Team Buddies for the ps1. Small team rts game, lots of unique units and the bright style is a great contrast to the fighting
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I agree with many that have already been said, but I'll add braid, dust force, and prison architect
I'll update with links when I'm on my comp next (mobile now), but a few off the top of my head:
Portal 1 and 2. It's so popular that it doesn't seem like it even can be 'unique', but the game play really is one of a kind, and it's pretty great.
Enderal - total conversion mod for Skyrim, but in the steam store as it's own game. It's got familiar combat and game mechanics, but the antagonists aren't your typical big-bad-evil-guy, but things like emotions, mental states, and philosophies. Somehow they managed to work that kind of content into a fantasy RPG... it's a fucking masterpiece, and it's free if you have Skyrim in your library already (it uses Skyrim's assets and engine, but is not related to Elder Scrolls in any way).
Zelda Majora's Mask, for the N64. This game is fucking weird, even by the Zelda franchise's standards. Every scene is bizarre in a way that other games haven't hit before or since Zelda MJ. It's built around the Kübler-Ross 5 stages of grief; it never draws attention to that, but guides you through them beautifully.
Secret World Legends. Technically an MMO, but treat it like a single player RPG - the MMO elements are shit. This game will have you running all over the globe to basically do Men In Black shit, but instead of aliens, it's occult weirdness, and things like urban legends that turn out to be true. Heavy Lovecraftian influence. One of the more challenging parts of the game are investigative missions, which I'd encourage you to give a solid effort before turning to the web for answers. The objectives can be something like "investigate the murder of John Doe" ...and that's it. You have to tackle it the same way you would IRL, so you'd go to places that make sense like a police station or town hall. It doesn't tell you, which makes it probably the most intellectually challenging games I've ever played. If you dive in, you'll need to choose a faction when you make your character: and trust me in this, choose Illuminati. The story writing is way better than the other two for their faction-specific missions; and the rest of the game doesn't change by faction (you'll be in the same zones, grouping and working together with players in other factions; there's just a few off-shoots of solo faction story time)
Antichamber is the game like Portal
I'll give an honorable mention to Terraria--largely because I had to explain it to someone recently and it was more difficult than I anticipated.
Yeah, you can just say "2D Minecraft," but it's more than that. It's almost an RPG in terms of advancements and equipment development, and it's very combat oriented. But it's not really a sidescroller or a metroidvania type, because the digging and building plays a huge part.
Less genre defining, and more living in the liminal space between a lot of other genres.
I love Space Harrier. There are a handful of other third-person, on-rails shooters (Sin and Punishment), but nothing recent that I'm aware of.
Also, Bangai O on Nintendo DS is insanely fun. I can't think of any other games where slowdown is a necessary mechanic.
I can't think of any other games where slowdown is a necessary mechanic.
It's quite common in retro shmups, particularly bullet hells putting way too many sprites onscreen. Designers were always aware of it and intentionally balanced the difficulty around it, and some later games even include artificial slowdown just to preserve that feel.
Ahh yes, definitely. I should have said that isn't strictly a traditional shmup. Bangai O definitely has many elements of shmups, but the level design and many of the mechanics are quite unique to it.
There are a handful of other third-person, on-rails shooters (Sin and Punishment), but nothing recent that I’m aware of.
The original Rez isn't recent, (though that's a game that got a lot of acclaim for the aesthetics, mechanics aside). According to WP there's apparently a new VR release; I think I remember seeing a video of it.
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Looks like it's just a high-resolution VR remake, not a new game.
If Nintendo's done a new Star Fox release, I imagine that that'd qualify.
kagis
Apparently yes, though the most-recent was Star Fox 2, which was eight years ago...a lot newer than Space Harrier, but no spring chicken.
EDIT: Apparently there's a Star Fox-alike game, Ex-Zodiac, on Steam. I've never heard of it before now, though.
Starfox never did it for me like Space Harrier. I'm not sure why. The primitive 3D maybe. Space Harrier creature design is just plain bizarre and intriguing.
Ah, gotcha. It also looks like it was considered to be very difficult (though any game from that era is gonna generally be a lot harder than present-day games).
I also remember a one-bit, not even polygon, but wireframe Star Wars third person rail shooter. It was on the early Mac, but I think it was a port from DOS or something.
kagis
Oh, wow. Apparently, it was actually a color arcade game, Star Wars, from 1983, and I'd just only seen the black-and-white Mac port until today. I wonder if those are true vector-display graphics, like Tempest.
kagis
Apparently yes. For the younger crowd, there was a point in time with CRTs where some video games actually plotted graphics on specialized CRTs by controlling the electron beam and plotting out the graphics with the point of the beam, kind of the way an old analog oscilloscope works. I bet that there have been antialiased remakes or clones of probably most of those vector-display games by now.
EDIT: Oh, I lied. It was first-person, not third person. You did have to dodge obstacles, but you weren't looking at your ship from behind.
I actually played a bunch of that Star Wars vector arcade game at my local bowling alley. Yes, I am old...
Ex-Zodiac is pretty decent as a tribute. There's something missing in the presentation though. Opening steam and launching it while using an Xbox controller isnt quite the same vibe as dropping in a cartridge and being tethered to that soap bar brick of a SNES controller.
As a tribute though, gameplay wise, it's pretty good.