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Penumbra posted:Could you be thinking of Robert Chancellor's "Darkwood?"
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I liked shooting the guns outs of people's hands in Perfect Dark. Oh, I could hear that voice clip when I read it.  And "Why, me?" when they died.
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Jerry Cotton posted:I remember Pelit* featuring it like ten times with hell of hype but at some point I don't think anyone thought it would ever come out. Then it was released and Pelit gave it a 70 which from the review itself seemed rather generous. Didn't buy it because I might as well just fire up Dictator Never forget that a Finnish parliament member used to review porn games in it under a pseudonym
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Camo Guitar posted:I only played it a handful of times but I remember how frustrating it was when you tried to attack and a lawyer sprite would throw papers around and stop you doing that. Legally. Yea that was pretty hilarious. There was also a businessman unit that was always behind his desk, even when moving around.
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Does anyone remember Battle Bugs? I remember loving that game as a kid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZP6m55pbMk
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Tiggum posted:Yep, that's the one! I guess either I'm remembering it wrong or I played it on a black-and-white screen, but either way that is definitely it. Earlier Macs were monochrome, so it's entirely possible you played it on black-and-white.
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I was really blown away when I saw SimCity in colour as I'd only played it on Macs at that point.
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Exile on the BBC micro was the best thing about school. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbLndV_f_vo The cover makes it look like Doom, but its a 2d cave exploration game. Some of the features that make it so good: - giant world filled with all sorts of enemies - full 2d physics simulation for the player / enemies / weapons / gravity / wind - 360 degree aiming - particle effects - blasting imps with hand grenades all done in 1988 on 32kb of ram.
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RCarr posted:Does anyone remember Battle Bugs? I remember loving that game as a kid. Man this looks fun as hell
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verbal enema posted:Man this looks fun as hell It was awesome! The video doesn't really do the game justice, because these are just the tutorial missions. There were some epic battles with a ton of bugs on both sides, fighting over sprawling kitchen/picnic/garbage/etc landscapes. There was a lot of strategy involved, as each type of bug had its own strengths/weaknesses, along with special attacks, etc. It even had multiplayer.
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I've been playing Lord of the Rings: The Third Age. It's an interesting take on the source material, considering it's almost an exact clone of [/i]Final Fantasy X[/i]. What's especially interesting to me is that it came out at a time that EA had the videogame rights for the LOTR movies, but not the books. THey could only reference things that the movies touched on, which put some fairly noticeable gaps in the Lore in the game, if you were looking for it. The game actually plays fairly decently, but I can understand why it will never be rereleased: The liscensing would be a nightmare. There's a ton of recut clips from the movies in it (You unlock these like you would trophies in a modern game), as well as Ian McKellen narration done just for this game.
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I think I posted this ID request in another thread because I forgot this one existed. I lie awake at nights haunted by the memories of two demos I played in the mid-90s. These would almost certainly be between 1995-1997. I don't want to play these games again, necessarily, I just want to know what they were, because it drives me nuts having these vague memories bopping around in my subconscious with nothing fixed for them. In one of the games, I recall the demo as starting out in kind of a junkyard setting, which I believe was supposed to be in the American southwest. I think the game was supposed to be a tie-in for a collectible card game, or board game, or some larger franchise. In walking around in this junkyard I ended up in a fight with some kind of hideous figure, but if I remember correctly rendered in a very flat, static style, which might correspond to why I associate it with card games. The art was very "edgy" 90s style art for the villain, like a Todd McFarlane kind of thing. I remember the figure being sort of reaper like, and finding the whole experience to be kind of unsettling, as I was ten years old at the time. The other game had some kind of mythological/ancient Greece setting. It was more of a point-and-click style adventure game, and you were trying to solve problems for characters in a landscape that you were sort of looking on into. I feel like the characters were done as FMV figures. I think it had kind of a jokey, light tone. Maybe you had offended the gods in some way?
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Dr. Video Games 0081 posted:The other game had some kind of mythological/ancient Greece setting. It was more of a point-and-click style adventure game, and you were trying to solve problems for characters in a landscape that you were sort of looking on into. I feel like the characters were done as FMV figures. I think it had kind of a jokey, light tone. Maybe you had offended the gods in some way?
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Agents are GO! posted:I've been playing Lord of the Rings: The Third Age. It's an interesting take on the source material, considering it's almost an exact clone of [/i]Final Fantasy X[/i]. Something about "Sword Craft" being two words is really funny to me. Like, you hit the button and instead of fancy blade tricks the guy just kneels down and crafts himself a sword, mid-combat. Also those combat portraits have not aged well, have they?
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The thing Ill remember most about LotR: The Third Age was that the one thing they didnt copy was the controlled leveling progression of FFX and I ended up stuck somewhere around the end of the two towers because I could not hit enemies more than 1/5 of the time and thus couldnt even win random fights to get xp to boost my accuracy.
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I'm still mad they never finished the Interplay trilogy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh-dWwbtRAQ
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I don't know how obscure they were, but the two Battle For Middle Earth RTS games were pretty solid but pretty much forgotten.
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twistedmentat posted:There was a NES game I loved to rent with friends because it was a prefect 2 player game. It was called Conflict and it was a turned based stratagy with one player being Blue (who had US units) and Red (who had Soviet stuff). It was some RNG, as once my buddies infantry shot down my MiG, but over all it was fair. I just want to say thank you for acknowledging that game exists. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person that ever played it. It was even fun single player even though the AI cheated like hell. It was more of a puzzle; how do you beat a stupid computer with better poo poo than you? But yeah it was hilarious when infantry took out something way above their weight class and yes Super Conflict was a terrible game that was nothing like the original.
