PAL gang (and France) unite!
I have a very big blind spot when it comes differences between european vs US game versions. Back when games were more region specific I wasn’t yet online that much so the european version is just “the version” for me. I regularly find myself baffled that certain stuff was different in the US even 25 years later. Looking forward to seeing lots of that in here. I do hope that Brandon does not declare war on us again for being different though.
I have very fond memories of german games I played as a kid. I might write something up on a couple of them. I actually reminisced about Vampires Dawn in the Games you’re thinking about playing thread a couple of days ago. And I’m still tempted to revisit it.
As for more recent stuff I feel like some cool indie releases came out of here. Signalis (which I love), Chained Echoes (which I haven’t yet played), Cross Code (which I also like but didn’t finish for some reason). On the more higher budget side it’s looking a little less stellar. I’m a fan of and regularly lose a lot of time to Egosoft’s X games. Though I just saw yesterday that they used AI generated voice acting in the newest DLC for X4 which makes me really sad.
Hamburg, the city I live in, actually is home to quite a few game studios though unfortunately the majority of them make cash grabby mobile and browser games and generally behave in horrible ways like firing employees who try to unionize or organize in different ways to fight for their rights as employees. I haven’t really been in touch with the local video game dev scene outside of being a consumer. I went to Gamescom like 15 years ago but that’s about it. I’m thinking about getting more involved though.