Obscure game you have played - What have you played that you think, maybe, nobody else here has played?

[Ginger Piglet]

I don't know why I didn't figure the connection at the time but it's clearly based on her.

There were lots of take thats at Sierra in Rex Nebular. Probably because Kenn Nishiuye, one of the writers and designers, used to work for them and probably had to deal with Roberta's autism (i.e. boneheaded design decisions such as making spiral staircases into death defying feats of manual dexterity and chandeliers that fall on you for no reason just as you happen to pass under them.)

 

[GreenJacket]

I had an original Xbox when I was young, and I'm a richfag, so I had a lot of games. I'm not sure if these games are actually obscure, but I rarely hear people talk about them if they ever do:
-Lord of the Rings: The Third Age; This was a mediocre turn-based rpg that I tried emulating for PSX2, but I failed. From what I can remember, I'd give it a 5.5/10
-Hot wheels Stunt Track Challenge; A pretty fun yet lacking racing game that my brothers and I would play the shit out of. Probably around a 6/10
-Tak and the Great JuJu Challenge; I love 3D platformers and I love this game. It's a shame I haven't played it in seven or so years. 8/10
-Spongebob Battle for Bikini Bottom; An all around solid 3D platformer that admittedly has a few hiccups here and there. It's my favorite game of all time. 7.5/10
-Marble Blast Ultra; An Xbox 360 arcade game. OneyPlays recently reminded me of the existence of this game. It's a puzzle platformer. 7/10
-Toy Soldiers; Also Xbox 360 arcade, A World War One themed tower defense game. It's also on Steam I think, and I highly recommend. 8/10
I would also like to point out that each of these games give me a huge nostalgia boner.

 

[GeneralSinner666]

Be honest, everyone: Has anyone here on this thread really played Earthbound and/or Mother 3? Like, without having to download them on an emulator like literally everyone else does now?

Virtual Console also doesn't count; you have to have played it on the original cartridge.

(Same goes for Earthbound Zero aka Mother 1, by the way)

 

[Ravio]

Has anyone here ever played Illusion of Gaia on the Super Nintendo? I always bring this one up and I get the strangest looks from folks who have never heard of it. I wouldn't exactly classify it as an rpg but it plays alot like Zelda.

 

[MysticMisty]

Axiom Verge (now this is a game that actually does almost rival Undertale's Pacifist Run in terms of quality; not as good as AM2R or some of the Super Metroid hacks but still great in its own right)

Axiom Verge isn't the most well known indie game out there but I wouldn't call it obscure either.

 

[A Hot Potato]

Axiom Verge isn't the most well known indie game out there but I wouldn't call it obscure either.

All these new members posting in here don't know what obscure means.

 

[sasazuka]

-Hot wheels Stunt Track Challenge; A pretty fun yet lacking racing game that my brothers and I would play the shit out of. Probably around a 6/10

My one big problem with Hot Wheels video games in general is that, with a couple of exceptions, they never have licensed cars. I'd love to be able to play Corvettes, Porsches, and Ferraris with classic Hot Wheels decos (especially from my era, the "blackwall" era, if anyone else here knows what I'm talking about) but I know these are unambigiously children's racing games and there's not enough of a crossover audience among adults for it to be worth licensing real-world cars aside from the occasional Hot Wheels Special Edition Camaro.

I know for people who want to play as (full-size) Hot Wheels in racing games, there was at least one official Hot Wheels DLC pack for Forza Horizon 3 and, of course, if you're talented and patient enough, you can recreate classic Hot Wheels tampos* in customization.

* A tampo is any small detail that's stamped on to a Hot Wheels, or other brand, toy car, like numbers, logos, stripes, or flames, and sometimes also headlights and/or taillights depending on the brand. In the really early days, Mattel usually used decals for that kind of detail, but, after the very early 1970s, around the time they moved away from the lead-based Spectraflame "paint" (more accurately a coloured lacquer on polished bare metal), they switched to tampos, which are cheaper than applying stickers by hand and also look better.

