Captain Invictus posted:

Darke GBF posted:

GUNTANK WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Runa posted:

Rianlee posted:

1. No Man's Sky: It let me do whatever I wanted whenever I wanted, which was (and is) important to me in these circumscribed times.

Manoueverable posted:

2. Guilty Gear -Strive-. I've played a lot of fighting games casually on and off, but never really got above a bronze level in ranked before 2021. Part of this is because fighting games have, historically, had dogshit online play. Without any real knowledge of a local scene I could play in, I relied on the few scraps of meaningful online play I could find. I was also mostly a Street Fighter person and never had much interest in the anime games: a lot of them had combo strings way too complex for my puny brain. Guilty Gear was especially intimidating because every character in +R and Xrd has so many options that understanding what I should be doing at a basic level is exhausting. But I got access to the open beta once Arcsys announced rollback netcode for Strive. I played it, and I liked it. I really, really liked it. On release, I played it nearly every day for 2-3 months straight. I learned more, I played more, I got better. The simplified nature of the game, which some old heads say makes it "not real GG," was ironically what I needed to finally, finally sink my teeth into a genre that I love and wish got more shine. I got enough motivation to finally make the jump.

For a literal decade, I watched Evo at home. I never felt anywhere near good enough to compete at that level, but this felt like a now-or-never kind of experience. I registered and expected to walk in, play 30 minutes or so, go 0-2, and float around playing casual sets or gambling some money for the rest of the weekend. I played, and lost the first game of my first match. Okay, I said, trying to readjust my expectations, I just want to win one game. Then I did. And I won the next game. And the next game. And the next match. And the match after that, too. Even though I lost my fourth match, I was playing with house money. I won again, and as everyone else at the table was leaving, I won one more time. The bracket runner put the sheet in front of me and told me to take a picture, that I'd be playing the next day, and it didn't hit me until he said "Congratulations": I made it out of my pool at Evo. Strive gave me the tools to finally learn and succeed beyond my wildest dreams at something I thought I'd never be good at; for that, I'm grateful. And coming home from Evo, I started playing my Game of the Year:

Tulip posted:

Furi is so loving good, I still regularly listen to the soundtrack and the next game by that studio, Haven, rapidly jumped into a fav of mine despite having zero in common in terms of mechanics, being only similar in aesthetics and storytelling.

Genuinely I love the story telling in Furi on top of it having just incredible mechanics.

Papes posted:

I intended to put much more effort into this, but am still recovering from being sick with covid. Please don't crusify me for not having cool gifs.

xoFcitcrA posted:

*goes to options menu for the first time in 13 years, turns on embedding*

Huh. Has that always been there?

A Bystander posted:

Edit Options > scroll down to Thread View Options > Show video embeds with [video] tag? option set to yes/no.

A Bystander posted:

Between Private Messages and Forum Rules up top and down below.

An Actual Princess posted:

insanely hype for this. base building rts games need to come back

JollyBoyJohn posted:

starcraft 2: hearts of the swarm and starcraft 2: legacy of the void

Regy Rusty posted:

?? It looks like Stray, Endwalker, and Sunbreak are all in the top 75.