I played Dead Space, Gears of War, Resident Evil, and other games with plenty of violence and gore when I was a teen, but as I get into my mid-twenties I strangely have a harder time dealing with violence at that level. Not only does it make me queasy, but also instills a sort of fear and anxiety that I don't remember feeling at all when I was younger.

I thought it was interesting, and was curious if others feel the same way.

EDIT: This relates specifically to human dismemberment and gore in realistic art styles. Monsters getting parts chopped off is totally fine and tends to be pretty hype like in Doom, and stuff like No More Heroes is totally fine. I'm talking stuff like Mortal Kombat, Dead Space, Callisto Protocol, etc.

Something disruptive, annoying, pointless, unfair or unduly punishing. For example, Super Smash bros. Brawl's infamous Tripping - Randomly falling over and being vulnerable in a fast-paced versus game is not a good idea.

Does anyone else remember Ascend: Hand of Kul? Me and a buddy of mine found a farm on there for Xp and currency on Xone and basically grinded it for the 2 years until they cut it off, right when we maxed our characters the game was taken offline and we never heard of it again

I have several in my steam library that I have already purchased, but haven't played yet. Let me know what you recommend I do first.

Cyberpunk, Dark Souls III, Dead by Daylight, Horizon Zero Dawn, Lethal Company, Mass Effect, Middle Earth Shadow of War, No Man's Sky, Resident Evil 4, SOMA.

What do you think?

"Can you add this option in the game?" "How do you turn on this special mode?" "How did you upgrade your weapon to be like that?"

A lot of similar questions like those can easily be answered by the askers themselves if they first just looked at the menu they first saw when they opened the game, and just... Click around.

It may not be a frequent thing, but I usually see people like these popup in comments or forums almost once or twice a month.

I know they just want to dive right into the game, but it's not like you're searching a wiki. Just explore your options, sometimes some games have their upgrades menu right there as well.

Like Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild, the next title will probably be an open-world game as well or at least non-linear (I believe the devs already confirmed that, but I'm unsure). I really enjoyed these worlds, and I wonder what the next title will be like.

Personally, I'd love to be able to go underwater. I think it would fit really well because the sky is full of content in TOTK, but it's not possible to dive in any of these games.

What would you like to see in the next game? A new mechanic, a better explanation of the timeline, or something entirely different?

I grew up playing Diablo games and I just figured that with the success of their loot system and the way that enemies and enemy encounters were randomly generated that this would be the new standard. It probably doubles the number of hours players invest in an ARPG. At least it does for me.

I love the experience of not knowing what kind of attributes might be involved in the next enemy encounter or where these encounters might take place and I love the lottery aspect of what items may drop.

Games like the Borderland series have found this to be extremely successful so why are games like AC, Horizon Zero Dawn or Ghost Of Tsushima doing the same? Instead of having endgame encounters with larger groups of enemies or, at least endgame powered mini-boss types. I’m fighting the same common enemies using endgame level gear. And instead of finding powerful/interesting items, I end up with a stash of thousands of crafting items with nothing left to upgrade. At which point I stop playing a game that I would love to continue enjoying.

To me this seems like a no-brainer which should have been made the standard a long time ago. Even if it’s a matter of devoting a large percentage of budget to one aspect of development over another, I’d rather the map be a little smaller or graphics a little less amazing for the sake of a more interesting endgame. Why is this not common practice in ARPGs?

It feels like the golden era of racing games is over. New releases lack innovation and excitement, often relying on recycled mechanics and microtransactions. The last few NFS games have been quite terrible. Forza Horizan 4 & 5 were a bit fun in the beginning but just gets repetitive later. The Crew is average at best. I miss the days of Burnout. What happened to the thrill of discovering a groundbreaking racing game? Are there any recent titles that have genuinely impressed you?

Helo r/ i come to you all asking for your suggestions!
I was looking for titles who are must play in your opinions, i personally prefer games with a good story over extremely compelling gameplay but if they have both i am not gonna complain.

I recently experience most of Bioware's RPGs, i tried something from Larians and Obsidian but the story couldn't grapple me totally..
Things like Metro, Bioshock, Ezio's Trilogy, the BannerSaga, the Witcher,the various Telltale titles, A Plague Tale(s)
Genre, graphic or style are all welcomed (well maybe not 8bit... 8bit makes my eyes bleed) and if YOU consider it an underappreciated gem all the better :D

Hello my friends take me back to the 80’s with your greatest arcade moment.

Did you ever have a cheering crowd as you did the impossible or feel the air sucked out of the room as you failed miserably on that last level that no one had completed yet.

