Old Games you remember playing but can't remember the name of.

[ralstonator]

I've been trying to find this game for months and can't for the life of me.

This PC game is most likely from 1996-2003. I believe it's classified as a Western RPG, or perhaps RPG/Adventure. When in a mission, you see the characters from a birds-eye view. You control mages and warriors, and you can see what kind of armor/robe they are wearing. The opening is nice, kinda of long, and it revolves for a bit around a tower (probably where the bad things started happening(. I believe you are the apprentice of a great magician, and he is killed, so you head off with the mission of finding more about what's happening and putting an end to it. There's a lot of bad activity, goblins, orcs and trolls are more active than usual.

A BIG SPOILER, so please ignore this if you don't want a spoiler, is that, in the end, everything is happening because someone opened a portal to another dimension, and a really powerful and evil being came through and was holding the portal open. Perhaps the person who originally opened it didn't have bad intentions. To finish things you kill off that monster and I guess the portal is sealed. END OF SPOILER

There were a lot of nice cutscenes. I remember one where you'd find a sword, I think it was inside a coffin.

Between missions, you'd go to a town. In this town you could go to the tavern to get new missions or hire mercenaries, there was a separate building where you could train your spell-casting skill, and another place to up your fighting skills, and also a shop where you could buy equipment. The equipment list would increase after every mission, and the list became huge, with super amazing and expensive items. The mercenaries you could hire in the tavern could be seen wearing the equipment, which would also upgrade with every mission, often ending up better than the one your main party had (since the newer and best equipment was so expensive).

In the town view, I believe you wouldn't see your character walking around, but you'd rather just click the building and you'd go into the building automatically. The places would be highlighted when you hovered over them.

If you tried to leave town without having found a mission, the guards next to the gate would cross their weapons and say: it's not right to leave town without a mission to complete.

There was a lot of narration in the game, at least in town, almost all your interactions would prompt shop owners/tavern folks to say something. When talking to people in the tavern, they'd often have longer stories they'd tell, and they'd be narrated (I think they were also written out so you could read them on screen as well).

When you hired mercenaries and went on a mission, I think they would just follow you and help you, but you couldn't explicitly open their inventory or make them do things like the main characters. I could be wrong, though.

Shot in the dark here, if you're even watching. Rage of Mages. Found this after forgetting myself and then scouring the internet and it sounds like what you're describing.

 

[Dalyor]

Played this game around 12-13 years ago, around 2004/2005. I guess it was a jrpg, it was some sort of rpg at least. It was on an internet game site but I don't remember if it was flash or something else. I played it once at a friends house and never found it again.

You played as two men going through a castle and fighting a dragon at the end (that was the tutorial level) but after they defeat him it turns out they were only two boys playing make-believe. Their mom calls them in for dinner and afterwards the game skips a bunch of years to where they're about to graduate from some fighting academy and as a final exam they go out to clear out some bandits out of a cave. The party consisted of the two boys from earlier (now around 15-20 years of age), a girl (love interest) and a really mean brute that noone liked (but I think he still fancied the girl).

They enter the cave, encountering the bandit guard. You had the option of convincing him to leave and therefore not having to battle him but if you failed he attacked the party. They then enter the lair and meet and defeat the bandit leader (I think). The party wants to take him in alive but the brute kills him and clearly enjoys it. This makes the girl lash out at the brute, killing him in the process. The remaining three exit the cave and return, all graduating from the academy.

I sort of remember them getting some kind of mission after graduating. I think it was something about defeating an ice witch or something like that, I'm pretty sure it was some sort of evil female magic user. I didn't really get any further so I don't remember anything more.

 

[Meximagician]

Played this game around 12-13 years ago, around 2004/2005. I guess it was a jrpg, it was some sort of rpg at least. It was on an internet game site but I don't remember if it was flash or something else. I played it once at a friends house and never found it again.

You played as two men going through a castle and fighting a dragon at the end (that was the tutorial level) but after they defeat him it turns out they were only two boys playing make-believe. Their mom calls them in for dinner and afterwards the game skips a bunch of years to where they're about to graduate from some fighting academy and as a final exam they go out to clear out some bandits out of a cave. The party consisted of the two boys from earlier (now around 15-20 years of age), a girl (love interest) and a really mean brute that noone liked (but I think he still fancied the girl).

