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Could also be one of the lovely Pie in the Sky engine games. I think Space Station Escape had a timer.
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The face getting skeletonized reminded me of Catacomb 3-D, but like the name implies that isn't sci-fi. https://www.mobygames.com/game/3120/catacomb-3-d/ Or the "sequel" which offers various environments, but that one does away with the skull face: https://www.mobygames.com/game/410/the-catacomb-abyss/ Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 08:53 on Jul 15, 2023 |
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It could be Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels (1995), but that doesn't have the face thing.
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Honestly maybe I'm making up the face thing or conflating it with another game. I know for sure it wasnt System Shock though, I would've been blown away by that game back then. I'm not even certain how much actual shooting was in the game tbh.
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Jul 15, 2023 15:29
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Corporation/Cyber-Cop does the face thing
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This is a bit different, but there was a kickstarter game, I want to say about 5 or 6 years ago, where you played as a lovecraftian entity influencing a medieval world to try and grow in power and eventually awaken. It looked really cool, but as time went on it became clear that the creator was in way over his head. He kept spending time commissioning new art assets and inventing new gods and races and features, but making little progress on the actual game. It eventually came out that there basically was no game, reports about stuff like faction balance from the alpha were all just lies from sock puppets, and the closest thing to a playable alpha they had was a pretty world map that the developer could move things around on to create the illusion that gameplay existed. The developer then dropped all the assets on to a forum for high tier backers and vanished. I didn't actually back it so I don't have any record of it, personally. I just thought of it after seeing Shadows of Forbidden Gods on steam, which looks like someone said "lets make that game, but real". (not nearly as pretty, though)
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That Which Sleeps, via @Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kingdinosaurgames/that-which-sleeps?ref=android_project_share I was really keen on that one
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Are the people behind That Which Sleeps not the same people as the ones behind Shadows Behind the Throne/Shadows of Forbidden Gods?
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Jack Trades posted:Are the people behind That Which Sleeps not the same people as the ones behind Shadows Behind the Throne/Shadows of Forbidden Gods? No. We had a fun thread on the forums for That Which Sleeps following the development. A lot of people were really hype for the premise, and when it eventually became clear that the was just smoke and mirrors with pre-recorded gameplay and nothing was functional, a local goon by the name of Bobby Two Hands just suddenly dropped into the thread and said: Bobby Two Hands posted:Don't worry guys. I have completely recreated the game in a month and a half and it's now done and ready to be played. AI? Full general artificial intelligence (for every character). Gameplay? Uncountably infinite strategies. Graphics? Fully immersive for all senses which humans and animals possess. And dropped a playable early version of Shadows Behind The Throne into our lap. People said "Good job, i'd pay for it" and he said "OK, i'll make it a full game" and here we are now. The Moon Monster posted:I just thought of it after seeing Shadows of Forbidden Gods on steam, which looks like someone said "lets make that game, but real". (not nearly as pretty, though) Funny that this is exactly what happened, and on these very forums to boot 
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Aha, that's pretty cool. I went ahead and bought a copyJack Trades posted:Are the people behind That Which Sleeps not the same people as the ones behind Shadows Behind the Throne/Shadows of Forbidden Gods? That would have been surprising. From the way that thing played out it seemed like the creator just didn't have the wherewithal to make a functioning game. Plus he totally burned any credibility he had with the way that things went down.
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Jack Trades posted:Are the people behind That Which Sleeps not the same people as the ones behind Shadows Behind the Throne/Shadows of Forbidden Gods? no, they're sleeping
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PC game, indie, not sure if it ever officially released. It was an 1v1 fps arena shooter with simplistic, colorful graphics where the main gimmick was that each player’s main mode of traversal was a grappling hook. Maps often featured big horizontal spans, like bridges, whose main function was to provide something to grapple onto, and you could get up to pretty ludicrous speeds with repeated grapples/swings. I want to say the players were spiders, or robotic spiders.
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Ben Nerevarine posted:PC game, indie, not sure if it ever officially released. It was an 1v1 fps arena shooter with simplistic, colorful graphics where the main gimmick was that each player’s main mode of traversal was a grappling hook. Maps often featured big horizontal spans, like bridges, whose main function was to provide something to grapple onto, and you could get up to pretty ludicrous speeds with repeated grapples/swings. I want to say the players were spiders, or robotic spiders. Could this be SpiderHeck? (oh dang, glad to see that game's still getting updates)
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Could this be SpiderHeck? Looks similar in concept but the game I'm thinking of is a 3D first-person shooter--sorry, fps is buried in my original post
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Bionic Commando had a multiplayer mode, that maybe?
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Opopanax posted:Bionic Commando had a multiplayer mode, that maybe? Definitely not, this was first-person and had relatively simple graphics, I'm pretty sure it was just one person working on it In trying to find this game I stumbled across Verlet Swing so I might just try that, thanks anyway
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Oh right, you specified fps multiple times 
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Ben Nerevarine posted:PC game, indie, not sure if it ever officially released. It was an 1v1 fps arena shooter with simplistic, colorful graphics where the main gimmick was that each player’s main mode of traversal was a grappling hook. Maps often featured big horizontal spans, like bridges, whose main function was to provide something to grapple onto, and you could get up to pretty ludicrous speeds with repeated grapples/swings. I want to say the players were spiders, or robotic spiders. There's Arms of Telos but that wasn't 1v1 from what I can see.
