That underrated, forgotten gem of a game.
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THIS. SO MUCH THIS.TaintedSaint said:
I remember first getting that game for Christmas not long after it came out. There was one point in the game where I got stuck for a very long time. It was the spy bot factory where you had to search through lockers to find a chip. And I kept getting caught even though I was standing where I was supposed to be standing when that mil scientist came back.
Years later, I played through that game again all the way up to that point and found that I was supposed to close the lockers after I searched through them. Funny how that works. :/
OT:I guess I'll throw in Valkyria Chronicles.
A TBS/TPS hybrid with a great story, a great cast of characters, strategic gameplay, beautiful graphics, and tons of replay value. What's not to love?
Zatacka. The most easily available version is currently Zatacka 360 on Xbox Indie.
I shit you not. This game is probably the most simple, yet worthwhile purchase you could ever get if you have people to play it with. Think of it as Multiplayer snake in curves. Beautiful. Elegant. A duality of simplicity and complexity. And ofcourse, so, so, so underrated.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whdbcHk4bAM]
I shit you not. This game is probably the most simple, yet worthwhile purchase you could ever get if you have people to play it with. Think of it as Multiplayer snake in curves. Beautiful. Elegant. A duality of simplicity and complexity. And ofcourse, so, so, so underrated.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whdbcHk4bAM]
This game was actually amazing. Shame it never got that much attention.TaintedSaint said:
Crash Team Racing. Why Mario Kart was so much more popular than it eludes me. It is 10x the game Mario Kart is
Trap Gunner on PS1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQO8TUq41jU
Such a good game. Sort of like a multi-player Deception (which I assume could also count for this list). Haven't played anything else quite like it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQO8TUq41jU
Such a good game. Sort of like a multi-player Deception (which I assume could also count for this list). Haven't played anything else quite like it.
Prey.
Aside from the potential new interest Prey 2 stirred up at E3 a while back, I don't know anyone who'd played it, which is quite the tragedy.. As it was amazing.
Combine Ratchet & Clank and Portal, so you have a vast array of crazy guns, you can walk on walls, go through portals that put you on the roof, shrink you... That all on top of the Native American spirit walking ability...
This game was absolutely a gem in the rough, and I myself only came across it on a fluke.
One of the better Sci Fi games I've played by far, and I do hope that Prey 2 gets a release. My most anticipated game right now.
Aside from the potential new interest Prey 2 stirred up at E3 a while back, I don't know anyone who'd played it, which is quite the tragedy.. As it was amazing.
Combine Ratchet & Clank and Portal, so you have a vast array of crazy guns, you can walk on walls, go through portals that put you on the roof, shrink you... That all on top of the Native American spirit walking ability...
This game was absolutely a gem in the rough, and I myself only came across it on a fluke.
One of the better Sci Fi games I've played by far, and I do hope that Prey 2 gets a release. My most anticipated game right now.
I'm going to go WAY off the radar and recommend the game Phase for the iPod (the one that has a wheel and not a giant screen).
Phase was a musical rhythm game and came out when Guitar Hero and Rock Band were at war with each other for your attention. It has a very simple control scheme: you have three buttons you use during the game, the left, right, and center inputs on the wheel, you can also slide the wheel left and right during a stream of notes, and you need to do it all to the beat of the music. There are three difficulties, Easy, Medium, and Hard, and each determines how many notes you must push correctly to the music and how closely you will follow the rhythm of the song (with Hard being the most accurate).
I know that there were other games similar to this on the iTouch, but what makes Phase the king is that your music selection is your OWN track list. That's right, any song that you own or have on your iPod can become playable on Phase. Yes there are some songs that are just too slow or fast paced to function properly, but if you have a large collection of songs like I do, you can find a lot of your favorites to play on Phase.
Phase was great for those moments where you wanted to hear a song, but wanted to do something else to keep you entertained, or when you wanted to play a quick game on your iPod without having to dedicated a large clump of time to it. I wish Phase would return in the form of an App and it might give me an excuse to actually buy the damn iTouch, as cheap and as skimpy with the memory as it is.
Phase was a musical rhythm game and came out when Guitar Hero and Rock Band were at war with each other for your attention. It has a very simple control scheme: you have three buttons you use during the game, the left, right, and center inputs on the wheel, you can also slide the wheel left and right during a stream of notes, and you need to do it all to the beat of the music. There are three difficulties, Easy, Medium, and Hard, and each determines how many notes you must push correctly to the music and how closely you will follow the rhythm of the song (with Hard being the most accurate).
I know that there were other games similar to this on the iTouch, but what makes Phase the king is that your music selection is your OWN track list. That's right, any song that you own or have on your iPod can become playable on Phase. Yes there are some songs that are just too slow or fast paced to function properly, but if you have a large collection of songs like I do, you can find a lot of your favorites to play on Phase.
Phase was great for those moments where you wanted to hear a song, but wanted to do something else to keep you entertained, or when you wanted to play a quick game on your iPod without having to dedicated a large clump of time to it. I wish Phase would return in the form of an App and it might give me an excuse to actually buy the damn iTouch, as cheap and as skimpy with the memory as it is.
My addition to this list will have to be Clive Barker's Undying. I loved that game. It has a fantastic creepy vibe to it. I loved how your left hand was for guns while the right handled magic. All the characters were interesting and wound up as epic fights. The critics loved it but no one bought it. Such a shame as they had sequels and ports lined up. The one bad thing I remember about it was the final boss.......it was massively lame. Still, it didn't diminish the experience as a whole too much.
