I’m replaying through the Metroid Prime Trilogy again, primehack is amazing.

Just be careful about asking it to create villains capable of outwitting you.

That’s almost enough time to get through a full Gregtech:New Horizons run!

So my first thought is:

1. Minecraft, even a handful of modpacks would set you up for a long time
2. Morrowind, pretty much any tes game is going to give you lots of replay
3. Rimworld, same as Minecraft in that I’ve already had for years and it’s on the top of my played hours on steam.

I may swap one with Satisfactory if this question was asked after 1.0. Elden Ring would be up there too, and maybe Stellaris, actually really difficult to limit to a small handful, there’s a few I have as semi regular replays (ME trilogy, DA:O) that don’t have the same time investment.

Edit: after reading some comments,

1. Minecraft, modded Minecraft gives you massive amounts of replayability
2. Mass Effect Collection, this is a bit cheaty as it’s bundling the trilogy in one group, but the ME series is still one of the more memorable game series to me, between that and DA:O I’d have a hard choice but think the trilogy would win out.
3. Elden Ring, only picked up before the DLC dropped and it’s already in my top 5, world is amazing, I do loosely themed runs when I play so I’ve not even scratched the surface in terms of build possibilities and it’s great for someone who likes to theorycraft

100% a title that would struggle with full controller, for me it was cities skylines and rimworld. Also played a lot of warframe and spec ops:the line with mine, being able to have actions trigger at different points of the trigger pull was interesting, had a profile I grabbed for shooters that’d enable gyro aiming at the last bit of your trigger pull for fine adjustment and seriously, it works extremely well once you get used to it. The pads also supported osd rotary menus for hotkeys which was probably what the left pad got the most use out of, had the ability to set different behaviour too using mod buttons are by touching the rim of the pad. Also the haptic feedback on the pads was interesting, did a lot to make them feel more real, seriously had a really powerful piece of hardware with the og steam controller.

Totally was, it didn’t have rumble for battery life reasons, but didn’t miss it much at the time, barely used the rumble pack on the n64, think I got mine at EB games to try out the OOT secret hint feature (it’d buzz the pack if you were near a hidden secret), feedback has come a LONG way since then in terms of immersion.

I really liked the wavebird for the gamecube, unfortunately mine went into the aether on my last move, got bluetooth adapters to pair modern controllers with it but the wavebird was really cool at the time, was really amazing to not have to be tethered to the console and it being first party, though at the time the madcatz stuff was decent.

For recent controllers, I’ve been using a knockoff 360 controller for moonlight recently and after a lot of back and forth I really think MS nailed the controller setup back then (OG Xbox being decent but not a preference, I hated the duke, s controller was solid though), I like the xbone controllers as well, but IMO they’re just iterations on the 360 controller, easily my preference as an all rounder controller layout.

I have a steam controller, used it for a while but it’s been some time now, had some really great ideas, I’d totally go for an updated steamdeck style layout on that, probably a second for me.

I’ve had so much drift issues with ds4s that I personally don’t reach for a ds4 or dualsense for non playstation games, I like being able to swap batteries and the Xbox/Steam controllers all seem to have way better battery life in general, I keep a stock of rechargeables around so not generating piles of waste.

The scadutree buffs are pretty big from what I can tell, I’ve got a bunch becauae I explore a lot on first runs and it seems to be at least 3-4% boost to attack and defenses, with some of the new talismans too found there’s a lot of stuff to work with.

So far, feels pretty well balanced, it has challenge but I’ve not encountered anything that made me question how I died, first few big fights were pretty well telegraphed and super enjoyable. What I really like is that you can go try something else if you hit a wall, go level up a bit, try new gear or different approaches

Didn’t know that! Steam has some really nice features, steam input alone is amazing so I’ll definitely give that a try.

I’d love a Morrowind type journal to log some of that, totally get I can write things down outside the game, I’d just like to have that option in game especially as I can tend to jump around games and put them down for some time. They’re almost there with the player map markers and NPC markers, even just having the ability to make notes in game would be big for me.

It’s really just a good example of how much energy phase changes take, all you’re really doing is expending work to make your refrigerant condense and evaporate where you want it to.

Heatpipes also exploit phase changes, just passively, it’s why they move so much energy.

Have you tried Ion Fury? It’s new build engine and it’s fantastic.

The 880s are bulletproof, I daily drove mine for a decade (even back then recommendation was also audiophile headphones and a mic) before replacing the pads and modding them to have a detachable cable. I use a pair of DT1990 now with the same dekoni audio pads I used on my 880s, I keep meaning to get some other headphones for variety but I’ve honestly had no complaints with Beyerdynamic.