learned about Baroque, the Saturn/PS1 game where you dungeon crawl through an insane tower to shoot God with a holy rifle imbued with pain and that is the exact essence of crackheard schizo that modern gaming is missing, bring that back
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One of my favorites in my collection, had to add it after getting the chance to play it myself. Hugely grateful to fan translators for bringing these lost games to us
On my bullshit again recommending people play Wizardry: Tale of a Forsaken Land! It's PS2 and not *exactly* as surreal as Baroque, but it's got that very isolated, almost dream-like harsh nature of Baroque. And all of its difficulty too.
Learned about it from a video essay like, a month ago, went on a binge as I do where all I did was watch essays on it. Wild little game, love stuff where you explore divinity and humanity's relationship with it.
baroque is great because it's roguelike adjacent but the game will also just not progress if you don't die enough times. it's esoteric in a way i wish games still had the guts to be
also there's an NPC whose entire schtick is being really genuinely polite but also saying "god dammit" constantly and calling you a bastard. it's great
It’s also from the era of “oh. You used the very special gun we gave you at the beginning of the game and didn’t explain anything about? You’re now locked out of an ending” of games I’m mostly glad are dead
King’s quest VI pulled that and I nearly drop kicked my pc
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I love that game. I need to play it again.
The PS2 and Wii versions even saw a. English release.
King’s quest VI pulled that and I nearly drop kicked my pc
And like why do modern games put limit on the number of saves anyway... Not let you organize them into folders, etc.