Let's be real, Witcher 3 is just a Gwent launcher.
Also I've definitely played more Pazaak than KOTOR.
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In another life I wouldn't understand a word of these sentences lol
I fucking love Gwent AND the fact that itβs horribly unbalanced (in The Witcher 3)
Puuure pazaak
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I loved the Chao Garden in the Sonic Adventure games.
Sonic Adventure 2 on Dreamcast was peak Sonic. Those things in the controller had a minigame within a minigame for extra costumes and food for the chao.
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Triple triad from Final Fantasy 8.
Triple triad + Card mod ability = broken game
It might have had a factor in my not enjoying the Triple Triad mini game, as I sometimes get bogged down in just collecting cards to convert into spells and items. Also, the Queen of Cards is a huge pain. And the CC Club sidequest.
CC Club side quest and Queen of Cards spoilers
Completing the CC Club side quest is necessary to complete prior to Disk 4 if you want to have access to them on Disk 4 (they're inside the Ragnarok). Queen of Cards is available on Disk 4 by default (she's on the Lunar Pod crash site in Esthar), so you can just play her there for a quicker access to the cards only accessible through her.
I loved Triple Triad, and loved the way it broke the game!
Shout out to all the hours I wasted soft resetting so I could eliminate the Random rule from Ellone. Honorable mention to the Laguna card, which refined into 100 Heroes and made every single fight after it complete child's play.
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Never bothered with Queen of Cards quest, as the walkthrough of that is... Sizable, to say the least. Also, there's only one relatively decent reward out of it (Doomtrain).
As for CC: they are a source of all rare cards besides the ones Queen has. Thus, if you want to have Vit/Str/HP Ups - they're your best bet (also, getting enough of those makes Omega Weapon fight a breeze, you can reliably kill it without ever reaching Megido Flame and foregoing Holy War usage).
But yeah... Triple Triad is fun, especially since it translates to sth that will impact your game.
EDIT: also, you can get 3x100 Flare on your entire party on the first disc, but it's a major PITA to get (iirc, 300 Red Dragon cards, so good fuckin' luck). So yeah... Triple Triad brekas the game if you have the patience for it π
EDIT 2: also also, Queen of Cards is available at the crash site on Disc 3 as well
Oh, I know! π
In my current playthrough, I used just a few of the techniques I know to get 3Γ100 Flare for my party to junction to STR and 3Γ100 Thundaga to junction to Elem Atk (you can get two of them, and the Siren has the third IIRC--it's been a while since the SeeD exam and the playthrough proceeds at a snail's pace) before the SeeD exam in order to defeat the "Crab Mecha" on the first available opportunity. All that, while keeping my levels at a minimum (under lvl 10, ideally).
I have the patience for it, but it still gets incredibly tedious and dull.
Maniac Mansion: day of the tentacle includes the full first maniac Mansion game on weird Ed's computer in the room with him and the hamster
EverQuest /gems and /pizza
I had a lot more trouble with Maniac Mansion than DotT, I always got all my characters thrown in the dungeon. My favorite thing about it, at least the version on Weird Ed Edison's computer, was that it played music using the pc speaker, which is now a concept lost to time.
Who are you so wise in the ways of gwent?
Blitzball Final Fantasy X
A really divisive minigame, to be sure. My wife and I both hated blitzball, (I save-scummed to get Wakkaβs ultimates ASAP, then never touched it again) but my buddy probably sank 150 hours into it during his first play through.
I always sucked at blitzball
Sonic Adventure 2 has a pretty decent adventure platformer built into it
Yeah, Chao Garden 2 Battle had some really amazing minigames. One of the best was the ability to play as Sonic or Shadow, and experience an entire plotline. Lots of players missed it almost entirely, because they were just too wrapped up in the main Chao Garden game to bother with the Light/Dark story stuff.
Triple triad card game from FF8? Also the card game in FF9, I forgot which is which.
I loved the FF8 card game. It was so sad that you had to choose to used up some cards if you wanted some equipments if I recall correctly. It would be nice to not have to choose to keep all cards or have all equipments os spells
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The Wolfenstein 3D minigame contained within Wolfenstein The New Order is probably the best one I've come across. I may be biased though since Wolfenstein 3D is probably one of my Top 5 all-time favorite games.
In DOOM Eternal you can play through all of DOOM and DOOM 2 at the Slayerβs desk in the fortress. I dig that
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I think DOOM Eternal has DOOM 2 inside of it... which then has ~~shatfenfrude~~ Wolfenstein inside of it. (ignore the spelling π )
edit: I forgot the name and accidentally tried to type the German word for laughing
I would just play Caravan if it didn't involve walking across the Mojave each time. Actually I'll walk just to play more Caravan.
I always thought it was cool that you could play the original maniac mansion in day of the tentacle.
Karaoke, disco, cabaret club, pool, taxi racing, Space Harrier, kart racing, mahjong, poker, koi koi, business management, bowling, pocket circuit racing, spear fishing, piss contest, and of course fishing, all from the Like a Dragon series.
Caravan from Fallout: New Vegas has a notoriously bad tutorial, but is easy enough to grasp and fun as an early-game money source. Would have benefited from a Gwent-style sidequest chain.
Not a minigame, but Maniac Mansion being within The Day of the Tentacle is probably my fav.
The full 4K version of Timesplitters 2 inside Homefront: The Revolution, but you have to play something like 75% of Homefront to reach it. I'll reach it one of these days.
I like Knucklebones in Cult of the Lamb.
Yakuza games are the only good Mahjong simulator. Iβve always thought Sega/RGK Studios should release a standalone one based on Yakuza.
All other Mahjong games are shitty western mahjong match tile games.
I honestly really liked the Zen garden in Plants vs Zombies
The surprisingly deep copy of Balatro in "Dave the Diver" is pretty good.
The fishing minigame from Breath of Fire 4. There's just something that's both simple and relaxing, as well as complex and engaging in that minigame. Even better, it's not a requirement to finish the game.
And then there's the fishing minigame on Stardew Valley.
I enjoy the Stardew fishing lol
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The Chao racing from Sonic Adventure on the dream cast. You could take the memory card out and use it as a tamagotchi to care for the little guy and make it train so it gets faster and stronger in the real game.
It got no better than that.
The mini pinball game, at the top-right of the Family Guy pinball table(2007).
It is fast paced and well put together.
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Nobody mentioned Yakuza? Any modern game in the series? (Edit: Ok, one guy did)
A guilty pleasure of mine is Majima Construction from Yakuza Kiwami 2, which is one if the few RTS I like. It's unbalanced, and not even functioning properly, but it's simple fun. I associate most RTS with commanding large squads of units and resource management, and a watered down version with few specific characters and one/two resources felt like a less overwhelming entry point into the genre.
Geometry Wars in Project Gotham Racing 2.
Astro Chicken (Space Quest III).
I have a love/hate relationship with Nethack's Sokoban levels.
Playing Receiver in Receiver 2 was a fun surprise.
There's a pretty good Solitaire game built into the Zachtronics game Shenzhen IO.
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Demontower, found within Night in the Woods. That could easily be a standalone short game
The minigames in shenmue/yakuza. They are literally full games.
Burger Flipper in Selaco.
You need to find a datapad with the game on it, and it's just a stupid auto-clicker, but damn if it doesn't scratch that itch in the monkey brain for "number go up."
Plus, Selaco, the base game, is really damn fun.
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