I saw this when it was in theatres, haven’t seen it since. It came with a lot of hype due to all the big-star names, and its marketing really hadn’t communicated how tongue-in-cheek it was. People went in expecting something akin to ID4 or Batman, and it sure wasn’t that.
Firewatch
Well-made story-focused, no combat whatsoever. Very few puzzles, almost exclusively about exploring.
What Remains of Edith Finch
More “puzzley”, but lets you discover things at your own pace.
The Eurogamer forum was my place in the early noughties. The forum was suddenly shut down in late 2021, removing about 20 years of discussions.
Is there a decent open source alternative for navigation?
Frontier: Elite 2 main theme by David Lowe, Amiga version. It may just be my memories from the game, but that track never fails to pick me up.
Crusader: No Remorse, the entire OST. Industrial meets 90s midi techno.
Ascendancy, OST by Nenad Vugrinec. Awesome ambient sounds.
and the Mass Effect OST.
This was the whole ethos of the first Star Wars films - Lucas made a point of getting everything look worn, to the point of having a term for it: the “used universe”. Exemplified by C-3PO’s whole look, Luke’s clothes or even Han Solos’s sweaty shirt.
It’s a shame he seems to have completely forgotten this when it was time to make the prequels…