They enter the cave, encountering the bandit guard. You had the option of convincing him to leave and therefore not having to battle him but if you failed he attacked the party. They then enter the lair and meet and defeat the bandit leader (I think). The party wants to take him in alive but the brute kills him and clearly enjoys it. This makes the girl lash out at the brute, killing him in the process. The remaining three exit the cave and return, all graduating from the academy.

I sort of remember them getting some kind of mission after graduating. I think it was something about defeating an ice witch or something like that, I'm pretty sure it was some sort of evil female magic user. I didn't really get any further so I don't remember anything more.

That is probably MARDEK.

 

[SnakElectra]

Hi. It is me again. Just came by to ask that if anyone has any info on online games that are LIKE Dark Swords (NOT Dark Souls) to please message me personally since I don't check this forum often. Thank you.
Also in this game you can choose a male or female avatar. For the rest of the description that I can remember, please see my other posts. Thanx. Oh yeah. 1 more thing. Every time I start thinking "today is the day that I am going to find that GOD DAMNED GAME" and I go looking for it and I can't/don't find it I get REALLY depressed and pissed off and start thinking "I'm NEVER gonna find it!!!!!!!" then I get even MORE pissed off and depressed so if ANYONE has the remotest inkling of an idea PLEASE HELP MEEEEEEEE!

 

[Gafonator]

Hi, I'm looking for an older (2000+ ?) game, sci-fi top-down shooter. A bit similar to let's say Crimsonland or such. Waves of enemies crashing on you, sometimes under the walls, sometimes with turrets that can be manned by you, sometimes even different items. The name itself was depressing and overpowered, something maybe like Plutonia III or Devastation III - yes, and the name had the "III" in it, but I don't think there was first and second part to the series. I don't think it was a series, I think the name was meant to be sort of ambient this way.

The game menu, story, sound, all was done in a very soldier-like and sci-fi way. Steel and crashing sounds. The missions were often impossible to beat - until you found the approach to each and every mission. Sounds like a frustrating game, but it wasn't. A] Killing often Alien-looking creatures en mass was pretty fun even when dying a lot B] back then games were often really hard, we were used to it C] once you found the approach to the mission the mission became "only pretty hard" and not impossible.

Anyone remembers this forgotten gem?

 

[Dalyor]

Played this game around 12-13 years ago, around 2004/2005. I guess it was a jrpg, it was some sort of rpg at least. It was on an internet game site but I don't remember if it was flash or something else. I played it once at a friends house and never found it again.

You played as two men going through a castle and fighting a dragon at the end (that was the tutorial level) but after they defeat him it turns out they were only two boys playing make-believe. Their mom calls them in for dinner and afterwards the game skips a bunch of years to where they're about to graduate from some fighting academy and as a final exam they go out to clear out some bandits out of a cave. The party consisted of the two boys from earlier (now around 15-20 years of age), a girl (love interest) and a really mean brute that noone liked (but I think he still fancied the girl).

They enter the cave, encountering the bandit guard. You had the option of convincing him to leave and therefore not having to battle him but if you failed he attacked the party. They then enter the lair and meet and defeat the bandit leader (I think). The party wants to take him in alive but the brute kills him and clearly enjoys it. This makes the girl lash out at the brute, killing him in the process. The remaining three exit the cave and return, all graduating from the academy.

I sort of remember them getting some kind of mission after graduating. I think it was something about defeating an ice witch or something like that, I'm pretty sure it was some sort of evil female magic user. I didn't really get any further so I don't remember anything more.

That is probably MARDEK.

Thank you so much! You've solved a decade long mystery. Finally my mind is at a rest and I don't have to regularly be frustrated about that game I could never find, I can just play it instead (even though the art style wasn't as good as I remembered it).

 

[Mimoa]

Hello.
Can you help me remember the old top view game?
It is top view and starts after maybe some car accident - you are a man (the police I think), you have a pistol. You are in a city. I think first puzzle was to shoot some gas tank to get on.
I think you have life bars and mana bars - later in the game you will find cards - those are spells - first is light- Then you get card with some pink laser spell -weapon. But maybe the best indicator: later in the game you are in the sunny city - there is an old man, church and the graveyard -and on the graveyard you have to solve the puzzle - get down all the gravestones with women names on it. The old man say it to you as a clue - Lay down the ladies...

