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Babunar posted:Haha, no. I'm looking at this page which is making me think it may be a bit older than 2000. What OS did you play it on? Was it hand-drawn or early polygon porridge?
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Babunar posted:An RTS, made some time after 2000 but probably before 2005. I'm guessing, based on the fact that the graphics were isometric 3D. The graphics were sort of cartoonish - I remember a field or a farm with big green trees in it. One of the units was a warlock. I know there's not much to go on here but does anyone have any ideas? Any isometric 3D RTS makes me think of Battle Realms.
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I've recently thought of a old DOS game but I can't remember the name of it. It was a first person perspective. You could choose to be a male or female, the differences between the two that I remember was a barbell in the bottom left corner of the screen indicating strength. The male character had more weights on it indicating more strength. The game took place inside of a castle,but you started outside of it and I think you lowered the drawbridge then went inside to explore. I can't remember exactly but I'm pretty sure you could use magic/arrows to attack the few enemies you met and they would look like little orbs that shot out of the screen. Their was also a little bar in the middle of the HUD on the bottom for text. Any help would be appreciated, I know I kept getting stuck in the same spot and would like to actually see the end of it.
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Oct 21, 2012 17:47
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DOS, and pre-Windows I think: You were solving puzzles or something, and would collect machine parts in a factory and in other areas. You had multiple objectives for stuff to build, like blimps, cars, boats, etc. As you got parts, you could use them to build better and better vehicles. When you thought your vehicle was good enough, you could race the bad guy. That's all I can remember about it but I do remember it was loving awesome. Any ideas?
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Oct 21, 2012 18:24
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I remember there was one mafia-themed strategy game that I used to play sometime in late 90s. I remember that the art was cartoony all the way. There were whorehouses among other businesses and prostitutes could be used to distract the police. Mission intro featured some guy sitting across a desk presenting the player with a paper with mission description. And no, its definitely not Gangsters: Organized Crime. It's not on wikipedia either.
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Oct 21, 2012 18:33
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jonnypeh posted:I remember there was one mafia-themed strategy game that I used to play sometime in late 90s. I remember that the art was cartoony all the way. There were whorehouses among other businesses and prostitutes could be used to distract the police. Mission intro featured some guy sitting across a desk presenting the player with a paper with mission description.
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Oct 21, 2012 18:50
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That's it! e: oh no it doesn't work on windows 7. : / jonnypeh fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Oct 21, 2012 |
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Oct 21, 2012 18:54
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titaniumone posted:DOS, and pre-Windows I think: Gizmos and Gadgets, definitely. http://www.mobygames.com/game/super-solvers-gizmos-gadgets/screenshots
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Oct 21, 2012 18:59
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Doctor Doodler posted:It worked on Windows 98 if that helps. Doctor Doodler posted:No, the graphics are too old, it was 2006-8 era graphics I think.  Was that meant to say 1996-98?
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Oct 21, 2012 21:40
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Sonel posted:I've recently thought of a old DOS game but I can't remember the name of it. It was a first person perspective. You could choose to be a male or female, the differences between the two that I remember was a barbell in the bottom left corner of the screen indicating strength. The male character had more weights on it indicating more strength. This is definitely Castle Master.
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Oct 21, 2012 21:44
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ToxicFrog posted:
Yes, it was.
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I'm trying to remember the name of a game where you play as robots in a post-apocalyptic city. It may have been in an open world city. It was possibly an indie game, but my memory of it is super fuzzy and I can't be sure. IIRC, you started in a small, mouse-sized robot in first person and could work your way to controlling larger robots later. The graphics were retro/vector-like, with some robots being simple 3d triangles. I think I played it at least 4+ years ago, so it's not super recent, but I'm not sure if it's an older game
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HawaiinYeti posted:I'm trying to remember the name of a game where you play as robots in a post-apocalyptic city. It may have been in an open world city. It was possibly an indie game, but my memory of it is super fuzzy and I can't be sure. IIRC, you started in a small, mouse-sized robot in first person and could work your way to controlling larger robots later. The graphics were retro/vector-like, with some robots being simple 3d triangles. I think I played it at least 4+ years ago, so it's not super recent, but I'm not sure if it's an older game You're probably thinking of Cholo, which is actually a remake of an older Commodore 64 game. Though the remake is substantially different in a number of ways.
