I played the sequel first.
I like em both but the first one felt needlessly hard to me. Plus I loved all the gang management the second one gave you.
Basically the first game is a solid sandbox game with some odd gameplay choices (like the whole map being opened from the start) and a strange difficulty (realistically, you can one-shot even end-game "bosses" with a headshot with your starting gun, but tommy gun and shotgun mobsters will rip you a new one for the whole adventure). The plot is also a fairly faithful retelling of the first movie's story, albeit one of the "self-insert character above average fan fiction" variety.
Also, the first The Godfather: The game was released on multiple consoles in different editions, my favorite being the Playstation 3's version, since it packed slightly enhanced graphics, a RPVG-esque levelling/skills system, new locales and mission and the ability to recruit a squad of friendly NPC mobsters to make raids on warehouses and the kind easier.
The second game, while it had the great novelty of your own gang of made men you could even outfit in whatever fashion you pleased and each with their dedicated skills, plus other addition, had two major issues for me:
The sequel movie's plot is followed in the most loose and simplified way possible, like one was dealing with terrible fan fiction.
One of the most important new features of the game, hunting down the other families' made men, was basically pointless and counterproductive
SCARFACE: The World Is Yours
The Settlers - Heritage of Kings
I unironically LOVE Trespasser: Jurassic Park. Somehow, despite all of it's flaws (in fact, one could say that the game as a whole is one big flaw), I find it fun. Lord Richard Attenborough reprising his John Hammond role probably helps.
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE, the series everyone loves but nobody actually plays
it suffers none of the cancers of the AAA industry and has the balls to be unrelentingly difficult, and at the same time having incredibly simple gameplay that anyone can learn
the blood of alien invaders sustains me. it is my desert island series
https://i.imgur.com/pq1gwp1.jpg
nothing had me more heartbroken than when, as a kid, I found a copy of Trespasser in an old games store and excitedly went home to play it, only to find that the case was empty
Spiral Knights. It's not really hated or anything but it had a horrible development cycle and there is barely any new content nowadays.
I like Ace Combat Assault Horizon except the chopper missions
Like how can you hate this
https://youtu.be/WY9NO4GQJRk?t=7
Spore.
Been playing on/off since 2011 and while I agree that it's severely disappointing compared to the E3 version and the gameplay itself is too simplistic, Creature and Space stages are still fun and just making stuff and thinking up big backstories for everything is just endlessly entertaining.
Castlevania 64.
Both The Getaway and the Getaway: Black Monday were some of the greatest games I've played.
its DLC is really underrated too. it's basically classic The Mercenaries from RE3 - you get a bunch of differently-equipped characters to play as, and you have to clear new levels as fast as possible while doing optional side-objectives for extra points. the incentive towards risk-taking is such a great environment to find out whole new mechanics you'd never use in the main game.
like for example, i had no idea that the shotgun could actually very briefly stun the alien if you're close enough, because why would you ever try that? but in the DLC only one character starts with a flamethrower, so i learned you can blast the alien from point-blank, whip out a molotov in the split-second you have, and throw it right in his face. it actually scares him off faster than using the flamethrower.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/00/Haven_Call_of_the_King.jpg/220px-Haven_Call_of_the_King.jpg
I liked the atmosphere and the visual aesthetics as a kid
Ironically they were doing you a favor
The Legacy of Kain series
Best voice acting in a game to this day, in my opinion
And a great soundtrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRZMxCkBv_4
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Also known as T.R.A.G, it was very Resident Evil 2 esque.
Mabinogi
Yeah, the North American version has been around for 10 years and it had a very brief surge in popularity when it was added to Steam a few years ago.
Regardless, hardly anyone talks about it and it seems to be the odd black sheep in Nexon's lineup as they don't promote it much yet it apparently makes enough money to keep open.
You can fight monsters and all that other jazz. But you can also kick back and do plenty of non combat stuff. You can write music, weave cloth to make clothing, cook, Smith, fish and more. Granted, leveling most skills past a point IS annoyingly grindy.
Zone of The Enders.
The second console game in the franchise (arguably better than the first) is getting a VR + 4K release for PS4 and PC soon.
GTA London I guess?
Honestly not really, I had played the PC demo religiously before that point, I still wanted more. Plus there were a lot of custom mods / levels I needed the full version to try lol
castlevania: curse of darkness - one of those 3D castlevanias, it has very simple but satisfying beat em up combat with tons of content for completionists
lost planet 2 - absolutely amazing with friends, there's so many fun set pieces
binary domain - the dumbest, cheesiest, most charming shooter with a lot of character and surprising amount of effort that got overlooked because of terrible marketing and generic look
drakengard 3 - extremely repetitive and has insane technical issues as well as poor writing at first but it keeps getting better as it goes along and the last branch is up there with nier and nier automata for me
and kind of DmC Devil May Cry - despite being a big fan of the series i can look past the absolutely terrible story and characters and enjoy the streamlined gameplay
despite being nowhere near DMC3 and DMC4 its gameplay is still much better than the vast majority of hack and slash games
it's not a great game by any means but its terrible characters and writing have ruined its reputation completely... DMC2 is still a much, much worse game
Reflex Arena
It's kinda like CPMA
simpsons road rage
I really want to play EDF, but I'm also terrified of spiders so I can't.
Arachnophobia sucks, especially since I developed it in my teens which makes going back to play games I've played beforehand that have spiders in it difficult.
I loved Battleborn even with all the crap surrounding it
you're incentivized to keep your distance from spiders because their attacks are more dangerous up close, if that's any help. they also have the lowest HP
I fucking love ZoE2.
One of the few games that made me hold my breath with a heapload of adrenaline. Sweet phalic high speed robot action. Exhilarating.
Gonna get it on PC when it comes out, after already having the SE edition and PSN HD.
I really like Fahrenheit Indigo Prophecy, but apparently it's hip to hate David Cage games nowadays.
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