What was the last unique feeling game you played?
Something that made you think hmm there really isn't anything else like this.

For me I think it was Pikmin.
I'm sure there's more but either I never find them or they get buried in a wave of the metric ton of trash released every day but Pikmin is the last memory I have of feeling like I'm experiencing something I haven't in any game before.

probably minecraft when I first played it in late 2010 because of watching SeaNanner’s videos

>>713073395
Really?
I actually never played minecraft because it never appealed to me visually but I guess the concept must've been somewhat novel.
It's like those old falling sand simulation games but 3d I guess, I don't really know.

>>713073485
It’s probably harder to appreciate minecraft since so many games these days will incorporate the ability to manually alter the terrain and buildings of the world when they don’t even need it but Minecraft really was groundbreaking even still within its alpha and beta

I'll get shit on for saying this because everyone here hates it but it was undoubtedly this.
Literally gamechanging one of a kind experience.

>>713073285 (OP)
Return of the Obra Dinn but that was a while ago now.
I guess Blue Prince was decent in that regard.

>>713073285 (OP)
Death Stranding.

Maybe those System Erasure studio's weird indie games, although they play more like oldschool genre X, with a twist.

>>713073485
>It's like those old falling sand simulation games but 3d I guess
Minecraft literally has no world physics, SANS for the sand blocks that were added much later. It's like old Worms games, where everything just floats in the air.

>>713073819
>everyone here hates DaS
bait
>Literally gamechanging one of a kind experience.
I will never understand Dark Souls secondaries who pretend like Demon's Souls didn't exist, and that even it was just a 3D Diablo.

>>713076219
Demons Souls looks like a tech demo for Dark Souls so nobody played it

There should be a game with an isekai gimmick where the characters from the inner world have magic, can double jump etc but the characters from the outer world move ponderously like Geralt and get tired and hurt easily without the assistance they get from the magical shit they find.

>>713076361
>looks like...
Translation: "I never played it lol! :^)"

Demon's Souls is THE original, THE acclaimed game that not only spawned the ""genre"", not only made shit like DaS even happen, but also still is the best FROM game they've made. And it was extremely popular, essentially a symbol for the anti-casual trash movement that had been brewing for years at that point.

The only reason "nobody" played it (as if people from States and EU weren't importing it from Japan months before the official releases) is because it was a PS3 exclusive, where as DaS was a multiplat rehash since day 1.

>>713077060
I tried playing demon's souls after dark souls but it felt like shit.
I breezed through it very easily, the levels were super short and the bosses were all just shitty gimmicky fights without any actual challenge.
The only real fight there was flamelurker and even that was piss easy.
It felt like a weird bad tech demo to set the ground for the sequel that improved on it in every way.

>>713075606
I liked Obra Dinn a lot but blue prince was a piece of shit.
No idea what people see in it.

Pathologic and Death Stranding (although Pathologic 1 is shit and 2 refined the formula to perfection)

Noita - I don't know other games which expect you to brake the game and use exploits to earn some of the achievements. The game is unfair and you are expected to cheat in return. Same company made Crayon Physics which I played about a decade ago - it's great

Papers, please - I watched a let's play a bit and thought "Who would want to play this?". I tried it myself and it became my second job for a time. Made by the same guy who made Return of the Obra Dinn btw

OP, if you like Picmin, check out Overlord if you haven't already. Slightly different but uses minions to solve puzzles

>>713080217
I did check out Overlord on someone else's recommendation but it didn't work for me.
Wasn't a big fan of the gameplay or the visual style.

>>713077534
>It felt like a weird bad tech demo
You toddlers don't even know what a "tech demo" means these days.

And every single SOULS game after DeS has only casualized the experience. ER was the absolute pits in this.

>>713073285 (OP)
Pikmin is so good. I think its soundtrack is one of the best in the industry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLN-5AV3WRY&list=RDBLN-5AV3WRY&start_radio=1

>>713073285 (OP)
Lune's Expedition 33.

katamari damashii
i still yearn for sequel

>>713085039
Anon?

Most recent one? Blue prince. I'm also seemingly the only person super hyped for pony island 2, no news since that trailer couple years ago...

>>713073285 (OP)
sea of thieves

>>713085364
oh fuck i completely forgot pony island 2 was even a thing
why announce something and then go radio silent for years jesus christ

>>713073285 (OP)
probably Anthology of the Killer, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, or Another Crab's Treasure

>>713083447
Pikmin 2 has some earworms too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El6PpKISLZY

>>713085737
The titan dweevil fight song is amazing
https://youtu.be/YOlyaZLo7C0?list=RDBLN-5AV3WRY

>>713073285 (OP)
>>713083447
>>713085737
Reminder that soon we'll get a pc port of Pikmin 1.

