Looking for retro game recommendations
from daddyjones@lemmy.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world on 28 Jan 2024 18:03
https://lemmy.world/post/11297089
from daddyjones@lemmy.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world on 28 Jan 2024 18:03
https://lemmy.world/post/11297089
I’m looking for recommendations for games to get for my retroid picket 3. I like platfirmers, metroidvania, turn based games and driving games.
Any suggestions gratefully received!
Thanks in advance.
Edit: thanks for all the replies - so many more than I expected! Plenty for me to take a look at. :-)
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Here’s a mostly forgotten one: Phantom 2040 for SNES
Not truly a metroidvania, but an interesting platformer shooter with branching paths and many different endings.
IDK what games are actually compatible with your device, but I do have opinions about cool older games.
turn based:
Civilization
Master of Magic
Champions of Krynn, Death Knights of Krynn, and Dark Queen of Krynn
Shadowrun Returns, Shadowrun: Dragonfall, and Shadowrun: Hong Kong
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura
platformers:
Noita
Dead Cells
driving:
Gran Turismo 4
My RP3 is how I got completely absorbed into the trails series. Starting with Trails in the Sky and Trails in the Sky Second Chapter on PSP.
Not sure what they have available, but Advance Wars and Tactics Ogre I both had fun with. I heard good things about the Disgaea games (the fourth one in particular), too, but never played them.
It’s a top-scrolling shooter, but give Tyrian 2000 a go. It’s free on GOG.
Raptor: Call of the Shadows is another nice one by Epic Games’ then competitor Apogee.
Milon’s secret castle. Top notch NES game.
You can’t go wrong with Sunsoft’s NES library for the most part. Those are some of my favorite games on the system.
Earthbound on SNES is a timeless one. Advance Wars is an excellent turn-based series. I played it on GBA, but there are a bunch of versions.
Earthbound ♥️
I’ve been going through the old Final Fantasies. I finished FF5 and FF6 last year and recommend both. They have great pacing (They change things up before it gets too stale) and if you keep an online guide handy, it’s not as frustrating as it was when I was 10.
I’ve been enjoying 30xx. It’s a Megaman inspired game with lots of replayability.
Colin McRae Rally 1 & 2 for driving games.
How are you liking the RP3? I don’t own a handheld myself but I’m always tempted to get one.
I realised after posting that it’s actually the rp3+, but I love it. It’s really versatile in terms of gaming and will play lots of games.
Cannot recommend Panzer Dragoon Saga enough. One of the best looking Sega Saturn games. Its a JRPG with turn-based battles, a super unique system. Along with the rest of the Panzer Dragoon series (though they are on-rails arcade shooters), not sure the RP3 is powerful enough for original Xbox games.
For driving, I am sure you’ve already been recommended the usual, but to reiterate: anything from Gran Turismo, Star Wars Episode 1 Racer, Collin McRae, WipeOut, Need for Speed, and Sega GT are all good picks.
Highly recommend a good pair of headphones for Panzer Dragoon Saga as well when playing on a handheld. It has an excellent soundtrack.
Yeah this game is amazing and barely anyone has played it
The first Phantasy Star is such a cool RPG, especially with the SMS Power patch that retranslates the game and adds several quality of life options.
Chrono Trigger is really a must if you like JRPGs.
Obligatory Frog theme 🐸
Some of my favorite platformers from the 16-bit era: RangerX, Dynamite Headdy, Rocket Knight Adventures, Vector Man, Gunstar Heroes, Metal Slug.
For platformers, definitely try Yoshi’s Island if you haven’t already. If the visual style is a turn off, try to roll with it until at least the second boss. Great gameplay.
For a turn-based RPG, you’ll frequently get Final Fantasy recommended but if you’d like to also try the other big series, give Dragon Quest V a shot. Otherwise I second the recommendations for Advance Wars (strategy) or Tactics Ogre (strategy JRPG, go with the PSP version for your hardware).
The best driving game on the Atari 2600 - Enduro
Mega man 2, 3 (NES) and Megaman X (SNES).
