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Piggybacking off of my last comment, are there others who feel that modern games seem not to be as fun as games from late 90s to late 2000s? This may be nostalgia talking, but people around me game less than they did, and most games they play are MMO ones, as opposed to campaign-focused ones like Half-Life.
I have not played a whole lot of modern games, but their gameplay does not seem to be that big of an improvement over things I have seen before. In many cases, modern shooters feel quite slow compared to arena shooters like unreal tournament or Quake. I was looking at games to play and very caught my eye beyond the new doom games.
I have to question the usefulness of such a broad question. Even talking about 90s games is very broad. In my youth, I played on an iMac G3 and played tons of shareware titles that probably most 90s gamers have never heard of.
These days, my addictive personality becomes apparent even with modern games. Escape From Tarkov, Dark Souls Remastered, Caves of Qud, and Katana Zero all made me noticeably tank my own health in my lust to play them as much as possible. Just yesterday, I was reminiscing that I really liked Max Payne 3. These are all games that aren't exactly new, but they do fall outside of the late 90s to late 2000s parameters. I think there's tons of good stuff out there, it just needs to be found and played to death.
I'd kill for Max Payne 4. I wish someone did another AA or AAA bullet-time shooter with the serial numbers filed off. Quantum Break was actually great as a shooter, but not quite the same.
It convinced me to pay $150 for a video game, and to put in >1500 hours into it, so I feel you. Can't be arsed to play in recent wipes, especially since they released a new ultra luxury edition and gave the middle finger to EOD owners.
El paso Elsewhere is alright if you want third person bullet time, and trepang2 is a pretty cool fps variant (but it feels more like the FEAR games) but the game you really should check out is Echo Point Nova. It's got bullet time, it's got tribes style skiing and a whole bunch of other cool mechanics, all in a non linear open world map.
I have EPN on my wishlist already, I plan to get it as soon as I've moved into my new place and got a PC set up! Everything I've seen about it makes me think it's an amazing game.
It's awesome, and it's that mix of exploration and action that makes you look up from the game and wonder how so many hours could have passed. If you want to save some money though snap it up now if you can, as it's currently part of the spring sale - and it was also last week's midweek special, so it's probably not going to go on sale again for a while.
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