>>713073285 (OP)
finding and playing PT for the first time was maybe the most recent. i downloaded it the first night it was available just by random chance i checked the store and saw the name. when i started playing it i was really blown away bc i had no idea who was behind it etc. very cool recent ish experience. going from super mario bros to n64 was also an insane leap back in the day

>>713085874
What's wrong with dolphin? Its literally the best and most stable emulator

>>713085926
Oh yeah PT is definitely up there.

>>713085976
A native pc port will always be better than emulation.
Also it will be better for modding, probably able to run at 120fps at least and will likely add the option to play with keyboard+mouse controls.

wow vanilla

>>713073285 (OP)
5th and 6th gens had plenty of unique and experimental games. I've been playing GameCube games for the past year and I can't think of any games like Doshin the Giant, Cubivore, Super Monkey Ball or Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg.

>>713077534
>the bosses were all just shitty gimmicky fights
and that's a large part of what makes DeS feel like an actual adventure and not just rollslop like the series turned into

>>713085871
Being 100 with you, jellyfloat is peak ambience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvsOXzKYqs4

>>713086349
True, most of them were not good games though, just experimental.
Being both an experimental weird game and also being a good game was rare.

Probably Opoona. Can't think of another RPG that put so much emphasis on interacting with the world more than it.

>>713073285 (OP)
Are there any pikmin-likes that are good out there?
I've been really craving something like this again.

>>713087340
>Are there any pikmin-likes that are good out there?
I don't know if such a thing as a pikmin-like game even exists.
I do hope games like that exist though.

>>713087340
>>713087881
Pikmin is basically just Command & Conquer in a childish skin. You produce units and send them to kill other units

>>713086758
They weren't bad per se, they just lacked the wider appeal, but that goes without saying.
>>713087340
Overlord, maybe?

>>713088421
you don't understand pikmin

>>713088871
Given I've played every single Pikmin game, I think I do

>>713088421
It isn't. And you don't throw you units like the pikmin or make them grab things.
If the gameplay mechanics aren't exactly like the ones in Pikmin then it's not a pikmin-like.

>>713088915
if you think it's just another RTS, you really don't.

>>713073819
agree, beat it last week for the first time

>>713073285 (OP)
Some games I have been playing within the last few years which stuck out to me
>Loop hero
Not really an idle game and not really an RTS either
>el shaddai
painterly artstyle hasn't been done since. Played in once on LSD.
>Killer7
Really nothing at all like it. First-person on-rails survival horror?
>cruelty squad
even though the game is basically just first-person MGS/hitman
>Lisa the painful
a JRPG but it's a side-scroller and even has some rudimentary platforming
>MGSV
Fusion of open-world and stealth was novel. Liked how you could influence missions before you start them by blowing stuff up in the open-world, how the AI adapted to your playstyle and if you went full-stealth you could throw them off. FOB meta game was absolutely nuts and I wish I could see more stuff like that. I hear Dune Legacy does something similar? Probably the only stealth game that is also an immersive sim.
>Disco Elysium
As much as I ended up hating it, had some novel ideas.
>Moon Remix RPG Adventure.
One of a kind and hasn't been matched since.
>Chaos Seed
dungeon keeper before dungeon keeper meets Chinese mysticism
>Ena dream BBQ
the only tolerable weirdcore game that isn't trannyshit
>Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri
tactical mech fps where you have a little drone that can scout ahead. Janky and very cool.
>crypt worlds
trannyshit weirdcore game about pissing, actually quite funny but best not to indulge the dev too much
>dreamwild
roguey fps meets talky jrpg

>>713076219
>I will never understand Dark Souls secondaries who pretend like Demon's Souls didn't exist, and that even it was just a 3D Diablo.

never played it

dark souls was the 2010's trope killer, haters may never understand

>>713088421
>Pikmin is basically just Command & Conquer
I don't think you've played either game anon.

>>713089472
>Moon Remix RPG Adventure.
>One of a kind and hasn't been matched since.
Chulip has matched it, same thing but better.

>>713089729
i do need to play chulip but there's things about moon that are wholly monolithic like the mix of pre-rendered, photographic and pixel art graphics.

Blue Prince

>>713073285 (OP)
Probably Legend of Mana.
I've never seen a game that lets you make the world yourself.
You get different "items" by beating stages that each turns into its own unique stage in the overworld, so you can get like puzzle blocks and plop them on the world map and it will turn into a dungeon with a boss, or another might turn into a city with NPCs.
And based on how they're connected to each other you get various perks.

Never seen anything else like it.

>>713088984
Exactly. Pikmin has more in common with a resource management adventure game than any traditional RTS. The intimacy with the environment, the emotional attachment to your pikmin, the day-cycle time pressure—it’s basically a melancholic survival puzzle game masquerading as a cute strategy title. It’s about efficiency, micro-scale decision making, and moment-to-moment exploration. Command & Conquer doesn't make you feel guilty for losing a soldier to a drowning.

