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[bobrpggamer]

I am just about through with this play through, Level 300 a while ago, all perks, a base that is way too easy to defend. Also:

Longest life 138 hours
Current Life 138 hours
3 Deaths

So does anyone know of any new single player FPS games that are coming out to actually be excited about? "NOT multiplayer games PLEASE".

I like:
S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2
Dying Light 2
System Shock Remake
Doom 2016
Mount and Blade: 2 Bannerlord

I do not see anything else worth playing that may be coming out soon

I am playing a lot retro 2000s games like Cryostasis and I have Clive Barkers Undying, Original (Deus Ex 2000) on deck, among a lot of others. But why no games like everybody used to get excited about like Crysis, Metro 2033, S.T.A.L.E.R, Dishonored and others. I was waiting so patiently for these games.

Is it all about multiplayer battle royale now, with no great single player games anymore? BTW I hate multiplayer games. Maybe a lan party with friends, but definitely not online. I always experience toxic players in multiplayer games and just have enough and stop playing. this started with Half Life Source Deathmatch and have stopped since then.

 

[Lax]

System Shock 2 remaster is good.

 

[bobrpggamer]

System Shock 2 remaster is good.

I read the reviews on GOG about the remaster of System Shock 2 and reviews were not as good as the System Shock Remaster. I have the Original System Shock 2 installed and ready to play after System Shock 1 Remaster. I played System Shock 2 in 2000 and loved it and am going to play again someday. The good thing about (only good thing) having terrible memory problems in you 50s means you forget a lot of the older games you have played and finished. I remember a lot from System Shock 2 in 2000 but not enough to make it less enjoyable.

 

[Lax]

Yea, I logged a lot of hours in the original Deus Ex. My boy Denton...Thief also was a good one. The original Hitman: Codename 47 was good too.

 

[Riamus]

Yea, I logged a lot of hours in the original Deus Ex. My boy Denton...Thief also was a good one. The original Hitman: Codename 47 was good too.

Yep, the original Deus Ex was really fun. Unfortunately, when I tried playing it again, it has problems on a new computer mostly related to movement. And it just didn't age well. A remaster of that might be nice, even though I generally don't care for remasters.

 

[bobrpggamer]

Yep, the original Deus Ex was really fun. Unfortunately, when I tried playing it again, it has problems on a new computer mostly related to movement. And it just didn't age well. A remaster of that might be nice, even though I generally don't care for remasters.

I have mine running on a Windows 7 32bit Virtual Machine. The only Pre 2008 game I could not run on the Virtual Machine was Cryostasis, The FPS were so low It was unplayable. I have Cryostasis on my main PC with a bunch of hacks in options and a 4 GB patch from Mod DB without the hacks the game crashes every few minutes, but It runs OK now,. Can you imagine a game made in like 2005 or something having super slow FPS on a modern 2024 gaming PC. Its the inventive cool pixel shading they used on the ice when you open a door and the ice breaks up, it actually kind of cool. You have to lower the Pixel shader model to model 2 (from model 3 or 4), I guess this would be Geforce 4 Video Cards as the Geforce 3 was the first to use pixel shading. Not only that but the game was made for 32 Bit Windows Vista at the time.

I absolutely loved Thief in 1998. It is one of my favorite games ever made. There are a lot of repayable games out there, but not many new ones that are near as good. The reason I want to play Deus Ex original is because I never played Project Snowblind, the sequel. I also want to play the 2 newer ones as well. I played Human Revolution but not the last one Mankind Divided. So as to play them in order.

Thats why I am playing System Shock Remasterd before System Shock 2. I never played the original DOS System Shock. And of cource the Thief games came from the same guys that did System Shock and Ultima Underworld. Its too bad that Valve could not do more with Half Life, they even canceled Half Life 2 Episoide 3, which kind of P****** me off because I was waiting for it eagerly. In my oprinion Half Life 2 was also a masterpiece in PC gaming. I will play it again for the 3rd time some day.

 

[Rotor]

Yea, I logged a lot of hours in the original Deus Ex. My boy Denton...Thief also was a good one. The original Hitman: Codename 47 was good too.

I have played all the Deus' franchise. CBP2077 if outstanding. Although CB2077 has the replayability value sure to the city and several "oh haven't seen that before" moments not story related.

 

[Lax]

I remember taking my first tram ride in the original Half Life and stepping out onto that platform at Black Mesa. It was a breathtaking gaming moment.

I think I had a similar feeling when I stepped out of the life pod on the original Subnautica. Kudos to Unknown Worlds for still capturing a feeling like that.

Where is this supposed thought coming from in developer, publisher circles that somehow single player games with great stories are no longer wanted by gamers anymore?

Past developers/publishers like Looking Glass Studios, Irrational Games, IO Interactive, Valve were incredibly passionate about making games like this.

I really hope it's not the end for games like this.

 

[Lax]

Another interesting trend in gaming I notice is that gamers are getting old! And along with their age, their tastes.

Now I'm not as old as 'Sheetz, that cat is old as dirt , but I grew up playing Coleco Vision/Pong, Atari 2600, had a Gameboy, Gamegear, Dreamcast and my first PC was a Packard Bell with a 14.4 modem, AOL and a copy of Journeyman Project Turbo!

