• wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    15 days ago

    The non botch version of Oni. The game looked so freaking good! But Microsoft buying out Bungie for Halo made them rush to finish the game.

    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
      2·
      14 days ago

      NFL Street was my jam. Reminded me of playing football with a group of neighborhood kids.

      EA Big was top notch

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    14 days ago

    You likely mean single player but I would love the cryptic mmos champions online and star trek online to be made in the offline/online playability you see now with things like no mans sky. So they can have events and be online but you don’t have to worry about losing your game when the servers shutdown. Oh and it would just be great to have them updated in modern engines.

  • early_riser@lemmy.world
    2·
    13 days ago

    Just replay: all the epic 80 hour RPGs I no longer have time for as an adult. I bought the Final Fantasy Pixel remaster collection, got a bit through FF 1, and decided I just didn’t have time. Haven’t actually played through them for the first time, but I got both Divinity Original Sin and Baldur’s Gate 3 and also only scratched the surface. I haven’t even left the intro dungeon in BG3.

    Play again for the first time: Any game where discovering the mechanics is the game. Minecraft was the first such experience for me, though the discovery aspect I believe is somewhat unintentional. Mojang just didn’t bother including a proper guide or tutorials, so trial and error and/or wiki walking are the norm for new players. I bought the game when it was in beta, back when the player base was made of mostly adults with the means to give a random Swedish guy $20 via PayPal, and I miss the (very relatively) smaller community.

    As for games where this self-discovery gameplay loop is intentional, definitely Tunic. I bought the game thinking it was a Zelda clone that could serve as a light-hearted palate cleanser after the bleakness of Hollow Knight and Eldin Ring. Oh, boy was I very, very wrong. I got so obsessed with trying to decipher the in-game writing system that it was effecting my sleep and I had to delete the game for a while. I ended up cheating to get all the manual pages and the good ending, but I replayed it earlier this year via Game Pass and tried to do it again without looking things up. It’s not the same as going in blind even three years later but I did manage to get all the pages and solve the related puzzle without a guide, as well as crack the writing system.

  • phaedrus@piefed.worldEnglish
    2·
    13 days ago

    Simply replay, or “replay as if it were the first time again?”

    The latter: Final Fantasy on NES

    The former: I never stopped replaying FTL and Into The Breach, and I always end up back on them
    yes, I’ve played ALL the overhaul mods for both ;D

  • astanix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    15 days ago

    Castlevania: Harmony of Despair

    Its an online multi-player Castlevania. So much fun.

    • SolarBoy@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1·
      14 days ago

      Castlevania: Harmony of Despair

      Is it like a coop castlevania game then? Sounds great!

      • astanix@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        12 days ago

        Yes it is

        I think you can still play it on ps3, ps4 and Xbox anything There’s also a community version for pc on the internet.

        Never enough players to fill a room though.

    • whelk@retrolemmy.com
      2·
      14 days ago

      Ever play Sim Tower or Sim Copter? Never really hear about them but I remember them being so fun

      • Beesbeesbees@lemmy.world
        1·
        14 days ago

        I didn’t, I did hear about them. I didn’t have much access. I think the next one I ended up playing was sim city.

      • QuadratureSurfer@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        13 days ago

        For Sim Copter, my favorite was making a city in Sim City, then there was a way to place a military jet that would become a military chopper (usable missiles and all) in Sim Copter. I think either the first or last tile placed of this would become a military chopper.

        I also remember practicing landing a helicopter if the fuel ever ran out (pitch forward, then pitch back at the right time to force the rotors to spin up and slow your descent just right to be able to land softly).

        Then there was always driving around your own city and just destroying everything in Streets of Sim City.

    • Dave@lemmy.nz
      3·
      13 days ago

      Ah yeah, what a cool game. The DLC was quite different, but I enjoyed that too.

      I wish there was an Outer Wilds 2 but you probably couldn’t do anything too similar, so I guess what I’m saying is I wish the devs made another game of some sort.