 

[jewelry investor]

I don’t know if this counts as obscure, but I would the say the recent consortium games, if only because nobody talks about them. It’s one of the rare times where we finally have a deus ex like game. And the dialogue system is unique. The first game was entirely stuck on a single airplane. But the next game, The Tower, will finally realize it’s gameplay potential on a huge, vertical, map.

 

[Smashjitzu]

Be honest, everyone: Has anyone here on this thread really played Earthbound and/or Mother 3? Like, without having to download them on an emulator like literally everyone else does now?

Virtual Console also doesn't count; you have to have played it on the original cartridge.

(Same goes for Earthbound Zero aka Mother 1, by the way)

I've actually played Mother 3 [haven't beaten it] on a GameBoy Advance SP. I got the cart - which had the translation patch on it - at a convention for around 40 bucks. It's a really good game and I'm still questioning why there's no official North American release.

 

[XYZpdq]

Um Jammer Lammy (Parappa The Rapper but easily three times better, weirder and funnier, and also with an incredibly sexy trans-stoner guitar girl voiced by Sara Ramirez playing the protag role)

tfw it was fun but I wanted a Parappa sequel instead oh wait I just beat it and holy shit there's an entire Parappa game hidden in here too

 

[Bugaboo]

Coming back with another kid's game I doubt anyone has heard of. It was a playdoh game where you click on like 6 areas to take a train through an island and you get to fart out playdoh (I call it that because when you clicked to dispense the playdoh it made a farting sound) and in each area there was a host and then after you're done fucking around with dough you put on a show with your dough things and the hosts sing a song to accompany the dough thing dancing and you can change the genre of the song and I remember some of the songs being weirdly hilarious but maybe that's because I was a kid
Found it, the game is called PlayDoh creations

 

[Dysnomia]

Has anyone here ever played Illusion of Gaia on the Super Nintendo? I always bring this one up and I get the strangest looks from folks who have never heard of it. I wouldn't exactly classify it as an rpg but it plays alot like Zelda.

I have. I bought it when it came out. I still have the cart in in the box with the map and manual. But I don't have an SNES anymore.

It's part of a series of games by Quintet that included Terranigma and Soul Blazer. I've only played Soul Blazer as Terranigma was released in Europe but not the US. Not that it's any issue these days.

I thought Brain Lord was also Quintet. But it's not. It's Produce. It's part of the Mystic Ark series and Brain Lord is the only one I haven't played yet. We only got 7th Saga and Brain Lord. Although the first Mystic Ark has a fan translation. The Playstation sequel doesn't.

 

[Ravio]

I have. I bought it when it came out. I still have the cart in in the box with the map and manual. But I don't have an SNES anymore.

It's part of a series of games by Quintet that included Terranigma and Soul Blazer. I've only played Soul Blazer as Terranigma was released in Europe but not the US. Not that it's any issue these days.

I thought Brain Lord was also Quintet. But it's not. It's Produce. It's part of the Mystic Ark series and Brain Lord is the only one I haven't played yet. We only got 7th Saga and Brain Lord. Although the first Mystic Ark has a fan translation. The Playstation sequel doesn't.

I remember picking up Gaia too back then. Came with this badass shirt that I wore till holes started forming lol. It wasent until much later I found out it was part of a trilogy of games, of which I've still not played. And don't feel bad about Brain Lord. I picked this one up and have yet to play it. Those damned Snes rpgs. They get me every time!!!

 

[Dark Emporer Dood]

-Hot wheels Stunt Track Challenge; A pretty fun yet lacking racing game that my brothers and I would play the shit out of.

I remember getting that for the PC for Christmas ages ago, that was a pretty fun game!

For me I'll just make a list of the obscure stuff I've played:

Jumping Flash: Early 3D platformer, the graphics arent great (this being from 1995-ish) but the soundtracks very good.

DT Carnage: A game that I'm surprised more youtube reviewers havent played, its a PS2-era driving game that mixes a card RPG system and vehicle combat, while getting absolutely none of it right. Enjoy races where you cant see the screen for 30 seconds straight, flip over because of the terrible physics, or loose control due to a badly placed ramp. It doesnt help the games built on DT Racing which was very, VERY sterile.

