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The games that nobody remembers/bought
Zombiemambo
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Every once in awhile some awesome game comes out and like 12 people buy it, usually 6 years later when they find it in a bargain bin for $4.00
This is a thread for those beloved games.
Looney Tunes: Sheep Raider
Fuckin' Looney Tunes came out with a game that's ridiculously fun. It's a stealth/puzzle game with Ralph Wolf trying to steal sheep while Sam Sheep Dog keeps a close eye on them. It's fun, funny and I really wish I still had it.
So what games do you love that nobody else has ever heard of?
This is a thread for those beloved games.
Looney Tunes: Sheep Raider
Fuckin' Looney Tunes came out with a game that's ridiculously fun. It's a stealth/puzzle game with Ralph Wolf trying to steal sheep while Sam Sheep Dog keeps a close eye on them. It's fun, funny and I really wish I still had it.
So what games do you love that nobody else has ever heard of?
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Think Mechwarrior but instead of missions it would just be fights in an arena with other mechs(or HERCs, as they were known). You could fully customize your HERC and fight through a ladder progression or over modem play.
I loved the customization aspect. I would play with different mech types. To this day Customization is one of the biggest things I look for in games. Nothing gets me to play a game more than being able to fully choose how to load out my character/underlings. Especially with 4xs.
An indepedent RTS made by Ethermoon Entertainment, who's membership includes Zileas (Blizzard Brood War Beta Tournament winner) and several other people famous in the RTS community. Strifeshadow was a 2D RTS, in the vein of Starcraft (though with a medieval fantasy theme), but a lot of work was done to give players access to more tactic and strategies.. Among some of the more unqiue features was a resources system that was based on nodes and networks (think power lines; only the lines harvest resources to send back to the power plant rather than the plant sending the resources out the power line), the ability to set hidden traps for your enemies, directional damage (which encourages flanking as units take more damage from the sides and rear) and melee engagement (units running away have a chance to get "stuck" by whoever was attacking them, making running away a risk).
It wasn't widely publised, and dispite having a rich backstory, the game itself was multiplayer only. There was talk of a "metagame" where an ongoing story would be crafted out by battles fought in a large tournament, as well as a flatout singleplayer game, but the game didn't sell enough and those ideas never materialized. This was Ethermoons only game, though I think a few of them went on to work at Blizzard.
EDIT: Oh, yeah. How it works. Basically, your job is to get your plane from point A to point B, maybe hitting some other objectives along the way. But don't think it ends there. Weather effects, plane customization (everything from logos and paint to engines and airframe configurations), additional modes including a sky writing mode(!), and the ability to pull crazy air stunts (pull down your plane's landing gear, then use it to bounce off a wall because the corner was too tight flying in a close-quarters cavern), and numerous unlockables. And it's a flight sim. It's not an arcade title. Don't expect to instantly learn everything because you did that with Ace Combat. This game will take work.
Squad (AI controlled) based first person shooter. Power armor. Customizable loadouts. A wide variety of missions. This was a great game that was ahead of its time in a lot of ways, but nobody seems to remember.
Awhile ago, actually. Back in November of 2001.
It may have been a little more popular than you intend, but most people I've asked have never heard of it. It was essentially a spiritual sequel to Master of Magic, and it was pretty good. It was crippled by having an atrocious title ("Age of Wonders II" sounds like a piss-poor Age of Empires rip-off), the general obscurity of turn-based strategy games, and a marketing campaign that I probably could have funded.
Made in 1995 by fragment. A topdown DOS shooter with 3 player co-op on one machine. So much fun, although three players on one keyboard could get cramped at times, didn't stop it from being awesome though.
Also Skyroads
Which is now freeware on the developer's website http://www.bluemoon.ee/history/skyroads/
It was terribly laggy and only a few people were in the beta.
Maybe from 2005/6?
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The soundtrack by Koh Otani (Shadow of the Colossus) doesn't hurt, either.
