Videogame Recommendations. - What cool games have you been playing?

Nine Sols. Yeah, it is hard as hell, but once you get it down it's satisfying. Only cheesed one boss because it was BS, and no it wasn't the final boss.
 
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Am I the only one who hates Tower Defence games?
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I used to like the old Starcraft Broodwar custom tower defense maps but I've never really enjoyed any of the actual tower defense games I've tried.
Hepativore said:
2. SaGa 2: Hihou Densetsu (2009) by Square Enix

This is a Nintendo DS remake of the 1990 Gameboy Game, Final Fantasy Legend II. Unfortunately, the only way that you can play it in English is if you download the ROM and apply a fanmade translation patch and play it with a Nintendo DS emulator.

The remake takes everything that was great about the original game and story and expands upon the mechanics. Part of what makes this game so fun is that you can have any monster you encounter in the game as a playable PC. By eating the meat of different defeated monsters you can turn your PC into different monsters.

3. SaGa 3: Jikuu No Hasha (2011) by Square Enix

This was originally Final Fantasy Legend III for the Gameboy, and the Japanese-only Nintendo DS release is also superior in every way to the Gameboy release. This has the same interesting character classes as the second game, but it also adds beastmen and cyborgs. Fortunely, there is also a fanmade translation patch for it that you can apply to a ROM so you can play it on a Nintendo DS emulator in English.
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I've never played the gameboy originals but I downloaded the DS versions not long ago as well as the Wonderswan Color version of Saga 1 intending to try them but I got started on the Romancing SaGa 3 remaster instead. I'd never played any SaGa games before but after a few hours of feeling bored and confused I figured out the business minigame and started getting some gold and finding dungeons with treasures and shit and it's actually pretty awesome. The party building and battle system are a lot of fun. I'm probably going to play Romancing SaGa Minstrel Song afterwards. I started it but it seemed pretty in depth and overwhelming so I figured I'd finish the other one first.

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Nine Sols. Yeah, it is hard as hell, but once you get it down it's satisfying. Only cheesed one boss because it was BS, and no it wasn't the final boss.
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I tried it after hearing it was like Hollow Knight. I didn't really like it. The controls felt kinda janky to me and I didn't really like the forced enemy bouncing shit.
 
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I have some DS games beside me right now, so I guess I can recommend them:
Xenoblade 3D
MarioKart 7
Smash Bros 3DS
Animal Crossing NL
Resident Evil Revelations
Plants vs Zombies
Super Mario 64 DS
 
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I've never played the gameboy originals but I downloaded the DS versions not long ago as well as the Wonderswan Color version of Saga 1 intending to try them but I got started on the Romancing SaGa 3 remaster instead. I'd never played any SaGa games before but after a few hours of feeling bored and confused I figured out the business minigame and started getting some gold and finding dungeons with treasures and shit and it's actually pretty awesome. The party building and battle system are a lot of fun. I'm probably going to play Romancing SaGa Minstrel Song afterwards. I started it but it seemed pretty in depth and overwhelming so I figured I'd finish the other one first.
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The Gameboy SaGa games put "Final Fantasy" in their titles to try and capitalize on the success of the Final Fantasy franchise in the American market as the SaGa games had been largely unknown outside of Japan at the time.

I am only somewhat familiar with the rest of the SaGa series other than SaGa 2: Hihou Desetsu and SaGa 3: Jikuu No Hasha. Do any of the other SaGa series games use the "meat" mechanic to let you have monster PCs? Basically, when you defeat a monster in battle, it will sometimes drop meat, and if you feed it to one of your human characters, they will become a monster or a monster PC will become a different monster based on the element of the monster meat and the eater, and you can also inherit different traits between transformations.

In SaGa 3 Jikuu No Hasha, you have beastmen which are halfway between a monster and a human who need to eat meat again to become monsters. However, some enemies will drop mechanical parts that you can install in a human PC to become a cyborg, and if you install more parts, you can become a "mecha" (robot).

As far as I know, no other SaGa game has this "transformation" system to get different PC classes, but I am not sure.
 
