What's the most obscure game you've played?
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I would say seek and destroy. It was a tank game on the PS2 where you could customise your tank with tons of crazy things (like angel wings that allowed it to fly). Kinda had a free roam aspect to it with a world map and towns to purchase stuff.
Otogi and Otogi 2 for the original xbox. I have met maybe 3 others who have played it. We all came to a consensus, the art direction was beautiful and a 3rd warrants a making.
Robot Alchemic Drive, a PS2 giant robot game. Horrible in many ways, but it had a surprisingly innovative, and fun, control scheme.
Probably blast corpse for the N64, no one had that. It was a good Rare game, but the camera sucked, and it was pretty hard in parts. Also, the port of tony hawks's 2 for n64 aswell, that wasn't even reviewed in most magazines...
War in Middle Earth, a strategy/RPG of the Lord of the Rings. It's really strange in that there is no obligation to follow the plot. Frodo can get killed, Moria can be skipped, Boromir can get the ring, etc. without there being a game over. Heck, Ring Wraiths can kill off the entire party and the game still isn't over until Sauron actually gets the ring, leaving open the possibility of Faramir intercepting it.
Yes. FUCK YES. Now you're onto something. At least as far as Sanitarium and Sacrifice (and weren't they both just awesome?).CrysisMcGee said:
Battlezone was mainstream, sorry. What you're after is Uprising, the game Battlezone ripped off.
Grim Fandango and Psychonauts are not obscure, they're cult classics. That every second person on this thread brings them up is testament to that. They're like Fallout without the Bethesda sequel to bring them back into the limelight after 10 years.
Whoever said "Worms", shoot them. Shoot them in the face. Even Team 17's older games don't count as obscure: Alien Breed, Body Blows, okay, maybe Phoenix. Nobody knows Phoenix at least. I loved Team 17, I wish they'd make another game that didn't have Worms in the title...
Now, while I'm actually making contributions instead of debunking others:
Warzone 2100 - very much like Earth 2140/50/60 and probably older;
Grizzly - like Mortal Kombat for Mac. With teddy bears;
Transylvania for Mac Plus (I gather it ran on the Mac Classic, too);
Arabian Nights (and no, not the re-named Prince of Persia 3D, the 2D platformer for the Amiga with the awesome music);
Beyond Divinity has already been mentioned - it's the first sequel to Divine Divinity, mentioned earlier in this thread;
Finally, will people please stop mentionning Japanese games like Breath of Fire. I'm sorry, but if it's been anywhere near Japan then there's a group of fans larger than your country (or state, if you're in the US) still updating their walkthroughs. Let it go.
Oh and one extra-final thing, Septerra Core was not only obscure, but awesome. I only know one other person who's played it that didn't discover it through me.
The closest I can get to obscure is:
Lufia/Estpolis
Dragonball (the one from the NES)
Final Fantasy Legend
Lufia/Estpolis
Dragonball (the one from the NES)
Final Fantasy Legend
A thousand times this, although I wasn't a huge fan of the second one, maybe because I'd grown to actually quite like Raikoh, and playing as other characters put me off.RavingPenguin said:
Still, a 3rd should have been made, games like Otogi were real gems.
Zero Tolerance on the Megadrive (Genesis) I never met another soul who ever played it. I used to rent it regularly cos I could never find a copy to buy. console FPS in the doom vein with great levels and weapons. I'm sure someone else here has played it.
Please.....
I also loved Hogs of War a controller throwing great game
Please.....
I also loved Hogs of War a controller throwing great game