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ToxicFrog posted:Could also be an early version of Transcendence; that was around in the 90s. Transcendence was so good. I loved that and the EV games to death but any of the newer games of that style feel like an inscrutable mess to me.
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Transcendence is still being developed! Very slowly. It's on Steam, even!
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I didn't like the linear nature of Transcendence but it was fun to play at least
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You nailed it, but it's sadly not the game I was thinking of with a very similar art style.
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FFT posted:I didn't like the linear nature of Transcendence but it was fun to play at least It may help if you think of it like a classic dungeoncrawler roguelike. Each system is one level deeper into the dungeon, and the ship you choose at the start of the game is your class/race. It's definitely an atypical structure for the top-down 2D space genre.
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If you buy on steam you get a second campaign you can play instead (you work for a corp). Also the base campaign has a bunch more side system to explore/skip if it's been a while since you played.
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PC 2D DOS adventure, 1990-1995 range. Can't think of too many details except you're a kid breaking into a building (a museum?) for some reason and there are these mini-ED-209 robots that try to murder you.
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i mean, that kind of sounds like midnight rescue but is just different enough that i can't imagine that's it, since it's just a children's edutainment game where the goofy cartoon robots hit you with globs of paint
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al-azad posted:PC 2D DOS adventure, 1990-1995 range. Can't think of too many details except you're a kid breaking into a building (a museum?) for some reason and there are these mini-ED-209 robots that try to murder you. Museum Madness. You might misremember the robot, he's with you. Aliens are trying to do a murder, and there's a computer virus, which I think messes with your robot friend at some point?
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It was me conflating Museum Madness with the 1995 re-release of Midnight Rescue thank you both lol
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Point and click horror 3D adventure game that came out within the last few years. You begin in a hospital bed, your face and body bandaged. There's blood and bodies everywhere and you escape by manipulating some construction equipment outside. The game then inexplicably cuts to a German death camp train in WW2 where a Nazi soldier is loving a corpse. I literally only remember it as "that game where every youtuber was shocked to see a random scene of Nazi necrophilia" and I couldn't even tell you if the game was complete or episodic or a demo because no one ever played it again lol. It's not The Medium, it was a pretty Eurojanky small team/one man effort.
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al-azad posted:Point and click horror 3D adventure game that came out within the last few years. You begin in a hospital bed, your face and body bandaged. There's blood and bodies everywhere and you escape by manipulating some construction equipment outside. The game then inexplicably cuts to a German death camp train in WW2 where a Nazi soldier is loving a corpse. I literally only remember it as "that game where every youtuber was shocked to see a random scene of Nazi necrophilia" and I couldn't even tell you if the game was complete or episodic or a demo because no one ever played it again lol. It's not The Medium, it was a pretty Eurojanky small team/one man effort. I think I found the game you described. The Dark Inside Me?
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Yes! Looks like it was finished but no video game influencer (rightfully) touched it with a ten foot pole.
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I saw someone bring up a game very recently, possibly in one of the subforums games threads. It looked like a homeworld style RTS with ship designs that looked a bit like The Expanse ships. It was designed by an enlisted sailor or something. Looked cool but I have not been able to find it since....
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Sounds like Nebulous https://store.steampowered.com/app/887570/NEBULOUS_Fleet_Command/
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4 inch cut no femmes posted:Sounds like Nebulous It's a fun game but man is it hard
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Now I'm thinking about this frog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TXFy3c_GA8
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Sakurazuka posted:Now I'm thinking about this frog You're thinking of Nebulous. I got one! 
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4 inch cut no femmes posted:Sounds like Nebulous Thats it thanks
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Probably relatively recent game with beautiful interlocking tileish art, where you zoom in and move things around and then zoom back out and it changes things. Storyline has to do with a guy coming back from war but is non-linear.
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gorogoa
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moonmazed posted:gorogoa Thanks that's it!
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There was an early 90s Fantasy PC RTS game I used to play. The maps were a bunch of floating island and you would build bridges between the islands and IIRC the combat was primarily fought by building towers rather than units. Anyone has any idea what I'm talking about?
