Shadowgate / Deja Vu / The Uninvited (NES)
Uniracers (SNES)
Custom Robo (GC)
Lost Kingdoms (GC)
Baiten Kaitos (GC)
Man Uniracers is so good, my friends and I would have huge tournaments. Too bad Pixar got all uppity and claimed they had a trademark on unicycles. Good grief
I kinda want to get back into programming enough to create a knockoff version… Pone dev indie games are all the rage now, lol
Do it! Even if it’s just a reason to learn more programming. Those are always fun projects
Escape Velocity and its open-source spiritual successor, Endless Sky.
EV Nova is what got me hooked on Star Citizen
Never played Escape Velocity, but Endless Sky was fantastic. Both the main quest lines had fantastic stories, especially the first one.
Escape Velocity also had a sequel or two done by Ambrosia Software themselves. I remember playing and enjoying them.
kagis
Escape Velocity Override and Escape Velocity Nova.
It looks like Ambrosia Software’s website is now down, so I assume that one can’t legally purchase it any more.
It looks like Escape Velocity was never ported to anything outside of classic MacOS, so playing it today probably entails obtaining a classic MacOS emulator and abandonware copies of the binaries.
While Endless Sky is neat and last I looked still getting expanded, it also didn’t have as much story content as the Escape Velocity series either (again, at least last I looked).
The image of each planet in Escape Velocity series (not really worth keeping IMHO, as they were saved at 8-bit depth) were done with KPT Bryce, a now out-of-print terrain generation and rendering software package. Probably one of the better-suited applications for it, as it was pretty good at letting one quickly turn out alien-looking landscapes. While there are newer terrain generation software packages, I have to say that Bryce did a lot of neat stuff and I don’t feel that there’s something that quite fills its “exploration” role in modeling and rendering software today. For example, procedural generation of textures using slope and altitude (so, for example, you could get rocky faces where generated terain was steep, or snow at high altitude on mountains).
Re. EV series ports - check the first link in my previous comment ;)
And I had the same experience with Endless Sky when I first found out about it some years ago. It has gotten a lot of updates since then, but I am holding out for a 1.0 release
Ah, gotcha!
Board games or video games?
Or The Game?
hey f$#@ you buddy I haven’t lost the game through the internet in awhile, that was a low swipe
You can’t even label these fuckers as “I lost the game because of that idiot”, because then you lose every time you see them
Now you beginning to understand the difficulty I have with most of my real life friendships, my life is a battlefield littered with perfectly nice moments split in two by The Game blasting through, making everybody lose in a terrible animal cry.
The are no heroes in the foxhole, especially when the war is The Game and your fellow soldiers in the foxhole with you are bad at The Game.
👌
hide the sausage?
Why not both?
Slay the Spire - the video game based on board game mechanics
Slay the Spire the Board Game - based on the video game based on board game mechanics but in board game form!
I don’t see people talk about the Katamari Damacy games very much which is a shame because I think they’re delightful! I also wish more people talked about Cattails (especially the sequel, Cattails: Wildwood Story), these games deserve more love imo haha
I feel it. I feel the cosmos!
This is what me and my partner say to each other when we drink good coffee.
I saw an article about it!! I really want to play it but alas don’t have anything that can run it, but once I can get a PS5 it’s totally going on my shopping list!
Cattails series mentioned! I’ve replayed those two multiple times they’re so cute and the gameplay loop is so soothing and fun.
Cat Quest series (which is more dungeon-crawler, not cat sim) is also adorable and accessible but doesn’t seem to be mentioned too often.
Cat Quest series
Man I keep meaning to replay Wildwood Story but I know once I start again that’s all I’m doing for the next few day lol… I love the colony layout editor so much, spent so many hours fine-tuning my colony to make it exactly the way I wanted it
Lah, la-la-la-la-la-la-laaah lah la la la-la lah!
One of the greatest games of all time from a design and gameplay perspective. There’s a reason it’s in the MoMA. The soundtrack is an all-timer as well.
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.
All four games are also on Switch!! That’s where I played them!
Kenshi. Ive only ever seen 1 person mention it in the year I’ve been on Lemmy.
It’s like depressed RuneScape.
… Was I that person?
I evangelize Kenshi like the Holy Nation evangelizes Okran.
Also…!
Kenshi
https://store.steampowered.com/app/233860/Kenshi/
Ive only ever seen 1 person mention it in the year I’ve been on Lemmy.
I’ve brought it up a bunch as an example of a game that I like that’s really a “one-game genre” – it didn’t really get cloned, like most good games do. Kind of a bummer, because if you’ve played all of Kenshi, there’s not much more to do if you want more short of waiting for Kenshi 2 to be finished.
kagis
https://lemmy.world/post/5593904/3755382
https://lemmy.world/post/2703109/2113199
https://lemmy.world/post/7471136/4950578
https://lemmy.world/post/25365592/14990415
https://lemmy.world/post/10421126
There’s also a community here for it, [email protected]. Not much activity, though.
Kenshi is one of those great war crime simulators
Kenshi has so much scale and depth it’s hard to explain what you “do” in the game I love it
Die.
A LOT
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.
The Kingdom of Loathing
I can’t believe that game is still around lol. It was probably 2009 or so when I logged in last. I had ascended 3 times and figured I had pretty much seen all there is to see. So cool to see they are still around and doing well. I guess I’m going to have to playthrough it at least one more time :)
Oh man they have added and changed so much since you dropped off
Disco bandit checking in! You got any meat paste?
