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Here is one that popped into my head the other day that I'm struggling to remember the name of. Would have been around 1998, as from memory I played it around the same time that Unreal game out, and I was half way thru the game before I bought a Voodoo 2 card which helped improve the games graphics and load times. Anyway, it was a 3rd person game, that had jump jets, and you were fighting against a bug type alien race on different levels, I guess similar to Starship Troopers style bugs. One of the weapons you got to use in your loadout was a Flechette type weapon. There was one level where your space ship gets destroyed, and one of the next levels had a voice comms guy talking about "Remembering the Ulysses" or something like that. I don't remember it being super popular, but I enjoyed it at the time. Edit: And of course after a discussion with ChatGPT, it looks like I've found it. It was called Outwars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outwars Custard Undies fucked around with this message at 11:34 on May 21, 2023 |
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Custard Undies posted:Here is one that popped into my head the other day that I'm struggling to remember the name of. A goon who answered his own question, a shameful goon *shakes head*
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Ngl, I'm kinda impressed that ChatGPT was able to figure out a game from the description.
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Velocity Raptor posted:Ngl, I'm kinda impressed that ChatGPT was able to figure out a game from the description. It took a few attempts, it kept referring me FPS games, but I got there in the end. ...! posted:A goon who answered his own question, a shameful goon Hahaha, sorry. 
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JackBandit posted:Goddamn those must have been some good drugs quote:Bjørnar's porigde recipie
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newer eat with anger. God gently caress it what have I been doing all this time. drat it
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I don't watch TV while eating but I do watch Youtube videos, am I going to be ok? 
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I've posted this before and didn't get anything, but maybe this time Around 2004 I was at a friend's house and four of us played a game that had an overhead isometric camera angle. It was single-screen multiplayer, you shot guns at each other, and graphics were realistic rather than cartoony. On the stage we played there was a staircase to an upper walkway with a switch or button that electrified the bottom floor. For some reason I've thought it was a James Bond game, but nothing I've found has this. I also thought it was PS2, but I must be wrong about that since there were definitely four of us playing.
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Syndicate Wars? The PS2 did have multitap for up to four players, but 007: Nightfire doesn't match for the camera. stringless fucked around with this message at 11:31 on May 30, 2023 |
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Andorra posted:I've posted this before and didn't get anything, but maybe this time 007 Everything or Nothing did have an unlockable "arena" multiplayer mode that sounds similar to what you're describing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChDx823I0s8
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homewrecker posted:007 Everything or Nothing did have an unlockable "arena" multiplayer mode that sounds similar to what you're describing: That's absolutely it. Thank you!
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I know absolutely gently caress all about mac games, and this isn't pinging as a pc game for me, so let's see if you guys can find what my friend is looking for:quote:I saw someone playing it on one of those macs with the clear plastic so I didn't see much
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My first instinct is MDK, possibly mixed up a bit with Oni?
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MDK got a response of "too grimdark". Oni got a no, color scheme way too dark.
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fuckin Earthworm Jim 3D (1999)? not even mac i don't think I was actively gaming on Macs at that time and MDK (1997) and Oni (2001 so maybe not but still clear plastic era) are the only games from that time that could possibly match in my memory, maybe your friend just briefly saw a scene that was an outlier. Abuse (1995) is probably way more fun than the phantom memory game was anyway. stringless fucked around with this message at 09:35 on Jun 1, 2023 |
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Pogonodon posted:I know absolutely gently caress all about mac games, and this isn't pinging as a pc game for me, so let's see if you guys can find what my friend is looking for: Nanosaur was one of those bundle games but it only vaguely fits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvmByXPbF2I
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MDK is the opposite of grimdark, it's (purposefully) goofy as hell and the sequel even more so
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Pablo Nergigante posted:MDK is the opposite of grimdark, it's (purposefully) goofy as hell and the sequel even more so it definitely has a dark aesthetic though (to make fun of it by juxtaposing absurdity)
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Pogonodon posted:I know absolutely gently caress all about mac games, and this isn't pinging as a pc game for me, so let's see if you guys can find what my friend is looking for: Sounds like it could have been Otto Matic? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZNWsTnK-HY Killingyouguy! fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Jun 1, 2023 |
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idk if it got a Mac release but "colorful alien with gun for an arm" sounds like Evolva.
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MDK does have some variety to its environments, so it's possible they're remembering a level or part of a level that was brighter. There weren't a lot of games for the Mac back then, let alone 3D ones with a character with a gun for an arm.
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Dammit I just thought of something. Indie game, early 2010s era I was definitely playing it in 2013. PC, first person squad/tactics shooter like Rainbow Six. You're a squad of mercenaries in a vaguely Soviet era world. You experience the world in second person meaning you, the player, are an avatar that is controlling the squad individually. You have to establish antennas to extend your visual communication and simultaneously play 3-4 characters at once using an obtuse visual interface. Each of the mercenaries has a Team Fortress style class so there's the soldier, the radio man, the sniper, etc.
