Games that you loved

[Morell]

Kill The Past Series
Trilogy of Detective games by Suda51 and Grasshopper Interactive. Follows the story and narrative around the serial killer know as Kamui, as well as different detectives from the 24th Ward/25th Ward prescient Henious Crimes Unit investigation team, and the freelancer journalist private investigator Tokio Morishima. Immensely hallucinatory tale, portraying the industrial hellscape of the information age, as well the psychological wonderlands of each one of his strangers inhabitants, KTP stands as one of the most unique detective stories of all times.
Disco Elysium
Follows an amnesiac detective waking up wasted in the middle of a murder investigation, in which a massive conspiracy of political warfare unravels. Trough the voices in the depths of the psyche of our protagonist which represent different facets of your own psyche, it's up to you to solve the case, and unravel your own identity, while deciding the fate of the wasteland in which this tale takes place. Very dream like, immensely evocative, and full of introspection. Traverse the land of Revachol in this hardboiled epic meeting all sorts of extremist strangers, and uncovering all sorts of wonders of the world you partake in, and your own mind.
The Coffin of Andy and Leyley
Part Visual Novel, part adventure puzzle game, stands this gothic romance about a pair of siblings that, after being left stranded in a organ harvesting scheme, decide to go against the tide of death together, not without making a pact with the underworld that changes their fate forever. In this incestuous picturesque tale reminiscent of John Vasquez Zim's show, explore an unknown cynical world full of occultism, cynical inhabitants, and strange creatures. Full of dark humor, intense emotional moments, symbolism, and dream-like settings, this fairly recent work stands as one of the highlights of the present decade, standing as the culmination of the body of work of her author as her most ambitious project yet.

Honorable mentions:

• Kyle Hyde Duology
• Max Payne Duology
• Deadly Premonition
• The Evil Within
• Dead Rising (2006)
• Ace Attorney Series
• Megaman Starforce 1&3

Andy and Leyley is game with extremely positive feedback. I have yet to play that one, but heard a lot of goo stuff about it.

 

[DreamerRaven]

Andy and Leyley is game with extremely positive feedback. I have yet to play that one, but heard a lot of goo stuff about it.

It's excellent indeed. Nemlei other novels are also worth checking out, specially:

• Better Half - In an underground dystopia with rouge mages, meet Thiu, a NEET outcast with suicidal tendencies looking for an out from his sad life. After deciding to attend to the dark arts, an spell split him in half, in the hope that he can get away from his most darkest feelings. The problem? He wake up to realize that he inherited all of his worst feelings, while his better half got the better ones. A hilarious tale of self loathing, as well as self realization, follow Thiu adventure that will determine if he will find joy along his better half, or in becoming one again.
• Divilethion - In some faraway Scandinavian fictional setting, the chaotic god Divilethion take upon his protection an obscure village in the middle of danger and nowhere, but not without a price... Meet Lynn, a high priest of the divilethion church in charge of undergoing the sacrifices for this relentless deity, that lives with his little brother. Everything goes well, until Lynn will have to decide if his love for his brother is greater than the adoration to his god.
• Jack in A Castle - A picture book style tale of mystery and romance ambiented in a fictional world with toys inhabitants. Marion Marionette set out to investigate what happened to the king of Toyboxian, which mysteriously dissapeared and was replaced by his jester right hand man Jack, only to find out the darkest secret of the wicked castle, and to determine the imminent fate that await to the kingdom.

The other works are also fine. You know? I'm starting to suspect that Nemlei herself have some occult background of sorts. Ritual, underworld creatures, and other magic stuff are very prominent in her works.

 

[svinno777]

Diablo 2 is a fantastic game if you havent played it yet. They just revamped it last year.

 

[Lightmaker5]

I liked to play I didn't love. Love to me is something else entirely. I really liked playing Heroes of Might and Magic 1 and 2. Today there's even a remake called fheroes2!

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That is one of the best games I liked and still like. Second best was Dark Reign the future of War and Rise of the Shadowhand. All 3 of these games had a map editor. I really liked making. In Dark Reign you could even edit units and buildings. Make your own game almost. Like I did with Evolution of Xenite Mod:

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Perhaps on 3rd place was Midnight Club 2! It was the best racing game including online racing. Up to 8 players per room was always buzzy. Here my old channel:

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Oh ye Crazy Taxi was also somewhere in between the last 2. And the last modern game I liked playing was Deadpool 2013. I also played many more but these were my most fav.

