Any kind of game

EDIT: changed from suggested to mentioned and made the title more clear

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    This is a hard one because I generally try to play good games these days, and good games either get popularized through word of mouth or Youtubers make video essays about how they were misunderstood at the time. For me, this question is really asking “Hey what weird trash did you find back when you were 10 years old digging through the bargain bin for whatever you could trade two games you finished for.”

    I think my big picks from the weird trash are The Urbz, which comes from back when they made Sims spinoff games instead of endless DLC, and Ty the Tasmanian Devil, which was a 3D platformer metroidvania that revolved around collecting increasingly elaborate boom-a-rangs. I definitely sunk the most hours into the Urbz, because nothing was more fun to a 10 year old than going around a virtual town flipping people off.

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    No One Lives Forever

    To this day I have no idea why I bought it. And I bought it close to its release date. I would only do that if I had been absolutely obsessed for months with previews and stuff. But I remember none of that.

    And still it ended up becoming one of my all time favourites.

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      Are you talking about 1 or 2? I always thought 2 was better and introduced a load of mechanics (to me at least) that are commonplace nowadays. This was the first FPS game I played where getting found during a stealth mission didn’t completely ruin everything. And the concept of unkillable enemies that you can only run from.

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        Definitely 1. The second one wasn’t bad. I mean, nothing beats a katana fight in trailer a flying through a tornado. But something about that game was always missing for me. I couldn’t lay my finger on it (apart from Cate’s actress changing). And I hate the endlessly respawning enemies.

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    Commander Keen might be one of the few old enough not to have been mentioned to me since the internet became well-known.

    Also, Squarez.

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    Two very niche board games from the 70s: “Snit’s Revenge” “Lie, Cheat, and Steal”

    And an old Avalon Hill wargame: “Wooden Ships and Iron Men”

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      Lie, Cheat, and Steal!!! We used to play that as kids! Excellent call.

      Did you play the Mad magazine game where the objective was to lose all your money?

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          You’re in for a treat! I tend to still prefer the parser based EGA versions for nostalgia reasons but it’s very well done and faithful to the original.

          I’m longing for another play-through thanks to you! Maybe I’ll go fighter then paladin instead of my usual magical thief.

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    There was this officially licensed Star Trek tabletop starship battle game that I got to play a couple times in the eighties and no one seems to remember it but me. Wish I could find a copy. I remember it being a blast.

    I could rattle off a whole list of TRS-80 Model I/III or Apple ][ games that no one has ever heard of, but I’ll spare you.

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      Or they did read all the comments, but someone posted their game during the time they were reading, so they never actually saw it. Then they posted their game and looked a stinky non-reader even though they weren’t.

    • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.ee
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      Technically any mention of any game is a breach of the requirements since by virtue of them posting it it already disqualifies their very same comment as per the requirement.

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        Me too! I do play KeeperFX though, which is an amazing remake.

        I don’t know how to link the Dungeon Keeper community here on Lemmy but I made on lemmy.world for it.

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        I picked up a copy of Overload somewhere on the high seas. The graphics on that game are so intense that my poor little laptop can only get like 3 frames per second at its absolute lowest resolution and quality settings ☹️

        Maybe one day I’ll get a better system worthy of high end games. It’s just not high on my priorities list now, as I don’t play games nearly as often as I did in my teens and 20s.

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      That game is the shit. It’s even easy to play on Windows now, which was very much not the case back in the day.

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    Haven’t seen it mentioned here, but my favorite game of all time is one that is Rarely mentioned - if ever,

    The World Ends With You, originally for the DS, now on Switch.

    MC Neku has 7 days to figure out wtf is going on in The Reaper’s Game, but he can’t remember anything.

    Fun combat mechanics, the DS version had you fighting 2 combat encounters at the same time, one on the top screen, and the main one on the bottom screen. The sound track was amazing! I still have multiple soundbytes from that game as ringtones.

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      “What’s up Wanda” “Let’s sprint”

      The delivery of those two lines are burned into my memory.

      Inevitably every movie I’d make in that program would just be 2 characters karate kicking each other and then exploding