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sometimes you play a game and you like it more than it probably deserves. maybe it has cool music over bad gameplay? maybe it has interesting characters in a buggy world? maybe it tries to do something unique or interesting, but the devs don't quite have the skill or budget to achieve it? or maybe it just inexplicably gets its hooks into you somehow. either way, you somehow end up liking it unironically, even though you know it's not exactly great. i played a surprising amount of Mighty Bomb Jack when it landed on the switch subscription nes app. it has a really weird jumping mechanic that emphasizes madly tapping the button to hover, monsters spawn randomly around the screen every few seconds instead of being carefully placed, the game actively punishes you for getting too many powerups ("YOU ARE GREEDY GO TO THE TORTURE ROOM") and the level designer has a grudge against you that reaches the point of warp zones that send you backwards, but for some reason i just kept trying to push deeper, seeing how far i could get before the game spawned a mummy on top of me with a quarter-second of warning. it's weird and hostile, but it's also decently challenging with a lot of secrets to dig up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7ngsg86R7w so what about you? what's your favorite mess?
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 14:13 |
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I famously played APB for nearly 20 hours a day for the three months the company that made it wasn't bankrupt and then another month after it was rereleased, and was considering selling my plasma to preorder it so I could play three days early when it released as well.
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 14:57 |
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Now then. *cracks knuckles* Games I like, even though their not good? Let's see... DOOM (1993) DOOM II Quake Quake III Arena Super Mario Bros Super Mario Bros 3 Super Mario 64 Demon Souls Dark Souls Dark Souls III Ratz Instagib 2.0 Final Fantasy III (VI) Final Fantasy VII Final Fantasy X Final Fantasy XII
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 15:01 |
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anything with Star Wars in the name
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 15:20 |
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I put one million hours into Spore OP
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 15:22 |
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 15:23 |
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also i got extremely addicted to Tiny Tower so i was walking around saying "my tin y tower" this and "my tiny tower" that for a comically long time until i realized it sounded like i was talking about my penis.
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 15:26 |
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I remember this game kicking a ton of rear end so I’m never going to replay it and ruin it
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 15:36 |
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Final Fantasy XI, which I still play.
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 15:59 |
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Jak 2 and Jak 3. I've played these too many times even though they honestly suck, especially 3.
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 16:01 |
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Kongming posted:Final Fantasy XI, which I still play. also like once a year i'll spend an afternoon throwing myself at Keith Courage in Alpha Zones. it's pretty sloppy (the way you turn around is very strange compared to other platformers, like it turns you around at your nose instead of at the center of your body) with a lot of instant-death traps and shops that demand grinding for health refils or weapon upgrades, but there's some wonderfully weird monster designs (especially in the mecha bits) and each level likes to throw new ideas at you for a surprisingly brief amount of time (oh, here's the upside down bit. here's the toxic pipes...) it tries to avoid getting boring, and i like that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ldb8F_4F6g
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 16:03 |
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The Kins posted:tbh i'm kinda amazed the servers are still up almost 20 years after launch, stunning longevity They keep it running with a skeleton crew so they probably still pull profits from it. I doubt it will shut down any time soon.
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 16:05 |
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trying to stop my eye from twitching at wormskull's obvious troll post
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 16:05 |
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isn't there a guy with like a wall of monitors ozymandias style playing final fantasy 11? that's probably enough to keep them profitable on its own, lol
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 16:08 |
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Bicyclops posted:isn't there a guy with like a wall of monitors ozymandias style playing final fantasy 11? that's probably enough to keep them profitable on its own, lol Lot's of people play it running multiple accounts at once, yes. But uh...I would never do something like that...noooo way lol.
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 16:11 |
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i fuckin love the way of the samurai games even though they're super jank and kind of bad, also i played the hell out of the wizards and warriors games for nes even though the second wasnt very good
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 16:37 |
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Friday the 13th, Jaws, and A Nightmare on Elm Street are all kinda lovely but also oddly fun in their own ways.