You've gotten me to listen to that soundtrack again. I'm surprised that more developers/publishers don't release OST snippets on their official site. That soundtrack literally sold me that game.
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I was just thinking about this game today, actually
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those games are great, though
The Saara missions were always my favourite because I got the feeling I was actually exploring an alien world during those.
Good times, good times.
Yeah, I remember that game. It was awesome. I remember figuring out some way to bilk people for money and got the best things all the time.
Sheep Raider was called Sheep, Wolf 'n' Dog over here, but I remember it fondly nonetheless.
Fun first person JRPG for the SNES. I haven't played it in 10 years, but I remember awesome music and challenging dungeon crawls.
FPS released in 1996, whose sole crime was that it used the Doom engine (Probably the last official game to do so), and it came out the same year as Quake, and thus died in obscurity. In some ways, it's a bit reminiscent of Deus Ex.
It has a stage select code.
Strife was awesome, lots of different endings and paths to take in the game. The first assault on the programmers fortress really put into perspective how ambitous the game was.
Strife was ahead of its time. I remember PC Gamer at the time pretty much begging people to buy and play it because it was so good.
I actually have Age of Wonders, but I've never, ever played it. I really should give it a spin some time.
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ReBoot thread.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE4IyRbR03w
This game was a dream. It was pretty much Tony Hawk's Pro Skater with a gun. Controls were complicated at first but once you get them down it was sooo fun.
Of course, at the time I bought anything with Monolith's name on it.
(Yes I know it was primarily developed by Valkyrie but Monolith knew how to put out games that I loved. Except for Contract J.A.C.K., that came back to bite me in the ass.)
If only the ending didn't upset me so much.
Spawned Tribes.
It did epic Mech gaming better than Mechwarrior, with a better graphics engine and a fun as hell multiplayer mode.
Oh, and did I mention the two 100+ page manuals, one for the game itself and one for the lore behind it? Add Mark Hammill and the RIP chassis config (6 blas + 2 emp + oly = DEATH) and you had a game that was heads above its competition at the time.
I know, for a fact, that the seven people who bought it with me will agree.
This looks pretty damn fun.
Shadow of Rome
Unlike Planetside it actually takes skill. You have to aim your gun, and your bullet go where you shoot, its quite incredible. Seriously though, the amount of team work in this game is incredible. Defend a town against a german assault of 20 tanks that can all kill you in one or two hits from the machine gun is intense.
Hiding ontop of a building picking off infantry and never being found by constantly moving is a feeling you will not get in any other game. Successfully defending a bunker from dozens of enemies with just a rifle and two teammates is actually rewarding in this game since they do not spawn 10 feet away and it will actually take them a long time to get back to the fight and more importantly reorganize an attack.
And it has a 14-day free trial going on right now. Looks like I have something to do Sunday.
These are the Penny Arcade forums, we know about Psychonauts, and even Megaman Legends. Obscure games have to be pressed on human flesh in order to be easily forgotten by us.
On Track: Phantom Crash. No, not the card battling game on the Xbox (Phantom Dust). The mech game on the Xbox.
Bob's Bad Day is an AWESOME game!
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I own a copy, which I bought for eight dollars (NZ) back in 1998. I love the shit out of it. I don't give a damn if it's a terrible game. The pathfinding is shit, but the graphics were great for the time, and if you can get past the fact that your units are more retarded than a bunch of hormagaunts in DOWII, you'll have fun. It's more or less a real time Jagged Alliance. The storyline is altered a bit from the original novel, but it's a fairly good approximation. It's one of the things that hooked me on science fiction (along with Star Trek TNG).
My greatest regret in life is that I've never managed to get it running on any modern PC. I've even tried emulating my old copy of Win95 using virtual PC, but no dice. If my upload speeds weren't so crap and it worked and doing such a thing wasn't illegal
I also second SkyRoads. The soundtrack and game are some of my favourites of all time.
Does anyone remember Earthworm Jim? I've had the PC port of the arcade game since 1996. Fantastic game - and it still runs.
You can tell I have a real thing for nostalgia.