Mine has to be Dragon Quest: Rocket Slime, a DS spin off of the Dragon Quest series that sees you playing as a slime operating a tank and rescuing the people from your town. You run around the overworld, collecting items to use as ammunition and saving money to upgrade your tank. The art and music are just as great as you’d expect from the Dragon Quest series. It made fantastic use of the DS’s dual screens. It’s also written for a younger audience, so a lot of it is just really silly and fun! Try it out for sure, I’m so sad there’s no sequel :(
Trash Panic for the PS3. It’s a downloadable game where you try to fit things inside of a trash can. You try to compact things down with force (e.g., cracking a plate into a bunch of pieces) and saving good things called “mottainai” (“what a waste” in Japanese). It was a fun challenging puzzle and I boot up my PS3 or RPSC3 from time to time to play it.
Comments like this make me want to revisit it, but I’ve tried playing it 3 times now and never get that far in. I’m not sure what’s not clicking for me.
Frictional’s games in general seem to be way less popular than I perceived as a kid. Like, tubers like PewDiePie were all over Amnesia back in the day, but somehow Amnesia Rebirth and Amnesia: The Bunker have both launched without making any sort of real splash in the gaming community.
It’s sad, I feel like they could be where Bloober Team is right now, making games based on properties like Blair Witch and Silent Hill along with their original stuff, but for some reason they’re not.
I never see anyone talk about Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch but it’s one of my favorite games of all time. The Studio Ghibli collab makes it ooze charm.
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.
Oh man I remember that whole series was marketed as “the big” Halo-killer at the time, they were so confident they even had some million(?) dollar prize for whoever found some sort of secret in the game. Not sure if that ever actually happened or if it was just a marketing ploy.
But the game itself was fun, and I remember being able to dual wield rocket launchers and had space magic, so I was happy haha.
Looking back on it it was like it wanted to be an early Mass Effect. Full on space opera story, cool complex alien races, tons of cutscene story telling. I’m sure the game doesn’t hold up anymore but man I was invested!
It’s available on steam! I loved this game when I was a kid so I made sure to pick it up just because I had rented it back in the day. I haven’t played it to see if it holds up but I still have my memories
This used to be my favorite game, and I still want more of it but boy did the story never make sense and the gameplay turned out a bit too easy to cheese. The art for it was so good for a 2d game though.
Great fuckin game, I just wish it wasnt as buggy as it was. But yeah, there was nothing quite so satisfying as spinning a double blade sword and parrying blows or the incredible crunch of whipping around a flail and smashing an enemy to bits
N64 “Beetle Adventure Racing” is crazy fun! Race against the clock to improve your time, race the computer, race another player, and best of all are the wild Arena battles - up to 4 players. This was always big fun at family gatherings.
Wii “Godzilla Unleashed” is my favorite solo game. I’d run the sound through my home theater and crank up all the lovely authentic Toho kaiju roars, screeches, howls, and destruction. Controls varied slightly by monster but always felt intuitive. Battling other beasts could get a little glitchy in tight quarters but knock a few buildings out of the way and all’s well. Greatest cathartic stress reliever, ever!
Oh wow someone else played these? Haha I loved traveling in time looking for anomalies. Buried in Time was my favorite. Gotta love the smooth sounds of Kenny G haha.
May be a little off from what you’re asking but one of my favorite games period is Bookworm on the GBA. It was originally a flash game but when it came to GBA you could save your progress. The music was so cute and the sound effects were just awesome. They tried to bring it to the DS without that music and the effects and it just didn’t work. Other iterations exist as well, none as cool and enjoyable as the GBA version. I’m stuck emulating until someone rediscovers this neat little game and brings it to switch or steamdeck.
The Banner Saga, beautiful hand drawn rotoscoped visuals and animation, great characters, strong story and lore. Gameplay is turn based strategy, and it’s very addicting. Absolutely fantastic music.
Never hear anyone talking about it.
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Trash Panic for the PS3. It’s a downloadable game where you try to fit things inside of a trash can. You try to compact things down with force (e.g., cracking a plate into a bunch of pieces) and saving good things called “mottainai” (“what a waste” in Japanese). It was a fun challenging puzzle and I boot up my PS3 or RPSC3 from time to time to play it.
Great description, this sounds fantastic.
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Came to make this comment. SOMA is the only game I’ve ever played that made me cry. Beautiful piece of art.
It did make a big splash in the Linux Gaming community when it came out. They had a native port that ran very well.
Personally, I can say that its one of my favorite horror / sci-fi games to date. The ending destroyed me.
Comments like this make me want to revisit it, but I’ve tried playing it 3 times now and never get that far in. I’m not sure what’s not clicking for me.
Frictional’s games in general seem to be way less popular than I perceived as a kid. Like, tubers like PewDiePie were all over Amnesia back in the day, but somehow Amnesia Rebirth and Amnesia: The Bunker have both launched without making any sort of real splash in the gaming community.
It’s sad, I feel like they could be where Bloober Team is right now, making games based on properties like Blair Witch and Silent Hill along with their original stuff, but for some reason they’re not.
I watched a playthrough of it 6+ years ago and I STILL think about the story/ending from time to time. it’s so damn good
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Yoku’s Island Express. The idea of a metroidvania where the entire map is a giant pinball board is beyond genius.
100% I really hope it did well enough for another installment at some point.
I never see anyone talk about Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch but it’s one of my favorite games of all time. The Studio Ghibli collab makes it ooze charm.
People talked about it a ton when it was new.
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.
Oh man I remember that whole series was marketed as “the big” Halo-killer at the time, they were so confident they even had some million(?) dollar prize for whoever found some sort of secret in the game. Not sure if that ever actually happened or if it was just a marketing ploy.
But the game itself was fun, and I remember being able to dual wield rocket launchers and had space magic, so I was happy haha.
Looking back on it it was like it wanted to be an early Mass Effect. Full on space opera story, cool complex alien races, tons of cutscene story telling. I’m sure the game doesn’t hold up anymore but man I was invested!
It’s available on steam! I loved this game when I was a kid so I made sure to pick it up just because I had rented it back in the day. I haven’t played it to see if it holds up but I still have my memories
Oh dang I didnt know it came to steam! I am tempted to buy it but also feeling like I should just let it stay in my childhood memories.
Patapon 1-3 on the psp. It’s been so long since I played it but I still say the little beats when I’m doing idle tasks. Pon-pon-pata-pon
It really is a shame Sony doesn’t create a new patapon for more recens consoles/pc. The rpg system of the game was aaaammmmaaaazzziinnggggg
Good news…
https://www.techradar.com/gaming/consoles-pc/ratatan-the-spiritual-successor-to-pataton-funded-in-a-matter-of-hours
Glad you remembered me. Will keep an eye out for that one!
All of them are on playstation premium, I played them recently. I also say the beats while doing things sometimes.
I didn’t know this… Welp, I know what I’m doing later today!
Pon-pon-pata-pon?
I played and liked them, second is the best and third was a mess that initially looked cool and I wanted to like, but it just was not good.
But my spouse became obsessed with them.
https://youtu.be/gjl87alwnkQ
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This used to be my favorite game, and I still want more of it but boy did the story never make sense and the gameplay turned out a bit too easy to cheese. The art for it was so good for a 2d game though.
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Great fuckin game, I just wish it wasnt as buggy as it was. But yeah, there was nothing quite so satisfying as spinning a double blade sword and parrying blows or the incredible crunch of whipping around a flail and smashing an enemy to bits
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N64 “Beetle Adventure Racing” is crazy fun! Race against the clock to improve your time, race the computer, race another player, and best of all are the wild Arena battles - up to 4 players. This was always big fun at family gatherings.
Wii “Godzilla Unleashed” is my favorite solo game. I’d run the sound through my home theater and crank up all the lovely authentic Toho kaiju roars, screeches, howls, and destruction. Controls varied slightly by monster but always felt intuitive. Battling other beasts could get a little glitchy in tight quarters but knock a few buildings out of the way and all’s well. Greatest cathartic stress reliever, ever!
Starsector. It’s been in development for so many years, and they are not on Steam. But man, I love that game.
I feel like going on steam will do them wonders because the game is great.
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 [email protected]
The journeyman project series (1, 2 and 3) had a major impact on my childhood
I only ever got to play Journeyman 2 Turbo. But as a kid, I was enthralled.
Oh wow someone else played these? Haha I loved traveling in time looking for anomalies. Buried in Time was my favorite. Gotta love the smooth sounds of Kenny G haha.
May be a little off from what you’re asking but one of my favorite games period is Bookworm on the GBA. It was originally a flash game but when it came to GBA you could save your progress. The music was so cute and the sound effects were just awesome. They tried to bring it to the DS without that music and the effects and it just didn’t work. Other iterations exist as well, none as cool and enjoyable as the GBA version. I’m stuck emulating until someone rediscovers this neat little game and brings it to switch or steamdeck.
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Serious Sam
Serious Sam is great!
The Banner Saga, beautiful hand drawn rotoscoped visuals and animation, great characters, strong story and lore. Gameplay is turn based strategy, and it’s very addicting. Absolutely fantastic music. Never hear anyone talking about it.