Years / Decades:
70s , 80s , 90s , 00s , 10s , 2020
Genres:
2D Platformers, Bullet Hell / 2D Shooters, First Person Shooters, Flash, Racing Games, Real Time Strategy, Roguelikes, RPGs (Turn Based), Visual Novels
Welcome back. This part of the series will be primarily focusing on genres. So far I have [Action RPG, Board Game, Tabletop RPG, Arcade Game, Third person shooter, MMO, Action, 4X (Civilization-like), 3D Platformer, Dungeon Crawler, Card Game, Indie, Text dungeon, Souls-like, Stealth, Rhythm, Horror, Metroidvania, Survival, Sandbox, Shoot/beat 'em up, City Builder, Adventure, Simulation, Puzzle, Fighting, MOBA, Turn Based Strategy, Real Time Tactics, Grand Strategy, Mobile Phone, Walking simulator, Tower Defense, Sports, Idle, Trivia, Miscellaneous, and Casual] as available genres. Let me know if I missed something, and I will try to get it added.
This is eventually all going to get compiled into one megathread for people who want gaming recommendations from Chapos specifically. Other consoles and genres will come in sporadic subsequent threads. Please contribute to previous threads if you missed them. This is meant to be an exhaustive list.
Expanding on your choice(s) is definitely a plus. Not everyone knows about or has played non-mainstream titles.
Oh good, another genre I've never played. Anyway, here's the thread.
It's remarkable - even playing the first one with the original implementation in dosbox is OK graphically, just feels kinda like a pixel art game. Both Baldur's Gate are similar, as an aside, even with the original versions and despite the first one being released 22 years ago and being playable at the time on a 166mhz computer with 16MB of ram: they look fine, mostly I think because they used hand-painted decor.
I mean Monkey Island 2 might be the best one, let alone of the best games ever.
Monkey Island 1 and 2
Broken Sword 1 and 2
Both are point and click puzzle/adventure/mystery games.
Discworld is good too in the same theme but you'll spend more time trying random combinations of things because Discworld's universe makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, whereas both of the above make a sort of sense most of the time.
I would also say Little Big Adventure as well, however it's not technically a point and click. It feels like one in its general puzzle-ey style though. LBA is particularly leftist in its story themes too in my opinion, it is ironically more relevant a story today than it was when it was written with its climate-destruction themes.
The Longest Journey is in my top 5 games. Possibly the last of the og adventure games (outside the occasional dark age game like Syberia), and just wonderful on every level.
I don't know if it counts but I got Oxenfree in one of those Epic Games Store free game things and it's a really good game. Good voice acting. It uses keyboard keys for movement though and it's mostly a linear dialogue driven story, not about interacting with items to explore some place.
- Blade Runner (1997)
- The Longest Journey
- Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
- Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Myst
The Dig
Reelect JFK (fun for conspiracy fans)
Who Killed Laura Palmer
Wrath of the Gods
I think I just listed all the point-and-click games I played...
Haven't played it but Neofeud seems like a pretty based anti-capitalist cyberpunk game. Heard the solo dev/writer/artist presenting it at a virtual game dev meetup thing and he seemed pretty based too.
I played it long time ago but I remember Machinarium being great, I might replay it sometime.
