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We all have favorite genres (racing, shooter, RPG, strategy etc) and we all have favorite developers and publishers, we may even have favorite eras for games, but what's some really specific and esoteric type of game you love the most?
For me I really love Japanese horror and oddball games of the PS1 and PS2 era, for horror you've got Silent Hill, Haunting Ground, Rule of Rose, Fatal Frame etc and for oddball games you've got games like Stretch Panic, Skygunner, Mr Mosquito, Incredible Crisis and most famously, Katamari Damacy.
While Japanese horror lives on with the current Resident Evils and you get the occasional weird Japanese game (like Deadly Premonition which is both oddball and horror) the PS2 era was the peak of that sort of thing, you don't really see games like Mr Mosquito anymore nor do you see anything like Katamari despite Katamari being a cross over hit, which is too bad.
And in the western world I was a really big fan of Valve, Valve published or Valve adjacent games, your Half-Lifes, your Team Fortress 2, your Left 4 Deads, your Portals, all fantastic stuff and you have Arkane studios, which I would consider to be Valve adjacent, as while their official collaborations all got canceled (I've been really fascinated by The Crossing) their games like Dishonored and Prey are kind of in the spirit (as well as their Might and Magic game although I haven't played that one yet)
Dishonored and Prey are also in the spirit of another type of western game I love and that's games that are part of the lineage of System Shock, namely System Shock 1 and 2, the Thief Series, the Deus Ex series and the Bioshock series.
Unfortunately the Shock like games petered out after Bioshock Infinite or Deus Es Mankind Divided depending on how you look at it and I haven't played a Valve game since Portal 2 over a decade ago now, I did enjoy Arkane's 2017 Prey, but it also had some mild Wokeness, I miss these type of games before all that shit, I also just really fucking miss when Valve made games that were easily assessable.
And finally to go back to Japan, I really miss when Capcom developed games with highly detailed pre-rendered backgrounds, the early Resident Evils, REmake and RE0, Dino Crisis 2 and Onimusha 1 and 2, there's just something about that style that is really appealing to me, the last game that made like that wasn't even published in the US, the highly obscure Glass Rose from 2003, which I wish I could play.
Those are my examples, what are yours?
For me I really love Japanese horror and oddball games of the PS1 and PS2 era, for horror you've got Silent Hill, Haunting Ground, Rule of Rose, Fatal Frame etc and for oddball games you've got games like Stretch Panic, Skygunner, Mr Mosquito, Incredible Crisis and most famously, Katamari Damacy.
While Japanese horror lives on with the current Resident Evils and you get the occasional weird Japanese game (like Deadly Premonition which is both oddball and horror) the PS2 era was the peak of that sort of thing, you don't really see games like Mr Mosquito anymore nor do you see anything like Katamari despite Katamari being a cross over hit, which is too bad.
And in the western world I was a really big fan of Valve, Valve published or Valve adjacent games, your Half-Lifes, your Team Fortress 2, your Left 4 Deads, your Portals, all fantastic stuff and you have Arkane studios, which I would consider to be Valve adjacent, as while their official collaborations all got canceled (I've been really fascinated by The Crossing) their games like Dishonored and Prey are kind of in the spirit (as well as their Might and Magic game although I haven't played that one yet)
Dishonored and Prey are also in the spirit of another type of western game I love and that's games that are part of the lineage of System Shock, namely System Shock 1 and 2, the Thief Series, the Deus Ex series and the Bioshock series.
Unfortunately the Shock like games petered out after Bioshock Infinite or Deus Es Mankind Divided depending on how you look at it and I haven't played a Valve game since Portal 2 over a decade ago now, I did enjoy Arkane's 2017 Prey, but it also had some mild Wokeness, I miss these type of games before all that shit, I also just really fucking miss when Valve made games that were easily assessable.
And finally to go back to Japan, I really miss when Capcom developed games with highly detailed pre-rendered backgrounds, the early Resident Evils, REmake and RE0, Dino Crisis 2 and Onimusha 1 and 2, there's just something about that style that is really appealing to me, the last game that made like that wasn't even published in the US, the highly obscure Glass Rose from 2003, which I wish I could play.
Those are my examples, what are yours?
