Thank you for spreading your unfunness across Bluesky

Yeah, becomes hard to blame them when you see some personality-less youtuber with hundreds of thousands or even millions of followers. All because they shriek at the camera or just post constantly.

Painful seeing companies discard systems that were working fairly well, and replacing them with "AI" that doesn't work half so well

I approve. Getting wordy about it is the only way I roll

'FTL: Faster Than Light' is easily one of my all time favourite indie games. It takes me back to the old Star Trek game I'd play on the school's computer. I'd push myself to the limit, trying to keep my ship together in far space. This game captures that vibe perfectly.

'Magical Girl Celesphonia' was something I picked up and played for work research. It's a story game in the style of classic JRPGs, but with a heavy and often dark smut factor.

You can play it safe and avoid the smut by winning, but the harder the difficulty? The dirtier and darker it gets.

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri on the surface might've been a big turn off for me. It marked a shift for the strategy maker to 3D, which I generally dislike in strategy games. But this game is so damn good it doesn't matter.

I love it, with only minor quibbles. It still holds up today, in my op inion.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl was a strange, little known foreign gem back when it first came out. And I was instantly hooked.

It's unforgiving, tonally dark and quite grim. But somehow I was smitten. It gave me more than a few good scares too, and just kept me on edge.

I love Steamworld Dig, and it's sequel. I want to adore more indie games, but too many of them lean into "challenging" gameplay, and I am too old for that shit.

But Steamworld Dig really finds the sweet spot. Played it several times, which is unheard of for me now, honestly.

I played this one on the Wii U too, and it was a blast. Shantae and the Pirate's Curse is a really tightly honed classic Metroidvania style game, but colourful and cheerful!

The whole series is fabulous honestly.

Related:

Hyrule Warriors for Wii U was my first Warriors game, and it's still my favourite. Oh, the story is so cheesy, you say! The game is so fan servicey!

Yes, and it leans into it shamelessly. This is a game about being able to tear shit up as your favourite Zelda character (Ghirahim) and it rules.

I'm avoiding the more obvious ones I've probably spoken of before, and this one will probably feel strange, but: I genuinely loved the Metroid Prime Hunters feel of play on the Nintendo DS? The stylus on the bottom screen just felt good to me.

For its time it looked remarkably good on a handheld!

Same, I still had my old boxes of Risk and Axis and Allies, up until a couple moves ago.

Plus the markers made me feel more like a strategist/tactician. Watching it all play out graphically takes away that vibe for me. I just feel like I'm playing a game, instead of plotting a war.

Oh right there with you, I was obsessed with Koei's games back then! Still am. But not so big a fan of what they do now. All the war sims that went for 3D graphics really began to lose me. It just shook a lot of the appeal, made the games needlessly burdensome, distracted from the core gameplay IMO.