With gaming often bringing me into a really depressive headspace sometimes with how the markets are developing, whats a game you can always go to and just be lost in, or just be happy with?
Personally i would go for advance wars 1 and 2 on the gba (there is no remake and never will be)
the artstyle, the music, the game-play is just simple, yet effective, a sublime experience of very fun times.
Whats yours?
Dragon Age: Origins, Mass Effect, and the NHL/MLB games are always my go-to when I just want to chill out and be comfortable. There’s lots of comfort in being “with” some of your favorite characters time and time again. There’s a different comfort (more of a zen feeling) in booting up my favorite sports games, turning off my brain and just letting instinct and reflex take over. Most Friday nights at the end of a tough week, I play MLB with some beers until late in the night after my friends log off.
I think Dragon Age: Origins is one of my favorite games of all time. I haven’t played anything like it since. I loved the story, cared about the characters, and found the combat to be fun.
Kind of hoping someone comes in and says “have you heard about x game that’s super similar DA:O” and that I haven’t heard of it, cause I agree with you and I’d love to have that experience again fresh.
I have that feeling with Factorio. What I wouldn’t give to be able to experience it again for the first time. Mods are great for extending the enjoyment and all, but to just “land,” have to figure shit out and wonder where the week went would be sublime.
People always tell me Divinity, but it feels like a different kind of game to me.
Pillars of Eternity was a game that, to me, felt similar to DA:O. Not everyone shares the sentiment, but if you haven’t heard of it, I’d recommend at least watching a review of it.
I actually did play Pillars of Eternity and was quite fond of it, except that I eventually had to give it up because I reeeaaalllly suck at the real-time-with-pause combat at that scale, and I just got stuck.
Months later it dawned on me that I could have just dropped the difficulty level, but I had forgotten too much about what was going on and couldn’t get back into it.
The story can be convoluted, admittedly. Pillars of Eternity II added a dedicated turn-based mode for the combat and also added a few QoL changes, my favorite being that spell usage is reset between combat, rather than requiring you to rest. That said, I think the story is a bit weaker, but that may be because I’ve never really been interested in Caribbean settings or pirate themes.
I’m actually replaying it right now. My wife went out of town for a weekend so I resubbed to Gamepass and decided to see if anything would hold my interest. The ones that did were DA:O and Hi-Fi Rush. I’ve got almost 20 hours now into this replay of DA:O and I’m happy with how well it holds up to this day. I play on casual difficulty because I just wanted to go through the story again but it’s so good. I really hope they can deliver a more classic experience in DA4 rather than pack it with bloat like they did in Inquisition.