• Couldbealeotard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    6 months 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.

    • pyre@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 months 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.

  • Krudler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    6 months ago

    Squarez Deluxe.

    I’ve been on a one-man promotion spree of that game for almost 20 years

    It is now freeware, it’s available on DOSBox, and it is the best shape-packing game ever made - you cannot even debate me once you try it.

    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
      3·
      6 months ago

      Holy shit, memory unlocked! I think I bought that game from Office Depot for like $2 on clearance when I was buying school supplies.

      Now I’m going to have to go perform some sorcery to see if I can get it on my steam deck and baffle a couple buddies!

  • Fargeol@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 months ago
    • Bionic Commando on Game Boy --> platform game with good graphics and good musics for a 1992 Game Boy game. It’s an adaptation of the NES/Arcade game but in a futuristic world and more fluid controls (in my opinion) than the NES one.
    • Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle --> really good tactical RPG with a funny universe and awesome music that was released early on the Nintendo Switch.
  • Sheridan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    Creaks. It’s a puzzle platformer sort of in the style of Limbo and Inside. Beautiful hand drawn graphics. Really challenging puzzles. And the music feels like it organically evolves as you progress through the game.

  • agent_nycto@lemmy.world
    14·
    6 months ago

    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.

    • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 months 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.

  • ace_garp@lemmy.world
    4·
    6 months ago

    Sauerbraten FOSS FPS, available in your repo. Single player racemaps are fun. Get to the podium in the quickest time.

    Try these servers:

    -Racing#1 2021 [rev]-

    or

    Racing Reloaded

    –//–

    0AD FLOSS RTS, also available in your repo.

    Excellent theming and challenges.

    • whelk@retrolemmy.com
      2·
      6 months ago

      I tried this after seeing Action Retro use it a few times to see if he could make it work on older machines he was tinkering with. Love the old school/simpler FPS feel of it, and the lack of nonsense. Boot it up, play

      • ace_garp@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 months ago

        It’s like the best bits of Q3A and UT combined.

        Just be aware, some other online players will modify opponent skins to be extra hi-vis(cheating).

        Good to give you an extra challenge.

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
        6·
        6 months ago

        I definitely enjoyed the original Syndicate. While I like the aesthetic and the music, it isn’t an incredibly deep game, but I did like the thing. I could go for playing the thing in HD, 24-bit color, maybe upscaled graphics, and at a high framerate.

        IIRC, Syndicate Wars didn’t review as well. I can’t recall whether I ever got around to trying it.

        For anyone who hasn’t tried Syndicate, the game is a cyberpunk, squad-based isometric-view pixel-art game where one has to perform various missions to gain control of territory; might be assassinating someone, capturing someone, clearing enemies from an area, etc. Doesn’t have destructable terrain, though vehicles are destructable. Late game missions tend to have so many very-durable bionically-enhanced enemy agents charging at one’s squad that one has to keep the squad pretty much bunched up and using either rocket launchers or miniguns just spewing out a ton of firepower in their direction.

        In its time, Syndicate was pretty well-known, though I dunno how many people born later would be familiar with it today.

  • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 months 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.

  • From_D4rkness@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    6 months 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/