Games you never found another player of (or even heard of)

[Epicspoon]

A game called Baroque.
I found it cheaply for the Wii a few years back, don't know anyone who's heard of it.
And good so, the game sucked and I didn't understand crap about it...
I tried to play it for several hours but never got anywhere
People of the Escapist, keep away from this game!

I've heard of this game and almost bought it. then gamestop did me a solid and told me it was crap because the employees at my gamestop are pretty cool guys.

 

[madster11]

Sanitarium - a 2002 Point-and-Click puzzler where you are a doctor in a coma who has discovered a terrible secret about one of your colleagues. The game is your journey through your mind as you fight to regain consciousness before your colleague kills you. It's trippy and bizarre and horrible and brilliant.

Just got that from GoG the other day, yet to play it. Sounds good, though.

 

[Mr Dizazta]

The Bouncer for the PS2. It was a fighting game, one of the only ones I like. The story was a little... weird, but you got the option at the beginning of each level to play as one of three characters, and I always thought that was fucking cool.

Dark Cloud, also for the PS2. That was a fucking fantastic game, probably one of my favourites. It had a pretty solid storyline, a unique world, and the settings were just fascinating. The first one, anyways. I never finished the second one, it couldn't capture me the same way the first one did.

The second one is so much better. My dad is actually in the middle of a new playthrough of Dark Cloud 2, he just finished the first one again a week ago or so. I liked the georama better in 1, but the gameplay is just so clunky compared to the second.

I remember playing The Bouncer with my babysitter.

 

[Gennadios]

Sub Culture.

It was a space trading game except it was a tiny undersea culture. Graphics were great at the time and decent humor.

Game barely sold though, and I've spent the the past few years trying to find digital copies. I have no idea what the hell's taking GoG so long.

Sanitarium - a 2002 Point-and-Click puzzler where you are a doctor in a coma who has discovered a terrible secret about one of your colleagues. The game is your journey through your mind as you fight to regain consciousness before your colleague kills you. It's trippy and bizarre and horrible and brilliant.

Just got that from GoG the other day, yet to play it. Sounds good, though.

I remember the demo I got in a PC Gamer disk being the first PC game I'd ever played. Ended up buying it on the cheap a few months later, I loved the atmosphere, although the story makes no sense in hindsight.

 

[Da Orky Man]

Tachyon: The Fringe, a space sim from 2000. So far, I've only ever met one person whose even heard of it, not one who has actually played it. A shame, it was a good game. Now all Novalogic do is make more expansions to Delta Force.

 

[EOTD]

A game called Baroque.
I found it cheaply for the Wii a few years back, don't know anyone who's heard of it.
And good so, the game sucked and I didn't understand crap about it...
I tried to play it for several hours but never got anywhere
People of the Escapist, keep away from this game!

Ah yes, the Saga Saturn remake. A unforgiving dungeon crawler where the name of the game is repetition. The point of that game is that you have lost your memory and you must find it. So nothing is told to you at all from the first playthrough and you must replay the game to find out more each time, getting longer each time to complete.

A spoiler free guide can be a lot of help as its trial and error gameplay is a bit much to take.


Back to the topic. I love the Team17 game Superfrog on the Amiga. I cute platform game where you must rescue the princess after the witch has kidnapped her and you where turned into a frog in the possess. With the power of love and Lucozade you have to battle your way through forrests, spooky castles and other horrors to reach the witch's base on the moon. I wish I could spoil the ending for you but I won't. Sadly I have never found anyone else who had played this little jem.

 

[Hagi]

One of the first games I ever played was a 2D side-scroller called Heart of Darkness. Had a red-head kid called Andy as the protagonist who, at some point, gets magical powers from this green blob of ore or something in the sea.

That game was awesome! Never finished it, I remember it being CRAZY long (although that might just be in the same way a little kid remembers the slide being CRAZY high). But it was awesome!

OT: Knights and Merchants, the first RTS I ever really enjoyed due to it's amazing unit system. You'd line your warriors up into ranks and files and could construct genuine battle-lines to fight the enemy. It gave real meaning to things like flanking, protecting your backline of archers etc.

The economic system I also found great, somewhat reminiscent of the Settlers but with the vastly superior (in my opinion) combat system mentioned above.

 

[sagitel]

seal of evil. the game is not great. its not even good. and i have never even saw the game in like 5 years. not the CDs not on store shelves. and i have never seen anyone else have ever heard of it.

 

[Mrkillhappy]

Another Century's Episode R is the only game that comes to mind but to be fair it was only released in japan and most of my friends don't import.

 

[ethan22122]

Beasts and Bumpkins - from 1997, a PC RTS where you, an exiled medieval lord, slowly build yourself up back to power. It's quite funny, and really difficult. I've never managed to complete it, and the only other person I know that played it is my best friend.

My mum bought that for me when I was around 7, it would always run dodgey on my PC but I liked it.
OT, I've never spoken to anyone else who's played "Binary Domain".

 

[Dr.Susse]

Guardian's Crusade, well...that was by far one of my favourite playstation games. You play a knight who meets a little pink baby monster while out adventuring, and you take it upon yourself to return him to his mom. Sound childish? Yeah, maybe a little. But on the course of your journey, you have a run-in with cannibals, save a town from being taken over by a corrupt mayor, and help to take down a cult that's taking over the world. Not quite as childish as it may seem. Also, the baby monster was frigging cute!

