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I had this. Got it for free when I registered for Heat which was a Gamespy like service. I think Gamespy bought them out. Never got the game to work.
Obscure game you have played - What have you played that you think, maybe, nobody else here has played?
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Ya weren't missing a whole lot, don't worry.
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Alundra 2 nothing like the first one but actually not a bad little rpg/legend of Zelda rip off
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There's a couple oddball PS1 games I've been meaning to get back to - "Community Pom" and "Pet in TV".
Community Pom is an interesting Zelda clone that incorporates pet sim gameplay. You play as a girl who's bestowed the ability to tame these little rabbit critters who act as your RPG party members. There's surprisingly a full-fledged English fan translation, though I can't say it's the best thing ever as there's some pretty forced Millennial humor in parts of the script that definitely weren't in the original. The soundtrack is a huge banger so that's its saving grace.
Pet in TV is another pet sim developed by the devs who created Jumping Flash, which is pretty evident in the art style. It focuses more on training the pet's AI and I've yet to really get a hang of it, so not much else to say about it.
Only other obscure games I can think of are those in the Little Tail Bronx series. It's furry fodder though understandably not everyone would enjoy it, but if you can look past that and the weird fanservice then it's a pretty good story to dive into. Solatorobo and Fuga are especially lore-heavy.
Community Pom is an interesting Zelda clone that incorporates pet sim gameplay. You play as a girl who's bestowed the ability to tame these little rabbit critters who act as your RPG party members. There's surprisingly a full-fledged English fan translation, though I can't say it's the best thing ever as there's some pretty forced Millennial humor in parts of the script that definitely weren't in the original. The soundtrack is a huge banger so that's its saving grace.
Pet in TV is another pet sim developed by the devs who created Jumping Flash, which is pretty evident in the art style. It focuses more on training the pet's AI and I've yet to really get a hang of it, so not much else to say about it.
Only other obscure games I can think of are those in the Little Tail Bronx series. It's furry fodder though understandably not everyone would enjoy it, but if you can look past that and the weird fanservice then it's a pretty good story to dive into. Solatorobo and Fuga are especially lore-heavy.
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Here's a couple of games that no one knew about until the last 10ish years when retro collecting exploded;
Claymates
Spanky's Quest
Time Stalkers
Probably a bunch more if I thought about it, but these three immediately pop out. I don't know a single person that knows about them and have only recently started seeing them pop up in second monitor retro content. I rented Claymates and Spanky's Quest over and over as a kid. Own Time Stalkers, which I got for about 5 bucks when that same video rental store closed down. Claymates and Spanky's are great SNES games, but Time Stalkers sucks dick and is overall very weird.
Claymates
Spanky's Quest
Time Stalkers
Probably a bunch more if I thought about it, but these three immediately pop out. I don't know a single person that knows about them and have only recently started seeing them pop up in second monitor retro content. I rented Claymates and Spanky's Quest over and over as a kid. Own Time Stalkers, which I got for about 5 bucks when that same video rental store closed down. Claymates and Spanky's are great SNES games, but Time Stalkers sucks dick and is overall very weird.
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I got Time Stalkers used years ago and was an interesting but flawed game. Shame since the developers help make the early Shining Force and Shining In the Darkness games and Landstalker which is my favorite Zelda copy on the Genesis.
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I played a lot of Afterlife on Windows ME:
Had some really interesting ideas (the two planes and two cities) but was a Simcity clone. Nice art though.
Pharoah + Cleopatra still takes the "fuck this difficulty" in that genre.
Had some really interesting ideas (the two planes and two cities) but was a Simcity clone. Nice art though.
Pharoah + Cleopatra still takes the "fuck this difficulty" in that genre.
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Ballistics. The first game out of GRIN(later Bandits, Bionic Commando and urgh, now in Starbreeze).
It was in development for along time(at the time) and it was targeted as an e-sports game in the late 90's.
The screenshot is weird but it's like the tunnels in F-Zero. It's actually a lot like F-Zero but there's only tunnels. With obstacles. The selling point of the game, and this is neat, was that there were no max speed. You went faster and faster and it became harder and harder to avoid crashing.
They even made arcade machines for it.
The game sucked.
It was in development for along time(at the time) and it was targeted as an e-sports game in the late 90's.
The screenshot is weird but it's like the tunnels in F-Zero. It's actually a lot like F-Zero but there's only tunnels. With obstacles. The selling point of the game, and this is neat, was that there were no max speed. You went faster and faster and it became harder and harder to avoid crashing.
They even made arcade machines for it.
The game sucked.
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Parkan Iron strategy. It's a capture the flag strategy hybrid with some action elements. Like planetary battles in space rangers 2. Another relatively obscure game
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Is Time Stalker worth a play? Have already gotten basically all other Dreamcast RPGs (Record of Lodoss War, Grandia 2, Skies of Arcadia, Phantasy Star Online Version 2 and Evolution: The World of Sacred Device, I don't consider Shenmue to be an RPG)
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Unless you really like obscure Sega JRPGs and that mediocre I would pass.
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Thanks for the answer. I enjoyed Evolution: The World of Sacred Device which has a similar reputation of being mediocre. How does Time Stalker compare to it?
Does Klei count? Because I've played a shitload of Shank 1 & 2 and Mark of the Ninja and they were fun.
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The most laughably obscure and silly concept for a game I've played is probably The Shivah, a point-and-click adventure on Steam where you play as a New York City rabbi solving a murder mystery. It's pretty good.
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Obscure to epic gamers, no.
Obscure to normalfaggots, yes.
I love Klei. Mark of the Ninja was one of my less favorite of theirs, but Invisible, Inc was pretty good and Don't Starve is a god tier game.
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So obscure I can’t even remember the title but it was this late 90s/early 2000s Diablo clone that was set in either Feudal Japan or some sort of Wuxia inspired Chinese myth. I remember my brother and I liked it decent enough, I didn’t play it much because I had Diablo 2 but it’s always lingered in the back of my mind. Anyone have any idea what I’m talking about? I’d like to see if it’s on GOG or Steam
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Throne of Darkness?
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That’s it! Thanks dude
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I remember playing this game on ArmorGames during my childhood. I enjoyed the weird setting of science fiction and a bit of fantasy. The controls were a bit strange but still unique from other games at the time. War and Beyond: Deadly Strategies was really an interesting experience.
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I went to an arcade and played Super Pac-Man. I've heard of Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man, but not SUPER Pac-Man.
Three major differences: two new big pellets, collect keys to unlock walls, eat fruit. Oh, it gets faster when time decreases.
Three major differences: two new big pellets, collect keys to unlock walls, eat fruit. Oh, it gets faster when time decreases.