The early Metal Gear games came around before I got into gaming, but I think this qualifies as a hot take.
The Resident Evil 2 remake is so good. As someone who never played the original, the remake made me appreciate the game and the franchise.
I beat Citizen Sleeper last weekend. It's a true role-playing game in every sense of the word. There's little in the way of gameplay. The more direct comparison is Disco Elysium. It isn't quite the masterpiece that Disco Elysium is, but the moment-to-moment gameplay is similar. Talk to people, make decisions, and roll some dice.
For you TTRPGers, the dice system is actually quite interesting. You roll several D6s at the beginning of every day. You pick which activities you do and allocate the dice rolls as you see fit. Absolutely need to accomplish the task ahead of you? Use your 6 for guaranteed success. I'd love to test the system in an actual TTRPG. "Okay, do I use my 20 to persuade this guard or save it for combat? When do I use my 1?"
In Citizen Sleeper, you play as a second-class citizen who escaped from corporate slavery to a space station. You meet ship salvagers, construction workers, a line cook, bounty hunters, botanists, and a ton of others trying to survive on the periphery of civilization. The game only took me about 7.5 hours. I'd recommend it if you're into text-based RPGs. 8.5/10.
Now that Hades II has officially launched, I'm focused on beating the sequel to my favorite game ever. I think they re-tuned the game since I last played it in early access. I was regularly getting my ass beat in the 7.5 hours I put in during early access. Since the full release, both of my deaths came to the final boss. During early access, I thought the game was much harder than the original; now I'm thinking the opposite.
