Games no one else has played but you
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I distinctly remember playing A Series of Unfortunate Events game on the original Xbox...
Don't look at me like that, the game was dope and I still hold the book series as a pinnacle of children's literature
Don't look at me like that, the game was dope and I still hold the book series as a pinnacle of children's literature
Honestly it wasn't a bad game, and the movie wasn't horrible either just was sad that it was only cashing in on the whole Harry Potter craze.PsychicTaco115 said:
OT: LBA Twinsen's Odyssey one of the better old school PC games. Its available on Gog and I recommend anyone who likes action/adventure games try this out. I wish they'd take the gameplay from that series and redo it to make the controls less clunky, but overall it would be a great great game to remake or at least update to HD but keep the simplicity for it.
I more or less go out of my way to find games that my friends never played. I've played and beaten Summoner, Summoner 2, and Saya no Uta/Song of Saya.
Two games made by Desperado Software for the ZX Spectrum; the puzzler SafeLock (kind of a precursor to the escape-the-room-type games so beloved of Flash developers) and the maze-em-up Eric's Bike.
Desperado Software was my dad. I think he offered Eric's Bike to a publisher but they weren't interested.
Actual commercially released software: Hamte Damte (a Starquake ripoff - yup, a ripoff of a ripoff!) and Mean Streak (won in a Your Sinclair competition - the game got a bit of buzz on announcement but no fanfare after its release).
Non-Speccy: Colonial Conquest II (Amiga); Ultra Peril Snake, X-Quest (PC).
Desperado Software was my dad. I think he offered Eric's Bike to a publisher but they weren't interested.
Actual commercially released software: Hamte Damte (a Starquake ripoff - yup, a ripoff of a ripoff!) and Mean Streak (won in a Your Sinclair competition - the game got a bit of buzz on announcement but no fanfare after its release).
Non-Speccy: Colonial Conquest II (Amiga); Ultra Peril Snake, X-Quest (PC).
Very few people play dragon's dogma dark arisen that I know of. I think it beated Kingdoms of Almar
Even fewer play ace of combat infinity- the best fighter jet game as of right now
Even fewer played kingdoms under fire legion of doom. The combat was not smooth, but very refreshing, and different, and the if it were refined allot more this could easily beat final fantasy.
Even fewer play ace of combat infinity- the best fighter jet game as of right now
Even fewer played kingdoms under fire legion of doom. The combat was not smooth, but very refreshing, and different, and the if it were refined allot more this could easily beat final fantasy.
I just beat Marlow Briggs! Let's see...
Blast Corps. N64 not-quite-launch title from Rare where you must demolish buildings before a runaway missile carrier wipes out on them. Quickly devolves into a surreal time-trial puzzle driving sim. And you go to space, in a dump truck.
Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth. The only entry in the Star Soldier franchise WITHOUT a crazy cult following, possibly because it is WAY WAY EASIER than any other Star Soldier game. Still fun. Noteworthy for a level where you must guard a space shuttle while it is being launched, in spite of the player and his army having FTL space fighters and the like. On a side tangent what was with N64 games and space shuttles? You save them in VE, Goldeneye, Aerofighters Assault, and the aforementioned Blast Corps, and I think a couple show up in Sin and Punishment too. Hey, speaking of that-
Sin and Punishment. It's Space Harrier made by Treasure and it's awesome. I think it's on the virtual console.
Nightstone. A shitty diablo clone from Germany. All the classes are horrible, there's a stealth mechanic that you have no need to ever use, and spider enemies can outrun wolves. Released in glorious 2D in spite of coming out well into the 3D era.
Nox. A GOOD diablo clone by Westwood. I believe it's public domain now. Nox has a forgettable campaign; the most memorable thing about it is its deathmatch mode in which players build a mid-level character than run around arenas setting traps, sniping, and looting. It even had primitive debris physics and ray-traced LOS. Every MOBA owes something to Nox, even if they don't talk about it.
Soul Bringer. A classic-style 3/4 RPG released by Epic in the dark days before Unreal. Noteable for being in 3D but using sprites for each part of a character- so your dude's head is a sprite, then his torso is another, and his arms are like 3. They all rotate kind of on their own and sometimes they drift apart. It's unsettling as hell, especially on the "hot girl" barmaid model.
