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ZearothK: Aug 25, 2008; I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

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Hannibal Rex posted:

I probably asked this before, but never had any luck finding an answer:

This was a shareware RPG I got on a 5.25'' disk from a computer magazine, somewhere between '89 and '91. The graphics were primitive, maybe even ASCII similar to nethack, but I believe you had a party. The only thing I remember about it clearly is that among the enemy types you could encounter were hobbits and 'gollums'. You would get a message like "You encounter 9 gollums", which would annoy me to no end, as I knew there was only ever one Gollum. I think it's more likely this was after I had first read Lord of the Rings, which would put in in 1991.

Angband?

Zathril posted:

Alien Deathmatch? or the sequel?

Still no luck, I guess it's been lost to the aether. Oh well, thanks anyway!

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# ? May 9, 2024 13:20

Maigius: Jun 29, 2013

Back in 2008, I watched a non-SA LP of a possibly Japanese game where you played as a bed sheet style ghost. It was a side scrolling platformer and you could possess the enemies in order to do anything beyond basic movement. There were cute witches that could fly, pig-men that charged and could break blocks, and an enemy that could jet across.

# ? Feb 7, 2021 08:58

Light Gun Man: Oct 17, 2009; toEjaM iS oN
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Maigius posted:

Back in 2008, I watched a non-SA LP of a possibly Japanese game where you played as a bed sheet style ghost. It was a side scrolling platformer and you could possess the enemies in order to do anything beyond basic movement. There were cute witches that could fly, pig-men that charged and could break blocks, and an enemy that could jet across.

Avenging Spirit?

# ? Feb 7, 2021 09:20

Alterian: Jan 28, 2003

I'm trying to find a surrealist / abstract game that came out maybe in the mid to late aughts? Its NOT Yume Nikki, but I remember looking at that game around the same time. This one is even more abstract. Its a top down pixel art game. I think the title screen was black with white pixel or line art on it that might have looked sort of like a pinwheel or windmill? You walk around and interact with a very abstract world. I think the "player" might be just black pixels that vaguely look humanoid. I think you pick up black (or white) abstract looking flowers. At one point you can get into a UFO looking thing and the music changes and you can fly over some water.

# ? Feb 8, 2021 21:00

al-azad: May 28, 2009

sounds like Off.

# ? Feb 8, 2021 21:14

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

I don't remember a lot of flower-picking in Off.

# ? Feb 8, 2021 21:15

Alterian: Jan 28, 2003

Off looks interesting and I'm going to look at it independently, but that isn't in unfortunately. The art was MUCH more abstract.
Edit: It wouldn't surprise me if the graphics were made with a mouse and MS Paint.

Alterian fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Feb 8, 2021

# ? Feb 8, 2021 21:17

Crackmaster: Feb 6, 2004

Alterian posted:

I'm trying to find a surrealist / abstract game that came out maybe in the mid to late aughts? Its NOT Yume Nikki, but I remember looking at that game around the same time. This one is even more abstract. Its a top down pixel art game. I think the title screen was black with white pixel or line art on it that might have looked sort of like a pinwheel or windmill? You walk around and interact with a very abstract world. I think the "player" might be just black pixels that vaguely look humanoid. I think you pick up black (or white) abstract looking flowers. At one point you can get into a UFO looking thing and the music changes and you can fly over some water.

Neftelia?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc1ct_hb4D4

The author's site moved to http://etgmz14.g1.xrea.com/ at some point in the past few years, and they've apparently made some other stuff, including a sequel I haven't played. Their older work is here in case you can't translate the main page; that only now reminds me, I vaguely remember there being some sort of patch one needed to apply to get the game to work in non-Japanese locales in Windows? Not sure if it's still necessary, so don't quote me on that.

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Alterian: Jan 28, 2003

Crackmaster posted:

Neftelia?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc1ct_hb4D4

This is it! Thank you. I will check out their other work too.
It's interesting the things I remembered right. I forgot the player changed color.

Alterian fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Feb 9, 2021

# ? Feb 9, 2021 00:18

El_Elegante: Jul 3, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS; Biscuit Hider

What's the game where you go to some couple's dinner party and you have the option of exacerbating all their relationship problems

# ? Feb 10, 2021 01:47

Cidrick: Jun 10, 2001; Praise the siamese

El_Elegante posted:

What's the game where you go to some couple's dinner party and you have the option of exacerbating all their relationship problems

Facade?

