Not petically, not compared to some of the stuff we used to get. Its funny, and its comfusing, and an incredible concept. But your not attacked by blue miggets wielding headless fish are you?genauguy said:
What's the world's "strangest" game?
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Can't remember what it was called but I played an experimental flash game a while ago which was basically a conception simulation. You control different parts of the growth of a baby, be it controlling sperm or messing about with molecules inside the egg to help create a baby. It came with no instructions and you had to figure it all out yourself. Wierd as hell but surprisingly good.
Cloud Master (Sega Master System), A side scrolling shooter with a Chinese theme where you're a guy on a cloud that shoots Ki blasts (think Dragon Ball) at bird men, flying potatoes, pigs with big guns that they hold at their waists making them look like phalic symbols, flying mushrooms, buddhas with huge deformed ears and sunglasses that shoot cheerios at you, monkeys, flying books and giant chickens. All of these enemies shoot stuff at you.
When you beat a level, your guy flies to some place where this HUGE old man in the clouds (the game's version of god, probably) tells you "Well done, have 10000000 pts. More danger ahead. Quick! More training."
So why is this guy on a cloud shooting Ki blasts at random crap? Because he wants to be the best, or some junk.
Oh, and Marshmellow Duel. It's an American (gasp!) game where there are two people on this stage full of platforms, and they're trying to knock each other into a pit of...marshmellow....stuff. They don't attack each other, so much as knock each other away by walking and jumping into each other. If one guy walks into another, both will be knocked off of their feet and sent reeling back.
Spider-Man makes an appearance as a boss in Revenge of Shinobi. When you do enough damage to him, he transforms into BATMAN. As if that's not WTF enough, you fight Godzilla in the stage after that. But other than that, there's nothing weird about that game (well the last boss does use his hair both as a melee weapon and a projectile boomerang, but that's fairly tame compared to everything else)
When you beat a level, your guy flies to some place where this HUGE old man in the clouds (the game's version of god, probably) tells you "Well done, have 10000000 pts. More danger ahead. Quick! More training."
So why is this guy on a cloud shooting Ki blasts at random crap? Because he wants to be the best, or some junk.
Oh, and Marshmellow Duel. It's an American (gasp!) game where there are two people on this stage full of platforms, and they're trying to knock each other into a pit of...marshmellow....stuff. They don't attack each other, so much as knock each other away by walking and jumping into each other. If one guy walks into another, both will be knocked off of their feet and sent reeling back.
Spider-Man makes an appearance as a boss in Revenge of Shinobi. When you do enough damage to him, he transforms into BATMAN. As if that's not WTF enough, you fight Godzilla in the stage after that. But other than that, there's nothing weird about that game (well the last boss does use his hair both as a melee weapon and a projectile boomerang, but that's fairly tame compared to everything else)
American McGee's Alice. I actually got the head of the Cheshire cat tattooed on my ribs (I have a pretty serious Alice kick anyway, and I liked the art style, so I got it inked into my flesh). I only wish the game itself had been better. I guess Psychonauts was pretty weird, but I really love surreal games, so it's hard for me to think of them as "weird." It was a great game, though, definitely top 10.
Bishi bashi Championship/Hyper Bishi Bashi. - The original wario ware style "complete as many fucked up minigames as possible" game.
Incredible Crisis - It's crap, but weird, you've gotta get this japanese dude through his day, from dancing in the office to slowing a freefalling lift.
Incredible Crisis - It's crap, but weird, you've gotta get this japanese dude through his day, from dancing in the office to slowing a freefalling lift.
The Kingdom of Loathing. It's kind of like an MMORPG I guess except that the graphics are composed entirely of stick figures and the quests and monsters you have to fight are openly satirical (adventuring in the Orc Chasm for example or the Eight-bit Realm where all the enemies are pixelated derevations of video gaming characters.) And of course, there are the hippy enemies such as the vegan chef from the Vega star system.
Even the character classes are ridiculous. You have the choice between muscle, mysticality and moxie as your main stat. There are the Seal Clubbers and the Turtle Tamers (muscle) the Saucerors and the Pastamancers (mysticality) and the Disco Bandits and the Accordian Theives. (moxie)
Oh, and you use meat as currency... It's a very odd game.
Even the character classes are ridiculous. You have the choice between muscle, mysticality and moxie as your main stat. There are the Seal Clubbers and the Turtle Tamers (muscle) the Saucerors and the Pastamancers (mysticality) and the Disco Bandits and the Accordian Theives. (moxie)
Oh, and you use meat as currency... It's a very odd game.
