Disco Elysium, Weird West and Trails in The Sky FC are great narrative driven games. They deal with a lot of different topics in mature ways, hoping you get some good recs out of the thread
Saw this post and this was my first thought. I am morbidly pleased that Robert called it so hard. I hope everyone becomes aware of these scumbag grifts
Like some of the people in the thread, I started with SAO. In addition to this I also got put onto the P4 OG anime by a friend. Granted I was already watching stuff like Sora no Otoshimono and Seto no Hanayome. After this I was put onto stuff like BakaTesto by the same friend. Hilariously enough this is the same friend that ALSO got me into Taiko no Tatsujin. But yeah these were my anime roots. Now I mainly watch stuff like Ergo Proxy/Lain. I'm currently on hold for my Lain rewatch. This is all while trying to juggle multiple manga and currently releasing anime.
Initial D is amazing. I want to get back to watching. Although I have personal reasons as to why I haven't been able to get back to it. First Stage was AMAZING. Every race was so thrilling.
I agree, I do love that edge is leagues better than IE (which isn't saying much, but there has to be some Kudos to actually making a web browser). But I think that many people who are focused on privacy do not use chromium based browsers with heavy telemetry like Chrome/Edge.
Firefox or even its privacy focused variants are the way to go if a user wants total control over their privacy. That and probably using adguard dns for some extra help. Although that's trusting a different company to handle your traffic.
I'm wondering how close to Persona it'll be. It honestly looks like they made Mikado into a full fledged locale. Which isn't a complaint from me. Hoping the story is good and the UI gets cleaned up a bit.
I would say that MyHouse.Wad is the thing that inspired me to remember why I loved horror in the first place. It truly is a unique experience and I really love the inspiration with it. Totally convinced me to read the book it is heavily inspired by but really showed me that more people CAN do the Silent Hill thing of a strange place with strange logic and still draw people in.
The music, gameplay, ambience and aesthetics all mesh well and really give me a SH2/3 vibe while still feeling fresh.
Golden Souls is also a great mod and I'm so glad the Doom Mod community exists to bring all these creative ideas that people have to fruition.
Sidenote: It also inspired me to write a weird west setting for tabletops that I hope to release at some point.
Like it was said many people get attached to these games and want remakes. There is also the elephant in the room that 3 doesn't play as well as 5R does gameplay wise.
Forgetting the visuals for a second, the persona series has evolved far past the roots of 3 and 4 and this way Atlus can get more people into persona while still not alienating fans because, "P3P is on PC already" which generally has all the content people want (honestly look up any discussion on 'The Answer' and you'll see why it doesn't need to be included). So fans will have an original-adjacent version and newcomers will have the new version closer to 5R. Which I'm guessing they hope both parties double dip
Lancer is, the problem with Lancer I've been having is trying to get humanoid and organic enemies. So while I think of a way to do it I'm running Pathfinder.
Witchburner is an OSR module that's about the players being Inquisitors sent to burn a witch in a remote location. SPOILERS ahead.
|| There is no witch|| And the players have to prove that there is either a witch amongst them (frame an NPC) or run away (if they can, it's dangerous in those woods. It's a social deduction adventure and less centered on any kind of complex combat and more on the relations they have with the NPCs
Currently I've been reading Witchburner as a side plot line in my current Pathfinder world. I'm using the Midgard setting as a base. Right now I'm trying to write a vampire world takeover that involves them trying to kill Baba Yaga while the PCs attempt to find out this plan and stop it. I'm also working on implementing mechs into it because I've been bitten by the Xenogears bug.
**CONTENT WARNING FOR CYBERPUNK Sexual Abuse, Drugs and Murder **
Additionally I'm writing a Cyberpunk Red homebrew campaign that discusses topics such as parasocial relationships, the dangers and downsides of becoming too involved in them, and porn addiction. The players have stumbled upon a terrible human trafficking ring, funded by SovOil's CEO after killing his daughter due to her mind being taken over by a relic which contained an anticorporate revolutionary hell bent on freeing Neo-Soveit Russia. It's really dark but I felt like CBP was the world to tell this in
My favorite fantasy subgenre has got to be Techno fantasy. Settings where ancient civilizations were immensely technological advanced to the point it is almost biblical or spiritual but rooted in the technology of the world the story takes place in