wow i'm amazed i found someone else who played it.ShredHead said:
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Unsung games...THAT WE SWEAR BY!
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wow I at most see 2 games I havent heard of on here, most Ive played and a good number Ive won.... maybe I play too many video games
since no one has mentioned it Ill say mischif makers and body harvest for the n64
odens sphere and grim griore... and pretty much everything else by nis on the ps2
all of atlus's stuff on the ds/gba (yeah I know they arnt all gems but I dont feel like typing out a ton of names)
harvy birdman on the wii
homm V, Kings bounty.... and many more games on the pc that Im too lazy to look all up atm
edit: curses I should have looked at the 5th page, someone mentioned mischif makers and the homm games
since no one has mentioned it Ill say mischif makers and body harvest for the n64
odens sphere and grim griore... and pretty much everything else by nis on the ps2
all of atlus's stuff on the ds/gba (yeah I know they arnt all gems but I dont feel like typing out a ton of names)
harvy birdman on the wii
homm V, Kings bounty.... and many more games on the pc that Im too lazy to look all up atm
edit: curses I should have looked at the 5th page, someone mentioned mischif makers and the homm games
An indie game for the gamecube called 'Metal Arms: Glitch in the system'. It is an AMAZING 3rd person shooter that doesn't get enough attention. Nothing but blastey-fun-action from start to... well, whatever point I got to before I started playing metroid prime.
Old PSX game Azure Dreams
over 50 different monsters to catch and raise, the basis was a 40 floor tower with a random generator so never the same ever, fun premise your monsters would grow and retain level whereas you would revert to level one again when you left the tower only able to bring 5 items back into the tower
very good find
over 50 different monsters to catch and raise, the basis was a 40 floor tower with a random generator so never the same ever, fun premise your monsters would grow and retain level whereas you would revert to level one again when you left the tower only able to bring 5 items back into the tower
very good find
Freelancer.
Superb spaceflight combat/RPG with an engaging storyline, intuitive and fun gameplay, graphics FAR ahead of it's time, and a formerly huge, now dwindling, modding community. Unfortunately, it has little replayability without mods and was pretty much never advertised in any way.
Superb spaceflight combat/RPG with an engaging storyline, intuitive and fun gameplay, graphics FAR ahead of it's time, and a formerly huge, now dwindling, modding community. Unfortunately, it has little replayability without mods and was pretty much never advertised in any way.
xenogears. it´s a mess, stole heavily by equally themed stuff(neon genesis) and is obviously unfinished, but still the game i thought about the most. the amount of philosophical stuff thrown in there is massive. it has also addicitive fights with cool combos and fantastic concepts of places to go.
Well BG2 seems more similar to Bethesda games and Fallout than any other games not made by Bioware. I haven't played F1 or F2 but I've seen screenshots and heard descriptions and all of them seem to be related in my mind. The gameplay, settings, basic interface, stats, etc. are somewhat analogous. Plus all of the mods for these games on PC seem to do approximately the same things or are fairly alike.Epitome said:
Maybe it's just me, I dunno.
Chrono Trigger is my favorite game ever next to the Zelda series. I've never played a game more times and for longer periods of time simply because I enjoyed it so much. Chrono Cross was also one of the best I've ever played even if it wasn't as good as the first game. I would seriously hold Square at gunpoint and force them to continue this series if I could.
Depending on the definition of "Unsung"
Bethsoft by contrast have always made first person RPGs, right back to Arena, where the emphasis was less on story and more on exploring the massive open world with lots of interesting things in. It's why alot of old timer TES fans hate oblivion with otherwise baffling vitriol. Oblivion changed the format of the series made the story a much bigger emphasis. In Daggerfall and Morrowind it was perfectly viable to forget the story and go off and explore the world for ages, whereas Oblivion forced you into a railroad plot and undermined the "Otherworld" theme the setting had had up till that point. Cyrodiil in all the TES games before Oblivion was described as "The Roman Empire in the Aztec jungle with more rice."
I'm not sure I'd really describe the game that single handedly save the Western cRPG Genre as Unsung...
As for unsung games, three big ones:
Freelancer - Freeroamer spacefighter game with a half decent, if a little cliched plot to boot.
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura - An Isometric RPG with insane freedom, from it being entirely classless to being able to explore the world's locations to your heart's content, one of the few games where a true "pacifist run" is possible (along with Planescape Torment and Deus Ex). An intelligent story where the main villain is completely and utterly right (Albeit only proved in a sidequest).
