|
It sounds like maybe the play-by-forums Risk LP. There was also a Risk Legacy LP that worked similarly, but it didn't get archived.
|
#
?
Apr 16, 2020 17:40
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 9, 2024 16:23 |
|
|
Thanks, but neither of those are it. It wasn’t a Risk variant, it was its own game. I feel like it had its own unique name, and the main thing that made it different from your average Risk game was you could upgrade technologies, trade goods, etc. It also had A LOT more territories than a normal Risk game. Probably hundreds. I feel like it was in GBS, and it seemed like it was all custom made by the OP. There were dozens and dozens of posters all playing at once. Once per day you could decide to make a move, whether it be attacking, upgrading, trading, etc. RCarr fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Apr 16, 2020 |
|
#
?
Apr 16, 2020 20:55
|
|
|
I remember that but I have no idea what it was called.
|
|
#
?
Apr 16, 2020 21:46
|
|
|
What's the game that's like an anime styled dungeon crawl that's kind of like Slay The Spire, except your decks are built up from up to 4 characters you recruit. One of them is a dude that makes swords which are basically STS like shivs. Another one is a chick with a chainsaw. You yourself actually play a 5th character that doesn't fight but instead provides various party/exploration buffs as you level up. The enemies themselves are mostly static front facing images, and the game has some pretty indepth boss mechanics. One of which is like a fire elemental chick that has a mechanic based around passing around a DoT between your characters to effectively damage her.
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 01:04
|
|
|
RCarr posted:Thanks, but neither of those are it. It wasn’t a Risk variant, it was its own game. I feel like it had its own unique name, and the main thing that made it different from your average Risk game was you could upgrade technologies, trade goods, etc. It also had A LOT more territories than a normal Risk game. Probably hundreds. There's a forums lore thread in PYF that may know https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3910305
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 01:31
|
|
|
SweetBro posted:What's the game that's like an anime styled dungeon crawl that's kind of like Slay The Spire, except your decks are built up from up to 4 characters you recruit. One of them is a dude that makes swords which are basically STS like shivs. Another one is a chick with a chainsaw. You yourself actually play a 5th character that doesn't fight but instead provides various party/exploration buffs as you level up. The enemies themselves are mostly static front facing images, and the game has some pretty indepth boss mechanics. One of which is like a fire elemental chick that has a mechanic based around passing around a DoT between your characters to effectively damage her. Could it be one step from eden? Steam recommends that to me all the time.
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 01:50
|
|
|
No, One Step From Eden is basically Megaman Battle Network w/ Cute Anime Girls the roguelike.
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 01:59
|
|
|
SweetBro posted:What's the game that's like an anime styled dungeon crawl that's kind of like Slay The Spire, except your decks are built up from up to 4 characters you recruit. One of them is a dude that makes swords which are basically STS like shivs. Another one is a chick with a chainsaw. You yourself actually play a 5th character that doesn't fight but instead provides various party/exploration buffs as you level up. The enemies themselves are mostly static front facing images, and the game has some pretty indepth boss mechanics. One of which is like a fire elemental chick that has a mechanic based around passing around a DoT between your characters to effectively damage her. I punched in all the relevant tags into Steam search and this is the only one that looked like it would fit your description. Is that it? https://store.steampowered.com/app/1188930/Chrono_Ark/
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 02:06
|
|
|
RCarr posted:Years ago someone made a thread about a kind of forums Risk game. Like the map of the world was broken up into territories and each poster could claim a territory. Then every day you could do various things like attack other territories, upgrade technology, maybe even buy and sell goods, etc. Posters could make alliances and stab each other in the back, etc. Does anyone know what I’m talking about or what it was called? Does it still exist? Wasn't that a game of Nomic i.e. the rules were fluid and made up as the game went along?
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 03:30
|
|
|
Jack Trades posted:I punched in all the relevant tags into Steam search and this is the only one that looked like it would fit your description. Is that it? Yes! Thank you.
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 05:00
|
|
|
I'm looking for a PC puzzle game from between ten and twenty years ago. The idea was that you were a detective helping solve murders (I think), but you kept receiving Zodiac-style messages that you had to decode through ever more obscure methods and real-life knowledge. You had to enter your email, and the plot played out in real time, with you getting email updates and orders from superiors though email. It's bugging the hell out of me, because I usually remember the name - pretty sure it was punchy, one-word stuff.
