TrainerRed
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I personally like the older Metroid games and F-Zero.
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Thunderhoof
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I also love playing Minecraft and the Binding of Isaac.
The Mario Games I like a lot too^^
The Mario Games I like a lot too^^
Battlefield 3 <3
TrainerRed
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Halo is great but I am disappointed with Halo 4.
There are so many games I would count as my favourites, for various reasons, but the one closest to my heart is Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines, a barely finished mess running on a badly put together build of the Source engine that killed Troika. It's a first person shooter RPG where you play a vampire, it's not as good a FPSRPG as Deus Ex was, but once you understand how the combat works the game really makes you feel like a supernatural killing machine. I recommend anyone that likes RPGs and doesn't hate shooters picks it up if it goes on sale on steam.
Here are other games I love and turn into a autismal elemental every time they come up
best fpsrpg: Dues Ex, it has a lot of flaws, like the combat is initially hamstrung by the RPG elements, once you put skill points in your gun skills this stops being a problem. Melee combat swings from being only useful for stealth kills to being super powerful because you have some nano sword that kills guards in 1 hit. But this game is the gold standard for map design and systems based gameplay. Once in place even the lead designer would be surprised by the solutions to problems the testers would come up with. There is a youtube video series where someone plays through it with only a candy bar in their inventory (no guns, can only use what the map provides) and they still could play through the game. Everyone should play this, even if they don't finish, it is an ideal that developers strived to match and almost always failed. The second one is rubbish but the 3rd one was pretty good too, but the first game is basically gaming's citizen kane.
best jrpg: chrono trigger. its fairly easy but it has an amazing soundtrack and a great story about you and your superfriends travelling through time to save the world. very charming art, oversaw by the guy who did dragonball (which is why crono is basically red haired vegeta lol)
I didn't play that many JRPGs but the ones I liked were all really good. Chrono Trigger is my favourite though because it had, IMO, the most interesting quests. The quests to get all the good weapons involve a lot of time travel and it leads to a lot of interesting things.
best rts: starcraft. some people like total annihilation or company of heroes more for various reasons but I just love how strcraft plays. i'm not even that good at it but the game is very deep, the 3 factions being completely assymetrical was a huge innovation at the time, from then on it was not ok for your factions to be reskins with a unique unit. From about 2000 onward all rts games were developed under starcrafts shadow, only relic escaped it by going in new directions. in starcraft efficiency is important, even more important than strategy. At low skill levels the player that can manage their economy without getting wiped out and make more units usually wins, but at high skill levels both players can manage that fine. new things come into play, people count workers and buildings in enemy bases, trying to figure out their next move, adjusting their strategy as they spot things. when the units do fight there are a few tricks you can do to use the units better (this is in other RTS games too, coh probably has it more so). There are a lot of things you can do at any given time to help, the player has to prioritize these things. the player that makes the best choices on what to spend their time on will often win, but there are all in plays people can do that tips the game on its head, usually some kind of rush.
the result of all this is a game that isn't just a good competitive game, but one that is interesting to watch. korea made a whole industry out of this, i'm sure many are already aware of it but starcraft is a professional sport there, or at least, was. blizzard forced them all to go to starcraft 2, for better or worse. to be fair, the koreans were profiting greatly off starcraft and blizzard never saw a cent. They get a cut and have a say in starcraft 2 esports, they made sure of that.
best turn based strategy game: the first xcom game, with the mods that improve the ui a little. this game aged surprisingly well, though having to pick where your first base goes is a bit much for a new player. The new game seems to offer good turn based strategy like the original from what I've seen (my dad played it and I watched a bit, I really should install it some day) but it streamlines the other real time strategic layer of the game where you put bases in good locations with good layouts so you can intercept aliens and please more funding states. your units are both disposable and valuable. every time you lose someone it is going to suck, but it happens a lot. the game doesn't have much of a story, aliens have started to invade earth, your organisation is an international agency funded by various nations and you are charged with fighting off the aliens worldwide. Eventually you go to their home base and kill their leader. That is the whole plot, but the story is filled in by the player. missions play out in interesting and often unpredictable ways. Sometimes another forum i post on would have threads where someone would play through xcom with their squad all named after forums posters and post stories about how they're going.
best 4x: civilization 4 beyond the sword, im not going to write a ton of words about it but its really good.
submarine game i played as a kid that i love for some reason: archimedean dynasty, it is the game that came before those bad aquanox games that would come with video cards. unlike aquanox AD was like a space fighter sim but underwater. you had automated turrets, torpedos, the ability to turn off your engines to sneak past sonar, hectic battles and tough missions. it was a lot of fun. also, between missions you could talk to people in the stations you dock at. this was just done by clicking on names on the screen, you didn't walk around the base etc, but the conversations often had multiple dialogue choices and it was possible to make the next mission harder or fail bonus objectives because you messed up a conversation. very cool game
battlezone 2 because its an rts where you play as a unit that almost worked. some liked battlezone 1 more but battlezone 2 tried to be a real rts under all that tank driving. every time i play it i just cant stop thinking of ways i'd improve on it. i actually started making an indie game loosely based on its design so this weird rts hybrid is in a way almost my dream game.
holy crap this post is long
edit: lol these are almost all pc games, but i had a snes then an n64 and a gameboy colour and now i own a wii and ive enjoyed a ton of games on them, otherwise i wouldnt be here on a forum about a pokemon pc game
basically, i'm a ninty man
Here are other games I love and turn into a autismal elemental every time they come up
best fpsrpg: Dues Ex, it has a lot of flaws, like the combat is initially hamstrung by the RPG elements, once you put skill points in your gun skills this stops being a problem. Melee combat swings from being only useful for stealth kills to being super powerful because you have some nano sword that kills guards in 1 hit. But this game is the gold standard for map design and systems based gameplay. Once in place even the lead designer would be surprised by the solutions to problems the testers would come up with. There is a youtube video series where someone plays through it with only a candy bar in their inventory (no guns, can only use what the map provides) and they still could play through the game. Everyone should play this, even if they don't finish, it is an ideal that developers strived to match and almost always failed. The second one is rubbish but the 3rd one was pretty good too, but the first game is basically gaming's citizen kane.
best jrpg: chrono trigger. its fairly easy but it has an amazing soundtrack and a great story about you and your superfriends travelling through time to save the world. very charming art, oversaw by the guy who did dragonball (which is why crono is basically red haired vegeta lol)
I didn't play that many JRPGs but the ones I liked were all really good. Chrono Trigger is my favourite though because it had, IMO, the most interesting quests. The quests to get all the good weapons involve a lot of time travel and it leads to a lot of interesting things.
best rts: starcraft. some people like total annihilation or company of heroes more for various reasons but I just love how strcraft plays. i'm not even that good at it but the game is very deep, the 3 factions being completely assymetrical was a huge innovation at the time, from then on it was not ok for your factions to be reskins with a unique unit. From about 2000 onward all rts games were developed under starcrafts shadow, only relic escaped it by going in new directions. in starcraft efficiency is important, even more important than strategy. At low skill levels the player that can manage their economy without getting wiped out and make more units usually wins, but at high skill levels both players can manage that fine. new things come into play, people count workers and buildings in enemy bases, trying to figure out their next move, adjusting their strategy as they spot things. when the units do fight there are a few tricks you can do to use the units better (this is in other RTS games too, coh probably has it more so). There are a lot of things you can do at any given time to help, the player has to prioritize these things. the player that makes the best choices on what to spend their time on will often win, but there are all in plays people can do that tips the game on its head, usually some kind of rush.
the result of all this is a game that isn't just a good competitive game, but one that is interesting to watch. korea made a whole industry out of this, i'm sure many are already aware of it but starcraft is a professional sport there, or at least, was. blizzard forced them all to go to starcraft 2, for better or worse. to be fair, the koreans were profiting greatly off starcraft and blizzard never saw a cent. They get a cut and have a say in starcraft 2 esports, they made sure of that.
