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Of course, no one knows about this game except for me but obligatory:
Dark Colony was a horribly broken RTS released during the beginning of the Starcraft era that pitted humans against "Gray" type aliens. The battles in this game were so epic due to a lack of unit limit and pretty easy (read:broken) economic mechanics. I remember I had a battle that literally lasted about 6 whole hours of constant dying on both sides. It also had one of those nifty buttons you could push to take you to the last "great battle" where there would always be some type of giant crater field or giant mass grave of units. The only game that's really came close to the epicness since then has probably got to be Supreme Commander (Which is really cheating because that game has you build thousands of barracks or whatnot to get your units up). Or maybe those golem custom maps in SC/Warcraft3. This game had the same amount of units coming out of a single barracks. Apparently its become open source but I'm not too sure about that. I do know that I would buy it from GOG.com in a heartbeat though.
Oh, the aliens also had an artillery unit that literally was just a giant slug that shot poop from its butt.
Hey, I bought Dark Colony at launch. It was a time when RTS games still felt new, and that game was fucking beautiful when I first played the demo. Awesome base-building system, too, that was actually way ahead of its time.
Of course, being complete shit at RTSs I could never progress beyond a few missions. Didn't help that it was abnormally difficult even for the genre.
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One of my all time favorite games. Often overshadowed by the Mechwarrior series but Starsiege had so much style that I still think its at least on par with mechwarrior. Also it has Mark Hamil in it and some of the best music in a mech game.
I was heavy into the multiplayer for this game. Nothing like rocking an Olympian with 4 Blasters and 2 EMPs with an SMOD and bare bones computers and sensors to compensate for the huge weight and heat issues that loadout caused.
Man, I played so much Starsiege online. It seemed so unique at the time compared to mech warrior.
I came here to post this and I'm happy that I was beaten!
This game is legendary in my circle of friends. It still makes me sad that it was/is so overlooked because it blew away the competition in every way imaginable.
We formed a clan, setup a website, fashioned a custom logo for our team, raided servers, etc. It showed us all the magic of team-oriented online gaming!
And so many amazing times were had! Sniping the toes of Olympians, shooting out the crotches of Apocs, making a cloaked tank with a turbo to surprise ram an enemy into oblivion... and of course the elusive Cloaked Exec that came oh so close to ambushing one of us, almost causing him to quit the game forever (it was a bet)! bahahaha
I finally took the time to look into Street Fighter 2010. Apparently it was another product of wacky localization by Capcom USA. In Japan, the main character and story have no links to Street Fighter whatsoever.
Yes, but it was still made by Capcom and still published and advertised as a Street Fighter game, even in Japan. While these days sequels may just end up being polished-and-bigger versions of their originals changing the mechanics and even genres with further games was pretty common place back then. Just look at Sonic Spinball, or the Ghosts 'n Goblins take on The Incredible Machine (wish that got a Western release).
Part shooter, part gravity-based puzzle game. Each of the 12+ planets had varying levels of gravity that affect the inertia of your ship. Each stage had a number heavy cargo drops (collectibles, fuel, etc.) that you had to locate, hook onto with a tow cable and drag them back to your shuttle.
The game was very difficult, but SO much fun. Unfortunately, it was a commercial flop in the US (although it was pretty popular in Europe).
In fact, I was just reminiscing about Solar Jetman when PixelJunk Shooter! was released - that game made me wish for a Solar Jetman remake like no other.
I finally took the time to look into Street Fighter 2010. Apparently it was another product of wacky localization by Capcom USA. In Japan, the main character and story have no links to Street Fighter whatsoever.
Yes, but it was still made by Capcom and still published and advertised as a Street Fighter game, even in Japan. While these days sequels may just end up being polished-and-bigger versions of their originals changing the mechanics and even genres with further games was pretty common place back then. Just look at Sonic Spinball, or the Ghosts 'n Goblins take on The Incredible Machine (wish that got a Western release).
I loved that game, but I don't know too many people who have even heard of it.
I've actually been replaying that game, it's pretty fucking great. The only thing I hate is the password system uses lowercase and uppercase letters, and the letter O and the number 0 look too similar. So much frustration as a child from that.
Rescue on Fractalus! is a game that few people have ever played. Which is a shame, because it's wicked fun even all these years later, and was damned impressive on the Atari computer system it was made on.
It was also one of the God Damned most frightening games ever.
I... I admit it... I still jump, even today, when I play this game. The tension is still there. Is that a pilot? Did I just see a flash of gr-- OH GOD!
Such an awesome game! I had a version for the Atari 800 called "Behind Jaggi Lines" I think they just changed the name. First time that green bugger pounded on my window I almost fell out of my seat.
Man, if we want to go that old-school. Anyone remember Space Taxi for the C64?
I don't know if it's considered overlooked now, but at the time, I know for a fact that of all my friends who had an Atari 2600, none of them had ever heard of this game, and everyone who's come over and watched me playing it has said "What the hell is this thing?"
Until I turned 31, got an Activision Compilation disc for PS2, and had a friend come over and recognize the game, I thought the only two people in the world who had ever played this game were me and my older brother. The concept is gold: A Klingon Bird of Prey shoots day-glo colored junkfood and household appliances that fall from the sky. Cookies, Caterpillars, Radial Tires, Hamburgers, Bow Ties.
I know there were patches you could win if you took a photo of your high score and sent them to Activision, but I never tried it. To this date, the most addictive game I've ever played.
I loved that game, but I don't know too many people who have even heard of it.
I've actually been replaying that game, it's pretty fucking great. The only thing I hate is the password system uses lowercase and uppercase letters, and the letter O and the number 0 look too similar. So much frustration as a child from that.
Apparently that's one of the few games in a long running series that was brought over here. Same series as Legacy of the Wizard, actually! Which is another ridiculously hard NES game, of course.
Let's not forget the poster child for overlooked classics, Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri (and if you just posted a picture without any text then you're a dick, it's impossible to Ctrl-F pictures ;-)).
Squad based combat before it became popular... which of course meant the game flopped terribly and nearly killed Looking Glass Studios right there and then. Sometimes it doesn't pay to be in front.
I have this game and the original box standing in my bookshelf. :winky:
Crusader: No Remorse was an excellent game, but I wouldn't call it 'overlooked'.
I mean, it was popular enough to spawn a sequel.
It seemed like people had expanded the scope of the thread to include forgotten gems and for me that game qualifies. I can't believe that someone hasn't revived it, a version using the same engine that Red Faction Guerilla is running on would be a thing of beauty.
Let's not forget the poster child for overlooked classics, Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri (and if you just posted a picture without any text then you're a dick, it's impossible to Ctrl-F pictures ;-)).
Squad based combat before it became popular... which of course meant the game flopped terribly and nearly killed Looking Glass Studios right there and then. Sometimes it doesn't pay to be in front.
I have this game and the original box standing in my bookshelf. :winky:
Only by those who probably aren't hitting 30 like myself.
Youngsters these days have no clue what any of those are, except maybe the Descent series (Freespace keeps it alive, slightly).
Freespace is the one that's overlooked! I didn't sell very well I think. I hark back to my old gaming days. Back when I bought Fallout 1 by just reading a preview, or played the demo for X-Com 3 and bought that series. Or played a demo for Thief and bought that. You don't seem to stumble on classics like that these days.
Terra Nova was overlooked and awesome. I played the demo, loved it, but never found it in retail so I never bought it... It's a lot like Tribes for some reason.
^5 for the No One Lives Forever love. I loved both games to pieces. I had a hearty guffaw at the full reveal of the main villain in the first game. I think NOLF 2 *still* looks pretty snazzy.
Astroboy Omega Factor is the poo. I was pretty blown away once I discovered how the replay mechanics worked. I would normmlly be annoyed at having to replay a game multiple times to unlock stuff, but the fact that doing so unlocked so much more of the story to reveal what you though was the truth was in fact not was pretty cool.
Moonbase Commander! Great game. I got everyone hooked on that bad boy on the local game stores' computer network. I gotta see if I can find my disc somehere...
I wanted to play Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri very badly about the time I was really into Heavy Gear (both pen/paper and computer versions). Found a soitary copy in a CompUSA for like $2... only to find the box had no f-ing disc. I only lost $2, but damn I wanted to play it!
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I just recently bought FutureCop on ebay for like $4. It is amazing. The music is the best part.