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pinacotheca posted:This is definitely Castle Master.
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Oct 22, 2012 04:20
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Zaphiel posted:Gizmos and Gadgets, definitely. Hell yeah. Thanks.
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Oct 22, 2012 04:49
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Genpei Turtle posted:You're probably thinking of Cholo, which is actually a remake of an older Commodore 64 game. Though the remake is substantially different in a number of ways. Yep, the remake is exactly what I was thinking of. I'll have to check the original now. Many thanks.
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Bit of a stretch but it was an Atari ST game, possibly out for other similar systems. It was a 3D game with old school polygons in which you flew about in what seemed to be a platform in space (or they didn't put a skybox in). Can't remember anything else. graphics wise it was like a lo-fi version of Starfox.
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Nov 18, 2012 17:43
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Starglider II? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9erRpuhyIQ
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Nov 18, 2012 17:49
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Might be Mercenary/Damocles/Damocles 2, I guess. Or possibly Epic
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Nov 18, 2012 18:09
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DarthBlingBling posted:Bit of a stretch but it was an Atari ST game, possibly out for other similar systems. It was a 3D game with old school polygons in which you flew about in what seemed to be a platform in space (or they didn't put a skybox in). Skyroads? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Rovi9QSDk
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Should also point out it was third person and I'm pretty sure you could both fly and roam along the ground.jack. posted:Starglider II? Nope, gameplay seems a bit similar though Prenton posted:Might be Mercenary/Damocles/Damocles 2, I guess. Edit: no it's not them DarthBlingBling fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Nov 18, 2012 |
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Nov 18, 2012 18:55
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Looking at that Skyroads video reminds me of a similar game that I've only played once or twice, but remember being really fun. It was on the Amiga. The graphics were almost entirely vector-based - it actually looked a lot like Spectre VR, now that I think about it. The primary colour was yellow. It was like Skyroads, except if I remember right you could go in more than one direction. It was otherwise identical, floating platforms, jumping, tight ledges, etc., though I also remember it being first person. If it helps, I'm certain it came on a double-feature disk along with the Amiga version of Rampage.
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Nov 18, 2012 19:09
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Figured it out, it's Simulcra *spoilered for those who enjoy the thrill of guessing! Watching a video of it in action I'm surprised how fast it ran when compared to other polygon games of the time. I remember it being quite fun!
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I posted this in September of 2008:KilGrey posted:This was a game I played on an old mac in the early to mid '90s. This was one of the old mac's, black and white and I think the screen was maaaybe 12". Some how I got a hold of this point and click style game. You are a private detective and I don't really recall what your goal was but I think you were investigating something mob oriented. Here are the parts I remember, a restaurant that was either named Red Herring or served it, I believe was able to later use the term 'Red Herring' as a password when I broke into a computer. There was a part you could use binoculars and looking some chicks bathroom window and click on the curtains to open them and she's in the shower all covered in bubbles. I thought this was crazy at the time, and hilarious that you could look through a window with binoculars and make a shower curtain open. Also, there was a room you become trapped in that fills with water and you have to click on/shoot out a high window to break it to escape or something. The place I lost it at was I went into a bar and I had to give the bouncer a password and if I was wrong he'd shoot me. And never got a response. I'm not surprised because it's so loving vague but I really don't remember much else other than maybe the game had a 1920s/30 theme and was very noir. This is my first memory or ever playing a game on a computer and I know it's a long shot but I'd love to find the name of it again. KilGrey fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Nov 20, 2012 |
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Nov 20, 2012 10:12
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Private Eye? Hard to find any information on this game so im not sure if it was ever released on macs.
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Kamer Kamer Cola posted:Private Eye? Hard to find any information on this game so im not sure if it was ever released on macs. No, the game I'm talking about was much much more simplistic. It was black and white and didn't really have any moving parts. I recall it being more of a basic point and click, like the Crimson Room flash games. Thanks for trying though. 