Damn, you beat me to it. This was the game that i sunk 30 hours into and played for about 10 hours straight when i bought it.ShinyCharizard said:
I second the people who said Dark Corners of the Earth, Giants, Majesty, Arcanum, Advent Rising, Undying and VTM Bloodlines. For me, Gothic was the opposite of obscure, it was a formative gaming experience for me and all my friends. I'll add the following:
- Clive Barker's Jericho, which had amazing ideas and characters and ended up a "bowl o' brown"
- Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising, which was this brilliant strategy game that had you using a very limited number of units to achieve difficult goals, what Carrier Command Gaea Mission is trying to riff on now, only without the exciting unit types and strategic depth. It deserved a sequel and more success for its amazing ideas. Also, if there was ever a single player game that screamed for multi, even just tacked on, this is it.
- Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends, which made the franchise fun for me and had this nice story and great factions with amazing art. The implementation of said story was kind of crappy, filler missions having just 2 lines of text assigned to them but still.
- Arx Fatalis, an RPG with incresible freedom a nice, fleshed out world, rats on a stick and an interesting magic system, from the people who gave us Dishonored. If you're going to say it is a legend and not obscure at all, then why hasn't Arkane reaped the rewards it deserved? It's been stuck doing grunt work for other games and Dark Messiah for the better part of ten years.
- Septerra Core - Western JRPG with everything it entails and a nice world.
- Freelancer - still the standard to beat in arcadey space sims with lots of freedom, that dont make you want to blow a gasket because of the controls (like the X series)
- the Legacy of Kain series, a vampire, time travel, still a better love story than twilight platformer and adventure, because of the story and the characters
- Clive Barker's Jericho, which had amazing ideas and characters and ended up a "bowl o' brown"
- Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising, which was this brilliant strategy game that had you using a very limited number of units to achieve difficult goals, what Carrier Command Gaea Mission is trying to riff on now, only without the exciting unit types and strategic depth. It deserved a sequel and more success for its amazing ideas. Also, if there was ever a single player game that screamed for multi, even just tacked on, this is it.
- Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends, which made the franchise fun for me and had this nice story and great factions with amazing art. The implementation of said story was kind of crappy, filler missions having just 2 lines of text assigned to them but still.
- Arx Fatalis, an RPG with incresible freedom a nice, fleshed out world, rats on a stick and an interesting magic system, from the people who gave us Dishonored. If you're going to say it is a legend and not obscure at all, then why hasn't Arkane reaped the rewards it deserved? It's been stuck doing grunt work for other games and Dark Messiah for the better part of ten years.
- Septerra Core - Western JRPG with everything it entails and a nice world.
- Freelancer - still the standard to beat in arcadey space sims with lots of freedom, that dont make you want to blow a gasket because of the controls (like the X series)
- the Legacy of Kain series, a vampire, time travel, still a better love story than twilight platformer and adventure, because of the story and the characters
Startopia is for me one of the biggest shames, It scored well in reviews (those that did) and even today many years on, its aesthetic art design still looks good which is rare for games that old.
It was a really cool if rather simplistic sim space station game that wasn't without its faults but was charming none the less. I think the saddest part after the credits is the message "see you in startopia 2".
There was an article on here about it years ago http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_146/4839-Footprints
such a shame, a lot could have been polished in a sequel and the parts that didn't work stripped out or improved on. As is, every few years I fire up my copy and have fun rehabilitating alien convicts, converting them to religion (for profit$$), becoming an unstoppable economic juggernaut terraforming for high value crops and trading em.
It was a really cool if rather simplistic sim space station game that wasn't without its faults but was charming none the less. I think the saddest part after the credits is the message "see you in startopia 2".
There was an article on here about it years ago http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_146/4839-Footprints
such a shame, a lot could have been polished in a sequel and the parts that didn't work stripped out or improved on. As is, every few years I fire up my copy and have fun rehabilitating alien convicts, converting them to religion (for profit$$), becoming an unstoppable economic juggernaut terraforming for high value crops and trading em.
Holy crap yes!47_Ronin said:
I'm sorry but I'm gonna have to hump your leg.
I would opine that Clive Barker's Undying belongs here. It wasn't that obscure in its day (although by no means a blockbuster), but it seems to have been buried under the sands of time, since I never hear it mentioned anymore. Which is a travesty because it actually, to this day, is still one of the best and most atmospheric story-driven shooters ever made.
SNES:
Tetris Battle Gaiden
Rock N'Roll Racing
Uncharted Waters 2: New Horizons
Romancing Saga 3
Bahamut Lagoon
PC:
Warlords 3: Darklords Rising
Jagged Alliance 2
Star Control 2
Romance of the Three Kingdoms 11
Neo Geo:
Last Blade 2
Blazing Star
Twinkle Star Sprites
Magical Drop 3
Neo Geo Pocket:
SNK vs Capcom: Cardfighters Clash
Arcade:
DoDonPachi
ESPGaluda
Dangun Feveron
Ketsui
Guwange
Giga Wing
1944: Loopmasters
Strikers 1945 III
Tetris Battle Gaiden
Rock N'Roll Racing
Uncharted Waters 2: New Horizons
Romancing Saga 3
Bahamut Lagoon
PC:
Warlords 3: Darklords Rising
Jagged Alliance 2
Star Control 2
Romance of the Three Kingdoms 11
Neo Geo:
Last Blade 2
Blazing Star
Twinkle Star Sprites
Magical Drop 3
Neo Geo Pocket:
SNK vs Capcom: Cardfighters Clash
Arcade:
DoDonPachi
ESPGaluda
Dangun Feveron
Ketsui
Guwange
Giga Wing
1944: Loopmasters
Strikers 1945 III