/v/ - Video Games

Was this really the only game which let you mine every single block of terrain in the game and made building and terra-forming intuitive from your first person perspective? There has to be another one with the same exact execution, unless there isn't.

>>14310718

Oh hey, it's colobot. Black and white.

Stronghold and Space Colony.

It's a first-person and third-person point, click, and torture adventure platformer.

I'm sure someone will present at least 3 similar games within an hour of posting this

>>14310814

Well there was the game it completely ripped the whole idea off from.

>>14310936

You just said it was in your description of it.

>>14310718

Oh wow a programming game never….

YAWN

seen that before

6DoF games like Descent, Forsaken and Aquanox. Really wish this genre was more popular. Hope that Overload ends up great, as most other modern takes on the genre have just been watered down, braindead, roguelike trash.

>>14311072

>Homeworld

I was under the impression that this was an RTS game? Space fighter games come close but unfortunately many of them don't allow you to ascend and descend as well as move side to side and work more like jets but in space. I do still love them though, Freespace 2 is next on my list to play after Aquanox 2.

>>14310843

Fucking Crime-Sims.

Why are there so few, why!?

>>14311863

Descent had up and down (slide up and slide down). If you lack the ability to go up and down similar to a helicopter then it is not a 6DoF, that would only be 5 degrees of freedom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_freedom

Vehicular combat. Pic related is a sequel so you know there's more than one.

Needs more games.

>point and click adventure games with no inventory and puzzles solved by interacting with the game world

Why aren't there more?

Where the hell did all the good God games go? Why the fuck is no one able to make a good God game anymore?

>>14321152

Fuck, I wanted to put this as the second picture, I fucked up.

fishing rpgs like pic related. hear me out. when you catch your first fish, you gain 1 level, which will increase your strength and technique rating. after that, you catch 2 more fish and level up again, then 3, then 4, and so on and so on. in a game like super black bass where you can't get any new equipment this mechanic is critical and encourages you to continue fishing long after you've caught the weight you think you need to win; the later fish in the game are so fucking huge and strong that if you're a low level you'll need to be a master to land them without them slipping or snapping your line

to this day i lament that the super famicom legend of the river king never got translated, because all i want is more fishing RPGs that aren't pretentious x-games wannabe shit where they try to make fishing look glamorous or mmo cashgrab bullshit

>there will never be a game like Uplink again

SEA ROGUE

Good luck finding another game about deep sea treasure hunting and sea pirate shootan. It's an amalgamation of so much shit, reminds me of MECC edutainment stuff, a number of simulators and Pirates!, of course.

found this game while looking for programmable robot games, the only problem is that the "programming" is not a scripted system but is more like blueprint with that drag and drop thingy

(forgot to put this image in my post)

I could go for some more sidescrolling shmups with twin-stick-style controls.

>>14322569

Isn't it still basically just a top down twinstick shooter though? The perspective seems like an irrelevant visual thing that doesn't change the gameplay of the top down shooter.

ARPGCCGs. In the early 00s, there was a brief flash of games that tried to capitalize on the success of Pokemon's catch-em-all formula using other existing IPs as a basis, but weren't like Pokemon.

>Take existing action IP with wide brand recognition.

>Series setting didn't have a catch-em-all element before, so introduce an object to fill that role that doesn't break the setting, or invent a new setting which has one.

>Make action-based gameplay that changes rapidly as new "cards" are introduced, and encourages PvP.

>Use an RPG overworld to contextualize it.

They were often cash grabs that were rough around the edges, but I think that there was potential there that was never fully explored.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R and E.Y.E

This was a bizarre amalgamation of real time grid based strategy and bullet hell, you deploy units to set places on the map at the start of a stage and charge/direct attacks by pressing on them with a ball of light directed with the stylus. Meanwhile, your foes would shit out bullets that would hit you if they touched the ball of light you controlled or if they made contact with one of your guys while charging their attack.

>>14323046

We got The World Ends With You out of it if nothing else.

>>14325240

>S.T.A.L.K.E.R is like the beth games

1/10

>>14325273

>(1)

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0/10

>>14310718

What about genres that aren't necessarily unconventional, but have very few games?

For example, Bethesda games. Full of common elements and cliches, yes, but how many other first-person, open-world, highly moddable fantasy action RPGs are there?

Another example is Neverwinter Nights. There are other RPGs like it, but none with a similar toolset that balances power and accessibility as well as NWN did.

Ace Combat is another one. Action-oriented jet fighter games are surprisingly rare. On consoles, Ace Combat is pretty much alone. On PC, it's all hardcore flight sims. I was really interested in Vector Thrust, because it promised to be Ace Combat, on PC, with full modding support right from the start. If you go back far enough, you can find a few Ace Combat-style games on older consoles, but nothing on PC with modding support. Unfortunately, Vector Thrust didn't work out so well. The basic gameplay was there, but there were too many bugs and not enough content. Project Wingman seems to be coming along nicely, though, and I think the developer plans to include mod support, so that's encouraging.

None of these examples are obscure. The Elder Scrolls, Neverwinter Nights, and Ace Combat are all very mainstream and well-known, and they all had a lot of mainstream success, so it's surprising (and disappointing) that there aren't more games like them.

>>14311118

>Space fighter games come close but unfortunately many of them don't allow you to ascend and descend as well as move side to side and work more like jets but in space.

Freespace 2 Open allows for 6DoF, but ships have to be specially flagged for it or the up, down, left, and right thrust buttons won't do anything. Otherwise, yeah, jets in space. The Diaspora mod has 6DoF for all fighters, I think.

>Freespace 2 is next on my list to play after Aquanox 2.

Be sure to get the open-source version of FS2, if you weren't planning to already.

What about Rez?

I mean yeah, it's a 3D rail shooter, but you can't deny it's not a conventional game

3D Maze Games. After Wolf3D, this genre disappeared into even greater obscurity, well before it could reach maturity. Classics include 3D Monster Maze and Tunnel Runner. Only modern ones I can think of is Tunnel Runner Redux for Windows PC and Skeleton(+) for the Atari 2600.

>>14327684

>Skyrim

>First-person

But you can switch to third if you want.

>rail shooter

>on-rail exploration

>weak puzzle solving

>emphasis on story-telling

Still can't make heads or tails on this game, even after beating it three times.

Fantasy FPSes are pretty rare. I don't know of any besides Heretic and Hexen.

>>14329202

Yes, that's true, but the camera perspective isn't really the most important part, and third person didn't really become playable until Skyrim.