I think about saboteur a lot. And red faction. Oh volition… Oh pandemic
As a kid, I spent a lot of time glued to SimCity 2000, so stumbling into this game and being able to fly around the cities I built, and in 3D no less. And then do… awkward janky helicopter shit in them? Mindblowing.
I really cherish this one. The story and combat are simple and basic but the sense of community and overall goofy tone that evolves into a understanding of how bad systems of power can be for everyone living under said systems really stuck with me.
Oh fuck I didn’t say Arcanum because I assumed we are always thinking about it
I played all of Saboteur again last year!
You just need the GoG version, that one is fixed for Windows 10 and multi core systems.
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_SaboteurFreespace 2 is one of my favorite sci-fi stories, and an incredible game. Has shockingly good ongoing mod support, there are tons of high quality, fully voice acted campaigns.
Stunts/4D Sports Driving. That game was pretty incredible for the time with its 3D graphics, instant replays and track editor. One of the games that made me a racing game sicko as a kid.
https://xenkogames.gitlab.io/DIDOEN/
genuinely one of the best incremental games I’ve played, wish it got more progression.
Huh, think I played this a while ago when it had a different name.
Edit: Actually, on closer inspection, it seems the dev might be the hexbear user with the same username. @makotech222@hexbear.net was this something you made? Just played through and it was pretty good!
yeah it is my game lmao. thanks @daniyeg@hexbear.net ! I hope to finish it up eventually, just life getting in the way.
I’m not sure anyone ever thought of it unfortunately, but Yoku’s Island Express was an indie metroidvania pinball game.
I had never really enjoyed a metroidvania before this game, but something about it got me excited about the genre in ways I hadn’t been before. I’ve since played a ton of metroidvanias and its one of my favorite genres.
I highly recommend it if you’ve never heard of it. It’s a lot of fun and uses the pinball mechanics in an open world really well.
Hey I played that, it was chill
Infantry Online. An old game that i think was owned by Sony in the early 2000’s. It was F2p for a long time and I played it during that time with my friends. Had an absolute blast with it. But then it went P2P with a subscription, killing most of the playerbase and finally, the game. Its been revived a bit with the above private server, but its just not the same :(
So I’m old, but there’s this NES game called Abadox that my brother and I played growing up. It was an insanely hard shooter that scrolled horizontally and vertically. You’re inside some sort of alien body zooming around killing shit, but also some paths will dead end and you just die if you go the wrong way so you gotta memorize (or hand draw) the maps. One hit kills you and you lose all upgrades, so sometimes continuing becomes impossible because the enemies are too hard without upgrades.
I used to have nightmares about this game
That is some S-tier NES box art right there
I played this for the first time a few months ago, it is gnarly. Incredible art style.
Yeah it’s an incredibly beautiful game considering it was made in the late 80s probably by like 5 people. I was always drawn to how gross the levels looked as a kid, but it was the era of a lot of kids stuff being all weird and gross looking. Like garbage pail kids and shit like that
No one has been able to re-create how this game felt. Every attempt at making a new version of this one loses something in the process. Game studios don’t understand that graphics and fluidity aren’t the defining features of a game. The defining features are
- no voicechat
- plasma discing someone mid air during a duel
- jetpacking into an enemy base, stealing their flag, and skiing away
- destroying your enemy’s generators and hiding out in the basement to kill them when they come to repair them
- vibes
Haven’t played this game in nearly 20 years and even then it was considered an old game with only around 3-4 dedicated servers left. Wonder how that’s going nowadays.
I was into Tribes: Ascend, and feel a lot of fomo about missing out on Tribes 2
Oh shit I played Tribes: Ascend and loved it! Didn’t know there was more to the franchise. I should get back into it.
A quick look later and this game went on for 12 years??? And it got shut down last October?? Goddammit. I loved the movement and the progress when I played it back in '13.
Informed my imagination for years as a kid
This series has been on my backlog for ages i need to get around to it
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Freelancer. Oh what could have been.
Sid Meier’s Pirates! Oh what could have been.
Basically I like ships and the fantasy of being a privateer. But everyone who makes a privateergame fucks it up somehow. These are the only two that have gotten close.
Honourable mention to Armoured Core.
Another game that pops into my mind at time is Rogue Soldier (I think? You were a blue guy with a chip in his neck? It had some neat covershooter mechanics.)
And of course Time Splitters: Future Imperfect.
Rogue trooper, it even got a remaster. For some reason my memory always mixes up rogue troop and army men sarges war idk why
Rogue Trooper is based on a 2000 AD comic (the same comic book Judge Dredd is from in case you didn’t know).
Lord of the rings: battle for middle earth 2: rise of the witch king
Now that’s a game that doesn’t deserve to languish in inaccessable abandonware hell. The orc worker’s “Work never ends here!” soundbite has lived rent free in my head since the xbox 360 days.
war of the ring mode was so good
Been playing this every day for a few weeks now. Such a good game. Very easy to pirate and mod
Damn i the game knower didn’t even know of this one and it’s an RTS I’m certain i had played basically all of them.
My RTS equivalent would be maelstrom. I think I’m the only person who remembers this ever existed. Still being sold on steam no less
it still has a very active mod community, you should check it out.
I remember the Saboteur, it was part of that period where if you bought the game firsthand it came with a 1 time use code unlocking certain content, to deter secondhand purchases. The content for the Saboteur was uncensored titties in the burlesque shows you could visit lmfao.
I’ll bring up Alpha Protocol, the janky secret agent rpg, it wasn’t particularily good, but I remember playing it.
The uncensored titties thing was also a way around censors too in certain countries I believe. Like the base game gets reviewed then the “dlc” is “optional”
