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b_d posted:ah also An Untitled Story. one of the really old games by Maddy Thorson of towerfall and celeste fame. very rough around the edges but well worth a look. an untitled story was very cool. also i played bunny must die when i was like 16 and i remember being disappointed the time gimmick was used only for like 1 puzzle. also some of the bosses have confusing mechanics
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Pablo Nergigante posted:I’ll recommend Timespinner and Iconoclasts, both of which I really enjoyed. idk why but outside of the animation and beautiful spritework that is a staple of konjak's work, i wasnt super impressed with iconoclasts
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b_d posted:do you have any favorites i may not have played? ive played most of the castles and the troids and the ories, plus all the ones already mentioned. Oh yeah, here's a couple that we haven't discussed that I liked. Timespinner. It's very inspired by IGAvania games. It's quite similar to those. The setting is different but otherwise it's Castlevania with the serial number filed off. Axiom Verge is also neat. I've yet to play the second one but the first one was cool and more like Metroid than most other games. It has some unique power-ups which a lot of people find weird but I thought it was cool. Guacamelee is also pretty cool. Less heavy on exploration than the other games but it's pretty unique. You're an undead Luchador or something. It's a brawler and you get to do wrestling moves. There's also some tough platforming sections. And even though I said there's not much exploration I don't think I ever explored the full map, it's just that each area is a mostly linear level with some branching paths and collectibles here and there.
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ArfJason posted:idk why but outside of the animation and beautiful spritework that is a staple of konjak's work, i wasnt super impressed with iconoclasts It wasn’t the greatest game in the world but I liked it. The graphics probably helped a lot lol
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I liked towerfall a lot more than celeste.. something about learning the spawns and running around killing everything is really satisfying
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b_d posted:also how come there isn't a metroid vania that's megaman x. there's one that's mega man zero x
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ArfJason posted:an untitled story was very cool. also i played bunny must die when i was like 16 and i remember being disappointed the time gimmick was used only for like 1 puzzle. also some of the bosses have confusing mechanics yeah you get like three time powers near the beginning and it seems like you're going to be doing that all the time but it's just an occasional gimmick. which is fine with me, it would be annoying to have to do that poo poo all the time. iirc timespinner has a similar thing going on where near the beginning you freeze time to use an enemy as a platform and then it never comes up again. i never finished that game though back to bunny must die: the combat system is weird, there are weapon drops that work like the old castlevanias in that if you don't know where they are you will randomly get them just by moving around and hitting things. but instead of replacing your subweapon it replaces your main and only weapon. if you preferred the weapon you were using before you had to go back and find the torch or whatever that dropped it. i never got good at the combat and some of the bosses were sticking points. but i somehow got through it all. in like 2010. and never got very far in any replay attempts since then. but im glad i did it once. theres a third strike style parry system you can use to block everything including environmental spikes that normally do like 80% damage. and like climb on lasers and poo poo. theres a wall jump upgrade you get with a weird input. and it seems like you can't jump up a single wall, but it turns out you can if you do an even weirder input to like wiggle out of the kickback and get back against the wall. iirc i found this mechanic just by dint of the normal input being weird and inconsistent and slowly figured out how to do the input just through muscle memory without being able to articulate what specifically i was doing. there are orbs you collect that you place to open doors and you can pick them back up to close the door and use them somewhere else. i think there's like one puzzle where this is used deliberately, but what i mostly remember happening multiple times is leaving one on a door early on and the natural path brings you back around and back into the main area, a little ways away from the door orb, and you don't pass by it unless you deliberately go out of the way to pick it back up. and if you don't then later on you hit a dead end way across the map and have to trek all the way back to retrieve it. you start the game only being able to move left and you have to find an upgrade to let you turn around and move right lol. BUT you can do without it because you have a castlevania style backdash you can use to move right instead, but you will always be facing left. i think speedruns do this, at least for the first portion of the game. basically the game is stupid as poo poo and cool as hell.
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Arrhythmia posted:Am untitled story rules
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Evil Eagle posted:there's one that's mega man zero x i played mega man zero but i don't think i ever played zx. basically what im imagining is zero's upgrades in x4 where you get like a flaming uppercut and an ice drop,, and you would use these to reach new areas in a big map . is that pretty much what it's like
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Untitled story is great. Also Lyle in Cube Sector, Shadow Complex.
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I kinda wanted to play timespinner when I noticed it basically ripped off order of ecclesia's equip screens wholesale but I never did    b_d posted:i played mega man zero but i don't think i ever played zx. basically what im imagining is zero's upgrades in x4 where you get like a flaming uppercut and an ice drop,, and you would use these to reach new areas in a big map . is that pretty much what it's like there's a big map and you do get upgrades but I think there are also regular mmz levels scattered around too I played the hell out of untitled story like 12 years ago
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IGgy IGsen posted:So far I played: this list needs to have the Ori games on it, now available on XBOX PC Game Pass. amazing to look at and they feel great to play
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welcome posted:Untitled story is great. Also Lyle in Cube Sector, Shadow Complex. oh hell yeah i love lyle in cube sector. way up there. last time i tried to play it i had some technical issues with the window but i might have been doing it through wine on a mac.
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buffalo all day posted:this list needs to have the Ori games on it, now available on XBOX PC Game Pass. amazing to look at and they feel great to play Agreed. Ori is dope and I want to play it again before playing the second one for the first time. I'm hyped for that. Maybe I'll do that next.
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b_d posted:... yeah i was gonna say that i liked that you get to unlock the ability to move right (i thought it was left tbh)
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I started playing Dandara a little while ago and it seems fine but wasn't my cup of tea
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stop calling them metroidvanias; start calling them search action games
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Fungah! posted:stop calling them metroidvanias; start calling them search action games In the UK they call them exploresies
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Pablo Nergigante posted:In the UK they call them exploresies lol
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I love MMZX but the open map is by far the worst part of it, they don't really do much with it and it mostly just adds boring walking, and confusion where to go next Timespinner is p good, I finished it last year, but it has one major issue for me: it starts kinda tough, but after a few upgrades the difficulty just becomes non-existent. I coasted through all of it, then started Hard Mode... and it's insanely brutal and I kept dying in the first area. If they'd made it a reasonable challenge all the way through, it'd have been a goty for me
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Simply Simon posted:I love MMZX but the open map is by far the worst part of it, they don't really do much with it and it mostly just adds boring walking, and confusion where to go next It's also quite short even if you go for all endings
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Pablo Nergigante posted:It's also quite short even if you go for all endings
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Fungah! posted:stop calling them metroidvanias; start calling them search action games this
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b_d posted:do you have any favorites i may not have played? ive played most of the castles and the troids and the ories, plus all the ones already mentioned. edit: i guess you already listed everything but hey just in case. Astalon Tears of the Earth and Rabbi Ribi the ultimate perverts platformer.
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Lyle in Cube Sector: there's too many cugging cubes!!!!! die!!!!!
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Arrhythmia posted:Lyle in Cube Sector: there's too many cugging cubes!!!!! die!!!!! Lol also look up.
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I turned myself into a Metroidvania Morty! I'm Search Action Rick!!!
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Todd's Adventures in Slime World 2: Lyle in Cube Sector
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derek yu's ancient game Aquaria is cool but since it was an indie sjw game pre-braid no one remembers it. also its pretty ugly but hell its from 2007 so we should all be glad it isn't brown and bloomy like every other game from 2007
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Gato Roboto and the Blaster Master Zero games are both really easy but pretty good search action games. If you're looking for some indie deep cuts there's Treasure Adventure World and Super Panda Adventures.
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Does Cave Story count.
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Fungah! posted:stop calling them metroidvanias; start calling them search action games
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metroidvania should only be used for a castlevania/metroid crossover, whjich is absurd because samus would simply demolish any frankensteins, draculas and the like that she encountered with her superior weaponry.
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In Training posted:Does Cave Story count. e: this post reads sarcastic but it's not Cubone fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Nov 17, 2021 |
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mysterious loyall X posted:Astalon Tears of the Earth and Rabbi Ribi the ultimate perverts platformer. assalon queers of the earth. couldn't think of anything for earth. edit: assalon queers of the klurf Arrhythmia posted:Lyle in Cube Sector: there's too many cugging cubes!!!!! die!!!!! lol
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mysterious loyall X posted:derek yu's ancient game Aquaria is cool but since it was an indie sjw game pre-braid no one remembers it. also its pretty ugly but hell its from 2007 so we should all be glad it isn't brown and bloomy like every other game from 2007 oh yeah aquaria is cool but it's swimy which is not as fun as jumping. In Training posted:Does Cave Story count. not really. also everyone in the world has heard of cave story. tribal kids in africa (not racist) don't know who mario is but they love curly brace. they love sue.
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