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I've asked this in every thread like this and haven't gotten a hit yet. It's a PC with a 3/4 top down view. I never actually played it, only remember screen shots of it from a PC Gamer ad. It's a squad game similar to Jagger Alliance and the screen shot I remember is on a plane. The roof of the plane was removed so that you could see inside. The larger ad was a drawing of a guy with a gag in his mouth with a rifle pointed at his head. Something was painted in blood but I don't remember was it was. I don't have the PC Gamer any more so I can't just look through them all. Anyone have any ideas at all? EDIT: This would've been in the 90s.
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Orgophlax posted:I've asked this in every thread like this and haven't gotten a hit yet. I don't remember the ad but the 3/4 games I remember around that time were Xcom and Crusader: No remorse, both great games TriggerPappy
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May 28, 2010 17:29
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Something about that makes me want to say an early Rainbow Six, probably from a review I read, but I think that went first-person during the execution stage.
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May 28, 2010 17:36
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Shadow Watch was a 3/4 view Tom Clancy game, but that came out in 2000.
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May 28, 2010 17:52
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Grey posted:Shadow Watch was a 3/4 view Tom Clancy game, but that came out in 2000. Orgophlax fucked around with this message at 18:05 on May 28, 2010 |
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May 28, 2010 17:59
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Orgophlax posted:I've asked this in every thread like this and haven't gotten a hit yet. This might be one of the "Commandos" games.
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May 28, 2010 18:33
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Keru posted:Let me just throw a few names out and see what sticks: Yeah, it was FreeSpace 2! Thanks for the name, I searched a bunch and could never find it. Looking at the game again though, there's no way that was on the old 133mhz, it must have been on the 600mhz I had considering the time it came out.
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May 28, 2010 18:46
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I've been trying to remember the name of a game I used to play on my brother's PC when I was real young, but problem is I don't remember too much about it. It took place in a mansion, and no it wasn't Maniac Mansion, I don't believe it was that good of a game anyway. I think the mansion might have been haunted but I'm not sure on this one, either way I know it was possible to die somehow because I remember the awesome generic death tune ("dun da dun dun duuuuun"). I think I remember something about having to lure a rat out of a hole in the wall with a piece of cheese at one part to do something else, and I think I remember being able to get a butterknife from the kitchen up a staircase from the living room and do something with it but I'm not sure what. Anyone have any clue what game this could be? Appreciated if so. Edit: The game could have possibly been on a floppy disk, and maybe DOS based but I'm not sure my memory is very hazy as I was like 6 or 7 years old at the time. Thorias fucked around with this message at 20:13 on May 28, 2010 |
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May 28, 2010 19:49
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Thorias posted:It took place in a mansion, and no it wasn't Maniac Mansion, I don't believe it was that good of a game and it might have even been older. I think the mansion might have been haunted but I'm not sure on this one, either way I know it was possible to die somehow because I remember the awesome generic death tune ("dun da dun dun duuuuun"). I think I remember something about having to lure a rat out of a hole in the wall with a piece of cheese at one part to do something else, and I think I remember being able to get a butterknife from the kitchen up a staircase from the living room and do something with it but I'm not sure what.
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May 28, 2010 19:58
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kuddles posted:It wasn't Hugo's House of Horrors/Hugo's Horrific Adventure, was it? That's indeed it, thanks!
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May 28, 2010 20:12
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Hakkesshu posted:And just to get them out of the way, it's not Lionheart or Revenant, right? Not Lionheart but holy crap how have I never heard of Revenant? If I don't even find out about this particular game, at least I'm learning about new new other games  Not Nox either. Grey posted:Shadow Vault, maybe? Not not Shadow Vault either. The game wasn't very militaristic. You were some sort of an everyday man set out to an adventure.
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May 28, 2010 23:37
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Keru posted:Any of those three would fit some or all of the criteria, but my guess is Freespace
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May 29, 2010 00:04
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Lord Master posted:Worth a shot... Heretic Kingdoms begins in a desert land and it's one of those games that's sort of tossed around in random bargain bins.
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May 29, 2010 01:10
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It was an RPG for SNES, sort of like final fantasy but when a battle initiated, it turned into a side-scroller. The characters looked kind of anime-ish IIRC. Can't remember anything else about it except that i liked it.
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May 29, 2010 02:06
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Spectrophile posted:It was an RPG for SNES, sort of like final fantasy but when a battle initiated, it turned into a side-scroller. The characters looked kind of anime-ish IIRC. Can't remember anything else about it except that i liked it. Tales of Phantasia perhaps?
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May 29, 2010 02:08
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ponzicar posted:Tales of Phantasia perhaps? Yep, that's the one! I dig the battle system, very active.
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May 29, 2010 03:17
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al-azad posted:Heretic Kingdoms begins in a desert land and it's one of those games that's sort of tossed around in random bargain bins. No it doesn't. In fact there's only one area that's vaguely desert-ish, and it's hardly much of a desert, at least from what I've played of it, which I think was a fairly large portion. It starts out in a ruined monastery and immediately goes on to a nice grassland town and forests.
