What's the world's "strangest" game?
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Whoever suggested Boonga Boonga, you were right, Look it up on wikipedia, i think that one should take the prize.
Patapon was messed up to hell. A while into the game the beat combos weren't even fast enough. I give it a 3/10. Thats pretty messed up
Grow. Seriously.
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I must look up Boonga Boonga. As someone who spent entirely too much of his childhood playing Rainbow Islands and The New Zealand Story, I have a hard-coded appreciation of the unusual.
EDIT: One google search later... forget Boonga Boonga. While I'm sure USB attachments for the appropriate actions are available somewhere on the internet, I don't think I'd be willing to lay out the cash for the privilege of saying I've played the most messed up game of all time.
-Nick
http://www.eyezmaze.com/grow/v3/index.html
I must look up Boonga Boonga. As someone who spent entirely too much of his childhood playing Rainbow Islands and The New Zealand Story, I have a hard-coded appreciation of the unusual.
EDIT: One google search later... forget Boonga Boonga. While I'm sure USB attachments for the appropriate actions are available somewhere on the internet, I don't think I'd be willing to lay out the cash for the privilege of saying I've played the most messed up game of all time.
-Nick
okay how has no one mentioned bobobo bobobo or whatever. The dude uses nose hair to attck. What is Mario's butt stomps compared to giant nose hairs reaching out and beating ya.
Thaty's an easy one. It's Beat Takeshi's video game series, most notobally Takeshi no Chôsenjô (roughly Takeshi's Challenge)
YOU MUST BEAR IN MIND: Takeshi absolutely HATES video games, so a dev team came to him and asked what kind of game would someone who hates them make.
The packaging contains several warnings that the game should not be attempted with conventional gaming skills (That alone putes it in the "strange game category"), and the player must complete numerous near-impossible tasks in order to finish the game.
The player can use a hang-glider to fly over into a strange land called the "Red Country" if they pass over the four other islands, but a huge mountain blocks the way into the country, and the player will be forced to crash into either the mountain or the ground, resulting in an automatic game over screen. There is also a choice on the starting menu screen which also results in an automatic game over, even when the player has not even started the game. Other in-game events include Completion of the game requires several unorthodox uses of the Famicom system, such as using the second controller microphone to speak while playing pachinko, or not touching the controls for 60 minutes.
The game ends once the player discovers the treasure hidden in an island cave. The game has no ending credits, and if the player leaves the ending screen on for 5 minutes, the words change to konna gçmu maji ni nacchate dôsuruno? (Why get serious for a game like this?). Throwing 20,000 punches on the opening game screen will also take the player directly to the game's ending.
source: prior knowledge and some wiki(eww)
YOU MUST BEAR IN MIND: Takeshi absolutely HATES video games, so a dev team came to him and asked what kind of game would someone who hates them make.
The packaging contains several warnings that the game should not be attempted with conventional gaming skills (That alone putes it in the "strange game category"), and the player must complete numerous near-impossible tasks in order to finish the game.
The player can use a hang-glider to fly over into a strange land called the "Red Country" if they pass over the four other islands, but a huge mountain blocks the way into the country, and the player will be forced to crash into either the mountain or the ground, resulting in an automatic game over screen. There is also a choice on the starting menu screen which also results in an automatic game over, even when the player has not even started the game. Other in-game events include Completion of the game requires several unorthodox uses of the Famicom system, such as using the second controller microphone to speak while playing pachinko, or not touching the controls for 60 minutes.
The game ends once the player discovers the treasure hidden in an island cave. The game has no ending credits, and if the player leaves the ending screen on for 5 minutes, the words change to konna gçmu maji ni nacchate dôsuruno? (Why get serious for a game like this?). Throwing 20,000 punches on the opening game screen will also take the player directly to the game's ending.
source: prior knowledge and some wiki(eww)
Karoshi, the gamemaker game where the aim is to kill yourself!
What's this, that doesn't count because it's not commercially released?
