Any kind of game

EDIT: changed from suggested to mentioned and made the title more clear

  • Thelsim@sh.itjust.works
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    5 hours ago

    Since most games are often mentioned on the internet, I’m going to reach waaaaaaaay back to my childhood and mention Cartooners:

    This was a game for kids to make their own cartoons. I spend so much time making all kinds of funny and weird stories. It was very basic, but it had me giggling every time.

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    6 hours ago

    Le fabuleux voyage de l’oncle Ernest (the translation would be Uncle Ernest’s Fabulous Journey, but I don’t think it’s been released outside of France)

    I don’t remember much of the game but I loved it as a kid, around 9-10.

    The game is about the traveling journal of our adventurer uncle: Ernest. From what I remember it’s like a virtual treasure hunt, trying to find clues to find our uncle. It’s a lot of minigames going through Africa, Istanbul, Borneo …

    https://www.planete-aventure.net/shot/ernestvoyage_08.jpg

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      9 hours ago

      “What’s up Wanda” “Let’s sprint”

      The delivery of those two lines are burned into my memory.

      Inevitably every movie I’d make in that program would just be 2 characters karate kicking each other and then exploding

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    6 hours ago

    So I just invented a game.
    I kinda like it a bit.
    Of course, I’m not going to tell you its name or its rules, or I will have mentioned it on the internet, which will make it a paradox.

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      8 hours ago

      Based recommendation, microman was one of the earliest platformers I played. I still remember insert to shoot being an awkward keybind.

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      9 hours ago

      Have you seen Underspace? Its almost a spiritual successor to Freelancer. Take Freelancer and add Eldritch horrors and you have Underspace. IIt’s still in Early Access but definitely scratches the itch.

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    10 hours ago

    Challenge accepted. Does anyone recognize Llamatron: 2112? I played it on Amiga, but I think it was also on Atari and DOS.

    It was an acid trip “llamas are funny” parody of Robotron: 2084, and it was a fuckin’ BLAST!

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    10 hours ago

    Battlezone 2: Combat Commander. When I started playing that, my brother and I had to face each other and use our laptops’ infrared ports.

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    13 hours ago

    World in Conflict is one I don’t see talked about. Squad based military RTS.

    Multiplayer on that was so fun. Guessing how the enemy was moving in order to time how you call ordinance on them was my favorite part

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      World in conflict is so much fun. That form of control dating back from the ground control series feel so good.

  • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising. It’s the only game in the Carrier Command-like subgenre of RTS that isn’t part of the Carrier Command series. Shockingly well written, too, for what it is.

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      6 hours ago

      Real shame there was no multiplayer, the campaign was good but I always thought it would be nice to have protracted battles before the bio organisms showed up.

  • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 hours ago

    So if I’m not counting close friends recommending games to me as “mentioned on the internet” probably Crystal Project, according to Steam. Otherwise, we’d need to go back to things that I was told about by family members way back in the day that I both like and haven’t seen mentioned online since, which is trickier. Thief The Dark Project, possibly?

    If you haven’t played Thief: The Dark Project I recommend it and its sequels. Don’t play Thief (no subtitle) though, it’s AAA garbage.