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Mid games only you remember 2025-05-03 11:17:45


What are some games that were absolutely unremarkable yet for some reason still occupy space in your mind?


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Nostalgia was a turn based RPG for the DS. I think Nintendo Power or Game Informer hyped it up as the next big thing. I picked it up and it was possibly the most paint-by-numbers RPG I've ever played that wasn't an RPG Maker sample game. The airship battles were pretty cool but it didn't do anything to stick out from the crowd of other DS RPGs.


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Response to Mid games only you remember 2025-05-03 12:22:11


Rampage: Total Destruction on the Nintendo GameCube. Pretty fun Godzilla rampage simulator.


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I think if someone made a spiritual successor with giantess women or monster girls, it would sell a million copies.


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I played the demo for some Voltron twin stick shooter on PS3 like 15 years ago and it still haunts me to this day.


Fuck it I might play it later


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Response to Mid games only you remember 2025-05-03 14:32:14


At 5/3/25 12:22 PM, Nabella wrote:Rampage: Total Destruction on the Nintendo GameCube. Pretty fun Godzilla rampage simulator.


I think if someone made a spiritual successor with giantess women or monster girls, it would sell a million copies.


Off topic but I loved Rampage 2 Universal Tour for GBC. I wish there was an official port of the N64 version for xbox or on Steam so bad.


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Response to Mid games only you remember 2025-05-03 15:29:45


At 5/3/25 02:32 PM, WaffleCrisp wrote:
Off topic but I loved Rampage 2 Universal Tour for GBC. I wish there was an official port of the N64 version for xbox or on Steam so bad.


At that point, wouldn't you just emulate it?


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Response to Mid games only you remember 2025-05-03 15:35:15


At 5/3/25 03:29 PM, Nabella wrote:
At 5/3/25 02:32 PM, WaffleCrisp wrote:
Off topic but I loved Rampage 2 Universal Tour for GBC. I wish there was an official port of the N64 version for xbox or on Steam so bad.

At that point, wouldn't you just emulate it?


I found an emulated version of it that had control glitches that made it unplayable. I'll have to learn to emulate myself to play this game again most likely. It's not in high demand so an official port probably won't happen.


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Response to Mid games only you remember 2025-05-03 15:48:23


At 5/3/25 03:35 PM, WaffleCrisp wrote:
At 5/3/25 03:29 PM, Nabella wrote:
At 5/3/25 02:32 PM, WaffleCrisp wrote:
Off topic but I loved Rampage 2 Universal Tour for GBC. I wish there was an official port of the N64 version for xbox or on Steam so bad.

At that point, wouldn't you just emulate it?

I found an emulated version of it that had control glitches that made it unplayable. I'll have to learn to emulate myself to play this game again most likely. It's not in high demand so an official port probably won't happen.


Y'know, I figured at this point in time emulation for the N64 would've been "figured out". Is Mario 64 sucking up all the air in the bedroom coder's room or something? lol.


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Response to Mid games only you remember 2025-05-03 16:47:42


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Just bought it cuz it was on sale on the eshop and I thought the girl was cute (I was like 15 back then, before you ask anything weird) and also thought the witch was hot + I was into rhythm games like Rhythm Heaven and Guitar Hero. It was ass, the worst part was that the game had like, 3-minute long dialogues between 1-minute songs you could play, I completely skipped dialogue in the last songs cuz I just wanted to play.


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Response to Mid games only you remember 2025-05-04 17:49:18


Game Dev Tycoon, this game is 12 years old. That is a long time ago.


I remembered as being quite fun.


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Response to Mid games only you remember 2025-05-04 18:35:02


Beach Life. I remember playing it on my grandma's PC, and I still have it on mine for nostalgia. It's basically SimCity but with a beach/resort theme.


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"LEGO Knights' Kingdom" for Gameboy Advance. Honestly shitty gameplay, but the OST is fire.

