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Mine has to be Dragon Quest: Rocket Slime, a DS spin off of the Dragon Quest series that sees you playing as a slime operating a tank and rescuing the people from your town. You run around the overworld, collecting items to use as ammunition and saving money to upgrade your tank. The art and music are just as great as you'd expect from the Dragon Quest series. It made fantastic use of the DS's dual screens. It's also written for a younger audience, so a lot of it is just really silly and fun! Try it out for sure, I'm so sad there's no sequel :(

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[–] basuramannen@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago

I like the DOS game Nuclear War. Funny and quick to complete.

[–] match@pawb.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Allegiance

Wildly asymmetric sci-fi RTS sorta - one player per team was actually playing an RTS but everyone else on the team flew one of the actual ships, so the commander was more like making suggestions. Super fun space dogfights and sometimes you could just chill and be the turret on a bomber. One hilarious advanced strategy was to have some of your extra supply ships line up nose-to-tail with the bombers and accelerate them towards the enemy base.

[–] NameHeadline@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] xaon_rider92@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Shadow Hearts: Covenant. I haven't played it in years, so maybe it's just nostalgia, but I remembered that the story was interesting, and the ring combat mechanic was fun, and the music is good. I never played the 1st and 3rd Shadow Hearts tho, only the 2nd.

[–] Fillet@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Might and Magic 6. It was such a weird product of its tech limitations, but they managed to squeeze such a good rpg power curve into it, it's still super fun.

[–] Atheran@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Mine would be Anarchy Online. Still around, though FC has ran it to the ground and not too obscure, considering it used to be quite big before 2005ish, but almost nobody talks about it in EU and the few times they do is to comment on the dreadful launch.

But I doubt there's a game I've sunk more hours into, playing constantly from release up to 2011 and then on and off until last year. Eventually I figured out it's just nostalgia and it's not worth it anymore, the time, let alone the sub.

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[–] TaterTurnipTulip@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Comix Zone. It was a beat-em-up on the Sega Genesis with a gorgeous, comic book art style. It wasn't the greatest game, but it had character and it stood out against some of the other fighting games at the time. I'd really love a remake or sequel at some point. Doing it in the style of the Spider-verse movies would be rad.

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[–] telchior@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ogre Battle, either March of the Black Queen or Person of Lordly Caliber. It's such a weird cul-de-sac of tactical RPGs. The same company made Tactics Ogre, which then became Final Fantasy Tactics, which in turn inspired a zillion other post-2000 tactics games; and Tactics Ogre got a remake version recently. But the Ogre Battle side of the family just disappeared.

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[–] Frostwolf@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Rune factory 3. It’s not popular anymore, nor do I see it talked about but I still play it from time to time. Sometimes I leave it open just to listen to the music/background and sometimes I fire up youtube and my speaker just to listen to its OST.

[–] Ech@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Not so much my favorite game, but just one of absurd obscurity: Special Training ‘99

It was a game I found in school that I lost track of and nobody I asked about it had any notion of what I was talking about. Only just found it again recently.

[–] Leilys@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The FATE series. No, not the anime, the Diablo ripoff computer game with stolen music sold by WildTangent. I was a kid that got by playing only demos, and this game was one I reinstalled over and over again to get those free plays.

It's a pretty simple dungeon crawling game with procedurally generated floors where you have to get to floor 5x and defeat the named boss there so you can reincarnate and start it over again.

I reinstall it every couple of years to play it. It's got hardly any story, quests are generated for the floors you're about to reach, stats are randomly generated. It's just pure gameplay, though a bit repetitive as it can be. I love that it has a similar fish mechanic to Torchlight for your pets.

I remember seeing a nostalgia post on the game on Reddit and the developer of the game series had commented on the post. It was like meeting one of your heroes. Definitely very memorable for me.

The third game supposedly has all the content from the first two, so here's the steam link if anyone's curious.

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[–] foggianism@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Power Blade on the NES. You are a Schwarzenegger-in-his-prime-like character in the future fighting the robotic underlings of an AI gone rogue. It has only 7 levels or so, but it has a nice gameplay to it, and the music was composed by Kinuyo Yamashita, who also did the Castlevania music. Needless to say, the soundtrack is top notch.

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[–] braydrunner@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Rocket Slime was one of my favorite games as a kid! I didn't even find out what Dragon Quest was until like a decade later when 11 came out

[–] matrixrunner@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Soul Bubbles is a puzzle-action game released for the NDS. You encase the souls of the departed in magic bubbles and blow them around levels to help them to the afterlife, dodging spiky terrain, marauding creatures, and wind currents.

It might have gotten more attention if its production run wasn't so small and it wasn't sold exclusively at Toys 'R Us.

[–] MavTheHack@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not my favorite but in my top 10 is from the depths. Never seen anyone ever mention it without going out of my way

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[–] Llamajockey@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Dear rising I would love a reboot of the first one with new mechanics but the same overall crazy feel

[–] StringPotatoTheory@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I used to play a lot of games on miniclip wayyyy back when flash was a thing, but nitrome games were my favorite:

  • Final Ninja series (2 games I think?), 2D platformers where you could swing around and also shoot enemies with ninja stars. had a lot of levels to complete
  • Dirk Valentine, 2D platformer, similar to final ninja but with a different theme
  • Avalanche, a 2D game where you are a penguin trying to escape the avalanche by sliding and avoiding obstacles. I think this had a lot of levels too

Looks like nitrome has these flash games to download on their website, but they also converted / are converting them to html5 as well. I'm so glad these aren't lost!

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[–] Kaldo@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

It is not that unknown and it's getting some traction but I'm still surprised how many people are sleeping on Riftbreaker, its such a well made polished (and Polish) game with tons of updates and communication from the devs who are also working on adding co-op to it which is a huge task! Look at the absolute unit of a blog post they wrote about it. It is very much a labor of love and I think more people should know about it.

[–] Pinto23@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Starsiege and/or earthsiege 1 and 2

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[–] Skooshjones@vlemmy.net 4 points 2 years ago

Backyard baseball, loved that game as a kid.

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