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Sim, arcade, simcade, anything. I'm kinda disconnected from the genre and want to know what is considered the GOATs of racing games to try them out.

Me personally, I'd say Dirt Rally 2, very addicting gameplay.

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[–] ProfessorProteus 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I really like DKR but I was never amazing at it. Especially the boss races. Killer soundtrack though. I listen to it more often than I play the game lol

In case you don't know about it, there's a cool site called Retro Achievements that has community-curated achievement sets for thousands of games (and leaderboards for specific tasks, like Mario 64's Princess' Secret Slide), and it integrates nicely with RetroArch and Dolphin (I haven't looked into other emulators, but I'm sure there are other supported ones). It's given me a great reason to play all my childhood games again, instead of playing them just to waste time.

Speaking of BK, I finished that set just last night and it was so satisfying. I'm sure you'd make short work of the DKR achievements!

[–] Lightsong 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's pretty cool. But I don't play on emulator. I still got original N64 and like 30+ games from when I was a kid. It's still going strong. Had to buy new controller tho.

[–] ProfessorProteus 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Respect 👍 I still have all my old consoles and games from my childhood, all the way back to the NES. And I still collect classics that I didn't grow up with. Hope you play yours on a good ol' CRT :)

[–] Lightsong 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sadly no, I gave away my 42" CRT away to buddy's relative who was poor and I didn't have any space.

It looks pretty bad in my 1080 ledtv. But even then, I still find myself replaying N64 games over and over.

You know, I have like bunch of games on my pc but I can't get hooked on any of them like I do for old Zelda games. Altho I did get hooked on botw and totk. Maybe it's Zelda games.

I need to find other Zelda-like games maybe. Any suggestions?

[–] ProfessorProteus 1 points 3 months ago

The only Zelda-like I can think of right now is Tunic. I haven't finished it yet, but it's a great game. It's on PC and all the major consoles. I'd say it's more like the pre-N64 Zeldas than the open-world ones. Also has an in-game manual that's 100% inspired by the manual that came with the first Zelda on NES. Incredibly charming game.