What's the world's "strangest" game?

[the monopoly guy]

killer 7 I win
seriously, why is this head on a shelf talking to me? you play as a schizophrenic!
and what about eternal darkness? that game TRIED to make you go insane. nintendo patended the gamestyle

 

[bermyduck]

Jazz Jackrabbit. You're a rabbit (a green rabbit) with a brother named Spaz, and you run through levels shooting stuff and jumping around. At one point, you are in an Alice in Wonderland world and your controls are reversed if you go into the smoke of the caterpiller's "pipe".

And by pipe, I mean bong.

Ya I remember that. Weird.
I'm gonna go with Lawnmower Man. its not what you think. Its about a guys gardener who somehow becomes this weird digital silver surfer looking guy in a computer virtual reality world, and who is evil. So the dude must go into the VR to stop his gardener from doin some crazy thing, i can't remember, virusing the whole world or something.

 

[Susan Arendt]

Stretch Panic is definitely the most bizarre game I've ever played. Some of the enemies are girls with enormous gazongas (even by videogame standards) that you must stretch and snap in order to defeat the girls. No, I'm not kidding.

Visually stunning game, though.

 

[slaygore]

Other than any game made in Japan, I would have to say Worms. It's probably he most messed up game I've seen. You're controlling a bunch of worms to kill other worms. Not only do they have an insane collection of weapons to destroy the world they know kung fu too. Instead of trying to take over the world and enslave all humans they rather just kill themselves. Also in the later games you can summon god like moves and I'm just staring at the screen going....shit better not piss off worms from now on. You gotta respect the worms.

 

[sevendeadlysins]

The strangest thing I've ever played? Space Station Silicon Valley takes a close second, but I'd probably have to say Mad Maestro for the PS2. You play as a conductor who has to assemble an orchestra from circus animals, feuding lovers, and aliens in order to perform a concert to keep a concert hall in business. You do so by conducting several different, though admittedly great, classical songs (Read: pressing the X button repeatedly to the beat)Though, the sensor watching how much pressure you're pressing with to determine dynamics was pretty interesting.

 

[Another]

You all seriously forgot about Katamari Damacy?

"Meow-Meowvolus! Your Katamari is HUGE!"

 

[Stammer]

I'd also have to point out the incredibly genius weirdness that the Mario world brought.

You're a plumber, you're in some weirdo dimension, you have to save a princess from a giant turtle-dinosaur guy, you ride a dragon-dinosaur guy, you fight giant walking mushrooms and killer turtles, you jump on blocks floating in midair, you use a racoon tail to fly...

I'm pretty sure the list could go on. I mean, each mario adventure brought around the most ridiculous new stuff. Few games grace the original Mario games' originality.

 

[AlphaWolf13]

Patapon.

I've never actually played the game, but I really want it for my PSP. It's a Japanese game where you play the god of these people, and you press the four main buttons in rhythm to make your guys more effective at fighting. It just looks so trippy.

World of Warcrap.

It's strange because it's one of the worst games ever invented, yet people still play it. It's probably the only thing Yahtzee's ever gotten wrong; when he said "...as good as it's going to get," I said "FAIL".

It's worse when you come from a hard MMO to WoW, and realize the mistake...
Alas, all the hard MMO's are dead from either being too old (EverQuest) or having very very very bad launches (Vanguard)...

 

[AlphaWolf13]

What about Sonic??
Playing as a blue hedgehog that is fighting against an evil fat man, who just so happened to convert the entire earths population of cute fuzzy animals into robotic minions...

You then proceed to go through some of the strangest maps and places known to man, such as an underwater world that was equipped with poles and and fans...

Oh and can't forget the starlight worlds, I'm not even sure what the hell a hedgehog has to do with all of this in any case!?!?!

One more thing, the special stages... Acid Trip at that age...


Though, I still <3 the old Sonic

 

[HardRockSamurai]

Space Station Silicon Valley. You play as a tiny robot chip thing that survives by hijacking all the robot animals in the space station, including bears, wheeled mice, floating sheep, and missile shooting wheeled dog, and using them to do puzzles.

