Years / Decades:
70s , 80s , 90s , 00s , 10s , 8th Generation, 2020
Genres:
2D Platformers, 3D Platformers, 4X, Adventure, Arcade, Beat 'em up, Board Games, Bullet Hell / 2D Shooters, Card, Casual, City/Attraction Builders, Dungeon Crawlers, Fighting, Flash, Grand Strategy, Handheld, Horror, Indie, Metroidvania, MMOs, MOBA, Point and Click , Puzzle, Racing, Real Time Strategy, Real Time Tactics, Rhythm, Roguelikes, RPGs (Action), RPGs (Turn Based), Sandbox, Shooters (1st Person), Shooters (3rd Person), Simulation, Souls-Bourne, Sports, Stealth, Survival, Tabletop RPGs, Text Dungeons, Tower Defense, Turn Based Strategy, Visual Novels, Walking Simulators
Welcome back. This part of the series will be primarily focusing on genres. So far I have [Miscellaneous] as available genres. Let me know if I missed something, and I will try to get it added.
This is eventually all going to get compiled into one megathread for people who want gaming recommendations from Chapos specifically. Other consoles and genres will come in sporadic subsequent threads. Please contribute to previous threads if you missed them. This is meant to be an exhaustive list.
Ninja Gaiden is way up there. It's one of those games that rewards practice and makes you feel pretty damn awesome once you master hard mode then go backward to style on everything.
NES: Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight (1990)
"Nintendo" hard game for sure. I had memories of playing this game with a friend and it just kicking our asses in the late 90's. Some AVGN youtube video or "Let's Play" reminded me of this a few years back and I spent a few weeks playing it on an emulator. It was a difficult game but not as impossible as it seemed when I was a kid. I actually could get to the final level pretty consistently but burned myself out before I beat it.
Pretty much all of the NES Mega Man games are classic action games from the NES 80's and 90's.
NES: Snake, Rattle and Roll (1990)
A punishing "Nintendo" hard game if you're trying to beat it in one sitting, without warping, and without using a turbo controller. Incredibly smooth movement, bright and beautiful graphics, a decent soundtrack (that you will need to mute after awhile to not go insane), very tense game play at the later levels, and kinda bonkers. It made pretty good use of "3D" space with its 3/4 perspective but when the camera is moved so far "up" that you can't see your snake's shadow on ground it gets really difficult to judge where you are in relation to pitfalls and obstacles.
Nuclear Throne. Also kinda everything else Vlambeer made.
Hotline Miami
Roundabout
Tossup between Metal Gear Rising and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Nothing else even comes close.
Are we counting, like, Spectacle Action games? If so, hard to beat Metal Gear Rising
This is one i don't see on many of the other lists and dont know exactly what it should go on- Hyper Light Drifter. Gorgeous art and music and really fun fast paced combat.
Also monster hunter
