Submitted 1 year ago by GreyTechnician@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
Age of Mythology is one that I very rarely see talked about anywhere, it has a pretty good single player campaign. I also think more people should try out Caesar 3, albeit using one of the more modern fan made patches for reasonable zoom distances and other quality of life features.
I was thinking about AoM just the other day, decided I’m gonna play the campaign again for my next game to play
I think most people look at AoE and AoM as the same, but AoE is more popular so that gets all the attention.
AoM is one that’s in a little subgenre with games like Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends and total war Warhammer. Fantasy versions of strategy games otherwise strictly rooted in reality. Usually they’re great but left as one-offs forced to wallow in relative obscurity, but every now and again one shines through.
Days Gone. Biker in post Zombie Apocalypse. Fucking love it. It was killed by a few bad reviews that obviously only played for a few minutes. The reviews were so wrong it is impossible that it was an accident.
Yes. The bike you get at the very start IS ugly, doesn’t handle well, breaks easily, and runs out of gas. That’s why you upgrade it.
The map is small? Because you haven’t explored anything yet. The map is HUGE. It just isn’t fully accessible at the beginning.
There’s no fast travel? Liar. Fucking liar. There is fast travel once you get more than 1 location. Which happens about 20 to 30 minutes in.
The gun is terrible? No shit Sherlock. It’s the first gun. The wooden sword in Zelda isn’t great either. That’s why you upgrade.
No alternative weapons? Fucking asshole. What do you think all those empty slots on the weapons wheel are for? You have to go get them.
Giving a bad review because your starting gear isn’t good is absolutely underhanded willful ignorance hit piece bullshit.
You sound very passionate but also very aggressive. It’s almost uncomfortable to read 😅 Will check it out though, thank you.
Yeah. It still makes me angry. A few hit piece reviews from people that didn’t play the game, and were just making things up, scared Sony so they canceled the sequel.
But the game is so good and the story is so fantastic that there serious talks about a miniseries. Primarily due to the success of Last of Us. If that happens a sequel is possible, maybe even probable.
I think most of the reviews panned it for having a very generic and cliche-ridden plot, but I agree with you, that game is fucking great, the hordes and horde tech are awesome, and I’m sad Bend can’t make another one.
Great game, probably the best zombie hordes you’ll face for sometime because the game apparently wasn’t good enough for a sequel despite selling practically identical numbers to Ghost of Tsushima (which is also great btw).
The 2008 Prince of Persia.
What was expected to be a start of a series revival, flopped and ended up with a kinda messy PC port, platform exclusive DLC epilogue and eventually abandonment in favor of return to sands of time mythos.
Meanwhile it is my favorite entry in the series - with amazing art direction, and lovely character development and vocal performances by two main characters. The gameplay is a cross of guitar hero and parkour - it’s much more rhythm based and perhaps less expensive, but pulling off a perfect run feels soooo good.
I love the game so much that even though I’m not a YouTuber, I created a full playthrough and published it - just so I can stop wanting to play it again every few years.
I had a game breaking bug that prevented me from getting into the end game boss area. I was disappointed. The rest of the game was fun from what I remember
And a quick, lore-correct “quick-load”. Ut feels really good to try again without gaving to explicitly reload.
Nihon Falcom games made since 2000, all of them. Ys games are so much fun and the Trails series has the most expansive world-building I’ve ever seen. Imagine something like a Bethesda game, but instead of every character basically just having one quest-line and ten lines of dialogue, they are constantly changing throughout the entire game, reacting to world events and progressing their own particular arc
there might be hundreds of side characters in each game that all have their own arc throughout the game, or maybe multiple games
The series really does ruin a lot of other games for you though, you come to expect this and then you play a game that doesn’t’ focus as much on narrative or world-building and everything just feels so videogamey as a result. Oh this character only talks about their Bar? and their dialogue doesn’t change at all? and they have one quest and then you’ll never speak to them again?.. okay.
I don’t have much experience with JRPGs. What’s the gameplay like? Action or strategy, or something of a hybrid? Are they hard to get started with? I see Ys Nordic just released back in September. Would that be a good starting point, or would I be confused from missing prior games in the series?
Ys Nordic is only released in Japan yet as far as I know.