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KilGrey posted:No, the game I'm talking about was much much more simplistic. It was black and white and didn't really have any moving parts. I recall it being more of a basic point and click, like the Crimson Room flash games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y01lZbrxxb0
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Forgedbow posted:Something along the lines of Deja Vu, or the other MacVenture games? Yes! It was like that. I think I played this game around 1995ish but I don't know how old the game itself was but that was the style of it. I'm really racking my brain to think of more details. I've tried googling everything I remember in a number of different ways to see if anything comes up but have gotten nothing. I don't know why all these years later I still think about it and am irritated I was never able to finish it. I just remember getting to the part where the bouncer asks me for a password and if you get it wrong he shoots you and you have to start all the way over at the beginning of the game again and it irritated the poo poo out of me. I think you only get one or two chances to give him the correct word/phrase too. Weird how certain things will stick in your brain and niggle away at you for years.
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KilGrey posted:I posted this in September of 2008: Are you absolutely sure it's not some odd version of Snatcher mashed together with other games? I will continue to ponder other options, but Snatcher is one of relatively few games I can think of that involve a restaurant, a club and a shower scene while being a noir detective game. Not that they're not common tropes or anything. Still thinkin'.
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KilGrey posted:Yes! It was like that. I think I played this game around 1995ish but I don't know how old the game itself was but that was the style of it.
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I think I'll give this a shot. Maybe it has come up in the thread before? It's a PC FPS set in what I believe is a post-apocalyptic world. A very brown game. Quite old, no sure how old, but I think from Win98 times. It featured driving things like planes, tanks and other vehicles. I remember two factions (might have been more) one was a strange scientist guy, the other was an arms dealer or something. When you entered their "bases" for quests, you would get a little FMV introducing them, and a little flyby of the places you needed to go. I remember only playing the demo of this, was on one of those CD you could get with magazines. Does anyone know what game I'm talking about?
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Reposting here from the Steam thread, since I might have more luck here:ephori posted:Since this is sort of the catch-all general game-chat megathread and I can't find any other thread about general questions, maybe you guys can help me out. The only other aspect was that the graph would change in real-time as you made changes to attributes, growing or shrinking different areas to reflect the changes. I feel like it was an RPG or something with character progression, but I'm not positive. e: and it's not Persona 4, F-Zero, or Ace Combat. ephori fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Nov 30, 2012 |
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ephori posted:Reposting here from the Steam thread, since I might have more luck here: Maybe Phantasy Star Online (Dreamcast)? Look at about 4:20: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZgcind9hfA&t=259s
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Nov 30, 2012 21:03
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ephori posted:Reposting here from the Steam thread, since I might have more luck here: This is probably not the game you're looking for but I do recall that the Brady/Prima Strategy Guides for the Pokemon games used radar charts for the stats of Pokemon, which was certainly the first place I ever saw them used. Edit: Actually now that I think again, the Pokemon games also used them in-game for the beauty contest attributes. This would have been in Sapphire/Ruby/Emerald.
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ephori posted:Reposting here from the Steam thread, since I might have more luck here: Chromehounds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POTexFywpBM Sorry about the video, I grabbed it at random to show what it looks like.
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Fergus Mac Roich posted:Chromehounds. gently caress yes! That's it! What's your Steam name, I'll throw some stuff your way.
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There was some shoot em up released in the past few months that had a multi-monitor mode like the old Darius arcade games. I want to say I tried out the demo on Desura, but I can't find it for the life of me. Anyone else know what the hell I'm thinking of?
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ephori posted:gently caress yes! That's it! What's your Steam name, I'll throw some stuff your way.
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ephori posted:Reposting here from the Steam thread, since I might have more luck here:  Shameless excuse to post SimAnt triangle-thing since it jogged my memory a bit. Thanks ants. Thants.
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This isn't quite "remember the name", but I cannot for the life of me find this game despite (probably) knowing what it's called. It was a stranded-on-an-island survival game. Every day you could choose one of six actions - gather water, gather wood, go fishing, send a message in a bottle, rest, or quit. Some of these were minigames (how far out is the fish?), others were straight die rolls. Your ultimate goal was to get off the island, either by building a raft and sailing to civilization, or by getting rescued by someone who found your message in a bottle. My wife would have played this in elementary school, so early to mid 90s. I remember the title screen looking pretty similar to the one for Isle Wars:  except the title was just "Island". However, I can't find any game with that name that matches (and of course it's pretty much impossible to google for). I could probably track it down if I knew the developer/publisher, but I don't. It's possible that it was a smaller game included as part of a pack or as a bonus with another game. Anyone know this one? ToxicFrog fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Feb 15, 2014 |
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