Outer Wilds is this game.
Anon loves The Lord of the Rings
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kreiger@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Cold Waters if you’re hankering for some hot sub on sub action.
Aspharr@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s not a trilogy, but I gotta preach the good word of Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights. If you enjoy 2D metroidvania style games it’s top notch.
The game just drips in atmosphere. The environments are beautifully drawn and designed, characters and enemies are animated well and the music just wraps everything up in a nice bow. The game literally made me cry at points and I’m not the type to tear up often when playing games.
The game can be challenging at times, but I wouldn’t say significantly so. I would say Hollow Knight is more challenging than this game especially with some of the end game content that that game has.
The game is worth full price, but it goes on sale pretty regularly and probably is right now with the summer sale on Steam.
There’s also a sequel out now called Ender Magnolia. I haven’t played it yet but I will eventually.
9point6@lemmy.world 2 months ago
RimWorld
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Yes, this, 1000x this.
God the only thing it needs is multi threading (I acknowledge it’s an incredibly difficult thing to implement). But probably the oldest game I still regularly play. I’ve put at least 8000 hours into it since I first bought on 2016.
New DLC was just announced last Mk the too.
AnomanderRake@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Expedition 33
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Deus Ex, if you ignore that it really is ugly as sin. Sounds amazing! Plays beautifully! But yeesh, Unreal Engine 1 humans.
Most immersive sims are arguably in the same boat. The people involved had enormous ideas. As commercial products, they were woefully underappreciated, until years later. And quite frankly they do look like shit compared to much simpler contemporaries. Some NoClip documentary about Looking Glass could show an artist with muscular dystrophy
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Transport Tycoon would still be a fun game even today.
darko8472@feddit.uk 2 months ago
OpenTTD is!
Ilixtze@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Future Cop: LAPD for the ps1!
Madrigal@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh that was fun! I got the demo with a graphics card back in the day. Would never have heard of it otherwise.
Ilixtze@lemm.ee 2 months ago
My sister and I used to play this when we were kids in co-op and competitive mode and it was a blast! Probably one of our first videogames and it was kind of “Our game.” I just recently found out it was made by the same guys that made jungle strike and desert strike back in the nineties and I’ve been itching to play it again.
moonlight6205@lemm.ee 2 months ago
This game has so much nostalgia for me. It was the go to game because it had split screen.
brosaph@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Bloodborne
HenryDorsett@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Planescape: Torment does it for me.
More lines of dialogue than all of Shakespear’s works? Sign me up for that kinda RPG, lol.
Though these days some good voice actors can do a lot, looking at BG3 here, at least the voice casting.
Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Completely different genre but the Stabley Parable checks all of these.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
MarioCart :)
silasmariner@programming.dev 2 months ago
Braid and Ocarina of Time are the two that come to my mind…
Surenho@lemmy.wtf 2 months ago
Ocarina of time is the one I’ve read in this comment section that best aligns with the feeling imo. Braid is great too but I imagine less popular.
silasmariner@programming.dev 2 months ago
Fair. Braid is, in some ways, the video game i consider most worthy of the status of ‘art’ so I couldn’t not say it, although it’s certainly not like LotR in that respect. OoT OTOH, feels like it fully fits
k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Anyone know if there’s a videogame trilogy of the same calibre?
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Diablo 1, Diablo 2, oa
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Mass Effect.
BakerBagel@midwest.social 2 months ago
I’m willing to give it the first 3 Halo games as well as Mass Effect.
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Surprised no-one pitched Elite:Dangerous. Certainly a labour of love to begin with, incredibly talented sound design, first space sim to VR, truly devoted to the original material… Still going pretty strong (had a few weak years) with updates (only 2 DLC-ish major updates of which were paid) a decade later…
RedFrank24@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The Yakuza series I guess? Granted I’ve only played zero, kiwami and kiwami 2, but it all seems to be completely sincere in its craziness. It doesn’t appear to pretend to be anything more than it is.
catty@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Zork. Everything else is wrong.
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
XCOM
Alteon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
XCOM: UFO Defense (1994)
It’s by far the best version of XCOM. I mean. The graphics are as great, but it has all of the same features as the modern version (not joking), and I think the strategy is by far better. You can also have your own base that you have to defend.
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Blocked because of severe challenges in videogame taste. XCOM:Enemy Within is peak xcom.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Cdda
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Ohh that is a good suggestion. Its also FOSS, people should go and play it.
Recently tried out the extraction mod which was a very different play through.
Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Wonder if he’s played the PS2 LotR games, they were good
kautau@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I mean, they were definitely enjoyable. But I’m unsure if they meet the qualities of OPs post lol
0kman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
EverQuest.
Gmork@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I would have to go with the Panzer Dragoon trilogy on the Sega Saturn.
While the first title was, at its basics, a fairly simple on rails shooter it was more than the sum of its parts.
It had incredible art direction, a sweeping musical score, innovative world building and rock solid gameplay.
The second title built up on the first installment in every way to solidify it as one of the best titles of that generation.
Then came Panzer Dragoon Saga which evolved the series into a full blown JRPG that is still so unique and unlike anything else out there.
Team Andromeda’s passion, dedication and innovation ensured each game was a new benchmark for Segas black box.
What I wouldn’t do for a new installment by the original team.
vivalapivo@lemmy.today 1 month ago
A lot of good suggestions but my first thought was Final Fantasy X.
Alpha71@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The ArmA series by Bohemia Interactive.
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Minecraft. Star Fox 64. Pokemon Stadium.
Nangijala@feddit.dk 1 month ago
The Stick of Truth, obviously.
Semi-jokes aside, I am a bit sad that not a single person mentioned the first four Silent Hill games. The sheer influence that series had on video games as a whole, especially in the horror genre cannot be overstated. But I guess it is tricky with games because everyone has different tastes and interests. It is rare that games unite people the way lord of the rings did. Gaming is at once so broad and so niche.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 month ago
It’s weird that Deus Ex isn’t in this thread yet. Such a well made game with quite a few prophetic moments.
emmy67@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The original, not human revolution…
Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Yeah ofc
Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Final Fantasy XI. It’s been online for over 20 years and still has a devoted player base. The game’s scale is so epic that many people still haven’t beaten the expansions.
When it came out it was so far beyond what we had seen in an MMO before - The only competitors were UO and Everquest, but the graphics, music, complexity, and storyline were miles beyond those games.
It’s a game with unimaginable depth of play that takes years to master - not like the hand-holdy easy games we get nowadays. Truly a gem the likes of which we will never see again.
DireTech@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Nah, this or WoW will probably go down in history but I don’t think any game focused on intentionally dragging out gameplay to keep subscribers hooked will ever go down as marvelous examples of gameplay.
pseudonaut@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Dammit. I may have to reinstall.
Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Hop on HorizonXI! It’s a very populated classic server.
Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Lord of the Rings Online.