What are your favorite games that you never see mentioned anywhere?
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Perfect Dark. I didn't have a sibling to play with, so I am eternally grateful to Rare for making computer-controlled bots in the multiplayer mode.
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“Hide and go fuck yourself.“
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SCP:SL(SCP: Secret Laboratory Yes Steam Only
Edit:Fix Link and Grammer
::: spoiler Description/Opinion of the game
a multiplayer Game uses SCP stories, and inspired by SCP:CB(SCP: Containment Breach)/SCP:CB multiplayer, you play as chaos,Mtf,scps,d-bois and scientists. in this game it takes place in SITE-02, you can set nukes, etc.
The goal is you must survive. the group that survives (Foundation,Chaos,scp) will win.
it also relies on community hosted servers.(the devs also host one)
it takes place in a non-cannon site-02.
its pretty fun to play ,and very good for VC, it feels designed for it.
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Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura. Even just the soundtrack is worth the price of admission.
One of the weirder concept RPGs and so very well executed. The fact that it didn't gain more traction is madness.
I really should play again with mods
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GUNZ The Duel - man that was just so much fun. Online guns and swords gladiator style battles in the most neat stages. I remember an old mansion with broken staircases and balconies, a train station with freight cargo all over the place, an actual roman colosseum, a beach with a grounded ship ashore.
Some people could do this thing called K-style or butterfly style where you slash your sword against walls or other objects which made you lift off the ground, and switch between your gun to shoot as you do so - it was a neat trick which I learned but definitely did not master.
So much fun though.
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GUNZ The Duel - man that was just so much fun. Online guns and swords gladiator style battles in the most neat stages. I remember an old mansion with broken staircases and balconies, a train station with freight cargo all over the place, an actual roman colosseum, a beach with a grounded ship ashore.
Some people could do this thing called K-style or butterfly style where you slash your sword against walls or other objects which made you lift off the ground, and switch between your gun to shoot as you do so - it was a neat trick which I learned but definitely did not master.
So much fun though.
this game was such janky fun!
wall climbing with the swords was so awesome and i loved that the devs didn't patch it they just embraced it
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The arcade was the original version. There's also a really good modern port on the Commodore 64 with a banging soundtrack called "Ghosts n Goblins Arcade"
Next week, imma be all about this.
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Next week, imma be all about this.
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Shining Force 3. Mostly cause it's marooned on the Saturn but it's so friggin good.
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Alas, also no dedicated gaming device newer than a 3DS.
I am thinking about getting a Steam deck of some kind though. Maybe it'll be playable on that?
I'm seeing online that it can be emulated (assuming PC is what they're referencing in the post), but I'm not seeing it directly through Steam.
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I rarely see any Ys game referenced. It's gotten a bit bigger, but still a super underrated series.
The Saboteur by Pandemic as well.
Field Commander on PSP.
The original Overlord game (with the minions).
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Squarez Deluxe.
I've been on a one-man promotion spree of that game for almost 20 years
It is now freeware, it's available on DOSBox, and it is the best shape-packing game ever made - you cannot even debate me once you try it.
Holy shit, memory unlocked! I think I bought that game from Office Depot for like $2 on clearance when I was buying school supplies.
Now I'm going to have to go perform some sorcery to see if I can get it on my steam deck and baffle a couple buddies!
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Shadowgate / Deja Vu / The Uninvited (NES)
Uniracers (SNES)
Custom Robo (GC)
Lost Kingdoms (GC)
Baiten Kaitos (GC)
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Revenge of the Mutant Camels - highlight 1: "Ninety-foot high, neutronium shielded, laser-spitting, death camels". Hightlight 2: Almost 40 years after its first release, in 2021 Jeff Minter fixed a bug on collision detection in the Commodore 64 version.
Impossible Mission - highlight: "Another visitor. Stay a while... stay forever!"
Deuteros - highlight: the way the game world unfolded and opened up
Syndicate - highlight: abusing the Persuadertron
Shadow Hearts - highlight: the Judgement Ring -
The Thief series. I LOVED the first one especially, Thief the Dark Project. Medieval (low magic fantasy?) stealth shooter. The more valuable you pick up directly translates to what you can buy as a load out for the next level so you're encouraged to explore, though even the low level enemies can kick you ass so you have to be sneaky. Actually great stealth mechanics even for an old game. The world building is amazing, with it's own lore, culture and slang. The plot of the games are also great.
The Kingdom of Loathing is a game I've played almost non-stop since about 2003. Web based and free, it's based off of old text based games. But it's fun. Really fun. And hilarious. The currency is meat. The classes are goofy. Saucerer? Disco bandit? Seal Clubber? A lot of games deal with things like power creep or inflation, or how the heck to get people to actually help pay for it. This game solves problems like these elegantly. The user base is fun and friendly and corporative, there's always new stuff coming out to try, they do a holiday special every year, and all the pictures are crudely drawn stick figures.
Disco bandit checking in! You got any meat paste?
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I don't see people talk about the Katamari Damacy games very much which is a shame because I think they're delightful! I also wish more people talked about Cattails (especially the sequel, Cattails: Wildwood Story), these games deserve more love imo haha
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I definitely enjoyed the original Syndicate. While I like the aesthetic and the music, it isn't an incredibly deep game, but I did like the thing. I could go for playing the thing in HD, 24-bit color, maybe upscaled graphics, and at a high framerate.
IIRC, Syndicate Wars didn't review as well. I can't recall whether I ever got around to trying it.
For anyone who hasn't tried Syndicate, the game is a cyberpunk, squad-based isometric-view pixel-art game where one has to perform various missions to gain control of territory; might be assassinating someone, capturing someone, clearing enemies from an area, etc. Doesn't have destructable terrain, though vehicles are destructable. Late game missions tend to have so many very-durable bionically-enhanced enemy agents charging at one's squad that one has to keep the squad pretty much bunched up and using either rocket launchers or miniguns just spewing out a ton of firepower in their direction.
In its time, Syndicate was pretty well-known, though I dunno how many people born later would be familiar with it today.
The persuadertron was the way, the truth, and the light on any level with civilians.
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Armadillo Run
Robot Alchemic Drive (R.A.D.)
The Saboteur
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The Thief series. I LOVED the first one especially, Thief the Dark Project. Medieval (low magic fantasy?) stealth shooter. The more valuable you pick up directly translates to what you can buy as a load out for the next level so you're encouraged to explore, though even the low level enemies can kick you ass so you have to be sneaky. Actually great stealth mechanics even for an old game. The world building is amazing, with it's own lore, culture and slang. The plot of the games are also great.
The Kingdom of Loathing is a game I've played almost non-stop since about 2003. Web based and free, it's based off of old text based games. But it's fun. Really fun. And hilarious. The currency is meat. The classes are goofy. Saucerer? Disco bandit? Seal Clubber? A lot of games deal with things like power creep or inflation, or how the heck to get people to actually help pay for it. This game solves problems like these elegantly. The user base is fun and friendly and corporative, there's always new stuff coming out to try, they do a holiday special every year, and all the pictures are crudely drawn stick figures.
Half-Life, Thief, and the original Sims games (City, Ant, etc) were my original gaming go-tos!
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Didn't see Receiver 2 mentioned, so I'll give it a shoutout! Really interesting game, and as far as I know the only one with such deep shooting mechanics.
Unfortunately the sale had ended a couple days ago, so it's back to its normal price, but even then I'd heavily recommend it!