Response to Mid games only you remember 2025-05-04 18:48:49


Littlest Pet Shop: Friends for the DS


There is absolutely nothing special about it is the most basic ass shovelware licensed game but idk the ice cream minigame is still iconic in my mind.

Response to Mid games only you remember 2025-05-04 19:22:31


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If I had told you that this game was the reason why I started watching Johnny Bravo and Powerpuff Girls, would any of yall believe me?


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Response to Mid games only you remember 2025-05-04 20:24:13


At 5/4/25 07:22 PM, Pokemonpoeguygcn wrote:
If I had told you that this game was the reason why I started watching Johnny Bravo and Powerpuff Girls, would any of yall believe me?

Intresting that despite relasing in 2006, they use CN's oldest shows instead of their then-current shows.

Response to Mid games only you remember 2025-05-04 20:36:54


At 5/3/25 12:22 PM, Nabella wrote:Rampage: Total Destruction on the Nintendo GameCube. Pretty fun Godzilla rampage simulator.


I think if someone made a spiritual successor with giantess women or monster girls, it would sell a million copies.


Take my money.

Response to Mid games only you remember 2025-05-04 20:50:50


At 5/3/25 11:17 AM, Chdonga wrote:What are some games that were absolutely unremarkable yet for some reason still occupy space in your mind?


Nostalgia was a turn based RPG for the DS. I think Nintendo Power or Game Informer hyped it up as the next big thing. I picked it up and it was possibly the most paint-by-numbers RPG I've ever played that wasn't an RPG Maker sample game. The airship battles were pretty cool but it didn't do anything to stick out from the crowd of other DS RPGs.
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Response to Mid games only you remember 2025-05-04 21:22:02


I do not know why I loved this so much as a kid but I did. I would play it on the bus on the way to school. And also I was like slightly above the age demographic it aimed for. did anyone else go hard af on storybook ds

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Response to Mid games only you remember 2025-05-04 23:29:42


Some of the games I used to have on the Wii/DS still occupy a space in my memory due to playing them a long time ago. Some of the examples are Learn Geography, Big League Sports and Little Pet Shop Friends (tho the last one was owned by my sister)

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I remember this game very well because it was HARD AS BALLS!!!

I actually think that this is THE hardest game that I ever had the pleasure to suffer through. The way it combines touch controls with on rails platforming and dodging stuff is really something else.


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Response to Mid games only you remember 2025-05-05 00:23:35


Gunman Clive on the 3DS


It's an alright 2D platformer, I only played it because it was really cheap on the eshop I think. I might have also played the sequel I don't remember.

Response to Mid games only you remember 2025-05-05 03:08:01


At 5/3/25 11:17 AM, Chdonga wrote:What are some games that were absolutely unremarkable yet for some reason still occupy space in your mind?


Nostalgia was a turn based RPG for the DS. I think Nintendo Power or Game Informer hyped it up as the next big thing. I picked it up and it was possibly the most paint-by-numbers RPG I've ever played that wasn't an RPG Maker sample game. The airship battles were pretty cool but it didn't do anything to stick out from the crowd of other DS RPGs.
Hard mode: No games that started popular but fell off


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Can't remember the details, something about getting to keep all the shit you stole if you leave a level alive. Fucked around with that for a while.


Nobody beats the 83457 and all that.

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Response to Mid games only you remember 2025-05-05 05:12:10


neverhood. i dont remember anyone talking about it

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At 5/5/25 05:12 AM, GoldenKetchup wrote:neverhood. i dont remember anyone talking about it


I would say that neverhood is like super famous game. But that might be just because of the kind of people I spend time with. I remember working in one animation studio and we talked about how we love neverhood almost the whole time there.


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Response to Mid games only you remember 2025-05-05 06:00:21


At 5/5/25 05:24 AM, Maxfilm wrote:
At 5/5/25 05:12 AM, GoldenKetchup wrote:neverhood. i dont remember anyone talking about it

I would say that neverhood is like super famous game. But that might be just because of the kind of people I spend time with. I remember working in one animation studio and we talked about how we love neverhood almost the whole time there.