Mount and Blade - A Medieval Third Person RPG Freeroamer with easily the BEST swords and bows combat systems ever. The only game ever to have put in a realistic and fun depiction of mounted combat. Coupled with the insanely good combat system the game, despite not having the graphics of Oblivion or Fallout 3 it steals the Total War schitck of hundreds of little men on screen at once. One of the few RPGs to accuratly and compellingly portray the horrific mob-violence that made up Medieval Warfare. It also only had two main developers, a husband and wife team from turkey. AND it has competant mod scene. AND you can pick it up for under £10.
Not at all. Baldur's gate pretty much set the game Bioware makes up till Mass Effect (or perhaps Jade Empire). Neverwinter Nights, KoTOR, they're all pretty much 3D Baldur's gate with a differant setting. Fallouts 1+2 are Black Isle studios, who I believe published Baldur's Gate, their name is on the box, though Bioware are the developers, they do indeed have quite alot in common with Baldur's Gate games. It comes from being a well written Isometric game heavily influenced by PnP RPGs, with alot of roaming freedom but an essentially linear structure (with branches)Aqua Trenoble said:
Bethsoft by contrast have always made first person RPGs, right back to Arena, where the emphasis was less on story and more on exploring the massive open world with lots of interesting things in. It's why alot of old timer TES fans hate oblivion with otherwise baffling vitriol. Oblivion changed the format of the series made the story a much bigger emphasis. In Daggerfall and Morrowind it was perfectly viable to forget the story and go off and explore the world for ages, whereas Oblivion forced you into a railroad plot and undermined the "Otherworld" theme the setting had had up till that point. Cyrodiil in all the TES games before Oblivion was described as "The Roman Empire in the Aztec jungle with more rice."
I'm not sure I'd really describe the game that single handedly save the Western cRPG Genre as Unsung...
As for unsung games, three big ones:
Freelancer - Freeroamer spacefighter game with a half decent, if a little cliched plot to boot.
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura - An Isometric RPG with insane freedom, from it being entirely classless to being able to explore the world's locations to your heart's content, one of the few games where a true "pacifist run" is possible (along with Planescape Torment and Deus Ex). An intelligent story where the main villain is completely and utterly right (Albeit only proved in a sidequest).
Mount and Blade - A Medieval Third Person RPG Freeroamer with easily the BEST swords and bows combat systems ever. The only game ever to have put in a realistic and fun depiction of mounted combat. Coupled with the insanely good combat system the game, despite not having the graphics of Oblivion or Fallout 3 it steals the Total War schitck of hundreds of little men on screen at once. One of the few RPGs to accuratly and compellingly portray the horrific mob-violence that made up Medieval Warfare. It also only had two main developers, a husband and wife team from turkey. AND it has competant mod scene. AND you can pick it up for under £10.
I love anything that Chris and Erin Roberts get their hands into, but i think "Freelancer" was a bit of a disappointment because it was in production for SO long and promised SO much that it didn't deliver.Vuljatar said:
Still a solid game, but i thought it was a bit too short, considering the PRIVATEER games that were it's inspiration.
I always liked "Starlancer" a bit better, though that was a more traditional "Wing Commander" type experience...
They need to make more space combat sims.
Star Control, X-Com Apocalypse, -the ORIGINAL- Alone In The Dark (not the hopeless new ones), Death Rally, StarLancer, Privateer 2 (starring Clive Owen and Christopher Walken in the video clips- which was AWESOME... come on, CHRISTOPHER EFFING WALKEN AND CLIVE FRIGGIN OWEN).
And for those who wish to fap to massive mecha-anime fanservice? The Super Robot Wars series (which started from SNES all the way to the Playstations of today); these tend to only exist in Japanese, and at best; poorly fansubbed in english for the SNES only.
And for those who wish to fap to massive mecha-anime fanservice? The Super Robot Wars series (which started from SNES all the way to the Playstations of today); these tend to only exist in Japanese, and at best; poorly fansubbed in english for the SNES only.
The main comparison to draw for the BG games would be neverwinter nights BG" pre-ceeded it and is set in the same gameworld, as you can even import BG2 chars into nwn and icewind dale is another in the franchise when black isle were around.Aqua Trenoble said:
That was a good one. The story was a little... uhhh... ok then, but it was an overall good game.Hail Fire 998 said:
MediEvil is to this day one of my favorite games of all time, along with Alice, Psychonauts and Myst, all of which got more press I think.
