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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 would love suggestions. My current to-play list includes
My malaise also stems from the fact that the IPs that I liked from the 2010s are either dead or should be dead. Assassin's Creed stopped being fun post Brotherhood, Far Cry got worse. The popular AAA summer blockbuster sorta games feel quite familiar, I wish we could experience breakthroughs in how the games felt.
The jumps from Wolfenstein to Doom, from Doom to Quake and from Quake to Quake 3 were pretty large. You could polish Arkham Asylum graphically, and a guy who has never played it would not find it old or clunky like you would have found Half Life after having played Vanquish.
Maybe I'll never recreate the rush of pizza, coke and old vide games with my cousin from 18 years ago. Welp
Edit - forgot to add immersive sims and some others I forgot
Did you try the assassin's creed rpgs? Origins and Odyssey? They are my favourite games in the series, like if the Witcher 3 was historical fantasy.
Also based on your list there I'd suggest checking out Arkane's games if you haven't already. Dishonored and Prey are phenomenal and a good balance of strategy and pacing.
Dishonored and Prey are great immersive sims, unfortunately the studios behind them have been shut down. Immersive Sims always have their studios shut down. I am not that fond of the other Assasins Creed games. The advancements you saw in those with Ezio as the protagonist in a pre microtransaction, leftier than thou world was quite good. The sequels may be good but they are not that much better, and frankly, they are not even proper RPGs the way actual RPGs are. They are less RPG like than new Fallout games, which are terrible shooters LARPing as RPGs, except for New Vegas, which is awesome.
Yeah it's tough being an imsim fan. There are some good ones coming out in the indie scene though, if you don't mind a bit of jank and ugliness - Shadows of Doubt is great for a wip (and not only is it 40% off in the Steam spring sale, but at fanatical you can get it and total war warhammer (or Cryptmaster if you like puns - if you like puns you'll love Cryptmaster) for $10 usd) and the Intravenous series is outstanding if you like the top down view style imsims. Other good ones include Gloomwood, ctrl alt ego, and Teardown.
Also man what does rpg even mean anymore? Since mass effect 2 it has basically meant 'whatever, as long as there are dialogue options'. Not even loot is a prerequisite these days! I do take your point though, it's silly to compare them to actual rpgs like Pillars of Eternity or Rogue Trader . But I will not allow you to compare Assassin's Creed Odyssey to the Bethesda Fallouts, them's fightin words son! I know the primary appeal of the game is that it's like the arcade version of living in ancient Greece, but it has the thing I want most out of any game - a reactive story that changes based on your actions. Way more reactive than Bethesda fallouts.
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