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Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This might be a slightly unusual attempt at a prompt, but might draw some appealing unusual options.

The way it goes: Suggest games, ideally the kind that you believe would have relatively broad appeal. Don't feel bad about downvotes, but do downvote any game that's suggested if you have heard of it before (Perhaps, give some special treatment if it was literally your game of the year). This rule is meant to encourage people to post the indie darlings that took some unusual attention and discovery to be aware of and appreciate.

If possible, link to the Steam pages for the games in question, so that anyone interested can quickly take a look at screenshots and reviews. And, as a general tip, anything with over 1000 steam reviews probably doesn't belong here. While I'd recommend that you only suggest one game per post, at the very most limit it to three.

If I am incorrect about downvotes being inconsequential account-wide, say so and it might be possible to work out a different system.

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[+] [email protected] -193 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Grand Theft Auto IV

It's a little known game from a small publisher originally located in Scotland.

The main premise is that you drive around a city as quickly as possible and go bowling with your cousin. Think Big Lebowski meets Driver. You can also play Pool and Darts in various locations around the town, and earn money doing small side jobs such as being a taxi driver or a paramedic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I downvoted you per the rules, but thanks for that chuckle.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

I'm probably in the minority here.

After loving GTA 3 and Vice City and San Andreas, I strongly disliked GTA4. Story was fine, but they really went hard on terrible controls and boring missions.

GTA5 apparently "fixed it" by making the driving more arcade-like, but I forced myself to finish it to get to the ending. Flying was a bore. And again, boring missions.

Maybe I just like the more zany wacky open-world chaos that Just Cause, Mercenaries, or Saints Row provides.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

GTA 5 crashed on my machine when I finally shelled out 30 bucks for it, because the torrented version crashed at a specific mission.

One of a handful of games I've actually returned.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The controls in GTA IV were realistic! Your car tyre would blip the curb and it would affect the stability of the car. Denting the car from every angle resulted in a uniquely deformed mesh that my god would still drive. Pedestrians would bounce off your bumper in unique and interesting ways. It was a simulation paradise.

In GTA V they changed all that, made it more midnight club and arcade-y as you said. You could literally decimate a crowd of people and they'd all die with the same canned animation. Cars would at most lose a door before considering deforming the whole mesh. It just felt dumbed down.

Saints Row is fun, but you play it once and then forget about it because there's nothing to do once you reach godhood. Mercenaries was great fun, and Just Cause was a physics funbox, I'll give you that

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm completely with you here. I found it very restrictive coming from San Andreas.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean, it's pretty well known 🤣

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

I've never heard of it but it sounds like an interesting indie game from some rockstar guy. I wish they gave him a bigger budget to build a topdown version set in London.