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No Gravitas posted:I'm not sure... but... No; for one thing, it only took us two and a half hours to play (and it was a learning game, for me at least). For another, the four factions I listed were the only four factions (barring expansions I wouldn't know about). It's also strictly a "lay cards down on your tableau" kind of game, like Race for the Galaxy (so I guess calling it a "board game" was a bit of a misnomer). Lasts five rounds, at the end you add up all your VPs and the point values of the cards you've played to determine the winner.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:No; for one thing, it only took us two and a half hours to play (and it was a learning game, for me at least). For another, the four factions I listed were the only four factions (barring expansions I wouldn't know about). It's also strictly a "lay cards down on your tableau" kind of game, like Race for the Galaxy (so I guess calling it a "board game" was a bit of a misnomer). Lasts five rounds, at the end you add up all your VPs and the point values of the cards you've played to determine the winner. You're more likely to find an answer if you ask this in the general boardgames thread in trad games.
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# ? Aug 23, 2014 16:08 |
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:No; for one thing, it only took us two and a half hours to play (and it was a learning game, for me at least). For another, the four factions I listed were the only four factions (barring expansions I wouldn't know about). It's also strictly a "lay cards down on your tableau" kind of game, like Race for the Galaxy (so I guess calling it a "board game" was a bit of a misnomer). Lasts five rounds, at the end you add up all your VPs and the point values of the cards you've played to determine the winner. Other than length, that sounds like it could be 7 Wonders, but that game is usually shorter than 2 and a half hours.
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# ? Aug 23, 2014 17:56 |
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That doesn't sound like 7 Wonders to me at all.
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# ? Aug 23, 2014 18:16 |
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I googled for "card game japan egypt rome barbarian" and found it: it's Imperial Settlers. Should've known Google would be able to figure that one out.
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# ? Aug 23, 2014 19:36 |
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There was an Acorn Archimedes educational game that I used to play in primary school which seems lost to time, it was a text interface and you were talking to and directing a child around in a WW2-era English town, it did displays some pictures on one side of the screen as you played. It was part of a series of games that played the same. I can only remember a victorian-era one and another set on Columbus' ship.
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# ? Sep 14, 2014 15:20 |
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PowerStreak posted:There was an Acorn Archimedes educational game that I used to play in primary school which seems lost to time, it was a text interface and you were talking to and directing a child around in a WW2-era English town, it did displays some pictures on one side of the screen as you played. Timetraveller: Britain Since The 1930s, maybe? There was also a Timetraveller: The Victorians. I have no idea how they play though or what they look like.
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Pneub posted:I swear I've seen the exact pose from that poster on the right on a title screen or cover art or something (the other one looks familiar to). Any ideas? When I saw this I thought, maybe Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/79/Countdown-to-doomsday-cover.jpg
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Pneub posted:I swear I've seen the exact pose from that poster on the right on a title screen or cover art or something (the other one looks familiar to). Any ideas?
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 07:21 |
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There's a Myst clone called Qing but it takes place in China with you exploring tombs and such. The beginning involves a harbor with lots of yellow though.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 07:22 |
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A browser game where you had a map of things that happen during your lifetime and you could choose multiple choices from each of them and you'd grow up from a baby to an old person and then die. As a baby, a furry man with bad breath walks up to you and licks your face (actually a dog) and when you're a preteen you can choose to go to school wearing a dog collar and answer to the name 'Fido Rex'. There were a lot of other important dog-related life events too.
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circ dick soleil posted:A browser game where you had a map of things that happen during your lifetime and you could choose multiple choices from each of them and you'd grow up from a baby to an old person and then die. As a baby, a furry man with bad breath walks up to you and licks your face (actually a dog) and when you're a preteen you can choose to go to school wearing a dog collar and answer to the name 'Fido Rex'. There were a lot of other important dog-related life events too. Alter Ego, which is an old, awesome game.
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circ dick soleil posted:A browser game where you had a map of things that happen during your lifetime and you could choose multiple choices from each of them and you'd grow up from a baby to an old person and then die. As a baby, a furry man with bad breath walks up to you and licks your face (actually a dog) and when you're a preteen you can choose to go to school wearing a dog collar and answer to the name 'Fido Rex'. There were a lot of other important dog-related life events too. As duckfarts said, it's Alter ego. http://www.playalterego.com/alterego I'm not sure if there's another version around but this the one I know.
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Pneub posted:I swear I've seen the exact pose from that poster on the right on a title screen or cover art or something (the other one looks familiar to). Any ideas?
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Puweyxil posted:The first thing that came to mind was Impossible Mission 2, but I agree with duckfarts that it looks more like Rolling Thunder 2. But I couldn't find a matching piece of art from either. I seriously cannot get over that cover for Impossible Mission 2, it's the worst ever. Explosions! Guns! Women! *game is about an unarmed dude somersaulting through a tower and searching furniture for keys while dodging robots*
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Genpei Turtle posted:I seriously cannot get over that cover for Impossible Mission 2, it's the worst ever. Explosions! Guns! Women! *game is about an unarmed dude somersaulting through a tower and searching furniture for keys while dodging robots* I know, right? I was so confused when I played IM2. Even worse, the CGA version makes it to where you can't tell what is what!
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 17:02 |
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Jimbo Jaggins posted:Timetraveller: Britain Since The 1930s, maybe? There was also a Timetraveller: The Victorians. I have no idea how they play though or what they look like. That sounds right, thanks! I'll have to keep on my quest for them.
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Serperoth posted:As duckfarts said, it's Alter ego. I just tried that. I got killed by a child molester.