 

[ByAMountainOfBooks]

-Baldur‘s Gate 2
-Pillars of eternity 1+2
-Tyranny
-Mass Effect trilogy
-Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines
-Jedi Knight 2 und Jedi Academy
-Kotor 1+2

 

[Morell]

Star Wars games were phenomenal, those 4 you listed definitely, played them all.

 

[taschr]

Morrowind was foundational for me in both gaming and esoteric weirdness, lots of Gnostic themes with the richest lore and world building.

One of my favorite in game books:

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[Mystic_friend]

Andy and Leyley is game with extremely positive feedback. I have yet to play that one, but heard a lot of goo stuff about it.

it's about incest blud

 

[ArchonLynx]

Jonny quest, Chrono Cross, Skyrim, fallout new vegas, diablo 2 lod, final fantasy 8/10-2, hells gate London, warcraft 3

 

[Lightmaker5]

The underrated game:

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I liked that a lot

 

[The wandering scholar]

Some of us are older and had seen and placed a lot of games. What games did you love the best and are proud to have played? Here is list of my most beloved games:

Drakan: Order of the Flame
Damn, was waiting for second one to go to PC like 10 years but it never got on PC. F*ck you, Sony! Anyway, the first game had incredible story and worldbuilding. The dragon flying was real fun too. On it's time the game had impressive physics and inteligence of the enemies was beyond their time. When enemy wounded other enemy they started fighting each other. Also sometimes cuted limbs and bleeding to death occurred. Rynn was also compared with Lara Croft.

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With little talent, and some updates the game can still run on modern computers, bro run it on win 11, me on win 10. Though there can be problems with starting the game. There is still community around this game, but multiplexer matches are rare. Editor was later released, but it has a lot of problems to overcome. Not worth it unless you really mean it.


Space Hawk
2D shooter where you have a ship and you need to get through environment filled with shooting enemies and moving objects. Ship is fragile and along with gravity, reversed under water, explosions are pushing you out of the way too. Game also has level editor, that I never managed to master. With DgVoodoo game works 100% on modern Windows.

And it has nice story of you fighting an alien invading Earth named Dr. Baad, who you follow through his ship, Earth and alternate dimension, until you finally face him head on...


Ricochet - The Lost Worlds
Because there is no better arcanoid ever released than this one. Controlled by mouse, futuristic design, great graphic as well as music, over 100 levels, editor, still online available database of hundreds of more levels. Lost worlds was second of three games but this one became the most well known and the most payed of the three. Editor is difficult, but included right in the game and if one has time and patience, it can be used well.

With DgVoodoo works 100% on modern systems.

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Takatis - A tribute to Manfred Trenz
Last in this list (not that I don't have more games, but this is enough...) is Takatis, a shooter on scrolling screen, with nice graphic, must had been first game I saw with using 3D models directly, not pre-rendered graphic. On Hard the shooter turns quite difficult. The Ship is fragile. The game has really

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With DgVoodoo works on modern systems, but unstable, occasionally crashes.

Just to honorably mention: AVP2 (released 2001), Hornado 2.0, Warcraft 3, StarKnights, Carnivores 1, 2 and community remakes, Atomic Bomberman

Maybe one More: Safari Biathlon Racer, Because, it's awesome. It was genial idea and very beautifully made.

Some titles for me include the God of war series, sniper elite, Bloodborn, tekken, street fighter, ninja garden, and others. But I'm most proud of beating Elden ring

 

[albie]

JET SET RADIO FUTURE was the first modern console game I played.( I had a commodore 64 and a Gameboy before that) I loved it and almost finished it in one long night. Began to think the NPCs were coming to life and worshipping an unseen entity in a house. Later I kept thinking I could grind up lampposts and stuff. I downloaded the music from archive.com just to listen to. My Xbox is dead now...under a layer of dust.

 

[Sedim Haba]

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Played it incessantly for about 8 years, racked up 20k hours I figure.

Made mods & our clan ran our own open server. It's even good SP.

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I don't like super-serious realistic war games, they HAVE to be Sci-Fi or not so serious like this.

