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Been trying to go back and play some of the recent great games or greatest hits of the last 5-10 years and it's been a pretty incredible experience. Every game has killed it. Ghost of Tsushima Horizon Zero Dawn Red Dead 2 Last of Us 2 Skyrim Witcher 3 Assassin's Creed Odyssey

Been trying to go back and play some of the recent great games or greatest hits of the last 5-10 years and it's been a pretty incredible experience. Every game has killed it. Ghost of Tsushima Horizon Zero Dawn Red Dead 2 Last of Us 2 Skyrim Witcher 3 Assassin's Creed Odyssey

  • Iksar
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)
    Been trying to go back and play some of the recent great games or greatest hits of the last 5-10 years and it's been a pretty incredible experience. Every game has killed it. Ghost of Tsushima Horizon Zero Dawn Red Dead 2 Last of Us 2 Skyrim Witcher 3 Assassin's Creed Odyssey

    • FilmCriticKurt
      Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS FTL?

      • Iksar
        Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)
        @FilmCriticKurt I mostly just mean all the high-budget single-player stuff I've missed. I've been playing nothing but games like (and including) FTL the last 10 years.

    • Iksar
      Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)
      If I had to rank them as present-day games with no bonus points for when they were released, it would go something like this... Last of Us 2 Red Dead 2 Ghost of Tsushima Horizon Odyssey Skyrim Witcher

      • Iksar
        Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)
        Skyrim and Witcher show their age, but Skyrim in particular is super impressive to me. It was ahead of it's time as an open world game. If you look at the other stuff that was coming out around that time not much of it is comparable.

        • Iksar
          Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)
          Odyssey was honestly great, best of the Assassin's Creed games I've played. Kassandra as a main character was awesome, the world was beautiful, and there were some intriguing systems. Narrative was pretty good, but not really comparable to the other games I played.

          • Iksar
            Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)
            Horizon gives my hands cramps. Controls are really rewarding when you get there but it took me 10 hours to get comfortable. The fantasy was amazing, loved the world. Narrative was a great buildup even if I didn't love where it landed.

            • Iksar
              Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)
              Ghost, imo, is underrated. Probably suffered a little from not doing much 'new' stuff. The systems were a little weak. That said, the moment to moment gameplay was fun, the story was fantastic, and there were a ton of 'holy shit' moments from both.

              • Iksar
                Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)
                Red Dead is hard to compare to anything else. As a game developer, it's a marvel. The only way you can make something like Red Dead 2 is to have a thousand developers working for 5 years+, which they probably did. No one does open world like Rockstar, they are the best.

                • Iksar
                  Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)
                  As for Last of Us 2, it's just a best-in-class cinematic experience. Never have I sat back and enjoyed actors play their role in a game like I have in Last of Us.

                  • Iksar
                    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)
                    Everything else about the game (at least when compared to the stuff on this list) is medium. They are just so good at telling an interactive story that it'll be an experience I remember for years and years.

              • RidiculousHat
                Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)
                @IksarHS tsushima's quality of life stuff really felt great to me - the frequent checkpointing, the immediately available fast travel, how the meter refilled by an extra 1 point every time you died in a fight to help the player if they wanted it. experience felt very supportive

                • Iksar
                  Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)
                  @RidiculousHat Yeah agree, I really loved that game.

    • ZeddyHS
      Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS I'm noticing a lack of Nintendo on this list. Mario Odyssey and Breath of the Wild are definitely worth a go, amazing games.

      • Iksar
        Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)
        @ZeddyHS too lazy to get up and change the inputs on my tv

        • Iksar
          Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)
          @ZeddyHS I've started Zelda and put it down like 5 times. One of these days it'll catch me. Same with God of War.

    • musicalcolin
      Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS No Dark Souls? One of the all time greats

      • Iksar
        Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)
        @musicalcolin I played Bloodborne and Demon's Souls on PS5 but fell off both hard.

        • musicalcolin
          Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)
          @IksarHS ah that's a shame. the lore and the mechanics are well worth the challenge. also i think comparing it to witcher 3 and skyrim is interesting (all diff kinds of fantasy games). but it's not for everyone

          • Iksar
            Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)
            @musicalcolin The ‘kill these 20 trivial monsters over and over to reach the boss you want to attempt again’ totally kill the game for me.

    • tayumel
      Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS How do you have so much time Even if I sit at the computer 24/7 I feel like I do not have enough time to do everything I want Do you play most effectively reach the end ? Or you're exploring the art ? [Drawing, music, Game mechanics And a story]

      • Iksar
        Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)
        @tayumel I just finished Ghost of Tsushima and 100% completed achievements lol. But no, these are just games I've played over the last 1.5 years or so.

    • NocturneRuven
      Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS I recently started Control. I'm loving it.

      • Iksar
        Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)
        @NocturneRuven I got bored, put it down and moved on. Lots of friends say they liked it though!

    • PauIHerzog
      Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS Have you played Nier:Automata yet?

      • Iksar
        Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)
        @PauIHerzog I haven't but it's on the list.

    • contigwrites
      Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS I love open world games and completely with you on this. Skyrim was the first one (for me) where I fell in love with it, but the rest on this list are great too

      • Iksar
        Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)
        @contigwrites I think if I were to make a list of most impressive game for its time, Skyrim would definitely top the list. The fantasy of the world is probably my favorite, hard to beat Elder Scrolls :o.

    • adam_noodelman
      Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS How much time did you spend playing gwent

      • Iksar
        Posted 4 years, 2 months ago (Source)
        @adam_noodelman A lot lol

    • cinco5cuatro4
      Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS Didn't you mean The Last Of Us? The original, that masterpiece everyone loves? not the unholy 2 that ruined it for agenda?

      • Iksar
        Posted 4 years, 2 months ago (Source)
        @cinco5cuatro4 2 is a masterpiece, haters gonna hate
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