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Pablo Nergigante: Apr 16, 2002

haiQt posted:

I'm looking for shooter on the PC (and possibly other platforms). I saw a video of it, it had a guy shooting and flying around with a jetpack (not Global Agenda) and he could switch between first and third person.

His mission was to defend some kind of mining driller that came from the sky, when it landed it was drilling resources for him (to complete the objective). It looked like a giant missile. I think he "requested" it with some kind of laser targeting/homing beacon/whatever).

I think there was another NPC who was there to help him defend it, they were being attacked by creatures who were attracted by the earthshocks the drilling machine made. Oh, and the reload animation of a particular gun was kind of wonky like it wasn't done yet.

TLDR; Dude with a jetpack shooting things in first and third person defending a mining driller as his objective.

I believe this is the upcoming Firefall. Basically like a persistent-world, free-to-play Tribes.

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haiQt: Nov 4, 2009

Pablo Gigante posted:

I believe this is the upcoming Firefall

Yes. Thanks a lot!

# ? Sep 30, 2010 19:04

rockem: Aug 4, 2010

Bargain bin Laden posted:

I've got several here I've been trying to remember...

1) NES game. It was a side-scroller shooter, I seem to remember the character being a futuristic space person, and you could upgrade your guns. Similar to Metroid, but mixed with Contra. I specifically remember moving left in one level, I think the floor was a bluish green color, there were stars in the background and the gun I had shot a star in a wavy pattern. It wasn't Mega Man.

Xenophobe, maybe?

# ? Sep 30, 2010 21:44

Rollersnake: May 9, 2005; Please, please don't let me end up in a threesome with the lunch lady and a gay pirate. That would hit a little too close to home.; Unlockable Ben

Bargain bin Laden posted:

I've got several here I've been trying to remember...

1) NES game. It was a side-scroller shooter, I seem to remember the character being a futuristic space person, and you could upgrade your guns. Similar to Metroid, but mixed with Contra. I specifically remember moving left in one level, I think the floor was a bluish green color, there were stars in the background and the gun I had shot a star in a wavy pattern. It wasn't Mega Man.

If it really looked like poo poo, it might have been an unlicensed game�maybe something by Color Dreams. What about Captain Comic? It's an action-adventure game with an upgradable weapon.

# ? Sep 30, 2010 21:56

Bargain bin Laden: Nov 2, 2006; See how pathetic I am?

Rollersnake posted:

If it really looked like poo poo, it might have been an unlicensed game�maybe something by Color Dreams. What about Captain Comic? It's an action-adventure game with an upgradable weapon.

It looks very similar, quite possibly it. I seem to remember the character being a witch, and my first thought was it was Mystery Quest, which was wrong. I honestly don't remember the character at all though, so I don't know where I'm getting the whole witch thing, especially since Krion Conquest wasn't it.

E: Watching YouTube videos, that's definitely it. Thanks a ton.

Bargain bin Laden fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Oct 1, 2010

# ? Oct 1, 2010 04:33

El Generico: Feb 3, 2009; Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.

I'm looking for a game on the original Game Boy that was about gambling with mob men in order to sink them financially, and you could spend your money to buy cheats from a shady trenchcoat guy like cards you could insert into your hand. It had poker and blackjack among other games. I remember it from an old issue of Nintendo Power and I'd like to try actually playing it.

# ? Oct 1, 2010 22:02

beef express: Sep 7, 2005; The highest technique is to have no technique.

I'm fairly sure that's High Stakes Gambling.

# ? Oct 1, 2010 22:11

Morganus_Starr: Jan 28, 2001

Early era NES game. SHMUP, but can't remember if it's top/sidescroller. One of the early bosses was a watermelon I think. There were some really wacky enemies in the game and it was really colorful. I remember the game being pretty decent. It's not Parodious...

# ? Oct 2, 2010 00:25

Discount Viscount: Jul 9, 2010; FIND THE FISH!

Morganus_Starr posted:

Early era NES game. SHMUP, but can't remember if it's top/sidescroller. One of the early bosses was a watermelon I think. There were some really wacky enemies in the game and it was really colorful. I remember the game being pretty decent. It's not Parodious...

Stinger or Gun Nac, perhaps?

# ? Oct 2, 2010 00:34

Morganus_Starr: Jan 28, 2001

Discount Viscount posted:

Stinger or Gun Nac, perhaps?

