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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.
Thanks for the suggestions. I like the looks of Echo Point Nova, but it looks very slide-y with non human enemies and cartoony graphics. Part of the appeal of Max Payne 3 was going to a shithole Latin American country drenched in sun and humidity as a fatass sweaty drunk who quips extremely pessimistic lines every 30 seconds whose heft you can feel when doing the classic Max Payne diving technique. Shooting people never felt better than it does in a Rockstar game, too.
Related: I liked the stories of the originals, but I think Max Payne 3's story isn't bad enough to be worth bashing. It's written a lot less flowery, but there are a lot more lines in it that I feel tempted to quote.
Yeah I loved the shit out of Max Payne 3. I loved the first two too, but I was entering middle age when 3 came out and the whole "this is what happens to that sardonic alcoholic when he loses the vigor of youth" hit home hard. And mechanically I felt their reach exceeded their grasp (the graphics quality was too high and while that does give it a long shelf life, those resources would have been better spent on more game imo), but it was still great fun.
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