 

[Kaobel]

So I found this thread by chance while searching for just such a game. I remember playing it around 2000, possibly a couple years before or after. It was for PC, and the theme was something like a death race. It was 3d, or at least what passed for 3d in that era. Between levels, there were real motion videos of a smarmy guy who was supposed to be the host/producer of the show the race was supposed to be a part of. I think I recall him going from egging you on and badgering you about how you were gonna crash to flat out demanding it and/or telling you that its what the viewers wanted.

In 2000 I would have been 10, so I may be miss-remembering some details, but the death race and the existence of the smarmy host RMVs is for sure.

 

[Pixelhunter]

So I found this thread by chance while searching for just such a game. I remember playing it around 2000, possibly a couple years before or after. It was for PC, and the theme was something like a death race. It was 3d, or at least what passed for 3d in that era. Between levels, there were real motion videos of a smarmy guy who was supposed to be the host/producer of the show the race was supposed to be a part of. I think I recall him going from egging you on and badgering you about how you were gonna crash to flat out demanding it and/or telling you that its what the viewers wanted.

In 2000 I would have been 10, so I may be miss-remembering some details, but the death race and the existence of the smarmy host RMVs is for sure.

Have a look at the Megarace series.

 

[Junior]

So I can remember a pc game from I believe the late 90's. The few things I remember is that there are knights of all the main colours. The black knight being the final one hardest to kill. The only way to kill him is with a rune. You need to dodge blobs of green poison and jets of fire as you make your way up from the sewers to the top of a tower.

 

[dangernelson]

OK this has been bothering me for years....

My parents and I stayed at a Delta hotel when I was little.. like age 6-10. So 1997-2001. The hotel TV had I think a PS1 where you could rent games. I rented this horror game that was incredibly difficult for myself. I couldnt get past the 1st 5 minutes of the game. I remember i controlled a person (3rd person view, i think side scrolly) and I had to open a door and something jumped out of the door and killed me everytime. Like i think it was her dad or something that killed me, or a dog. Yeah a dog i think. Anyway sorry if thats not enough info.

 

[Rannath]

I'm trying to find a game I played a while ago. I think it was ps1 or 2.

I remember it being an action/adventure game where the main character uses an axe thing with a round head. He had a crystal in his head that was the control for a bigger wish-granting crystal (the maguffin). The bad guy had the same crystal in his head, except it was dead. IIRC the game ends with him using the bigger crystal to bring someone back to life.

 

[Bill Powers]

What was it?

Arcade game I played somewhere around '80 or '81. Space-based. Rocket ship flying horizontally to the right, spitting "bullets" straight ahead as well as arcing bombs for land-based enemies/structures. Had to shoot enemies while you maneuvered the various obstacles. Controls were: Control stick w/ ball on top & buttons on the panel.

Bill

 

[HorsemanWar]

Hi there's this game I played around 2004-2006 it's RTS game you control robots and tanks and has campaign like the one in tiberian sun during the game if you destroy enemy main bulldings they become yours when you finish mission a pop up map with new missions to take " just like the one in Tiberian Sun" I think it has no infantry or any human as units just robots there's a mission where you defend 4 explosive tanks making their way through enemy ground while you start with some robots then destroy an enemy robot factory it became yours now you can build some robots to assist you the tanks are slow so you can make so progress t'll they rech enemy lines and te tanks move on their own .
in another misson you start your base in place like old ruins and you have some building already setup and some defend canons your mission to deffend your base from the waves of enemys that will attack you etch 3-5 min.
one buillding thruogh the game gives you the ability to request air strike after some time in the up lift corner and if you didn't use 3 air strikes they will develop to one huge air bombing .
there's those canons that fire yelloysh things,robots fire laser and some can fire on air units.
your team is blue or green and enemy always red.one misson you star with only 4 robots and a base to defend and there was 2 huge towers in the middle of the map and there's an enemy buildings in the bottom lift of the map with low defenses around so you can go destroy and capture,your base is in the top lift but there's a bigger high defended base and buildings in the bottom right of the map your mission is to destroy it before they destroy your main base the on top lift.
one thing when you save a game there's a female voice say "Game saved"
I'm trying to give as much details as I can remember
it's PC game I played on windows 2000/widows XP.
you can ask me for more details BUT PLEASE HELP IT'S BEEN YEARS SEARCHING FOR IT

 

[entruV]

Hello guys

I've been thinking about this game which I used to play around early 2000's.

