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 really want to play this game, because it looks awesome and the plot is killer. But games like this will have to stay off the list, since you'd need to import to play it.
Wow, apparently Metacritic hates some of my choices.
57 for Samurai Western? Ouch.
I didn't add games that were mentioned and that scored too low at Metacritic. At least you can trust it somewhat, since it averages scores, making it more objective.
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Does Heart of Darkness count?
Oh, whoops, that's PS1. Shucks.
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I am not sure if it's obscure or not, but if you like Rhythm games, PS2 - Technic Beat is actually pretty fun. It's like some sort of 3D PS2 Ouendan with multiplayer.
Fun fact: that's Sampling Masters AYA of Bemani fame who remixed it.
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Ah, I just thought of one, the XBox game, Yager. It's a planet-based sci-fi shooter where you pilot a kind of jet/hovercraft that's kind of like the jets in Warhawk. I had a ton of fun with it, but I can't get to Metacritic from work so I don't know how well it was received.
Gamecube - Metal Arms: Glitch In The System
3rd person shooter with an adorable little robot of doom. It was also on the PS2 and Xbox but I had it for the Gamecube.
Ah, I just thought of one, the XBox game, Yager. It's a planet-based sci-fi shooter where you pilot a kind of jet/hovercraft that's kind of like the jets in Warhawk. I had a ton of fun with it, but I can't get to Metacritic from work so I don't know how well it was received.
The Metacritic score is 70
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Ah, I just thought of one, the XBox game, Yager. It's a planet-based sci-fi shooter where you pilot a kind of jet/hovercraft that's kind of like the jets in Warhawk. I had a ton of fun with it, but I can't get to Metacritic from work so I don't know how well it was received.
The Metacritic score is 70
That seems to jive with what I remember of the game. It was very pretty, but some missions were a little annoying. I remember there being a story, but I don't remember if it was particularly interesting.
Really, I just desperately wanted a space shooter on the XBox, and when this came out it kind of half-filled that niche.
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Ah, I just thought of one, the XBox game, Yager. It's a planet-based sci-fi shooter where you pilot a kind of jet/hovercraft that's kind of like the jets in Warhawk. I had a ton of fun with it, but I can't get to Metacritic from work so I don't know how well it was received.
The Metacritic score is 70
That seems to jive with what I remember of the game. It was very pretty, but some missions were a little annoying. I remember there being a story, but I don't remember if it was particularly interesting.
Really, I just desperately wanted a space shooter on the XBox, and when this came out it kind of half-filled that niche.
Xyanide is right up your alley.
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Ah, I just thought of one, the XBox game, Yager. It's a planet-based sci-fi shooter where you pilot a kind of jet/hovercraft that's kind of like the jets in Warhawk. I had a ton of fun with it, but I can't get to Metacritic from work so I don't know how well it was received.
The Metacritic score is 70
That seems to jive with what I remember of the game. It was very pretty, but some missions were a little annoying. I remember there being a story, but I don't remember if it was particularly interesting.
Really, I just desperately wanted a space shooter on the XBox, and when this came out it kind of half-filled that niche.
Xyanide is right up your alley.
Kind of sounds like it, yeah. I'll have to check it out, though these days that ich is generally scratched by Aces of the Galaxy on XBLA, which is awesome.
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Alien Hominid is an awesome little Gamecube sidescrolling shooter, like Metal Slug in a lot of ways, with a very quirky art style and some fun change ups here and there in the gameplay. Lots of minigames too.
For PS2 and Xbox I submit Crimson Sea ( no, not Crimson Sky ffs ), made by Koei. Great weapons customization and enemy stompage along the lines of the Dynasty Warriors series ( same company after all ), except with Laser Guns. Which are also Laser Swords. Fucking awesome.
I don't know much at all about Xbox titles, since I never owned one, so people are going to have to help out with how obscure some of these Xbox titles are. I'm sure I've heard of Gunvalkyrie plenty of times, for example.
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I wouldn't really consider Alien Hominid obscure. It got a fairly hyped-up XBLA release.
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I wouldn't really consider Alien Hominid obscure. It got a fairly hyped-up XBLA release.
Does it have all the minigames and such? And besides, this has nothing to do with XBLA, since we are talking about last gen titles.
I think Crimson Sea is fairly obscure, since no one at Gamestop or wherever knows what I'm talking about when I'm looking for it. I always get, "The game with the planes and shit? Yeah, we've got a million copies." And then I have to leave the store, because I have murder in my heart.