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 16:48 |
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Kongming posted:Final Fantasy XI, which I still play. I played hella FFXI between CoP and WotG.
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 16:53 |
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I also played a lot of Sigma Star Saga for the GBA. It was a kind of repetitive scrolling shooter type game but it had a fun gear collecting/evolving system and a little RPG hub between levels. I do not remember a single thing about the story.
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 16:54 |
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This was cool and I remember having a lot of fun with the tie-in third person shooter for Wanted.
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 16:58 |
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Fungah! posted:i fuckin love the way of the samurai games even though they're super jank and kind of bad, also i played the hell out of the wizards and warriors games for nes even though the second wasnt very good
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 17:01 |
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i forget if it was ken griffey jr. or roger clemens baseball that let you rename all the players, but my brothers and i played way too much of that so that we could name our team after us and our friends and the other, stinky team after the people we didn't like.
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 17:06 |
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throw my science project on the floor, will you, C. Fittante? well let's you see you hit this curveball. now all the pixels in the crowd are booing you.
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 17:07 |
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FactsAreUseless posted:If Wizards and Warriors 3 had a save or password system it would be a pretty fun game. It has some interesting ideas. yeah, i think i liked that one most. 2 was too long and complex for what it was and 1 was way too easy, 3 was probably the best of them
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 17:08 |
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thinking about it, it's a shame the whole series didnt come out like two years later, 2 and 3 would have been badass snes games and the better hardware probably would have let them get closer to what they wanted to do, and 1 looked pretty nice for a nes game. what could have been, i guess
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 17:11 |
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One of the later Might and Magic games made after they stopped caring had a really great card game built into it with different opponents at all the taverns. I got to the point where I was levelling up my characters to learn flight and invisibility spells just so I could sneak through overlevelled areas in search of the next hit of this game.
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 17:23 |
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That Sol Seraph game SEGA put out a couple year's back is Actraiser with tower building/defense instead of the sim part. It's butt ugly in the platforming sections, but is still fun in the clunky way Actraiser's side-scrolling parts were. I don't even like tower defense games but this one was basic enough that I had fun with it.
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 17:28 |
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I have played and beaten two (2) sword art online games now. I kinda really enjoy the franchise but jesus the games are buggy messes with insanely lovely and constant load screens that sometimes are longer than the “cutscene” it loads.
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 17:34 |
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MC Kids was one of my favorite NES games, although that one might be straddling the line of "not very good". The explore an easy platforming area while looking for secrets style gameplay really clicked with me, and I remember the music being pretty good too.
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 17:34 |
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oh yeah, and i played a shitload of urban champion. it wasnt a good game but it was the only 2p fighting game we had until i got my n64, apart from the fighting game mode on double dragon 3. i wouldn't say i liked it but it definitely served a purpose for me
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 17:40 |
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FactsAreUseless posted:Jak 2 and Jak 3. I've played these too many times even though they honestly suck, especially 3. I remember sinking an insane amount of time into Jak X
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 18:02 |
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I had Mighty Bomb Jack as a kid and hated it mainly because you can't even defeat enemies except for one rare powerup. Maybe I'd 'get it' if I played it now.
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 18:42 |
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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is not only incredibly mediocre, it also nearly bankrupt the state of Rhode Island because Kurt Schilling was seen as a god at the time, and they gave him a 69 million dollar loan. That said, I played it twice and had a lot of fun with it. Reminded me of the old double A game titles that disappeared. I'm going to play the remaster at some point too.
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 18:44 |
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always enjoyed Doom 3 for the atmosphere even though it sucks out loud in about a thousand different ways
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 18:45 |
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XIII was fun (original, not the remake)
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 18:54 |
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I like low budget platforming collectathon type games like Vexx or Jersey Devil.
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 19:04 |
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Disney's Toontown
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 19:16 |
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n64 mission impossible
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# ? Jan 26, 2021 19:22 |
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Banjo-kazooie
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Deus Ex Invisible War
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