What are your favorite games that you never see mentioned anywhere?
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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
Receiver
So good. The slight differences between weapons means that the muscle memory you've built up ends up tripping you on the next run.
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Dead Head Fred, that game is awesome and sadly forever locked to the PSP. That it has never gotten a console port is nothing short of criminal.
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Cyber Empires (PC), Shadowrun (Genesis), Betrayal at Krondor (PC).
Shadowrun for Genesis was amazing! Ahead of its time. The way it semi randomly generated jobs for you to do was pretty unique. Like Bethesda radiant quests, but decades earlier and better. I really enjoyed rising up from the weakest street runner to someone with enough reputation to skip the line at the expensive club.
The leveling system was also pretty advanced for Genesis.
Also the cyberspace hacking was wacky and fun.
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Some more recent ones:
- Hammerfight (2009)
- Brigador (2016)
- CrossCode (2018)
CrossCode has such charm. The puzzles are good, but I find myself tired after playing it in a way other games don't give me. I should finish it.
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Dark Fall 1 & 2 (specifically not 3)
couple of my favorite point and click adventures, and I've played a lot
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- Brave Fencer Musashi
- Limbo
- ReCore
- The Way
- Inside
- Unravel
- Cat Quest
- Death Squared
Is ReCore really worth the play? It was on my list when it came out, but got very mixed reviews.
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Katamari Damacy
These are apparently the remasters of the first two games for PC:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/848350/Katamari_Damacy_REROLL/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1730700/We_Love_Katamari_REROLL_Royal_Reverie/
From looking at Wikipedia and Steam, I don't think that there's a PC version of Me & My Katamari.
Cattails (especially the sequel, Cattails: Wildwood Story)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/634160/Cattails__Become_a_Cat/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1882500/Cattails_Wildwood_Story/
The Katamari remasters are very well done as these things go. Just the right amount of graphical and compatibility boosting while not screwing with the gameplay, audiovisuals, or quirky vibes which made the originals so great.
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Honestly, Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective.
The remaster got some attention, but it still feels pretty niche for a game made by the Ace Attorney guy. I never felt like it got its "moment" in the same way as, say, Blue Prince.
And yet, from the moment the 15-year-old announcement trailer dropped, I knew it was going to be in "top 5 of all time" territory for me.
Really wish there were more games like this.
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Kinda cheating, since this game (hell, entire series; linking my fave entry) has kind of a cult following in Central/Eastern Europe.
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Urban Terror
When the homie busts out the Urban Terror USB stick at the LAN party
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Cyber Empires (PC), Shadowrun (Genesis), Betrayal at Krondor (PC).
Betrayal at Krondor was amazing. Masterfully written, with fun riddles, and that music chef's kiss
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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.
If you have an Xbox, by some miracle they have it available, and it's $5. I highly recommend it.
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Did you see the GDQ run of Bullets Per Minute? That's what sold me on the game last year, such a cool game
I did not. I'll have to check that out.
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Kinda cheating, since this game (hell, entire series; linking my fave entry) has kind of a cult following in Central/Eastern Europe.
The video looked cool but for the picture they had to go with the Pixar face??
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Is ReCore really worth the play? It was on my list when it came out, but got very mixed reviews.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I enjoyed it but I've never finished it because it gets repetitive and starts to feel like a grind.
It fits my play style because I game in fits and starts so I've been playing it in chunks.
I liked it enough to go get it for PC after playing it on Xbox GamePass years ago.
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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.
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Maximo! Itâs a 3D hack and slash collectathon. Itâs based on the Ghosts and Goblins games. There was a sequel that fell a little short of expectations (got rid of the really fun hub worlds). They were going to do a third game but Capcom canceled it.
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Legend of Legaia. Itâs a JRPG from the PS1 golden era, but it had a relatively small launch and basically zero marketing. It was completely overshadowed by other games like FFVII and Legend of Dragoon. It has a sort of cult classic following now. The story starts off as a fairly basic âworld is awful, kid gets a magic weapon to beat the big evil thingâ type of plot, but has a surprising amount of twists and turns.
The combat system is interesting, and hasnât really been replicated since. You string together a series of small attacks, to make larger super combos.
Fair warning, the US release is significantly harder than the JP and EU versions. For some reason, the devs multiplied all the enemy stats by 1.25, and slashed their exp/gold drop rates by 50% for the US release. So you need to grind twice as long to be properly geared/leveled, and the grinding is 25% more difficult.
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If you have an Xbox, by some miracle they have it available, and it's $5. I highly recommend it.
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?
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Cyber Empires (PC), Shadowrun (Genesis), Betrayal at Krondor (PC).
Oh man I haven't thought of Cyber Empires in so long. I remember tunneling through walls so my missile bots could obliterate the enemy base.
