Games you feel that only you played

[Daft Ada]

La Pucelle Tactics - I only played it because I got a review copy and no one else would take it. It ended up one of my all-time favourite games and a fantastic introduction to strategy RPGs. I went on to play through Disgaea, Makai Kingdom, Phantom Brave, and Final Fantasy Tactics but neither of them touched me the way La Pucelle did.

 

[Saelune]

Mystical Ninja starring Goemon which is what started my love of Japanese culture, and Dragon Warrior Monsters, a game series similar but in my opinion better than Pokemon. At least in the states, as both series fared better in Japan, DWM even having a 3DS remake...in Japan only...

 

[PureChaos]

Shadow Man on the N64/PS/PC. Granted a few of my friends played it but that was purely because I recommended. Great game but seemed to go mostly under the radar.

 

[ParanoidEngineer]

Hogs of War. Basically 3D Worms with pigs of various ethnic stereotypes voiced by Rik Mayall for the PS1. God I loved that game, it was funny, challenging and satisfying.

 

[Tiger King]

I have no mouth and I must scream.
I've been playing a lot of point and click lately and this has been a favourite.
based on the short story and including the author voicing the main antagonist, I have found this game to be a good challenge.
the plot consists of a military supercomputer (allied master computer) becoming self aware and decides it hates humanity for making it highly intelligent yet unable move or act on free will, basically it is the equivalent of a paraplegic.
It renames itself AM from allied master computer as in 'I think therefore I AM' and kills every human on earth bar five people that it has kept alive and tortured for 109 years.
The game can be challenging and I enjoyed learning the back story to the survivors. I haven't finished with the 'good' ending yet though.

Gods will be watching.
another point and click adventure. The plot follows the story of two soldiers working undercover to infiltrate a terrorist organisation. I love the old style pixelated graphics and they help add to the shock when some rather brutal things happen, such as in the first scene when you may have to shoot escaping hostages or execute them.

I played IHNMAIMS when it arrived on gog.com and I liked it. I'd known about it for a very long time before that but I didn't read the story until after the intial production run had ended(thus finding a copy of the game was nearly impossible). I'm very glad that gog.com managed to find it and put it back on sale.

I've seen Gods will be watching and I was curious about but I hadn't seen any real reviews telling me if it was worth picking up. I might go ahead and grab it because it does sound interesting.

I would recommend it to anyone that likes point and click and puzzle games.
Be warned though, expect to fail a lot before getting it right.

 

[Asclepion]

For my part, I'd say my "obscure" game of choice is Einhander. Fun 2.5d scrolling shooter in the vein of Gradius, et al, bookended by a couple fairly decent cinematics. You could mount a wide variety of different weapons on your ship, swap their positions above / below, and in several cases this would change how the weapons behaved. Rockets would home in or fire dumb, the "Spreader" shotgun fired forwards or backwards, and the beam sabre could clear the screen in a flash by rapidly switching it back & forth.

To be fair, I'm not certain if it's truly obscure / overlooked, or if I just don't travel the right places to see discussion of it, but either way it's one of my all-time favorite games. Even if it did kick my ass pretty handily more often than not.

It was made by Square, so it can't really be that obscure.

Glory with the Moon. Mercy on the Earth.

 

[Pink Gregory]

Tzar: The Burden of the Crown a Bulgarian strategy game I thought it was fun a long time ago when I used to play it. It is basically unheard of however.

Available on GOG if anyone's interested.

OT: Sheep. It's a game on the original Playstation in which four shepherds (two humans, two dogs) have to guide flocks of sheep through a variety of levels to save them from alien abduction. The most intelligent sheep wore polonecks and circular glasses, there were also rocker sheep.

Closest I can think is some strange combination of Pikmin and Lemmings.

 

[Launcelot111]

999 was a great puzzle/mystery/visual novel game for the DS that I know some people on this site like. What I didn't know until last week was that Virtue's Last Reward is a game that exists. It's 999's sequel and it's just as good. Very happy discovery for me, but I'm very disappointed in all of you for not telling me about it.

 

[Asquared]

Dropship: United Peace Force. I bought this game at my local Rogers video when they were around instead of renting a game or two, some people say its a little rare. Honestly I just bought it because it had a cool cover, and I loved Ace Combat. Surprisingly, it was a good game.

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[klaynexas3]

Iji, it's a free game, and it's a side scrolling shooter rpg thing, with a pretty good story if you ask me. It's like four hours long, and definitely worth even some money.

Frozen Synapse, an extremely tactical game. I'm horrible at it, but it is so in depth and just blaarrrgggg. Also the music kicks ass.