...FINE
In that case, accept this list of incredibly weird games that Portal has nothing on:
Earthbound
Earthworm Jim
Conker's Bad Fur Day
Elite Beat Agents
Animal Crossing
Pikmin
Warioware
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic games (Why you ask? Because it's possible to beat Sonic with Bowser in a footrace. That does not compute)
Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland
What's this, that doesn't count because it's not commercially released?
...FINE
In that case, accept this list of incredibly weird games that Portal has nothing on:
Earthbound
Earthworm Jim
Conker's Bad Fur Day
Elite Beat Agents
Animal Crossing
Pikmin
Warioware
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic games (Why you ask? Because it's possible to beat Sonic with Bowser in a footrace. That does not compute)
Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland
For a shooter, Gungrave was quite mad.
I'll vote for Katamari anything, too.
God Hand is the maddest fighting game I've played.
Psychonauts, too, great platformer, tho 'platformer' is sorely limiting what it was.
I'll vote for Katamari anything, too.
God Hand is the maddest fighting game I've played.
Psychonauts, too, great platformer, tho 'platformer' is sorely limiting what it was.
SAN, NI, ICHI... SURE!!
Ose! Tatakae! Ouendan is quite possibly the strangest game I've played. You play as the Ouendan, a male version of a cheer squad. Except they are not all smiles, they are serious burly men in Gakurans and headbands that yell...and dance with fury to some awesome J-Rock and J-Pop tunes. This game is the original version of Elite Beat Agents, except it's even more insane. A race horse stopping a criminal? Check. A guy becoming 50 feet tall to stop a radioactive mouse from rampaging downtown? Check. Two cops stopping aliens with water pistols? Checkmate.
Ouendan is one of my favourite games of all time. While the sequel was good, the song selection wasn't as great as the original.
Ose! Tatakae! Ouendan is quite possibly the strangest game I've played. You play as the Ouendan, a male version of a cheer squad. Except they are not all smiles, they are serious burly men in Gakurans and headbands that yell...and dance with fury to some awesome J-Rock and J-Pop tunes. This game is the original version of Elite Beat Agents, except it's even more insane. A race horse stopping a criminal? Check. A guy becoming 50 feet tall to stop a radioactive mouse from rampaging downtown? Check. Two cops stopping aliens with water pistols? Checkmate.
Ouendan is one of my favourite games of all time. While the sequel was good, the song selection wasn't as great as the original.
Bujingai- I call it "Gackt Kills Shit"
Work time Fun- WTF for short. 'Nuff Said.
There are some other games that I can't remember the names of. I'll describe them though. There's an Xbox exclusive where you play as a tall ugly creature who is simply trying to survive (and possibly fight against his oppressors). His oppressors come in the form of adorable creatures, but they're hellbent on killing everything that is not nice to look at.
As for the weirdest game of all time being made in Japan. I'm sure it's true. I have an example. There's an adult oriented arcade game where you take hold of a giant hand with one finger sticking up and you insert the finger into the arcade machine and try to find the g-spot of a female.
Work time Fun- WTF for short. 'Nuff Said.
There are some other games that I can't remember the names of. I'll describe them though. There's an Xbox exclusive where you play as a tall ugly creature who is simply trying to survive (and possibly fight against his oppressors). His oppressors come in the form of adorable creatures, but they're hellbent on killing everything that is not nice to look at.
As for the weirdest game of all time being made in Japan. I'm sure it's true. I have an example. There's an adult oriented arcade game where you take hold of a giant hand with one finger sticking up and you insert the finger into the arcade machine and try to find the g-spot of a female.
Killer 7? A floating lawyer who shoots brains at you? Putting heads in washing machines? Freaky split personalities?
These definitely aren't the weirdest but I'd say they're up there;
Mr Driller: When the game starts it shows a short cut scene with a message attached like, "The town is over-run by giant coloured blocks." By over-run they mean theres a few blocks lying around. "Who will save us?" "Mr Driller to the rescue!" *Shot of Mr Driller (a small guy in what looks like a pink diving suit) holding his handy pneumatic drill*
Then in the actual game you have to dig towards the centre of the earth through coloured blocks (think reverse tetris), whilst collecting O2 cannisters so Mr Driller doesn't die from lack of oxygen. Eventually you meet a big group of "undergrounders", little blue guys who are somehow responsible for the blocks cover over everything. When you land in their domain the "complete" comes up and all the blue guys are cheering. I never really understood how the problem is solved by this myself....
