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Mine has to be Dragon Quest: Rocket Slime, a DS spin off of the Dragon Quest series that sees you playing as a slime operating a tank and rescuing the people from your town. You run around the overworld, collecting items to use as ammunition and saving money to upgrade your tank. The art and music are just as great as you'd expect from the Dragon Quest series. It made fantastic use of the DS's dual screens. It's also written for a younger audience, so a lot of it is just really silly and fun! Try it out for sure, I'm so sad there's no sequel :(

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[–] Xkok@lemmy.one 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Black and White, it was a god simulator on PC in 2001. You interact with your villagers and the world as a floating hand, casting spells to raise faith in villages or throwing rocks to smite as necessary. You also got a giant pet that you could train to do your bidding.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_%26_White_(video_game)

[–] TEKUMS@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Noclip did a doc about it recently (https://youtu.be/GtNvEna6bxc). I remember seeing it for the first time at a buddies place growing up, but I didn't have a strong enough computer to run it. I did though when black and white 2 came out and it was awesome! I feel the only thing comparable to it currently is the Anno series, no spells or anything but just city management and stuff.

[–] ChickenButt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the link.

[–] hstde@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I played the second one ages ago. Nothing more creepy than being a bit of a dick to you people and have a voice whisper your name late at night.

(For those who don't know: the game would read your username and if it was in the database of soundfiles it would play that whisper at random, but long intervals.)

[–] Yoghurten@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was a fun game! Would love to see a remake of it.

[–] Xkok@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Even this bit?

All these years later it still haunts me...

[–] ChickenButt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I used to play the shit out of that game.