Games

Panzer Dragoon Saga for the Saturn is maybe my favorite JRPG, or Grandia 2

The 7th Guest was a revolutionary game and I just love it !stauf_mansion@lemmy.mods4ever.com

I played the hell out of Dragon Quest rocket slime! Recently I actually got the third one (only releasd in Japan) working on my phone! So far not as good as the second one 😂

Pixel Junk: Eden by Q-Games. Available on PlayStation and PC, it's a platformer of sorts. You play as a little insect, swinging on a silk line and jumping from plant to plant. On the way, you collect pollen which makes new plants sprout and grow. The game was made in collaboration with Bayion - a Japanese designer, artist and DJ, who art directed the visuals and composed all of the music for the game.

Playing Eden feels a bit like Tetris Effect or Rez. You get hypnotized by the visuals and music. Nothing quite like it - I actually bought my first console (PS3) after lifetime of PC gaming in order to play this title (it was exclusive back then).

Also, they just announced Eden 2!!!

Anyone remember "War of the Monsters" on the PS2? Such a fun monster mash single-screen multiplayer game.

Rocket Slime is actually the second game of a trilogy. Its just the only one to get an english translation.

Majesty: the Fantasy Kingdom Sim

A RTS/Sim hybrid in which you play as the king of a cliche fantasy realm with the gimmick that your direct control is limited. You don't have an army and instead have to hire adventurers who are all AI controlled and need to be bribed into doing what you want. The game can be frustrating but it has a ton of charm and there's just nothing out there quite like it.

I've got two.

• 999. It's an escape room visual novel from late in the DS's life cycle. Can't talk about it much without spoiling it, but it absolutely blew me away when I played it. Can't recommend it enough if you're a fan of mystery and psychological thrillers. There was a remake released on Steam, and the community is divided on whicy version is better. I personally strongly recommend it on either DS emulator or original hardware, with a spoiler-free guide to the good ending after your first blind playthrough.
• OneShot. It's very much in the vein of Undertale, but the initial release was slightly earlier. It isn't quite as tight with its writing as Undertale, but the story evoked some genuine emotions in a way that games rarely manage. As much hype as the latter got, it surprised me that the former is so obscure.

Old school game on the original Xbox called Kung Fu Chaos. My friends and I would play it all the time and laugh at how well they depicted the movie scenes. I really wish it would be brought to game pass so we could replay it.

Starsiege and/or earthsiege 1 and 2

Warzone 2100. A seminal classic for me, from the year 2000.

Rocket Knight Adventures, back on the Genesis. Not the easiest game, and the "jumping from platform to platform by your tail" was ass to get the hang of in a boss fight, but I miss when games weren't so serious about themselves and you could just play something for a while. Sometimes I really want a grand statement that will leave me in a crying heap. Sometimes it's nice to just be a possum in jet-propelled plate mail.

OG Xbox games like Alter Echo and Advent Rising. Those games blew my god damn mind as a kid. Doesn't helpt they were pretty early for the generation and never escaped the console.

Kinetica! It's a ps2 racing game where you dance to gain boost! It's fact paced action with amazing music, and awesome character designs. Also, it's SantaMonicaStudios first PlayStation title. 😁

All of my other favorite games are pretty popular tbh. Monster Hunter, Nier, Hades, Elden Ring, Hi-Fi Rush.

Future cop LAPD on PS1.

It was 2 player co op and you just went round in these mechs that could transform into cars and shot the baddies, blew things up etc. It was just very entertaining.

Blur, it was so much fun playing couch coop with my friends

Rocket Jockey! Although I found a few other fans recently in retro gaming. It's a Sega Soft title where the entire premise is riding around on rockets engines and using cables to yoink and tripline your opponents off their rockets. Once they're on the ground, it's a lot easier to run over them and drag them around the arena. All this fun set to a bitchin' surf rock soundtrack by Dick Dale.

Gladius and Phantom Dust on OG Xbox. Total bangers.

N.O.M.A.D. This is such a great DOS game that I invested so much time in back in off and all all through the 90's. Open world, space exploration, trading, combat, different alien races, great humor. Was such a great game that I never heard anyone talking about then or mention now. The game is abandonware now if anyone wants to give it a go.

Landstalker on Megadrive/Genesis. It's one of my favourite childhood games. I actually want to go play it again now that I'm thinking about it again.

There was a game on PSX called Team Buddies. It was the absolute best. I have many core childhood memories toes to that game.

Split screen PvP (or PvE, but the computer players were dumb) where you have to run around these different maps collecting boxes to bring back to your base. Depending on how you stack the boxes, you make different things when you smash them open

1x1: pistol 1x2: shotgun 2x1: additional "soldier" 1x4: rocket launcher 2x4: tank

You could have up to 4 soldiers and the aim was to destroy the enemy base by attacking it.

There were these super blocks that would drop and if you got them included in your build it would change what you made. You could get an Uzi, a super solider with flight and lazer vision, a gattling gun or a helicopter.

You could attack other players building pads to sabotage their new builds, attack their base, kill their soldiers... It was amazing, but outsideu friend group, have never seen/heard anything about it.

Kid Icarus.

I used to play a lot of games on miniclip wayyyy back when flash was a thing, but nitrome games were my favorite:

• Final Ninja series (2 games I think?), 2D platformers where you could swing around and also shoot enemies with ninja stars. had a lot of levels to complete
• Dirk Valentine, 2D platformer, similar to final ninja but with a different theme
• Avalanche, a 2D game where you are a penguin trying to escape the avalanche by sliding and avoiding obstacles. I think this had a lot of levels too

Looks like nitrome has these flash games to download on their website, but they also converted / are converting them to html5 as well. I'm so glad these aren't lost!

Back in the day Hidden & Dangerous was a fantastic game. Spent many hours crawling on my stomach sniping. And the multiplayer LAN parties were epic for the sheer fun and hilariousness of the bugs we found. Only my friends at the time have ever heard of it though.

Comix Zone. It was a beat-em-up on the Sega Genesis with a gorgeous, comic book art style. It wasn't the greatest game, but it had character and it stood out against some of the other fighting games at the time. I'd really love a remake or sequel at some point. Doing it in the style of the Spider-verse movies would be rad.

It is not that unknown and it's getting some traction but I'm still surprised how many people are sleeping on Riftbreaker, its such a well made polished (and Polish) game with tons of updates and communication from the devs who are also working on adding co-op to it which is a huge task! Look at the absolute unit of a blog post they wrote about it. It is very much a labor of love and I think more people should know about it.

Dear rising I would love a reboot of the first one with new mechanics but the same overall crazy feel

Not so much my favorite game, but just one of absurd obscurity: Special Training ‘99

It was a game I found in school that I lost track of and nobody I asked about it had any notion of what I was talking about. Only just found it again recently.