luckyc
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« on: April 04, 2015, 04:01:33 PM » |
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Hi everyone, first post, long time lurker. These are some games I enjoyed enough to complete, so what else would you recommend? I like things that are fun to play with polish and character and bearable writing, genre and year and indie quotient don't matter, and I have a reasonable mac/win desktop with emulators and a gamepad. I probably don't want to spend 40 hours unless the quality is stellar, and I don't particularly want to play online or multiplayer. The genres below are just a loose classification.
RPG:
Chrono Trigger
Ultima 6 & 7
FF7
First Person:
Portal
Deus Ex
Thief 1 & 2
Metal Gear Solid
Metroid Prime
Action RPG:
Zelda LTTP
Dungeon Master & Chaos Strikes Back
Legend of Grimrock 1 & 2
Bastion
Binding of Isaac
Star Control 2 / UQM
Platform:
Super Mario World
Yoshi's Island
Spelunky
Red Rogue
Metroidvania:
Super Metroid
Castlevania SotN
Cave Story
La Mulana
Terraria
Roguelike:
Brogue
Nethack
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
Dungeons of Dredmor
RTS:
Dune 2
Starcraft
Tower Defense:
Plants vs. Zombies
One More Turn:
Civilization I-IV
Puzzle:
Desktop Dungeons
Braid
Text:
Zork etc.
Anyway, thanks if you can help.
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Tobers
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« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2015, 04:39:20 PM » |
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Given that list, some of the more obvious games would be like Portal 2 and Transistor.
I'd also suggest Battleblock theater. One of my favorite platformers ever!
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luckyc
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« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2015, 05:29:34 PM » |
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Okay, I didn't like Portal 2 so much (despite finishing it), but I didn't know or forgot about Transistor - I loved Bastion. Battleblock theater looks fun too. Awesome!
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gunswordfist
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« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2015, 06:52:00 PM » |
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Sweet Home.
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Indie games I have purchased:
Spelunky
Shoot 1UP
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FK in the Coffee
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« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2015, 03:20:51 PM » |
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Sweet Home.
Ohhh yeah. This game is the granddaddy of survival horror, and definitely a vital, often-overlooked part of gaming history. |
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« Reply #5 on: April 13, 2015, 05:56:46 PM » |
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I couldn't have said it better. It's my favorite NES RPG (Even Mother is 2nd to it)
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Indie games I have purchased:
Spelunky
Shoot 1UP
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« Reply #6 on: May 03, 2015, 04:24:06 AM » |
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Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons is really good and on the cheap side.
You need to play it with a gamepad but you said you had one so I don't think that will be a problem.
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Dinomaniak
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« Reply #7 on: May 08, 2015, 05:30:33 AM » |
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Here's my huge list of games I played and enjoyed : - FTL ( Faster Than Light ) - Battle Mages ( if you can find it, you'll love it ) - Dawn Of War : Dark Crusade , Soulstorm - BioShock 1 - Dungeon Of The Endless - Heroes of Might & Magic 3 - Prince Of Persia : Warrior Within - Total Annihilation - BroForce The list can go on and on, ask for more when you've played most of these  . |
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« Reply #8 on: May 10, 2015, 04:08:02 AM » |
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Varicella & Blue Chairs, interactive fiction.
Excellent writing and world building in both.
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« Reply #10 on: May 11, 2015, 02:50:46 PM » |
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If you like Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup I reccomend Tales of Maj'Eyal. It's free too  |
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« Reply #11 on: May 20, 2015, 03:01:22 PM » |
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Maybe try Why am I dead game series. Need patience though, RPG mystery format. I just got started, still need to figure out a few things, 'cause not very good at this format yet, mainly platforms in past. Not much of a detective either. But see some others have figured it out, so will stick with it.
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« Reply #12 on: May 20, 2015, 03:34:08 PM » |
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Platformers (1 goes up, the other down):
TowerClimb
Probability 0
I second Tales of Maj'Eyal, pretty fun. (edit: and FTL too, brilliant game)
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Xofigo
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« Reply #13 on: May 20, 2015, 07:07:27 PM » |
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Yah, have also heard FTL really good
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« Reply #14 on: May 23, 2015, 12:42:59 PM » |
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I really have to second Towerclimb and Probability 0. Opposites in many ways, but both fantastic.
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Magurp244
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« Reply #16 on: September 27, 2015, 11:24:41 PM » |
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Well you could try some of these more classical/niche titles.
Ultima Underworld 1 & 2
Shadowcaster
X-Com Enemy Unknown & Terror from the deep
IronSeed
Alien Legacy
Metal Fatigue
Warzone 2100
Outpost 2
BattleZone 1 & 2
Fallout 1 & 2, Tactics
System Shock 1 & 2
Command & Conquer series
Warcraft series
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« Reply #17 on: November 02, 2015, 06:36:14 AM » |
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gothic by piranha bytes is a good rpg title. it was released in 2001.
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« Reply #18 on: November 02, 2015, 10:11:19 AM » |
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I'm always fond of Spec Ops: The Line, it's a really interesting game.
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« Reply #19 on: January 04, 2016, 06:59:18 PM » |
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For RTS: The Ground Control series is heavily underrated... the first one was absolutely brilliant and I still have fond memories of reading the massive manual back to back. There was a newer one, Ground Control 2 which was good but still felt like it didn't have as much depth.
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