Favorite Games of the DY Community

[pobbus]

List some of your fav pieces of video game media.. If it inspired you in any way, let the world hear!  :) 

I've been playing a lot of NIGHT RUNNERS: Prologue , It's got a ton of house music and breaks.. Super awesome sense of speed, and it's free! The song "Emotion Engine" by Dazegxd makes me want to break the sound barrier in my ST  8)

I think I just enjoy racing games a whole lot. Makes you feel the music a whole lot more

[7]

i like hatsune miku and the miku games : hatsune miku:project diva mega mix plus

[Sticki]

[money]

i really really like halo like its so fun and awesome

[damion]

sticki u should play doom with me someday

[jordan]

mario kart

[slippo]

Gotta be CoQ. I love CoQ so much man its unreal. Whenever I'm working I'm thinking about CoQ, its becoming a problem. Its like Dwarf fortress only as a rogue-like, IDK how to explain it but its been in development for 15 years and still going strong.

CoQ - Caves of Qud

[stefanie]

[avtomat]

Proyect Zomboid, Sims 4, WoW, Age of Empires 2, Stardew Valley, the pizza making simulator, uhhmmmm idk i would play a lot more if i had a good pc that can run them. Like I would love to play Stray and Tarkov, my computer doesnt run games like that.

[may]

league of legends   and um valorant and um 

[yakkpakk]

re4, sh1, guitar hero/rock band, counterstrike source, tf2, binding of isaac, portal 2, half life 2, cave story, mercenaries p.o.d, socom fireteam bravo 1, mario sunshine, nfs most wanted 2005, thps 2 + 3, ultimate spiderman for gamecube, splinter cell, mgs1

[boner]

my ogs know ... mysims for the wii... thats real gaming right there

[pobbus]

my ogs know ... mysims for the wii... thats real gaming right there

I remember not being able to figure out how to make the chair .. then they threw the podium at me and i needed my dad 2 help me

[ErmaKeef]

DayZ, CS, Yume Nikki, 2kki, Battlebit, Arma

[eugnot]

[Sticki]

Damn I forgot about the Binding of Isaac, probably sunk in 120 hours in a single week last year

[poniko]

Sticki Lets Play 2kki Together Sometime  8)

[Sticki]

i am down!!!

[poniko]

thats great news, now with that said here are the 3 goats of gaming

[Sticki]

i forgot mother 3

[Sticki]

mother 3 made me cry i wish it wasn't on the gba but better that than the n64

[yakkpakk]

if i had to choose one alltime goat id say isaac only cuz i could put so many more hours into it. like if i had to keep 1 game and delete the rest itd be that

[Evilhaven]

Halo 2

[Sticki]

if i had to choose one alltime goat id say isaac only cuz i could put so many more hours into it. like if i had to keep 1 game and delete the rest itd be that

this is where we disagree cuz even if the fun never ends the gameloop does have a point where ive had enough of it even if its a few hundred hours in

[yakkpakk]

this is where we disagree cuz even if the fun never ends the gameloop does have a point where ive had enough of it even if its a few hundred hours in

i feel like i could put another 2k in going for dead god cuz the loop is that satisfying for me but im only 200 in on rebirth so idk

[Sticki]

this is where we disagree cuz even if the fun never ends the gameloop does have a point where ive had enough of it even if its a few hundred hours in

i feel like i could put another 2k in going for dead god cuz the loop is that satisfying for me but im only 200 in on rebirth so idk

yeah i for sure clocked more hours than that ill check later

[curseduser227]

mtx mototrax

[Sticki]

Need for Madness

[geoff]

I LOVE CALL OF DUTY !!!! >:( !!!!  >:(  >:(

[binky]

Dude I love Deus Ex

[b1eed1ng]

dark souls, if it wasnt obvious already

besides that hotline miami 1&2 go suuuuuuper hard, classic indie game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWssbJw4R2M

[k]

SHOUTOUTS Peggle really fun game

But my favorite franchise has always been Kingdom Hearts :O

riku

[john]

disgaea! 1 and 2 are my favorites. 1 is probably my most played game oat its hard to track because ive played almost every version of it   8)

[Sticki]

What is disgaea about

[john]

What is disgaea about

demons, and angels, and humans. mainly a gameplay focused srpg series but it has story and lore if you care to look into it. disgaea 1 is about the main character, laharl, waking up to find out his father has died. his father was the king of the netherworld, and with his death it has left an opening for someone to claim the throne, which laharl intends to do. the story expands beyond that but id rather not spoil it if you plan on playing it, i find the story compelling still despite the focus being on the gameplay and grinding  ;D

[1]

[shockZy]

[zoma]

Never in my life have I EVER experienced more joy from a video game than the once flourishing kraber9k servers on Titanfall 2 (Northstar)

When I was at the peak of my NEET-dom during the lockdowns, I would stay up till 6 am almost every day playing on these servers. I've been waiting for something to come along that keeps my attention as much as that gamemode.

