It's Critter Time!

Too many to count. I run three events dedicated to appreciating bad games.

If I had to narrow it down: Lost in Plantinus is the most unusual MSX obscura because some kid built it in his basement in the 90s and it somehow ended up shared with a scenegroup and preserved. It's terrible; it runs at ...

I need to go through B5 again. I just finished a rewatch of Battlestar Galactica and B5 is the only thing that even lands in the same ballpark for me.

When you go asking "What's like BSG?" people think you mean the military ship combat stuff but when I ask that, I mean the political intrigue and ...

I've considered getting into Pokemon a few times, but I've had problems even finding cards. Every time I go somewhere that claims to have them they're completely sold out.

We got one of those vending machines installed in the local department store a month ago and I've never seen it stocked with ...

I've wanted something like this ever since eeePCs stopped becoming what they were and turned into "Kinda small-ish full sized laptops" (and now they're just... full sized laptops, I don't know, meh)

I was looking into premade stuff for awhile. I mostly just need a device with a keyboard I can carry ...

My favorite RPG Maker game is EXTRA POWER: The Giant Fist which is... a side-scrolling beat 'em up that runs on RPG Maker VX. Save the animals of Africa by throwing your enemies at your enemies. Throw screen-sized boulders at your enemies. Throw lasers at your enemies. Throw a shark at your ...

Gosh I wrote all this stuff and I forgot to include the RPG Maker game I helped a friend build. Silly me.

Speo is a Lufia 2 Ancient Cave homage built in RPG Maker 2003.

If you know anything about RM2k3 this sentence should horrify you, and what my friend had to do to actually make random level ...

I'm gunna have to check some of these out! Thanks for a bunch of recs!!! I've watched a lot of folks play through horror rpgmaker games but thats about it!

Def keeping tabs here for more one to check out in the future hehe

I'm gunna start with Ephiam's stuff since its what caught my eye from ...

not to interrupt the thread but i'm realising. i have never heard the term "blobber" before and i have no earthly clue what it means lmao


You move your party as an entire blob. So you have a first person perspective and your entire party is kind of just gathered around immediately behind the ...

I like weird obscure indie RPGs. I've played quite a few RPG Maker games and am always curious to find more that are good. Steam's actually started a low-key golden age for RPG Maker games not just reaching a new level of quality but being a completely valid way to develop a for-sale game. So yeah ...

Unfortunately the follow up does not appear to have been as positively received, from nixing the party to removing faction missions in favour of just having a specific goal you're pursuing.


I've also seen multiple people try to stream the sequel and find it runs like absolute butt on even ...

I still need to sit down and play Citadel; people have described it as "Eroge with some shooting in the middle" and I imagine that's... a wee bit oversold but it looks neat.

I've been playing through Halo MCC lately and I forgot just how jank at least the first two installments are. Like "Boy howdy ...

The entire "Experience Inc" Blobber collection is great. If people like Undernauts, the same devs made Operation Abyss and Babel, and Savior of Sapphire Wings which carry the same vibe.

They also made Sword City which is not the same vibe but is neat in its own way.

Also if you want something ...

Cat.

Most of my NES childhood knowledge comes from a famiclone that was really popular in Serbia called "Terminator - Ending Man."


Oh that's interesting. I was aware of the Dendy but not this. There was Big Drama in the NES speedrun world a few years ago over "No NES came with turbo so there should ...

Oh yeah I've heard of you!

Welcome to all of this.

I've always had an affinity for lightning. It's the spec I always picked in RPGs and such. I always had an affinity for fast glass cannons too.

I was a kitsune actually, initially. I ended up goofing around with some friends into TF and they suggested I run around as an eevee until I finished a ...

For what it's worth, the Genesis game is a port of one of the Turbografx games (the one I listed in the recommendations in the first post actually).


Yeah I knew Mega was a port/clone of another but couldn't remember which one! I played like 10 bomberman games in a month and they jumbled in my ...

A couple months ago I played all the "Classic" ones and it's such a weird varied spectrum of stuff. In my opinion if you're just jumping in, starting Super Bomberman 3 on the SNES is the best play. It has some of the best atmosphere, best QoL, and introduces Louie, and Louie is both a staple going ...

Dungeons need not confine you to the grid! A really interesting game is Dicing Knight.


This is an amazing speedrun if you use the weird menu glitch to warp yourself to the last floor in each dungeon (which apparently someone had happen and just went "huh that's weird" and I'm the one who ...

("true" roguelike? Will I be laughed off the stage for mentioning the Berlin Interpretation?)


I call them "Classic roguelikes" at this point myself, which makes me eyecross. But words change meaning and okay fine speeeeeeeenchair

ADOM's one I never could get into. Mostly because I tried it as ...

I've been playing Divinity II: Ego Draconis because someone dropped a patch that fixes... whatever the heck is wrong with that game to make it visually run at 10 FPS on newer hardware.

Ego Draconis is this weird interlude between Larian's Divine Divinity from ages ago, and Divinity: Original Sin ...

Slightly OT perhaps but I stumbled sometime ago onto the fact that in the 70s, Hanna-Barbera was kind of prolific in what they did with their licenses. One of the weirder things that came out of it was HB forming a sub-organization that started making educational films with their characters.

I say ...

I also appreciate the discouragement of negativity. Anyone can tear down an awful game - I like to hear people actually point out what they enjoy about it instead.


I was talking about this on fedi a couple days ago, actually. We have declined submissions in the past because the vibes were wrong ...

Building everything I deploy on servers at work from source today to celebrate non-binary day.

(The jolteon was fired for this decision.)


Seriously though, happy enby day

The original Avatar on the PLATO/CYBIS was something I set up an entire emulator stack to play. There is a local-run PLATO emulator and someone grabbed a dump of everything that was on it at some point and it's still kicking around; that's the basis of cyber1. The entire stack is about 2GB, which is ...