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Cheat codes. They’re mostly just DLC and seasonal passes now.
Game manuals. You used to have a short novella that came with the game. Some games like Wasteland 1, the manual was part of the game itself. Now you get jack shit.
Kirby Air Ride still has my favorite unlock system ever, it was a huge grid of hidden achievements and when you completed one it would reveal the four adjacent achievements. You’d get the first few by complete accident because there were freebies like “finish 1 race” “finish 1 race on X vehicle” and then your unlocks would spread outward across the board with a nice satisfying SLAM SLAM SLAM revealing them one-by-one after each race.
Some of the Smash Bros games had the same system, with the added mechanic that you also unlocked a small number of hammers that could unlock squares without having gotten the achievement for it
I have so many video game manuals, mostly because i would rent a game, take the manual out, read it, put it down, and forget to put it back in its case. So now i have a bag full of manuals for games from shuttered rental stores.
Also had multiple notebooks full of cheat codes, but i’m pretty sure everyone had those.
Ragdoll physics have kinda fallen by the wayside but they’re so much fun
Never liked ragdoll something about it was always off to me. Though it is funny to see Niko Bellic flying through a windshield.
I feel like cel shading never took off they way it could have. Outside of anime style games it seems like it always takes a back seat to realism which sucks because it’s looks rad as hell. XIII and Viewtiful Joe are two examples that stick out in my memory, plus Wind Waker pissed off so many Zelda fans who wanted a grimdark Peter Jackson LoZ game. It was great.
Inventory Tetris. Whenever a game has the player carry stuff in hammerspace it’s almost always done by using a weight system like how Bethesda does it. I want resident evil style inventory where items can take up multiple space slots.
Please play Backpack Battles. Totally awesome if you love trying to place your items optimally.
The game God of Weapons has a whole inventoy management section with inventory tetris. Its a bullet heaven game similar to Vampire Survivors.
I made a comment about this elsewhere in the thread, but let me repeat myself here. Pathologic 2, Dredge, and Subnautica all have this. And they’re all spectacular games well worth playing. If you haven’t tried them, I would suggest it. For Dredge though, don’t buy the DLCs, they are not worth the money.
LAN gaming
DS download play was a weird and welcome oasis of LAN play/spawn copy installs and I miss it so much