Super Metroid is also legit

[CorradoSoprano]

Never in my life have I EVER experienced more joy from a video game than the once flourishing kraber9k servers on Titanfall 2 (Northstar)

When I was at the peak of my NEET-dom during the lockdowns, I would stay up till 6 am almost every day playing on these servers. I've been waiting for something to come along that keeps my attention as much as that gamemode.

Super Metroid is also legit

Metroid, schmetroid.



This is a real man's game. They don't make 'em like they used to anymore.

[pee]

counter strike

[phosphorrgirl]

disgaea! 1 and 2 are my favorites. 1 is probably my most played game oat its hard to track because ive played almost every version of it   8)

disgaea is awesome, the psp port of the first game is an amazing time waster nd i think about the item world a lot :)
recently i installed CFW on my PS3 and have been trying to play thru some ps1-3 rpgs that i missed, .hack// has been an awesome franchise to get into, with a kind of crazy cast of creators (kazunori ito, yuki kajiura, yoshiyuki sadamoto, just all around kinda crazy)

[john]

disgaea is awesome, the psp port of the first game is an amazing time waster nd i think about the item world a lot :)
recently i installed CFW on my PS3 and have been trying to play thru some ps1-3 rpgs that i missed, .hack// has been an awesome franchise to get into, with a kind of crazy cast of creators (kazunori ito, yuki kajiura, yoshiyuki sadamoto, just all around kinda crazy)

yes the psp port is very fun, thats the version i first put a lot of time into, played it on my dads psp as a kid. right now im playing a lot of disgaea psp im building my statistician rn and shooting for my typical majin build but im still very early in the game lol

sick stuff, never played hack before but the games look awesome even beyond that creator list lol i need to get into it.

[phosphorrgirl]

sick stuff, never played hack before but the games look awesome even beyond that creator list lol i need to get into it.

its a great series  ;D  ;D people like to complain about the gameplay on the original quadrilogy but whats an early ps2 game without its jank :)

[ekdsc]

Burnout 3 Takedown is the best video game ever made. Nearly 2 decades now of playing it and it's still by far the most fun experience I can have in the medium. Whoever thought to add the takedown mechanic to the game better have gotten some insane perks for it. Not even nostalgia talking either, because I pretty regularly revisit the game and besides the brutal rubber banding the game holds up incredibly well. Revenge (the sequel) is also incredibly fun but not nearly as tight as Takedown, and as time goes on from Burnout Paradise I have less and less nice things to say about that game lmfao


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ4z_Y9DXa4

[Evilhaven]

Halo 2

[StereoMagic]

To name a few:

[snaiil]

UT2004, which died well before Epic bricked multiplayer. Bots are OK. First game I ever saw anybody play in my life and is a straight banger. Not as fast as Quake multiplayer but well made up for it in the crazy vehicle pseudo-RTS maps/gameplay (given that this was the only gamemode people continued to play past a certain date), and also maybe one of the only games that got away with every single weapon having a secondary fire that was crazy in its own right that did not invalidate the primary fire. It also gets the token distinction of having the best version of the unreal 'u' logo. Aesthetics are banging on this shit as well. When you play against bots, their avatars sometimes pop up on the left looking like Marilyn Manson screeching to tell you to kill yourself, it's wild.


Serious Sam: The First/Second Encounter, HD Remastered. Original is fine but the remaster hits that perfect level between Source realism and RTX enabled. Looks like one of many forgotten boomer shooters but gameplay is different; most of the best boomer shooters were remembered for technical level design but Serious Sam is just pure brainrot, where the R&D went into packing as many enemies on the screen as possible, and so in the hardest battles you're killing like 2000 enemies. What really stands out to me though is the aesthetics; the minimalist music combined with the huge, open spaces depicting Babylon and Egypt in these games lives rent-free in my mind. I am pretty sure all of my taste in architecture is in comparison to this.


Quake Live. Surprisingly still playable for an incarnation of a 25 year old multiplayer game in terms of player count (populated game modes are FFA, Freeze Tag, and Clan Arena), which should tell you that some of these geezers are onto something. The gameplay is minimalist and fast; I have listened to people give up on themselves over voice chat after starting out fresh. But if you are in the zone it is just the best; you hit a guy with a rocket mid-air, you plug somebody with a hitscan railgun through a 3 pixel crack, you pull off some kind of crazy-ass movement tech to cut some dude off running for health. More games might have the potential to pull off this level of gameplay, but what they may lack in is maps; Quake Live's maps are tremendously vertical and so you are not only checking angles but have got to be ready to rocket jump floors up or pop people from below. Even aside from the phenomenally tight gameplay the aesthetic is on a whole other level; I will sometimes boot it up just to run around the empty maps. If you play this, I'm ArgyleSocks on the pill clan/white-lightning freeze tag servers.