CyClones. The game that put Raven on the map. Using an engine similar to Duke Nukem, you play a cyborg commando who- look, it's basically a serious Blood Dragon that runs in DOS, okay? Notable for having an inventory and for inventing those rotating black robots with all the red eyes that show up in like every single Raven game.
Strife. It's an action RPG made in the Doom engine. It's actually REALLY FUN, but it's very unstable and most modern Doom VMs and engine rebuilds don't seem to support it.
Damage Incorporated. Real-world action game built on the Marathon engine that sees the player direct a squad of marines in counter-terrorism operations. Think Rainbow 6 with no Z-axis to speak of. Had an awesome opening theme, tons of guys to recruit, and amazingly gory deaths (especially from the corrosive shotgun rounds).
Arcade Mario 1. NOT the playchoice release, this was a modified rom with support for score tables and the like. Since it was rebuilt for arcade play, most 1-up mushrooms and shortcuts were removed, making it kind of the Hardmode Super Mario Brothers.
Arcade Battletoads. And yeah, it's harder than the NES one.
Blast Corps. N64 not-quite-launch title from Rare where you must demolish buildings before a runaway missile carrier wipes out on them. Quickly devolves into a surreal time-trial puzzle driving sim. And you go to space, in a dump truck.
Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth. The only entry in the Star Soldier franchise WITHOUT a crazy cult following, possibly because it is WAY WAY EASIER than any other Star Soldier game. Still fun. Noteworthy for a level where you must guard a space shuttle while it is being launched, in spite of the player and his army having FTL space fighters and the like. On a side tangent what was with N64 games and space shuttles? You save them in VE, Goldeneye, Aerofighters Assault, and the aforementioned Blast Corps, and I think a couple show up in Sin and Punishment too. Hey, speaking of that-
Sin and Punishment. It's Space Harrier made by Treasure and it's awesome. I think it's on the virtual console.
Nightstone. A shitty diablo clone from Germany. All the classes are horrible, there's a stealth mechanic that you have no need to ever use, and spider enemies can outrun wolves. Released in glorious 2D in spite of coming out well into the 3D era.
Nox. A GOOD diablo clone by Westwood. I believe it's public domain now. Nox has a forgettable campaign; the most memorable thing about it is its deathmatch mode in which players build a mid-level character than run around arenas setting traps, sniping, and looting. It even had primitive debris physics and ray-traced LOS. Every MOBA owes something to Nox, even if they don't talk about it.
Soul Bringer. A classic-style 3/4 RPG released by Epic in the dark days before Unreal. Noteable for being in 3D but using sprites for each part of a character- so your dude's head is a sprite, then his torso is another, and his arms are like 3. They all rotate kind of on their own and sometimes they drift apart. It's unsettling as hell, especially on the "hot girl" barmaid model.
CyClones. The game that put Raven on the map. Using an engine similar to Duke Nukem, you play a cyborg commando who- look, it's basically a serious Blood Dragon that runs in DOS, okay? Notable for having an inventory and for inventing those rotating black robots with all the red eyes that show up in like every single Raven game.
Strife. It's an action RPG made in the Doom engine. It's actually REALLY FUN, but it's very unstable and most modern Doom VMs and engine rebuilds don't seem to support it.
Damage Incorporated. Real-world action game built on the Marathon engine that sees the player direct a squad of marines in counter-terrorism operations. Think Rainbow 6 with no Z-axis to speak of. Had an awesome opening theme, tons of guys to recruit, and amazingly gory deaths (especially from the corrosive shotgun rounds).
Arcade Mario 1. NOT the playchoice release, this was a modified rom with support for score tables and the like. Since it was rebuilt for arcade play, most 1-up mushrooms and shortcuts were removed, making it kind of the Hardmode Super Mario Brothers.
Arcade Battletoads. And yeah, it's harder than the NES one.
I love how I would brag to my friends that I was the best Odama player, since no matter how much it would seem like I screwed up some of the commands or how low moral was at the end of every battle, I could never loose a single battle... (Man-Spider ain't got shit on my Odama!) Plus, whenever I would be playing it alongside my cousins, I would hand them the mic so that they would yell out the commands (mainly "PRESS FORWARD!" because it was sometimes that OP) while I focused on keeping the Odama from loosing to the opposition... Hooray for alternative co-op play!Madame_Lawliet said:
Also, I still regret not picking up Chibi-Robo when I had SO MANY CHANCES to at the time!
