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Long story short I went deaf yesterday and am waiting for an ent Dr to call me for an appointment (I've already been seen by a Dr), but I'm going CRAZY with how quiet everything is.

I have over 600 games on steam, and am looking for a CONTROLLER based game that has either accessibility options for deaf, or doesn't lose anything by my not hearing it.

Really I just need some gaming comfort in what's turning out to be the scariest time of my life.

EDIT for those with a lot of questions.(edit 2 at the bottom)

Woke up yesterday and my ears felt like they needed to pop, though nothing would help. At about 3 my ears started bleeding, followed quickly by loud ringing (similar decibels to riding on an airplane, but the highest pitch you could imagine), and I went to the er. By the time the Dr looked at me, the ent was gone for the day, so he sent an urgent referral to the ent. I'm just waiting for a phone call to schedule (funny, I know, call the deaf guy).

I appreciate all fo the kind words and helpful resources during this terrifying time. And I appreciate all the game recommendations.

And as a final, somewhat depressing thought, as I have no where else to put my thoughts out rohjt now, if this is permanent, I'm going to thoroughly miss the sound of my significant others voice. The rest I can live with.

EDIT 2: I got my meds and the eardrops specifically restored a little bit of my hearing. It's very faint, and painful, but wiping the blood from my ears I could hear the tissue against my skin!

I don't mean prerecorded sequences and videos (unless?), those are usually stable.

I'm talking about when a game shifts to an in-engine cutscene but there's still action going on and the scene breaks.

I've had this happen with some speaking sections in Fallout 4, but those are just barely cutscenes and doesn't really count... but it IS what inspired this topic.

What's a game you play when life gets too stressful and you need to blow off some steam

I just had a random shower thought: I wonder how many games have a number in them that isn't a part of a sequel. For example, Fallout 3&4 wouldn't count, but Fallout 76 would, as would Horizon Zero Dawn. All the Anno games fall in the grey area.

What weird titles come to mind for you?

Edit to add: not sequels, not prequels, not to indicate a number in a series of arbitrary canon/non-spinoff franchises. Final Fantasy is a prime example of what I'm NOT looking for. 😁

For me the top three are Minecraft, Terraria and Maplestory. Every few years me or my friends get the urge to create a new Terraria/Minecraft world and beat the game.

1. Something about those games always make me want to come back.

I was gonna buy the standard edition for 60, and then saw that the deluxe edition was 70% off. It’s 23.99

So yup, just throwing that out for anyone looking to play this game. I’m excited :)

I'm a big fan of the fire emblem games, but I will admit that I didn't like engage. I found the combat to be as engaging as ever, but the anime tropes and characters were really annoying. I liked 3H, though. My issues is that I heard the new one is heavily skewed towards the out of combat activities, particularly the social features. Is this true?

After finishing Onimusha, it's hard to go to other games. I tried Control Resonant, and it's a good game, but not like Onimusha. Sekiro is obviously also great. I've tried the Dark Souls games and Elden Ring, and while they're fine. I prefer faster paced games. I loved DMC, Ninja Gaiden. The new Jedi games. How is Stellar Blade? Any other games you guys would recommend? I tried Lies of P, but found it too slow.

It feels as if most games where you can play evil/a villain there's always either a hero character or often a worse villain out there who foils *you,* or the game is simply about doing your evil thing (destroying all humans, for instance, overlording, etc)

I downloaded Pathfinder: Kingsmaker the other day looking for this vibe and got to a point where a shady necromancer slinks out of the shadows to bring >!Tartuccio!<back to life, and even though I can literally play Chaotic Evil it's *that* guy who I want to play as, the guy slinking around and undermining people.

Is there anything like this?