The screenshot is from Morrowind (Running in OpenMW)

  • Brick@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Portal. I played the whole thing on the first sit down as soon as it downloaded, but the audio had glitched so I missed the voice over. Missed a huge part of the experience.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      That was my vote! There’s little to no replay value, but damn what a ride. Spent 2 or 3 weeks imagining portals IRL. “I could snatch the TV remote without moving if…”

      “Now you’re thinking in Portals!” was the most accurate tagline I’ve ever experienced.

  • perfectduck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I agree with so many here, but I have a new one.

    Dredge.

    It just seemed like a fishing simulator, but it got creepier as it went on. Definitely an ending I didn’t expect. That may have been me just getting too into finding every fish.

    Great gameplay loop and played on steam deck excellently.

    • tiramichu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Honestly, I had completely the opposite experience with Dredge.

      The first few days in the game feel truly scary, with your terribly slow ship, and every strange light in the darkness is terrifying. Those initial quests with the pulsating wet package are creepy, and you wonder where that’s going to lead, and what storyline will come from that.

      But then, you get a few engine upgrades and there’s suddenly not a single danger in the game you can’t easily run from. You’re invincible and the whole ocean is your oyster. The pulsating package was just a bit of flavour and nothing comes of it at all - in fact the quests in the game are almost entirely plain fetch quests, totally shallow with very little real story. And while the ending gets interesting, it’s all too brief.

      Now don’t get me wrong - I loved Dredge, actually! But I loved it as a cosy collect-em-all fishing sim, bombing around the ocean in your fun and zoomy boat, rather than the narrative-driven Lovecraftian horror the trailers made it out to be, which ultimately I felt it wasn’t at all.

      Still fun, though!

    • perfectduck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Agree, sequel is more of the same, but at the same time isn’t anything close enough.

      Similar style is prey 2017 and deathloop. I love being rewarded for what my favourite streamer calls “being a nosy bastard”.