*flips self due to lack of a proper table to flip*
Oh, there are quite some obscure games in my collection. Just to mention a few that I genuinely liked:
Rule of Rose
Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure
Echo Night (the one for the PS1)
Spy Fiction
Michigan: Report From Hell
Flower, Sun and Rain
Melty Blood
Crimson Gem Saga
And there's a really nice PSP RPG which's name escapes me. Something like Lollorollo. It's a combined remake of two PS1 games with plenty animated cutscenes and a kidsy artstyle.
EDIT: Ah, yes. It's called PoPoLoCrois.
Rule of Rose
Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure
Echo Night (the one for the PS1)
Spy Fiction
Michigan: Report From Hell
Flower, Sun and Rain
Melty Blood
Crimson Gem Saga
And there's a really nice PSP RPG which's name escapes me. Something like Lollorollo. It's a combined remake of two PS1 games with plenty animated cutscenes and a kidsy artstyle.
EDIT: Ah, yes. It's called PoPoLoCrois.
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine (PC version)
Quality of the video is really bad, but you can't be too fussy when there's fuck all to find on YouTube. (actually, there is a let's play without commentary, but eh, doesn't seem appropriate to just slap some random LP video on here)
Massive childhood favourite of mine. I never really see it get spoken of anywhere, and after recently replaying it, I can sort of see why. The controls are... well, just really fucking hard to get used to. But I still really enjoyed it, though more out of nostalgia than anything else, I guess.
H.E.D.Z. (PC)
Now talk about obscure. I haven't seen anyone ever speak about this except for a GOG thread that has under 100 votes, or so. This was another one I played a lot as a kid, and I had a lot of fun with it. Really cool concept as well, being some kind of alien gladiatorial combat that takes place with the alien using heads taken from humans, which grants them powers of what that human used to be in life (an alien wearing the head of a medic would have healing abilities while an alien wearing the head of an old gangster would use a tommy gun, and one with the head of an old grandmother would drive around in some disabled vehicle thing while yelling "coochie-coo"). Yeah, really fucking wacky game. Unfortunately, I lost my copy of it ages ago, and it's too damn expensive to get it on eBay these days. I'd like to play it again, though I doubt it has held up well.
Quality of the video is really bad, but you can't be too fussy when there's fuck all to find on YouTube. (actually, there is a let's play without commentary, but eh, doesn't seem appropriate to just slap some random LP video on here)
Massive childhood favourite of mine. I never really see it get spoken of anywhere, and after recently replaying it, I can sort of see why. The controls are... well, just really fucking hard to get used to. But I still really enjoyed it, though more out of nostalgia than anything else, I guess.
H.E.D.Z. (PC)
Now talk about obscure. I haven't seen anyone ever speak about this except for a GOG thread that has under 100 votes, or so. This was another one I played a lot as a kid, and I had a lot of fun with it. Really cool concept as well, being some kind of alien gladiatorial combat that takes place with the alien using heads taken from humans, which grants them powers of what that human used to be in life (an alien wearing the head of a medic would have healing abilities while an alien wearing the head of an old gangster would use a tommy gun, and one with the head of an old grandmother would drive around in some disabled vehicle thing while yelling "coochie-coo"). Yeah, really fucking wacky game. Unfortunately, I lost my copy of it ages ago, and it's too damn expensive to get it on eBay these days. I'd like to play it again, though I doubt it has held up well.
There's a couple I rarely hear people talk about. The first one is a game called Tonic Trouble for the N64, a platformer in the same vein as rayman 2. The other one is A game called Second Sight for the ps2, sadly it got over shadowed by psi ops.
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"Submarine Titans": I always liked the underwater-setting. I played the demo years and years ago and recently reinstalled it, but have yet to try it. I don't think, that "Conquest: Frontier Wars" is quite as unknown, but check it out anyway. Especially if you are looking for a somewhat more "normal" Space-RTS.
http://www.gog.com/game/conquest_frontier_wars
Also "Leviathan - The Tone Rebellion". A rather weird strategy-game. The races are weird, the environments are weird and the control scheme is weird. If you want to try something unique than that's certainly a good possibility. It is kind of a "side-scroller" and the workers can only be controlled indirectly. I don't know with what to compare it. The gameplay is probably the most normal thing about it. Just ressource gathering and military expansion with some storytelling and some slight RPG-elements (leveling etc.) thrown in.
