• Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Flashback.
    I played it on SNES, but it was on a few consoles. I heard they are making a sequel so that’s cool. It’s science fiction with flavours of total recall, they live, and running man. I just really enjoyed the prince of Persia style gameplay but cyberpunk.

    Parasite Eve
    More specifically number 2, because the first one never officially came to pal regions. It’s like resident evil but SciFi/body horror. The third game was shit because they lost the rights to the novel it was originally based on. If there’s any game sequel that I wish for it would be a proper PE3.

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      6 hours ago

      flashback is one of my favorite games, after prince of persia and ahead of blackthorne.

      i just hate the fact that 3d games fucking flooded the market just as cinematic platformers were getting really good.

      instead of even more refined games with better graphics and animations, we got shit like fade to black and pop3d.

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    12 hours ago

    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.

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    12 hours ago

    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.

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    21 hours ago

    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…

    https://crawl.develz.org/

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    17 hours ago

    There’s a bunch on the PS1 that got lost in the mix.

    Ape Escape was really fun and novel, it was the first mandatory dual-stick release, and it did initially sell really well! It got two sequels on the PS2 but then drifted into spin-offs and party games. It’s been two decades since the last proper installment.

    Tomba! is delightful nonsense, a 2D adventure platformer that presented non-linear quests and tight controls. It’s a cult-classic and the digital Special Edition on PS5 looks like it was done well.

    Now for something truly forgotten: Running Wild. It’s a kart racer but instead of karts it’s a bunch of furries in a footrace. The announcer yells a lot, some of the character designs are lazy stereotypes, the graphics are muddy, but the track design is solid and it really feels fast when you get going. Very rewarding to learn the best lines and get into a clean flow.

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      15 hours ago

      You are the only person I have ever seen mention Armadillo Run. I used to be obsessed with that game.

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        And you’re the only person I’ve ever seen recognize it in turn.

        Part of me wants to ask where you went to college since that’s the only community I knew who played it, but I also wouldn’t post that here.

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    The Void by Ice-Pick Lodge, the makers of Pathologic.

    This game taught me that actions have consequences and that I should be more humble and think twice about the environment before exploiting it like I’m playing a game.

    Yes, it’s that kind of game.

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    Didn’t see Receiver 2 mentioned, so I’ll give it a shoutout! Really interesting game, and as far as I know the only one with such deep shooting mechanics. Unfortunately the sale had ended a couple days ago, so it’s back to its normal price, but even then I’d heavily recommend it!

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    Shining Force 3. Mostly cause it’s marooned on the Saturn but it’s so friggin good.