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I played so much Super Circuit on my SP back in high school. You nailed it when you said it felt like “more Mario Kart for the SNES.” I loved it for that very reason!

I have been using this for a little while. It works well. Installing extensions was slightly more difficult than regular zed. Otherwise it’s been a rather pleasant experience.

Heyyy, fellow FFXI player! Those were excellent time periods to play imo. I too took a break around the abyssea era (2010/11 I think?) but came back again around 2016.

I feel like the late 20-teens were almost a second golden age in terms of available content to play and community.

My Civ 5 experience was similar. Steam has me at 800 hours though I don’t count all of that since some was AFK. But 5 was just so addicting to me.

One of the later expansions kinda ruined it for me oddly enough but there was a time when I could just devote an entire weekend to it.

I tried 4 and 6 and neither worked for me at all.

I have a couple hundred hours in rocket league from playing with friends around ~2020. Was a ton of fun, even if I never managed to get any good at it. 🤣

Well the top contender for me is FFXI by a mile. But naming an MMO in a thread like this almost feels like cheating.

My next game after that would be Hades 1 with 421 hours.

Good for them. People expect the world from devs these days. It’s especially galling with a game like Peak that is less than 10 bucks.

Agreed, this feels like making a story out of nothing for clicks.

Well that didn’t take long at all. 😕

I’m gonna give that fork a try today.

Our small group has had a lot of fun with REPO and Lethal Company. Both are very similar gameplay wise but REPO feels more polished imo.

There are no complex systems to learn and little or no progression at all so it’s easy to pick up and play.

I’ll echo support for the controller. People made fun of the original huge one, but the “S” variant and its successors felt quite good in my hands. I also have an Elite Series 2 that I use with my PC and it’s been great.

Really hope it’s a new game. I’m so hyped for this already don’t let me down!!

Well that makes a lot of sense then! Haha.

The humor and style definitely gives me a 2000s internet flash game vibe. I don’t necessarily mean that as a jab, it’s just kinda the vibe. Doesn’t look like my cup of tea though.

I picked up Vampire Survivors, played one round, and was like yeah I think I’m done here.

Yes! They really under utilized free roam, especially when you look at how big a deal they made out of it in the reveal trailer.

Agreed. I’m pretty much completely over World at this point and only play if my kid asks me to. I think it’s technically impressive and gorgeous to look at, but the tracks are so utterly boring I have little motivation to fire it up.

I’m still salty about the lack of local multiplayer free roam too, but that’s another issue entirely.