Mine has to be Dragon Quest: Rocket Slime, a DS spin off of the Dragon Quest series that sees you playing as a slime operating a tank and rescuing the people from your town. You run around the overworld, collecting items to use as ammunition and saving money to upgrade your tank. The art and music are just as great as you’d expect from the Dragon Quest series. It made fantastic use of the DS’s dual screens. It’s also written for a younger audience, so a lot of it is just really silly and fun! Try it out for sure, I’m so sad there’s no sequel :(
Black and White, it was a god simulator on PC in 2001. You interact with your villagers and the world as a floating hand, casting spells to raise faith in villages or throwing rocks to smite as necessary. You also got a giant pet that you could train to do your bidding.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_%26_White_(video_game)
In certain circles it is well known, but Baba Is You is one of the most ingenious games for a long while and should be known even wider.
Fantastic game. If anyone is interested, you can download the original concept version of the game that the dev made for a Game Jam. It kinda acts like a free 20 min demo for the full version. You can find the download link here.
One of the only puzzle games that made me think I’m dumb and give up. It’s fantastic
Every time you solve a puzzle, you feel like you’re cheating and that can’t be the intended solution. It’s such a tough game
Truly a unique game. Super challenging for people who think they “know” puzzle games lol
I really want to finish it but my brain can’t keep up and stops working after a while
Played it with some friends on a pass the controller night. Really fun and makes you think.
Initially looks just a simple twist on Sokoban, but the game mechanic just keeps going deeper and deeper and blowing your mind.
I could do that?
I COULD DO THAT?!
I’m not a gamer but I do enjoy Real Civil Engineer’s youtube channel, he’s played Baba Is You a few times.
Mine is definitely Freelancer. The game by Chris Roberts that actually got finished by firing him.
I love that game, the story is engaging and the characters are likeable.
I’m probably just seeing it with nostalgia but I like to play it until this day. I installed it on my Steam Deck and gave it a go. It was awesome.
Wait, did they fire Chris Roberts before finishing Freelancer? I never knew.
Freelancer was the first game I clocked over 500 hours on in online play. So many fond memories.
Edit: OK, read up on it. They absolutely did. I never new Chris Roberts was such a Chris Roberts all the way back in 1999.
I never new Chris Roberts was such a Chris Roberts all the way back in 1999.
Damn, me neither. Got a nice link for that read?
Yes Roberts has brilliant ideas, but terrible sense of scope.
In my honest opinion Star Citizen will never be done, and will eventually run out of money, not soon, but eventually.
Holy shit, blast from the past. Haven’t thought about that game for ages. Where did you find it?
To be fair, I have an installation disk and just copied the installed files and some patches to the deck. You need some special fonts I think. Other than that, it has no copy protection so it runs fine without a disk.
Thanks for the info! Now where did I leave that disk…
I wonder if the Discovery mod/community is still going. It was an rp focussed mod, but added a ton of shit to the game, including piloting bigger ships.
Really fun game, hasn’t quite been another game that scratches the same itch as freelancer.
You might want to look at this.
Freelancer multiplayer is still alive and kicking.
Planetside 2 - someone else already mentioned it here, but it’s the only game in it’s genre and nothing else really comes close to what it offers (persistent 1v1v1 +300 player battles across infantry, land, air, and sea). It’s been kicking for over a decade now and I’m not sure what could replace it if or when it finally kicks it. It’s truly singular, and responsible for some of my fondest memories in gaming. It’s also free!
You should check out Foxhole. It’s a pretty similar type of game though not an fps. Is more of a top down shooter type thing
Is it still played?
Yeah! It’s a relatively small player base these days, but you can always find fights during the evenings.
relatively small player base these days, but you can always find fights during the evenings.
Sounds familiar, lol.
I really enjoyed Space Station Silicon Valley for the N64. It turns out there was a bug in the original game so you could never complete it 100%. A couple years ago, I purchased an Everdrive (https://krikzz.com/our-products/cartridges/ed64x7.html) so I could patch the ROM and play on original hardware. Pair this with some new wireless controllers and it’s the perfect experience.
Heroes of the Storm. It’s not getting any updates anymore but as long as the servers are up, I’ll still play it.
Among all the love Bioware gets for KotOR and Mass Effect I’m genuinely surprised more people aren’t talking about Jade Empire.
It’s a full fledged classic Bioware RPG set in an interesting world based on Chinese mythology, has some great characters and a fun (if simple) combat system. Voice acting is mostly good too, especially for a 2005 game and it even has John Cleese doing a part!
I loved it when it came out and am stumped as to why it never became a BioWare mainstay. Maybe releasing as an exclusive for the original Xbox just killed it, but if you enjoy this style of RPG I highly recommend checking it out!