My parents didn't grow up playing games. Not video games anyway. But now all the gamers are parents and grandparents! And we old farts don't stop playing games with age! Interesting to see what impact that has on the gaming industry.

 

[Riamus]

One of the developers I miss most is the original Sierra studio... makers of Space Quest, King's Quest, etc. Few games these days (if any) have that kind of humor in their games. I miss it.

 

[Laz Man]

KCD, KCD2, Been enjoying the slow burn of The Long Dark survival mode for a while now. If you enjoy single player extraction shooters, I recommend an indie game called Sulfur. If you can get past the art style it is highly replayable.

 

[bobrpggamer]

Yeah I am into story based games too and not single player extraction shooters. Although I have had Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon on my Steam wish-list for a long time now. I played the first Ghost Recon and the first Operation Flashpoint and they seemed impossible. I did finish Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, which was really hard because you had to be alert every second or you get killed from a kill shot peeping around corner. Brutal Difficulty.

I have not tried Kingdom Come Deliverance, I think it is on my GOG wish-list. I love swordplay games like Arx Fatalis and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. I plan to play those again someday. Also from them I want to play Dishonored over again and its sequel as well. Arkane Studios was another great developer.

As far as Half Live 2, it was so much fun driving in the buggy and stopping at a building to search for ammo and health. If Gabe Newell was not the guy who made the steam platform we may have had Half Life 3, imagine that. Gabe just decided to focus on steam and no new games. My running joke is "the reason we never got Half Life 2: Episode 3, is because Gabe was to busy counting the money he was making from the steam game delivery platform".

I did not get an Atari 2600, my parents hated the idea, So I played on my friends Atari 2600s. Never really got into gaming until about 1988 when I was around 20. Then got a C64 and I was hooked to all things computer, but not console, I was a PC elite guy back in the day. I did get a genesis when I sold my Amiga 500, but it was never the same.

I always wanted to play Kings Quest when I saw the demo in Sears one day, but I had an Amiga so I could not play them. I sold my Amiga 500 in 1990 so by the time the games came available I had no personnel computer at all. I so wanted a DOS PC so much, but the prices were way too much.

 

[8_Hussars]

One of the developers I miss most is the original Sierra studio... makers of Space Quest, King's Quest, etc. Few games these days (if any) have that kind of humor in their games. I miss it.

Kings Quest was the first PC games I purchased. For nostalgia's sake a shout-out to LucasArts for humor. The studio behind the Monkey Island franchise and Sam and Max hit the road. I still fire up Railroad Tycoon (the original0 on Dosbox every once in a while.

 

[Jost Amman]

Try Windrose, plenty of time to waste on that if you have that kind of currency...

 

[Riamus]

KCD, KCD2, Been enjoying the slow burn of The Long Dark survival mode for a while now. If you enjoy single player extraction shooters, I recommend an indie game called Sulfur. If you can get past the art style it is highly replayable.

Unfortunately, I couldn't get into the Kingdom Come: Deliverance games. They seem like they could be really good, but I hate the combat. And since they kept the combat the same for the second game, I have played even less of that one. People have said to just get used to it, but combat is one of those things that will kill a game for me if it's not done in a way that I think is good. I've never been a fan of games with combat that requires specific sets of combinations of attacks to do something or specific timing to get a decent attack or anything like that. Aim, attack, hit or miss... that's fine. Wait for something on the screen to say which button to press at what specific time in order to hit something or defend? Nope. But for those who don't mind that kind of combat, those do sound like really great games.

 

[bobrpggamer]

Try Windrose, plenty of time to waste on that if you have that kind of currency...

Look cool. Thank you

Unfortunately, I couldn't get into the Kingdom Come: Deliverance games. They seem like they could be really good, but I hate the combat. And since they kept the combat the same for the second game, I have played even less of that one. People have said to just get used to it, but combat is one of those things that will kill a game for me if it's not done in a way that I think is good. I've never been a fan of games with combat that requires specific sets of combinations of attacks to do something or specific timing to get a decent attack or anything like that. Aim, attack, hit or miss... that's fine. Wait for something on the screen to say which button to press at what specific time in order to hit something or defend? Nope. But for those who don't mind that kind of combat, those do sound like really great games.

If you could, try Mount and Blade (Warband or the newer Bannerlord) The combat is intuitive and the massive battles off your horse are addictive. There also sieges of castles if you get far enough. I did fairly good in Warband, so I took on some raiders in Bannerlord thinking It would be easy and I got my *** kicked so fast it was embarrassing. I used to chase down sea raiders in Warband and never lose a battle. I really need to practice more at the arena before I lose more of my units and items. I had about 10 guys with me and lost them all I think. Another way to play is quests and doing merchant runs from one town that has wine to another town paying way more for wine (or whatever) than anywhere else. The merchant thing will take forever to build up an army though. You also have complete control over your solders and you can give orders to them to do whatever you think will win the battle. Later on you can join a faction and try to get enough money to buy a fort or castle.

I bought Mount and Blade in the mid 2000s when it was just a demo-like download from their website and I loved it. Warband was much more detailed and Bannerlord has brought it into the AAA class.