A basic tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l93eXHMyXhI
I think both "The Cat Lady" (side-scroller adventure on depression) and "Knock-Knock" (creepy side-scroller on similar topics) have been mentioned here, but I still wanted to use the possibility to convert some additional people ;-)
"Submarine Titans": I always liked the underwater-setting. I played the demo years and years ago and recently reinstalled it, but have yet to try it. I don't think, that "Conquest: Frontier Wars" is quite as unknown, but check it out anyway. Especially if you are looking for a somewhat more "normal" Space-RTS.
http://www.gog.com/game/conquest_frontier_wars
Also "Leviathan - The Tone Rebellion". A rather weird strategy-game. The races are weird, the environments are weird and the control scheme is weird. If you want to try something unique than that's certainly a good possibility. It is kind of a "side-scroller" and the workers can only be controlled indirectly. I don't know with what to compare it. The gameplay is probably the most normal thing about it. Just ressource gathering and military expansion with some storytelling and some slight RPG-elements (leveling etc.) thrown in.
A basic tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l93eXHMyXhI
I think both "The Cat Lady" (side-scroller adventure on depression) and "Knock-Knock" (creepy side-scroller on similar topics) have been mentioned here, but I still wanted to use the possibility to convert some additional people ;-)
Legend of the Ghost Lion for the NES.
As a fan of RPGs, I had to get this for my ever growing collection. I will say...the gameplay is kinda easy at points and sorta MEH at others. However, it did do some rather interesting things like forcing you to "find your levels" rather than grind for experience to gain them.
As a fan of RPGs, I had to get this for my ever growing collection. I will say...the gameplay is kinda easy at points and sorta MEH at others. However, it did do some rather interesting things like forcing you to "find your levels" rather than grind for experience to gain them.
Knights in the Nightmare, a strategy-shooter role-playing game. I haven't seen anyone ever mention it. It's a 2009ish DS game. Take Fire Emblem, add bullet hell and a timer. One of my favorite DS games.
I can think of quite a few actually.
<spoiler=The List>
Anachronox
Battle Realms
Ballistics
Children of the Nile
Conquest Frontier Wars
Diggles
Harbinger
Imperium Galactica 2
Impossible Creatures
Distant Worlds
Lost Empire Immortals
Master of Orion III (heard a lot of people talking, no one admitting having played it.)
Magus (no, not that one. The tiled-graphics indie one.)
Outcast
Perimeter Emperors Testament
Pharaoh
Project Eden
Re-Volt
Robot Arena
Septerra Core
Startopia
Tachyon the Fringe
Already mentioned:
X3 terran conflict
Eternal Daughter
The Spirit Engine (1 AND 2)
Ahriman's Prophecy
Birth of the Federation.
Endless Space
Worms 2
Nomad
<spoiler=The List>
Anachronox
Battle Realms
Ballistics
Children of the Nile
Conquest Frontier Wars
Diggles
Harbinger
Imperium Galactica 2
Impossible Creatures
Distant Worlds
Lost Empire Immortals
Master of Orion III (heard a lot of people talking, no one admitting having played it.)
Magus (no, not that one. The tiled-graphics indie one.)
Outcast
Perimeter Emperors Testament
Pharaoh
Project Eden
Re-Volt
Robot Arena
Septerra Core
Startopia
Tachyon the Fringe
Already mentioned:
X3 terran conflict
Eternal Daughter
The Spirit Engine (1 AND 2)
Ahriman's Prophecy
Birth of the Federation.
Endless Space
Worms 2
Nomad
Kill.Switch
It was a 3rd person shooter on the PS2.Honestly can't remember that much about it but it's memorable for being the first game I remember playing with cover based gameplay which allowed things like blind firing etc.Gears of War pretty much copied and pasted it's cover system from what I can see.Never met a single person who's played it though apart from my brother
It was a 3rd person shooter on the PS2.Honestly can't remember that much about it but it's memorable for being the first game I remember playing with cover based gameplay which allowed things like blind firing etc.Gears of War pretty much copied and pasted it's cover system from what I can see.Never met a single person who's played it though apart from my brother
I loved Marlow Briggs.It's so ludicrously over the top it's brilliantInglorious891 said:
There's a good reason no-one ever played it as it was never released outside of Japan until it came to Virtual Console.Great game though and the sequel on Wii was equally goodRayce Archer said: