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 :(
Mine would be tunic ,
It feels like top down old school Zelda but puzzles that will blow your mind when you get the context.
If you haven’t played tunic before don’t watch any review just buy the game and play it.
This is a 10/10 game where I wish to forget about it to play this again.
Tunic was such a great game. Good difficulty and tons of exploration. Some of the shortcuts seem to be invisible until you come out the other direction then it is obvious.
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
Planetside 2 - someone else already mentioned it here, but it’s the only game in it’s genre and nothing else really comes close to what it offers (persistent 1v1v1 +300 player battles across infantry, land, air, and sea). It’s been kicking for over a decade now and I’m not sure what could replace it if or when it finally kicks it. It’s truly singular, and responsible for some of my fondest memories in gaming. It’s also free!
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.
I spent many many hours as a teen playing Starsiege. Both the campaigns and multiplayer. Been hoping for a reimagining for a while now, but I’m not sure who even holds the IP.
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Mine would be tunic , It feels like top down old school Zelda but puzzles that will blow your mind when you get the context. If you haven’t played tunic before don’t watch any review just buy the game and play it.
This is a 10/10 game where I wish to forget about it to play this again.
Awesome game, but hardly one nobody talks about. It was huge for a year and nearly every game critic or reviewer would have a piece about it!
The dev really nailed the vibe of playing a game in a foreign language that you don’t really understand, and the latter puzzles are so brilliant.
The only other game that gave me such a vibe was Fez
This game has the craziest puzzles I’ve ever seen in a game. They’re just really creative
Tunic was such a great game. Good difficulty and tons of exploration. Some of the shortcuts seem to be invisible until you come out the other direction then it is obvious.
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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.
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.
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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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.
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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
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?
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!
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
Backyard baseball, loved that game as a kid.
Planetside 2 - someone else already mentioned it here, but it’s the only game in it’s genre and nothing else really comes close to what it offers (persistent 1v1v1 +300 player battles across infantry, land, air, and sea). It’s been kicking for over a decade now and I’m not sure what could replace it if or when it finally kicks it. It’s truly singular, and responsible for some of my fondest memories in gaming. It’s also free!
Is it still played?
Yeah! It’s a relatively small player base these days, but you can always find fights during the evenings.
Sounds familiar, lol.
You should check out Foxhole. It’s a pretty similar type of game though not an fps. Is more of a top down shooter type thing
Tbh I think the sea part is the only part I hate the rest is quite fun.
Guardian Heores for the Sega Saturn. Absolutely loved that game.
Anno? It doesn’t have any mobile ver anymore. We used to download jar files back in nokia days.
My favourite Anno was the one on Wii.
It had streamlined mechanics and bright colourful graphics, it really felt like the Civilization Revolution of the series.
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.
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.
I’ve emulated this, I think on RPCS3, and it ran well, just fyi.
Starsiege and/or earthsiege 1 and 2
I spent many many hours as a teen playing Starsiege. Both the campaigns and multiplayer. Been hoping for a reimagining for a while now, but I’m not sure who even holds the IP.