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What's your favorite game you never hear anybody talk about? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by LeylaaLovee@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/games@lemmy.world

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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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[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 27 points 1 year ago

Among all the love Bioware gets for KotOR and Mass Effect I'm genuinely surprised more people aren't talking about Jade Empire.

It's a full fledged classic Bioware RPG set in an interesting world based on Chinese mythology, has some great characters and a fun (if simple) combat system. Voice acting is mostly good too, especially for a 2005 game and it even has John Cleese doing a part!

I loved it when it came out and am stumped as to why it never became a BioWare mainstay. Maybe releasing as an exclusive for the original Xbox just killed it, but if you enjoy this style of RPG I highly recommend checking it out!

[-] ShoePaste@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Jade empire was legit. i'm really surprised that there haven't been any other kung fu type rpgs since.

[-] PapstJL4U@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

In parallel universe we would have had Jade Empire (series) written by Bioware at their peak with combat by Platinum games.

Or maybe some could make SF6 story mode X Jade Empire.

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 1 year ago

In parallel universe we would have had Jade Empire (series) written by Bioware at their peak with combat by Platinum games.

I hadn't even thought about that but you're right. What a wonderful thought.

It's also kind of surprising no effort has been done to remaster Jade Empire since that is such a popular cash grab these days. But maybe the brand strength of the IP is just that low?