games

Easy answer is E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy.

It's a janky mess built on the source engine. The plot is downright incomprehensible. Gameplay mechanics aren't properly taught to the player, leaving you to work out how everything works (my legs are ok). The maps vary massively in terms of quality (the tutorial area for example has an optional side path that is just an incredibly long empty corridor that takes, like, twice as long to cross than the path you're railroaded towards to reach the same destination). It's basically an unlicensed WH40K game so it's got my dislike of Warhammer to work against to win me over.

Despite this, I have a huge soft spot for the game. It's one of the comfort games I boot up and play when I'm sick and sad.

Dark Messiah of Might and Magic.

gameplay is excellent, probably still the best fps/rpg hybrid, especially if you love kicking enemies off of/into things, but the story is extremely generic

Probably Everquest. It set the tone for what mmoprgs were to become but now it's nothing more than an antiquated time sink.

Dwarf Fortress, I'd recommend it but only to someone I know had some interest, especially if they want to play the ascii version. Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead would be another. They're pretty hardcore, Aurora 4x and Dominions would also be hard to get people into unless they had some interest

Black and White and Black and White 2 (The Lionhead god simulator games, not the Pokemon games)

They were extremely cutting edge for their time but are VERY jank and cheesy and I'm not sure modern gamers would like them.

OOOOOOOOH WE'VE THIS NOTION THAT WE'D QUITE LIKE TO SAIL THE OCEAN

Dragon's Dogma isn't obscure but it fits enough.

One of the very best RPG combat systems with a god tier magic system put in a paper-thin world. The leveling up is shitty and requires playing as different classes because your own class has such shit stats that leveling up is useless. Getting any real enjoyment out of the game is a 20 hour slog to get to the end-game stuff.

The Movies (2004) is an incredible concept, with a lot of jank

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