Herdy Gerdy:
Its kind of hard to sum it up so just read the wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herdy_Gerdy. To give you an example of how weird the game is, the main antagonists are large pink bears called gromps and the entire premise of the game is to win a "herding competiton" which will somehow awake the protagonist's father from an eternal sleep.
Rayman Series:
I mean you play as a guy who has no arms or legs but hands and feet and he can use his hair as a helicopter. The first one is probably the most weird with all the bizarre locations, and being possibly the only game in which a boss cries when you beat him and then you cheer him up and make friends (this boss is a giant mosquito). The second one is pretty weird too, having to fight robot pirates to prevent them from enslaving all the cute creatures of your homeworld.
Theres probably more and weirder that I've played but I can't think of any more right now...
Mr Driller: When the game starts it shows a short cut scene with a message attached like, "The town is over-run by giant coloured blocks." By over-run they mean theres a few blocks lying around. "Who will save us?" "Mr Driller to the rescue!" *Shot of Mr Driller (a small guy in what looks like a pink diving suit) holding his handy pneumatic drill*
Then in the actual game you have to dig towards the centre of the earth through coloured blocks (think reverse tetris), whilst collecting O2 cannisters so Mr Driller doesn't die from lack of oxygen. Eventually you meet a big group of "undergrounders", little blue guys who are somehow responsible for the blocks cover over everything. When you land in their domain the "complete" comes up and all the blue guys are cheering. I never really understood how the problem is solved by this myself....
Herdy Gerdy:
Its kind of hard to sum it up so just read the wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herdy_Gerdy. To give you an example of how weird the game is, the main antagonists are large pink bears called gromps and the entire premise of the game is to win a "herding competiton" which will somehow awake the protagonist's father from an eternal sleep.
Rayman Series:
I mean you play as a guy who has no arms or legs but hands and feet and he can use his hair as a helicopter. The first one is probably the most weird with all the bizarre locations, and being possibly the only game in which a boss cries when you beat him and then you cheer him up and make friends (this boss is a giant mosquito). The second one is pretty weird too, having to fight robot pirates to prevent them from enslaving all the cute creatures of your homeworld.
Theres probably more and weirder that I've played but I can't think of any more right now...
Mischief Makers for the N64 was pretty weird. It was fun as all hell, but damn it was weird. You're some cybernetic woman from the future, out saving some 90-year-old professor guy who has the hots for you, and you're fighting aliens who all have the same face. All inanimate objects on the alient planet also have the same face. Even the planet itself has the same face. Like, damn.
You fight enemies by picking them up and shaking them. "Shake-shake!!"
You fight enemies by picking them up and shaking them. "Shake-shake!!"
A game where your a kid trapped in a game where you must follow missions for seven days or you will disappear.
A game where you have a controller resembling a guitar where the main point of the game is to mash buttons on said guitar to press buttons on screen to various rock songs.
A game where your a bunch of animals flying around in space ships fighting aliens and other animals.
A game where you download a copy onto your PC and it slowly drains your life away if you get too absorbed into it, whilst people in the outside world mock you for playing said game, which makes you retreat back to said game.
Yes I'm talking about N-game.
WHAT
THE
HELL.
A game where you have a controller resembling a guitar where the main point of the game is to mash buttons on said guitar to press buttons on screen to various rock songs.
A game where your a bunch of animals flying around in space ships fighting aliens and other animals.
A game where you download a copy onto your PC and it slowly drains your life away if you get too absorbed into it, whilst people in the outside world mock you for playing said game, which makes you retreat back to said game.
Yes I'm talking about N-game.
...JhericFury said:
WHAT
THE
HELL.
