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> I used to like quick, easy, shoot-em-up games I could learn in 2min and just have fun blasting away. I don't want to spend weeks exploring, I don't want to bu

by graynk 3y ago

> I used to like quick, easy, shoot-em-up games I could learn in 2min and just have fun blasting away. I don't want to spend weeks exploring, I don't want to build or model or construct or toil. I don't want vast immersive landscapes; I want a quick 1/2 hr diversion. FYI there’s currently a resurgence of “boomer shooters” in the indie space: ultrakill, dusk, cultic, devil daggers, warhammer boltgun. Still a high skill ceiling, but the difficulty is adjustable. If you want platforming in the mix then Neon White is amazing if you skip the anime cutscenes. Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal are also great, if we’re looking at AAA. You might like roguelikes like Hades and Dead Cells. You might also enjoy something like Vampire Survivors or Ubermosh You mentioned Portal - so venturing into puzzle territory Portal 2 is also great, as is Talos Principle, Return of the Obra Dinn, The Case of the Golden Idol, Outer Wilds Similar to Untitled Goose Game (in the sense of “cozy, low skill”) - Donut County, A Short Hike, The Frog Detective, Tangle Tower There really is no shortage of unique and interesting games as long as you look past the annual Assassin’s Creed 42 - almost everything mentioned here came out in the past few years. Some of them you might consider “more of the same” (especially boomer shooters) - to me that’s just called “a genre”. Some of them though are completely unique one-off experiences which no-one managed to replicate

lproven 3y ago
"Boomer shooters" -- I love it! As I said below, I absolutely loved these responses, BTW. I grinned all the way through reading them. I have Portal 2 in my Steam inventory, but I've not tried it yet. I haven't come close to finishing the original yet. I played Rogue-likes in the old days, but I think I am more or less over that now, TBH. The same partner who I mentioned below as being really into sim-world type games got really into ADOM for a while, but it's too much of a good thing for me. I had a very brief play of Doom 3, but it was _way_ too hard for me. :-/ I have not tried anything since. I probably don't have any hardware capable of playing it, TBH. I've not even heard of any of those "cosy low skill" games, but I will take a look. It does sound more my speed, TBH. "Cuphead" looked amazing and I was considering buying it, but all the reviews talked about how hard it was. Since Doom 3 was impossibly hard for me, and few reviews even mentioned the difficulty past the duct-tape-a-flashlight-to-your-gun mod, I figured if everyone though Cuphead was hard, it wasn't even worth trying. :-( Skill levels in games are very important, and much neglected these days, IMHO. As a 55YO left-handed guy with a broken right arm that doesn't work very well and never will again, my idea of what's playable is very different indeed from the conception of someone in their 20s who grew up with immersive 3D games controlled via two-handed gamepads. Before I broke my arm for the 3rd time in April, I was pretty competent with WASD + a mouse, even though I was about 28 when mouse-strafing was first invented. (The one-time UK Doom champion was a colleague and friend of mine. He now does data visualisation and is amazing at it.) But I am rubbish with a joypad. I do not like them at all. That's why I didn't buy anything newer than a PS2.
- graynk 3y ago
  > As I said below, I absolutely loved these responses, BTW. I grinned all the way through reading them. That's great to hear! > I've not even heard of any of those "cosy low skill" games, but I will take a look Yep, there's a bunch of them in the indie space coming up recently. "Stray", "Unpacking" and "Spiritfarer" also come to mind. Also some RPGs are completely playable with just one hand on a mouse - Divinity: Original Sin (it has turn-based tactical combat), Disco Elysium (no combat at all, but a _lot_ of great writing). A bunch of card-based games can be played with just a mouse as well (Inscryption, Slay the Spire, Thronebreaker)

by graynk 3y ago

lproven 3y ago

"Boomer shooters" -- I love it! As I said below, I absolutely loved these responses, BTW. I grinned all the way through reading them. I have Portal 2 in my Steam inventory, but I've not tried it yet. I haven't come close to finishing the original yet. I played Rogue-likes in the old days, but I think I am more or less over that now, TBH. The same partner who I mentioned below as being really into sim-world type games got really into ADOM for a while, but it's too much of a good thing for me. I had a very brief play of Doom 3, but it was _way_ too hard for me. :-/ I have not tried anything since. I probably don't have any hardware capable of playing it, TBH. I've not even heard of any of those "cosy low skill" games, but I will take a look. It does sound more my speed, TBH. "Cuphead" looked amazing and I was considering buying it, but all the reviews talked about how hard it was. Since Doom 3 was impossibly hard for me, and few reviews even mentioned the difficulty past the duct-tape-a-flashlight-to-your-gun mod, I figured if everyone though Cuphead was hard, it wasn't even worth trying. :-( Skill levels in games are very important, and much neglected these days, IMHO. As a 55YO left-handed guy with a broken right arm that doesn't work very well and never will again, my idea of what's playable is very different indeed from the conception of someone in their 20s who grew up with immersive 3D games controlled via two-handed gamepads. Before I broke my arm for the 3rd time in April, I was pretty competent with WASD + a mouse, even though I was about 28 when mouse-strafing was first invented. (The one-time UK Doom champion was a colleague and friend of mine. He now does data visualisation and is amazing at it.) But I am rubbish with a joypad. I do not like them at all. That's why I didn't buy anything newer than a PS2.

graynk 3y ago
> As I said below, I absolutely loved these responses, BTW. I grinned all the way through reading them. That's great to hear! > I've not even heard of any of those "cosy low skill" games, but I will take a look Yep, there's a bunch of them in the indie space coming up recently. "Stray", "Unpacking" and "Spiritfarer" also come to mind. Also some RPGs are completely playable with just one hand on a mouse - Divinity: Original Sin (it has turn-based tactical combat), Disco Elysium (no combat at all, but a _lot_ of great writing). A bunch of card-based games can be played with just a mouse as well (Inscryption, Slay the Spire, Thronebreaker)