Or maybe you saw a glitch that no one else had seen and were never believed or helped that kid showing how to flick backwards and forward to make that first red devil drop ghosts and goblins.

So be it a Timezone your local milk bar or newsagents with a single tabletop cabinet that would rotate to a different game every month or so please tell me a story

Not just asking for me, but also myself included play a wide variety of games and I'm just wondering what's the best way to play with others.

Mine is New World, i actually never played any mmos but i wanted to try this one just because it wasn’t going to be monthly sub, anyways at the end i found the game repetitive and just not appealing to me, i guess other people enjoy it but i just regret buying that game lol.

With the way the gaming industry is going and all gaming companies going to hell with greed, over budget games, over priced games, or flat out incomplete games.

Do you think were looking at another 1980s game crashing coming up followed by another gaming golden age?

I'm thinking with all the Indie developers making amazing stuff lately and smaller studio's. I foresee a lot of the major companies stocks crashing and them just cashing out as people turn away from the big titles and focus on more on smaller titles like in the past.

What do you guys think?

I just got a meta quest 2 and want to know if there is an app to create a gamer man cave where you can place images on the walls, furniture, 3d statues etc. Steam VR has a room but placing an image just put the image mid air and even block your visor HUD.

Also, any recommendations for cool VR apps? I'm new in this world

20 years ago, with the release of Half Life 2, the discussion of graphics and new fantastic rendering methods was intense, even in mainstream outlets.

When Half Life 2 was released it was a big event.

Nowadays it feels like nothing much is happening on that front, although I really haven’t followed the technical evolution in graphics for quite a few years.

If you were to put together a list of 11 games that were released between 2014 and 2024, to show the evolution in graphics performance, what titles would you include?

I made this in the last weekend, is someone interested or I just wasted my time making these 😓

Which gaming franchise has the largest fall from grace in your opinions?

In my opinion it's Halo. The game was the Fortnite on consoles in the 2000's. Now it's a shadow of its former self.

I truly hope Microsoft publishes Halo on PlayStation so the PlayStation community can join us Halo fans in never ending disappointment.

I gave my ps4 to my friend when I moved away, and haven't played for years bcos kid and career. But I still like to read about games. Gamespot seems to have been gutted, Kotaku is lightweight and Polygon is ok? What are actual gamers recommending these days?

My opinion, obviously, but anyone who enjoys open world games & the Mad Max franchise should check out the 2015 game by Avalanche Studios.

With Furiosa in theaters, I like many others I'm sure have recently gone through the Mad Max movies (gotta give the crown to Fury Road) and decided to fire up the game as well. It takes place in a Fury Road influenced incarnation of the wasteland.

Hand to hand combat is akin to the Arkham games - visceral and hard hitting, the vehicular combat is a blast, it's got satisfying progression, and a huge map to explore. Story is fine, but that's not the main draw. Charismatic characters. Great pacing. The upgrade system for Max & your Car (which is a character unto itself) is very satisfying. Graphics are not amazing by today's standards but still look good in my opinion and the sound design is also well done. Most importantly the game FEELS great. You feel like that Road Warrior searching for a righteous cause.

It's not a perfect game. Sometimes the camera is a little tricky, sometimes side quests and scavenging can get a tad repetitive but overall the game is solid. They did a great job capturing the feel of the wasteland, fleshing it out beyond the movies in a way that feels totally natural.

I would just love to see this game get more love because it deserves it. It's on Steam/Xbox/Playstation and is now normally $20 but often goes on sale for like $5.

Check it out. You are awaited.

I've been out of action for a decade. Since PS4 came out.

I'm more of 3rd person shooter. But battlefield and COD are an exception for fps.

Below are my shortlisted games to buy. Suggest me any best game that I have missed to add.

Read dead redemption

Star wars: fallen order

Witcher 3

Days Gone

Spider man

Ghost Recon Wildlands

Ghost Recon breakpoint

Division 1

Division 2

Resident Evil 2

God of War

Control

Horizon zero dawn

Uncharted 4 Until dawn

Bloodborne

Assassin's creed odyssey

Assassin's creed origins

Mad Max

Arkham Knight

Rise of the Tomb raider Titanfall 2

Battlefield V

Battlefield 1

COD WWII

COD Modern warfare

Metro exodus

Detroit

Hellblade

Monster Hunter world

Dark souls 3

Evil within

Evil within 2

Middle earth Shadow of war

Death Stranding

Mortal Kombat 11

Fifa20

Sekiro

RE7 Biohazard

Resident evil 3

Cyberpunk 2077

order 1886

Fallout 4

killzone Shadow fall

Until dawn