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The Obscure Games Thread
Centipeed
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This isn't a thread for your pansy-ass, well-known games. This is a thread for the games you haven't heard about because you're a pussy. A pussy-bitch.
I am sickened that there is a whole library of awesome and under-appreciated games out there for consoles from the previous generation. I don't want to be missing out on all this outrageous fun, and neither do you. Playing games for the previous generation is relatively cheap, so it's the perfect time to get your obscure game on.
I'm planning on making this thread a source of submissions, as well as the start of the compendium. It's going to be listing the very best and most fun of the obscure games from the PS2, Gamecube and Xbox. Eventually I should be moving the list to a website so that you can peruse at your leisure, when this thread fades into obscurity.
Simply post games for the Xbox, Gamecube and Playstation 2 that are both awesome and obscure. All I need you to post is the name of the game, in bold (See the example suggestion below), along with all of the systems the game was published on.
All of the fucking awesome threads I create work because they follow strict rules and organisation. This isn't your mother's thread. This is a man's thread.
1. Only post games for the Xbox, Gamecube and Playstation 2. No other consoles are getting on the list.
2. ALWAYS write the name of each game you suggest in bold. If you write whole paragraphs about a single game because you're a faggoty-ass bitch, the important part needs to jump out.
3. I don't need any information other than the name of the game and the console(s) it was published for. You don't need to write a description. I'll be handling the rest.
4. All the games on this list need to be awesome games. For now, only suggest the absolute cream of the crop of obscure games. As a rule, if it scores less than 70 on MetaCritic, I'm liable to disregard it until we are in need of more suggestions.
5. All the games on this list need to be truly obscure games. Everyone has heard of Odin Sphere on PA, and if they haven't they fail at life. This compendium isn't for people who fail at life. Only suggest games that the majority of people here on PA won't have heard of. I'm not looking for games that common Joe thinks are obscure.
6. No fucking arguments. If you disagree, then explain why and leave it at that. I don't want to see quote trees full of argument.
7. If enough people tell me that a game shouldn't be on the list, then it will be removed. Possible reasons include "It's not obscure" and "It's really shit".
2. ALWAYS write the name of each game you suggest in bold. If you write whole paragraphs about a single game because you're a faggoty-ass bitch, the important part needs to jump out.
3. I don't need any information other than the name of the game and the console(s) it was published for. You don't need to write a description. I'll be handling the rest.
4. All the games on this list need to be awesome games. For now, only suggest the absolute cream of the crop of obscure games. As a rule, if it scores less than 70 on MetaCritic, I'm liable to disregard it until we are in need of more suggestions.
5. All the games on this list need to be truly obscure games. Everyone has heard of Odin Sphere on PA, and if they haven't they fail at life. This compendium isn't for people who fail at life. Only suggest games that the majority of people here on PA won't have heard of. I'm not looking for games that common Joe thinks are obscure.
6. No fucking arguments. If you disagree, then explain why and leave it at that. I don't want to see quote trees full of argument.
7. If enough people tell me that a game shouldn't be on the list, then it will be removed. Possible reasons include "It's not obscure" and "It's really shit".
More rules will likely be added here as and when you guys manage to make the internet a worse place by doing something retarded.
There might always be some of you who can't read very well. Just in case the rules above aren't clear enough, here is an example suggestion:
Notice that the name of the game is in bold. He's called "Some Motherfucker" because Psychonauts isn't an obscure game, and isn't going on the list.Some Motherfucker wrote:Psychonauts on the Xbox is awesome!
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Sphinx And The Cursed Mummy
Gregory Horror Show
The Adventures of Cookie & Cream
War of the Monsters
Maximo vs. Army of Zin
Ring of Red
Wizardry - Tale of the Forsaken Land
Growlanser: Generations
Sky Gunner
Road Trip
Crimson Sea 2
Dropship: United Peace Force
I-Ninja
Breakdown
Xyanide
Phantom Dust
Yager
Outlaw Volleyball
Crimson Sea
Kill.Switch
I-Ninja
Kingdom Under Fire: Heroes
Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders
Global Defence Force
Like EDF on the 360, but better.
Gregory Horror Show
Inspiredly weird survival horror for children where everyone has giant square heads
Kuri Kuri Mix
Also known as Cookie and Cream in your strange Americaland. Platformer with two characters at once, whether you're playing single or co-op.
The Red Star
Pretty good 2D shooter/beat-em-up
Transformers
Also known as Transformers Armada. Nothing to do with the flim-licensed game, this is actually among the better giant robot games
War of the Monsters
Beat-em-up that does what the title says. Does it well, too.
Maken Shao- Demon Sword
Interestingly surreal slash-em-up
Maximo Vs. Army of Zin
Unlike its predecessor, this one got the difficulty right. Good mix of old-fashioned platforming and DMC-style combat
Kuon
Severely underrated and actually fairly decent survival horror
Edit: and yes, some of these are your icons, but since they're not on the lists yet...
Also, is ZOE2 really obscure?