Ys 8 is a good starting point.
The stories aren’t that connected besides some characters and a lot of Easter eggs / references so you can play them in pretty much any order you want.
Ys Nordic hasn’t come out in the west. Just pick up ys 8. It’s everyone’s favourite, it’s on sale all the time, and it’s on all the platforms.
The story doesn’t matter, you can play them all in any order. Just endless fun action rpg with amazing music
Ys series is mostly action RPG. Trails is turn-based. This site can help you pick a good place to get started with the Ys series.
The trails series though is rough to get into. Ive played cold steel 1 and 2 but the the other games seem outdated and inaccesible now.
Ive tried reading synopsis but they just dont click for me.
the absolute oldest three games are on pc, psp and psvita. far from inaccessible. everything else is available on all modern systems.
I would argue pretty hard against the “outdated” remark, they have the same visual style that games like octopath traveller take, the 2D-3D approach. aside from that they have the same battle system as the other games.
I hate Ys Origin with a passion but Ys I and II were great. And Trails in the Sky 1 and 2 is probably in my top 5 videogame stories that I‘ve experienced.
Funny, I absolutely love Ys Origin and can’t really stand the modern direction of the series. Been meaning to try the Trails games, but never knew where to start.
Evoland 2: A game paying homage to the history of rpgs, and has a fairly solid set of main characters.
Lenna's Inception: A 2D Zelda clone about the world glitching out and you taking the place of the main character.
Bastion: First game from Supergiant Games (makers of Hades). Fantastic music and voice acting. Fairly good story too.
I feel like Bastion is probably appropriately rated, given that it is very popular, and I think made it onto atleast a few game of the year lists when it was released.
As someone who replayed it recently, I also feel like it did not age gracefully.
I think it’s worth noting that Lenna’s inception is procedurally generated, for better or worse.
It's somewhat randomized, but not procedurally generated in the typical sense. There's a set number of dungeons that will appear in the same general regions each time. Along with a set order of doing the dungeons.
Lenna’s Inception: A 2D Zelda clone about the world glitching out and you taking the place of the main character.
I will be checking that out, thank you for the tip.
I hope you enjoy it! Fair warning ahead of time it does have multiple endings, and the good one will probably take a second play through, though it's not particularly long.
Dyson Sphere Program. Factorio and Satisfactory tend to get all the press, but DSP is AMAZING.
It’s in early access, but it’s one of the most polished early-access games you’ll find. They’re currently working on a large combat update that should drop in December. Price-to-value ratio is ridiculous. It’s $20 and I have 155 hours in the game.
I played it a year or two ago and found it really lacking in interface. It was really difficult for me to understand what was going on. Has that improved any?
Snowrunner. A great combination of both chilled-out & stressful, driving massive diesel trucks at 5mph through woods and rivers delivering logs or girders.
The fact there’s no big story and almost zero dialog, just assignments and map markers mean it’s a superb ‘podcast’ game - something you can put it on while you listen to some podcasts / audiobooks.
Not that the game is boring or just a distraction. It’s incredibly satisfying finding the best way to navigate through a horrendous woodland or swamp and get all your cargo through safely.
Plus, it has some of the best landscape physics out there. Rushing water really feels accurate. Mud paths get distorted so that it’s harder to get through on your way back than before you churned it all up.
A great game. 100s of hours I’ve sunk into that thing.
Their upcoming game looks absolutely amazing by the way.
Love SnowRunner, and i do play it mostly with podcast or stream open on second screem. Wish I could have a real manual transmission with clutch and all, chassis flexing and better asphalt friction. These would make it even more amazing
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. It’s a free, classic-style roguelike that has a massive amount of options. The game takes place in the near-future following an apocalyptic event that has turned most people into zombies. There’s also Lovecraftian horrors, Fallout-esque military installations guarded by robots, the ability to be a furry (like, with a full costume. Or you can get mutagens and transform yourself into an animal hybrid.), vehicle and structure building, and you can even milk cows. It’s updated daily if you want to play the latest test builds, or you can stay with the latest stable build. There are various overhaul mods and loads of single-feature mods. It’s one of my all-time favorite games, and I tend to go back to it every few months.
