I finally started a blind playthrough of Dave the Diver after letting it sit in my backlog for ages. I’m not that far in, but it’s great so far. The core game loop is fun and relaxing and the characters are all memorable.
And the over the top pixel art cutscenes, man. Worth the price for those alone.
Biotech was such a good expansion. Ideology and Royalty were alright (haven’t bought Anomaly yet), but neither transformed the way I played Rimworld like Biotech did.
A rerelease of games they previously gave away for free, no less.
Hey, at least they added inventory sorting!
You know, after a decade of people asking for it. And without fixing the several fundamental design flaws that made the inventory a nightmare to use without sorting in the first place.
But at least they thinly papered over one of the game’s most hated bits!
I’m curious, why do you prefer the first one over the second? Baldur’s Gate didn’t focus on NPC characterization until 2 (I can’t imagine playing without the banter!), and I always found low level 2e to be a nightmare due to low health pools and lack of class features. The sequel starts you out at the beginning of the level range where you can actually do stuff without being overpowered.
Unit. Lost. Unit. Lost. Unit. Lost.
Company of Heroes gets my vote. I love having a sniper take out a machine gun nest so my riflemen can rotate the gun 180° and mow down wave after wave of Nazi reinforcements.
Heroic is the fun kind of hard (most of the time). It at least feels like someone playtested it. Legendary in Halo 2 however is just brutally unfair, and even if you play perfectly it’s completely down to random chance whether you’ll succeed. As in you’re literally at the mercy of RNG in the enemy AI deciding whether you’ll be instakilled with no possible defense. Those fucking Jackal snipers…
And it’s even worse in co-op because you need to restart from the last checkpoint if either player dies, whereas on other difficulties (or Legendary in the other games) the other player can continue playing and you’ll respawn if they make it to a safe area. That one change makes co-op controller-snappingly frustrating.
Beating it in multiplayer is a legit praiseworthy achievement. Either that or a sign of deep masochism.