PS2 game. It's awesome. Thats all you need to know.
The animation is really good.
My addition: Ring of Red PS2 - Konami's turn-based mech strategy game that happens in an alt WWII (I think it's post WWII) timeline. Combat between mechs is actually fun and strategic.
PS2, again.
I suspect the list would get very, very large.
I have serious doubts that there'll be any GCN titles that meet the obscurity requirements. The library is so small in general that it's really hard to come up with games nobody's heard of. The best I can do is recommend games that you might not have known were decent.
There are no "generations" so a PC list would be far more difficult to manage.
Nevertheless, everybody should play Elastomania at least once, even if just the shareware demo.
This shit. This shit right here. Possibly one of the best games on Ps2. I really wish it got more love.
is there a word for something that is now well known because of its former obscurity?
In terms of the suggestions of Maximo, Mark of Kri, and The Red Star, I wouldn't say any of those are particularly obscure. Mark of Kri especially since its a firstparty title. Red Star because I think everyone on PA knows about it already. Maximo just doesn't seem to make sense for the same reason as Red Star.
And yet they never get discussed ever, and only have 2 or three fans apiece on here.
Holy shit memories. That game was the cause of one hell of a lost weekend way back when. All I really remember was the giant Soviet robot with nuclear capabilities.
I have the first and never could get into it. Was the sequel really as improved as Gabe ranted about on the front page all those years ago?
Xbox
BREAKDOWN
Insane plot but the combat was awesome.
Not sure if it's Japanese specifically but are you talking about Breakdown?
Robot Alchemic Drive(PS2) is a super-campy giant robot game with unique controls (you control the arms, legs, and torso separately) and comically bad voice acting. Think ED2017 except you control a guy who controls a giant robot.
Headhunter PS2/Dreamcast
The game was good, maybe not spectacular, but the soundtrack is enthralling.
EDIT: Are we going to allow Dreamcast since it's kinda/sorta in the same generation as the PS2? If so:
Cool Cool Toon
Quite possibly one of the best rhythm games I've ever played.
And by the EDF development team, I believe.
Really wish we got it over here.
Didn't we? I thought it was just super-rare, considering there are english Youtube videos. Speaking of which,
EDIT: Hurr a durrr didn't read your location info, sorry about that.
FIYAH ZEE PROTON BEEM!
Cubivore: Survival of the Fittest
and
Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg
I am sorry, if those are too popular to be on the list, but I never hear anyone talk about those games.
Xyanide
Phantom Dust
Panzer Dragoon Orta
PS2
Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land
Samurai Western
Growlanser Generations
Technic Beat
Unison: Rebels of Rhythm and Dance
Trapt (aka Deception IV)
Space Channel 5 Special Edition
Skygunner
Frequency
Amplitude
I'm sure I'll think up more later.
Any of the Shin Megami Tensei games on the PS2, really, but mostly SMT: Nocturne, Digital Devil Saga, and Devil Summoner. The Persona games got plenty of (deserved) attention.
Cubivore falls into that "obscure everywhere but here" category. It's been a forum favorite for years (just like P.N.03) and largely ignored elsewhere.
Billy Hatcher got a decent amount of pre-release hype (even so far as to make it onto the Mario Kart Double Dash bonus disc IIRC) but all the publicity vaporized as soon as it was released. It's obscure if you weren't actually paying attention to upcoming releases back then.
Not really sure I'd call them obscure on here, or I'd have posted them myself.
Well, I tried...
Sorry, I didn't mean to poke holes!
I think this thread will be bound for failure unless we ease up on the obscurity factor. Hidden gems are practically non-existent now that we have things like message boards where we talk about amazing games nobody's playing.
Mostly just because the writing and story are very good and it is consistently hilarious. I'm gonna name my first born child Lord Stanley Hihat Trinidad XIV. Boy or girl, doesn't matter.
This is a perfect example of some good submissions. Thank you. And ZOE2 isn't that obscure, but I was finding relatively unknown titles to use for graphics, and it looked quite nice.
That's the plan
You fail at life. And reading.
Steambot Chronicles isn't really obscure. Not on PA.
As people have said, there's no generations. This list is purely about good games that you might otherwise miss, for a good price. The PC causes problems in that regard.
I'm not allowing Dreamcast because it tends to be that the better obscure titles for it are much harder to find.
You need to bold your title.
What is the point of even keeping a list of games if they're not particularly obscure and everyone already knows about them? This thread isn't bound for failure just yet, and we're not easing up just so people can impress everyone else with the amount of game titles they can regurgitate.
It's a fan favorite around here due to its awesomeness, but I'm not sure everyone has played it due to its Japan-onry status
I see where you're coming from ... building just a list of good games from the last gen is a pointless endeavor that could go on for days.
I'm gonna try to see what I can come up with, but nothing feels obscure or good enough. Usually when something's been forgotten it's been forgotten for a reason. Like Herdy Gerdy ... a cute game with loads of charm that ended up being way less fun than it seemed and was marred by terrible loading times.