favourite modern game

[moonbits]

isn't elden ring very modern? fasting travel having open world having action rpg having

I think they mean if the game was released recently but has old school design, like uh.. Bravely Default 2 or DQ11 or something then they don't count...

 

[KaiserMk7]

isn't elden ring very modern? fasting travel having open world having action rpg having

If this is in response to my post, I think you misread.
I said that I'm going to operate under the assumption that contemporary games that try look or feel like or that constantly reference retro titles don't count as modern games, so I'm just going to pick Elden ring instead of mulling over the decision.

 

[Dyne]

Excluding remakes, some of my modern favorites are

Elden Ring
Sea of Stars
Octopath Traveler 1 and especially 2
Chained Echoes
Crystal Project
Infernax
Dragon Quest XI
Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom
Metroid Dread
Baldur's Gate 3
Monster Hunter World
Remnant: From the Ashes
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
Hollow Knight
The Messenger

 

[bigstinkie]

I'm going to operate under the assumption that contemporary games that try look or feel like or that constantly reference retro titles don't count as modern games

is elden ring a contemporary game that tries to look or feel like or constantly references retro titles?
it is a very modern title in regard to game design, with a lot of the quality of life features found in other contemporary open world games, a map you can fast travel around, markers for npcs, crafting, co-op, and so on?
i feel like it would be very difficult to categorise elden ring as an 'old school game' in design. something like king's field iv i think much more authentically contains what i think it is you are talking about. let me know what you think.... shuffles feet musically

 

[KaiserMk7]

is elden ring a contemporary game that tries to look or feel like or constantly references retro titles?
it is a very modern title in regard to game design, with a lot of the quality of life features found in other contemporary open world games, a map you can fast travel around, markers for npcs, crafting, co-op, and so on?
i feel like it would be very difficult to categorise elden ring as an 'old school game' in design. something like king's field iv i think much more authentically contains what i think it is you are talking about. let me know what you think.... shuffles feet musically

Once again, there is a misreading. I'm picking Elden Ring as my favorite modern game because I can't confidently assert that the other contenders for that position even count as modern games.

 

[bigstinkie]

Once again, there is a misreading. I'm picking Elden Ring as my favorite modern game because I can't confidently assert that the other contenders for that position even count as modern games.

english is not my first language. i now see the error of my ways and will now slit my own belly.

 

[Mopeybloke]

My favourite modern game... I end up playing mostly older games since they're cheaper and they're new to me. I enjoyed a few of the early retro shooter revival titles. My favourite has to be Dusk. Runner up is Ion Fury.

Black Mesa. It's a remake, but awesome game.

Kathy Rain is probably my favourite adventure game. Not that I've played many.

 

[nobitakun]

he probably saw 2b and decided right then and there that the game wouldn't peak past that point. no point in playing when you have seen the best part at the start.

Not quite. I decided it because the first Nier is wonderful but has an ugly character (I finished it completely). In Automata the gameplay is superb (5 minutes is enough to know). In addition, I have 2 friends who know me very well and they told me this would be a game I would love from the beginning to its end, and if they say so I trust them. They know exactly what kind of games I like and the way I like them.

If I had chosen the game by looking at the protagonist, I would say I love Stellar Blade, but I know it's a game I'm going to "just" like.

As weird as it may sound, I can have a favourite game that I have only played for 5 minutes :D

 

[ThunderBoy]

Red Dead Redemption 2

Arthur Morgan forever in my heart

 

[DrunkGecko]

Very rarely do I care about modern games
The most recent one to come out that I absolutely adore is Doom Eternal

 

[thumbsdown]

All the modern games I like resemble old games: stardew valley, cross code , eastward, blasphemous, noita, hollow knight, gato roboto, a short hike, frogun, bug fables, roadwarden, just to say some names... but I also like stuff like hades and disco elysium a lot

 

[deceptionfalls]

Dusk. Probably the thing that got me into boomer shooters, I liked it more than I liked ULTRAKILL too. Everything in Dusk is just so well made and it definitely plays with your expectations a lot, not only it pays homage to classic games like Quake but it also gets a lot of inspiration from campy horror movies like Evil Dead.

I could be here all day talking about how much I love Dusk but in short, it's very fun, high quality, polished and inspired. Easily the best shooter released in recent years.

 

[Underdog]

Soooo many.
FF16 "rely good honestly but way to damn easy and to much game of throne like and I mean people dies left and right"
Stardew valley
Subnutica
Everspcae 1 and 2
Rimworld
Monster hunter world
Fallout 4
Skyrim
Anno 1800

And I could proboly make a top 300 list but no I don´t wanna bore you all to death.

you have a very refined taste.

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All the modern games I like resemble old games: stardew valley, cross code , eastward, blasphemous, noita, hollow knight, gato roboto, a short hike, frogun, bug fables, roadwarden, just to say some names... but I also like stuff like hades and disco elysium a lot

retro gamer at heart huh.

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i dont know if it counts as modern anymore but probably "sakuna: of rice and ruin"
my other pick would be disco elysium cause i really really liked that game.

never heard of it is it good?

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Personally:
Mario Kart 8 Vanilla & Deluxe (2014-17)
Super Mario Odyssey (2017)
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018)

nice i never played any mario games. but i do like seeing them.

 

[Turbo Kid]

Sticking with the idea of "modern" so I'm not mentioning the many retro flavored or 2d games that I love.

I like some other VR games too beside Astro Bot: Rescue Mission though I think that one is the best. You don't get any more modern than VR