Same here! My friends and I were totally obsessed with Neverhood — I still listen to the soundtrack from time to time. The atmosphere was just incredible.

Response to Mid games only you remember 2025-05-05 14:50:46


Its story is very cliché and boring, it has some small bugs, but I still remember it fondly, and it's fun to play.

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Response to Mid games only you remember 2025-05-05 21:49:36


At 5/4/25 05:49 PM, Aalasteir wrote:Game Dev Tycoon, this game is 12 years old. That is a long time ago.

I remembered as being quite fun.


I fucking love Game Dev Tycoon. It was my first ever Speedgame!!!


First run I ever did dates to September 24, 2018.

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I did 25 runs total, me and another runner whose name was Snakeob (the only other top-level runner really) basically solved the game together and discovered that the fastest way to beat almost all categories, unfortunately it requires such insanely lucky RNG that it's basically pointless to go for. He did end up getting a World Record using the strat, but his run has a huge mistake in it that cost him time and if anyone else was willing to grind for it and just not make that mistake they'd beat the World Record easily by at least 3 seconds.


There is the much longer (and in my opinion, superior) category where the objective is to reach the final office and get the R&D Lab. That is the only World Record I hold for the game and it's my longest-held World Record. Unfortunately due to some really bad luck right at the end I lost like 40 seconds. Snakeob has threatened to take my World Record using the insane-RNG strat we discovered, but he hasn't as of yet and given the insane grind it would take to get it I highly doubt he'll get it anytime soon. That being said, my World Record is very beatable. I got lucky in places, but again there's 40 seconds of free timesave that is relatively easy to do.

Response to Mid games only you remember 2025-05-05 22:55:11


Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics.

(2015 for PS4 and Vita in Japan, 2016 for those same consoles + Steam worldwide)

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I have quite a history with this game... To keep it short, this is Spike Chunsoft's version of a Japanese indie game called One Way Heroics Plus. The basics of both games are near identical, but MC:OWH adds new content and makes some changes that most people don't like, leading to it sitting on a Mixed user review score to this day.


Even a decade after release, years since I last played the game myself, I still think about this game to some extent.


One of my other answers to this question would be the PC Spongebob games (and how despite sharing the name with some of the console ones, are VERY different), but those have been getting more coverage recently.


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Response to Mid games only you remember 2025-05-05 23:16:50


Evolution Worlds for Nintendo GameCube. Basically a port of the two Evolution games from the SEGA Dreamcast that was published and localized by Ubisoft, for whatever reason. The box art was vastly inferior to the "2000s Dreamcast-core" look of Evolution 2's original box art, as well as of course the Japanese version of this GameCube port.

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The story was basically the same teenage male fantasy plot as Lunar: Silver Star Story, but without GameArts' legendary English localization turning the charm and humor up to 11 (although coincidentally, Ubisoft also made a butchered GBA port of that game called Lunar Legend around the same time), not that it resonated with girl-cootie-fearing 7-year-old me at the time. It was basically a sort of dungeon crawler where you had to learn to memorize traps and enemy patrol patterns, plus CAREFULLY manage your needlessly-limited inventory Resident Evil-style, which was kind of fun.


More importantly, though, the protagonist was stinkin' rich and lived in a mansion, and one of your party members was an elderly butler who exploded enemies with a freakin' shotgun as a result. That alone made the game a 10/10 experience I'll never forget for the remainder of my days.

Response to Mid games only you remember 2025-05-05 23:43:12


At 5/5/25 05:12 AM, GoldenKetchup wrote:neverhood. i dont remember anyone talking about it

call neverhood mid one more time and i'll fucking find you


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Response to Mid games only you remember 2025-05-06 00:28:15


War of the Monsters, I got to play this game in my collage years in the game room. I actually love this game.iu_1394250_21278425.webp