Jade empire was legit. i’m really surprised that there haven’t been any other kung fu type rpgs since.
In parallel universe we would have had Jade Empire (series) written by Bioware at their peak with combat by Platinum games.
Or maybe some could make SF6 story mode X Jade Empire.
In parallel universe we would have had Jade Empire (series) written by Bioware at their peak with combat by Platinum games.
I hadn’t even thought about that but you’re right. What a wonderful thought.
It’s also kind of surprising no effort has been done to remaster Jade Empire since that is such a popular cash grab these days. But maybe the brand strength of the IP is just that low?
A really old game called Fat Princess - it was a wonderful multiplayer real time strategy kind of thing, with a beautiful community for quite a few years. Despite the name, it was one of the best games I’ve ever played!
If you were on there and recognise my screen name, yes it is me!
Played the PSP version, never had the chance to play online, but I could see how it’d be great chaotic fun with multiplayer matches
That game looked great, it annoyed me it was a PS exclusive.
It really was, way more than the sum of its parts. It also had one of the nicest communities, for an online game there was very little bad behaviour and the devs and other employees would be around from time to time to play, too!
FTL: Faster Than Light, a pixel sci fi rouge like where you manage a ship and crew jumping point to point on a mission through space. I keep coming back to it and it’s always fun. There’s an amazing mod community that I’ll just starting to explore as well
I rarely hear people talk about it but whenever I do, it’s nothing but love.
Return of the Obra Dinn is an amazing game that I wish I could play again for the first time. The art style is super unique and the attention to detail in every aspect of the game is incredible.
Highly recommend.
Lucas Pope is an incredible game designer. I’m very excited to see what he comes up with next
My Summer Car. It’s probably still #1 for play time on Steam for me. I bought a whole-ass racing wheel setup just for that game.
MDK. Sure, it was arguably “popular” when it launched, but is largely forgotten in videogame lore. There’s not even talks of a remake.
American McGee’s Alice and the much later sequel which is my favourite game of all time - Alice: Madness Returns.
The aesthetic, the puzzles, the sound design, the voice acting, the political statements underlying the narrative, Alice’s outfits, the collectibles hidden in obscure places, the different art styles for each world level. I just love it! I mean sure, the combat mechanics are not as complex as some games but they fit nicely into Alice in Wonderland lore and if you up the difficulty settings it can be more challenging.
I’m also really enjoying Inscryption at the moment. A puzzle/card game interweaved with an escape the room horror story.
I cannot believe these games aren’t talked about, madness returns was so dark and good. Loved both these games.
Sooooo dark. Especially the reveal for the final boss. Agh, gonna have to do a replay now 😂
Both are great games! Inscryption was the only game I’ve ever bought on launch after seeing gameplay videos and I had no regrets. Hope you enjoy it too!
Deeper cut—the same dev has a game called a the Hex and I can never get anyone to play it, but it’s fucking brilliant. I rate it higher than Inscryption. People see preview and nope out because of the graphics. I went in blind and the graphics are explained after like 30 minutes. It’s genius and amazing and the least appreciated game I’ve rated higher than an 8/10.
I was definitely a bit put off by the graphics from the Hex, and didn’t really get the references to it in Inscryption. I might give it a try since you’re recommending it.
Pony Island was a hell of a game, though. I remember watching the gameplay videos and being impressed at how innovative Daniel Mullins games were.
Pleeeeeeease try the hex, and go in blind. I ended up liking it MORE than Inscryption, and I LOVE Inscryption. The Hex is a fucking masterpiece and I think the “graphics” you see in previews really held back lots of people (including me) from playing it.
But Yahtzee mentioned it as one of the best games he’s played in a review and refused to elaborate, and usually when he does that it means I should just pick it up and go in blind (see: The forgotten city)
Incredible experience, if you even kinda enjoyed Pony Island… oh man, PLEASE get The Hex and if you do, please come back here and let me know how you felt at certain points. It would make me so happy, it’s soooo difficult to get anyone to experience that amazing game. And it’s like NO MONEY hahaha
The Thief and Tenchu series need more love.
I used to consider Thief/Tenchu/Hitman to be the core stealth games but currently only Hitman is still being made :/
I played all versions of thief when they came out. Thief was such a fun stealth game. I always kept plenty of water arrows and would just knock out all the lights.
Being able to solve a situation in multiple creative and unique ways is awesome. I love when games let you do this kinda thing.
Any love for the Monkey Island series here?
I’ve never played one of the games but have heard thousands talk about them so I wouldn’t say that counts.
I’ll take it.
So let me ask you this. Have you heard of Loom™? It’s the latest masterpiece in fantasy storytelling from LucasFilm’s™ Brian Moriarty™.
How appropriate, you fight like a cow!
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You never heard anybody to talk about Monkey Island? Seriously?