Ok this isn’t an answer from me but I’m hoping it’s somebody else’s answer because I’ve had this game in my library for like eight years and haven’t played it: Transistor. It seems like it got really really good reviews and then nobody ever talked about it again.
The reason people forget about Transistor might be the game Hades -from the same studio- which was/is such a huge hype. Got them both in my library, played a lot of Hades but never really got into Transistor because in my opinion it really pales in comparison to Hades.
Got it installed before I checked my replies and I didn’t even realize it was them till I started playing but yeah it’s pretty awesome so far, loving the Turn() mechanic, gives me way less anxiety than Hades
Play it. It’s fantastic. The soundtrack is chefs kiss.
I replay EV Nova (Arpia plugin, of course) every few years and just absolutely love it.
I’ve been playing Endless Sky recently which is a FLOSS clone of EV. it’s good but I really can’t get the hang of the combat.
This one is a real lost gem for me, I haven’t thought about that game for probably 15 years.
It’s still around! And there’s a little discord full of super nice people who still play it and mod it and maintain a new forum.
Valheim has some hump.
Rimworld, it has recently started gaining popularity.
The long drive, great time sink.
Zomboid, but that has really blown up in the past few years.
*checks Steam reviews… 143,535 Overwhelmingly Positive Totally underrated.
I’m so hyped for the next Rimworld DLC!
Ooh, this is my favorite topic to discuss! But I’ll keep this short because it’s late and I should be asleep by now).
If you like Lunacid, give King’s Field: The Ancient City on PS2 a look, it’s by FromSoft, and you’re definitely a lot less mobile in that game, but the styles are very similar.
Nova Drift, I just can´t stop playing it. It is a roguelite space shooter, based on Asteroids. The the game has very stylish 2D visuals, huge number of builds, responsive and precise controls. It happens to be on sale right now.
STALKER - Or at least in North America, anyway. While the vanilla games can be a little clunky and difficult at times, they offer one of the most unsettling and atmospheric experiences around. There is nothing quite like tucking your tail between your legs and hurrying back to the safety of numbers, or a lonely campfire after realizing the sun is rapidly setting and you’re still out there with the shadows. Once you reach that camp or relative safety, there is this strange mixed feeling of simultaneously security and insecurity as you listen to your temporary companions converse with each other in the glow of a crackling fire while distant creatures howl in the night and the Zone creaks and groans around you. Those feelings are intensified when conversation abruptly halts and the men around you go on alert, and you remember that nothing stopping those things in the night from wandering right into your camp, or whether/whoever that distant flickering flashlight belongs to from getting a little too close.
Hardspace Shipbreaker. You’re a wage slave in an orbital junkyard breaking down ships and recycling them… with lasers. They’re essentially a puzzle game in 3d, because you have to break the ship parts into their respective bins, but they’re all stuck together in weird ways that explode if you do it wrong! The soundtrack is so good (Americana blues, Lotta banjo) that I got it on vinyl.
I keep passing it on gamepass but now you have my attention
Ugh yes. Just turn your brain off (after the tutorial) and have fun
Tales of Maj Eyal is a roguelike that is on the scale of an epic adventure rather than a single dungeon delve. It has some of the most unique class design I’ve seen in a game. It has great automation features that let you set trigger conditions for skills. The game has received persistent updates for over a decade now.
Crystal Project is a relatively new JRPG that features some of the best exploration I’ve ever seen in a game. Also like ToME it has interesting class design. The end game bosses are fun, and actually make you think about your team design, they are generally not brute forceable.
Both games are well received but have less than 10k reviews on Steam, where indie darlings such as Cuphead or Hades have over 100k.
I’ve been meaning to pick up Crystal Project (that price, wow!) But I learned it’s coming to Switch so have held off on it. After Sea of Stars, I need me some new JRPGs!
Gemcraft - was a game I found on Kongregate back in the day & I still find myself going back from time to time to play. Almost all tower defense games are underrated!
Broforce
Extremely fun game … for an evening but are you really playing it seriously?
I play it regularly all over again. The amount of variability they where able to pack in it makes it incredibly fun and replayable. The characters are well thought and balanced and in custom maps are usually good quality. Plus it is a blast in multiplayer and holds perfectly well online.
