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An old PS1 fighting game called Unholy War. It had a lot of really unique mechanics I haven't seen since.

I wish Toonstruck would get its remaster and sequel.

Sexy Parodius is a bit sketchy, yes. But, it's easily the most-fun shmup I've ever played. The music is fantastic, too. I've managed to 1cc the game, but I've never beaten the bonus stage which is just so ridiculously difficult, I question whether it's even possible without a very specific strategy or something.

Unfortunately, the best version is the arcade one, and MAME doesn't do the best job with it. Still playable, though.

Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits Such a good game with some unique gameplay as far as tbs and rpgs go

Don't know quite how underrated/forgotten this is, but I wanna see a remake of Vib-Ribbon. That, or have an open source clone of it made by someone who actually knows how to properly program (not me), if it already doesn't exist.

I'd love a new, bigger Darwinia game, loved that back in the day.

Magic carpet 2, the Netherworlds is one I played a ton and think of from time to time. I wonder what I modern remake would be like.

It's the first game I remember playing with deformable terrain.

Flying dragon for the N64

Apparently it's very rare but I have a cartridge of it

The music from it was awesome very 1990s

i want another midnight club

Legend of Kage for NES was an awesome minimalistic beautiful game and I’ve never met anyone else who thinks so

I was gonna say I was still waiting for a seaman 2, but apparently it existed in Japan. Still, with AI bullshit being all the rage I could see it make a comeback.

Rock Manager. It was very limited in scope and quite short, but it was a really fun game with tons of potential.

I've been unsuccessfully looking for games like it that are as good as it could have been or even as good as it was for over 20 years now.

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare

It's a shame that it doesn't seem to have that many players anymore. It's a lot like other multi-class shooter games like Overwatch and Paladins, but about three times more crazy and weird, and I had a ton of fun playing it as a teen.

I've heard Garden Warfare 2 is pretty good too though, so I'll consider buying it at some point (when I have money).

Burning Rangers from sonic team on the Sega Saturn. Such a unique concept.

Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain. Quite a learning curve, but I loved the different ways you can win (conquest, trade, black ops) and how much you could customize your ships or pick unique races with tolerances for different planets.

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Mega Man Legends. Fuck you, Capcom, for killing the blue boy.

A new Command and Conquer Generals. It was a big departure from the classical C&C formula of stuff being built on the UI on the right and more like every other RTS, but it was fun nonetheless. Zero Hour bringing the specialized generals was also a nice idea.

Dunno if it counts as a game, but something like MTV Music Generator on PS1 and PS2 would be awesome, especially with the ease of sharing stuff around nowadays.

There are many Star Wars games that deserve a second chance, but I think Republic Commando could really use the sequels "Imperial Commando" and "Rebel Commando" first. I'd personally love a sequel to Jedi Academy

With all the "boomer shooters" making a comeback, Heretic and Hexen could receive their respective 3rd installments.

Lastly, Virtual On Cyber Troopers. Something that plays like the very first game of 1995, that'd be 😗👌. I think that game is what paved the way for the many Gundam games that play a lot like it - On PC, you can get a taste of that gameplay with Bootfighter Windom XP

Darkstar One. And it is just now getting rereleased, so it doesn't count.

So instead, I'll pick The Legend of Dragoon on PSX. Such a fun RPG that really needs revisited.

Operation: Inner Space

Test Drive Eve of Destruction from the original Xbox and PS2. More recently, Code masters' OnRush.

Kolibri for the Sega 32x addon for the Genesis/Megadrive. Most of the reviewers that weren't down with the game either complained about the difficulty or lack of story/making sense, but it was a beautiful game for the time that took the space shooter concept and made it into a game that was somehow chill while also being difficult enough to sometimes momentarily make you want to rage quit. If you enjoy games like the Raiden series, you'll enjoy this.

Shout to Knuckles Chaotix (the most unique take on Sonic gameplay of the classic 2D era) and also Shadow Squadron (very Star Fox-esque), which are also slept on because 32x.

Exclusive to the Genesis/Megadrive, it's a crying shame that the Vectorman games never received a third iteration and have seemingly disappeared into the grey goo of IP purgatory. Vectorman and Vectorman 2 were amazing for the time: they were arguably the best 2D platformers of the era, graphically beautiful, oozing with charm, and with an amazing soundtrack to go along with it all. It's crazy that the developers were able to squeeze the performance they did out of the hardware and playing emulated versions of it now still doesn't compare to how it feels and looks playing it on the original hardware with a CRT and a nice sound system (but you should still check it out absent that setup).

On PC, also from the 90s, Descent was truly groundbreaking and unique. It's an FPS that said "what if you were playing as a space ship and had six degrees of freedom to move about?" It was also the first truly 3D FPS game.