Enthusia: One of the few very competent Gran Turismo knock-offs, it had good physics for the time but the weird carrer mode got in the way, rather than buying cars you'd race and you could win a random competitors car, not that it mattered as most of the unlockables are earned outside of the career mode. Still, its a good dirt cheap game, and its by Konami!

Flatout 2: This game was an absolute fluke, it was perhaps one of the best Burnout competitors with ragdoll mini-games in between races. It had a good soundtrack, fun online play, but it was a fluke. The first Flatout was okay at best, and Bugbears later games arent the best (Ridge Racer Unbounded was okay, Wreckfest is in beta still 3 years after its release). Flatout 3 was made by a different company and briefly held a score worse than Garrys Incident, according to Steam.

Project Gotham Racing 2/4: These are good mostly racing games, the fourth game has pretty good physics, a neat car selection, and its dirt cheap! What hurts it is the replay value.

Twin Sector: Germanys own Portal knock-off, I actually quit playing it due to just how easy it is to die by accident (fall damage is a thing in this!)

Robot Arena: The first game was an okay budget title, RA2 was buggy but fun, and featured very good customizing options for those into Robot Wars/Battlebots stuff. Its WAS abandonware, but it might not be with RA3 being out (which from what I know is much worse and uses Unity physics instead of Havok.)

Theres probably some others that I've forgotten

 

[The_Truth]

Strife

It was a Doom engine based FPS / RPG game from the mid 1990s.

The funny part is that most if not all of the Doom cheat codes worked from wall clipping to all weapons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strife_(1996_video_game)

 

[sasazuka]

Enthusia: One of the few very competent Gran Turismo knock-offs, it had good physics for the time but the weird carrer mode got in the way, rather than buying cars you'd race and you could win a random competitors car, not that it mattered as most of the unlockables are earned outside of the career mode. Still, its a good dirt cheap game, and its by Konami!

I own it, good game overall aside from the randomness with which you get new cars. Pretentious art-school level opening film, though.

Like, Enthusia could have been the first game in a great series if the sequel had ever been made with a few more exotic car licenses and a couple more real world tracks. Alas, it got lost in the shuffle by being released pretty much at the same time as Gran Turismo 4. The interesting thing about Enthusia being released against Gran Turismo 4 is that both games were I believe the earliest (only?) ones on PS2 to feature the full 13-mile Nurburgring Nordschleife circuit, though Enthusia didn't do the track graffiti thing like Gran Turismo 4 did.

The verdict seems to be that the Gran Turismo 4 version of the Nordschleife looks better but the Enthusia version plays more realistically.


As for Project Gotham Racing series, I really, really wish Microsoft could make a new one through Turn 10 (since Bizarre Creations was shut down). Both the PGR's you mentioned had some interesting choices of cities, with PGR 4 offering an excellent re-creation of central Quebec City, a beautiful backdrop for beautiful cars.

 

[Bugaboo]

We had this game on all our school computers growing up called Sammy's science house where you got to click on stuff and play like 4 games. We also had one with a cow that teaches math and a cat that teaches reading but they didn't stack up to the real OG, Sammy and his Science house

 

[Cable 7]

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We had this game on all our school computers growing up called Sammy's science house where you got to click on stuff and play like 4 games. We also had one with a cow that teaches math and a cat that teaches reading but they didn't stack up to the real OG, Sammy and his Science house

Bailey's Book House and Millies Math House were the shit back in elementary. For some reason, those games were on my middle schools computer, so everyone still played the shit out of them.

 

[GeneralSinner666]

tfw it was fun but I wanted a Parappa sequel instead oh wait I just beat it and holy shit there's an entire Parappa game hidden in here too

Honestly, UJL is quite possibly the creepiest cutest game ever made...as far as ones without Kirby and/or Yoshi as their main protagonists go

You have no idea how much I also want to play Gitaroo Man now

 

[Fougaro]

After all these years I still have fond memories of this RTS game. They didn't give a single flying fuck about historical accuracy and went full batshit bonkers with it. Here the Germans are comic book vikings, while you'd be forgiven if you mistake the Celts for Tolkein's elves. Speaking of Tolkein, if you can imagine the orcs worshiping Khorne you get an idea how the Huns are depicted. And it's all beautiful. The game was fun and had an amazing soundtrack.