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May 29, 2010 07:36
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The Fifteenth Pen posted:No it doesn't. In fact there's only one area that's vaguely desert-ish, and it's hardly much of a desert, at least from what I've played of it, which I think was a fairly large portion. It starts out in a ruined monastery and immediately goes on to a nice grassland town and forests. I don't remember much of my playthrough but I do remember at least half of the game's locations including the aforementioned monastery take place in craggy canyons and barren fields. I distinctly remember a desert town and the game's dreamworld may be confused for time travel to someone who doesn't remember it. Now that I checked up on it the game isn't that old and he said from the turn of the century so that definitely isn't it. I know of another 2000 RPG that was packaged in a jewel case with Planescape Torment called Soulbringer which had a fairly large desert town but that game was 3D with a rotating camera. I don't think this game exists as described or maybe it's a really, really small chunk of it.
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Spectrophile posted:Yep, that's the one! I dig the battle system, very active.
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A 3rd person horror adventure game for the NEC PC98—the overall style of the game seemed to resemble the original Clock Tower. It was not a porno game, which given the system it's on, should narrow things down significantly. All I can recall is that it has some of the most gorgeous, most atmospheric sprite artwork I have ever seen. The backgrounds were highly detailed, with lots of green and brown, and the light and shadow were especially well-drawn, with the careful alternating of green, brown, and black pixels looking like pointillism. As for more specific details, the protagonist was female, and there may have been a grandfather clock in one of the screenshots I saw. Rollersnake fucked around with this message at 22:08 on May 29, 2010 |
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May 29, 2010 22:03
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guppy posted:If you liked that, you may be interested to know that there are others in the series like it for assorted platforms. And they're all pretty hit or miss even among fans of the series. Rollersnake posted:A 3rd person horror adventure game for the NEC PC98—the overall style of the game seemed to resemble the original Clock Tower. It was not a porno game, which given the system it's on, should narrow things down significantly. Pretty sure it's Tokyo Twilight Busters which was recently remade on the DS.
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al-azad posted:And they're all pretty hit or miss even among fans of the series. That actually doesn't look quite as good as I remember it, but that is definitely it. I assume the DS remake won't ever get released outside of Japan either, right?
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al-azad posted:Heretic Kingdoms begins in a desert land and it's one of those games that's sort of tossed around in random bargain bins. I played this game around 2002-2003, Heretic was released 2005. I'm thinking of giving up, since this looks like a needle in a haystack case, and I really don't remember too much about the game. Thanks to you goons that tried at least
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Rollersnake posted:That actually doesn't look quite as good as I remember it, but that is definitely it. I assume the DS remake won't ever get released outside of Japan either, right? I thought the DS one came out last year but turns out that was an announcement. It's slated Q3 this year and the company porting it I believe is an offshoot of Wolfteam who are assimilated with Namco-Bandai. In short, probably not. Still it's not too bad looking. Came out in '95 on hardware that was literally 13 years old at the time. I like how they only use two or three colors to get some top details into the backgrounds. Lord Master posted:I played this game around 2002-2003, Heretic was released 2005. Could be anything. Might not even be an RPG because that's my search parameter. The thing is your description instantly triggered a memory of a game I can't remember anymore. It came packaged in one of those "RPG Bests Compilation" type things you find in the bargain bins. It contained a bunch of European RPGs such as Jack Orlando, Once Upon a Knight, some WWII RPG where the first area has you captured by Germans, and Odi-um/Gorky 17. The game itself had 2D backgrounds with 3D characters and the first area was a dusty abandoned desert town with ruined pyramids and stuff. The name was probably something absolutely weird and ridiculous. Edit: The WWII game I was looking for is called Another War and the other game is Gooka and they have nothing to do with what you were looking for. al-azad fucked around with this message at 23:06 on May 29, 2010 |
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I'm trying to remember a game that i'm pretty sure got cancelled. It was a third-person-ish fixed camera game for PC, puzzle\adventure that took place on Mars, with you as a space-suit wearing astronaut. I remember seeing adverts for it in PC Gamer, but I wanted to know what came of the game because it looks stunningly good and quite interesting.
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Technetium posted:I remember an older 2d shareware (I think) fighting game for PC called something like Zulu Warriors, I think. You'd fight in a little arena/dungeon with creatures like a scorpion or spider warrior, golems, an eyeball creature, a mage, a fighter. I believe if you won the tournament your character had a parade in front of all the other characters. I just seem to recall the name starting with a Z. Did anyone ever figure out this one? I know the game he meant and have also been trying to remember the title. I too think it began with Z or maybe another less common letter like X or Q. I played it on one of those 100 demo game CDs.