Quake 1. Everybody else that has been doing Lovecraft since 1996 seems to skew rubbery Cthulhu suits and "The horror! The incomprehensible horror!" at piles of bubbles or some stupid shit. The gameplay is cool (the rocket launcher is iconic, but imo the metal clanging of the grenade launcher pills is truly essential), yet the atmosphere is really that next step of dark, brooding, hateful anti-human aesthetic that Lovecraft himself never quite touched. These places are just dismal; NIN OST goes hard in this respect. Probably one of the weirdest moments I've felt in a game on a purely artistic level is in some level of the 3rd episode, there's a bust of Christ being crucified textured across the wall, in some cramped, industrial cage of a level.


F.E.A.R. 1. The best aspect of this game, prematurely setting aside the cold industrial/office environments, is the enemy AI. It is a little sad that I have yet to see anything better in a mainline FPS, but this is pretty damn good. According to interviews/technical breakdowns it's more smoke and mirrors than it seemed to me but when you play the enemies do appear to actively flank and strategize to kill you, and take cover like it means something. In this spirit I have an idiosyncratic recommendation to play this game: crank the difficulty to the max and unbind the slowmo button. Though the slowmo button is fondly remembered, for best gameplay I personally recommend treating this like the most intense cover shooter ever produced. Some people rave about the story, to which I am indifferent, but the coldness of the environment is certainly down to this influence. The lighting engine though in some technical sense outdated has hard, outlined shadows, which is an underrated look in games.

[grungor]

in no particular order (and definitely missing a ton)

[grungor]

ive never played everlasting summer. should i?

[Sticki]

UT2004, which died well before Epic bricked multiplayer. Bots are OK. First game I ever saw anybody play in my life and is a straight banger. Not as fast as Quake multiplayer but well made up for it in the crazy vehicle pseudo-RTS maps/gameplay (given that this was the only gamemode people continued to play past a certain date), and also maybe one of the only games that got away with every single weapon having a secondary fire that was crazy in its own right that did not invalidate the primary fire. It also gets the token distinction of having the best version of the unreal 'u' logo. Aesthetics are banging on this shit as well. When you play against bots, their avatars sometimes pop up on the left looking like Marilyn Manson screeching to tell you to kill yourself, it's wild.


Serious Sam: The First/Second Encounter, HD Remastered. Original is fine but the remaster hits that perfect level between Source realism and RTX enabled. Looks like one of many forgotten boomer shooters but gameplay is different; most of the best boomer shooters were remembered for technical level design but Serious Sam is just pure brainrot, where the R&D went into packing as many enemies on the screen as possible, and so in the hardest battles you're killing like 2000 enemies. What really stands out to me though is the aesthetics; the minimalist music combined with the huge, open spaces depicting Babylon and Egypt in these games lives rent-free in my mind. I am pretty sure all of my taste in architecture is in comparison to this.


Quake Live. Surprisingly still playable for an incarnation of a 25 year old multiplayer game in terms of player count (populated game modes are FFA, Freeze Tag, and Clan Arena), which should tell you that some of these geezers are onto something. The gameplay is minimalist and fast; I have listened to people give up on themselves over voice chat after starting out fresh. But if you are in the zone it is just the best; you hit a guy with a rocket mid-air, you plug somebody with a hitscan railgun through a 3 pixel crack, you pull off some kind of crazy-ass movement tech to cut some dude off running for health. More games might have the potential to pull off this level of gameplay, but what they may lack in is maps; Quake Live's maps are tremendously vertical and so you are not only checking angles but have got to be ready to rocket jump floors up or pop people from below. Even aside from the phenomenally tight gameplay the aesthetic is on a whole other level; I will sometimes boot it up just to run around the empty maps. If you play this, I'm ArgyleSocks on the pill clan/white-lightning freeze tag servers.


Quake 1. Everybody else that has been doing Lovecraft since 1996 seems to skew rubbery Cthulhu suits and "The horror! The incomprehensible horror!" at piles of bubbles or some stupid shit. The gameplay is cool (the rocket launcher is iconic, but imo the metal clanging of the grenade launcher pills is truly essential), yet the atmosphere is really that next step of dark, brooding, hateful anti-human aesthetic that Lovecraft himself never quite touched. These places are just dismal; NIN OST goes hard in this respect. Probably one of the weirdest moments I've felt in a game on a purely artistic level is in some level of the 3rd episode, there's a bust of Christ being crucified textured across the wall, in some cramped, industrial cage of a level.


F.E.A.R. 1. The best aspect of this game, prematurely setting aside the cold industrial/office environments, is the enemy AI. It is a little sad that I have yet to see anything better in a mainline FPS, but this is pretty damn good. According to interviews/technical breakdowns it's more smoke and mirrors than it seemed to me but when you play the enemies do appear to actively flank and strategize to kill you, and take cover like it means something. In this spirit I have an idiosyncratic recommendation to play this game: crank the difficulty to the max and unbind the slowmo button. Though the slowmo button is fondly remembered, for best gameplay I personally recommend treating this like the most intense cover shooter ever produced. Some people rave about the story, to which I am indifferent, but the coldness of the environment is certainly down to this influence. The lighting engine though in some technical sense outdated has hard, outlined shadows, which is an underrated look in games.

this is a real golden era huh