Gothic 1, the game that started me on this whole video game journey! One day a friend in primary school took me home after school to show off this new game he was playing. Before that, I only knew about browser Flash games so you can imagine how much Gothic 1 blew my mind! Kid me could never grasp the controls and I never actually finished the game until much later, but it was still THE game that opened my eyes to what video games could be, and later made me discover MMORPGs (which are what taught me English!)
Keegen
joined 2 years ago
DE has been killing it recently. After the flop that was Railjack, they really redeemed themselves with The New War, Angels of the Zariman and now Duviri. Circuit is incredibly fun with the ever changing loadouts, maps and objectives and the very sharp enemy scaling on Steel Path let's you really test your frames/weapons against quadruple digits enemies while powering yourself up with Decrees. For the Drifter part, I love that there is no rep grind to pursue, just Intrinsics that give you some extra power and that are acquired completely passively. The Incarnon Adapters are also a killer feature, giving life back to so many old weapons, many of which used to be meta back in the days.
At this point I'm more excited about community projects like Skyblivion, Skywind or Beyond Skyrim than the next official game with how long it's taking. Skyblivion is planned to release in 2025 and their new roadmap shows how close to the finish line they are.
I really hope for a Tigris Incarnon. If they can bring back the glory days of the old slash status Tigris, it would make me so happy!
My go-to lazy Disruption loadout is Revenant with Roar subsumed and Laetum. Rev makes dying a non issue regardless of what the game throws at you and you already build him for high power strength, so Roar just makes sense. And Laetum melts whatever Demolisher you point it at, just charge it up with headshots between waves.
It really was revolutionary. The way NPCs interacted with each other, how they had whole schedules they went about daily and how the whole world interacted with the day/night cycle, like animals lying to sleep at night. Oblivion made a big deal out of their NPC interactions, but Gothic 1 already had an (arguably) better system in place back in 2001!