I'm pretty sure in was an rpg in 3D, in either 3rd person or "bird's eye" perpective.
I think the main character had blue hair, the first level was in a small village and you could talk no npcs, then you had to get inside some kind of cave, and if I remember correctly there was another level right after that was a forest. I think there was classic rpg elements, the protagonists might have been dwarves or gnomes or hobbit-like.

I know it's kinda vague but I figured i would try.

Thank you in advance boys !

 

[GoofGaffLaff]

Okay I've got one that's super, super obscure.

It's from the early 2000's, I think I found it on RealArcade (now called GameHouse, but it's lacking like 99% of the games I remember from RealArcade). You played as... I believe a dwarf? Some type of viking dwarf? And I believe he was always being followed by his brother dwarf or something.
All I can remember is that it was a 2D platforming game with very good graphics for the time. And that the main game involved you just going around a grid map (like the left/right top/bottom sides led to a new room) where there would be new enemies you would kill, get gold and gems and stuff, and then sometimes run into a shop in the middle of this wooded maze to buy upgrades and consumable items.

If it helps, I specifically remember always wasting all my gold on these flying turret things, which were of course all steam-punk-ish because of the medieval setting, and I always bought them forgetting that they expired after like just a minute. During that time though I'd plow through every enemy in my path.

EDIT: Nevermind! It's Brave Dwarves 2! I FOUND IT!!!

 

[Zharenn]

Hello guys

I've been thinking about this game which I used to play around early 2000's.

I'm pretty sure in was an rpg in 3D, in either 3rd person or "bird's eye" perpective.
I think the main character had blue hair, the first level was in a small village and you could talk no npcs, then you had to get inside some kind of cave, and if I remember correctly there was another level right after that was a forest. I think there was classic rpg elements, the protagonists might have been dwarves or gnomes or hobbit-like.

I know it's kinda vague but I figured i would try.

Thank you in advance boys !

Septerra Core?

 

[entruV]

Hello guys

I've been thinking about this game which I used to play around early 2000's.

I'm pretty sure in was an rpg in 3D, in either 3rd person or "bird's eye" perpective.
I think the main character had blue hair, the first level was in a small village and you could talk no npcs, then you had to get inside some kind of cave, and if I remember correctly there was another level right after that was a forest. I think there was classic rpg elements, the protagonists might have been dwarves or gnomes or hobbit-like.

I know it's kinda vague but I figured i would try.

Thank you in advance boys !

Septerra Core?

Nope, it was more of an occidental kind of rpg. I remember some puzzle mechanics with shafts and kart in mines or caves. You had a torch too I believe, and you wouldn't get a sword till some hours in the game

 

[Ners]

So, can't remember a game, it was some sort of action/shooter based. No close known timeframes but I used to play it on a WinXP machine around 2009 perhaps? +/- couple of years, likely older.
After a couple of clicks through the main menus (red-black themed, some pictures and an intro/cutscene I think) you show up as an armored person/soldier in some sort of a valley surrounded with another few soldiers, each having a different set of weapons I think. You could individually control each unit. The main theme color of the game overall was red, like red-orange-yellow(?) and any shades around those, it was literally all red-shaded. From the grounds and grass up to the skies as well, except soldier units, those were black and structures(?) those were more grayish.
The surroundings were kind of like steppes, low steppe-like grass, lots of tiny hills and valleys covered in grass and some larger mountains in the horizont, felt like a desert.
Moving some further you'd encounter some enemy units and some flags waving around, or was it some poles? Can't recall, but it definitely was something alike. Eventually you'd end up finding some kind of conctrete/metal structure/bridge(?) up on a huge hill and few trees around which were similar to those of GTA SA, huge&high, they were also scattered around the fields but nothing in large amounts.
This is the further I came and that's all I get to remember, guess there was some mission to be done but as a kid back then and with lack of english knowledge, it wasn't something I went after and likely the reason I can't remember what it was about, it's mostly visual memories.
Anyone got a clue what I'm talking about?

B. U. M. P. Anyone?

BUMP!

 

[joktetris]

It was a tetris-like game, so between 1986 and 1998 (I think), a PC game, most probably MS-DOS.
The pieces were "falling sideways": so, instead of from top to bottom, it was from right to the left.
Maybe some pieces or parts of pieces acted like power-ups - not sure about this detail.
Another detail: the theme. or at least the name was perestroika-ish. Maybe some name resembling "glasnost"?