Favorite Video Games

I briefly mentioned State Of Decay, been playing that again.

Forgot how intense that game got, and how weird it is that the game factors in the time since the last save to make alterations to the time that has gone by in the game. You figure you're saving the game and have 10 companions, you re-load that game days later, you're down to 6, or maybe 14. The Sims 3 kind of did that originally but they patched the game to get rid of it. Why? One would save their game and go back to it days later and not be able to find the Sims they liked to play as because the game would factor in the time away and they would move those sims to a new town. I mean they were still in the game, they just had to be tracked down, and Sims 3 had a big map, and it was totally open world, the open world part also created a lot of lag because the game would just spawn way too many things. So a lot of modders made mods that allowed one to stop the game from spawning more than lets say 50 sims or 100, it was up to the player, that helped a bit, but it eventually always would start getting laggy. So in Sims 4, they went back to having to a load screen whenever one went to a new location, stopped the lag issue, they also added a feature to cap the population themselves, the lowest setting is 80 active sims, I keep it at 80. There's no point in having more than 80 Sims roaming around.

State Of Decay is the best zombie game but Resident Evil 2 is still my favorite game with zombies, its just Resident Evil has never just been zombies, there's always been mutants, and other things roaming around.

No offense to newer Resident Evil games, the second was just very cool the way they did the story thing between Leon and Claire, and Claire kicks butt, I prefer her over Jill. Sadly, the films don't give Claire much love... she's in them but she's a minor player.

Been awhile since I've played a GTA game but Nico is my favorite lead character in the GTA franchise, Carl comes in just slightly below Nico however. The player gets to spend more time with Carl since one can have him eat a lot and get fat or work out a lot and get buff and give him different clothes and hair and tats, while Nico, it was just clothes from what I remember. But the drunk effects were added in GTA IV, and Nico wobbling around all drunk was amusing. I wouldn't be surprised if they bring Carl back and play into how life is these days in his world.

Got the Xbox Game Pass last week and have been binging the horror games I haven't played that are free on the pass. Finished The Evil Within yesterday, was pretty decent overall although it had its flaws and there was only one moment that legitimately startled me, it was still a pretty cool little game. I've heard the sequel is way better and really good overall, but alas it isn't on game pass and I don't want to spend $40 at the moment.


Started Resident Evil Biohazard yesterday, about 3 hours in right now and I'm really enjoying it. I've never played any of the past Resident Evils, but considering 7 starts a new plot line with completely original characters and gameplay style in a setting only vaguely connected to the past games makes it not a bad place to start. Way better at being a horror game than The Evil Within, as in, I legitimately feel tense while playing it, and I haven't felt fear related tension this good since Alien Isolation. The only flaw is that there are sadly no hot statuesque vampire ladies in this game, only mutated inbred Texas-Chainsaw-Massacre-esque hillbillies. 

I want to play the first 4 Silent Hill games. I've already beaten the original, or well, I got to the final boss and ngl I just got tired of bullshut PS1 boss design and the lightning attack's janky hitbox (that being the only attack the bullet sponge of a boss had) that I gave up. Still a good game as far as PS1 games go. Though I can't find a PS2 emulator Mac that doesn't look like it's going to give me 15 viruses if I download.


One problem I have with a lot of Survival Horror games, even if the rest of the game is good, is that the boss fights aren't fun. A lot of the time they're just massive walls of health saying "Heh, hope you conserved every round of ammo handed to you in the past hour of playing, kiddo". Evil Within had this problem too. Although I've heard the bosses in some of the Resident Evils can be pretty decent. I know not every game places much emphasis on good boss design, but considering bosses are my favorite traditional aspect of video games, it dissapoints me when a game doesn't even try to make them fun or challenging in a non BS way like making them a bullet sponge. Not even expecting Dark Souls or Hollow Knight quality boss design, just something a little bit fun or interesting, maybe even a puzzle related boss like in the Zelda games. 

Best game franchise for any really young gamer to start with the first one and work their way up to the latest. So lets say 1996, I can't be 100% on that. Fighting games on the other hand like Street Fighter, very little evolution, they'd stick with the same engine for years on Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat and WWE games, I meany they may have improved the shadows here and there but nothing significant. Then they were like, "hrmm, no one is really buying fighting games for the PC anymore, can't figure out why". It was because if you had Street Fighter 2, you didn't need 3, it was the same exact game but with a few new characters, whoopty do, same goes for Mortal Kombat and WWE games. When they finally woke up and updated to more modern graphics, the games sold very well so now they're always trying to stay on top of things, sorta.

That's typical for most Capcom games.

Speaking of Resident Evil, I just found this...

sacrificialmods.com/zombie-apocalypse-news.html

It's a great zombie mod for Sims 4 where they get guns, cures, and whatnot, and it can be started and stopped so one doesn't have to kill their whole town and end up playing in an empty town. I set a few characters to be immune because if they die, their dead, and I spend a lot of time creating my characters. I'm testing it out now, been testing it for about 30 minutes, seems pretty bug free so far, not sure how much it will bloat the save file though since it spawns new zombies. I do have the game set to only allow 80 sims, which is the lowest you can set it, it was at 21 before I installed the mod, its at 20 now.

It's basically zombie stuff but the modder for kicks did add Nemesis and Jill from Resident Evil, they are totally optional, and one can play as the virus spreader or the zombie killer. I still need to make sure it doesn't conflict with other mods I use, because if it does, its gone.

Some modders are starting to have their mods check their website for updates, I'm not down with that. Discussing the topic with one of the modders who does that now, he says its harmless.

Figured may as well do a zombie game list, well a top five because ten is just overkill, and this list is in order of best to least best.

1. State Of Decay
Leveling up characters, having playable characters die, setting up HQ's, trying to survive, the breakable weapons, the fact the AI is very intense and if they hear the slightest sound they start heading in the players direction, its got all the things that made Romero's earlier zombie films so great, and the open world expansion where you can just take your time and pretty much really thin things out, fun, fun.

2. Resident Evil 2
I have to go with the original, haven't touched the remastered version yet. The first game was ok but the second was more visually appealing since it took place in more locations, and the zombies were a bit more intense. Resident Evil 4 is a better game but it isn't mainly zombies, its more of a brainwashed mutated town of people, that's why 4 doesn't make the list. I mean 2 isn't all zombies but its primarily zombies.

3. Dead Island
The trailer for the game made it seem like it was going to be uber sad, dramatic, and intense, but it didn't live up to the trailer whatsoever. However, its a solid first person zombie survival game, and like State Of Decay, weapons will break at the worse times. And one is on a tropical island so they're stranded. Of course it looks like they get a happy ending at the end but the sequel proves otherwise, and once again, the sequel had a trailer that sold all this drama but again, no drama in the game itself. The single player campaign is solid and not that short, the online mode, I never bothered.

4. Dead Rising 2
This game would be higher up the list but Capcom spawns too many zombies as the game progresses, putting lots of stress on the processor of PC's and consoles, they should have cut the spawning down by half and just make the zombies harder to kill rather than just spawning twice as many.

5. Telltale's Walking Dead
The first chapter is the best and normally, it would be #2 but it is more story based so it just doesn't feel right to put it higher up with games that put more into actual gameplay. Yes, you can move Lee around in the game point and click wise, but its mainly all dialog with some quicktime events.

So... anyone think I left out any that deserve praise?

Thanks for the advice but I've already tried that and couldn't get it to work as the Mac version is so out of date and the windows version wouldn't run on Wine even after following multiple tutorials on how to run windows pcsx2 with wine on Mac