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Jack Trades posted:There was an early 90s Fantasy PC RTS game I used to play. Netstorm: Islands at War.
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THE BAR posted:Netstorm: Islands at War. That's the one, thanks. Also wow, it's not even on GOG.
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Jack Trades posted:That's the one, thanks. I've never heard of it myself, I just googled "PC RTS islands 90s" and it was the only result. Sorta looks like Seven Kingdoms 2 and Project Nomads smushed together.
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in the late 2000s there was a game sort of like dota but all i remember from it is that one of the heroes was like a giant stone guy that kind of looked like if a rook from chess was a guy
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Probably Demigod, published by Stardock. Think it was Gas Powered Games that made it.
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Aug 29, 2022 08:53
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Definitely Demigod, the stone guy was even named The Rook.
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that’s the one, cheers
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Battle Chess was too long ago to have been the answer
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Jack Trades posted:That's the one, thanks. e: holy heck there's an active community: http://netstormhq.net/ Splicer fucked around with this message at 11:40 on Aug 29, 2022 |
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AG3 posted:Probably Demigod, published by Stardock. Think it was Gas Powered Games that made it. I could've sworn that Christopher Lee voiced the announcer in that, but I guess not.
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Trying to remember a Flash game, maybe early-mid 00s. It was some kind of interactive music video. You controlled a housefly running around some guy's apartment picking up pellets, very simple. Each scene was timed to the song, and your perspective and orientation could change from scene to scene. I think it was entirely black & white. The song didn't have lyrics.
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IMJack posted:Trying to remember a Flash game, maybe early-mid 00s. It was some kind of interactive music video. You controlled a housefly running around some guy's apartment picking up pellets, very simple. Each scene was timed to the song, and your perspective and orientation could change from scene to scene. I think it was entirely black & white. The song didn't have lyrics. Nyrdl Madness, maybe
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A racing/platformer game. You are a triangular or pyramidical ship and you move, jump and launch forward while trying to figure out the best or only way to the end. Everything is very blocky 3D models, mostly grey but I am remembering bits of red, green and blue too. Black or dark background behind everything, possibly with simple stars. reposting my other ones with some better descriptions but I'm becoming more willing to accept these are lost 1) A 2D ball rolling top down puzzle game. All I really remember is you controlled a ball in some kind of maze with puzzle elements. Tile based movement. There was a custom maze maker so you could make your own mazes to run your ball through. Windows 95 interface. Graphics were much finer and cleaner and boring grey than https://www.mobygames.com/game/helious, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollin_%28video_game%29, or https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/oxyd-2/screenshots which had been suggested before. 2) Some kind of 2D top down exploration game. You played as Igor in Dr. Frankensteins castle I think? I only vaguely recall that being written in a pop-up before you could start playing. I don't even remember what you did other than move around. There might have been enemies? 3) This one is weird: an MSPaint-style-art adventure game. You started outside a castle and could get water from the moat, then multiple other rooms of puzzles, then you reach a black room with a dragon attacking you and you have to time moving across a platform to his fire breathe. I got to the room after that and it was a 5x5 grid of buttons that you had to push the correct passcode into.
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life_source posted:A racing/platformer game. You are a triangular or pyramidical ship and you move, jump and launch forward while trying to figure out the best or only way to the end. Everything is very blocky 3D models, mostly grey but I am remembering bits of red, green and blue too. Black or dark background behind everything, possibly with simple stars. Skyroads?
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Skyroads? This is almost exactly my memory other than I don't remember the ship or UI having that much detail. Thank you!
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life_source posted:This is almost exactly my memory other than I don't remember the ship or UI having that much detail. Thank you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xAhC-tU8EI EDIT: Both Kosmonaut and Skyroads can be downloaded from the dev's website. And from looking this up today I have learned that the same Estonian dev also made Kazaa and Skype. Huh! KennyMan666 fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Aug 29, 2022 |
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By the way I figured out the game I had been talking about. It's called Prismata. The artstyle isn't quite the same as I remembered, so it's fine that nobody recognized it.
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