The costume from Annihilation alone makes me think I need to play this. And I also because I really enjoyed the rebooted Tomb Raider trilogy, having not ever play TR before.

Played Dot Hack Infection, Jet Moto 2, and GTA San Andreas

Both Dot Hack Infection and Jet Moto 2 showed up at work. Dot Hack is a series that I've always been curious about as it was something that was aware of as a teen when it came out, just never knew too much about. The game is fun with some interesting hooks to keep it fresh, especially as an MMO that you can play offline

Jet Moto is a series that I've wanted to play more of since I fiddled around with the demo for 3 in an issue of Playstation Underground. The tracks are incredibly varied and difficult when you feel you only understand a 3rd of the game's controls

Been watching playthroughs of GTA Definitive Collection and that's what's brought on a need to replay San Andreas. Never got into the series until I was older, but always remember playing San Andreas at both of my cousin's houses

Speaking of old games, I've thought highly of Medieval from the original Playstation ever since I got the demo in Playstation magazine some 20+ years ago. I never did get to the full game or its sequels, but I remembered it fondly. This past year I saw the PS4 remaster and was stoked to finally play through it, but man! I can't.

I don't know if the issue is something with the remaster or just how move-y the camera was on these old PS games, but I get wicked motion sickness playing this game, and I normally don't with games. I don't remember if the original was this way, or maybe it's today's bigger screens. Whatever it is, the game is absolutely unplayable for me which is a shame.

That is a damn shame for your friend. I used to have some issues with that back in the day on early 3D shooters but it's basically been a non-issue for decades. I guess it's just something about that game.

You might like The Messenger. It's a modern homage to Ninja Gaiden/Metroidvania with a cool time travel mechanic. 2D platformer and it's funny.

I just realized from something someone else said elsewhere on the internet I’ve been playing Warframe for 5 years now. And its my first and only free to play game Ive played to this day.

It depends on how much time you want to put into the game. Frames (armor basically so as to not spoil the game) are farmed mostly from bosses. It takes three parts to make a frame, and then each part takes different resources to craft. The blueprint for most of the early frames can be bought in the in game market for credits, which are dropped by all enemies. Earlier frames are still easy to farm yourself without spending actual cash to get. But later frames I have spent cash on as the farm for later frames has become more and more tedious. And for every day you log into play you get a "daily tribute" which gives any number of rewards including 25, 50 and 75% discounts. The latter being what I use to when I put actual cash money into the game.

The game heavily leans towards encouraging online play. Where up to four players can team up to do missions and all loot earned therein that mission every player receives. And since all different types of enemies have different drop tables and RNG, one player might kill one enemy and get a rare drop and all four players get it. As oppose to playing solo (which I mostly do) and then of course the chances of rare drops, drop from four chances to one.

There is also clans. These are multiple numbers of people that come together in an actual built dojo by the warlord of the clan, that people can do collective research and pool resources to make weapons, frames, tools, etc. And once someone has "researched" i.e. used all the resources needed to make the blueprint available, any one after that can buy the blueprint for credits and make it without putting the resources in it to make the blueprint itself.

Like I said the game his heavily designed to encourage team effort. When I started there were 230 missions available on the star chart. Before I joined the clan I am in now, I did 215 missions solo. I built a dojo with all 6 labs that are available and probably did 60-70% of all the research available myself to make the stuff available I wanted. It is feasible to do it solo if that's how you choose to do it. It's not easy by any means. And since I joined the clan, I think about 3 years ago, I have gotten help. Though I still mostly play solo. Just joining a clan alone even if you still choose to play solo is an immersive resource that will make you game a whole lot easier.

I've easily put $200-300 into this game over the years, with absolutely no regrets. But as I said that's because I play solo and am ok with spending cash to take the shortcuts I want to. But it is not necessary either.

The game offers a lot of cosmetics in game that you don't have to spend platinum (the currency you buy with cash) on. Also farming things and then selling them is a big part of the game too. You can farm rare items and weapons/frame parts/companion parts and sell them in the in game trade chat and earn platinum that way too. So really if you want to do the work, farming, playing, earning and trading you shouldn't have to spend a dime on this game. It's literally all about how much time/work you want to put into the game as oppose to taking shortcuts and spending cash on the game.

If you are a fan of fast paced third person grinding shooters, I couldn't recommend a better game. I've enjoyed it for all the years I have played it. I have taken several breaks over the years as the grind can burn you out sometimes. But I always come back to it.