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SB Recommends Mac Games
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Avara
Cycle: Now this is a very special game to me. When most people think of
Ambrosia, they think of
Escape Velocity. I think of
Avara. I'm slowly putting together a wiki for this game right now, but there is so much I could write as I was part of the community for about six years. It was a first person shooter - you were in a robot, but it wasn't a mech game. It also wasn't really a FPS, I guess. It was very unique, and required smart use of every game mechanic to win a battle.
Forget-Me-Not (also on: iOS, PC) -
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Jaunt Trooper
Infernarl: I have like a deep body eroticism when I think about playing
Jaunt Trooper.
Kung Fu Chivalry
Slonie: It was a side-view action/platform game with very nice animation, vaguely Prince of Persia-ish but also with KUNG FU. Also there were two characters to choose from with different moves (and special moves too). I think one of them was bald. Man, I loved that game.
Marathon 2: Durendal (also on PC, XBLA) -
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The Odyssey - The Legend Of Nemesis -
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Cycle: A very
Ultima inspired RPG. I loved the structure of it all. You would land on an island which you could explore, find secrets, kill monsters, chat to people in towns. Each island had it's own problem. For example, the first island had two towns at war, and you had to make the first steps to unite them. Once you solved an islands problem you went to the next. I think I liked this one so much because you tried to help people instead of just killing things all the time and most of the problems would be solved without lots of violence (but you'd be killing lots of things on the way). This was new to me at the time and I just liked helping the people I came across. It has also recently become freeware.
Scarab Of Ra
Cycle: I put together a rather small
wiki on this game. So probably best to read that to get the gist of it. I tell you, it is insanely addictive. No matter how many unfair deaths the game threw at me, I always came back. Interestingly enough, I won the game for the first time a few months ago — only ten or so years after first playing.
Tomb of the Taskmaker
dessgeega: A fantastic adventure game, with monster hacking and puzzle solving. and a very interesting implementation of death.
Cycle: I love how it was so completely unserious and yes… I thought the death implementation was very clever. AND entertaining, despite being so hilariously mundane. A friend told me there was a way to bypass the tasks but I can't remember how…
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