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Excluding all games you have seen mentioned by anyone on the internet, what is your favorite game? (programming.dev)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by RandomVideos@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Any kind of game

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

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[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Gameboy color dinosaur JRPG / metroidvania that seemingly no one else has ever played. Called Dinosaur'us. I had to google the name there and it turns out there is a wikipedia page so it's not totally obscure - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur%27us

I loved this game as a kid! There are surprisingly few good dinosaur games (although admittedly a lot of good dragon ones).

Edit: only ever released in the UK - that explains a lot of why it was so obscure. The ROM is on emulator sites though if you are curious.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 2 points 7 months ago

ICO never gets mentioned and is legitimately my #1 all time with Another World a close 2nd that also never gets mentioned

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 points 7 months ago

Does making a list of all games not on any list count as a game? Also, what happens since that game is now on a list making the original list incorrect?

My actual answer would probably be the old SSI games on Amiga specifically for Death Knights of Krynn or similar, though I don't think they hold up super well (it's 1st ed D&D specifically in Dragonlance and adapted to PCs of the time).

[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 2 points 7 months ago

Dark Souls 1. The only game I bothered getting all achievements for.

[–] Daze@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

Two gamecube games that I never see discussed anywhere, and no equal sequel has ever released for:

Cubivore & Frolf

I am still so sad to not be an owner of either in a physical capacity :’(

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Action Quake 2 - AQ2

An online 90s FPS

--//--

Innovation

Card game - Simplicity and depth, exceptional gameplay. Best at 2P.

[–] sag@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

AQ2 I have played it.

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[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

Cogmind! I found that game after I bought Caves Of Qud. Technically it wasn't recommended to me by anyone directly (just found it one day scrolling through Steam). Its an excellent RPG where you play as a self-assembling robot trying to escape from a massive robot colony thing. Haven't gotten super far into the game yet but I absolutely love the gameplay and sound design. Check it out!

Also, NES Open; the greatest golf game ever made in my opinion. I've had it since I was a kid and have never heard anyone talk about it online. Simple gameplay, high skill ceiling. Exactly what a golf game needs to be!

[–] gaiussabinus@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Fragile allegiance. Desperately needs a redo with a first person mode and better ui

[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I can't answer anything since lemmy is the internet and once I answer whatever I mention will breach the requirement by virtue of me (anyone) mentioning the game on lemmy (the internet).

Anyhow, I learnt about Diablo 2 from my cousins when I was 7 and played it a lot before knowing internet was a thing, does that apply the non fucked up version of your request?

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

I have said "seen" Technically, the comment is not on the internet until its submitted

You can just post it and quickly leave the app before its been submitted to the internet

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

Excluding all games you have seen mentioned by anyone on the internet

Well, shit, that makes my list really, really fucking small.

I guess Clutch? Literally never seen anyone mention it before, cheap carmageddon clone

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Favorite is a tough one to pick. There are many games that have genuinely shaped my life, some that I still play consistently, others that hold a dear place in my heart but I'll likely never pick back up for various reasons.

Games that I play all the time and get the most value out of are not necessarily my favorite games. I've been playing the crap out of satisfactory since it's 1.0 release, and it's definitely up there, but it doesn't evoke the same feelings I had when I played Skyrim for the first time, nor do I think it will create formative memories like the Halo, Sly Cooper, or Ratchet and Clank series did for me.

Well shit. I guess I don't have an answer. Sorry.

[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Powder by Jeff lait. I think you can get it at a website called zincland or something?

It's an old school roguelike that absolutely slaps, though its gotten significantly harder to play since the wiki stopped being hosted

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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Ok, any game that I've ever seen mentioned by someone online in my almost 30 years on the internet is going to strike most titles and leave only the ones that are really old, obscure, or both. So, here are a few that I like but can't recall seeing mentioned online other than when specifically looking them up:

Stunt Island. Airplane sim-like game by Disney studios. Early 90's
Rocking Cats. Awesome NES platformer that has a really fun take on the genre
Armadillo Run. Physics puzzle that a friend of mine recommended in the mid 2000s.
Sacrifice. Weird (the good kind of weird) first person strategy game I pirated once after finding it on an FTP. Fucking amazing game from somewhere in the early 2000s
A.r.s.e.n.a.l. An RTS from the late 90s. Don't send an attack without fuel trucks!

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[–] sag@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Tap Ninja: A Idle ninja-slayer game have more than 700 achievement.

Rusted Warfare: A RTS game.

Zortch: A Quake like boomer shooter.

[–] dirtySourdough@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Image Fight on NES. It's a top down scrolling shooter where you fly a space ship and pick up new weapons and attachments. I was terrible at it as a kid but I loved it and kept trying to progress further. I've thought about picking up a copy now but just haven't gotten around to it

[–] Deadful@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Legretto

I was introduced to the game by an Austrian woman I dated in my 20s and 25 years later remains at the top of my list of party games.

Ligretto is a card game for two to twelve players. The game in its current form was designed by Michael Michaels and published in 1988 by the German company Rosengarten Spiele. Since 2000 the game has been published by Schmidt-Spiele of Berlin, Germany. - Wikipedia>

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That game looks pretty similar to a game I know as "Racing Demons", played with regular playing cards

[–] Deadful@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The cards take a beating and before Amazon existed it was much harder to get replacements. We tried regular playing cards, but that only works if every deck has different backs for scoring purposes. I think there was another issue in practice, but that was the main frustration.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 months ago

I tend to play it at my friends' New Year holiday, which is a context where we have like, 12 different decks of playing cards to pick from, which helped with that scoring issue. Regarding the cards taking a beating, that scans with my experience — there was a sort of communal pool of cards and games during the holiday, so it was fuzzy about who owned what, there were a couple of sets of playing cards that weren't meant to be used to play racing demons (they did seem pretty fancy).

I seem to recall that an issue we faced somewhat (even with a pretty large diversity of playing cards styles) was that some styles were harder to read than others (such as due to stylised card designs, or low contrast colour etc.). We had 3-4 decks that were equally easy to read, yet visually distinct enough for scoring, so we were good most of the time. If there were more than 4 at the table, it'd start getting trickier and people would have to start using decks that were harder to read (I.e. decks like this. We tended to rotate the decks each game, so if there were awkward decks in play, it wasn't the same person using it each time at least. I wonder if the other issue you describe with playing cards is this contrast/readability problem that arises when having to find cards with different backs.

[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Thinking about it, reducing my entire game library to not suggested titles anywhere decreases its size drastically. It easily knocks like 20 games I would list normally.

With that said, Last Command was a nice bullet hell game. Would reccomend

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

I haven't seen "The London Game" on the internet; that can be a lot of fun.

Most of the other stuff I like I've seen somewhere or other.

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Always liked Power Pete, and if you don’t have vertigo, the Descent series.

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

7 stud. Hold-em kids can't keep track of the muck.

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