Ah, I just thought of one, the XBox game, Yager. It's a planet-based sci-fi shooter where you pilot a kind of jet/hovercraft that's kind of like the jets in Warhawk. I had a ton of fun with it, but I can't get to Metacritic from work so I don't know how well it was received.
The Metacritic score is 70
That seems to jive with what I remember of the game. It was very pretty, but some missions were a little annoying. I remember there being a story, but I don't remember if it was particularly interesting.
Really, I just desperately wanted a space shooter on the XBox, and when this came out it kind of half-filled that niche.
You might want to try Star Wars Jedi Starfighter, Battlefront 2, or Starfighter Special Edition. Might fill your need for under $10 each ...
My list of games are ones usually not mentioned enough:
MDK2 which was also erleased on the PC and maybe oXbox but I'm not sure about that one. My concern is that because it got a sequel, you might not think it was obscure enough (Its about as weird as they come).
Rumble racing was fantastic arcade racing with pretty snazzy visuals to boot.
On the oXbox I absolutely loved Galleon but everyone else seemed to can it
You play a girl with a fish hook line that she throws away and you must beat platformer levels. Be careful not to fall into the void and avoid dangerous fishes that can hurt you. The controls are very tight and the moves you can pull are nothing short of crazy. The game just grows on you. Go ahead and get the SNES version, it's pretty easy to find it. There is also a PSX version.
Wow, OMG. A new one is coming out for PSP. Get ready people, this will be the sleeper hit of 2009. http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/psp/image/950910.html
It might just be a port of the PSX version, excellent version though.
My thinking is not to many people know of this game outside of the launch oXbox titles ... please with free maps you can't go wrong with just mentioning it ...
Capcom Classics Collection and Sonic Gems Collection? really?
I guess you could try to make the case that Sonic: The Fighters is obscure, but can that really count on a compilation disc?
The Sega Ages games would be obscure if they weren't released as a bundle stateside, but not an outright collection of most of the seminal Sonic games of the 16-bit era.
However, I guess if we're going down the crazy Japanese budget game hole we've gotta do The Zombie vs. Ambulance
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.
This right here. I've seen people talk about just about every game on this list.
I mean hell, you're excluding cubivore? Really? I mean, you don't get much more obscure than that. I think I have seen maybe 1 person on this board talk about playing it.
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.
This right here. I've seen people talk about just about every game on this list.
I mean hell, you're excluding cubivore? Really? I mean, you don't get much more obscure than that. I think I have seen maybe 1 person on this board talk about playing it.
Several of the games I mentioned are more obscure than it.
Batman Vengeance doesn't belong on this list. It got a ton of hype and isn't all that good a game; the story is good, but the controls are slippery and terrible, and the level design ranges between bland and frustrating. For me, the good parts didn't outweigh the bad.
It is not for any of the consoles. It's for PC. Kind of.
Every week, my older sister and I would go to the library, when we were growing up. That library has since built a new building entirely... it was a long time ago.
While our parents would look for books for us and sometimes them, we would play on the computers the library had set up pretty much to amuse the kids while the parents did something else.
Sometimes we would play the classics: Oregon Trail... Number munchers... there was this one math-based drag-racing game I liked... but the gem was when we would play The Black Cauldron. Old SCUMM game. Based on the movie. It was awesome. Man we would play that game so much.
Unfortunately, we are the only ones. It's like a dream from childhood that only we remember. But it was a game. And it rocked.
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Maken Shao- Demon Sword
Interestingly surreal slash-em-up
I actually bought this a little while ago. I can’t say I really had much fun with the fist couple of levels. Does it actually become awesome after a while?
My brother picked it up during christmas for 10 dollars, oh my god. Possibly one of the hardest yet funnest games I have ever played.
Here is how it works:
You have a mic that comes with the game, you hook it up to the game cube controler via a little plastic thing they provide with the game and mic.
You have to bring some bell from one part of the map to the other, on the levels we played it was always from the bottom to the top, but you might have to go all the way to the left first or something.
You also get some kind of giant ball that goes around smashing all soldiers, enemy or ally. You would tilt the entire game with one of the sticks, not sure which one now. If the ball hit the bell after you got a power up, the ball would make all enenmy soldiers it hit come to your side.