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Accordion Man posted:Pretty sure it's Wrath of the Gods. I don't think it's this, because I clicked through a playthrough on YouTube and it doesn't look familiar. I don't believe the game I'm thinking of had an actual player avatar that moved around inside the scene. It was more like the scene itself was a kind of puzzle you had to solve. Wrath of the Gods might be a little early, too, as I definitely didn't have a computer in 1994 or was playing demo discs from magazines.
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No player av puzzle game from the 90s sounds like Myst.
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Sounds Myst-like, but definitely not Myst itself. Unfortunately there were a lot of Myst-likes released in the 90s.
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For Obscure I've started playing Tearaway Unfolded (PS4 port) and it's loving adorable. I'm totally into it so far, about halfway through the first area (three bookmarks in) For old, I played a couple of licensed games that I appreciated due to venturing from the source material, Green Lantern and Over the Hedge, both based off of the poorly received movies. Green Lantern is really fun and has an in-depth combat system due to how easy it is to use all of the powers together, and it manages to not turn Sinestro into a villain. He stays Green til the end, not even teasing him going Yellow. That makes the plot more interesting to me because I was expecting him to turncoat and he never did. Over the Hedge did the usual licensed game thing of copying the plot... for the first three levels. Then things go off the rails as the pest control agency uses mind control collars to make the captured pets do their bidding. Vincent the Bear is stated to have been sent to a national park at the end of the movie, but he never makes it there because he's actually put in a mind control helmet, and placed right back in his cave. Then after you rescue him he actually joins you due to wanting revenge against the pest control company more than he wants to eat RJ the Raccoon. The writing in the game can get funny at times too, there is a lot of charm there.
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Oh man I hope green lantern is cheap cause it sounds like what the movie could have been and Ryan Reynolds went all in on it.
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jojoinnit posted:Oh man I hope green lantern is cheap cause it sounds like what the movie could have been and Ryan Reynolds went all in on it. It's really neat, it's got the Manhunters (the guys who were made to do the Lantern's jobs before the Lantern's were put together) as the primary villains, and a large array of different constructs that can be switched between pretty much at will, like you can be beating up some guys with the Giant Fists, and then see an energy ball coming and quickly deflect it by pulling out the Baseball Bat, which also works for crowd control. It also has no levels on Earth, it's entirely spacefaring Lantern poo poo. Some of the more spammable contructs include a set of missile launchers and a gatling gun. Every construct has a use, although some are a bit slow so I don't use them much (the final one is one of those but it's hilarious. You throw an entire harrier jet entirely made of green energy across the battlefield)
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Green Lantern sounds like a fun and cool game and it's a shame that it's not on PC.
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bony tony posted:Green Lantern sounds like a fun and cool game and it's a shame that it's not on PC. My only complaint is that the final boss is really fun until the final phase at which point it becomes a bit stupid. Stupid in a way that's kind of funny though.
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Agents are GO! posted:I've been playing Lord of the Rings: The Third Age. It's an interesting take on the source material, considering it's almost an exact clone of [/i]Final Fantasy X[/i]. The part of that game I loved that so few games do is that every piece of equipment changed your characters' appearance. They even modeled stuff like pendants and rings.
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I’m trying to remember what this game was. You play as an amoeba and have to eat other amoebas to grow, and it came out in the late 90s/early 00s. Does anyone remember this? Google really doesn’t get me far.
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Is it flOw?
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Marcade posted:The part of that game I loved that so few games do is that every piece of equipment changed your characters' appearance. They even modeled stuff like pendants and rings. The face models are actually pretty good for a 2004 game too. a_good_username posted:I’m trying to remember what this game was. You play as an amoeba and have to eat other amoebas to grow, and it came out in the late 90s/early 00s. Does anyone remember this? Google really doesn’t get me far. Is it E.V.O.? (That game needs a goddamn sequel.)
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It's not a lost gem or anything, but a game I played with my dad when I was 4 was Moonsweeper. A cool Atari game where you fly around in a star system, and then run into a planet. The game then changes perspective to a faux 3D thing where you shoot enemies and save stranded dudes. I'd say it's a cross of Defender and Space Harrier. And it has some of my favorite box art:  Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjNh23uQEH8
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Captain Lavender posted:It's not a lost gem or anything, but a game I played with my dad when I was 4 was Moonsweeper. A cool Atari game where you fly around in a star system, and then run into a planet. The game then changes perspective to a faux 3D thing where you shoot enemies and save stranded dudes. I'd say it's a cross of Defender and Space Harrier. Looks like a cheap knockoff of Solaris.
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Tiggum posted:Looks like a cheap knockoff of Solaris. Moonsweeper came out in '83; Solaris came out in '86.  Imagic made really good games, and I loved all their box art, as well, even the version of Demon Attack that was just spray-painted toy dinosaurs with greeble glued to them: 
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Moonsweeper's artwork looks like the poster for Apollo 18. And Good Star Wars games are rarely obscure, but Republic Commando is really, really good, but a lot of people missed it. Probably because Attack of the Clones was so hated at the time, people straight up ignored anything connected to it. You are one of a group of elite Clone Commandos and each is unique character. You fight your way through Battle Droids, with the Superbattle Droids being terrifying how strong they are, also you fight some Trandosian slavers aboard a ship they disabled. Lots of great action, good writing and I'd say it was a sign of what the Clone Wars tv show was going to be like.
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munce posted:Exile on the BBC micro was the best thing about school. There is a game that's remarkable similar to this that I played on the Amstrad CPC. I've never been able to find out what it was.
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verbal enema posted:Wow that Demon Attack art is insanely good That game was too easy.
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Pocket Billiards posted:There is a game that's remarkable similar to this that I played on the Amstrad CPC. I've never been able to find out what it was. Image reminded me of H.E.R.O. so maybe that's also what you're looking for?
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