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Birthright: The Gorgons Alliance
I wish I still had the original disc but I've lost it, it was a very interesting, if poorly implemented, turnbased strategy game set in the AD&D campaign setting of Anuire.
You played as one of many nations on a continent ravaged by war, not only do you manage taxes and armies, there was also road building, construction of castles, establishment of trade guilds, temples and law buildings, the laying of ley lines for arcane magic use and of course, your regent and any lieutenants could go adventuring for gold and magic items in strangely designed dungeons.
The game got some pretty mixed reviews but I thought it was awesome
I wish I still had the original disc but I've lost it, it was a very interesting, if poorly implemented, turnbased strategy game set in the AD&D campaign setting of Anuire.
You played as one of many nations on a continent ravaged by war, not only do you manage taxes and armies, there was also road building, construction of castles, establishment of trade guilds, temples and law buildings, the laying of ley lines for arcane magic use and of course, your regent and any lieutenants could go adventuring for gold and magic items in strangely designed dungeons.
The game got some pretty mixed reviews but I thought it was awesome
It seems like nobody ever picked up Raymond 3 Hoodlum Havoc for the last generation consoles, definitly the best of the series, and also just an all around great game.
subject_87 said:
Got it yesterday. Good fun so far.
Terranigma, a SNES action-RPG with mediocre gameplay, and the second best plot ever to grace a video game. Released in Europe and Japan, but never in the US. The fan translation patch is atrociously bad, while the European version's translation is not. You should play this.
Treasure of the Rudras, a SNES RPG. From Square. Yes, it's a Square game that no one ever heard of. Crazy, I know. It was never released outside of Japan, though there's an excellent translation patch (excellent and, given the difficulty of translating that game, somewhat implausible) out there. Basically, you play through the stories of three different characters/parties, all with different areas, plot and so on. And then a fourth act to wrap things up after you finish the above. Yes, they interact. Yes, the order in which you play (and, if you want, you can switch back and forth between them) changes some things.
Then there's the spell system. You make your own spells. Type in the name of a spell, and it creates a spell based on the name. The game gives you suffixes/prefixes/bases to work with, sure, but you really need to experiment. Game's rather difficult, though.
So yeah. I think I've seen Terranigma mentioned once on these boards. Rudras? Never.
For me, Sub Rebellion on the PS2. A game so unheard of it doesnt even have a wikipedia page.
The game takes place in a near future world where (if memory serves) water levels have risen to an altitude of about 1500ft due to a series of earthquakes that apparently must have destroyed all of Antartica to cause something like that. Humans (natually) adapt to this by biulding underwater complexes from what little land remains above the water. Due to the calamity in question most countries were completely wiped out by the rising water, and what is there for the survivors to do? PICK SIDES AND FIGHT OVER WHATS LEFT (natrually).
Now most of the world being waterlogged to a new definiton of the word warfare had to undergo some drastic changes to keep it going, and the main form of combat is obvious from the title, submarines.
The game has you piloting a new prototype combat minisub that in its very stride bends and breaks physics around it to store infinite torpedoes for sub-to-sub combat, a 'needle gun' which i believe is a scaled down railgun for close combat and in between torpedo reloads, a retractable missile launcher and machine gun for engaging ground and air targets, and a whacking powerful nuclear engine to propell this about-shipping-container-sized minisub through water at speeds of about 163 m/s.
Apparently memory does serve...
Anyway at the stage where you start the game there are pretty much only 2 factions remaining alongside some chaotic neutrals that may be mentioned later. The side youre fighting is the much larger, superior, eviler Empire who control most of the world and are using most of it to find and hunt down your side (more on that later). Thier arsenal incuding everying from the equivalent to underwater TIE Fighters to... and i wish i was kidding, underwarer Star Destroyers and other Irregulars.
Your side is the aptly named Alliance aiming to stop the Empire for no good reason as i saw it while facing near impossible odds silimar to the afore mentioned Sea Destroyers or as theyre called in the game, Daglezenair-class 'oh shits' (oh shits isnt true but you would when you see one open its bow to reveal a 20-tube torpedo launching array) with nothing but some severely outdated minisubs, no underwater capitals at all, oh and you in your micro-doomsday machine.
The two sides are surprisingly deadlocked in a battle to both kill each other and salvage ancient tech from an alien civilisation that turns out to be Atlantis (and still alien) only its spread all over the place from whats left of polar ice caps to the depths of the pacific.
Anyway in true pseudo-Star Wars style you eventually win and at the same time save the world from its drowning problems, if that even makes sense.
This game is seriously obscure, the only mentions of it on the net are on game help sites and wikipedias list of PS2 games, the developer is apparently Metro 3D but i cant tell which as ones site is down and the games official site is long dead.
Not to say its bad, its a pretty hard game but the combats thorough and everything has its use, missions and boss fights are extemely varied too and the game rewards you for exploring the large mission maps.
Holy shit, how long did i spend writing this...?
