This is a followup to @[email protected] ‘s recent thread for completeness’ sake.

I’ll state an old classic that is seen as a genre defining game because it is: Myst. Yes, it redefined the genre… in ways I fucking hated and that the adventure game genre took decades to fully recover from. It was a pompous mess in its presentation and was the worst kind of “doing action does vague thing or nothing at all, where is your hint book” puzzle gameplay wrapped in graphical hype which ages pretty poorly as far as appeal qualities go.

So many adventure games tried to be Myst afterward that the sheer budgetary costs and redundancy of the also-rans crashed the adventure game genre for years.

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    Oh nooo lol. Eternal is probably in my top 3 favorite games. Especially with all the mods you can do on PC. It definitely has a niche though, but I think it’s excels in that niche so well that I say it’s the best feeling FPS mechanics, in my opinion of course.

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        1 year ago

        I’m mostly referring to master level/randomizer mods. These don’t change the game in a major way, so if you don’t like the gameplay you probably won’t enjoy the mods. Really, all it does is up the difficulty. I love it, but it can be hard.

        If you want another try at that almost arcade like, fast FPS gameplay, I’d recommend Turbo Overkill. Indie game, goofy yet fun story.