• Sunsofold@lemmings.worldEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Kinetica - a racing game where the ‘vehicles’ are people in mechanical suits that make them look like sexy mecha, racing to old techno

    Bloody Roar - a series of fighting games where you fight as people who can suddenly shift into other forms, some recognizable animals and some abstract, and with the ability in some arenas to kick people through walls or over ledges into new arenas

    Forsaken - 3D hover vehicle battles

    Tiny Tank - a game where you play as a sweary AI tank

    Megaman Legends 1 and 2 - Megaman as a 3d adventure game with a storyline and characters

    Gitaroo Man - a rhythm game I enjoyed, later imitated by some others

    Shadow of the Colossus - more known but not cared for these days. A game in which there are only boss battles. A subtly told story. Part of the ICO universe.

    Titan Souls - One boy, one bow, one arrow that can be magically recalled to the bow, and giant stone destroyers that he must conquer with nothing more. Kind of a 2D Shadow of the Colossus

    BPM: Bullets Per Minute - everyone has the idea for a rhythm FPS. This is the only one that does a good job of it.

    Receiver - a game in which you don’t just hit R to reload, but have to go through the full manual of arms, dropping the clip, holstering the weapon, loading each round into the clip, drawing the weapon, seating the clip, racking the round, checking the chamber to make sure it fed correctly, aiming, firing, clearing the jam, all while worrying about killer robots.

    Valley - a movement game that has such an amazing feeling of freedom in its movement

    Tunnet - lovecraftian network technician game

  • secret300@lemmy.sdf.org
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    13 days ago

    Gotcha Force for the GameCube slaps hard and I want another one so bad. I’ve only met 1 person who also played it back then. Ahhh fuck just talking about it makes me wanna download it now

    • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      12 days ago

      I prefer Commandos. I heard they’re making a new one. Not sure if it’s been released yet.

      The was a Stargate SG-1 tactics game that came out, but it was so disappointingly terrible that I never finished it.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Hmm. I don’t know if they’d stand the test of time, but a few older games I enjoyed a lot back in the day that aren’t going to show up much of anywhere due to age:

    • Loony Labyrinth, a 2D video pinball game for the Mac and Windows by Little Wing Software. I’ve played huge numbers of tables on newer and more sophisticated engines, but that table kept me coming back for more hours of gameplay than any later ones. Not on GOG or Steam, though Little Wing sells copies directly.

    • Flying Nightmares, or AV-8B Harrier Assault. Untextured polygon flight sim where you’re operating off a US amphibious assault force; probably one of the few games kind of like Carrier Command 2 that I can think of in that you can also control other of your forces (though Flying Nightmares focuses on operating the Harriers, and Carrier Command 2 the amphibious assault ship). Doesn’t look like GOG or Steam have them.

    • Eufloria. Steam link for an HD re-release. One of those “real-time 4X” games, but using plants and seeds and minimalistic graphics.

    • Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising. A spiritual successor to Carrier Command. One has an amphibious assault ship, can construct autonomous vehicles and move your ship around. Unlike Carrier Command 2, this is a single-player game. Wish that someone would make a more single-player-oriented Carrier Command 2. The graphics haven’t really kept up with the time, and it tends to encourage exploiting the AI’s weaknesses, but I’ve had a lot of fun with it.

    It’s not exactly unknown within its niche, but because it is niche, Rule the Waves 3, a game that simulates naval fleet command and development.

    EDIT: Oh, here’s an oddball, not quite as old game: Ghost Master. One acquires and upgrades different types of ghosts, then places them and uses their abilities to scare humans away from a location. Nothing else very similar to it out there that I’m aware of.

  • dkppunk@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Epistory and Nanotales

    Both fantastic games with beautiful graphics and good for typing practice.

  • Lycaon@lemm.ee
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    14 days ago

    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

  • traches@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Nine parchments! Take Diablo, strip out the loot system and plot, add friendly fire and some colors, and you have 9p. It’s not a perfect game but it’s super fun to play with a few friends

  • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 days ago

    I used to play the shit out of The Specialist, a HL1 mp mod.

    Also while most were hooked on Twisted Metal my brother and I loved Vigilante 8.