Still not getting time for this thread. I wanted to drown you all in old shit and show my age, but no time for that. Instead, a few quick shout outs
First game(s) played:
Lunar Lander (TRS-80)
Zork series
Nord & Bert
Each chapter of
Nord and Bert is dedicated to a different style of wordplay. The first seven chapters can be played in any order, since each exists as an independent "short story" unrelated to the other chapters; to begin the eighth, however, the player must provide seven "passwords" provided by completing each of the other sections.
The only effort made to interlink the separate parts of the game is as follows: reality has somehow been altered around the town of Punster.
Idioms and
clichés are suddenly manifesting themselves quite literally, and it falls to the player, as it always does, to sort things out.
^^Those who played Nord & Bert can really appreciate the word play it brought. To solve the game, you had to know your puns, so when you came to apple cart, you had to upturn it, or when you found some milk, you had to spill it and cry over it.
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Youth mostly on Atari (got 100 game package off Steam, but doesn't feel the same, esp without the same input devices). Also a lot of time spent in an arcade would have several dozen games listed, but one that sticks with me is
Time Pilot
^^You flew your jet (center screen) against other flying enemies who progressed technologically as you advanced thru the stages, going from bi-planes, to helicopters, to space ships.
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A lot of my middle-late years have been spent on PCs with RTS (Starcraft and the like) and Turn-Based (Civ series), but I'm on Steam and picked up a semi-obscure game I really liked at the time:
Impossible Creatures
Its unique feature is that the armies used are all created by the player. The armies consist of 9 creatures; each one is a combination of any two animals from a list of 76 (51 with no downloads). Many animals possess inherent abilities to add more strategic depth to the game. There is an extensive single-player campaign as well as online multiplayer functionality with different game modes, add-ons, custom maps, mods, and scenarios.
Set in a 1940's rugged explorer theme, there's good dialogue at times, and all cutscenes (adapted for your current game state) have that 40's feel to them, complete with snark remarks from our supporting heroine, mindless oaf minions, villains, and lead good guy who is struggling with his main plotline. There is a bit of replayability, in that your collection of creatures to mix-n-match for your army is limited by what animals you can find and capture for DNA samples. This provides minor variance, but ultimately it was a one-and-done campaign play for me over a decade ago that I've simply come back to for that same one-thru experience. Though, now I can explore add ons and mods.