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

[SmugAutist]

I think it's been mentioned before, but I've never met anyone personally that played the original Kingdom Under Fire games. It seems especially odd to me given how popular the Total War series is and in that community I remember conversations about being able to play heroes or individual soldiers on the battle. That's essentially what Kingdom Under Fire was. For a moment, there was even some hype when Kingdom Under Fire II was announced almost a decade back.

And then they made it into an MMO.

My interest evaporated immediately.

Recently, I bought the original games on Steam and despite being locked on 30 fps, they still hold up once you get past the mid 2000s edginess and bad voice acting.

 

[DapperShark]

For me it's Jaws Unleashed and Predator Concrete Jungle, both back in the original Xbox, I've genuinely never met someone that has played them, I remember the latter not being very good but I loved the Jaws game, you play as the shark and you get to go around eating people and hapless sea critters and shit, what's not to like?

I think it's been mentioned before, but I've never met anyone personally that played the original Kingdom Under Fire games. It seems especially odd to me given how popular the Total War series is and in that community I remember conversations about being able to play heroes or individual soldiers on the battle. That's essentially what Kingdom Under Fire was. For a moment, there was even some hype when Kingdom Under Fire II was announced almost a decade back.

And then they made it into an MMO.

My interest evaporated immediately.

Recently, I bought the original games on Steam and despite being locked on 30 fps, they still hold up once you get past the mid 2000s edginess and bad voice acting.

Oh yeah I remember this one, don't know which one I had but it was definitively on the original xbox and there was this big ogre dude who I remember I liked to play as, didn't know they were on PC, might have to check them out now

 

[Michael Wade]

Spartan total warrior, by the makers of the popular Total war RTS series.

Basically its a cross between dynasty warriors and God of War. Probably the best kind of game like it because the enemy's actually have some semblance of AI and the setpieces are fantastic. There's literally a D-Day scene of Romans with explosive gun emplacements Shooting up endless numbers of Spartans running towards death because it looks cool. Run's like a dream on ps2 surprisingly.

Really the only negatives are the insanely hard hydra boss fight and the fact that the game has more small scale fights towards the end. But it is 100% worth a buy.

There's also Viking Battle for Asgurd from the same creators for Ps3 & 360 which has THOUSANDS of dudes on screen. I dug the shit out of the large scale fights but the problem is a lot of the game is about building up your army before you can deploy it in scripted engagements and your not nearly as badass as you are in Spartan. The MC can take on maybe a dozen enemy's at once and is not a one man army. Finally there's a lot less unique enemy types and the game has a lame ending. Still worth a look if you get a kick out of large scale engagements.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Max Gentleman. It's a cheap (like $1) game, both singleplayer and competitive, in which you play as a Victorian gentleman so roided up that he rips his shirt and jacket off just by flexing. There are two modes, and both revolve around stacking hats. Either you are in a bar trying to stack hats while dodging projectiles, or you are in a car race trying to stack hats while dodging projectiles. Either way, the gentleman with the tallest tower of hats on his head at the end wins. The developers say they came up with the game one day when they got a penis pill spam eMail called "max gentleman" and wanted to interpret what a max gentleman would be like.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

One of the most obscure and perhaps the weirdest game I played is this one. Kohakuiro no Namida.

It was a hentai game released in 1999. The plot is that Max lost his wife during a police operation and became an alcoholic. He then finds a mysterious homeless girl in the shop in shackles and falls in love with her and is willing to protect her even though Max would be middle aged and Mill would basically be in the age range Chris Chan would be looking for back in the PVCC days. The girl in question (Mill) is the one in the picture.

This game has some of the weirdest character designs I have ever seen. Character's eyes are extremely huge even for moe standards but this isn't a moe game. It's straight up weird.

 

[WhiskeyJack]

“Ducktales: The Quest For Gold”
Not the Capcom game, but a very fun platformer from 1990 that I played religiously for years.

 

[Heddo Eburynyan]

Eragon, specifically for the GBA. All other versions were different and trash.

The GBA version is essentially a FF clone, but you have skills you can use in the cities you come across to find things like rare weapons or upgrade materials. The story's okay but the gameplay is pretty fun. Definitely recommend checking it out

 

[BobJones997]

The Legend of Lezda: The Adventure of Jinx.

Was on PC, probably shareware.

I played this when I was like 10. A friend's older brother had it. Was a Zelda ripoff that I can seem to find absolutely no information about. I remember it was pretty fun, and your weapon was a frying pan. Also, there were jokes and references I didn't get, and there was something about a spaceship called the "Millennium Frying Pan"

I can't find anything at all about it. Anyone else heard of it? I'd love to play it again now that I'm not 10 and could understand the jokes and references.

Not sure if you're still around, but if you are, I found a copy of that game on an old cd about a month ago and uploaded it to archive.org. Couldn't find it anywhere else on the internet, so this might be the only copy in existence. Here is the link: https://archive.org/details/LEZDA

Cheers!

 

[The Great Citracett]

Not sure if you're still around, but if you are, I found a copy of that game on an old cd about a month ago and uploaded it to archive.org. Couldn't find it anywhere else on the internet, so this might be the only copy in existence. