Games

Planetside 2. Been playing for a decade. One of the best games and only one in its genre of MMOFPS. I don’t know what I will play when it dies. It’s the one and only thing I play and enjoy now. Nothing else is fun.

Starport GE. Amazing little game. Played tons of it. It’s been almost 18 years of it. Played hardcore for atleast a decade before life got in the way and winded down now. My brother manages the account and activity now. Still alive but barely. It’s a game of strategy and alliances and carefully managing a galaxy to control it all. Make friends make enemies. There’s been dozens of people that have come and gone over the years through it. Due to its small player size. We all knew each other very well and were acquainted. You don’t like someone you decide to go to war with them start taking all their colonies. The game has no alliance mechanism or war mechanism. It’s all on you to decide what to make of it.

I know everyone here got many favorite and probably wonderful games but who here has played only 2 games with more than a decade of dedication to each?

I humbly submit for your approval Yuppie Psycho, a fantastic Steam horror adventure about a kid's first day in a truly nightmarish company. It's got a unique style, and genuinely unnerved me in places. Really creative work, and it deserves so much more attention.

Landstalker on Megadrive/Genesis. It's one of my favourite childhood games. I actually want to go play it again now that I'm thinking about it again.

Starsiege and/or earthsiege 1 and 2

Back in the day Hidden & Dangerous was a fantastic game. Spent many hours crawling on my stomach sniping. And the multiplayer LAN parties were epic for the sheer fun and hilariousness of the bugs we found. Only my friends at the time have ever heard of it though.

CrossCode is one of my absolute favorite games, yet I hardly see it talked about in larger circles. It's an action RPG with some zelda-like dungeons and a very fluid and satisfying combat system. Highly recommend it!

X-beyond the frontier got me into space games as a kid. Had trading, piracy, fighting, ship building, factory ownership. Great series, and they made more after that. I've never met a single person that has played that game before.

Shadow of Rome on the ps2. Still hope for some kind of remake by capcom

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

Rebel Galaxy Outlaw. Made by I think 3 or 4 people. Solid space flight shooter with charm. It's just fun.

Rocket Slime is actually the second game of a trilogy. Its just the only one to get an english translation.

Nobody ever brings up Strife even when talking about old shooters as it is. Strife is, by far, the best Doom engine game that exists.

Way back when "addictinggames.com" was relevant, there was a game called Avalanche. The background music (dreams of above) was an absolute banger that still gets stuck in my head sometimes. Just a simple platformer, but for some reason it stuck with me, and I absolutely need to get on a computer and see if there is a playable version somewhere.

This is kind of obscure but I used to love this MMO rhythm game called Audition Online, published by Nexon in 2007. It's completely deserted now, hasn't been updated in years, and only runs on Windows OS, but sometimes I'll revisit it and play for hours despite only like 10 people being online lol

A few that are favs for me that no one ever talks about:

Forgotten worlds on Genesis Wild arms on playstation Tokyo extreme racer zero on playstation 2

Has anyone heard of "A Flame in the Flood?" It's not the deepest game, but I think it deserves a bit more recognition

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.

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!

Omori is an Earthbound inspired jrpg that I can never talk about as to not spoil an ounce of this game. I thought about the ending to this game for a week straight after finishing it.

World in Conflict is mine. One of the best tactical RTSs that existed with stunning visuals. A nuke going off was one thing, but when your team decides to spend their support points at the same time on artillery, carpet bombing, and cluster bombs, it was a sight to behold.

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.

That was one of my favorite games as a kid! I think it was super ahead of it's time too, the mech battling feels really MOBA-esque especially in hindsight.