I loved the hell out of that game. But with the advantage of it being my first JRPG so had nothing to compare it to.


The game I've yet to find another escapist that even knows of is Great Greed for the Original Gameboy.
It was a pretty obscure almost pokemon type game gameplay and graphics wise. (No monster collecting just the one main character though)
The weirdest part was they named everything after food

That enemy's name? Ham man.

 

[Moralio]

Lords of Magic for PC. It's an RPG/RTS hybrid with a turn-based movement and economy system that switches to a real-time tactical battlefield when combat is initiated. There were eight different "faiths" you could play as, like order, chaos, life, and death, which gave the game a lot of replay-ability.

The only people I know who actually played it were my brother and I.

MoM player represent! It was really brilliant for it's time and it kinda is something that Heroes of Might and Magic was built upon. Shame we never got a sequel.

 

[Sack of Cheese]

Dog's life for playstation 2.

I've never met another person that is even aware of its existence, which is a shame. Cause it is the best game ever made!

I played it! It has really awful camera that gave me motion sickness.

 

[SnowyGamester]

The one that really comes to mind is Interstate 76. It's basically a less ridiculous Twisted Metal with heaps of car customization and a campaign with a storyline. The graphics have aged terribly but I had a great time with it when it was the only PC game I had. There's also Urban Assault which was a great combination of RTS and vehicle combat...I think it may have a bit of a cult following but I've never met anyone who's mentioned playing it.

 

[IllumInaTIma]

I've yet to meet someone who adores Front Mission 3 as I do.

This guy.
I own and have beaten both Front Mission 3 and 4.
Now if only you said FM 1 or 2...

I hate these threads because they remind me just how many games I've played.
At least there are games in this thread that I haven't played.
I've been to some of these threads were I played them all...

I've never played FM4 since i never had PS2. I tried to emulate it countless times, but always failed=(
is FM4 as good as FM3?

 

[Shocksplicer]

I never see anyone for Timesplitters. At least, from 3 onward. 1-2 wasn't very good.

3 and Future Perfect were a big part of my teenage years, though.

There were only ever 3 Timesplitters games. They were also very popular.

OT: One played a nice little indie game called Thomas Was Alone. Really likeable game, never met a single person who's even heard of it.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I'm surprised Pandemic Studios isn't revered the way other tragically shut-down developers are, or even mentioned for that matter. Clover Studios gave us three (excellent, amazing) titles on the PS2 and it's been deified as a developer-saint ever since Capcom shut it down. Pandemic gave us nothing short of amazing games and was shut down by none other than EA... specifically speaking, I'm surprised Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction doesn't get mentioned more often. Amazing, wide open, free roaming sandbox as the PS2 never had (GTA franchise aside). I've seen it mentioned exactly once in here, and only because I brought it up. Same thing with the Destroy All Humans! series. How come they don't come up more often?

 

[Skeleon]

I was going to say Sacrifice, but I actually know a handful of people who played it.

Anybody here know The Tone Rebellion? Also known as Leviathan?
It's a strategy-RPG-sim kind of thing with minor puzzle elements. As a tribe of "floaters" (see an example to your left; my avatar), you have to fight against the evil Leviathan who splintered the world and infested it with its creatures. Along the way, you need to solve ancient mysteries to gain the powers to destroy the Leviathan in the end. You see, while you build up your military, the Leviathan is more than just its armies. Mere weapons won't destroy it.

It's incredibly imaginative and weird. Far from perfect, especially the controls are kind of crappy in a lot of regards, but the graphics (prerendered backgrounds) were absolutely stunning at the time and the story is full of mysticism and fictional spiritualism. Lovely experience, I think I'll play it again soon.

 

[LordMithril]

Raptor: Call of the Shadows - fun forward-scrolling DOS game that was kinda like a prelude to modern bullet-hell games. Had some pretty neat graphics (for it's time) and some really sweet music. Despite being made by Apogee, I've met all of 2 people who actually played it back then. Basics of it were you were flying around in a Fighter Jet that could shoot various flavors of missile, bullet and laser, fighting off hordes of smaller ships to blow up a much larger ship at the end of the level.

Grandia II - Nice, fun RPG with some good characters but a completely broken battle system (You can spam ultimate attacks really easily and one character has a 2 minute long paralysis spell that works on all the bosses), but went fairly unnoticed by people. Hell, I didn't even know there was a Grandia I when I picked up II, so it's at least understandable if nobody has ever heard of it before.

[snip]

I remember Jill of the Jungle!
...well, I remember playing it at least, about 8 years ago when my only computer was a Computer that could barely run Windows 95. Can't really remember a lot of the specifics of the game, sadly.

I played the hell out of Raptor back in the day.
My uncle had it on his pc, when I came over I almost killed the keyboard playing it
Also Jill of the Jungle and Cosmo.
For Raptor check Good old Games. And pickup Tyrian 2000 to. Same Idear but a lot more guns
Also.. Raptor + Monkey code = ownage Cows with Twin Azure beams.. ouch.

Grandia 2.. owned it on PC but lost it great game though.

For me the games would be:
Tyrian 2K [http://www.gog.com/gamecard/tyrian_2000]: A lot like Raptor but faster and more insane
Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmo%27s_Cosmic_Adventure]: Weird ass Keen like platformer.
Also R.O.T.T. but it seems there is a remake coming so apparently people did play is

 

[Zoe Castillo]

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