Video Game Recommendations

About 2 months ago, I bought Forza Horizon 4. Long story short, I liked it. In particular, I liked the cross country discipline, which takes me on frantic off-road rides through the (big) map.

As such, I want to know if there's more focused racing games on PC that's about racing through nature or various landscapes, with minimal focus on asphalt. For the record, I'm aware of Motorstorm - I played the PSP entry (Arctic Edge) of that franchise as a kid, and I liked it too. That might be a good reference point.

Also, sim games like Dirt Rally are right out. I don't have the hardware for simracing and don't intend to procure such. The one time I did try Dirt Rally with my gamepad, it was a frustrating experience.

Okay, yeah, I'm sticking with the 3D platformer recommendation. Crash 4 is honestly more frustrating than fun, but very few other 3D platformers are like that series.

I can personally vouch for Mabinogi if anyone is interested.

It's a Free to Play MMORPG that mostly focuses on Celtic Mythology and several other things among that. You can play as one of three races in the game; the Jack of All Stats Humans, the Melee-specialized Giants, or the Ranged and Magic-specialized Elves. The leveling system is unique in that it does not involve around prioritizing getting to a high level to get towards the later parts of the game, but instead leveling is part of a path to permanent stat growth via ranking up various combat or life related skills in the game.

Every week on Saturday your character will go up in age, and every week you are given the ability to Rebirth your character, allowing you to change their current skill specialization in the form of a Talent, reset their physical age to a certain aesthetic with some ages being better suited for certain leveling stat bonuses than others, and then once you're Rebirthed, your Level is set back to 1, and while any stats you gain from leveling are wiped to a clean slate, any stats you gain via increasing the ranks of your skills remain completely intact. In short, it's not about leveling your character in the traditional sense; the ranks of your numerous available skills are what determines your actual strength in the game. Leveling is part of the cycle of character progression, as leveling provides Ability Points, which is the stat which is required to rank up skills and speed up the progress on some skill's training should they apply for AP Training bonuses.

While I should note that there are micro-transactions in the game, it is fully possible to play the game without so much as sinking a single cent into the game, as the tutorial can help you get yourself established by gifting you free in-game pets which can help you along with traveling the world, and various items usually associated with the cash shop or related gachapons can be found on the Auction House and other forms of player shops. Take this from me, as someone who had started off as a player who only paid for micro-transactions for various pets but has now expanded my inventory capacity to sizes made possible via buying various bags from other players, or getting these bags via free events which are held very often all throughout a given year. You can even get various pets through such free events as well, and ever since a few years ago there have been two reoccurring events which make character growth easier known as the Master Plan events designed to help people train their skills and encourage them to level and train as much as they can for the best rewards from these events.

The game is either available as a client you can install from the Nexon Launcher or is available on Steam, with it being possible to use the same account on either version of the game in case either the Nexon Launcher or Steam poses anyone any issue with being able to get into the game.

I have been playing a game recently called Monster Racers. It is an interesting take on the Mons genre where you race them together. It also takes place on Earth rather than a fictional world and has you go across the world to win championships. I would suggest you give it a go.

Edited by HoloMew151 on Aug 8th 2021 at 2:49:31 PM

Does anyone have any good recommendations for a fun platformer, either 2D or 3D? Namely, I'm looking for a platformer that has at least three or four Difficulty Levels (or similar adjustable game settings). Also something that's either available for PC, or else is from an older console that'd be easy to emulate (so I can record my playthroughs of it).

Beyond that, however, I'm not too picky. I just want to try out something I haven't played before.

For reference, I have already played Ori and the Blind Forest (which I found fun at first, but then it got frustrating), but not much else for modern platformers. As far as classics go, I am a big fan of Super Mario and Donkey Kong, but most of those don't really come with difficulty settings.

One series I'd recommend myself is Power Stone, definitely one of the most underrated gems of the Capcom library. It's a pair of 3D arena-based fighting games that appeared on the Sega Dreamcast (a port of both games was later done for the PSP), where you've got to use the environment, a huge assortment of weapons (from commonplace ones like guns, bombs and swords to slapstick-y ones like frozen fish, trumpets and tennis racquets) and the eponymous Power Stones (which, upon collecting three, allow you to temporarily turn into a super-powered form and use all kinds of crazy special moves) to gain the upper hand. It's especially fun in not only how easy to pick up and play it is, but how chaotic and deceptively strategic it can get makes it an absolute blast, especially in multiplayer. The latter is especially great in Power Stone 2, with up to four players per match, varied, action-packed stages that often change as the fight goes on, and the ability to craft your own crazy extra weapons to use in matches.

So all in all? Both games are genuinely awesome titles like nothing else on the Dreamcast, and I'd whole-heartedly recommend both for both regular players and the oft-seen fighting game fanatics who love the console. On a side note, it also had a rather fun tie-in anime series that adapts the first game (and the page itself has an easily accessible link to all the episodes in English), so I'd recommend giving that a look, too.

Edited by GF93 on Sep 13th 2021 at 4:41:13 PM

One game i really like is Hearts of Iron 4. It's a real time strategy game where you micromanage a countries military during the WW 2 era. It's been out for a long time, and I've also been playing it for a long time, definitely recommend.

Probably mentioned on this thread before but Red Dead Redemption 2 is also a nice play.

I'm very late in answering, but I might suggest Iji: It's fun (or at least so I find), free, has some neat mechanics, and indeed has multiple difficulty levels, as I recall!

Can anybody recommend some good co-op games on PS3?

Since the 3DS E-Shop will be shutting down in a few months, I'd like to ask; are there any download only games worth picking up?

Crap, it's going down? I was hoping it'd stay up for a while yet. Now I'll be forced to figure out what I actually want to buy. Anyone know the exact date? And are multiplayer servers going down too, because not wanting to risk a ban is one of the main reasons I haven't tried to homebrew my 3DS.

Okay, it turns out I misunderstood it. They haven't announced a shutdown, but after January of next year it won't be possible to make purchases through the 3DS E Shop with a credit card. You'll have to use pre-paid cards to pay for any purchases. And they won't be putting any new games up on the E Shop after that point, but they haven't had a good game added for a long time.

Well, that's not so bad. Though having to buy a card anytime I want to purchase a game is certainly a lot less convenient.

No worries; I'm late in seeing this myself. But thank you for the recommendation. I will check it out sometime.

Ah, I'm glad that you saw that recommendation! Excellent then, and it's my pleasure, and I hope that you enjoy it! ^_^

Can I get some recommendations for rpgs on the GBA that aren't Pokemon or Zelda? Games I already have are the port for FF 6, Tales of Phantasia, and Golden Sun.

As someone who played through GBA Phantasia a couple times, because I didn't know any better back then, it's rough. It's still a very good game, but you may be better served by one of the other versions.

Other than that:

• The FF 4 and FF 5 ports
• Golden Sun: The Lost Age (if that wasn't already included)
• Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
• Mother 3 (if emulating)
• The three Castlevania games? (Depending on your definition of RPG)

Summon Night: Swordcraft Story and its sequel are personal favorites of mine. Fun crafting-focused RPGs with a somewhat Tales-like side-view battle system.

If you got an Apple Arcade subscription or if you the bought the game elsewhere, What the Golf? is what I recommend. Its a funny golf game that starts out normal, but soon devolves into hitting anything and everything into a flag, plus unexpected gameplay changes that will keep you entertained foor at least 2 hours, which is about how long it took me to finish the game without 100% completing everything. If you are broke and just have a browser, dont worry. I got one for that too! Forumwarz is a highly engaging rpg that takes place on the internet. The game makes fun of basically everything on the internet, and the humor is well written, if not offensive. Of course, if you are easily offended, dont play it. The gameplay can get repetitive, and only the first chapter is free, with the rest of the chapters needing money. Therefore if you dont pay, you only got access to chapter 1 forums and stores, plus multiplayer and community forums. The game is still fun though, and I recommend you to check it out

Attention, any and all Dragon Quest XI/Dragon Quest XI S owners!

So, I recently played through the original NES version of Dragon Quest as my very first foray into the franchise (and to celebrate its 35th anniversary). Shortly after, a friend on Discord (who is a very big fan of Dragon Quest and all things Akira Toriyama) contacted me and said that they want to mail me a copy of the Switch version of DQXI S as a Christmas present.

To anyone who owns this game: should I take up them up on their offer and immediately jump into the latest entry (which I've virtually unanimously heard great things about) straight after the first? Or should I put some other installments on the docket beforehand? And if so, which ones?

You'll be absolutely fine going into XI without playing anything in the between. There are some mythology gags, and a series of bonus dungeons based on the prior entries, but that's not too big a deal; the story itself stands on its own.

If you're interested in the rest of the series, though:

• II and III form a direct trilogy with I
• IV, V and VI are another trilogy, but the links are more thematic, the stories don't directly follow each other
• VII through IX are entirely unconnected from any other game, as is XI
• X... is only available in Japan.

Aside from XI, V is the one I personally would most recommend, but there's no reason to rush to play it before the former.

Edited by Perseus on Oct 27th 2021 at 9:18:01 PM

In the mood for a JRPG... Do I get SMTV or SRW 30 now?... the other would have to wait for Christmas.

I don't think it matters if you're going to get both anyway.

I've got a non-reloadable Visa Giftcard with $1.89 on it.

Any suggestions for a game that I could buy with that?

PC, Android, or Switch games are all acceptable suggestions.

Reddit suggested Half-life, Portal and the first Witcher game, all of which I have.

I need a game that isn't too hard. I tend to ragequit.