Aaah I do believe it was Stinger. I was close while looking..I found TwinBee and Stinger is some kind of sequel to it I guess?

# ? Oct 2, 2010 00:52

Discount Viscount: Jul 9, 2010; FIND THE FISH!

Yeah, Stinger is one of the Twinbee games, and the only one or one of a couple to come out in the US. The only other one I know got a release here is the Turbografix CD game that is also on the Virtual Console, and that's an import.

Incidentally, if you have a PSP you can import the Twinbee Collection that includes all or most of the main games, including a remade version of the Game Boy game.

# ? Oct 2, 2010 00:55

Project1: Dec 30, 2003; it's time

I made this post in the previous thread, but it seems to have died now, so I'll give it a shot in this thread.

Project1 posted:

A post I made a couple of years ago in this very thread about a PC game, but never got a satisfactory answer:

Project1 posted:
This is a game I played a demo of, so I can't say with certainty that it was ever released.

Anyway, it was a turn-based strategy, from about the mid-90s, I'd say. You did the usual things, recruiting troops and so forth, and each turn took 30 days. Your armies had their food supplies, and you could forage for food. Foraging in a city was the quickest way to get food, but this reduced the food stocks for the city. Otherwise, you could get food slower for free in the wilderness.

You could also hold tournaments of varying kinds which made different troop types available for the duration of the tournament. There were different types, for example a magic tournament would make wizards and so forth available, while other tournament focuses provided different troop types.

There may have been different races available, but I'm not sure about that.

Also, a couple of C64 games from my childhood. One was a text adventure which I believe had static location pictures. At the start, you find yourself strapped to a conveyor belt which is whisking you to your doom. To escape that, you had to tell it to snap the cable tying you down. It would first tell you that you couldn't possibly be strong enough to do that, but if you try again it works. The secret twist was that unbeknownst to you, you're actually a cyborg/android or something, who thinks it's human, or it was human or something.

The other was some sort of first person adventure game. It was in German, but it might have just been a German version, not the original language. All I remember is a message appearing on screen which I was told said something like "Come here, pussycat!", and then this naked woman shows off her body to the player. It definitely wasn't a porn/sex game, though, just that one bit. If you tried to do anything with her besides look or use the camera, she'd hit you and throw you out of the room. Amusing stuff to pre-teen kids, apparently.

EDIT: Just remembered another scene from the last game: being in a kitchen, and while this old woman had her back turned and was cooking, you could click in the fridge or maybe it was the cupboard, to steal food and restore your health. If you got too greedy, she'd realise what you were doing, hit you, and throw you out. I guess healing was necessary considering everyone seems to beat you up.

# ? Oct 3, 2010 16:01

fronz: Apr 7, 2009; Lipstick Apathy

what's the game that was recently 'game of the week' and stickied? I think it might have been near the start of the game of the week thing, if that still happens (I don't visit games much). I remember it being hilarious mostly because you could kill enemies with only your boot (kicking them, shooting them after kicking them into the air, kicking a hole through their chest, etc), you could get combos by making the most carnage with your weapons and such.
main point: it didn't take itself seriously.

edit: wow i'm cool, found it less than a minute later. sorry for the bump

# ? Oct 4, 2010 02:54

K-ParAdoX: Jul 12, 2004; ...but.this.phone.is. always.off.it's.hook...

So there was this game, I played ages ago. It came out when simple user-created games were getting popular. I remember it was a trilogy of games and you have to guide a guy around trying to find his girlfriend. The basic premise was point and click and solve puzzles. Graphics were very MSPaint-ish. I remember something about going into a pyramid, and then having to solve one of those number sequence puzzles. I'm pretty sure it was shareware.

It's a long shot, but if anyone would know what it is, this place would.

# ? Oct 4, 2010 09:14

Hoplosternum: Jun 2, 2010

K-ParAdoX posted:

So there was this game, I played ages ago. It came out when simple user-created games were getting popular. I remember it was a trilogy of games and you have to guide a guy around trying to find his girlfriend. The basic premise was point and click and solve puzzles. Graphics were very MSPaint-ish. I remember something about going into a pyramid, and then having to solve one of those number sequence puzzles. I'm pretty sure it was shareware.

It's a long shot, but if anyone would know what it is, this place would.

It doesn't quite match but what about the Hugo series? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo%27s_House_of_Horrors
There were 3 (Whodunnit and Jungle of Doom were the 2nd & 3rd)
And Hugo is looking for his girlfriend in them.
They weren't point and click though, you used the arrow keys to move and text commands to solve puzzles.
I don't remember the pyramid bit though, so I might be on the wrong track.

# ? Oct 4, 2010 09:43

K-ParAdoX: Jul 12, 2004; ...but.this.phone.is. always.off.it's.hook...

Hoplosternum posted:

It doesn't quite match but what about the Hugo series? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo%27s_House_of_Horrors
There were 3 (Whodunnit and Jungle of Doom were the 2nd & 3rd)
And Hugo is looking for his girlfriend in them.
They weren't point and click though, you used the arrow keys to move and text commands to solve puzzles.
I don't remember the pyramid bit though, so I might be on the wrong track.

I do remember the Hugo games pretty well. The games I'm talking about were definitely point and click, and similar to stuff you could find on here: http://www.yoyogames.com Just some random guy on the internet made them with GameMaker or some similar program. I remember them being relatively popular and being featured on a couple websites. I also remember it being one of the better ones among droves of games thrown together with no effort.

Edit: I also remember the name of the main character being in the name of a game, ala Chip's Challenge or something like this.

K-ParAdoX fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Oct 4, 2010

# ? Oct 4, 2010 21:39

Martian: May 29, 2005; Grimey Drawer

I'm looking for two games that i can't remember the name of, googling random things i remembered didn't help.

The first one is an old DOS game. You saw the world from sort of a top-down viewpoint and you were some kind of red man. I think you started out with a knife, then later you got a pistol, handgun, machinegun etc. I clearly remember that you could find two of each weapon, and if you found the second one your weapon got an upgrade. Two pistols became a handgun, two machineguns became a better machinegun, etc. There was a church and destroyable walls, too...

The second one is a bit newer, windows 95 era (I think). You started out with a bunch of villagers, and you could build huts and other buildings. When you had enough huts, the villagers would go inside them two by two and make babies. You could train soldier, find potions and fight monsters with them. It was mission-based. It was all pretty cartoony.

Pretty vague descriptions I know, but someone might recognize them!

# ? Oct 6, 2010 21:03

Hakkesshu: Nov 4, 2009

Martian posted:

The second one is a bit newer, windows 95 era (I think). You started out with a bunch of villagers, and you could build huts and other buildings. When you had enough huts, the villagers would go inside them two by two and make babies. You could train soldier, find potions and fight monsters with them. It was mission-based. It was all pretty cartoony.

Beasts and Bumpkins?

# ? Oct 6, 2010 22:33

Martian: May 29, 2005; Grimey Drawer

Yep, that's it! Thanks!

One to go...

# ? Oct 6, 2010 23:14

sebzilla: Mar 17, 2009; Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.

PC game, some kind of platforming type thing around a factory or something to collect parts for a vehicle which would then race against your opponent once you had enough parts. The quality of parts you found would determine if you won or lost, you don't actually control the race after building the vehicle. I think it was a pretty non-violent game, you got past the guards in the factory by knocking them out with bananas or something like that... really I don't remember exactly how the platforming part worked, but the vehicle building is pretty vivid in my head.

I played this at my friend's house in about 1998 and cannot for the life of me work out what it was. Also, I don't really remember it that well, but you definitely would have to collect parts and upgrade them until you could beat the guy, then you moved onto the next level and made a different type of vehicle (plane, car etc).

Also, some kind of educational game where you were a knight and did the regular platforming type stuff collecting objects (apples? coins? hearts? some poo poo like that) but every now and then had to answer a question to get past a flag. I think they were maths questions, but basically I remember the platforming was surprisingly fun for an educational game and the music was kinda neat. I just had the first level or two on a demo (CD-ROM Today was the best magazine ever) and wanted the full thing so I could go to the castle and fight dragons and stuff. Maybe a bit earlier for this one, 1996 or so.

Man, I played some lame games as a kid.

# ? Oct 6, 2010 23:43

That Robox: Mar 15, 2010

sebzilla posted:

PC game, some kind of platforming type thing around a factory or something to collect parts for a vehicle which would then race against your opponent once you had enough parts. The quality of parts you found would determine if you won or lost, you don't actually control the race after building the vehicle. I think it was a pretty non-violent game, you got past the guards in the factory by knocking them out with bananas or something like that... really I don't remember exactly how the platforming part worked, but the vehicle building is pretty vivid in my head.

