What are your favorite games that you never see mentioned anywhere?
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Man Uniracers is so good, my friends and I would have huge tournaments. Too bad Pixar got all uppity and claimed they had a trademark on unicycles. Good grief
I kinda want to get back into programming enough to create a knockoff version... Pone dev indie games are all the rage now, lol
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There's a bunch on the PS1 that got lost in the mix.
Ape Escape was really fun and novel, it was the first mandatory dual-stick release, and it did initially sell really well! It got two sequels on the PS2 but then drifted into spin-offs and party games. It's been two decades since the last proper installment.
Tomba! is delightful nonsense, a 2D adventure platformer that presented non-linear quests and tight controls. It's a cult-classic and the digital Special Edition on PS5 looks like it was done well.
Now for something truly forgotten: Running Wild. It's a kart racer but instead of karts it's a bunch of furries in a footrace. The announcer yells a lot, some of the character designs are lazy stereotypes, the graphics are muddy, but the track design is solid and it really feels fast when you get going. Very rewarding to learn the best lines and get into a clean flow.
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Whoah, when did they change the name?
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Armadillo Run
Robot Alchemic Drive (R.A.D.)
The Saboteur
You are the only person I have ever seen mention Armadillo Run. I used to be obsessed with that game.
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Thing Thing series
Pocket Tanks
Black Ice
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Mount & Blade. It’s not unpopular per se, but somehow I never saw anyone mentioning it around here in Lemmy.
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Definitely Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, an RTS in the Star Wars universe that uses the Age of Empires 2 engine and has very similar gameplay.
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Definitely Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, an RTS in the Star Wars universe that uses the Age of Empires 2 engine and has very similar gameplay.
i played the shit out of that. still have the deluxe "saga" edition complete in box.
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Gun. (2005) So fun.
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I kinda want to get back into programming enough to create a knockoff version... Pone dev indie games are all the rage now, lol
Do it! Even if it's just a reason to learn more programming. Those are always fun projects
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hey f$#@ you buddy I haven't lost the game through the internet in awhile, that was a low swipe
You can't even label these fuckers as "I lost the game because of that idiot", because then you lose every time you see them
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My family (wife and multiple kids) oddly enough have access to both this and Minecraft and actually prefer Luanti most of the time.
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You can't even label these fuckers as "I lost the game because of that idiot", because then you lose every time you see them
wrote last edited by [email protected]Now you beginning to understand the difficulty I have with most of my real life friendships, my life is a battlefield littered with perfectly nice moments split in two by The Game blasting through, making everybody lose in a terrible animal cry.
The are no heroes in the foxhole, especially when the war is The Game and your fellow soldiers in the foxhole with you are bad at The Game.
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Whoah, when did they change the name?
October
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One of my favorite games is a hidden gem that I never see people mention. It's called Out of Space and it's a couch co-op game similar to Overcooked with two major differences, it's less frenetic so you can play it to chill out, and it's procedurally generated so you have lots of replayability. For me and my wife it's the perfect game of "let's play a round of something", yet I never see it mentioned anywhere.
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The Fatal Frame series (maybe the second one here and there) and Kunitsu-Gami. The second one surprised me since it's relatively new, but I thought it was a great surprise. I loved the hell out of that game.
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You are the only person I have ever seen mention Armadillo Run. I used to be obsessed with that game.
wrote last edited by [email protected]And you're the only person I've ever seen recognize it in turn.
Part of me wants to ask where you went to college since that's the only community I knew who played it, but I also wouldn't post that here.
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Back in the day I really enjoyed ONI.
_edit: _ some gameplay footage.
Oni had such a cool combat system! There aren't enough single-player action games with this type of combat depth IMO. This video (YouTube link) does a great job explaining it in detail.
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Mount & Blade. It’s not unpopular per se, but somehow I never saw anyone mentioning it around here in Lemmy.
I was playing it on console so I didn't get to do any mods to really increase the fun but I still had a lot of fun anyway. I do think the devs need to try a bit harder. I feel like they just provide a framework for mods without making a really nice game themselves.
That being said I played hundreds of hours of both and really like them. I just wish they were a bit better
