At 7/8/25 09:30 PM, Skoops wrote:Zeno Clash 1&2 are first person hand to hand combat games with a plot and setting that is honestly a genre of its own creation. I don't even know what to call it. Cavemanpunk? I dunno. It's wild.
Something more mainstream but never quite got the love I think it deserved was Vanquish. The slickest, most fluid action game I've ever played. Getting good at Vanquish feels like performing a dance with bullet time and rocket boosters. It was probably hurt by how stupid the story was, but even that had some camp charm to it.
Hell yeah on the Vanquish! I wish games like that, would be the default choice for the basic-meathead type gamers, instead of Call Of Duty or something.
Like, both games can serve perfectly fine, for just turning on a video-game, switch your brain to 0%, and just shoot stuff. But games like Vanquish just simply give you the options to make it look/feel incredibly cool doing it.
(On the plus side, the lack of popularity has kept the game in a nice bargain-bin status, making it easy and cheap to pick up for like your old PS3 or something (was it on 360too?) , gathering dust. So you could probably gather a bunch of copies in bulk, and hand em out to your friends! ':D)
And its probably gonna be on some sales on Steam as well for very little money. So you can play that dancy-shooty badboi on almost anything on the cheap!
I got that exact same kinda love for Bionic Commando. Also not great on story and stuff, but simply focused on the dope gameplay, where if you master the controlls, you can make it into some action-movie dance-choreography type of shizzle, <3.
Similarly semi-obscure game. But with spiderman kinda gameplay instead of the rocket-boots.