Hepativore said:
The Gameboy SaGa games put "Final Fantasy" in their titles to try and capitalize on the success of the Final Fantasy franchise in the American market as the SaGa games had been largely unknown outside of Japan at the time.

I am only somewhat familiar with the rest of the SaGa series other than SaGa 2: Hihou Desetsu and SaGa 3: Jikuu No Hasha. Do any of the other SaGa series games use the "meat" mechanic to let you have monster PCs? Basically, when you defeat a monster in battle, it will sometimes drop meat, and if you feed it to one of your human characters, they will become a monster or a monster PC will become a different monster based on the element of the monster meat and the eater, and you can also inherit different traits between transformations.

In SaGa 3 Jikuu No Hasha, you have beastmen which are halfway between a monster and a human who need to eat meat again to become monsters. However, some enemies will drop mechanical parts that you can install in a human PC to become a cyborg, and if you install more parts, you can become a "mecha" (robot).

As far as I know, no other SaGa game has this "transformation" system to get different PC classes, but I am not sure.
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The Romancing SaGa games are pretty different as far as I know. The only thing that's really the same is the leveling system where there's no experience points. I think there is something similar to the meat thing in SaGa Frontier. I've never played it but it also has a monster race that has transformations I think. But I don't think it's exactly the same as the older SaGa games. There's no races in the Romancing SaGa games but SaGa Frontier has them. As far as I know, but I could be wrong, SaGa Frontier has the most things similar to the older games, it even goes back to a sci-fi setting, but it's still pretty different. Also, the original playstation version is unfinished and kind of broken. The remaster adds a bunch of missing content and fixes a bunch of stuff.

The Romancing SaGa games are open worldish fantasy JRPGs. There's none of the sci-fi stuff. It's kind of hard to describe. You don't travel on a world map. You have a world map but you unlock places on it by talking to people in towns. Every town has quests that can be done pretty much any time you want. I've only played the third one so far but in that one there's 8 starting characters with different intro stories and something like 30 total recruitable party members. There's some kind of main story about Abyss Gates but I haven't really gotten to them other than to have some dude tell me they exist.

The battle system I think is similar to the older games in that you randomly spark item skills by using them in battle and instead of experience points you level up hitpoints and skill points randomly after battles. It also has formations and a commander mode if you have 6 party members. It doesn't have the weapon durability from the old SaGa games but the first Romancing SaGa does. There's some kind of enemy scaling and hit point based system where some quests only become available after reaching a certain Max HP value but i'm not sure exactly the details. I've tried to avoid spoilers as much as possible.

This site has pretty much all the information out there on Romancing SaGa 3


Minstrel Song's a remake of the first Romancing SaGa which as far as I know was pretty broken and buggy. They went pretty hard for the remake though and pretty much turned it into a whole new game. It's pretty similar to Romancing SaGa 3 but with the autism dialed up to the max.

Just in general about the SaGa series it's impressive how much effort the remakes and remasters of those games get considering how weird and obscure they are outside Japan and even in Japan they're considered weird and hard. If you look at the recent SaGa remasters compared to the Final Fantasy pixel remasters there's so much more effort put into the SaGa ones.
 
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Snoot Game (free) and Wani (among the top 20 highest rated games of 2024 on all of Steam). "I don't like Visual Novels" shut up you retarded nigger and play them.
If you are a windows fag then you can get Phantom Dust for free on the microsoft store and play it. Extremely unique game, beyond excellent and one of those one-and-done type games that perfectly executes what it set out to and is timeless because of it. It helps that the port is so good too. On the topic of good obscure games Tron 2.0 is a really good first person shooter from Monolith (F.E.A.R. devs) that perfectly encapsulates the original Tron. Sons of the Forest is a schizophrenic adventure of survival in clown logic that is one of the unintentionally (but not negatively) funniest games I've ever played. Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath is yet another FPS game that- if you can look past some of its rough parts- is a really unique and fun time. And if you have a friend or three I recommend picking up Borderlands 2 and playing it with them some time. If you can get through some of the poorly aged humor and the proto-woke inclusions, it is an excellent looter shooter and rightfully the progenitor of the genre.
All of these games are on steam or free, and often go on sale for almost nothing.
 