# ? Feb 10, 2021 01:52

El_Elegante: Jul 3, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS; Biscuit Hider

Cidrick posted:

Facade?

That's it, thanks!

# ? Feb 10, 2021 01:56

The Joe Man: Apr 7, 2007; Flirting With Apathetic Waitresses Since 1984

Cidrick posted:

Facade?

Totally forgot this existed. I don't think any game has ever made me laugh harder. It's the best "Terrible Guest Simulator" ever made.

# ? Feb 10, 2021 01:59

Cidrick: Jun 10, 2001; Praise the siamese

The Joe Man posted:

Totally forgot this existed. I don't think any game has ever made me laugh harder. It's the best "Terrible Guest Simulator" ever made.

I shall forever remember how much pain I was in from laughing so hard at the "speedrun" where a player immediately called Trip the N word.

# ? Feb 10, 2021 02:09

El_Elegante: Jul 3, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS; Biscuit Hider

Cidrick posted:

I shall forever remember how much pain I was in from laughing so hard at the "speedrun" where a player immediately called Trip the N word.

I am prepared to believe that would bring most evenings to a hasty close

# ? Feb 10, 2021 02:19

dads_work_files: May 14, 2008; important_document.avi

What was Trip's weird trigger word? Melon? You could just say that at any time and they'd both stare at you in horror before Trip would physically remove you from the flat. Amazing.

# ? Feb 10, 2021 06:35

Custard Undies: Jan 7, 2006; #essereFerrari

I need to watch the long plays of this game it sounds hilarious

# ? Feb 10, 2021 08:18

Lowen SoDium: Jun 5, 2003; Highen Fiber; Clapping Larry

I think if you say "gently caress you" when he answers the door, he just kicks you out.

# ? Feb 10, 2021 19:43

cmndstab: May 20, 2006; Huge Internet Celebrity!

I've never before, or since, seen a game that is completely unable to process what you've typed 99% of the time, and yet seems to understand your intentions so perfectly.

# ? Feb 11, 2021 05:15

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

Lifeline is that experience but with voice recognition instead of typing and aliens on a space station instead of some dude's flat.

# ? Feb 11, 2021 05:37

SkeletonHero: Sep 7, 2010

The first episode of the supergreatfriend LP of Lifeline is one of the funniest things on the internet.

SkeletonHero fucked around with this message at 06:42 on Feb 11, 2021

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Mierenneuker: Apr 28, 2010; We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

You can stop and play tongue twisters in Lifeline and doing so successfully restores some health of the character you are talking to. Stuff like "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. ... If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?" I watched a streamer (Elajjaz) play it and he ended up downloading a voice recorder app for his phone and using that record the dozen or so phrases she had you say :thumbsup:

Edit: To clarify, he didn't record the character saying the phrases but HIM saying it so he could just heal up without effort.

Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 12:36 on Feb 11, 2021

# ? Feb 11, 2021 10:19

Tias: May 25, 2008; Pictured: the patron saint of internet political arguments (probably)

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Now for some serious retro times

I watched my brother play a game once (which would mean it was likely on an Amiga 500), though it could have been the C64.

It was a side-scrolling beat-em-up with two tough dudes beating on various monsters. I only remember that some of the enemies had the faces of dogs, and that you could hold down a button to charge up a punch, where the character would swings his fist around windmill-style until the punch got ready.

# ? Feb 11, 2021 12:24

Hakkesshu: Nov 4, 2009

Tias posted:

Now for some serious retro times

I watched my brother play a game once (which would mean it was likely on an Amiga 500), though it could have been the C64.

It was a side-scrolling beat-em-up with two tough dudes beating on various monsters. I only remember that some of the enemies had the faces of dogs, and that you could hold down a button to charge up a punch, where the character would swings his fist around windmill-style until the punch got ready.

This sounds a lot like Dynamite Dux, but of course you play as ducks. Most of the enemies are dogs though and you do have a windmill punch.

# ? Feb 11, 2021 13:34

Tias: May 25, 2008; Pictured: the patron saint of internet political arguments (probably)

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Holy poo poo :aaa:

Thanks!