I played this at my friend's house in about 1998 and cannot for the life of me work out what it was. Also, I don't really remember it that well, but you definitely would have to collect parts and upgrade them until you could beat the guy, then you moved onto the next level and made a different type of vehicle (plane, car etc).

That would be Super Solvers: Gizmos & Gadgets. I played this in third grade all the time on the old classroom Macs. I remember it being fun as hell, but I haven't played it since. It has all the same features and vehicles you mentioned, plus the bananas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gizmos_%26_Gadgets!

That Robox fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Oct 7, 2010

# ? Oct 7, 2010 20:15

sebzilla: Mar 17, 2009; Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.

That Robox posted:

That would be Super Solvers: Gizmos & Gadgets. I played this in third grade all the time on the old classroom Macs. I remember it being fun as hell, but I haven't played it since. It has all the same features and vehicles you mentioned, plus the bananas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gizmos_%26_Gadgets!

That is exactly the game I've been trying to think of for over a decade. Thankyou, goon sir!

Now to track down a copy and relive my childhood :unsmith:

# ? Oct 7, 2010 23:28

Pseudo-God: Mar 13, 2006; I just love oranges!

I remember seeing a game a few years ago that piqued my interest, but since then have forgotten the name and could not find in on Google. The game is a RTS(maybe) set 200-400 years into the future, where World War II ended in a stalemate and there are three superpowers on earth, the Soviet Union, the Third Reich and the League of Free Nations. You fight for dominance of the stars using spaceships with the Luftwaffe logo and such. If anyone can remember this game, I'd appreciate it greatly.

# ? Oct 8, 2010 02:52

Lemon-Lime: Aug 6, 2009

Pseudo-God posted:

I remember seeing a game a few years ago that piqued my interest, but since then have forgotten the name and could not find in on Google. The game is a RTS(maybe) set 200-400 years into the future, where World War II ended in a stalemate and there are three superpowers on earth, the Soviet Union, the Third Reich and the League of Free Nations. You fight for dominance of the stars using spaceships with the Luftwaffe logo and such. If anyone can remember this game, I'd appreciate it greatly.

Are you sure it wasn't this mod: http://www.moddb.com/mods/dawn-of-victory ?

# ? Oct 8, 2010 13:55

Sizone: Sep 13, 2007; by LadyAmbien

I remember seeing this once in the arcade and am slowly becoming convinced I dreamt it. Circa '87 or '88, platformer game set in a cave (first level at least) with huge rolling boulders. It had amazing graphics for the time and basically looked a lot like The Goonies 2. In fact, I think the marquee said Goonies, but questing through MAME and wikipedia don't turn anything up.

# ? Oct 8, 2010 14:29

Gromit: Aug 15, 2000; I am an oppressed White Male, Asian women wont serve me! Save me Campbell Newman!!!!!!!

Sizone posted:

In fact, I think the marquee said Goonies, but questing through MAME and wikipedia don't turn anything up.

Have you tried KLOV?
http://www.klov.net/

# ? Oct 8, 2010 14:37

Spanish Matlock: Sep 6, 2004; If you want to play the I-didn't-know-this-was-a-hippo-bar game with me, that's fine.

Some goon-made game from a while back that was essentially just Urban Dead. I wanted to check in and see what happened to that thing, but I can't remember the name. Does anyone remember that?

# ? Oct 9, 2010 05:55

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Arcade game. It was an isometric fantasy action game with a graphical style similar to Treasure's Light Crusader except more detailed. The game began in a tavern where you choose your character and it had multiple branching paths each connected to a world map with a shop you could buy upgrades from.

# ? Oct 9, 2010 12:17

Kevin Bacon: Sep 22, 2010

Adventure game. I think it's from the 90s. I believe you play a red-haired dude, but from a first-person perspective. In the demo, you start out in a little apartment, everything is dirty and worn. Some guy is also shouting at you, telling you to turn off the TV. I also think I can remember that to get into your inventory, you click a little paper doll that looks like yourself, but I'm not entirely sure.

EDIT: It's on the PC. Might have been 3D or "2.5D".