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al-azad posted:Dammit I just thought of something. Indie game, early 2010s era I was definitely playing it in 2013. PC, first person squad/tactics shooter like Rainbow Six. You're a squad of mercenaries in a vaguely Soviet era world. You experience the world in second person meaning you, the player, are an avatar that is controlling the squad individually. You have to establish antennas to extend your visual communication and simultaneously play 3-4 characters at once using an obtuse visual interface. Each of the mercenaries has a Team Fortress style class so there's the soldier, the radio man, the sniper, etc. Probably Signal Ops. It's been sitting on my wishlist for probably a decade now (or however long the wishlist feature has existed) but I never got around to trying it
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Yep that's the one. I barely managed to finish the first level it's frustratingly obtuse but a fun challenge to overcome.
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I was hoping it was Otto Matic but they said no. Nothing else is pinging a memory either, starting to suspect the memories getting mushed together or warped by time.
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Pogonodon posted:I know absolutely gently caress all about mac games, and this isn't pinging as a pc game for me, so let's see if you guys can find what my friend is looking for: It was absolutely MDK or MDK2. It's goofy and weird with characters like a mad scientist and a cigar smoking six-legged dog, not at all grimdark. The health powerups are apples and meat. It's third-person and your character has a gun that covers his whole arm and a bionic suit with a weird helmet that makes him look like an alien. It is one of very very few 3D third-person shooter games that were available on the Mac in that era. Your friend is probably just remembering bits of it wrong (e.g. why would he have a gun arm if there were no enemies?) Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Jun 1, 2023 |
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A platformer game for the Super Famicom. You control a little red ninja and kill all sorts of monsters from Japanese folklore. The thing I remember the most is being walled by a giant Daruma doll boss because I couldn't figure out how to hurt it. I think it jumped around the screen trying to crush you while your attacks just bounce off. Maybe if I tried playing it again I could finally get my satisfaction...
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Maybe Ninja-kun? It was released in the UK as Ninja. There was also Ninja JaJaMaru-kun, released as Ninja II in the UK. edit: Maybe the sequel to Ninja-kun, Ninja-kun: Ashura no Shou, released in the US as Rad Action. Pogonodon fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Jun 2, 2023 |
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Pogonodon posted:Maybe Ninja-kun? It was released in the UK as Ninja. It was neither of these but that last link got me in the right track: it was Super Ninja-kun (Excellent name) Now to see if I can defeat that Daruma motherfucker
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2000 - 2010 indie art game where you play one of five or six variations on Little Red Riding Hood, each of whom is a different age. You can either deliver the goodies to grandma and get a pretty underwhelming ending, or you can stray from the path and explore the woods, and maybe encounter the wolf, which was a thinly veiled metaphor for various traumas that occur to children.
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Mystic Mongol posted:2000 - 2010 indie art game where you play one of five or six variations on Little Red Riding Hood, each of whom is a different age. You can either deliver the goodies to grandma and get a pretty underwhelming ending, or you can stray from the path and explore the woods, and maybe encounter the wolf, which was a thinly veiled metaphor for various traumas that occur to children. The Path
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Thank you!
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A game for, I think, the Xbox, that was a third-person game where you ran around different more-or-less realistically scaled environments as a human male. It was Let's Played on these forums at one point. The main thing I remember was that it had comically huge hamburgers which your character could eat. Like, they were bigger than the protagonist's head. I think the protag would hold them in one hand and animate moving them up to his mouth and then they'd disappear.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:A game for, I think, the Xbox, that was a third-person game where you ran around different more-or-less realistically scaled environments as a human male. It was Let's Played on these forums at one point. The main thing I remember was that it had comically huge hamburgers which your character could eat. Like, they were bigger than the protagonist's head. I think the protag would hold them in one hand and animate moving them up to his mouth and then they'd disappear. Disaster: Day of Crisis? It was for the Wii, but comedically huge hamburgers were in it.
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Archenteron posted:Disaster: Day of Crisis? It was for the Wii, but comedically huge hamburgers were in it. Yeah, that looks right, thank you! 
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can someone help with this? trying to help an aspiring game dev friend with time based adventure games examples - recommended the last express but there's another one that i remember but can't name and my google not strong enough here's what i remember : first person pov you're in a ship or maybe a building? and your crew had uniforms that i believe are blue conversations happen in real time while the crew does their own stuff and if something happens and you're not there, too bad maybe a desert or similarly barren setting that can be seen out of the windows? starts with the letter c i think? that's all i remember - played it maybe a decade ago but it was quite jank and i never finished it Artelier fucked around with this message at 10:27 on Jun 11, 2023 |
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Consortium baybee that game rips
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Danaru posted:Consortium baybee that game rips yesss that's it thank you!! also my friend says it's a great reference
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Old PC game from perhaps the early 90s. A first person horror game that takes place on a large ship that's, I think, being taken over by bugs, or maybe the AI is just going haywire or something. I think you see your face somewhere on the bottom of the screen, getting more skeletonized as you took damage. Additionally there was a timer as the ship's life support systems failed (which is why I never wanted to play it).
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Morpheus posted:Old PC game from perhaps the early 90s. A first person horror game that takes place on a large ship that's, I think, being taken over by bugs, or maybe the AI is just going haywire or something. I think you see your face somewhere on the bottom of the screen, getting more skeletonized as you took damage. Additionally there was a timer as the ship's life support systems failed (which is why I never wanted to play it). It could totally be something else (since you mention the PC's face) but this otherwise sounds a lot like the original System Shock which: 1. Was a first person game with loose horror elements from the early 90's (1994), 2. Took place on a ship being overrun with mutants AND haywire AI, and 3. Had a timer on the highest difficulty that caused an automatic game over if lapsed.
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