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sometimes you play a game and you like it more than it probably deserves. maybe it has cool music over bad gameplay? maybe it has interesting characters in a buggy world? maybe it tries to do something unique or interesting, but the devs don't quite have the skill or budget to achieve it? or maybe it just inexplicably gets its hooks into you somehow. either way, you somehow end up liking it unironically, even though you know it's not exactly great. i played a surprising amount of Mighty Bomb Jack when it landed on the switch subscription nes app. it has a really weird jumping mechanic that emphasizes madly tapping the button to hover, monsters spawn randomly around the screen every few seconds instead of being carefully placed, the game actively punishes you for getting too many powerups ("YOU ARE GREEDY GO TO THE TORTURE ROOM") and the level designer has a grudge against you that reaches the point of warp zones that send you backwards, but for some reason i just kept trying to push deeper, seeing how far i could get before the game spawned a mummy on top of me with a quarter-second of warning. it's weird and hostile, but it's also decently challenging with a lot of secrets to dig up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7ngsg86R7w so what about you? what's your favorite mess?
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Kongming posted:Final Fantasy XI, which I still play. also like once a year i'll spend an afternoon throwing myself at Keith Courage in Alpha Zones. it's pretty sloppy (the way you turn around is very strange compared to other platformers, like it turns you around at your nose instead of at the center of your body) with a lot of instant-death traps and shops that demand grinding for health refils or weapon upgrades, but there's some wonderfully weird monster designs (especially in the mecha bits) and each level likes to throw new ideas at you for a surprisingly brief amount of time (oh, here's the upside down bit. here's the toxic pipes...) it tries to avoid getting boring, and i like that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ldb8F_4F6g
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Bolverkur posted:I played a lot of Jurassic Park 2: The Chaos Continues on SNES back in the day. The game is just ok, and either it was very hard at times or I just sucked at it being a dumb kid. I should revisit it and see how it holds up. What lured me in was that dinosaurs were cool and you had a wide selection of guns. Last but not least the soundtrack was phenomenal and really made an otherwise not that good game really stand out. trying to jack off posted:i really loved the first jurassic park game where you go into buildings and play lovely wolfenstein but i never beat it because not one person in the entire development team floated the idea of saving or a password system
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Jan 27, 2021 06:05
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Sharks Eat Bear posted:My submission is Robotron 64. I don’t think it’s a BAD game, just a basic arcade shooter. But it made great use of the C buttons and was the perfect balance of enemy swarm chaos without being too stressful there's also a playstation version, robotron x, but i haven't played it. apparently it's more frantic due to gameplay tweaks and worse camera/framerate.
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Feb 1, 2021 07:19
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Flunky posted:captain comic, the only platformer i had for a long while as a kid ...which explains a lot tbh
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