See, someone mentioned Vib Ribbon and personally I thought Mojibribbon made no sense. I only ever saw the footage (one of my friends translated part of it for me), neither of us understood the idea, even after we read what the hell you were supposed to do. You write? You do what? YOU WRITE?!
And come on, How's about Parappa the Rapper! 2D characters flapping about in a 3D world, a rapping dog, rapping about the things you'd imagine tennis player Vince Spadea ("I AIN'T AFRAID A' YA!") would rap about: noodles, driving lessons, romantic karate, cutting hair... and he fancied a sunflower. A SUNFLOWER. Yeah, that game was NUTS. Awesome in every aspect but NUTS!
And come on, How's about Parappa the Rapper! 2D characters flapping about in a 3D world, a rapping dog, rapping about the things you'd imagine tennis player Vince Spadea ("I AIN'T AFRAID A' YA!") would rap about: noodles, driving lessons, romantic karate, cutting hair... and he fancied a sunflower. A SUNFLOWER. Yeah, that game was NUTS. Awesome in every aspect but NUTS!
ok, i dont know if any one has posted this yet, i was to lazy to read it all. But the strangest game i ever played was Cubivore. the following is the wiki definition of the gameplay
Cubivore's gameplay is an action/adventure game with a few RPG elements in it. The purpose of Cubivore is to kill the Killer Cubivore and its cronies. To accomplish this your Cubivore must go through several mutations, through several lifetimes "laps" and generations of "offspring". Upon attaining 100 mutations, your Cubivore can become powerful enough to produce an offspring capable of fighting the Killer Cubivore. Thus, Cubivore is a game that is meant to somewhat represent natural selection.
Combat is simple, but strategic and often fast-paced. When facing another Cubivore, your job is to attack it, weaken it, and finally kill it by tearing off its limbs. Cubivores are able to attack, jump, run, evade (i.e. walk backwards), and block. Much of the combat consists of trying to learn the enemy's attack patterns and hitting a weak point. Once the enemy has been subdued, it becomes a battle of wills when your Cubivore clamps down the opponent and attempts to tear off its limbs (resulting in a large spurt of purple square-shaped blood). Upon eating a limb your Cubivore heals itself a bit, absorbs the color of that limb, and mutates if possible. Finally some boss monsters have a special limb called "Raw Meat", which grants special abilities when consumed."
and one last mention, you can at one point grow an anus in this game, its pretty fucked up, but quite entertaining!!!^_^
Cubivore's gameplay is an action/adventure game with a few RPG elements in it. The purpose of Cubivore is to kill the Killer Cubivore and its cronies. To accomplish this your Cubivore must go through several mutations, through several lifetimes "laps" and generations of "offspring". Upon attaining 100 mutations, your Cubivore can become powerful enough to produce an offspring capable of fighting the Killer Cubivore. Thus, Cubivore is a game that is meant to somewhat represent natural selection.
Combat is simple, but strategic and often fast-paced. When facing another Cubivore, your job is to attack it, weaken it, and finally kill it by tearing off its limbs. Cubivores are able to attack, jump, run, evade (i.e. walk backwards), and block. Much of the combat consists of trying to learn the enemy's attack patterns and hitting a weak point. Once the enemy has been subdued, it becomes a battle of wills when your Cubivore clamps down the opponent and attempts to tear off its limbs (resulting in a large spurt of purple square-shaped blood). Upon eating a limb your Cubivore heals itself a bit, absorbs the color of that limb, and mutates if possible. Finally some boss monsters have a special limb called "Raw Meat", which grants special abilities when consumed."
and one last mention, you can at one point grow an anus in this game, its pretty fucked up, but quite entertaining!!!^_^
Elite Beat Agents, and even more so the original Japanese game (Osu! Takete! Ouendan!)
The Americanized version is fairly insane, including dancing secret agents, music-hating aliens, and, at one point, ghosts.
Haven't played the original, but it strikes me as even more insane...er. Male cheerleaders. I mean, it's Japan, but still...
The Americanized version is fairly insane, including dancing secret agents, music-hating aliens, and, at one point, ghosts.
Haven't played the original, but it strikes me as even more insane...er. Male cheerleaders. I mean, it's Japan, but still...
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say Munch's Odyssey. that game is strange.
and Bubble Bobble, the best game for the NES.
you are a dinosaur blowing bubbles on robots and ghosts to rescue your girlfriend who is being held by an alcoholic.
i love them both
and Bubble Bobble, the best game for the NES.
you are a dinosaur blowing bubbles on robots and ghosts to rescue your girlfriend who is being held by an alcoholic.
i love them both
Goemon's plot was pretty damn weird. Transvestite aliens and the like.