# ? Feb 11, 2021 13:47

Pentaro: May 5, 2013

A PC fighting game from around the early to mid 2000s. It was a fangame, all the playable characters were from different anime franchises: I remember the chick from FLCL and that weird cat guy from Azumanga Daioh being there. The game played kinda like Smash Bros., the stages had platforms and hazards and stuff.

# ? Feb 15, 2021 19:04

Ben Nerevarine: Apr 14, 2006

Pentaro posted:

A PC fighting game from around the early to mid 2000s. It was a fangame, all the playable characters were from different anime franchises: I remember the chick from FLCL and that weird cat guy from Azumanga Daioh being there. The game played kinda like Smash Bros., the stages had platforms and hazards and stuff.

Mugen?

# ? Feb 15, 2021 19:06

Pentaro: May 5, 2013

Nah, it wasn't a Mugen thing. The characters were tiny and the maps were made of multiple platforms, kinda like a Donkey Kong stage.

# ? Feb 16, 2021 19:03

Freakazoid_: Jul 5, 2013; Buglord

Looking for a flash game, don't know when it was made. 2d retro platformer, you're a gnome who gets kicked out of their village for being a weakling. An imprisoned god offers to help you get back to your village. If you play it straight by helping him, you get back to your village but doom everyone to their deaths. You have to figure out on your own the alternate path back to the village for the good ending. No weapons iirc, just a stamina bar.

# ? Feb 17, 2021 22:53

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

Freakazoid_ posted:

Looking for a flash game, don't know when it was made. 2d retro platformer, you're a gnome who gets kicked out of their village for being a weakling. An imprisoned god offers to help you get back to your village. If you play it straight by helping him, you get back to your village but doom everyone to their deaths. You have to figure out on your own the alternate path back to the village for the good ending. No weapons iirc, just a stamina bar.

endeavor

# ? Feb 17, 2021 22:58

al-azad: May 28, 2009

A series of adventure/hidden object Flash games from mid-aughts to early teens. Very Amanita Design like with no dialog and abstract puzzles. Hand drawn graphics, pen and ink, a dark scratchy style like Edward Gorey.

Name may have started with an N. Nightmare City or Nocturne or something like that.

# ? Feb 17, 2021 23:13

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

al-azad posted:

A series of adventure/hidden object Flash games from mid-aughts to early teens. Very Amanita Design like with no dialog and abstract puzzles. Hand drawn graphics, pen and ink, a dark scratchy style like Edward Gorey.

Name may have started with an N. Nightmare City or Nocturne or something like that.

Daymare Town?

# ? Feb 17, 2021 23:53

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Zathril posted:

Daymare Town?

That's it thanks.

# ? Feb 18, 2021 00:15

Freakazoid_: Jul 5, 2013; Buglord

Hwurmp posted:

endeavor

nice, thanks

# ? Feb 18, 2021 00:42

Galick: Nov 26, 2011; Why does Khajiit have to go to prison this time?

Old game, 2D sprites. I think it wasa around the SNES or PS1 era? I only remember that the battle screen had your characters on the bottom, left, and right parts of the screen (maybe in the corners) while the enemy was in the middle. The specific enemy I remember was ginormous. And I think this was part of the ending so spoilers for a game I can't remember lol: After the battle, the main character has to run around on some rafters(?) and is destroying big crystals using his life force or something. After he breaks the last one he asks someone who presumably died if he could rest with them.

I remember renting this game when I was a kid ages ago and only playing the ending sequence through a save file that was already on there. Turn based RPG

# ? Feb 18, 2021 17:37

Mierenneuker: Apr 28, 2010; We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

Lufia?

It started with an intro that put you in some sort of final dungeon to fight a boss with an established party. That opening inspired the entirety of the second game, it was a prequel.

Edit: Probably Lufia II with your explanation on how it positions your party members during battles.

Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 18:03 on Feb 18, 2021

# ? Feb 18, 2021 17:46

Galick: Nov 26, 2011; Why does Khajiit have to go to prison this time?

Mierenneuker posted:

Lufia?

It started with an intro that put you in some sort of final dungeon to fight a boss with an established party. That opening inspired the entirety of the second game, it was a prequel.

Edit: Probably Lufia II with your explanation on how it positions your party members during battles.

Oh gently caress me, thank you. That's been bugging me for years

# ? Feb 18, 2021 18:45