Stacklands. Card based colony builder. Cheap, simple premise, but loads of fun
Everything by sokpop is amazing and really cheap
That looks interesting. I’m going to get it. Thanks.
The battle for Polytopia is my jam
Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure.
It’s a very cute action RPG made by the developers of the Ys and Trails series.
A lot of folks are sleeping on mobile games either because they’re mobile games or because of gacha, when a small amount of research (in the right places) will inform you on what the quality of the games are as well as how much gacha is required to enjoy the game. A lot of which don’t “require” it or give you more than enough to obtain enough out of it to progress (usually the gear based ones). Though if you outright don’t like the blatant waifu/husbando nature a lot of them have you’re free to avoid those, no point in forcing yourself to do something you don’t like.
Genshin Impact for example, might have a massive number of players, but I have found the game itself and the storytelling to be very underrated because folks either expect far too much out of it or just don’t care. Even out of my friend group there’s a few that only play to collect characters, that’s their prerogative. It’s also technically not a mobile game since it is available on just about everything, but it does have a gacha and therefore gets lumped in with other mobile games.
I can understand why some folks were put off by the first act back when the game was new and there wasn’t much else to do, but it’s grown considerably and there’s a lot more available to new players to keep them occupied during downtime. Like an entire TCG mode that gets updated regularly and even has its own competitive scene.
A lot of these games have more effort put into them than full releases on consoles and it amuses me how many players are quick to shit on mobile games when the games they play on whatever other devices are either worse, equally if not more “predatory”, or similar enough that they would enjoy it if they actually gave it a chance.
Genshin impact is overrated if anything.
I really love the whole presentation and much of the gameplay of the “2D in 3D” games such as the original Octopath Traveler (haven’t played 2 yet) and Triangle Strategy. Triangle Strategy especially really brought a lot to the strategy RPG table (generally my favorite genre) and I’m surprised at how little it was talked about even if it was well regarded and sold out of almost all my local game retailers from pre-orders alone on launch day (though that could have also been those game shops not ordering many copies thinking it wouldn’t sell well).
Oni is a game that often ends up as a small cliff note in the greater narrative of Bungie’s history, which is a shame since it’s actually a really good 3D action game that predates the standardisation that Devil May Cry established.
It’s pretty rough around the edges, and hearing about the development hell for this game I can understand why, but if you do end up playing the game you’ll find an incredibly engaging combat system that will keep you locked in well after the game ends.
Better yet, you can use cheats to play as any npc and some of them have fully functioning movesets.
The greatest tragedy is the lack of a multiplayer component. It was planned, and advertised, but Bungie West couldn’t get the networking down before Take Two’s deadline. If there was multiplayer you could be there would be people still playing it today.
However, there is a active modding scene for the game, and with the Anaversery Edition you can easily play Oni on any PC or Linux machine (use wine 2.0, later versions have compatability issues).
It might permanently be over shadowed by Halo CE, but if you like 3D action frames or are a fan if Bungie you owe it a playthough.
Exiled Kingdom for mobile, basically an homage to isometric RPGs of the 90s. The graphics are nothing to phone home about, but the story is decent and the gameplay is great. I’ve done a couple playthroughs.
Star Realms digital
Teleglitch: it’s a top down sci Fi horror roguelite which has purposely poor graphics that are compensated by a great story and ambiance.
It’s one of my favorite games that nobody has ever heard of
DmC - the reboot one. I could never fully get into the original series (i do like em), but this reboot really grabbed me. I loved the music and the atmosphere. I also looked the while limbo aspect. I wish we got to see more of this version, the end got me excited to see what came next. But then they went back with dmc 5 such was so critically acclaimed that they’ll likely never look back again, for better and for worse.
aspire2493@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Noita never reached the levels of fame and notoriety that it deserves. It should be mentioned in every “Best Roguelike” game list.
Now, it’s definitely rated high by those who play it, with Overwhelmingly Positive reviews, but it never got its mainstream spotlight.
Glemek@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I love me some noita, but I feel like it is maybe a little too hard and inscrutable to have huge general appeal, even amongst roguelikes
elvith@feddit.de 1 year ago
Yeah, I got it because it looked cool and I liked the concept. I like to play it, but it’s really hard and some situations feel unfair. If you get rolling, its a spectacle, though