The game takes place in a near future world where (if memory serves) water levels have risen to an altitude of about 1500ft due to a series of earthquakes that apparently must have destroyed all of Antartica to cause something like that. Humans (natually) adapt to this by biulding underwater complexes from what little land remains above the water. Due to the calamity in question most countries were completely wiped out by the rising water, and what is there for the survivors to do? PICK SIDES AND FIGHT OVER WHATS LEFT (natrually).
Now most of the world being waterlogged to a new definiton of the word warfare had to undergo some drastic changes to keep it going, and the main form of combat is obvious from the title, submarines.
The game has you piloting a new prototype combat minisub that in its very stride bends and breaks physics around it to store infinite torpedoes for sub-to-sub combat, a 'needle gun' which i believe is a scaled down railgun for close combat and in between torpedo reloads, a retractable missile launcher and machine gun for engaging ground and air targets, and a whacking powerful nuclear engine to propell this about-shipping-container-sized minisub through water at speeds of about 163 m/s.
Apparently memory does serve...
Anyway at the stage where you start the game there are pretty much only 2 factions remaining alongside some chaotic neutrals that may be mentioned later. The side youre fighting is the much larger, superior, eviler Empire who control most of the world and are using most of it to find and hunt down your side (more on that later). Thier arsenal incuding everying from the equivalent to underwater TIE Fighters to... and i wish i was kidding, underwarer Star Destroyers and other Irregulars.
Your side is the aptly named Alliance aiming to stop the Empire for no good reason as i saw it while facing near impossible odds silimar to the afore mentioned Sea Destroyers or as theyre called in the game, Daglezenair-class 'oh shits' (oh shits isnt true but you would when you see one open its bow to reveal a 20-tube torpedo launching array) with nothing but some severely outdated minisubs, no underwater capitals at all, oh and you in your micro-doomsday machine.
The two sides are surprisingly deadlocked in a battle to both kill each other and salvage ancient tech from an alien civilisation that turns out to be Atlantis (and still alien) only its spread all over the place from whats left of polar ice caps to the depths of the pacific.
Anyway in true pseudo-Star Wars style you eventually win and at the same time save the world from its drowning problems, if that even makes sense.
This game is seriously obscure, the only mentions of it on the net are on game help sites and wikipedias list of PS2 games, the developer is apparently Metro 3D but i cant tell which as ones site is down and the games official site is long dead.
Not to say its bad, its a pretty hard game but the combats thorough and everything has its use, missions and boss fights are extemely varied too and the game rewards you for exploring the large mission maps.
Holy shit, how long did i spend writing this...?
Persona. The original one, imported.
Also, Michigan. No, not the state, the game. Also imported. Just google it really, cause i cant possibly explain except you spend the game as a camera man. Yes... a cameraman. And if you dont like you're news caster woman you're with, you let them die and geta new one.
yeah... its japan at its weirdest.
Also, Michigan. No, not the state, the game. Also imported. Just google it really, cause i cant possibly explain except you spend the game as a camera man. Yes... a cameraman. And if you dont like you're news caster woman you're with, you let them die and geta new one.
yeah... its japan at its weirdest.
Rainbow 6 - Rouge Spear. People seems to like the Las Vegas ones, but they were nothing compared to this. All my friend know about i though. I like to bring it up
Codename Eagle- the father of the Battlefield series, this was the game the BF team made before Battlefield 1942. It's the same fast paced vehicular FPS action you'd expect from battlefield, only it had more transport variety than even 1942 had, with motorbikes, steamboats, armed helicopters and zeppelins all usable alongside the more standard torpedo boats, battleships, armoured cars, trucks, tanks, fighters and bombers.
It was even more arcade and crazy than 1942 was, and showed a glimpse of a very different direction Battlefield could have gone down. It had a proper singleplayer, with the player plonked down in a sprawling level sometimes only with a pistol and a pair of wire cutters, and had a real sandbox like mission design that Battlefield has sadly abandoned entirely in favour of making it's Bad Company campaigns as scripted and corridor based as the COD games it tries so hard to emulate. If we had bf 1942 with a singleplayer akin to what Codename Eagle had, it could have been just about the greatest WW2 shooter ever...
Have a look:
And in case people have played that, then Spyfox in: Dry Cereal. Awesome game!
It was even more arcade and crazy than 1942 was, and showed a glimpse of a very different direction Battlefield could have gone down. It had a proper singleplayer, with the player plonked down in a sprawling level sometimes only with a pistol and a pair of wire cutters, and had a real sandbox like mission design that Battlefield has sadly abandoned entirely in favour of making it's Bad Company campaigns as scripted and corridor based as the COD games it tries so hard to emulate. If we had bf 1942 with a singleplayer akin to what Codename Eagle had, it could have been just about the greatest WW2 shooter ever...
Have a look:
And in case people have played that, then Spyfox in: Dry Cereal. Awesome game!
I really loved Ring of Red for the PS2. It's a pretty unique alternate-history mecha strategy game with action elements which really should have got a sequel. Here's a pretty good review of it:
