What are your favorite games that you never see mentioned anywhere?
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DEFCON
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1520/DEFCON/
I am a sucker for the retro vector atheistics.
The developer (Introversion Software) also had another game that used vector-ish graphics.
kagis
I liked that, though I don't know if I'd put it on a "best of" list. I've had a number of games, most recently Carrier Command 2, that I really enjoy that use untextured polygons. Think maybe it's that if a developer can't get distracted with fancy graphics, they're focused on gameplay, dunno.
Hmm. Looks like Introversion then made a game, Scanner Sombre, that uses points for graphics, not even lines.
Introversion made another game I almost posted here: Uplink. Hacking-themed game that I used to love.
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Druidstone! It's a really great indie tactical RPG. Very fun and I never hear anyone talk about it.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Finnish devs are usually bad at marketing and creating hype. I have that wishlisted, gotta check it out during next steam sale.
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Dysmantle.
Casual post apocalyptic survival etc game. It’s also available on consoles, switch and mobile.
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I think I'd have to say La-Mulana.
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Some more recent ones:
- Hammerfight (2009)
- Brigador (2016)
- CrossCode (2018)
I love crosscode so much. My #1 game
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I feel it. I feel the cosmos!
This is what me and my partner say to each other when we drink good coffee.
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Kenshi. Ive only ever seen 1 person mention it in the year I've been on Lemmy.
It's like depressed RuneScape.
Kenshi is one of those great war crime simulators
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Urban Terror
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Guardian Heroes was an outstanding RPG beat 'em up on Sega Saturn. It had
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a two player co-op storyline with branching choices to get alternate endings
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unlockable characters for a 6-player arena mode
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and a kick ass soundtrack.
Nothing has really scratched the same itch since (yes, I'm aware there's a sequel, but it's terrible).
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Cyber Empires (PC), Shadowrun (Genesis), Betrayal at Krondor (PC).
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Kenshi has so much scale and depth it's hard to explain what you "do" in the game I love it
Die.
A LOT
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Balrum
Beautiful isometric game inspired by 80's and 90's CRPGs.
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Mars: War Logs, and Technomancer
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Same reason people don't talk about Game of Thrones anymore. The last entry, Andromeda, was so disappointing it retroactively made people like the previous ones less
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The combat in Andromeda was pretty sweet though even though the story sucked. I have it another shot not that long ago and once I figured out some of the profile swapping stuff the combat was really fun.
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Freedom Fighters. Some mechanics were clunky but most were great and I really can't think of any other games with such a good mix of strategy and quick-thinking/reaction gameplay. I've played it through at least 3 times!
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I randomly came across this game back when it came out on ps2 and I loved it. They set it up for a sequal and im still waiting 2 decades later.
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Strife - last commercial release (at least until a recent retro game using it) of the Doom Engine. Picked it up for £3.50 or something about '97.
Think Hexen but plot, charming pixel-comic art, and some potentially frustrating boss fights and rpg lite elements.
Lots of fun, and does interesting stuff. I quote the voice acting quite a lot, but no one notices. -
Druidstone! It's a really great indie tactical RPG. Very fun and I never hear anyone talk about it.
Sounds up my street, when I next have time to game I'll consider getting it.
Thanks.
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Tactics Ogre. I see people drop Final Fantasy Tactics as the greatest tactics game of all time. Then you always see Fire Emblem, Advance Wars, and Disgaea after. People sleep on Tactics Ogre. It's a mechanically superior game to all of the mentioned. It's story is equally as good as FFT. I think the graphics are better. It's a challenging game from the start. FFT was created with the Tactics Ogre director and lead artist to be a more accessible version of TO. People see 90s golden era Final Fantasy and automatically put FFT on a pedestal. TO is like Undertaker stalking AJ Styles ready to obliterate whatever is in its way.
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Guardian Heroes was an outstanding RPG beat 'em up on Sega Saturn. It had
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a two player co-op storyline with branching choices to get alternate endings
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unlockable characters for a 6-player arena mode
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incredibly unique characters to unlock, spellcasting with
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and a kick ass soundtrack.
Nothing has really scratched the same itch since (yes, I'm aware there's a sequel, but it's terrible).
That sounds great. The kind of game I'd've loved but never had any Sega consoles (and no one really spoke about emulating them) so missed all of it.
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Kinetica - a racing game where the 'vehicles' are people in mechanical suits that make them look like sexy mecha, racing to old techno
Bloody Roar - a series of fighting games where you fight as people who can suddenly shift into other forms, some recognizable animals and some abstract, and with the ability in some arenas to kick people through walls or over ledges into new arenas
Forsaken - 3D hover vehicle battles
Tiny Tank - a game where you play as a sweary AI tank
Megaman Legends 1 and 2 - Megaman as a 3d adventure game with a storyline and characters
Gitaroo Man - a rhythm game I enjoyed, later imitated by some others
Shadow of the Colossus - more known but not cared for these days. A game in which there are only boss battles. A subtly told story. Part of the ICO universe.
Titan Souls - One boy, one bow, one arrow that can be magically recalled to the bow, and giant stone destroyers that he must conquer with nothing more. Kind of a 2D Shadow of the Colossus
BPM: Bullets Per Minute - everyone has the idea for a rhythm FPS. This is the only one that does a good job of it.
Receiver - a game in which you don't just hit R to reload, but have to go through the full manual of arms, dropping the clip, holstering the weapon, loading each round into the clip, drawing the weapon, seating the clip, racking the round, checking the chamber to make sure it fed correctly, aiming, firing, clearing the jam, all while worrying about killer robots.
Valley - a movement game that has such an amazing feeling of freedom in its movement
Tunnet - lovecraftian network technician game
Did you see the GDQ run of Bullets Per Minute? That's what sold me on the game last year, such a cool game