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 05:05
|
|
|
John Lee posted:I'm looking for a PC puzzle game from between ten and twenty years ago. The idea was that you were a detective helping solve murders (I think), but you kept receiving Zodiac-style messages that you had to decode through ever more obscure methods and real-life knowledge. You had to enter your email, and the plot played out in real time, with you getting email updates and orders from superiors though email. It's bugging the hell out of me, because I usually remember the name - pretty sure it was punchy, one-word stuff. https://www.mobygames.com/game/majestic-special-edition
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 05:09
|
|
|
Nope, that wasn't it! There was no interaction with other players, and no communication other than email. Edit: Being on the Wikipedia page for Majestic helped me find it, though! I was thinking of Evidence:  It's the sequel to the game alternately called either In Memoriam or Missing: Since January. Double edit: vvv Yeah, that was the first thing I tried! Apparently it wasn't popular, but it DID show up in a place or two... but I didn't know it by the right name. John Lee fucked around with this message at 05:32 on Apr 17, 2020 |
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 05:26
|
|
|
John Lee posted:Nope, that wasn't it! There was no interaction with other players, and no communication other than email.
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 05:29
|
|
|
Man I loved In Memoriam. It was properly creepy at the time, when you started getting threats from the killer in your inbox. Now all I have to do is go on Twitter for my fix of anonymous death threats.
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 12:18
|
|
|
My brother and I were talking about some of the games we played on the family computer as kids in the 90's and couldn't remember what they were called. They were not popular games and most likely shovelware (our parents only bought games from the backs of edutainment catalogs) but any help is greatly appreciated! The first one was an anti-drug game where 2-D animated situations played out in different settings like a mall, alley, etc., and you answered questions on what the right thing to do in the situation is. If you got it right, you got a piece of a brain that looked healthy but if you got it wrong you got a diseased looking piece. The drug using/dealing kids looked like ugly green monsters. The second one was 3-D racing game that had some unconventional cars. There was a six-wheeled car, a hovercraft, and a couple of other standard cars and trucks. The roster was very small and all of the vehicles were untextured and very polygonal. One of the racetracks was on the moon and it had lower gravity, so you could launch yourself off of some ramps pretty far. There was a boost meter that slowly filled and when activated it would loop this noise that went 'broom broom-broom broooooooooom' as flames shot out of the tailpipe. Even as kids we recognized that it was a bad racing game, but it was the only one we had so we played the poo poo out of it. The last was an edutainment game and the only thing we could remember was there was an area where you helped a superhero color action figures of himself in a factory setting. It might have had something to do with math?
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 19:42
|
|
|
Chip McFuck posted:
Long shot, but Big Red Racing?
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 20:01
|
|
|
Rupert Buttermilk posted:Long shot, but Big Red Racing? I'm going to guess Hi-Octane, the boost meter definitely does that "vwee-vwee-vwee-VOOM" when you have it maxed out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS4SNvJBVPE
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 20:26
|
|
|
Chip McFuck posted:The first one was an anti-drug game where 2-D animated situations played out in different settings like a mall, alley, etc., and you answered questions on what the right thing to do in the situation is. If you got it right, you got a piece of a brain that looked healthy but if you got it wrong you got a diseased looking piece. The drug using/dealing kids looked like ugly green monsters. Narc.
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 20:43
|
|
|
...! posted:Narc. No need to call people names, he was just asking about a video game
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 21:18
|
|
|
...! posted:Narc. It's funny, right after reading this the title popped in my head: Crime Scouts. If you've ever wanted to see what a Lutheran organization thought was an effective anti-drug video game, check it out. That rat chewing gum stuck with me for a long time. Cidrick posted:I'm going to guess Hi-Octane, the boost meter definitely does that "vwee-vwee-vwee-VOOM" when you have it maxed out. Sorry, it's not either Big Red or Hi Octane. The game I'm thinking of is a pure racing game that has a mix of wheeled and hovering vehicles. It was definitely low budget; the cars were mostly flat-sided polygons and colored with a single color (usually red).
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 22:32
|
|
|
Danaru posted:No need to call people names, he was just asking about a video game You stole the joke I was going to make t 
|
|
#
?
Apr 18, 2020 05:33
|
|
|
Chip McFuck posted:The last was an edutainment game and the only thing we could remember was there was an area where you helped a superhero color action figures of himself in a factory setting. It might have had something to do with math? I don't remember that specific instance, but a math edutainment game makes me think Math Blaster.
|
|
#
?
Apr 18, 2020 07:01
|
|
|
aniviron posted:I don't remember that specific instance, but a math edutainment game makes me think Math Blaster. You might not be aware just how wide the field is for 'math edutainment game'. Will laugh if it is somehow Math Blaster, though.
|
|
#
?
Apr 18, 2020 13:16
|
|
|
Never played Mathblaster but I did stumble across the game I was thinking of while searching around: Mighty Math: Number Heroes Now if only I could remember what the racing game was...
|
|
#
?
Apr 19, 2020 00:00
|
|
|
Chip McFuck posted:Never played Mathblaster but I did stumble across the game I was thinking of while searching around: Mighty Math: Number Heroes Pretty sure it's Narc.
|
|
#
?