In no particular ranking I'll throw out a variety of all around solid games I've played that I would recommend to most people:
Arctic Eggs
Duck Game
Dead Estate
Ring of Pain
Botanicula
Lethal League Blaze
The Darkness II
Death Road to Canada
Bully: Scholarship Edition (Unstable, use a patch)
System Shock
Hypnospace Outlaw
SUPERHOT
Streets of Rogue
Destroy All Humans!
Barony

Here is a list of games that may be a bit more niche but are personal recommendations of mine that stood out to me for their aesthetics or gameplay:
Small Radios Big Televisions
Hard Time III
Psychopomp GOLD
Nidhogg
Little Inferno
Fear & Hunger
Dicey Dungeons
Super Hexagon
Hyperbolica
Apotheon
Jazzpunk: Director's Cut
Scanner Sombre
MADNESS: Project Nexus
Do Not Feed The Monkeys
HYPER DEMON
 
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lurkr said:
This has to be bait, who the fuck would recommend these games, unironically?
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you don't have to pretend to be super cool and hate fun here, that only applies to /v/, which you should probably go back to

Recommendations in no particular order

Modded Minecraft (tech modpacks)
Factorio
Bloodborne on ShadPS4 (mostly bug free)
Resident Evil 4 (original version)
Hollow Knight
Project Zomboid
Stardew Valley
Sekiro
Deep Rock Galactic
Deadbolt
Hotline Miami 1&2
LISA
Spec Ops The Line
Downwell
Spelunky 2
Nuclear Throne
Synthetik
Noita
 
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I don't get to play games very often but these are my go to

Risk of rain 2
Metroid prime remastered
Metroid dread
Escape from tarkov
Legend of zelda majoras mask
Fire emblem sacred stones

Deadcells as well
 
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The Cringe Connoisseur said:
It's not available for digital purchase because it's abandonware but a game you may be interested in is ZPC AKA Zero Population Count. It's an old school boomer shooter with a unique brutalist art style. I have a sealed big box of it myself, I want to build a retro gaming PC for games like it and I may rip them and upload the ROMS if I can to keep these old forgotten games alive.
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I will trade you a sealed Big Rigs Over the Road Racing for a sealed Zero Population Count.
 
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SOMA. Enjoy your existential crisis.
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Outlast: Whistleblower > Outlast > SOMA >>>>>>>> Outlast 2 anything after that

Stuff I've played in the last 5 years:
Industria *short
Gori: Cuddly Carnage *short
Tormenture
The Plucky Squire
Reveil *walking sim
Atomic Heart
Stray *short

Not much came out in the 20's.
 
Hieronymus Bosch's Brutal Orchestra
-Surreal turn based rougelite about a dead guy trying to find and kill the guy who killed him. A lot of art based on the titular painter's works, some interesting mechanics, and a lot of great music.

Northern Journey
-An adventure FPS game with amazing atmosphere and area design. You can tell the dev loves hiking.

SYNTHETIC
-Fast paced action rougelite. SSeth made a video about it.

LiEat
-3 charming little rpgmaker games, each can be beaten in 30 minutes.

Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend
-Slay the Spire, but with a better energy system and better character gimmicks/decks than Slay the Spire.

Battle for Wesnoth
-Free and open source fantasy strategy game that's been around for ever.
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Golden Light. A really weird survival horror roguelike with a PS1 aesthetic. It's so weird it just has to be experienced, it's also a good playthrough as well.
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Seconding this, Golden Light is kino.
 
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I will trade you a sealed Big Rigs Over the Road Racing for a sealed Zero Population Count.
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Tempting. I actually have a bag full of big box games I found in a dusty tote in a pawn shop a few years back I got quite a few good games actually.

Quijibo69 said:
Outlast: Whistleblower > Outlast > SOMA >>>>>>>> Outlast 2 anything after that

Stuff I've played in the last 5 years:
Industria *short
Gori: Cuddly Carnage *short
Tormenture
The Plucky Squire
Reveil *walking sim
Atomic Heart
Stray *short

Not much came out in the 20's.
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The fucking groom from whistleblower... Holy shit that was the most disturbing moment i've ever seen in a game lol it's so god damn scary.
 
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