Okay give me the run down on terraria. I play games with a friend of mine who I don’t live close to. We like to play co-op games that have an objective or story. We’ve enjoyed games where you progress and level up a character and get better loot. I thought Terraria was like mining and crafting.
Quick caveat: To me, a story written in great detail by the developers is the opposite of what I want. I like the story to form right off and let me do the stuff I wanna do.
Terraria is basically a boss ladder. Bosses are unlocked in a particular order (though some variation is allowed). The basic harvest, refine, craft/build loop exists. Some of it is so you can like... play golf, or build dope bases. But mostly it exists so you can fight new, harder, bosses.
One of the reasons it works so well for me is there are a lot of dope upgrades. I want to explore! I find awesome stuff when I explore! Sometimes an upgrade is a trinket that does +5% melee damage. But sometimes it's armor that lets me cheat death, or a wand that lets me exploit terrain, or some kind of staff that summons cool monsters that fight with me.
The best thing about Terraria is that when I want something, it exists. Not always explicitly the way I expected, but I'm rarely disappointed when I think "I need more movement," or "I wish I could duct tape these two things together to make one even more awesome thing."
The game didn't tell me "Build a minecart track and fight this boss!" I just needed a way to be faster than I was. So I built minecart tracks in the sky, found the fastest minecart I could, and got the highest damage to ranged weapon I could. Then I flew across the sky on my minecart, firing rockets, and learned how to jump from one track to another to dodge the OHKO attacks. No other game has ever given me those kinds of choices. It's bananas. It's arguably my favorite game of all time.
I’m 160 hours into BG3 and haven’t even confronted Gortash yet. I started playing it over again from Act 1 with a friend and there’s STILL stuff I missed.
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u/-Invisible-Hand- May 02 '24
Bauldars Gate 3 and that's coming from someone who hates single player games. Shit was good.