What's the world's "strangest" game?

[HardRockSamurai]

There are several strange games in the world. Take "Mister Mosquito," for example, where you play as a mosquito who's daily routine includes driving a single family insane by constantly sucking on their body parts until he's filled his "blood quota"...strange...or "Katamari Damacy," where you're a little green man trying to rebuild planets (that your father, who happens to be the king of the cosmos, destroyed when he got drunk one night) by rolling aroiund a little ball that picks up anything it touches...strange...or "The Typing of the Dead"...where you kill zombies...by typing them to death...

Basically, I'm asking this: what's the most fucked up game you've ever played...ever?

 

[Saskwach]

I don't know its name, what it's about or its genre but I'm absolutely certain it's Japanese.

 

[Sennz0r]

A game where I play a plumber who should be dead by now from eating all those shrooms and weeds, who has enough money by now since he gathered all those fucking coins, to hire a mexican death squad to do what he does over and over again; saving a princess who can't even install a simple security system in her castle after she's been abducted god knows how many times, and does so by ; *surprise ensues* eating shrooms and weeds, jumping on other shrooms and winged turtles, and in the end fighting the boss of this trippy shroom/turtle land; another turtle with a mohawk and spike studs that would make the most fervent punk rocker jealous. Strange huh?

Still like a couple of these games though

 

[fix-the-spade]

Erm, probably Vib Ribbon.

At its most basic Vib Rib was a platformer, except the entire game was a black screen with a single white line, the line making up the entire game including your character. It had standard attack jump and roll, but you couldn't stop moving from left to right even if you tried.

What made it weird was after the game loaded you took out the disc and put in a music cd, the levels were generated based on the sound.
So you had a white line making a 2-d platformer with enemies and obstacles based on Music.

With Moby in the game was fine and playable. Once tried it with Raining blood, not good.

 

[Gemini3333]

Being someone who will try just about anything i find that alot of the wierdest games are flash based sush as the flash based version of fLow

 

[TheIceface]

I don't know its name, what it's about or its genre but I'm absolutely certain it's Japanese.

I think I know what you're talking about, I didn't really like that one.

 

[cfcfan]

I don't know its name, what it's about or its genre but I'm absolutely certain it's Japanese.

A strange Japanese game? You must be mad!!

 

[shatnershaman]

Portal gets my vote.

 

[Moon-Goose]

Bioshock is quite strange actually, the story line is very deep and twisted. You are first shown to be unlikely then a sheep, then someone who was meant to be here. Its quite confusing luckily the game does it well.

 

[Stammer]

Patapon.

I've never actually played the game, but I really want it for my PSP. It's a Japanese game where you play the god of these people, and you press the four main buttons in rhythm to make your guys more effective at fighting. It just looks so trippy.

World of Warcrap.

It's strange because it's one of the worst games ever invented, yet people still play it. It's probably the only thing Yahtzee's ever gotten wrong; when he said "...as good as it's going to get," I said "FAIL".

 

[KamikazeSailor]

I could rattle off a list of really odd Japanese games that I played while I lived in Tokyo, but honestly... what's the use? We all know they're weird gamers

I'd have to say the story of the original Shadowrun game is one of the strangest... people living in the internet, dragons running for President and getting blown up in their limos, children spontaneously combusting into completely different races... it was weird stuff...

 

[Johnn Johnston]

Jazz Jackrabbit. You're a rabbit (a green rabbit) with a brother named Spaz, and you run through levels shooting stuff and jumping around. At one point, you are in an Alice in Wonderland world and your controls are reversed if you go into the smoke of the caterpiller's "pipe".

And by pipe, I mean bong.

 

[Fusi0n.be]

It must be Grim Fandango (An Adventure game where you play as a travel agent to take people from the land of the living to the land of the dead) *EPIC ALARM*

also Sanitarium (Great adventure game with an EPIC story)

(You play as someone waking up in an asylum and you have to find your way out of your unconcious memory and stuff. (It's wicked))Buy it, you won't regret it.

 

[tooktook]

The original Earthworm Jim gets my vote. Strange, but in a good way.
A lot of Japanese games are strange in a bad way.

 

[JaguarWong]

Basically, I'm asking this: what's the most fucked up game you've ever played...ever?

DOAX2 - It made me feel unclean, like a sweaty sock.

 

[stevesan]

Silent Hill 2 - the closest thing I've seen to a David Lynch movie (reminds of Eraserhead) in games.

 

[sandswipe]

Space Station Silicon Valley.

You play as a tiny robot chip thing that survives by hijacking all the robot animals in the space station, including bears, wheeled mice, floating sheep, and missile shooting wheeled dog, and using them to do puzzles.

This team later developed the same game, but changed space station to new york, animal robots to cars, and puzzles to hookers. Rockstar North ftw.

 

[The Franco]

I want to say the Mother Series, aka Earthbound, and anything that Suda 51 has crapped out of his mind. I only played about 3 hours of Earthbound and thought that it was the strangest thing this side of an LSD fueled mushroom trip.

 

[ThaBenMan]

also Sanitarium (Great adventure game with an EPIC story)
(You play as someone waking up in an asylum and you have to find your way out of your unconcious memory and stuff. (It's wicked))Buy it, you won't regret it.

QFT, great game.

The weirdest game I've played is probably Skullmonkeys. It's a sidescrolling platformer in claymation. You're this dude named Claymen who's fighting these monkeys that have skulls for heads... And there was this hilarious bit where you could find bonus levels, and this funny song would play in the background: This guy would sing about how it's safe for you to frolic because it's a bonus level and there aren't any monsters, and then try and fake you out by saying watch out for the monsters. And he would also sing about how he got royalties for every copy of the game sold... strange, but funny...

 

[pnonma]

I'll put in a second recommendation for Earthbound. Any game where you fight hippies, exploding trees with happy faces on them, and bizarre cultists obsessed with the color blue is worth a nomination here. Not to mention that you have to use 'zombie paper' (fly paper that sticks to zombies instead) to stop a zombie infestation, or that if you wander around in the desert enough, you find three mexican guys who act like a slot machine, or that you have to collect trout-flavored yogurt to progress the storyline, or that the entire quest is started off by being directed by a magic bee.
Although it's that weird, it's not a bad kind of weird...it's definitely worth playing.