I recently played Alien Isolation, and I noticed all of the “hacking” she does on doors and computers are different types of games, like press the button at the right time, or match the images within a timer, etc.

A lot of games have these mini-games, and I was wondering which you think are the best? Or at least, didn’t get old fast?

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    10 months ago

    Animal Crossing on the GameCube straight up let you buy little NES consoles with a small variety of titles.

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    I have a few.

    PGR3, a Xbox360 racing game, contains Geometry Wars 1 and 2 as mini games. YT Link

    Celeste contains the entirety of Celeste Classic (PICO-8) as an easter egg in one of its levels. YT Link

    Xenogears, a PS1 JRPG game, contains a battle arena minigame, and I spent a few hours on that as a kid. YT Link

    Machinarium’s Gomoku/5 in a row minigame is so much fun, I played it with my friends at school when we didn’t want to listen to our teacher :) By the way, I really recommend Machinarium to every fan of old school point-and-click games.

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      10 months ago

      Geometry Wars was the best! And in each Project Gotham the had a new version!

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    FFX Blitzball is the mini-game that I sunk the most time into by far (100+ hours), and always had fun.

    Gwent from Witcher 3 kind of goes without saying, the framework is so good it’s spawned 3 full games that I can think of.

    Best Hacking mini-game goes to the newer Deux Ex games, quick, the right amount of challenge but if you didn’t like it you could basically never do it.

    Best lockpicking I’m going to give to Starfield. Literally the only part of the game I actually enjoyed, each is a great little puzzle.

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      10 months ago

      OMG blitzball!! Initially thought it was stupid but once it clicked I was hooked !!!

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      10 months ago

      My roommate in college would play Qwent in Witcher 3 and I would find myself glued to the TV.

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    10 months ago

    As a fan of the LucasArts point-and-click adventure games of the 80s-90s, it would be remiss of me not to mention that Day of the Tentacle, the sequel to Maniac Mansion (their first adventure game ever), actually contains Maniac Mansion as a minigame.

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    10 months ago

    The host club manager minigame in Yakuza 0 and Kiwami 2, I don’t even remember their rewards, just that they were very fun. Compared to the real state minigame in 0 that was so boring I only remember the prize at the end, at least it was worth it

    spoiler

    You got Kyriu’s original fighting style as a 4th one that breaks the game with a fanservice scene that references the cover art of the first game.

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      10 months ago

      I loved that mini game , it had great gameplay and very short and sweet story . I would buy it in a heard beat if it was a standalone game with more in-depth mechanics.

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    10 months ago

    I spent way more time than I should have playing Dice in Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
    Edit: I also just remembered the hacking system in BioShock had a very mini-game feel to it. I had a lot of fun with those too.

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    10 months ago

    I remember spending so much time playing Farkle in Kingdom Come Deliverance, betting my money on every game. I think Witcher 1 or 2 have similar dice game that i also very into it, played with every NPC possible whenever i have the chance.

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    The door hacking in Deus Ex Human Revolution. Each one was unique, could be solved by skill (speed and precision) or with tools (consumable items found throughout the game). It was a mini puzzle game each time you tried to unlock something.

    At the time, I loved it so much I tried to build my own version but it never went anywhere.

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    Many people love Stardew Valley so I gave it a go. It was fun for a couple of hours, but it doesn’t really have any depth. But you can go to the tavern and hop on an arcade machine with a really fun minimalist twin-stick shooter called Journey of the Prairie King that’s actually pretty great. It’s fast paced and unforgiving, and I spent more time playing that than on actual farming and what not.

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        10 months ago

        For me it was fun for like 5 hours, but I was massively let down after that. The combat is pretty basic so that got boring quickly, and the new maps pretty much didn’t have anything new except new vegetables and enemies with new skins. You learn everything you need to know about the game in the first couple of hours and after that there’s no challenge and no real reason to keep making money which makes the grinding pointless. It’s a good casual game if you like decorating the farm but it’s not my cup of tea.

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            10 months ago

            Ok, that’s a good point. I’m glad you enjoy that part of the game. I wasn’t really interested in “talking” to NPC-s and giving them gifts so I skipped that part of the game and certainly missed what some people like the most about it. As I said, not my cup of tea.

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              10 months ago

              FYI half of the game’s content is probably locked behind social interaction. Maybe that’s a bad way of phrasing it, it’s more like there are lots of different areas of the game (farming, exploring, dungeoneering, and socialising) and they all unlock more bits in the other areas. Either way you probably had a bad time as you were only getting a small slice of the game (though obviously that’s fine if you weren’t going to enjoy it anyway!)

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    10 months ago

    I’d throw Crash Bandicoot showing up in Uncharted 4 into the mix, with an honorable mention for Nathan’s Nerf gun setup in his attic.

    Maybe neither of those count, as they’re not complete in and of themselves? But I think they count in the spirit of the question asked.

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      10 months ago

      I was pretty happy when I could play that in Uncharted 4. Uncharted is such a good series.

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    10 months ago

    Not sure if this totally counts but my favorite is the Chao raising systems in the Sonic Adventure games

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    10 months ago

    Doesn’t completely fit your description of minigames, but I spent days playing Casino card games with Luigi in Super Mario 64 DS. And the Hide and Seek game was great too.

    Those minigames are separate from the main game though.