Panzer Dragoon Saga.
The most unique battle system I've seen in any RPG, it's turn based but you get to pick your position to dodge incoming attacks and hit the weak spots in 3d space while flying on a dragon.

>>713073285 (OP)
The definition of soul. Look up the inspiration behind the game

>>713090410
shame the game is piss easy, the story is also a bit kitsch
unique game but my interest dried up after a few hours, the Panzer Dragoon games didn't need a complicated story, they were always more visual experiences than literary

>>713073285 (OP)
Pikmin 2 inserting actual brands into the game sold the immersion. You felt like a visitor to Earth. With the silly treasure names like calling the Duracell battery "Courage Reactor", it's clear Olimar is trying to figure out what the true purpose of such an "alien" object could be.

>>713090608
The story and the world are fantastic actually after it opens up past disc 2, you're missing out.
The bosses all got very creative too, it took me multiple tries to beat a lot of them so it's not piss easy at all.

It's very different from the first 2 but it still delivers on the amazing alien planet feel of them and the spectacle is still there in big boss fights.

>>713090621
wasn't that added only in localization?

>>713090809
>>713090621
oh no i was thinking of the switch version which removed it due to copyright issues

>>713090809

Dunno, probably. There were regional differences in the JPN/US with the brands of the treasures . They got rid of them in the re-releases and replaced them with generic non-existent brands. Shame, truly a relic of different times.

>>713087340
I'm very confused how this wasn't the first game suggested.

>>713091812
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR9DLKtXIXM
kek
every time i see this game i think of jimquisition video on it
little king sharty lmao

>>713090086
I think Legend of Mana is so cool, but for whatever reason I just always find myself stopping halfway through. I could always find a guide or try to talk to everyone to figure out what to do, but the amount of areas eventually feels overwhelming. Plus combat is fairly simplistic in my opinion. Still, I can't deny that it's so nice to explore its world, the music is really good, and the visuals are fantastic.

>>713092430
I would advise against using a guide and just going wherever it takes you.
But yeah it can feel like a lot eventually, but you're not really meant to find every event and figure out every mechanic, hell you can spend the entire game going without crafting a single weapon or raising a single pet and on the opposite you can spend the entire game grinding and crafting the omega ultimate god killer weapon that one taps every boss not even half way through.
It gives you so many avenues to do random shit you want and you can choose to engage with it or not.

>>713073285 (OP)
Zeno Clash

>>713091812
it's a shame the PC port is so fucked

>>713091442
The japanese version had diffrent product placement. The duracells were instead a japanese brand of battery, there was a shocking amount of milk bottle caps from every brand under the (rising) sun, and several other treasures were japanese brand names subbed out for western and/or generic equivalents in the western versions. But the basic concept is the same.

remember to play Pikmin Squared if you get the hankering to replay Pikmin 1 at any point
avoid the shitty re-releases that add in more bugs and censorship

>>713085926
It's unreal that Hideo invented the horror game genre as a pilot for his next game.
La Creatividad does it again.

>>713073285 (OP)
I was thinking about this recently and I believe that Sunset Overdrive was the last time I played a game and thought "oh I've never seen that before" which is sad given how long it's been.

>>713087340
The Wild At Heart, although I think its a bit weak compared to pikmin, its pretty fun and sweet.

>>713091812
Why was this games ending so fucking dark?

>>713093456
Hideo Kojima is a fucking BUM

>>713094738
looks cute, the art reminds me of knights and bikes

>>713073285 (OP)
splatoon
wish it was more single player focused tho, amazing aesthetics and visual style

>>713095990
forgot pic

>>713076219
>I will never understand Dark Souls secondaries who pretend like Demon's Souls didn't exist, and that even it was just a 3D Diablo
Demon's Souls's hub world is the definition of x walked, so y could run.

>>713073285 (OP)
Idk, tetris effect maybe.

>>713073285 (OP)
I wonder why a studio has never tried to develop anything like Pikmin 1. Maybe it's too difficult to make something like it?

>>713099163
???
They made more of them, what do you mean.
There's like 4 games + spinoffs.

>>713091812
It's because so few people have played it, sadly. PC port didn't help. But it will always be the game I'm happiest I went to the trouble to emulate. I don't know if it's the most unique game I've played though. It is kinda like Pikmin meets a certain classic Zelda title. But I do like it more than almost every Pikmin game except for Pikmin 2. LKS does have my favorite boss of all time with King TV Dinnah. I got a friend to try playing it this year and he just beat Shishkebaboo.

>>713073285 (OP)
Cubivore

Mad Rat Dead, a rhythm-platformer for PS4 and Switch

>>713101027
I fucking love Cubivore

>>713090410
Beaten the first two Panzer Dragoon games this month, I'm mad excited to try this game out when I can. Ive been absolutely loving Zwei and I can tell a lot of the questions I have regarding its story will have one answer or another in Saga.