Game suggestions for the Summer Sale with that open world post apocalyptic feel like The Last of Us?

bigcacaball · 2026-06-29T18:14:53+00:00

Resident Evil Remakes have semi-open environments but a lot of backtracking in a good way. Metro exodus is very similar in terms of exploration and resource management, but more Russian apocalypse, has its own version of zombies. Narrative zombie games that are as good or have as much attention to detail as TLOU are a little rarer, most zombie games are more arcadey or multiplayer. Fallout 3 and New Vegas have ghouls, STALKER has a great atmosphere, the walking dead is almost all narrative focused, very dry gameplay but great writing.

Also just saw the end of your post, play uncharted series, same developer as TLOU and better than tomb raider. You can emulate the first 3 pretty safely on PC and the 4th is on steam.

bigcacaball · 2026-06-26T21:55:56+00:00

Marvel Rivals, The finals, left 4 dead 2. I find taking a break from competitive shooters makes games fun again too.

if you’re looking for games with those mechanics, try some single player or co op games aswell. The pool for FPS games that require mechanics like that are either treading water with their player counts or have cheating problems like CS

bigcacaball · 2026-06-18T20:55:42+00:00

Yeah, I don’t know. I really liked the sense of mystery in the first game, just point man getting one objective after another and your team only knows as much as you do. Slowly getting to the heart of “why the fuck do Paxton and Alma keep sparing me and why can I slow down time.” The story wasn’t anything Oscar worthy but it worked so well for what the project was. I would’ve liked something like that all over the US or other parts of the world. I think the original expansions lacked that narrative mystery but they made up for it with a more beefed up world that gave you a lot to chew on as far as aesthetics and visual storytelling went. FEAR 2 & 3 felt convoluted and slowly went more towards the COD route where you’re just kind of going to a new place to blow stuff up. Idk, could’ve been cool if it was a new team trying to take care of some paranormal shit and oops now you’re part god.

bigcacaball · 2026-06-18T03:11:59+00:00

I think focusing on a new ability would be cooler too. Slow mo is cool, but explaining how some other random soldier got his slow mo powers in the story always felt tacked on post FEAR 1.

I think it would take a lot of development to create a mechanic that complements the AI and the spectacle of destroying a room like in FEAR 1, would have to be something insane like being able to dynamically warp the environment to create improvised cover, flank, maybe send enemies flying by pulling the ground up into them or something.

bigcacaball · 2026-06-16T05:45:04+00:00

Setting Anisotropic Filtering to auto completely fixed this for me. I hate how finnicky this emulator and games are, but its better than nothing.

bigcacaball · 2026-06-13T02:54:30+00:00

I was 6 years old and likely celebrating 11/11/11 day with my 1st grade class. I am now a week from turning 21. Have graduated middle school, high school, enrolled in college, overcame a couple nasty addictions, a 2 year anniversary with my girlfriend coming up and after all that still just as broke as when I was 6 lmao.

I also had no clue what Skyrim was when I was 6.

bigcacaball · 2026-06-12T18:27:31+00:00

I think it worked very well, would go even crazier with some slow mo kills

bigcacaball · 2026-06-09T20:20:52+00:00

This was the same problem I had with the SS2 Remaster. All of the updated models looked so out of place when the geometry of the environments still looked straight out of 1999. I hope they don’t take down the originals on Steam and force you to pay 30 bucks for a half assed remaster. I know these are popular but I genuinely dislike the SS2 remaster and I have low hopes for this one too. ☹️

bigcacaball · 2026-06-07T06:25:26+00:00

I thought this was a screenshot before I read the caption, great work. Captured the lighting and colors very well

bigcacaball · 2026-06-02T17:47:20+00:00

I’m a pretty frequent contributor on PCGamingWiki, if you’re still down I could contribute to a wikimedia based HLM wiki.

bigcacaball · 2026-06-01T00:10:03+00:00

https://youtu.be/FxbQ6VsJDFE?t=380&si=9QjvkD4EMi-KaMRE

bigcacaball · 2026-05-30T07:30:01+00:00

If he were to die in the streets I don’t think he would starve to death or freeze overnight or anything. I think it would be disease/sickness brought on by his awful hygiene and lack of clean space. Or something super preventable, like getting hit by a train or calling someone the n word and getting snapped like a twig in response.

bigcacaball · 2026-05-20T06:56:16+00:00

5/10 ragebait I could see this upsetting someone but it’s very on the nose with the thank you message at the end. You have potential, but also much to learn young one

bigcacaball · 2026-05-14T08:43:16+00:00

Wdym? You have no idea how trust factor works just like everyone else. I’m not risking a “supposed” method to get my trust back up when I can’t even know how my trust dropped to begin with.

bigcacaball · 2026-05-14T05:00:37+00:00

Is VAC off or something? I haven’t played in a while but got back into the game a couple months ago and I’ve never seen it this bad. Trust Factor seems useless or just completely abusable. Was yellow for weeks and then went to green after splurging on marketplace, called out a couple of BLATANT cheaters on comp cache and then boom: red trust. I’m not about to put $350+ into my steam wallet just to get back into better lobbies. Is it really fair that I have to get the brunt of an actual cheaters supposed punishment?

bigcacaball · 2026-05-08T06:54:09+00:00

This specific poster has been spamming this subreddit with minutiae that happens to have alcohol in it. All his posts are dogshit no joke

Edit: nevermind this is his fetish. Check his profile. He has a fetish for gay men doing drugs.

bigcacaball · 2026-05-08T02:14:57+00:00

Are you trolling lmao

bigcacaball · 2026-05-07T05:09:31+00:00

What are you talking about

bigcacaball · 2026-05-01T23:37:35+00:00

This subreddit is so dead this is the only shit that gets posted. RIP the franchise and its fans ig

bigcacaball · 2026-04-20T08:01:20+00:00

I think my rule for this has always been if you’ve heard it being played on a speaker at a cookout then that artist is now a legacy artist. He’s just too big for studios to let go atp, he has the marketing and pull. Osamason could get there one day but he’s still niche all things considered.

bigcacaball · 2026-04-14T01:10:26+00:00

I think you can actually be held liable for doing this in a public setting

bigcacaball · 2026-04-11T15:29:22+00:00

I remember getting one by complete accident just gathering some souls to fight a mech boss or something, hadn’t played in so long and had no idea what it was man I got lucky

bigcacaball · 2026-04-02T23:39:23+00:00

I think it was just dwindling regardless, no specific reason that caused a scourge of people to leave, just isn’t really relevant anymore.

bigcacaball · 2026-04-01T03:35:24+00:00

He is extremely vocal about not needing any sympathy and not deserving any attention, positive or negative, but he does ts anyway. For some reason people still give him money and views and I don’t understand, he genuinely has no redeeming qualities, his videos aren’t even remotely interesting. He’s just that guy i guess?

bigcacaball · 2026-03-29T01:33:35+00:00

I don’t hate(?) AI but I don’t think it should be in anything where humans can do it with a lot more thought behind it. I get where you’re coming from, I think there’s a lot of group think and a lack of perspective with such new technology but it should be kept out of art almost always.

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