General Game Discussion for March 2026

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My wife took a nap this evening which allowed me to play a bit of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain again. I finished the second and third missions and did two side missions.

I'm enjoying it quite a lot. It's the perfect kind of stealth game for me: one where stealth is optional. There is no real downside to being spotted as long as you manage not to die. It does reduce your score at the end of the mission, but so far that doesn't seem to actually affect anything.

I'm still messing up quite a lot, especially when trying to get into melee range or when I try to deal with more than one enemy at once, but I'm learning.

The game does feel a bit janky, in no small part because of the fact that the game is obviously not made to be played with keyboard and mouse. Since I'm not using my guns that much anyway I might just switch to controller.
Besides the controls, I did also manage to blow up a piece of artillery by bumping against it with my horse. Not sure why that happened, but luckily I survived.
 
It decided you were one of the good humans and spared you 🤣




I noticed something weird in my wishlist. I have two games wishlisted that are both about running a VHS video store, and they came out about a week apart:



I must be dreaming about running a video store. I always find it strange when a specific niche of game genre has multiple titles coming out at once. PCG had an article about it regarding games with eggs. I also noticed it when Tavern Keeper was about to come out, suddenly after 11 years of development there were many other tavern/pub simulator games out on Steam, they pushed back their early access release by about a year due to it. That must suck, make a game for 11 years thinking it's a unique concept just to have many other similar games come out when you're about to release yours.
 
Probably a lot do similar when some AAA(A) game hits the shelves, and they want to try to squeeze out a buck or two from some pure soul who happens to stumble upon the latest Cramson Dessert simulator or something like that. Also @Zed Clampet probably going to be interested in that https://store.steampowered.com/app/3552140/Retro_Rewind__Video_Store_Simulator/

@neogunhero Just noticed one of the developers for https://store.steampowered.com/app/3977290/Rewind_99/ is called Real Fake Games😁
 
I played one more mission in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain today. I noticed earlier that every mission lists how many objectives it has, but it doesn't show you those objectives. Today I realised that when you complete a mission, those objectives become visible and you can replay the mission to try to complete them, while also getting some extra rewards. Plus you can replay the mission to get a better score, which I learned today unlock challenge rewards.

Which means that I was wrong before, getting a bad score does affect you mechanically. However, it does seem like the rewards are good without being necessary, meaning it's a nice bonus if you do get a good score but not a problem if you don't.

I did try playing the game with a controller today, but aiming is so much harder with a controller that I ended up switching back to keyboard and mouse.
 
Here's a couple of games I've been keeping my eye on lately:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-bJIDN-fjw


World of Dogs is a brutal, stylized first person action game with some very advanced movement tech. In a way it reminds me of GunZ: The Duel if it were first person. I love the gritty low-fi dystopian worlds they've built.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQPAY63rI0c


I uh... have no idea what this is. You place random objects and lil' guys that make funny noises and movements and somehow you are able to build songs from it. An interactive silly sandbox. I'm mostly intrigued by just how weird it is.

View: https://youtu.be/usVtLkO4pZg?si=r1zDW4TzYGPGTsSf


Another weird game but this time with an aesthetic I can more accurately pinpoint. I am in absolute awe at how accurate they got the early-late 90s 3D raytraced look. It brings to mind the show Reboot, with how amateur the early 3D animation scene looked compared to today's standards. It's like someone watched the intro for Eyewitness that they used to show in elementary school and made a whole game based off it.
 

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