Now, here is where the mic came in. You would give orders with it. "Advance!" "Move foward!" "Go left" ect ect. The game was actually quite good at regestering what order you said, for the 4 hours we played throughout the day we only had it mess up once, mistaking 'Move forward!" for "Move backward!".
One of the most frusterating games but supper fun.
TLDR: Pinball with a giant bell, troops, and poweups.
You play a girl with a fish hook line that she throws away and you must beat platformer levels. Be careful not to fall into the void and avoid dangerous fishes that can hurt you. The controls are very tight and the moves you can pull are nothing short of crazy. The game just grows on you. Go ahead and get the SNES version, it's pretty easy to find it. There is also a PSX version.
Wow, OMG. A new one is coming out for PSP. Get ready people, this will be the sleeper hit of 2009. http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/psp/image/950910.html
It might just be a port of the PSX version, excellent version though.
Maken Shao- Demon Sword
Interestingly surreal slash-em-up
I actually bought this a little while ago. I can’t say I really had much fun with the fist couple of levels. Does it actually become awesome after a while?
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57 for Samurai Western? Ouch.
I really want to play this game, because it looks awesome and the plot is killer. But games like this will have to stay off the list, since you'd need to import to play it.
I didn't add games that were mentioned and that scored too low at Metacritic. At least you can trust it somewhat, since it averages scores, making it more objective.
Oh, whoops, that's PS1. Shucks.
Also, how about the Outlaw sports games? I always felt those didn't get the appreciation they should have.
(I would add Outlaw Tennis and Road Trip's military brother Seek And Destroy, but those only get scores in the 60s on Metacritic.)
EVERYBODY WANTS TO SIT IN THE BIG CHAIR, MEG!
I don't think I played any of the others.
Isn't that called "cult"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvCqSe0lnSg
Fun fact: that's Sampling Masters AYA of Bemani fame who remixed it.
3rd person shooter with an adorable little robot of doom. It was also on the PS2 and Xbox but I had it for the Gamecube.
The Metacritic score is 70
That seems to jive with what I remember of the game. It was very pretty, but some missions were a little annoying. I remember there being a story, but I don't remember if it was particularly interesting.
Really, I just desperately wanted a space shooter on the XBox, and when this came out it kind of half-filled that niche.
Xyanide is right up your alley.
Kind of sounds like it, yeah. I'll have to check it out, though these days that ich is generally scratched by Aces of the Galaxy on XBLA, which is awesome.
For PS2 and Xbox I submit Crimson Sea ( no, not Crimson Sky ffs ), made by Koei. Great weapons customization and enemy stompage along the lines of the Dynasty Warriors series ( same company after all ), except with Laser Guns. Which are also Laser Swords. Fucking awesome.
Is Second Sight on PS2/GCN/Xbox obscure? It was from Free Radical, but I had to force a bunch of my friends who had never heard of it to play it.
Edit: Also, not to derail this thread like a faggoty-ass bitch, but isn't this the definition of a poll thread?
Does it have all the minigames and such? And besides, this has nothing to do with XBLA, since we are talking about last gen titles.
I think Crimson Sea is fairly obscure, since no one at Gamestop or wherever knows what I'm talking about when I'm looking for it. I always get, "The game with the planes and shit? Yeah, we've got a million copies." And then I have to leave the store, because I have murder in my heart.
You might want to try Star Wars Jedi Starfighter, Battlefront 2, or Starfighter Special Edition. Might fill your need for under $10 each ...
My list of games are ones usually not mentioned enough:
oXbox
Brute Force
Capcom Collection 1 & 2
Gauntlet: Dark Legacy
Heores of the Pacific
kill.switch
Strangers Wrath
Steel Battalion
The Simpsons : Hit and Run
Gamecube
Cel Damage
Odama
Sonic Gem Collection
LIZ: Different.
VOICE-OVER: It's September 24th, I'm Liz Parker and five days ago I died. But then the really amazing thing happened. I came to life.
MDK2 which was also erleased on the PC and maybe oXbox but I'm not sure about that one. My concern is that because it got a sequel, you might not think it was obscure enough (Its about as weird as they come).
Rumble racing was fantastic arcade racing with pretty snazzy visuals to boot.
On the oXbox I absolutely loved Galleon but everyone else seemed to can it
Damn, it's PC. Aren't we withholding PC for now?
I got excited because I've heard about it before ...
LIZ: Different.
