After looking Warhammer 40k Mechanicus is in the 7/10 range and I loved it. The setting, music and gameplay were all really enjoyable to me.
Future Cop: LAPD
Though the game wasn’t groundbreaking it was fun going around LA in a giant Mech blowing stuff up.
I really liked the ability to transform from a bipedal mech to a fast hover car which also helps with the pacing of the game.
It did introduce me to a tower defense PVP style multiplayer that my best friend and I were hooked on for a solid couple of months.
That and Fire Fight are in a breed of Desert Strike-alikes that people don’t talk about much at all anymore and were way more fun than you’d expect.
Fire Fight is so obscure now that even searching for “Fire Fight gameplay” videos, as I did for that link doesn’t spit it out as the first result. Such a travesty.
The Shadow of War games.
The Nemesis system was amazing, but the game wasn’t polished and had issues.
They somehow patented the mechanic and no one else can do it. And I steady of WB making a new game with it, they made fucking Smeagole
I rarely get into single player games but I played the second one and loved it. It felt so satisfying building this giant army and wrecking whole castles.
“Suffer me now!”
If any of you vaguely like LOTR and see either of the titles come up on sale, give them a shot (or watch 5 minutes of playing first to get the feel for it).
I wish they’d come back and produce a 3rd one but the patent definitely kills that idea.
Oh, man, no, if you like LOTR stay away.
If you don’t mind LOTR, then give them a shot, they’re fun. They’re just a lore nightmare.
If anybody has ever dared to be mad about Rings of Power but is out there tolerating or enjoying the Shadow games they need a meeting with the consistency police.
I also loved the Mad Max game that came out around the same time with a really similar gameplay feel
The driving and driving combat in that game was 10/10 and the world really well done too. The only let down, at least for me, was the main story. I still hop on and blow up some vultures every once in a while.
See, that’s a problem with this concept. Shadow of Mordor is easily a point or two better than Mad Max, and probably half as much better than Shadow of War. I think of those Mad Max is a valid choice. Definitely a flat-ish AA thing that you can get into. I never quite did, but I can see it.
But why did they call it Shadow of Mordor when the mountain was called Mt. Doom, that’s what would be casting shadows after all
Most of them tbh. Two examples: Homefront: the Revolution (2016) and Maneater (2020)
Hmmm that’s difficult.
FEAR, probably. It was a 10/10 for my childhood for sure, but it’s probably a 7/10 total ?
I’d love to see a new game for that series. But more akin to the first two not the third lol
nah, I went back to it recently and FEAR still kicks ass. Honestly a little sad that in all the years since, there’s no FPS quite like it. Still absolutely a 10/10, and I’d feel confident calling it one of the best shooters of all time.
I’ve been trying to do a replay recently but I can’t seem to get it to run on my modern day machine, haha. How were you able to play it?
Also, it’s great that you think it’s still 10/10. It has always been held near and dear to my heart.
I didn’t do anything too special to run it, but I bought my copy on GOG, so maybe there’s an issue with the Steam release? I know Warner Bros got really shitty with the franchise on Steam, did stuff like delisting the original and forcing you to buy it as part of the series, so maybe that broke it?
The First Tree
A beautiful personal little game about death and mourning. Got it for free because the developer gave out keys to an old forum dedicated to Dark Forces 2 editing, which basically started his career.
The Dark Pictures Anthology
Basically Until Dawn and The Quarry with lower budget. It shows but I can overlook that. They are nice little short stories that are very chill to play, considering the genre.
Biing!
A silly little sexy hospital management game. Never got far as a kid. When I managed to get further a little while ago I saw that there really wasn’t that much more to the game. But it’s silly and it’s sexy and tickles my nostalgia.
I loved Until Dawn but couldn’t finish House of Ashes and was very disappointed in Man of Medan. I thought The Quarry was also a part of The Dark Picture Anthology. Is it much different?
The Quarry isn’t part of the anthology. It’s its own thing. I love it. Personally I think it’s better than Until Dawn. Much more variety in the outcomes you can have.
