Caffeinated noodles with nootropics is what the world needs.
No, I haven't heard anyone getting banned or anything like that for pirating a game, and nothing like that has happened to me.
When I was a kid I spent so much time on Driver 3 and Shrek 1. Definitely not good games but there was a glimmer of something in them. I also liked the music in both of them but more so Shrek 1.
clean, white and monotonous
sterile and/or cracker
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I really like Gta 4 and every few years I return to it. I don't usually finish it because I think the last bit of the game with the mafia kind of drags a bit. The driving is really good even if it's a bit too weighty and shooting guns in it is great. I liked Gta 3 a lot and occasionally I'll play through it again although its age is showing and last time I tried my save got corrupted. Used to like Vice City a lot but last time I tried it I just couldn't get into it.
Kenshi is amazing, I recommend everyone try it. Perfect amount of jank and a ton of mods available. I really want to play it again after I complete Baldur's gate. Actually progressing was kind of hard at first and it wasn't until like my 3rd character where I got the hang of it.
Nightmare Reaper was something someone recommended here and it's fantastic, I didn't think I'd enjoy it so I pirated it and I was completely wrong. Bought it almost immediately after, it just rocks. Also found Selaco through it which also seems very promising if it ever releases.
Project Zomboid is awesome, one of the first games I've managed to get a high playtime in a while. Very atmospheric and we even have a server.
Grim Dawn is great and the best arpg to date. Since it came out anytime I try a different arpg I just end up playing this one again. 3rd xpac was just announced so next year I'll definitely return to it. Diablo 2 is good but it's old and I don't want to bother fiddling with the weird skill changing or making an ahk script to do it.
Mount and blade Warband + Bannerlord. Warband was mindblowing the first time I tried it and Bannerlord is mostly just an improved version.
I discovered Barony at the start of this year and it was a ton of fun.
Kingdom Come was pretty fun even though it's not nearly as hard or realistic as the gamers like to claim.
Dos2 and Baldur's gate 3 are terrific. I've been thinking about trying Dos2 again sometime after bg3 but I've also already been thinking about doing another playthrough of Bg3 even though I haven't completed it yet 
::: spoiler spoiler I've been regularly playing Halo 1 for the past 20 years and I played a lot of Minecraft a few years ago. Every now and again I play Squad but it's really hit or miss. I started playing Dex a few months ago but I got distracted by Nightmare Reaper, the little bit I played of it seemed cool and I want to return to it. I think someone on here got me to try Scratching Melodii but I found it hard to play on a keyboard so I just learned one of the songs instead - the little bit I did was fun though.
I really liked Swat 4 and played a ton of it in 2018, it's not what it sounds like and you cannot play like an actual pig. After Bernie lost I played Age of Wonders 3 and it was fun. I used to play a lot of Payday 2 stealth but I think I finally hit my limit on that. I completed Feeding Frenzy twice, really cool little fishy game. Replayed Chaos theory a few years ago and it was pretty fun despite compatibility issues and bad politics. I played the ww2 Rising Storm very briefly and I played the Vietnam one during the beta but never bought it. I got Remnant for free 2 years ago and had a lot of fun doing a playthrough of that. I used to really like Killing Floor but I got very burnt out on it.
Something applicable to the Soros thread would be Area 51 I think, I really like that game despite its mediocrity. I really wanted to like Alice Madness returns but the port is so bad that I just gave up, very unfortunate because the game itself seems really good.
I have Disco Elysium, Partisans, Cyberpunk, hidden gem Geraldo, Control, Steelrising, and Bright on my maybe to do list. Gog keeps recommending me more boomer shooters and rpgs that I'll probably end up trying someday too.
Oh and since it's not Fallout the one thing that makes up for Bethesda's terrible shooting the VATS system isn't here, so you just have Bethesda's terrible shooting with no redeeming features.
lol that sounds amazingly awful
Gta V was a downgrade from Gta 4 in all the ways that mattered.
All of the dark souls shit, Steelrising is the only one that looks promising.
I could not get into Terraria no matter how many times I tried.
Path of exile is a bloated, convoluted mess with shoehorned multiplayer elements. The mtx are also awful and do not get nearly enough hate as they should.
half life 2 was a glorified tech demo with so many bloviating "immersive first person cutscenes" that it felt like a parody.
Halo 3's campaign was not good and the multiplayer was just ok. Forge was not revolutionary, it only seemed like it because it was locked to console with no mod tools.
Borderlands, tried two different games over the past 7 years and neither time was it fun. Fps games should not have arpg items.
The mario, zelda, and pokemon series. The little I've seen of them made me never want to play them, like pokemon is literally just cock fighting but with epic wacky monster-pets.
Diablo 2 resurrection, the remaster, does not have a skill bar unless you use a controller. I will never willingly put myself through garbage controls straight from the 2000's when I could just play Grim Dawn instead.
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