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  • For old school RTS, Total Annihilation or if you fancy something a bit different then The Settlers II (Pioneers of Pagonia is a more modern remake). I grew tired of RTS and moved on to turn-based but Stellaris is one that recently drew me back in.

    For tactics I’d say Advanced Wars, Fire Emblem and Disgagea are decent shouts. Into The Breach is probably my favourite indie of the genre, a lot of strategy packed into a small game.

    If you like turn-based then Civ has always been top of my list.


  • Anecdotally Fifa (EA FC or whatever they’re calling it now) would have to be up there. Hadn’t played it in years but gave it a go last season as it was free on Game Pass.

    They’ve combined the addictiveness of card collecting with loot box mechanics, FOMO and moving the goalposts (pun intended) to get the best players. The gameplay also seemed pretty rigged to prevent grinding rewards out.

    Then when the new game is out, rather than dishing out all the rewards to those still playing it instead becomes infeasible to unlock any more decent players so you’re pretty much stuck with what you have.

    Even if you pay full price for the next game you’ll have to use low stat players as they only seem to start releasing decent ones half way through the season.


  • Redacted@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.worldThe N64
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    9 months ago

    Hard disagree. Most trailblazing console ever with one of the strongest lineups of first/second party games we’ve ever seen. Yes there were some shoddy third party ports but you didn’t buy it for those.

    People moan about the controller but forget it was the first time a joystick was used and the only real issue was the redundant left prong. Loved the feel of the Z button for shooting games coupled with the Rumble Pak.





  • Yep, chuck Rumble Pak in there too.

    Did platform fighters exist before Smash?

    Did proper 3D platforming with free camera exist before Mario 64?

    Did third person adventure games exist before OoT and has anything drastically changed the formula since?

    Not to mention all these games shipped fully built with no updates and amazingly few bugs.

    It seems as though OP didn’t actually experience these things at the time so making a post about nostalgia for them is strange. Firing up an emulator and going “These games don’t hold up now.” is entirely missing the point.








  • Woodwork dweller here, you seem to have forgotten:

    Majora’s Mask

    Star Fox 64

    Jet Force Gemini

    Donkey Kong 64

    Diddy Kong Racing

    Excite Bike 64

    Paper Mario

    Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door

    Pokémon Stadium

    Yoshi’s Story

    Pokémon Snap

    Mario Party

    Felt at the time that there was always a high quality “AAA” release on the horizon interspersed with some of the greatest games ever made. Many of the gameplay techniques these games pioneered during the transition from 2D to 3D are still used to this day.

    Obviously a lot of them don’t stand the test of time a quarter of a century on but we haven’t had a system with the same consistent quality of games for a long time, if ever, IMO.