Oh thank lord, I waas begining to think I was the only one on the planet who'd played that game...it's fun, ain't it? I'm suprised no one's mentioned "Boon-Ga Boon-Ga"...google it...then you'll understand...

 

[sparkdale]

Rom Check Fail.

 

[Stammer]

It's worse when you come from a hard MMO to WoW, and realize the mistake...
Alas, all the hard MMO's are dead from either being too old (EverQuest) or having very very very bad launches (Vanguard)...

I took a break from the MMO I play, Final Fantasy XI, to give the WoW free trial a go... Like you said, "mistake" lol. After about day five I already had one of every race and every job to the max level for a free trial, which was 20. The game is way too easy, and everything looks the exact same. The funny thing was, I had only played it for about 2-3 hours each day.

WoW sucked so bad that I went right back into FFXI hardcore and found it that much more fun.

With that in mind, WoW is weird because it makes you appreciate other games more. If you hate one game, play WoW for 5 days and you'll wish you were playing the game you hated, haha!

 

[ADDLibrarian]

Yay for Japan and it's weirdness. I collect weird/wacky/unusual games for fun. Katamari Damacy, Mister Mosquito, Chulip, Guitaroo Man, Stretch Panic, DOA2: Hardcore, City of Lost Children, Feel the Magic, Rayman Raving Rabbids, Psychonauts, etc. etc. etc. They're all here. *hugs them all*

 

[the monopoly guy]

I'd also have to point out the incredibly genius weirdness that the Mario world brought.

You're a plumber, you're in some weirdo dimension, you have to save a princess from a giant turtle-dinosaur guy, you ride a dragon-dinosaur guy, you fight giant walking mushrooms and killer turtles, you jump on blocks floating in midair, you use a racoon tail to fly...

I'm pretty sure the list could go on. I mean, each mario adventure brought around the most ridiculous new stuff. Few games grace the original Mario games' originality.

you forgot that yoshi's pink friend is actually a guy

 

[karn3]

Strangest game that i have ever played has got to be "Psyhconauts". Diving around in the heads of insane people and the twisted worlds in which they live. The milkman comes to mind.

 

[Logan Westbrook]

Should we really be including Japanese games in our deliberations? Surely what we perceive as weirdness is just a difference in culture?

 

[shiajun]

Perhaps now entirely strange, but a game that truly left me with a "Whoa!, what was that?" sensation is a game way back from 1995. Endorfun. You play a little colored cube that you have to navigate on top a grid where colored tiles continually appear. You absorb them by rolling over them with the same color side of the cube on top. What makes it all weird, is that the game is played with a New World and jazzy soundtrack, on top of really psycheadelic backgrounds, and the fact that the cube is refered to as "light body" and other hippie references therein. Also, the music is laden with subliminal messages like "I feel joyful now" and "I'm a beautiful and perfect spirit", and similar ones,as well as showing one of the them in swirling majestic colors after completing several levels. Oh, and if that wasn't trippy enough, as the levels progress you change from a semi-ismoetric view of the grid to some really twisted perspectives that really test you navigation skills.

I agree that Earth Worm Jim is completely weird. First was good, second one also good, but feels forcefully weird.

 

[Isalan]

Can't remember what the hell it was called but you played a weasel and some other kind of animal trying to escape from an animal testing lab. The weasel still had electrodes in his head and tended to blow up once in a while.

 

[Zak Frost]

Luigi's Mansion is the only I can think that hasn't been mentioned.
The part where bowser's head falls off, then after it turns out to be an illusion by king boo so you were just fighting headless bowser for a time, and that's what made this list to me. Any game or even level involving king boo is sure to fuck with your head.
Also "Work Time Fun" appropriately abbreviated "WTF". It is a collection of "mini games" and just weird crap, like in one of the mini-games your grandmother throws logs on a stump where you then chop them, seems normal enough, but occasionally she'll throw a bunny instead, YES, A FUCKING BUNNY. If you have PSP you should buy it, just so you can mindfuck yourself. I wish I had PSP just for that game.

 

[MK-Smash]

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Also, how has nobody mentioned Warioware? That game is so fucked up it isn't even funny.