Submitted 10 months ago by tsonfeir@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
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?
All of the Yakuza games are basically, collections of well made mini games that turn each beat-em-up campaign into a hundred hours of fun. But among those, the Cabaret Club and Pocket Circuit RC race-car games from Yakuza 0 and Yakuza Kiwami, are probably my favs.
Cabaret club is great! I wish they’d put it out as it’s own little mini games for smartphones or something
Final Fantasy VIII card game ♥️
I second this. Triple Triad is so much fun! Fun fact, they have it in Final Fantasy XIV and it’s so much fun to collect the cards and play other people. They even have tournaments.
Lol my friend sat down to play FFXIV once, but as soon as he was able to play Triple Triad, thats all he did for hours
I love this right up until the random rule gets applied, then it’s just frustrating.
I liked all the mini games in 7 and the card game in 8. However, due to nostalgia, my favorite is the sliding puzzle game in the first one.
For some reason it just wouldn’t click with me, tried getting into it in multiple point of the game but no luck.
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 5 in a row minigame is so much fun, I played 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.
Geometry Wars was the best! And in each Project Gotham the had a new version!
Animal Crossing on the GameCube straight up let you buy little NES consoles with a small variety of titles.
Does it actually let you buy them? I thought they were mostly locked away behind special event codes, or even dummied out.
Really basic ones can be dug up or purchased. You did have to get event codes for some cooler ones.
“Dave the Diver” is essentially a game of minigames with a story to bind them together.
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.
Dice poker was Witcher 1 and 2. Was fun! Then gwent came and I was hooked on that too
Funny that i can’t get into gwent 😂
Gwent, in The Witcher 3!
The one that was so successful that it got its own game.
I don´t care much for the standalone pc game but check this out: imgur.com/a/qktqY
Blitzball
I really liked the hacking puzzles in Half-Life Alyx. There was a nice variety to the different type of puzzles that could appear, and the difficulty never felt like it got out of hand.
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.
My roommate in college would play Qwent in Witcher 3 and I would find myself glued to the TV.
Kinda old school here but I really loved Pokémon Stadium mini games, also the shooter mode from Donkey Kong 64 was a blast, back in the day. Even Banjo Kazzoie/Tooie had some amazing mini games, I really loved those.
Me and my friends played the Pokemon stadium mini games WAY more than the actual battles. They were a lot of fun.
The multiplayer shooter in DK64 was so fun!
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.
In Super Pitfall for the SNES, there was an Easter egg hidden in a temple that would warp you into the original Atari version. If that counts, that’s my favorite “game inside a game.”
Rdr2 fishing has a following…
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.
For minigames as "games within the game" (e.g., GTA has a lot of these like pool, golf, etc.,) throw another one up for Witcher 3's Gwent!
For minigames as representations of some other mechanic (e.g., hacking, lock picking,) I remember liking the hacking in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. Reminded me of hacking in EVE: Online.
Probe scanning was awesome in EVE too—ay least it was a decade or so ago. Who knows if it's still the same now doe? Not me.
I spent way more time than I should have playing Dice in Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
I like how the Yakuza/Like a Dragon is jam packed with mini-games. Sega even puts classic arcade games in it. But I feel like paying for your buck, you’re going to have the most mini games in the Yakuza game then you will in any other game.
This, absolutely. The claw catcher is my jam.
I don’t know if it counts but Red Dead Redemption introduced me to Liar Dice! Now I freakin’ love Liar Dice!
Rockstar loves minigames. They even have an arcade in gta online
FICSIT Productivity Packer Deluxe (Satisfactory). It’s a fun little game available at The HUB once it is fully upgraded. You take Tetris-like pieces and arrange them to fit within a square, completing as many squares as you can within the time limit to determine your score.
Then again, the real mini game in Satisfactory is the planning that goes into your factory while you are not playing the game. It’s the game that just keeps on giving.
The minigame is a spreadsheet on one monitor and a production planner on the other and it’s awesome 👌
I believe the correct answer is the loading screen minigames from Dragon Ball Budokai Tenkaichi 1-3
The Yamcha Spirit ball one had me actually trying to hit each item every time there was a loading screen lol
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.
I can’t think of any memorable “hacking” type ones as they all just become a chore by the end. Fable II has some wood chopping, pie making and lute playing that wasn’t so bad if you can get a high multiplier going.
As for actual “games within a game” then Shenmue series has many gambling and arcade machines. Roll it On Top, Lucky Hit, Darts and then Arterburner, Space Barrier, Outrun and Hang On.
Galaxian as Ridge Racer loaded on the PlayStation.
Splatoon 2’s rhythm game. I am forever angy that splat 3 has no rhythm mini game
Anaconda in TimeSplitters 2, mostly for the incredibly catchy music.
The FF9 tetra masts card games and chocobo digging
…Who hurt you?
Why’s the only game I can think of right now that chicken arcade game from Space Quest III? 😆
swolf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Gwent!
Rodeo@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
It suffers the same problem every trading card game does: if you don’t have the best cards, you lose. Skill and strategy and even luck are nothing compared to just having better cards.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
IMO pay-to-win mechanics work really well for a game-within-a-game since rather than exploiting the player for money, they are exploiting the player character for effort, which can lead you to go on more epic quests
kratoz29@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I disagree but I understand you… I don’t know why it didn’t click for me as an old Yu-Gi-Oh! Player (that is the only card game I have ever played… And several minutes of a “Duel Master” card game for GBA… Perhaps that one would trigger some old memories for some it was based on an anime too).
swolf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It was my first foray into CCG type games. I did try the in game Gwent recently and did not enjoy it as much.
I guess you may feel that way because mature CCG are far better than the Gwent mini game.