< A tipsy girl's thoughts about roguelikes/lites
it's funny that you mention roguelikes as i'm taking a break from having played one most of tonight. i've been playing a good bit lately and a good deal of the games i've been going through are roguelikes.
right now i'm playing through Everspace, which is a game about piloting a spacecraft and recovering lost memories while fighting off enemies and leveling up your spacecrafts. it's a good deal of fun, and a beautiful game to boot (flying through space and simply admiring the scenery is a ton of fun, not to mention the combat).
i have also been playing a lot of Hades recently, another fun roguelike where you're trying to break out from the underworld and go see your family on Olympus.
love that you mentioned Risk of Rain, i played through both of those a few months ago after having just heard about them and missing out on them somehow a few years ago. problem fixed! those games are fantastic, as are the soundtracks. i found myself downloading a good deal of the music after going through the games!
another one i have been playing with my wife lately has been 'cult of the lamb' which you might consider checking out, it has also been a lot of fun to play through.
over the last decade or so, with a few notable exceptions, AAA games have begun to circle the drain when it comes to quality, and indie games have finally begun to become more noticed. it has been awesome exploring some of the cool new ones i've been finding over the last few years.
great read, and you mentioned a few games here i haven't checked out yet, so thanks for the recommendations! hope you're having a good one.
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Gosh I checked out Everspace and I might just put it on my wishlist, good reccomendation dude <3
Also yeah cult of the lamb is GREAT, honestly there's a ton of rougelikes that I haven't mentioned but are still great, and this is definitely one of them
And about the whole AAA-games thing, yeah I also gotta agree, I dont think I've played ANY of those for a few months atp aside from the occasional valve game, but everything's just gone SO to shit that it's honestly wild. I could rave on about how the for e.g. stuff like the price increases for NS2 games are crazy, although in all fairness I think what's killing AAA releases is nothing other than their quality, I would happily pay 80$ for a game if it was worth that price.
It's awful though that unfortunately - at least for the forseeable future - game quality will remain the same but the price will drive up, I understand that inflation plays a big part in determining a price of a given product but genuinely? I'm no economy expert but I feel like if nintendo or sony (or whichever big name would have the balls to do it) released a 40-45$ game with their standard quality of games it would sell far better purely because of the fact that people would be talking about its low price (free marketing) and having the game also be more monetarily accessible to a larger audience
Wow I got... REALLY off topic there, thanks again for reading and have a great one as well, and thank YOU for sharing your expiriences with me, it was nice seeing someone else's perspective ♥