Games you didn't expect to blow you away

[HEX_VENTURE]

ive been trawling emulator archives recently and i was really expecting .hack// (the ps2 IMOQ series) to be games that dont hold up to what everyone says abt it, but i was pleasantly surprised. the aesthetics and story are super engaging and it kind of makes up for the fact that its kind of been a grindfest lol

where do ya get those little cards under your post :O
i forgot their real name

 

[alkemylabz]

where do ya get those little cards under your post :O
i forgot their real name

they're 88x31 buttons! idk how long theyve been around but youll see them a lot on indie web pages alongside a few other formats like the deviantart stamp. i like putting them in my signature bc i like their compactness

 

[HEX_VENTURE]

Ah buttons! That's what theyre called
I gotta find out how to get em and use em..
Do you just find them on random sites and download them? I wanna collect!!

 

[alkemylabz]

Ah buttons! That's what theyre called
I gotta find out how to get em and use em..
Do you just find them on random sites and download them? I wanna collect!!

yeah theyre pretty easy to find on neocities and stuff, a lot of the ones ive found have been via collections on peoples sites. a lot of people also make them for their own sites so youll usually find button collections that have a lot of those in them, i always check if some meme button with odd elements is actually someones personal website button if i can

i fear i may be getting off topic from this thread so im going to share another game i was blown away by. im crazy about kitten burst. its a game with a lot of sauce and is a love letter to the aughts era of web design, its a time trial game about a flying cat in cyberspace that teams up with a hacker to take down a megacorporation.
i think ive talked about kitten burst here before but i will talk about kitten burst again because its good and i think people slept on it