
Release Date: January 26, 2021
Genre: 2D Action Platformer
Multiplayer: None
Description: This game looks like a cyberpunk Ninja Gaiden. It’s very fast paced and has some huge enemies to fight. The player character looks to have a very versatile moveset which looks to complement both the platforming and the combat. …
I found DRM free versions of Sonic Riders and people found out how to play it at any Resolution.
https://sonic.fandom.com/wiki/Sonic_PC_Collection
I just played Riders at 2560x1080p
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuFj-jf6Ts&feature=youtu.be
Edit: thanks for all the recommendations. Going to look into hades, civ and factorio. appreciate all the thoughts, comments, recommendations very much. Thank you.
I grew up in the 80’s & 90’s on atari, NES, Sega and then moved to PC for nearly all things Lucas Arts, command & conquer, etc. Then on to GameCube (madden & Mario sunshine) Wii & Wii U (Windwaker, Mario kart) and then ps4 with mostly Destiny.
During the 2010’s, I probably gamed as little as I ever had until D1 hit. I played that steadily for a year or two and then pretty much quit.
I’ve tried a number of games “recently” (destiny 2, squadrons, surviving mars, halo) and getting back into older games and I just can’t.
I simply don’t enjoy them and/or get frustrated fairly easily.
I feel like I’d like to sit down and play a game for a bit but two minutes in, I get frustrated and shut’r down.
I dont play games on my phone and I really can’t …