I stack my meat like I stack the bodies of knob goblins in my wake
The Moxie on this one!
Half-Life, Thief, and the original Sims games (City, Ant, etc) were my original gaming go-tos!
Sim ant rules, you can be a spider sometimes
There’s a cheat code for that.
Earthworm Jim
Atomic Robokid (Genesis)
Tempest (Atari 2600 version)
Ghosts and Goblins (NES)
The game where it’s a rich guy that sends a trained assassin out onto a island with nothing and hunts him for 24 hours, and if the assassin kills the rich guy he gets his freedom and like $20K.
Rock n Roll Racing (SNES)
Beyond All Reason/Planetary Annihilation
Earthworm Jim
https://store.steampowered.com/app/901147/Earthworm_Jim/
Ghosts and Goblins (NES)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1556690/Capcom_Arcade_StadiumGhosts_n_Goblins/ (arcade)
Not the same, but apparently close.
The NES & arcade versions are very similar in terms of level layout and enemy spawns. There are certainly differences, but I haven’t played the arcade version enough to tell you what those specific differences are.
Beyond All Reason
https://www.beyondallreason.info/
Planetary Annihilation
https://store.steampowered.com/app/386070/Planetary_Annihilation_TITANS/
I personally enjoyed Total Annihilation, but Planetary Annihilation and some of the later games, like the Spring-based remakes never quite caught me the same way.
TIL there’s an arcade version of Ghosts n Goblins
Thanks for the links!
The arcade was the original version. There’s also a really good modern port on the Commodore 64 with a banging soundtrack called “Ghosts n Goblins Arcade”
Next week, imma be all about this.
Rock n Roll Racing
That was notable for having a pretty good soundtrack for the SNES:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngua3njzHBY&list=PLXtoniNoeLvpgFcFnhfzi2SxEAI4jyIZr
Still to this day I hum Black Sabbath when I drive fast or do any fancy weaving.
Heard Sabbath on this game before anywhere else, I still love them so much.
Ghosts and Goblins
Listen kids, this is how you spot them, this and their rubber skin. Dogs bark at them too.
Dark messiah of might and magic
ton of mentions until this day
I was gonna post this too… Amazing game, combat mechanics in modern games still haven’t caught up. Also that ice spell makes the game.
Literally every battle mechanic in that game was top notch. Think linear single player Mordhau with spells and your character has demon strength.
Came here to post the same! It’s fantastic!
Might and Magic anything beyond Heros of Might and Magic 3 is rarely if ever talked about. Although it was an awesome series.
Dark messiah of might and magic
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2100/Dark_Messiah_of_Might__Magic/
Yep that one, I’ve got the CD at home.
The original mass effect trilogy. I know they’re very mainstream but no one talks about them anymore and I must have like 5k hours between the 3 games.
Perfect winter break games for just diving in and doing 20 hour long play sessions
mass effect trilogy
Looks like there’s currently a 90% off sale.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1328670/Mass_Effect_Legendary_Edition/
I do recommend the legendary edition, the graphics updates are actually good. You still need to add a few choice mods but it was a good remaster
Same reason people don’t talk about Game of Thrones anymore. The last entry, Andromeda, was so disappointing it retroactively made people like the previous ones less :\
The combat in Andromeda was pretty sweet though even though the story sucked. I have it another shot not that long ago and once I figured out some of the profile swapping stuff the combat was really fun.
I think they just never were that relevant, probably because the first one was too RPG and not enough action game for the average public to form a cult following around. Still amazing games that are well worth bringing and nerding over
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
I have been playing this game my entire life on/off, and have the most hours in, but I have never beaten it. I came close 1 fucking time, and I will forever remember the one dumb mistake I made that lost it for me just on the cusp of victory.
One day…
God tier game. I’ve never even been close to beating it.
The Fatal Frame series (maybe the second one here and there) and Kunitsu-Gami. The second one surprised me since it’s relatively new, but I thought it was a great surprise. I loved the hell out of that game.
One of my favorite games is a hidden gem that I never see people mention. It’s called Out of Space and it’s a couch co-op game similar to Overcooked with two major differences, it’s less frenetic so you can play it to chill out, and it’s procedurally generated so you have lots of replayability. For me and my wife it’s the perfect game of “let’s play a round of something”, yet I never see it mentioned anywhere.
This looks great for my wife and I, also our niblings. Thanks.
it’s a first person shooter dungeon crawler, the levels and enemies are procedurally generated, sometimes you can get a room with enemies that are one hit kills, then walk into a connecting room with 3 different over powers enemy types coming at you from all directions.
its face paced and fun as fuck to run around killing shit with magic wands and magical guns.
no playthrough is the same.
I always wanted to get this game when it came out but I only had a PS4 and no money…
It’s such a fun game, I recommend giving it a go, it’s one of those games you can play for a long time or just a quick little run through. it’s on PS4 now I’m pretty sure.
It was back then too but I was broke lol
Definitely Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, an RTS in the Star Wars universe that uses the Age of Empires 2 engine and has very similar gameplay.
i played the shit out of that. still have the deluxe “saga” edition complete in box.
Mount & Blade. It’s not unpopular per se, but somehow I never saw anyone mentioning it around here in Lemmy.
I was playing it on console so I didn’t get to do any mods to really increase the fun but I still had a lot of fun anyway. I do think the devs need to try a bit harder. I feel like they just provide a framework for mods without making a really nice game themselves.
That being said I played hundreds of hours of both and really like them. I just wish they were a bit better