The device looks like it’ll be good to play most games upto the PSP. While I can suggest the usual suspects, Super Metroid, Metroid 4, SotN, Pokemon I’m going to suggest odd-ball games which I like
Game Boy
GBA
Genesis
SNES
PlayStation
PSP
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It has a soundtrack that slaps
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I got a retroid pocket 3+ for Christmas. Loaded it up with JRPGs, but this list seems like some fun games to play when I finish one so I don’t burn out on that genre. Thanks a lot!
This is the way.
I feel most games we have today are just reskins of open world/action rpg lol.
I am in the middle of a game session of Breath Of The Wild and I wanted something fresher and more action packed (and with a badass soundtrack) and I picked up almost blindly Nier Automata, it is kinda what I was looking but still open world and action RPG haha, my bad for not doing the proper research though.
I liked the movie, and you remind me of those days when I was less critical about licensed games lol.
You got my attention with this recommendation.
I remember I played briefly a game that had like lots of mini games, I don’t think that is thst one, and I definitely don’t know which should be better.
I’m gonna take your word on this, also liked the movie but never got to play it, but oh boy PS1 had some good licensed platformers (Toy Story 2 is my favorite).
I’d like to add Dante’s Inferno and Split Second to this list.
For the rugrats game. This one is a 3d platformer with some mini games. It mirrors actual episodes of the show. I believe there is also an Angelica game which is a mini games collection only.
I haven’t played most of these, but I will gladly add an endorsement to the early Harry Potter games. They often only tangentially related to the movies, but they had some awesome mechanics, and played into the full story really well.
King’s Quest original series was and still is great
As an MSDOS and platformer fan:
My favorite from the above would be Bio Menace, followed by Dangerous Dave, Prince of Persia 1 and Jazz Jackrabbit.
Most of these games should be available on GOG, if not, search for “eXoDOS”.
Haha I completely forgot about Jazz Jackrabbit!
I hope you didn’t forget that banger of a soundtrack!
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banger of a soundtrack
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it’s on Spotify too!
Back when game music was good!
Crystal Caves is such an iconic DOS era game. I boot it up occasionally just to enjoy the design and sound effects.
Bio Menace is good, but hard. Common in that era!
Rayman. The dos version will work, or the psx, jaguar or Saturn version. Whichever you prefer.
Not GBA though. That port is ass.
Cut content, butchered music (yeah, it’s GBA but it sounds bad even for for it) and different aspect ratio that cuts part of the screen vertically.
Oh, I’ve never played that version. But handheld ports of games in olden days are usually on the shit-tier. Even if the achievement of porting it is commendable.
God Medicine on GameBoy is a massively underrated RPG. Best one on GB imo, and well worth anyone’s time. You’ll be constantly surprised they did so much with a GB game and the theme and story is relatively unique even to this day.
King of monsters 2(?)
Lost Vikings is a classic. Go for DOS or SNES.
Alley cat
Driving:
Stunt Car Racer (Amiga)
WipeOut 2097/XL (PSX)
Both are top-tier racing games.
In addition to stunt car racer, Brøderbund’s Stunts is great. Also Big Red Racing is fun. Wacky Wheels is a good Mario kart clone. Good old school nascar games are fun if you like circle track driving.
BRR is a goofy fun time.
Also:
Slicks ‘n’ Slide (Dos)
Super Cars II (Amiga)
and Race Drivin’ (but only in arcade or with proper steering/gearstick setup, joystick may not do for this one)
Breath of Fire was a great turn-based RPG series that I don’t think ever got enough recognition. 1-4 are all fairly solid (we don’t talk about Dragon Quarter), but 2 and especially 3 are my favorites.
For PS1, I really used to enjoy Tomba 2 and Tiny Tank as a kid.
Toy Story 2 for PS1, and if you like dragon ball you can try DBZ Legends for PS1 and Saturn, it is a short game.
Where do you find ROMs to play Nintendo/SNES/Genisis games?
myrient.erista.me
Gracias.
crocdb.net also
Shining Force 2 on genesis
Definitely give Top Gear 1 and 2 a go on the SNES. Outrun 2019 on Genesis is also pretty good.