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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.

The game reminds me of Dishonored and the first 3 Resident Evils. Good story, good acting, interesting puzzles. But the stealth parts are laughably poor. The game encourages you to hide bodies, but there's literally no point cause the AI is deaf, dumb, and blind. You can be as loud as you want, take down a guy who is literally a meter away from another guard, and they won't hear or see a thing. Still enjoying the game, though. The ray traced effects are really pretty.

Sled Storm. I picked it up again recently and it's still a lot of fun. The racing is competent but probably nothing exceptional, although apparently it was one of the first snowmobile racing games so maybe it doesn't belong on this list? The tracks aren't super open, they're more like Mario Kart tracks with shortcuts which my family always liked, you couldn't really get lost. I played so much couch co-op with my family in that game.

10/10 soundtrack though, it introduced me to Rob Zombie's music as a kid. (Funny story, the only Rob Zombie film I've ever seen was the Devil's Rejects in a Waffle House in rural Florida at 3am on an employees' shitty laptop.)

P.N.0.3. is an objectively mid game for gamecube with repetitive gameplay and environments. However I love the style of it and playing it brings me a lot of nostalgia.

I suppose some people might consider Godhand and Killer7 to be 7/10 games - at least based on contemporary reviews - but they've always had a cult following and have had a re-assessment here as modern classics in recent years.

Skyrim tbh. I'd even go as far as to call it a 6/10, but i can lose hours into that game like nothing else

Alpha Protocol

Well designed spy game, replies on doing nothing revolutionary, just doing everything well.

Came out quite unique and underappreciated.

Superliminal

"Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective."

It's a fun first person puzzle game that has a surreal theme and game mechanic to it. Most of the puzzles and levels will make you really think. While there was a puzzle that really stumped me, I ended up having to look online to figure it out because I had been going at it for over 30 minutes and had tried numerous things to get it to work. But as a whole, I found the game puzzles to be worthwhile, to obtain the ending game. The storytelling and narration is similar to The Stanley Parable, which was an interesting game but too short for my liking. And unfortunately, so was Superliminal. I've clocked 3.4 hours in-game and at least 30 or so minutes of that was just trying to figure out one of the puzzles in a room. I honestly was hoping for the game to provide me with at least 4-5 hours of gameplay. So... a 7/10 is what I would end up giving it.

Just Cause 3. Just a total blast to go swooping around in the wingsuit and blowing up bases.

The Shadow of War games.

The Nemesis system was amazing, but the game wasn't polished and had issues.

They somehow patented the mechanic and no one else can do it. And I steady of WB making a new game with it, they made fucking Smeagole

Planetside 2. That experience of actually fighting with thousands of players on the same map is something no other game can give. Otherwise it's not really a super good game and the graphics actually got worse at some point by largely removing PhysX. Sadly the company owning it doesn't want to put money into it and the playerbase is much smaller today than some years ago.

After looking Warhammer 40k Mechanicus is in the 7/10 range and I loved it. The setting, music and gameplay were all really enjoyable to me.

A Hat in Time. Is a phenomenal platformer collectathon. It flirts with many themes and is overall one of my favourite games.

Here's where it falls short. The online co-op is junk and doesn't work how you'd hope. The DLCs are kinda bad but it's nice to have more.

Aces Wild. - 2D action game with a dodge mechanic that felt kinda like Bayonetta's. Also laser dog pee.

TimeShift, an FPS from the Xbox360/PS3 era. It was my first PS3 game played on an HDTV. The time mechanics were fantastic, the graphics were amazing to me at the time, and it was a surprisingly fun time. I would be so happy with a remake/spiritual successor.

Housemarque's old Zaxxon-like The Reap is a litarally life-changing 7/10 for me for multiple reasons. It won't be for you, but it's still a fun game to mess with if you can get it to run. Look it up.

Lots of PC games of that era are unjustly forgotten. Abuse is too good for this thread, but who is playing Abuse these days?

Also, honorable mention to the brand/franchise with the most 7/10s I will defend, Spider-Man. Spider-Man vs the Kingpin was so weirdly ambitious for an early Mega Drive game, Maximum Carnage was so weirdly ambitious for a late 16 bit beat-em up, Lethal Foes looked crazy for a SNES platformer and never left Japan for some reason, Spider-Man Web of Shadows was panned, but had some crazy visual, gameplay and narrative ideas... people were always doing a bit better than they should for the ability or budget they had with those until Insomniac made them big budget AAA.

The bad ones are BAD, though.

Future Cop: LAPD

Though the game wasn't groundbreaking it was fun going around LA in a giant Mech blowing stuff up.

I really liked the ability to transform from a bipedal mech to a fast hover car which also helps with the pacing of the game.

It did introduce me to a tower defense PVP style multiplayer that my best friend and I were hooked on for a solid couple of months.

What are 7/10 games?

The First Tree

A beautiful personal little game about death and mourning. Got it for free because the developer gave out keys to an old forum dedicated to Dark Forces 2 editing, which basically started his career.

The Dark Pictures Anthology

Basically Until Dawn and The Quarry with lower budget. It shows but I can overlook that. They are nice little short stories that are very chill to play, considering the genre.

Biing!

A silly little sexy hospital management game. Never got far as a kid. When I managed to get further a little while ago I saw that there really wasn't that much more to the game. But it's silly and it's sexy and tickles my nostalgia.

Hmmm that's difficult.

FEAR, probably. It was a 10/10 for my childhood for sure, but it's probably a 7/10 total ?

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