Apr 19, 2020 06:32
|
|
|
There's a game I played 20 years ago that my friend had where you would create simple movie scenes with characters that were all anthropomorphic that you could move around, text-to-speech with a bunch of different voices, and a whole sfx library. You could put it all on a timeline and make the best movie scenes ever...or just make the text-to-speech say "butts" and "penis" a lot. I want to say the game was called "Hollywood!" but I've never found anything online. It definitely was installed from a disc so it had to have been manufactured somewhere...
|
|
#
?
Apr 19, 2020 06:57
|
|
|
gently caress SNEEP posted:There's a game I played 20 years ago that my friend had where you would create simple movie scenes with characters that were all anthropomorphic that you could move around, text-to-speech with a bunch of different voices, and a whole sfx library. You could put it all on a timeline and make the best movie scenes ever...or just make the text-to-speech say "butts" and "penis" a lot. Hollywood High, it was loving amazing
|
|
#
?
Apr 19, 2020 07:05
|
|
|
For a more straight-forward "movie director" simulator, there was also The Movies, by Lionhead Studio - you know, the Black & White guys.
|
|
#
?
Apr 19, 2020 08:35
|
|
|
A couple of years ago I saw a video of a murder mystery game that was isometric, and you had to go around the house talking to all the characters and witness drama, or something. I think maybe you had to play as the different characters.
|
|
#
?
Apr 19, 2020 10:43
|
|
|
Boz0r posted:A couple of years ago I saw a video of a murder mystery game that was isometric, and you had to go around the house talking to all the characters and witness drama, or something. I think maybe you had to play as the different characters. The Sexy Brutale?
|
|
#
?
Apr 19, 2020 11:15
|
|
|
al-azad posted:The Sexy Brutale? I think that's it. Thanks.
|
|
#
?
Apr 19, 2020 11:26
|
|
|
I'm trying to remember the name of a PC RPG. Very generic. Late 90's if I remember correctly. The MC was a girl, I want to say possibly blue hair. The world seemed like it was comprised of multiple layers, and I want to say she started in like a scrap yard of some sort?
|
|
#
?
Apr 19, 2020 20:36
|
|
|
khy posted:I'm trying to remember the name of a PC RPG. Very generic. Late 90's if I remember correctly. The MC was a girl, I want to say possibly blue hair. The world seemed like it was comprised of multiple layers, and I want to say she started in like a scrap yard of some sort? Septerra Core
|
|
#
?
Apr 19, 2020 20:40
|
|
|
Septerra Core e:f,b
|
|
#
?
Apr 19, 2020 20:41
|
|
|
Hwurmp posted:Septerra Core That's the one. I don't know why I suddenly thought of it while in the drive-thru line getting lunch, but for some reason it popped into my head. EDIT : One more! Back when I was a wee young lad, early 90's or so, there used to be shareware disks I'd get with software magazines. I recall a dungeon crawler ish RPG on those shareware disks. The game was sort of like Might & Magic; first-person labyrinth perspective. It had you create a party then explore a town and the town had a sewer. I never got far because I was a dumb little kid. I know that's somewhat generic but I'm just curious because I was thinking about it. khy fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Apr 19, 2020 |
|
#
?
Apr 19, 2020 20:43
|
|
|
khy posted:That's the one. I don't know why I suddenly thought of it while in the drive-thru line getting lunch, but for some reason it popped into my head. Maybe one of the Moraffs games? I don't remember ever having a party in those though
|
|
#
?
Apr 19, 2020 21:19
|
|
|
khy posted:That's the one. I don't know why I suddenly thought of it while in the drive-thru line getting lunch, but for some reason it popped into my head. I just found out Moby Games has a pretty nice search for exactly this sort, so here's 21 options. But what I was thinking of is Ancients 1: Death watch. Which I remember for two reasons: first, it's one of the few shareware games I ever purchased - through the mail and everything. Second, fairly early on you can sleep in a tomb to be visited by a ghost, who gives you magic weapons, and you can sleep there repeatedly to get them multiple times.
|
|
#
?
Apr 19, 2020 21:36
|
|
|
Cognac McCarthy posted:Hollywood High, it was loving amazing Oh poo poo you're right! The one I played was just "Hollywood", I remember the blue disk. https://archive.org/details/hollywood-cdrom Mobygames didn't have anything on it when I looked Time to see if I can get it running!
|
|
#
?
Apr 19, 2020 21:39
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 9, 2024 16:23 |
|
|
LeastActionHero posted:I just found out Moby Games has a pretty nice search for exactly this sort, so here's 21 options. Ancients 1 is the one, holy poo poo SO MANY MEMORIES THE NOSTALGIA IS OVERFLOWING.
|
|
#
?
Apr 19, 2020 21:43
|
|