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MazriM TaiM posted:Yeah, it was FreeSpace 2! Thanks for the name, I searched a bunch and could never find it. Looking at the game again though, there's no way that was on the old 133mhz, it must have been on the 600mhz I had considering the time it came out. You can get it from GoodOldGames for $6 if you're interested in playing it again. It still holds up pretty well. http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/freespace_2
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Cthulhuite posted:I'm trying to remember a game that i'm pretty sure got cancelled. It was a third-person-ish fixed camera game for PC, puzzle\adventure that took place on Mars, with you as a space-suit wearing astronaut. I remember seeing adverts for it in PC Gamer, but I wanted to know what came of the game because it looks stunningly good and quite interesting. Wasn't this Martian Gothic? It eventually came out on the PS1 but like many of the proposed sci-fi/horror games of the early 2000s that aren't System Shock 2 the end product just aped a genre shamelessly instead of actually trying to do something interesting. In this game's case just stick with Resident Evil 2.
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I'm looking for a game on the more casual side of the spectrum of gaming. It's pretty old (think late 90's) and it's a kind of solitaire: The difference was the playfield, which varied on a level basis (from triangles to circles amongst others) and the blocks you had to jump over eachother all had a primary color on the easiest levels. Whenever you jumped a blue over a yellow thing, the remaining block would be green, and so on, until nothing was left or you hit a point treshold. Anyone? I know the description is pretty vague, but I can't recall any more details and it has been bugging me for weeks now.
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Cthulhuite posted:I'm trying to remember a game that i'm pretty sure got cancelled. It was a third-person-ish fixed camera game for PC, puzzle\adventure that took place on Mars, with you as a space-suit wearing astronaut. I remember seeing adverts for it in PC Gamer, but I wanted to know what came of the game because it looks stunningly good and quite interesting. Turrican 3D?
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Neo Rasa posted:Wasn't this Martian Gothic? It eventually came out on the PS1 but like many of the proposed sci-fi/horror games of the early 2000s that aren't System Shock 2 the end product just aped a genre shamelessly instead of actually trying to do something interesting. In this game's case just stick with Resident Evil 2. It looks almost similar, especially the space-suited guy, but as far as I remember there wasn't combat just puzzles. Edit: Holy poo poo, I found it. Cydonia or Lightbringer, 1998 by Dreamworks. http://www.justadventure.com/reviews/Cydonia/Lightbringer_Review.shtm Cthulhuite fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Jun 10, 2010 |
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Heliophite posted:I'm looking for a game on the more casual side of the spectrum of gaming. It's pretty old (think late 90's) and it's a kind of solitaire: I think this came with one of the old versions of windows (I think pre win95) Pretty sure it was called something really generic like "Take One."
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Help! My girlfriend is looking for a game she played back on the SNES -- something like Castlevania (side-scrolling platformer with a similar art style) and lots of outdoor levels. She thinks you played as "a blond dude with lots of muscles and either a whip or a gun". Also we're pretty sure it's not Blackthorne. Is there a list of SNES Castlevania clones somewhere?
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The Good Professor posted:Help! My girlfriend is looking for a game she played back on the SNES -- something like Castlevania (side-scrolling platformer with a similar art style) and lots of outdoor levels. She thinks you played as "a blond dude with lots of muscles and either a whip or a gun". Sounds like SkyBlazer. You didn't have a whip or gun but you had dirt-blond hair and it used large, colorful sprites like Castlevania with pretty detailed outdoor levels.
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Oh man, there was one game I found on Underdogs and loved. It's pretty old now but I'm hoping for a recreation or something, please help me out. You basically controlled a coloured disc inside a fluid-filled maze with other discs scattered across the map. As you moved around, any fluid particles you touched with your disc got turned into your colour and followed you around. As you were doing this, other discs were doing the same. Eventually, there'd be a conflict, and you would have to make your fluid 'consume' the other discs' fluid. You'd do this by finding where your opponent's colour is thinnest and then would try to use the sheer volume of your own pressing against it in order to convert it. It probably sounds really complicated from the way I describe it, but the game was mega simple and a ton of fun. I'm sure it had Fluid or Water in the title somewhere. Sorry I can't be more help, but man was that a fun way to spend an hour.
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Songbearer posted:Oh man, there was one game I found on Underdogs and loved. It's pretty old now but I'm hoping for a recreation or something, please help me out. It isn't Liquid War is it? fake edit: found it on HOTU too
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dregan posted:It isn't Liquid War is it? That's the one! You're the best.
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The Good Professor posted:Help! My girlfriend is looking for a game she played back on the SNES -- something like Castlevania (side-scrolling platformer with a similar art style) and lots of outdoor levels. She thinks you played as "a blond dude with lots of muscles and either a whip or a gun". This could be any number of games, so even a little bit more info would make it easier. I'll list a few, though: Hakane, X-Kaliber 2097, Run Saber, Gods.
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I would greatly appreciate some help in trying to figure out the name of an SNES game. It had a similar design to Cybernator, but you could exit your mech and enter other mechs. I also remember it having multiplayer.
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Televisio Frankus posted:I would greatly appreciate some help in trying to figure out the name of an SNES game. It had a similar design to Cybernator, but you could exit your mech and enter other mechs. I also remember it having multiplayer. Metal Warriors most likely.
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