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Warp wrote:
> With the recent gaming-related threads, I thought about creating one
> myself: Do you have any game gems which you would recommend people to try?
> Maybe an older game which most people have forgotten, which is still today
> as great as back then? Or a game which didn't get too much media attention
> but is actually incredibly cool?
I don't play games very often any more, but here's a few that I've enjoyed:
Cave Story:
Freeware download. A pixel-art side scrolling platformer in the style
of some SNES games. Very well made and a lot of fun.
I Wanna Be the Guy:
Freeware download from http://kayin.pyoko.org/iwbtg/
Known for being almost impossibly difficult, and it's a bit glitchy too.
I can't quite describe why I enjoy playing it so much, but it does
have lots of nice references to old-school console games.
Chrono Trigger:
An RPG for the SNES, you can find a rom for an emulator pretty easily,
or buy it used if you still own the console.
Monkey Island (series):
Old PC game. Gameplay is ehhh, but the writing is top-notch and very funny.
Katamari Damacy:
Available on most modern consoles. Too weird not to like.
My brother swears by Dwarf Fortress (http://bay12games.com/dwarves/)
which is a free ASCII-graphics game in which you attempt to build, well,
a dwarven fortress. Apparently the depth of the interactions you can
see in this game is almost unparalleled, to the point where it's a
common practice to post stories about what happened in the game. See
http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/Stories for a list of short
stories, or http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Boatmurdered/intro.html for a
hilarious story of a game played by a group of people (you probably
don't need to have played the game to enjoy it).
I've also enjoyed playing World of Goo a bit recently, and it makes a
relatively easy but still quite enjoyable puzzle game. You can download
it for $20 if you're interested.
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