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juliuspringle posted:I just tried that. I got killed by a child molester. drat common death too, I died that way too the one time I tried it. Cannot say I like the game though.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 20:51 |
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So, I'm looking for a freeware game, I think it might have been goon-made? It was a pretty obvious send-up to the Suikoden games, where you could recruit a lot of characters and had RPG battles. The art style was a lot more on the "realistic" end than the anime-ish Suikodens, though. I think it started with you as some kind of prince or noble or something who gets framed as a traitor while knocked out and waking up in some lovely village in the middle of nowhere? I remember having it on my old laptop, getting kinda into it, and then having that computer die on me.
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LordHippoman posted:So, I'm looking for a freeware game, I think it might have been goon-made?
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 21:04 |
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juliuspringle posted:I just tried that. I got killed by a child molester. Just tried it, same result. I just wanted to be helpful!
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Mondian posted:Just tried it, same result. I just wanted to be helpful! That's one of the most bullshit choices in that game--help, don't help, run, you can get killed no matter what you do there.
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Genpei Turtle posted:I seriously cannot get over that cover for Impossible Mission 2, it's the worst ever. Explosions! Guns! Women! *game is about an unarmed dude somersaulting through a tower and searching furniture for keys while dodging robots* Her bodysuit looks suspiciously coloured over because the original artist's vision was a little too raunchy, too. The guy is pretty much David Hasslehoff though, so you can't really fault the artist.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 23:37 |
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Long shot because my memory's a little hazy but what the heck. I remember playing a demo for a PC fps, probably pre 2000. The setting was dark, outdoors by some large buildings. For some reason I want to say it had a Russian theme. There weren't any enemies so I didn't know what I was supposed to do. In one part there was a kind of racetrack with cars going around in a loop. You could drive one of the cars. Also there was a plane/helicopter vehicle you could use to fly around. I never remembered what that game was called and would be interested to see if it became anything. Hopefully these details sound familiar to someone but it could just be a fever dream.
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# ? Sep 16, 2014 00:07 |
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Tried this a few years back but with no luck. Sidescroller, beat em up. C64. Seemed to be a one-opponent-at-a-time precursor to double dragon. You start out in a jungle, and as far as i remember, you enter a building with more baddies shortly after. Gloomy as hell music. Seem to remember one of them having a cap, that might or might not be green. Early era, most likely.
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nexus6 posted:Long shot because my memory's a little hazy but what the heck. Lego Island: Clear Sky
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Ilustforponydeath posted:Tried this a few years back but with no luck. This sounds like Fist II, which was awesome for its time. http://www.giantbomb.com/fist-ii-the-legend-continues/3030-20199/
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# ? Sep 16, 2014 06:36 |
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This might be a bit obscure, but the game I'm thinking of was Japanese only and on the NES. It was a top down action RPG like the legend of Zelda but instead of one continuous world, there were distinct dungeons or levels and you could choose which order you did them in. I remember there being an underground cave dungeon and an abandoned town and the graphics were pretty awesome for its time. Sorry this is really vague.
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Ghost Head posted:This might be a bit obscure, but the game I'm thinking of was Japanese only and on the NES. It was a top down action RPG like the legend of Zelda but instead of one continuous world, there were distinct dungeons or levels and you could choose which order you did them in. I remember there being an underground cave dungeon and an abandoned town and the graphics were pretty awesome for its time. Sorry this is really vague. Sounds like Grand Master.
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NObodyNOWHERE posted:This sounds like Fist II, which was awesome for its time. YESS, you marvellous bastard!
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al-azad posted:Sounds like Grand Master. holy poo poo you got it!
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# ? Sep 16, 2014 15:44 |
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I've got several. I guarantee most of them are not actually quality games, so this should make it all the more challenging.
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# ? Sep 16, 2014 16:43 |
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Bluhman posted:[*]PS2: You play as what basically can be summed up as Medieval Lara Croft. Fight with a sword, do backflips, and very slowly cast spells with awkward analog stick movements. You also have a talking, flying red dragon. That would be Drakan - Order of the Flame. Was on the PC, too.
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Bluhman posted:[*]For Sega Genesis: You played as a leopard thing escaping from a circus. There was an elephant who would move around automatically, which you'd need to get through each level safely without getting caged. This is Marsupilami.
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# ? Sep 16, 2014 16:55 |
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Bluhman posted:[*]For Mac: I don't know why San Diego school computers would have this, but I'm not complaining. It's an FPS where you play as a Raptor with a cannon on their back and kill other dinosaurs with your guns, which usually shoot orange balls or something. Mid-late 90s 3D graphics. Sounds like Nanosaur to me; it shipped on the first-gen iMacs, which is probably why it was on school systems. Though that was a third-person game, not first-person.
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# ? Sep 16, 2014 16:58 |
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There's a PC game I vaguely remember as a kid. You were working in I think a garage to put stuff together with tools. I think three of the things were a bird house, a derby car, and a computer?
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# ? Sep 16, 2014 17:06 |
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Bluhman posted:I've got several. I guarantee most of them are not actually quality games, so this should make it all the more challenging.
My parents bought me edutainment games pretty much exclusively
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# ? Sep 16, 2014 17:46 |
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Nice, thanks!Rita Repulsa posted:
Can definitely say that my parents were very similar. Gruntz wasn't it. The game had a distinctly realistic look to it. THE BAR posted:That would be Drakan - Order of the Flame. Was on the PC, too. Bluhman fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Sep 16, 2014 |
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Bluhman posted:This one was KILLING me, because I kept seeing all these other games with similar names (Drakkhen, Drakkengard, etc) and was wondering why none of them were this game. I keep forgetting its name for the very same reason!
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