Soul Sacrifice, because it's a Vita exclusive. It's basically a story heavy monster hunting game. It's no Monster Hunter in terms of gameplay, but its story is just the right shade of grimdark with a hint of awesome, and it's still a very fun game to play.

Nearly any Shin Megami Tensei game besides Persona 4. Yeah, I realize they are pretty big, but I still never hear anyone talk about them in terms of my friend groups, even the biggest weebs I know don't know much about the main series.

 

[SaikyoKid]

I had a CD-I growing up, if that counts for anything. Admittedly, I never did play any of the terrible Nintendo cross over things, but I did get introduced to a few more important ones through it: Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, and 7th Guest. Ton of other ones too, but man that was a long time ago...

For something a little more recent:

Spoiler: Monsterseed

It was an old PS1 game that I loved the hell out of. Imagine Pokemon where you hatch your monsters and actually fight to kill the opposing trainer. You get involved in the fight yourself too, albeit you're pretty much useless compared to your monsters. The save system sucked, the monsters would roam about and do things you didn't want them to do, and the story was an absolute mess. That being said though, I'll still play it every once in a while to this day.

 

[TheArcaneThinker]

Alien shooter 2 : Reloaded

Its the most epic alien isometric shooter . At a time you have to 100+ that are all over your screen

Take a look at this footage


Its super fun . Its the 'Painkiller' of isometric shooters .

 

[pearcinator]

A ton of people will sing the praises of Psychonauts but another game that came out around that same time but was somehow given even less attention was a platformer called Voodoo Vince.

I loved that game! It is really short though; well, when it was released it was short (5-10 hrs was short back then, now it seems pretty normal).

As for a game I played that I haven't heard many other people have is LucasArts 'The Dig'

This was the first 'adult' game I played (I was probably like 7 or 8 at the time) and I was really shocked by the violence in it. There was a 'puzzle' where you had to cut off a junkies' hand with the jawbone of some animal. This scene truly shocked me as I had never before played such a violent game (nowadays though it seems almost every game is graphic and violent)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSxRq0_wzPA[/youtube]

Probably not as obscure as some other games here (The Dig was a Spielberg game, so it had that name selling it) but this game dealt with some really adult themes for its time. Such as death, substance abuse/addiction and sacrifice.

 

[Johnny Impact]

SimAnt

I too have reduced caterpillars to rows of green dots and driven the humans from their homes in panic! Of course, this means our two colonies must now go to war! Next question, did you play SimLife?

OT: I will be very impressed if anyone else has played an old PC game called Dungeon Master. Grid-based dungeon crawl in real time with a four-man party made of guys released from magic stasis mirrors. First game I played where you had to feed, water, and sleep your team to keep health and energy up. Magic was a four-tier rune alphabet, combine Fire plus Flight to get a fireball, that sort of thing. Also first game I played where you had to keep a light source going or it was unplayably pitch-ass dark. Interesting stable of D&D knockoff enemies: shriekers, mummies, earth elementals, golems, beholders, and blue dudes that I guess were orcs or something. Final boss could not be defeated by force, the gimmick for defeating him required you to find the five keys needed to unseal and complete the mystic Firestaff. Challenging, addictive, enormous (for the time) and very atmospheric. There's a version here http://dmweb.free.fr/?q=node/851

 

[Raikas]

Mine is Conquests of the Longbow.

I meet plenty of people who remember other old Sierra adventure games, but I only very rarely talk to anyone who remembers this particular one.

 

[SweetShark]

Heh, interesting. Here is my first choice:

VA-11 HALL-A

I already tried to have a coversation about this game, but none are exciting like me for this masterpiece [for me of course]

 

[WhiteWolfe]

I feel like i am the only person who has played blades of time

essentially a budget hack and slash but your ability to rewind time and have multiple versions of your self continuing doing what you done before you rewound sets it apart from any other game ever made.
It wasn't a good game but if it only got a bit more attention we could see more games like it and with a bit of polish it could have been great.

Whoa, so it's Super Time Force but a hack and slash? That's awesome! Also it's made by Gaijin, who make WarThunder? More awesome.

Anyone remember Dungeon Lords? Good lord that game was terrible but me and my buddy had a fun weekend playing it until the game broke because the races we choose couldn't fit through a door to progress the game.

 

[John Santina]

What game comes to mind?

First post here

For me, it would be Lost Odyssey. It was a brilliant game all in all - a few issues here and there, but definitely an interesting game that I am glad I experienced. The short stories at various stages through the game still stick with me.

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