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 :(
This is kind of obscure but I used to love this MMO rhythm game called Audition Online, published by Nexon in 2007. It’s completely deserted now, hasn’t been updated in years, and only runs on Windows OS, but sometimes I’ll revisit it and play for hours despite only like 10 people being online lol
I was a kid visiting my friend’s house and we went over to his neighbor’s house and started playing on this new video game console I never heard of. He pulled up this game that was boats battling one another on the waters and it was so damn cool. My grandmother coincidentally bought my brother and I an Xbox shortly thereafter and it was one of the first games I bought used from EB Games. That storytelling was something else. Not state of the art, but just so cool being drawings and the world setting was amazing, being ancient but with modern and some futuristic/magical weapons too.
I still play it sometimes on an emulator. Just sad it never gets talked about or ever got a sequel or remaster, not even some backwards compatibility love :/
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.
Wow I remember playing Kinetica either through some random Jampack demo disc or a demo disc from Playstation Magazine. I wonder if anyone else bought those Jampack demo discs.
Tokyo Extreme Racer Zero was my jam on ps2! Has there been anything like it since? Racing through the real highways of tokyo with ‘normal’ cars to weave through was such a cool concept.
Yeah, was early on the PS1 so didn’t get much exposure, then got overshadowed by the juggernaut that is FF7. WA2 took a while to come out, which is a shame.
That’s a pretty bold statement, given how many WADs have been made. However reading about it, it sounds like you may be right. Love DOOM engine FPSs, definitely checking this out!
To be fair to some of the awesome user made WADs, I only meant commercially released games. Especially for the period when it was brand new. Things like MyHouse.wad are insanely good by comparison.
Alter Ego, a 1986 DOS game that’s still one of the best life-sim type games ever made. You start out as a baby and work your way through life by making choices. They can lead to a wide variety of outcomes, including dying tragically as a child, etc… You can play it free online or they’ve made updated versions.
I haven’t been playing it since 86, but I feel like I first found this on the internet over 20 years ago and played it every few weeks for a solid decade. It’s still really impressive to me today that it has such replayability.
Endorfun. I got it for Christmas in 95 or 96 and would spend hours playing it. Years later I would get emulators to continue playing it. Introduced my college roommate to it. There were times I couldn’t get the sound of the animations to work, but I kept coming back to it. Every now and then, I’ll revisit it. Wish it would get a rerelease or new version, maybe something I could pay on my phone. Loved the music, the moving colors and textures. It has a therapeutic way of getting me out of my head.
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.
If you don’t hear other people talking about outer wilds than all I can say is Welcome to the Internet, must be your first time, enjoy your stay and watch where you put your click!
Profound story, excellent sound design, amazing soundtrack, insanely well designed combat system. It’s just an incredible game. It has more content, depth, and attention to detail than most AAA games these days.
If you’re picking it up, get the DLC as well! It’s not just DLC, it’s the conclusion of the game’s story!
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I haven’t been able to find a game anything like CrossCode. Most games with a pixel art style are turn-based RPGs, and while I also love those, they aren’t really comparable to CrossCode’s real time action combat. I also haven’t seen a recent game with writing and humor as good as CrossCode’s. I might have to find some SNES/PSX era games to try out, although I’ve played the major ones.
The CrossCode devs are making a new game though, codenamed “Project Terra.” It’s a few years out, but the gameplay style is essentially a refined version of CrossCode’s. You can check out gameplay footage on their dev blog:
I checked the game just now, I’m intrigued. What game do you think has similar vibe as this game?
Just more info for anyone that is interested in the game; now is the perfect time to buy it on Steam because the game currently has its biggest discount yet (same with its 2 DLCs).
CrossCode is phenomenal. I love how they crammed it with tons of sidequests without ever getting bogged down in repetition, because most of those quests put brand new spins on the combat mechanics.
I keep meaning to play it ever since I heard the song The Village Without Memories on a video game music compilation but I never got to it. That song is great!
@TwilightVulpine you absolutely should! Opoona’s open world is so beautiful, even almost 15 years later, it can give Genshin a run for its money. I really should stream a replay of it sometime soon.
While we’re on the subject of DS classics, here’s an even more obscure one: Over the Hedge.
While admittedly it never quite got the time in the oven it deserved, being a release tie-in with the movie and put out alongside all the console versions, this one in particular was something special. It’s a third-person over the shoulder perspective stealth game with tank controls, sneaking into the hilariously well-protected homes of humans to steal their junk food. And if that wasn’t enough, it had you managing two characters in real-time by swapping back and forth between them, using their varying strengths to defeat the ridiculous laser alarm systems and traps along the way. It’s slow paced and relatively simple, and I used to have a blast finding ways to completely break the game because the devs didn’t have enough time to iron out all the kinks entirely, but it never quite got the attention it deserves for being such a unique labor of love.
I have to give it massive props for having so much creative heart when a tie-in for a mediocre animated movie has no right to be that good. The developers saw the opportunity to make something that put its source material to good work instead of just another hack-and-slash romp (like the console tie-ins were) or a minigame collection (like the later DS game (???) was) and their dedication to the craft of game development really shines through some of the jank involved in its presentation and sometimes wonky physics. By now, a unique take on a stealth game is nothing all that special, but at the time this was one that really grabbed me.
Holy shit someone else had Over the Hedge on DS as a kid? This thread is making me feel so good as a kid that bought loose carts from behind the GameStop and Vintage Stock counters. I genuinely believe that Over The Hedge is one of the reasons I loved Metal Gear and Assassin’s Creed so much as a kid
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Blur, it was so much fun playing couch coop with my friends
Too many people slept on this banger. I’d love to see it get ported to modern consoles at the very least.
This is kind of obscure but I used to love this MMO rhythm game called Audition Online, published by Nexon in 2007. It’s completely deserted now, hasn’t been updated in years, and only runs on Windows OS, but sometimes I’ll revisit it and play for hours despite only like 10 people being online lol
Blood Wake on the original Xbox.
I was a kid visiting my friend’s house and we went over to his neighbor’s house and started playing on this new video game console I never heard of. He pulled up this game that was boats battling one another on the waters and it was so damn cool. My grandmother coincidentally bought my brother and I an Xbox shortly thereafter and it was one of the first games I bought used from EB Games. That storytelling was something else. Not state of the art, but just so cool being drawings and the world setting was amazing, being ancient but with modern and some futuristic/magical weapons too.
I still play it sometimes on an emulator. Just sad it never gets talked about or ever got a sequel or remaster, not even some backwards compatibility love :/
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.
Wow I remember playing Kinetica either through some random Jampack demo disc or a demo disc from Playstation Magazine. I wonder if anyone else bought those Jampack demo discs.
I played it with my brother way back when, he had bought the game outright. I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a Jampack unfortunately.
A few that are favs for me that no one ever talks about:
Forgotten worlds on Genesis Wild arms on playstation Tokyo extreme racer zero on playstation 2
Tokyo Extreme Racer Zero was my jam on ps2! Has there been anything like it since? Racing through the real highways of tokyo with ‘normal’ cars to weave through was such a cool concept.
I have a copy of wild arms 2 sitting in my living room but I’ve never played it. Maybe tomorrows the day
Wild Arms was such a great game. It just had the worst timing ever for being released. I wish they would port it to mobile.
Yeah, was early on the PS1 so didn’t get much exposure, then got overshadowed by the juggernaut that is FF7. WA2 took a while to come out, which is a shame.
Nobody ever brings up Strife even when talking about old shooters as it is. Strife is, by far, the best Doom engine game that exists.
That’s a pretty bold statement, given how many WADs have been made. However reading about it, it sounds like you may be right. Love DOOM engine FPSs, definitely checking this out!
To be fair to some of the awesome user made WADs, I only meant commercially released games. Especially for the period when it was brand new. Things like MyHouse.wad are insanely good by comparison.
Alter Ego, a 1986 DOS game that’s still one of the best life-sim type games ever made. You start out as a baby and work your way through life by making choices. They can lead to a wide variety of outcomes, including dying tragically as a child, etc… You can play it free online or they’ve made updated versions.
I haven’t been playing it since 86, but I feel like I first found this on the internet over 20 years ago and played it every few weeks for a solid decade. It’s still really impressive to me today that it has such replayability.
Digimon World (PSX)
Endorfun. I got it for Christmas in 95 or 96 and would spend hours playing it. Years later I would get emulators to continue playing it. Introduced my college roommate to it. There were times I couldn’t get the sound of the animations to work, but I kept coming back to it. Every now and then, I’ll revisit it. Wish it would get a rerelease or new version, maybe something I could pay on my phone. Loved the music, the moving colors and textures. It has a therapeutic way of getting me out of my head.
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.
Outer Wilds, really wonderful sci-fi puzzle-ish game
If you don’t hear other people talking about outer wilds than all I can say is Welcome to the Internet, must be your first time, enjoy your stay and watch where you put your click!
Great game but hardly overlooked or unknown. Internet hype is what got me interested in it.
Waddington’s House of Games smash hit “Ulcers”
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2517/ulcers
I don’t see anyone talking about CrossCode, but it’s such an amazing game. And it’s on sale right now!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/368340/CrossCode/
Profound story, excellent sound design, amazing soundtrack, insanely well designed combat system. It’s just an incredible game. It has more content, depth, and attention to detail than most AAA games these days.
If you’re picking it up, get the DLC as well! It’s not just DLC, it’s the conclusion of the game’s story!
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I haven’t been able to find a game anything like CrossCode. Most games with a pixel art style are turn-based RPGs, and while I also love those, they aren’t really comparable to CrossCode’s real time action combat. I also haven’t seen a recent game with writing and humor as good as CrossCode’s. I might have to find some SNES/PSX era games to try out, although I’ve played the major ones.
The CrossCode devs are making a new game though, codenamed “Project Terra.” It’s a few years out, but the gameplay style is essentially a refined version of CrossCode’s. You can check out gameplay footage on their dev blog:
https://www.radicalfishgames.com/?p=7386
I checked the game just now, I’m intrigued. What game do you think has similar vibe as this game?
Just more info for anyone that is interested in the game; now is the perfect time to buy it on Steam because the game currently has its biggest discount yet (same with its 2 DLCs).
CrossCode is phenomenal. I love how they crammed it with tons of sidequests without ever getting bogged down in repetition, because most of those quests put brand new spins on the combat mechanics.
@LeylaaLovee Opoona on Wii, even though it has an official ENG translation
I keep meaning to play it ever since I heard the song The Village Without Memories on a video game music compilation but I never got to it. That song is great!
@TwilightVulpine you absolutely should! Opoona’s open world is so beautiful, even almost 15 years later, it can give Genshin a run for its money. I really should stream a replay of it sometime soon.
@LeylaaLovee
While we’re on the subject of DS classics, here’s an even more obscure one: Over the Hedge.
While admittedly it never quite got the time in the oven it deserved, being a release tie-in with the movie and put out alongside all the console versions, this one in particular was something special. It’s a third-person over the shoulder perspective stealth game with tank controls, sneaking into the hilariously well-protected homes of humans to steal their junk food. And if that wasn’t enough, it had you managing two characters in real-time by swapping back and forth between them, using their varying strengths to defeat the ridiculous laser alarm systems and traps along the way. It’s slow paced and relatively simple, and I used to have a blast finding ways to completely break the game because the devs didn’t have enough time to iron out all the kinks entirely, but it never quite got the attention it deserves for being such a unique labor of love.
I have to give it massive props for having so much creative heart when a tie-in for a mediocre animated movie has no right to be that good. The developers saw the opportunity to make something that put its source material to good work instead of just another hack-and-slash romp (like the console tie-ins were) or a minigame collection (like the later DS game (???) was) and their dedication to the craft of game development really shines through some of the jank involved in its presentation and sometimes wonky physics. By now, a unique take on a stealth game is nothing all that special, but at the time this was one that really grabbed me.
Holy shit someone else had Over the Hedge on DS as a kid? This thread is making me feel so good as a kid that bought loose carts from behind the GameStop and Vintage Stock counters. I genuinely believe that Over The Hedge is one of the reasons I loved Metal Gear and Assassin’s Creed so much as a kid