What was that launch PS2 title called? The one with the girl(?) who used a possessed scarf to attack her enemies? I never played it, but it certainly did intrigue me on concept art alone.
What was that launch PS2 title called? The one with the girl(?) who used a possessed scarf to attack her enemies? I never played it, but it certainly did intrigue me on concept art alone.
Video games and weirdness are no strangers to each other. You could argue that Breakout is a decidedly weird game because it's like bouncing a ball off a brick wall, but each time the ball hit a brick, the brick disappears! Some have argued that Breakout was the first true video game as the game could not exist outside the video game format.
But, if we can take some strangeness and outright abstraction as normal, there are still a few games that leave me scratching my head.
Swinging Singles is one of those adult games, but being from the early 80's, it's very crude. It kind of makes me wonder why they bothered since it was from before digitized porn. There's a game called Streaking that's also from that era that features a nude woman in a Pac-Man clone. The weirdest thing about that one is not that the carpet matches the drapes but that there's a fatigue meter. When eating dots, the meter stay low, but running around without eating dots will cause the meter to go up and you'll lose a life. Why that was considered a good idea, I'll never know.
Amidar always puzzled me for some reason. It contains alternating levels. on the fist level, you're a gorilla who must dodge headhunter-type natives while gathering coconuts. So far, it makes sense. But on the second level, you're a paint roller who must dodge pigs. I don't know why I spend s much time wondering what the hell pigs have against paint rollers, but that's not the weirdest feature. The weirdest feature is that you have a jump button, but when you press it, you don't jump. The enemies do and you duck under them. No, really. You do have a limited number of jumps, so that may be why.
In a similar vein, Dancing Eyes features a similar maze gameplay to Amidar, but the maze is on a 3D modeled girl and clearing areas of the maze makes her clothes disappear. I mean, good lord!
Getting away from porn games, Sol Divide is a weird side-scrolling shooter because your character is a fantasy character and you have a melee attack. I mean, how many shmups have a melee attack?
Snacks'n Jackson features a guy in old-style hobo clown make up bouncing his nose off his face like a paddle ball game while stretching his neck out to eat floating food. Somehow, it makes more sense when you just describe it.
Join'Em puts you in control of like five little creatures in a maze. they are all controlled by one joystick. the idea is to use the maze walls to bring them all together and make one big guy while also dodging enemies.
Libble Rabble was from the creator of Pac-Man and used two joystick to move two pointers to surround various areas of the screen to trap enemies and reveal secrets. it was not as popular as Pac-man.
Those are just some of the weirder ones off the top of my head.
But, if we can take some strangeness and outright abstraction as normal, there are still a few games that leave me scratching my head.
Swinging Singles is one of those adult games, but being from the early 80's, it's very crude. It kind of makes me wonder why they bothered since it was from before digitized porn. There's a game called Streaking that's also from that era that features a nude woman in a Pac-Man clone. The weirdest thing about that one is not that the carpet matches the drapes but that there's a fatigue meter. When eating dots, the meter stay low, but running around without eating dots will cause the meter to go up and you'll lose a life. Why that was considered a good idea, I'll never know.
Amidar always puzzled me for some reason. It contains alternating levels. on the fist level, you're a gorilla who must dodge headhunter-type natives while gathering coconuts. So far, it makes sense. But on the second level, you're a paint roller who must dodge pigs. I don't know why I spend s much time wondering what the hell pigs have against paint rollers, but that's not the weirdest feature. The weirdest feature is that you have a jump button, but when you press it, you don't jump. The enemies do and you duck under them. No, really. You do have a limited number of jumps, so that may be why.
In a similar vein, Dancing Eyes features a similar maze gameplay to Amidar, but the maze is on a 3D modeled girl and clearing areas of the maze makes her clothes disappear. I mean, good lord!
Getting away from porn games, Sol Divide is a weird side-scrolling shooter because your character is a fantasy character and you have a melee attack. I mean, how many shmups have a melee attack?
Snacks'n Jackson features a guy in old-style hobo clown make up bouncing his nose off his face like a paddle ball game while stretching his neck out to eat floating food. Somehow, it makes more sense when you just describe it.
Join'Em puts you in control of like five little creatures in a maze. they are all controlled by one joystick. the idea is to use the maze walls to bring them all together and make one big guy while also dodging enemies.
Libble Rabble was from the creator of Pac-Man and used two joystick to move two pointers to surround various areas of the screen to trap enemies and reveal secrets. it was not as popular as Pac-man.
Those are just some of the weirder ones off the top of my head.