# ? Oct 9, 2010 12:53

The Incredible Ed: Nov 12, 2006; The way of a sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.

This game was either on the NES or SNES, and the details are kind of vague because my mom rented it for me when I was sick. It was probably 1992-1994, but like I said, it was a rental so it could have been older. The game was a 2D sidescroller, and you started out the game as just a normal guy, and at the end of the level you would jump into what I want to say is a robotic dinosaur. Then, the next level you would play in the robotic dinosaur which had less fluid controls.

The only reason I remember this game is because I recall it taking me forever to get to the end of the first stage the first time, and I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to do. I jumped to my death, and ended up inside the awesome dinosaur deathmachine :3:

# ? Oct 9, 2010 12:55

Hakkesshu: Nov 4, 2009

Kevin Bacon posted:

Adventure game. I think it's from the 90s. I believe you play a red-haired dude, but from a first-person perspective. In the demo, you start out in a little apartment, everything is dirty and worn. Some guy is also shouting at you, telling you to turn off the TV. I also think I can remember that to get into your inventory, you click a little paper doll that looks like yourself, but I'm not entirely sure.

EDIT: It's on the PC. Might have been 3D or "2.5D".

Normality.

# ? Oct 9, 2010 13:42

pixelbaron: Mar 18, 2009; ~ Notice me, Shempai! ~

Spanish Matlock posted:

Some goon-made game from a while back that was essentially just Urban Dead. I wanted to check in and see what happened to that thing, but I can't remember the name. Does anyone remember that?

Quarantine 2019

# ? Oct 9, 2010 13:46

Genpei Turtle: Jul 20, 2007

The Incredible Ed posted:

This game was either on the NES or SNES, and the details are kind of vague because my mom rented it for me when I was sick. It was probably 1992-1994, but like I said, it was a rental so it could have been older. The game was a 2D sidescroller, and you started out the game as just a normal guy, and at the end of the level you would jump into what I want to say is a robotic dinosaur. Then, the next level you would play in the robotic dinosaur which had less fluid controls.

The only reason I remember this game is because I recall it taking me forever to get to the end of the first stage the first time, and I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to do. I jumped to my death, and ended up inside the awesome dinosaur deathmachine

Dynowarz maybe?

# ? Oct 9, 2010 14:55

Luminaflare: Sep 23, 2010; No one man
should have all that
POWER BEYOND MEASURE

Some game where the characters equipment would warp out of this device dangling at their hip or wherever.

# ? Oct 9, 2010 14:57

dregan: Jan 16, 2005; I could transport you all into space if I wanted.

Luminaflare posted:

Some game where the characters equipment would warp out of this device dangling at their hip or wherever.

Star Trek: Elite Force.

# ? Oct 9, 2010 15:00

Luminaflare: Sep 23, 2010; No one man
should have all that
POWER BEYOND MEASURE

dregan posted:

Star Trek: Elite Force.

Nope, but on the plus side I now feel stupid, it was borderlands.

# ? Oct 9, 2010 15:43

The Incredible Ed: Nov 12, 2006; The way of a sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.

Genpei Turtle posted:

Dynowarz maybe?

Yes! This thread is amazing!

# ? Oct 9, 2010 20:08

Kewpuh: Oct 22, 2003; when i dip you dip we dip

Theres a web based game that I've seen some people playing where there's basically images that represent a movie and you have to guess what the movie is. For example, The Rocker is represented by an image of a rocking chair and so forth. Anybody know what this is and where I can find it?

# ? Oct 9, 2010 21:04

These Loving Eyes: Jun 6, 2009

Francois Kofko posted:

what's the game that was recently 'game of the week' and stickied? I think it might have been near the start of the game of the week thing, if that still happens (I don't visit games much). I remember it being hilarious mostly because you could kill enemies with only your boot (kicking them, shooting them after kicking them into the air, kicking a hole through their chest, etc), you could get combos by making the most carnage with your weapons and such.
main point: it didn't take itself seriously.

edit: wow i'm cool, found it less than a minute later. sorry for the bump

What's this game then? You got me intrigued.

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MMAgCh: Aug 15, 2001; I am the poet,
The prophet of the pit
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Straight to the head
I never missed...you

These Loving Eyes posted:

What's this game then? You got me intrigued.

Could be Bulletstorm.

# ? Oct 10, 2010 00:04

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