And Robotnik Winter Zone in Triple Trouble, and Ice Cap from Sonic Adventure, City Escape from SA2, and White Acropolis in Sonic 06, and the entirety of the Sonic Riders games.

vivavideri@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

I was doodling that little blue fucker on a snowboard all through 1st grade lmao.

Tattorack@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Half Life.

Age of Empires II.

Homeworld.

explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

Homeworld hired an actual band though.

gerbler@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y

Jet set radioooooooo

tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Crusader: No Remorse

MechWarrior 2, especially Ghost Bear's Legacy

Descent 1 + 2

Dungeon Keeper 2

Unreal 2

Populous

Prince of Persia series

GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

+1 for mech warrior. Played that in the CD player a ton.

whoisearth@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 1y

Looking Glass Studio

System Shock
Thief
Theif 2

Miss them so much

Xenny@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Nobuo Uematsu carried hard with his music. Squeenix hasn't been the same since he left the company

doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y

So much of my emotional investment in FFXIV is enhanced by the music, especially in Endwalker.

Alk@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Megaman 2 for me. Shit was hard but I still listen to the soundtrack

Chefdano3@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y

MegaMan 2 isn't a 90's game though.

hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y

About the majestic soundtrack of Doom: That's why it's still my ringtone.

LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 1y

Donkey Kong Country had like. One of the best video game soundtracks of all time. Game was really hard towards the end too. One of my fav games of all time.

Doom could apply here too. ID was very much a small studio of dorks with a limited budget.

mrslt@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Populous: The Beginning

~~Black and White~~

Warcraft 1 & 2

Monkey Island 1-3

I could go on.

DonPiano@feddit.org · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Black and White was 2000s

mrslt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Ah, so it was. That era is pretty much all blurred together in my mind.

Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Duke 3D, Shadow Warrior, and Blood.

Klear@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Those were build different.

Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y

Optimal game dev size.

Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 1y

I still remember playing the Colin McRae rally demo on PS1 for the first time in 1998 or 1999 and seeing the Impreza WRX get mud splatters on it's sides in real time while drifting through the Scottish highlands. There have been few if any as awe inspiring gaming moments since, maybe the original Gran Turismo replay graphics.

Klanky@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 1y

Star Control 2

surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I don't remember this game much, but the sound track is a banger

https://youtu.be/NW9ARJgn3ek?si=7qro8Hfucr7DTfg2

aeiou_ckr@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

crapwittyname@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

9 days old?! Dank!

SplashJackson@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 1y

Ultima Online, for sure. Anyone who says the Minoc theme song isn't banging is drunk and on drugs

v4ld1z@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Any of the Legacy of Kain games

xkbx@startrek.website · 7 pts · 1y (2 replies)

You gotta change that book to encyclopedia size. The amount of shenanigans you can’t explain without going into the other tomfoolery Amy Hennig and the rest of those wacky geniuses came up with…

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Did Soul Reaver 3 ever come out?

xkbx@startrek.website · 3 pts · 1y

Legacy Of Kain: Defiance is the closest we’ll ever get ༼;´༎ຶ ۝ ༎ຶ༽

Still love all those games, though

EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Timesplitters 2

Thcdenton@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I want a nightdive port of that so fucking bad

EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

I was unreasonably excited when I saw it on my ps5.

dinckelman@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Dito. And Gothic 1 is from '98

Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I never really had sounds in the 90s. Always caused my mom to get headaches. All video games were played on low or no volume.

grue@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y

You poor bastard.

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 4 pts · 1y

I started playing Day of the Tentacle without voices because I couldn't figure out the sound configuration.

zecg@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

The face even looks like a Deus Ex NPC.

Mandy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y

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gofsckyourself@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Dev's

8000gnat@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 1y

what does the dev possess?

WHAT DOES THE DEV POSSESS???

noxy@yiffit.net · 5 pts · 1y

Graphic's

levzzz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

ah yes, the touhou games I still haven't completed a single one without retries

Mwa@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

Created by one person, he made everything in the game including game engine.

kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Counterpoint, some 90s games like Half-Life had a pretty good story

yabai@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

I think the meme is suggesting most games had a decent story. Not Game of Thrones level, but a decent 200 page book.

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Secret of Mana would fit everything but the graphics. Those graphics were fire when they came out.

Pirky@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Thought it was going to be Seinfeld for a moment

weirdboy@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y

System Shock 2

ProfessorPeregrine@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 1y

Wing Commander, Privateer, and Strike Commander for me.

Prethoryn@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

I am not sure about the budget portion for GameFreak during the release of Pokemon Colosseum as Nintendo was reworking the pay structure and their work with GameFreak around that time.

Colesseum though, I just played it for the first time ever and my god it is hardest and most tedious of the entire series and the music is killer. The underlying narrative and lore is interesting when you start adding XD Gale or Darkness into the mix as well.

Delta_V@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Come on Lemmy.

Its been 23 hours since this got posted.

How has Chrono Trigger not already been mentioned?

dustyData@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y

Because Chrono Trigger's story is more like three bibles stacked. Not a flimsy novella.

Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

I thought that had a good memorable story?

iAvicenna@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

soundtrack spot on

MeatPilot@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Killer Loop

GBU_28@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

The dream

RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Anything with the Folletts on soundtrack duty.

Pencilnoob@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

DEATH BY STEREO AAAAUUUUYYYYAAAAHHH

bonus points to whoever gets the deep cut

Pronell@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Prince of Persia.

Jordan Mechner is one of the greatest.

S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y

KoF 96 and 99. X men Cota. SF3 second impact. You go back to those and the gameplay is hard as balls. Cota is like playin in a honey jar. Kof 96 has 3 characters that bitchslap all the others no problem. 99 I heard the meta has some.outliers but for casuals is like they tried something and nothing at the same time. Second impact came to fix newgen and fix.it did but boy it's crazy to play half the shit goes wonky. All of them where made with low to nonexistent budgets although Second impact has an asterisk since is more like a patch. All teams where small. Music is fire for all of them.

IlIllIIIllIlIlIIlI@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Bob et Bobette for Game Boy Color. OST by Maniacs of noise https://youtu.be/yg6Ebg2JT8g

DOTADER@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y

Any OG Pokemon game

TheOakTree@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

Crash Team Racing music goes so fucking hard

BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

what the fuck are these images supposed to convey this some egyptian hyrogliphic shit wtf

kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de · 14 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Graphics: See image render quality Team: Small group of people, probably friends Story: Reasonable length, linear, like a book Budget: Probably no real budget, just however much time everybody can put in, so empty wallet Gameplay: Sweaty - old games do tend to be difficult and frustrating Soundtrack: Actually fire

Nikko882@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y

The book is another layer. It references the image format of two books next to eachother, one being labeled as a long story and the other labeled as the same story, but with some twist that makes the story much shorter or non-existant.

So it's saying that it has short or non-existant story.

sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y

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MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y

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TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works · -2 pts · 1y

good ol Minecraft
or the old versions anyways