Oh god. SO many hours were spent playing the multiplayer on this as a kid, squished right next to my brother as we each used the keyboard, and getting pissed off at each other for blowing our shit up. Thanks for reminding me about this!
Cryostasis is still pretty new (1-2 years), but I'm positive it hasn't gotten much attention. It's one of the best games I've ever played, one of the best stories I've ever seen in a game, and it uses some of the most brilliant gaming storytelling conventions I've ever seen. It wraps together an artistic, atmospheric package as well as anything else out there, but it really is for the thinking man. I'm able to forgive any of it's gameplay faults just for how bold the ideas are.
Aye. I still need to finish it, but some minor niggles aside it's atmospheric as all heck. But then, it's Action Forms, they've a habit of making interesting shooters that get overlooked (I've a soft spot for Vivisector's arena set piece design, despite the game suffering from its delayed release date visually).
Cryostasis is still pretty new (1-2 years), but I'm positive it hasn't gotten much attention. It's one of the best games I've ever played, one of the best stories I've ever seen in a game, and it uses some of the most brilliant gaming storytelling conventions I've ever seen. It wraps together an artistic, atmospheric package as well as anything else out there, but it really is for the thinking man. I'm able to forgive any of it's gameplay faults just for how bold the ideas are.
I might have similar feelings if it wasn't a technical abortion. Even with all the settings turned down, I cannot get a framerate that consistently goes above 10. And I'm not even running an outdated rig here, either. I just got Metro 2033, and it runs wonderfully.
I want to play Cryostasis, but it is almost literally unplayable.
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For me it runs smoothly with occasional frame drops with everything cranked up (except FSAA and with anisotropic filtering at 4) on a 1.86GHz C2D and an 8800GT. So, slowest dual core on the market and an almost 3 year-old card. Did you try updating your drivers?
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Dark Colony was a horribly broken RTS released during the beginning of the Starcraft era that pitted humans against "Gray" type aliens. The battles in this game were so epic due to a lack of unit limit and pretty easy (read:broken) economic mechanics. I remember I had a battle that literally lasted about 6 whole hours of constant dying on both sides. It also had one of those nifty buttons you could push to take you to the last "great battle" where there would always be some type of giant crater field or giant mass grave of units. The only game that's really came close to the epicness since then has probably got to be Supreme Commander (Which is really cheating because that game has you build thousands of barracks or whatnot to get your units up). Or maybe those golem custom maps in SC/Warcraft3. This game had the same amount of units coming out of a single barracks. Apparently its become open source but I'm not too sure about that. I do know that I would buy it from GOG.com in a heartbeat though.
Oh, the aliens also had an artillery unit that literally was just a giant slug that shot poop from its butt.
Ahhh Childhood memories.
edit: fuck yeah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ByIYt_Wp4I
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Resident hybrid/flap cover expert.
Of course, being complete shit at RTSs I could never progress beyond a few missions. Didn't help that it was abnormally difficult even for the genre.
I came here to post this and I'm happy that I was beaten!
This game is legendary in my circle of friends. It still makes me sad that it was/is so overlooked because it blew away the competition in every way imaginable.
We formed a clan, setup a website, fashioned a custom logo for our team, raided servers, etc. It showed us all the magic of team-oriented online gaming!
And so many amazing times were had! Sniping the toes of Olympians, shooting out the crotches of Apocs, making a cloaked tank with a turbo to surprise ram an enemy into oblivion... and of course the elusive Cloaked Exec that came oh so close to ambushing one of us, almost causing him to quit the game forever (it was a bet)! bahahaha
Must play...
WHAAAAA? I must have this!
SILLY GOOSE this game when I was like 8 years old... SILLY GOOSE it to hell
[edit] Just realized it's technically possible to play this on my PSP. Life is good...
I loved that game, but I don't know too many people who have even heard of it.
I've actually been replaying that game, it's pretty fucking great. The only thing I hate is the password system uses lowercase and uppercase letters, and the letter O and the number 0 look too similar. So much frustration as a child from that.
Such an awesome game! I had a version for the Atari 800 called "Behind Jaggi Lines" I think they just changed the name. First time that green bugger pounded on my window I almost fell out of my seat.
Man, if we want to go that old-school. Anyone remember Space Taxi for the C64?
