[Gironika]

[Felix]

I think DoA2 was the last fighting game I actually bought into that was pitched as complicated yet interesting. Since then it's just been Soul Calibur and 3S unless you count Fight Night.

[1CC]

Gran Turismo

I just got off a high playing GT PSP for 5 hours straight, playing nothing but Autumn Ring Mini time trials comparing my favorite cars. Now the feeling of regret starts creeping in.

[tacotaskforce]

[username]

I might have to go with Paradox grand strategy games. I only own a couple of them and have only spent any real time with one of them due to how time intensive they are. Still I read just about every single developer's diary for EU IV, will read through just about any thread for the games and will check out random AARs for them just because I find them absolutely fascinating.
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http://www.audioatrocities.com/games/castlevania-sotn/clip1.mp3

[The Blueberry Hill]

[Loki Laufeyson]

[Rei]

[boojiboy7]

[The Blueberry Hill]

Maybe it's just every game that is not EDF that is the problem.

[Mikey]

[Mr. Mechanical]

[boojiboy7]

[CubaLibre]

[Mikey]

Well you just love the historical trappings, no?

[CubaLibre]

Yes, that, but also...

It's some kind of perfect realization of the GTA formula as the chillout game. The story is literally "you are playing a computer game with your mind." This both justifies all gameiness instantly and as lazily as possible and also saps all the drama from the proceedings (since it already happened: you're just accessing the past, not changing it). You autoparkour to get around instead of drive. It sets up these little rare tactical situations where you can use your overdesigned and bloated suite of abilities to assassinate a dude, and the rest of the time you float around beautiful historical landscapes. It hits some kind of a trigger in my brain that lets me just relax.
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Let's Play, starring me.

[scratchmonkey]

Tennis game junkies, you deserve to check out Hot Shots Tennis on PS2 if you haven't already.

[1CC]

I second that. Game's just a huge load of fun. Not in my personal top five, but top ten probably.

And if we're dishing out tennis game recommendations, I can't help but chime in:

Final Match Tennis Ladies is the best.
World Pro Tennis '98 is the best on PS1.
Its sequel Dream Match Tennis is on PC.
Top Rank Tennis is amazing on Game Boy.
Grand Slam is Final Match Tennis on Mega Drive.
World Court Tennis' RPG mode is the most hilarious.

God, I really can't help it. And here I thought I was over this shit.

[Talbain]

[tacotaskforce]

I'm still waiting for AC to drop the 'Actually turns out the Animus is a time-travel device' because the more they delay that the more powerful it becomes and when they drop it it will hit with the power of an atom bomb.

I thought it would have worked best back when Desmond was alive, but man Desmond got some unexpected characterization after he died that probably would have made him a lot more tolerable had it happened while he was alive.
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[boojiboy7]

[Brooks]

[1CC]

[CubaLibre]

[parkbench]

incredibly plodding console rpgs, the more linear and contrived the better (final fantasy is the biggest offender here). broken games with one, abstract redeemable trait that i will play for.
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metafilter vs. youtube comments

[luckystrike]

Games with a castle/village/mansion/hideout that slowly builds itself up and preferably fills with characters as the game progress.

The caveat is that it has to be something that happens naturally throughout the course of the game and be fairly linear. So not, like, Fable or the Bethesda games where you can buy stuff and deck your house out, but like that DS Rocket Slime game and of course Suikoden 1-5.

These games can literally be from any genre. Just the mere mention of such a mechanic will get me to play it.

p.s. always looking for more examples, if anyone has any good ones.

[Felix]

luckystrike, have you played the Grow games? the better ones (tower, cube, RPG, v3, island, and valley) tickle that very nicely.

http://eyezmaze.com

[CubaLibre]

[shrugtheironteacup]

I play almost every AAA milshootman and wannabe AAA milshootman in spite of not liking most of them.

Maybe I just really like to hateplay.
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[Mr. Mechanical]

[Mikey]

[shrugtheironteacup]

I'm trying to sate my GUNFEEL fetish but the people who care about GUNFEEL usually don't seem to care about anything else.

Imagine MoHWARFIGHTER(MUH FIGHTWARRER)'s weapon animations/sound in a game that wasn't absolute trash.

Imagine... SYNDICATE 2
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[tacotaskforce]

[tacotaskforce]

Games you might want to try tho:

Vice City
Everblue 2 (it's more of a town, but by the time more people start showing up you'll own like half the damn place)
Breath of Fire 2 & 3
Dragon Warrior 7
Pokemon Platinum (the house is free, the furniture is not)
Dragon Age Legends(It's a crumby near-RPG flash game designed like a mobile game, but you can build a castle like Sim Tower and the offline patch multiplied all currency by like 5x)
MGS Peace Walker
Assassin's Creed 2&3 especially
Both Overlords
Scarface (This game is so dumb but you can buy the lunar lander and put it in your mansion entryway)
Skies of Arcadia
Legend of Mana (although there's only like 2 actual upgrades)
Azure Dreams
Might & Magic 4
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[Swimmy]

[a pair of gators]

anything with a unique and/or strange visual aesthetic, regardless of the quality of the actual game

anything with a heavy emphasis on exploring ruins, but not in the indiana jones sense

[Felix]

re: Dark Cloud, I said this on a podcast recently, but Level 5 is fucking terrible. all during the PS2 era and up to Ni No Kuni they made gorgeous looking seemingly inventive quasi-jRPGs that I kept thinking I ought to try out and occasionally wound up playing an hour or two of and they're all boring as hell.

another irrational weakness of mine: euro boardgames with tons of little wooden pieces and hugely complicated rulesets that boil down to OCD optimization puzzles (bonus if they also include a world building mechanic and lots of negotiation between players). I've been trying to get everyone I know to play Terra Mystica and Archipelago with me lately.

[Mikey]

I hold out hope for Inazuma 11 though, whenever I eventually get around to playing that.

[allensmithee]

As it turns out, I am overwhelmed by the desire to play #DRIVECLUB now that they put out the new footage of a track set in the Rocky Mountains.

So thats a pretty irrational weakness.
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[bza]

In terms of GUNFEEL I am probably too hyped for Killing Floor 2. The first KF has the most satisfying weapons of any FPS I've played even if it's not remotely realistic. Firing a double barreled shotgun into a hallway of zombies in slow motion as it slams into your virtual shoulder and seeing each individual pellet dismembering zombies is QUITE SOMETHING.
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