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And if you're on PC platforms other than Windows, it's more like "never."

I'm shocked that RE4 got a GotY nomination. I thought there were rules against remakes or remasters getting Game Awards nominations; am I wrong, or did that change at some point?

Star Ocean: The Second Story R.

The PS1 original was good, but it had some noticeable flaws. The book writing skill was more or less useless, side quests were often too well hidden from view (which was especially bad when most of them were time-limited), the accessories that gave you items were a bit in-your-face, there was no in-game mini-map, the invisible random encounters and lack of fast travel didn't age well, and the voice acting… What were they thinking when they released this…

The remake fixes most of what went wrong in the original game, including re-casting the English voice actors, and even adds some new content (like fishing) that wasn't in the original. I'm enjoying it a lot.

Maybe. Have you tried using Whisky?

No, because none of the above have multiplayer.

Here are some more good puzzle games that are not Portal/Portal 2:

• Colossal Cave
• The Entropy Centre
• Hourglass
• Myst
• Obduction
• Pneuma: Breath of Life
• Quantum Conundrum (one of the original Portal developers was attached to this project)
• Quern: Undying Thoughts
• Riven (this is the sequel to Myst, but unlike Myst, it has never been remade since it first came out back in 1997, so you'll have to excuse the old graphics and gameplay)
• The Talos Principle (the sequel is coming out soon)
• The Turing Test
• The Witness

If you can only play one of the above, then as the other commentors have said, make it The Witness. The recent remake of Myst is also very good.

The problem is, we must care if the game is to have any sequels, follow-ups, or lasting legacy. If the game is awesome, but doesn't sell well, then it probably won't get sequels, and will be forgotten to everyone except Wikipedia & Moby Games over enough time.

Please ignore cloud; they have been posting inaccurate flamebait throughout this thread.

I would never not buy a laptop from Apple. Not only are they the last PC maker that hasn't fallen to the Microsoft Monopoly Machine, but their laptops are well-built†, futuristic, and have incredible value and battery life for what you get. Especially since they migrated off of Intel.

† I know someone will inevitably come up with a counter-example, but the last time they had a widespread quality problem was a little more than ten years ago.

Character speed control is even older than that; many of Sierra's games in the 1980s/early 1990s (like King's Quest, Space Quest, etc.) had them. Adjusting them made some of them even easier, because it didn't affect enemies, allowing you to easily evade them during chase scenes.

I can only think of a few games that have had customizable difficulty. The problem with them is they complicate the user experience, and most people would rather not tinker with them.

Apple has their own Proton, called the Game Porting Toolkit, and it works well for games that don't need a launcher & are mainly played with a keyboard and mouse, but I've found that game controllers don't work very well with it.

There's also MoltenVK, which is Vulkan for macOS, and DXVK, a DirectX-to-Vulkan-to-Metal layer that was used to play some Windows games on macOS before the GPTK came out.

Yes.