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Are they the 'epics' of their time, or some things that are less well known?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Yoshis island
Super mario world
DKC 1, 2 & 3 Pokemon gen 1&2
Banjo kazooie & tooiee TLoZ A link to the Past, Ocarina of time & Majoras mask
Warcraft 3 + frozen throne
Command & conquer 2 + yuris revenge

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I've still got my Nintendo 64, and I sometimes boot up Goldeneye for old time's sake.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Currently replaying the Sly Cooper series, it will always be a favorite of mine

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Nfs hot pursuit 2 holds up insanely well. Ahead of its time. Gt2, ff12, musashi, crash bandicoot. Lot of ps2. Still play all my 2600 and nes and n64 games too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Less Pokémon here than I thought there would be, though it does make a showing. I do gen 2 and 3 now and again. Gen 1, I think I've wrung out completely, and gen 4+ (DS and onward) just doesn't emulate as cleanly in my experience.

And I guess I'm approaching my 2nd decade of still playing certain MUDs: Achaea/Aetolia, Discworld, Lost Souls.

I don't really game much these days, though; certainly not like I used to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Every final fantasy game i seem to play over and over again on loop, bunch of different iterations. Played the nes ff1, then the ps1 remake, then the GBA remake, and then the pixel remaster. Currently playing thr pixel remaster of 2. GBA was the only other version I played of that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Every time Final Fantasy Tactics comes out again, I’m all over it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

• Rollercoaster Tycoon 3. Hate it or love it, I still think it's an amazing game.

• Chuzzle Deluxe. Recently got back into it after purchasing it a few months ago.

• Zuma Deluxe. Same thing applies.

• Sonic Unleashed. Went from playing on PS2 to 360 to now Steam Deck. The 360/PS3 version is absolutely superior, though.

Any others I can think of are all things I started playing closer to when I was a teen, so I'm not counting them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Dungeon master and Dungeon master chaos strikes back

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Quite a bunch, but the ones I come more often to my mind (and that are not DS titles, if not it would be Jump Ultimate Stars, Metroid Prime Hunters or Mario Kart DS) are:

Jackie Chan Stutmaster and Toy Story 2, both PS1 games (among other PS1 titles).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Still playing Call of Duty: United Offensive multiplayer on PC nearly every day

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I'm midway through Oblivion Remastered and holy shit is inner 20s me ever happy about this raytracing thing

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Final Fantasy 6 but, back in my day, it was called Final Fantasy 3.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Morrowind, Shenmue, Earthbound, all the the Mega Mans, Starcraft

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm interested in trying Shenmue after it was (to me rather surprisingly) awarded the "Most Influential Game of All Time" award by BAFTA.

How do you play it there's days? Physical Dreamcast? Can you play it on PC? Emulator?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I have my Dreamcast still so I could theoretically boot it up any time and get the "authentic" experience. However they released it digitally for playstation and I think Xbox, along with the sequel.

I will say, it might be less accessible if you haven't played anything like it previously. Game design sensibilities were different back then and it was the first real attempt at an open world game, to say nothing of the awkward English voice acting. But the narrative is still fantastic and I can't think of many games that have ever been so ambitious in their scope. It's part Virtua Fighter, part RPG, and part narrative walking simulator. I discovered it by chance at a formative time in my life and those first awkward steps into it with no idea what I was about to experience are still a core memory from my teenage years.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk, I guess haha

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I wish it was on Steam or GOG. I guess I'll keep an eye on the Playstation store, I do still have my old PS4.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Rayman's saga Especially Rayman 3 and Rayman 2, I am so excited for the upcomming fan-remake Rayman 2: Redreamed

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I played lightbike a variation of armagetron (that imo was honestly superior, it had jumping, boosting, maps that took advantage of that, skins back when they were cheap) but I still play armagettron on ocassion, agains the ai for the most part. Loved that ipod game. I wish it was still popular, think they got scared of licensing disputes with disney and a bit greedy with the microtransactions towards the end, started to effect gameplay through boosts.

I wish some of the changes like jumping and maps that were more than just one grid made it over to armagettron or another pc version but those stayed simple sadly.

I would eat up a modern cross platform tron lightbike game with maps like the ipodgame, jumping, boosts, etc. and cosmetics like rocketleague as long as they don't give you a leg up. It would be all I play.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Age of Mythology too <3

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Does chess count?

Probably Sims and SimCity, I go back to them fairly often.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Fallout 1 & 2, Final Fantasy 9, Elite

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