best turn based strategy game: the first xcom game, with the mods that improve the ui a little. this game aged surprisingly well, though having to pick where your first base goes is a bit much for a new player. The new game seems to offer good turn based strategy like the original from what I've seen (my dad played it and I watched a bit, I really should install it some day) but it streamlines the other real time strategic layer of the game where you put bases in good locations with good layouts so you can intercept aliens and please more funding states. your units are both disposable and valuable. every time you lose someone it is going to suck, but it happens a lot. the game doesn't have much of a story, aliens have started to invade earth, your organisation is an international agency funded by various nations and you are charged with fighting off the aliens worldwide. Eventually you go to their home base and kill their leader. That is the whole plot, but the story is filled in by the player. missions play out in interesting and often unpredictable ways. Sometimes another forum i post on would have threads where someone would play through xcom with their squad all named after forums posters and post stories about how they're going.
best 4x: civilization 4 beyond the sword, im not going to write a ton of words about it but its really good.
submarine game i played as a kid that i love for some reason: archimedean dynasty, it is the game that came before those bad aquanox games that would come with video cards. unlike aquanox AD was like a space fighter sim but underwater. you had automated turrets, torpedos, the ability to turn off your engines to sneak past sonar, hectic battles and tough missions. it was a lot of fun. also, between missions you could talk to people in the stations you dock at. this was just done by clicking on names on the screen, you didn't walk around the base etc, but the conversations often had multiple dialogue choices and it was possible to make the next mission harder or fail bonus objectives because you messed up a conversation. very cool game
battlezone 2 because its an rts where you play as a unit that almost worked. some liked battlezone 1 more but battlezone 2 tried to be a real rts under all that tank driving. every time i play it i just cant stop thinking of ways i'd improve on it. i actually started making an indie game loosely based on its design so this weird rts hybrid is in a way almost my dream game.
holy crap this post is long
edit: lol these are almost all pc games, but i had a snes then an n64 and a gameboy colour and now i own a wii and ive enjoyed a ton of games on them, otherwise i wouldnt be here on a forum about a pokemon pc game
basically, i'm a ninty man
i didnt like a lot of the early indie games, when indie dev started being a thing again, but there are some really solid, low price games coming out of indie devs, the low price points have made me think twice every time steam tells me some AAA game is now available for 90 dollars. I cold buy hotline miami, natural selection 2, braid, terraria and frozen synapse for that. it just doesn't make economic sense anymore.
i'd love to see Big Game look at quality budget titles more. cliffy b thinks they have no place in the market, but look at bastion, funded by warner brothers. very solid game with a good length for not that much money. when the last stalker game was made there was a special on steam where i could get it for like 20 dollars or something if i owned any of the other ones (i did), and it meant you could buy the 10 dollar 'stalker:clear sky' then get 10 dollars off call of pripyat, essentially giving you clear sky for free. im not even that big a stalker fan but ive played enough of it to know that the game was definitely worth 20 dollars, probably much more.
maybe theyve just set the bar too high for production values in AAA games, but its clear you can make a quality game for much less, and cheap projects can afford to take risks, this is where the indie dev has found its market.
DominiC_LT
Trainer
Minecraft, The Walking Dead, Mount & Blade and GTA: San Andreas.
MatthEverett
Bug Catcher
Bully: Scholarship Edition. Amazing game there.
Thunderhoof
Trainer
Yesterday I bought Tiny and Big. It was totaly worth the 15 euro
Arkeyno
Bug Catcher
Jak and Daxter-Franchise! BEST FREAKIN' SERIES IN THE WORLD IMO! Well yeah, I'm a very huge fan
And I'm really looking foward to The Last Of Us. Looks totally stunning.
Furthermore, I love the Souls-series (Demon's/Dark Souls). Unforgiving, but so much more rewarding than other RPGs!
And I'm really looking foward to The Last Of Us. Looks totally stunning.
Furthermore, I love the Souls-series (Demon's/Dark Souls). Unforgiving, but so much more rewarding than other RPGs!
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