this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2025
46 points (96.0% liked)
Games
38883 readers
896 users here now
Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.
Rules
Authorized Regular Threads
Related communities
Video games
Generic
- Gaming: Our sister community, focused on POC and console gaming. Meme are allowed.
- Cozy games: Because not everything has to explode to make a good game
- Photo Mode@feddit.uk
Help and suggestions
- TipOfMyJoystick@retrolemmy.com : You are searching for a game, but can't remember the name? Someone will find it for you here.
- Video Game Suggestions@lemmy.zip : Can't find a game to play in among the hundred you already own? Find another one to add to your library here.
- Patient Gamers@sh.itjust.works: Gaming isn't only about having the latest great games. Good old games are there too.
Platform specific
- Linux gaming : For everything related to gaming on Linux platform, be it on Steam Deck or Desktop Linux.
- Steam Deck : A Steam Deck specific community
Game specific
Language specific
Others
PM a mod to add your own
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
It's not strictly a 90s schmup but I got the original XIII (2003) on sale on GOG last month and played through it. I never played it back then and always thought it looked cool. It's a shame it wasn't a big success, the art direction and concept of playing in the panels of a comic strip was really cool and still holds up. I love the typed out sound effects like TAP TAP TAP on footsteps and BOOOM on explosions. So I guess that's my retro recommendation.
Next for me will be No One Lives Forever, which I also missed back in the day but heard was amazing. It's been unavailable to purchase for decades but I just recently found out the game is made available to download for free by some fans.
I guess I'm on a bit of an old school spy game kick lately.
XIII was (and still is) a fucking awesome game. Such a breath of fresh air back then trying something entirely new in terms of art direction on an FPS and nailing it!
The split screen multiplayer in XIII on consoles was a lot of fun.