Dark Forces was a sweet game fo sho, I really liked the third and fourth ones
What are 7/10 games?
Good but not great ones.
Well now I feel silly for asking…but thanks for answering!
Oh, like a 7 out of 10 rating?
Correct.
Well now I feel silly for asking…but thanks for answering!
No worries!
Pick 10 games, but only list 7 of them
Battletech and the Shadowrun games from HBS.
Add to that ‘The Lamplighters Leage’ from HBS.
Ghost recon wild lands is the definition of a 7/10 ign type slop and I love it
Honestly, I think playing it with a friend might even bump it to 8/10. I had a blast with it despite the lack of innovation and repetitiveness of the gameplay
TimeShift, an FPS from the Xbox360/PS3 era. It was my first PS3 game played on an HDTV. The time mechanics were fantastic, the graphics were amazing to me at the time, and it was a surprisingly fun time. I would be so happy with a remake/spiritual successor.
Gunfire Reborn. It’s a roguelite FPS that is fun to play with friends. It’s very jumpy shooty. I really dig the handling in it, and there are lots of weapons and abilities and play styles and due to the rogue like nature of it, you get to experiment with lots of stuff. It’s lots of fun, but not super deep.
Phasmaphobia. Been playing this one for years somehow. It’s a ghost hunting game but you don’t actually hunt ghosts, you collect evidence to identify the type of ghost that is haunting a place. The ghosts will kill you though. It no longer makes me scream like it used to, but I still get chills from it. If you’re looking to soil your underwear, it’s a good time.
A Hat in Time. Is a phenomenal platformer collectathon. It flirts with many themes and is overall one of my favourite games.
Here’s where it falls short. The online co-op is junk and doesn’t work how you’d hope. The DLCs are kinda bad but it’s nice to have more.
Alpha Protocol
Well designed spy game, replies on doing nothing revolutionary, just doing everything well.
Came out quite unique and underappreciated.
My advice… Chain Shot!
The boss killer skill for the stealth build
Hint… Make friends with Stephen Heck before the mission then buy his Intel before going to that mansion. Changes the fight!
Housemarque’s old Zaxxon-like The Reap is a litarally life-changing 7/10 for me for multiple reasons. It won’t be for you, but it’s still a fun game to mess with if you can get it to run. Look it up.
Lots of PC games of that era are unjustly forgotten. Abuse is too good for this thread, but who is playing Abuse these days?
Also, honorable mention to the brand/franchise with the most 7/10s I will defend, Spider-Man. Spider-Man vs the Kingpin was so weirdly ambitious for an early Mega Drive game, Maximum Carnage was so weirdly ambitious for a late 16 bit beat-em up, Lethal Foes looked crazy for a SNES platformer and never left Japan for some reason, Spider-Man Web of Shadows was panned, but had some crazy visual, gameplay and narrative ideas… people were always doing a bit better than they should for the ability or budget they had with those until Insomniac made them big budget AAA.
The bad ones are BAD, though.
Try The Amazing Spider-man (1989) for DOS if you want some sweet webslinging action with tits full of puzzle milk
Oh, man, I bought that on launch. Spidey’s poopy squat is hilarious, you will get murdered endlessly by R2D2…
…and there is a way to clip right to the end of the game from the helicopter on the first screen, at least on the floppy version I had.
Also, the DRM is just a quiz about Spider-Man, which I could beat without looking at the manual, so I did appreciate that they let you pirate the game if you’re enough of a fan.
Planetside 2. That experience of actually fighting with thousands of players on the same map is something no other game can give. Otherwise it’s not really a super good game and the graphics actually got worse at some point by largely removing PhysX. Sadly the company owning it doesn’t want to put money into it and the playerbase is much smaller today than some years ago.
Fuckin love PlanetSide. But we’re talking about 7/10’s not masterpieces
Yeah those were the days. Also all those Medic effects. I can’t remember another game having PhysX displayed so prominently.
Still available to play via backwards compatibility on modern xbox consoles in case anyone is wondering. I just picked this up on my series s.
I didn’t even think it was for the Xbox at all