VOICE-OVER: It's September 24th, I'm Liz Parker and five days ago I died. But then the really amazing thing happened. I came to life.
Umihara Kawase
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXA5nqHvKk4
You play a girl with a fish hook line that she throws away and you must beat platformer levels. Be careful not to fall into the void and avoid dangerous fishes that can hurt you. The controls are very tight and the moves you can pull are nothing short of crazy. The game just grows on you. Go ahead and get the SNES version, it's pretty easy to find it. There is also a PSX version.
Wow, OMG. A new one is coming out for PSP. Get ready people, this will be the sleeper hit of 2009.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/psp/image/950910.html
It might just be a port of the PSX version, excellent version though.
http://nintendo.joystiq.com/2009/01/19/umihara-kawase-ds-not-ruined-yet/
My thinking is not to many people know of this game outside of the launch oXbox titles ... please with free maps you can't go wrong with just mentioning it ...
LIZ: Different.
VOICE-OVER: It's September 24th, I'm Liz Parker and five days ago I died. But then the really amazing thing happened. I came to life.
Capcom Classics Collection and Sonic Gems Collection? really?
I guess you could try to make the case that Sonic: The Fighters is obscure, but can that really count on a compilation disc?
The Sega Ages games would be obscure if they weren't released as a bundle stateside, but not an outright collection of most of the seminal Sonic games of the 16-bit era.
However, I guess if we're going down the crazy Japanese budget game hole we've gotta do The Zombie vs. Ambulance
Bard's Tale Xbox/PS2 -- Might be more well known around these parts, I'm guessing.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Xbox -- Okay, so its a popular franchise in TV, but the game kicks ass and I bet a lot of people didn't know that.
Bloodrayne Xbox/PS2 -- I'm not sure how mainstream this is but it was a great game that you never really hear about.
Stretch Panic PS2 -- I think this may be borderline in our community, but I think it is quality
I'd have mentioned it msyelf if not for the horrible metacritic.
This right here. I've seen people talk about just about every game on this list.
I mean hell, you're excluding cubivore? Really? I mean, you don't get much more obscure than that. I think I have seen maybe 1 person on this board talk about playing it.
Several of the games I mentioned are more obscure than it.
EDIT: Here's some Metacritic results.
It is not for any of the consoles. It's for PC. Kind of.
Every week, my older sister and I would go to the library, when we were growing up. That library has since built a new building entirely... it was a long time ago.
While our parents would look for books for us and sometimes them, we would play on the computers the library had set up pretty much to amuse the kids while the parents did something else.
Sometimes we would play the classics: Oregon Trail... Number munchers... there was this one math-based drag-racing game I liked... but the gem was when we would play The Black Cauldron. Old SCUMM game. Based on the movie. It was awesome. Man we would play that game so much.
Unfortunately, we are the only ones. It's like a dream from childhood that only we remember. But it was a game. And it rocked.
I actually bought this a little while ago. I can’t say I really had much fun with the fist couple of levels. Does it actually become awesome after a while?
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For the gamecube.
My brother picked it up during christmas for 10 dollars, oh my god. Possibly one of the hardest yet funnest games I have ever played.
Here is how it works:
You have a mic that comes with the game, you hook it up to the game cube controler via a little plastic thing they provide with the game and mic.
You have to bring some bell from one part of the map to the other, on the levels we played it was always from the bottom to the top, but you might have to go all the way to the left first or something.
You also get some kind of giant ball that goes around smashing all soldiers, enemy or ally. You would tilt the entire game with one of the sticks, not sure which one now. If the ball hit the bell after you got a power up, the ball would make all enenmy soldiers it hit come to your side.
Now, here is where the mic came in. You would give orders with it. "Advance!" "Move foward!" "Go left" ect ect. The game was actually quite good at regestering what order you said, for the 4 hours we played throughout the day we only had it mess up once, mistaking 'Move forward!" for "Move backward!".
One of the most frusterating games but supper fun.
TLDR: Pinball with a giant bell, troops, and poweups.
Wikipedia entry for further refrence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odama
The truly obscure titles are going to be shit.
Like Ruff Trigger or Flow (no, not the flOw you're thinking of on PS3) on the PS2. No one has heard of these because they are terrible shit games.
Or Falling Stars on PS2. Bet you never heard of that.
And I know all you motherfuckers better know what Zone of the Enders is. Or else.
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I actually have heard of this, only because HG101 did an article on it.
So awesome.