Activision's "Megamania"
Until I turned 31, got an Activision Compilation disc for PS2, and had a friend come over and recognize the game, I thought the only two people in the world who had ever played this game were me and my older brother. The concept is gold: A Klingon Bird of Prey shoots day-glo colored junkfood and household appliances that fall from the sky. Cookies, Caterpillars, Radial Tires, Hamburgers, Bow Ties.
I know there were patches you could win if you took a photo of your high score and sent them to Activision, but I never tried it. To this date, the most addictive game I've ever played.
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Apparently that's one of the few games in a long running series that was brought over here. Same series as Legacy of the Wizard, actually! Which is another ridiculously hard NES game, of course.
http://hg101.kontek.net/dragonslayer/dragonslayer.htm
And, if you're going to link one of the Cocoron videos, you have to show the best one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1O3Q869mRQ
~Drive on singing ninja tank, turn and bank, ninja tank. Alto voice and black belt rank, wind up crank, ninja tank.~
I owned it and loved it! I wasn't sure if it was worthy of "classic" status though since I never knew of anyone else that played it.. haha
It seemed like people had expanded the scope of the thread to include forgotten gems and for me that game qualifies. I can't believe that someone hasn't revived it, a version using the same engine that Red Faction Guerilla is running on would be a thing of beauty.
It runs pretty well on Dosbox too.
These pretty much got me through high school.
Only by those who probably aren't hitting 30 like myself.
Youngsters these days have no clue what any of those are, except maybe the Descent series (Freespace keeps it alive, slightly).
My apologies that my definition of 'overlooked' skews from yours.
Freespace is the one that's overlooked! I didn't sell very well I think. I hark back to my old gaming days. Back when I bought Fallout 1 by just reading a preview, or played the demo for X-Com 3 and bought that series. Or played a demo for Thief and bought that. You don't seem to stumble on classics like that these days.
Terra Nova was overlooked and awesome. I played the demo, loved it, but never found it in retail so I never bought it... It's a lot like Tribes for some reason.
HAHA, I read this thread title and instantly thought of that game, but then I remembered that I completely hated it.
I liked it quite a bit, but there were many frustrating parts, and until you started getting some good items you died pretty damn easily.
This was the first game that introduced me to 'farming'.
How bout some good old Karnov?
I wanna be your friend forever.
I just recently bought FutureCop on ebay for like $4. It is amazing. The music is the best part.
Astroboy Omega Factor is the poo. I was pretty blown away once I discovered how the replay mechanics worked. I would normmlly be annoyed at having to replay a game multiple times to unlock stuff, but the fact that doing so unlocked so much more of the story to reveal what you though was the truth was in fact not was pretty cool.
Moonbase Commander! Great game. I got everyone hooked on that bad boy on the local game stores' computer network. I gotta see if I can find my disc somehere...
I wanted to play Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri very badly about the time I was really into Heavy Gear (both pen/paper and computer versions). Found a soitary copy in a CompUSA for like $2... only to find the box had no f-ing disc. I only lost $2, but damn I wanted to play it!
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Resident hybrid/flap cover expert.
Oh god. SO many hours were spent playing the multiplayer on this as a kid, squished right next to my brother as we each used the keyboard, and getting pissed off at each other for blowing our shit up. Thanks for reminding me about this!
(Diablo) - (Rigid Classes) + (Puzzle Solving) + (Slightly more RPG)
Subterranean Map overlays, Weight Panels, Secret Locations, Traps, Life-Draining tiles, a very cool weapon, etc etc.
And I don't know how appropriately looked Alex Kidd in Shinobi World was, but it's much better than the game it parodied. And that game was awesome.
So, I'm making a bit of a strawman here, but would you say that Citizen Kane, for example, is an overlooked movie?
fake-edit: Citizen Kabuto!
I might have similar feelings if it wasn't a technical abortion. Even with all the settings turned down, I cannot get a framerate that consistently goes above 10. And I'm not even running an outdated rig here, either. I just got Metro 2033, and it runs wonderfully.
I want to play Cryostasis, but it is almost literally unplayable.
I hope you're joking, but
YES
Was Psychic Force that 3d fighting game where you floated in the arena?
I remember when I was young we flew over to england and my cousin had a playstation with that game. It was all I ever did when I was there