Again, a ridiculous amount of hours, IDK how much, multiple Steam accounts.

I specialized in Medic. Foreshadowing my current trajectory as Shaman Healer?

 

[Ohana]

Tf2 is such a fun game. I was scout and medic. Scout you just go fast and I always equipped the fish. The fish is the best.

I like this one game called How Fish is Made. Its amazing. A fish parasite sings to you while donning a top hat. True art. Peak fiction. Its so funny and horrifying.

The Fancy Pants adventures those are good. I remember I played the alt world version with spoiler alert in the parentheses (fight a giant pencil its so cool. The pencil makes lines and stops you from reaching certain places. 4th wall break)

The game Omori has such a good soundtrack but a super dark story

The Stanley Parables are so funny. The narrator just talking over the silent protagonist and acknowledging their silent is so funny. My favorite ending was the broom closet ending.

 

[Swampdweller900]

A lot of good ones here. I can directly tie a few bad grades in college to Unreal Tournament.

FWIW, there's a modernization mod of original Doom called Brutal Doom. Bullets are real projectiles, there's blood, things are updated for modern computing but the maps and enemies are the same. Great mix of nostalgia and updates that don't need to get packed into 4MB of RAM.

I haven't seen any of these mentioned yet:

Total Annihilation (RTS game from 1997ish IIRC)
Beyond All Reason is its modern open-source equivalent, and it's a ton of fun. No fluff, no frills, just good gameplay.
Planetary Annihilation: Titans is the 2015ish update to the original series which is RTS across planets in a solar system.

On the PS2, Katamari Damaci is unique in concept and lots of fun.

Phasmaphobia was the last game I paid for, and was a lot of fun with a group of people.

 

[gabe]

Control has an occult vibe to it that I love. Also the Baba Yaga sidequest from Rise of the Tomb Raider.

 

[Morell]

Today I thought about one game I used to play and decided to play again:

DOS game Wolfenstein 3D.

Took me about an hour to find a copy with all chapters unlocked, but I got it... along with 3 versions of Spear of Destiny game. Glad to find out that it is still out there in full version. I was starting to worry... I think I got tot he levet 4 or 5 of first chapter... well, now I can try again. I enjoyed the game as a kid. Would be cool to finish the game this time.

 

[MinaAnd23as]

-Castle of the Winds and its newer counterpart, Pixel Dungeon
-Sims 1 and 3
-Had a Sega Pico as a kid and loved the Richard Scarry and Tails and the Music Maker games
-Mario Kart
-Smash Bros
-KOTOR 1
-House of the Dead
-Tekken 7
-Naruto Ninja Storm 4
-Injustice II
-Diablo II (loved to pop on some System of a Down or like-paced music and just go ham on the mobs)
-Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare
-RDR II
-WoW (played from Burning Crusades until Mists of Pandaria)
-Old School Runescape
-ACNH
-Palia
-Dead Frontier
-The Operator (this one's a short game but holy hell it's good)
-likewise with The Stanley Parable
-and The Walking Dead I and II by Telltale Games
-trying to get into Fallen London, but it's taking some getting used to.

 

[DiscordianNun]

The first time I played a video game I was 2 or 3 years old and I never stopped since. Seconding the mentions of Andy and Leyley, me and my partner have both enjoyed that one. I understand some folks take it at face value, but it is a very good dissection of various traumas with a controversial coat of paint. If I never played games that felt "offensive" on the surface there is so much I would miss out on.

That being said a couple of my unrelated faves to start:

Caves of Qud: incredible traditional rogue-like with a lot of flexibility these days. I've been playing since long before the full release and watching it evolve and become the giant world it is now has been fantastic.

Magical Vacation and Magical Starsign: Some of the most underrated RPGs of all time, introduced to me via a bargain bin in my teens. The art is beautiful, the story is long with solid replay value, the combat system is fun and fresh even so many years after the release. Will we ever get a third game? Probably not, but here is to hoping.

Gunfire Reborn: A stark split from the prior two turn based games this is a fast paced Chinese rogue-lite boomer shooter. The sense of progress feels so good between plays, each character feels so unique and like a new game experience between them, they are diverse and it feels like regardless of play style there is bound to be a character one enjoys playing. Each season there are new weapons, game modes, mechanics, I really need to get back into it lol.