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Zathril posted:There's Arms of Telos but that wasn't 1v1 from what I can see. Holy poo poo that’s it, thank you! e: shame, doesn’t look like this thing has budged in 7 years 
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Quick question: Game almost exactly like Commandos, but Wild West-themed?
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Pierzak posted:Quick question: Desperados III
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Hwurmp posted:Desperados III
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Sort of related to this thread, but because another goon mentioned asking ChatGPT about a game, I thought I'd test it out with games I *did* know, but pretended to somewhat remember. The two games were ones I've asked about here (and gotten help in figuring them out, long live goons, gently caress AI). One was Stellar Explorer and the other was "Hunter/Hunted". I gave that robot motherfucker all of the pertinent details about HH, including... - side scrolling but various height levels to jump between - mainly featured two characters (I legit couldn't remember if there were more) - was futuristic but grime-y - was released somewhere between 1995-1998 - had a demo in PC gamer - wasn't very popular It couldn't get it, no matter what I tried. Eventually, I just flat out asked it to describe "hunter/hunted" to me, and....   It didn't get Stellar Explorer, either, but I didn't end up asking it specifically about that one, I just gave up.
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I've had good results asking it to list 10 or 12 possible examples. If you just ask for one it'll usually get the focus wrong.
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FFT posted:I've had good results asking it to list 10 or 12 possible examples. If you just ask for one it'll usually get the focus wrong. Oh, I didn't realize I could do that.
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A game with vector graphics where the player character is a stick figure. I swear it was a real vector graphics based game and not one stylized to look that way. So it's probably old as dirt. I hope it's a real game and not something I saw on a video.
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emSparkly posted:A game with vector graphics where the player character is a stick figure. I swear it was a real vector graphics based game and not one stylized to look that way. So it's probably old as dirt. N / N+ / N++?
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emSparkly posted:A game with vector graphics where the player character is a stick figure. I swear it was a real vector graphics based game and not one stylized to look that way. So it's probably old as dirt. Vib-Ribbon?
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Sort of related to this thread, but because another goon mentioned asking ChatGPT about a game, I thought I'd test it out with games I *did* know, but pretended to somewhat remember. The two games were ones I've asked about here (and gotten help in figuring them out, long live goons, gently caress AI). One was Stellar Explorer and the other was "Hunter/Hunted". I gave that robot motherfucker all of the pertinent details about HH, including... One of the fundamental problems with using LLMs for anything like this, where you have a question that expects a factual answer that can be right or wrong, is that LLMs do not deal in facts. They are, effectively, supercharged autocomplete engines with no underlying ground truth and no acknowledgement that words have meanings and aren't just arbitrary symbols. So when you type in "tell me about the PC game hunter/hunted", what you are actually asking it for is, "based on a probability analysis of large chunks of the internet, if I were reading a web page where one human typed 'tell me about the PC game hunter/hunted', and another human wrote more text under that, what is a statistically likely thing for the other human to have written?" Sometimes, the statistically likely thing ends up containing factually correct statements, but this basically only ever happens by accident.
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I think it was some indie game like a decade or more ago. It was a 2D sprite beat-em up, I don't think there was any depth to it; you couldn't walk up or down, they either threw someone through a window into a pool hall and picked up a pool cue and started beating someone up or they broke it themselves. Been bugging me for the longest time, I saw a video of it at the time and then it just disappeared after that.
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It's definitely not this, but I found this while looking around and somehow never heard about it before now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdAj3DQAUYM Especially after just recently playing all the way through Dave the Diver it seems up my alley. The sequel's kickstarter trailer starts in a pool hall (or, at least, there is a pool table), even: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CVJ6fjrZI0 stringless fucked around with this message at 11:14 on Jul 30, 2023 |
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Those games look loving awesome.
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Does anybody remember a video of an absurd fishing game, 3rd-person perspective 3D (maybe kinda arcade-ish looking? I don't remember clearly), focused on trying to reel in something pulling extremely hard on the line, with epic music, with escalating ridiculousness, I forget exactly what it was, possibly involving a shark or a dinosaur or something. I wish I could find it.
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Xom posted:Does anybody remember a video of an absurd fishing game, 3rd-person perspective 3D (maybe kinda arcade-ish looking? I don't remember clearly), focused on trying to reel in something pulling extremely hard on the line, with epic music, with escalating ridiculousness, I forget exactly what it was, possibly involving a shark or a dinosaur or something. I wish I could find it. It's not Sega Bass Fishing is it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg7l0SIx24o
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Check out https://guessthe.game/ if you're looking to remember the name of a game based on 6 hints, or perish on a daily basis
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I'm looking at a video of Sega Marine Fishing, and maybe this is the game? I feel like the video in my memory was way more exciting though.
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:It's not Sega Bass Fishing is it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg7l0SIx24o This game owns, especially when you hook a huge bass and it plays some hella Mega Man X music.
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Xom posted:I'm looking at a video of Sega Marine Fishing, and maybe this is the game? I feel like the video in my memory was way more exciting though. How about Bass Landing on ps1, no dinosaurs but had giant fish and a ludicrous soundtrack.
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Cognac McCarthy posted:Check out https://guessthe.game/ if you're looking to remember the name of a game based on 6 hints, or perish on a daily basis I'm getting a surprising amount of these, even games I never played. though I still live in shame of the one where I picked all the variants of Mario Golf sequels but didn't pick the original game ymgve fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Jul 31, 2023 |
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