Vagrant Story had a really cool swordfighting system.
Vagrant Story had a really cool swordfighting system.
There are a lot of “I like this in theory but nobody else I know uses it” social things like Matrix 😑
It does everything through clever game design, nothing takes you out of the game. No cut scenes or text popping up or freezing everything while dialogue is going on. You’re just in that world.
Its just like with idealizing music eras. People remember the stand outs and forget the bad and mediocre stuff so it seems like everything was better in whatever time.
SNES does have a lot of the better games in lots of great series. Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Castlevania, Final Fantasy etc etc etc.
Though the cheat answer is probably PC since its been around for decades can just evolve with whatever is going on.
Some of them are free.
Its basically a perfect game. It never feels dated and has one of the most horribly catchy songs ever created by man. Its weird that it’s so fun, its like as simple as you can really boil down a game, its literally just arranging blocks into lines. But it just clicks with the human brain on some deep level.
I use Iris, its very simple.
I’ve been saying this forever too! Boomers were the ones complaining about thier kids playing them back in the day because of the violence and demonic imagery.
In the 90s people called them "Doom-like"s. I usually just say “90s FPS games”. Which I guess could be confusing and make people think I’m talking about framerate, but eh.
1 and 2 are some of my favorite games ever. They’re sort of like Pac-Man or Tetris, they just nailed such a basic, fun gameplay experience that you can always go back to it and get sucked in.
Also props for GZDoom and Brutal Doom updating them for modern hardware.
I’m like that with OG Doom. Its half nostalgia and half it just being a fun game to play.
OpenMW may as well be a remake, it runs very well and updates everything for modern hardware. Thats probably the way to go if you want to play Morrowind today.
Morrowind and Oblivion both have a massive fan following but I think always get unfairly overlooked for Skyrim.
I was thinking Soul Reaver too! I think the problem is that it had a handful of mediocre sequels that made people eventually lose interest in the series. But the original game was one of the best on the PS1. I loved the whole improvised combat mechanic where you have to use anything around you in the environment that could hit the vampires’ weakneses.
Synfig might be what you’re looking for.
Markor is FOSS and stores notes as md or txt files. I like that feature as well, I can sync it to outside devices and not need any specific app to open them.
That was my only issue with the otherwise excellent Shovel Knight! It had very long levels and only saved once you beat them.
Sub-Lemminal messages?
I use Iris Micro, I’ve never had issues with it.
Basically when Windows became pay-per-install. PCs stopped coming with an install CD so if you needed to reset from scratch you couldn’t. I first tried Linux out of necessity because that was all I had to put on the machine in the house, and ended up never looking back.