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Does FF: Mystic Quest count? I actually like that game. What about Brainlord, for some reason people seem to really dislike Brainlord but I think it's because the game is a puzzle/action game that is actually hard. It's basically a Zelda game made for the roguelike crowd and unlike Zelda it actually has puzzles that aren't patronizingly easy (even as a kid I thought Zelda games were really easy). I never bought the argument that a lot of people have that Alcahest is a similar but better game. In a similar vein, all the Quintet action/rpg games for SNES. They have reached some acclaim these days but when they came out sold poorly and were pretty much unknown (so par the course for all non-FF Snes RPGs).
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gradenko_2000 posted:Kohan: Ahriman's Gift was the best RTS that nobody played. The graphics weren't anything to write home about, but the RPG elements and customizable squad-based units was a concept that didn't really hit the mainstream until the Dawn of War and Company of Heroes games over 5 years later. I dunno if I'd call Kohan a cult game so much as just forgotten. At the time it sold well and was wildly popular, practically every video game mag seemed to be tripping over itself to give Immortal Sovereigns all the GotY awards they could come up with.
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Jastiger posted:Are you kidding me? I'd say it definitely has cult status now. How many MMO's have come and gone, yet EQ remains active with ACTUAL PAYING MEMBERS. A small, but dedicated group of players does a cult game make. Also it seemed like a lot at the time, but EQ actually had a fairly small playerbase during what people generally think of as its "peak" (launch through Planes of Power) compared to the numbers later MMO's would pull. IIRC Sony rarely released hard numbers, but one of the history of EQ things (I don't remember if it was a magazine article or what, it's been like ten years) found out that the peak amount of subs was like ~500,000 around the release of PoP. Sure a lot of games have soldiered on with much smaller bases, but that's still pretty small compared to the amount of influence the game would later have. I think a better example of a "cult" MMO would be Shadowbane or City of Heroes.
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Bieeardo posted:I'd definitely agree with Shadowbane as a 'cult' MMO. It launched in a stripped-down state, suffered astonishing setbacks (like people finding the GM commands in the user client, or single guilds and alliances locking down entire servers), but people have been working doggedly at bringing a server emulator up to snuff for years. The reason I said Shadowbane and CoH is that they are the only MMO's I've ever player where people talked to me about them like people talk to you about Rocky Horror or Troll 2. CoH didn't just have players, it had loving evangelists. Inspector Gesicht posted:
This is why earlier I mentioned all the Quintet games for Super Nintendo, they are all really good but extremely under appreciated outside of devoted retro gamers.
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), some of your allies are really obnoxious, the plot gets really hard to follow in the middle, and I wouldn't play without a strategy guide. That said this game is in the same league as other SNES RPGs like FF6 and Chrono Trigger. The story has a real sense of scope in how you progress, and the mood is strong with a feeling of sad wonder. The game really incites you to help NPCs out even if the reward is lousy.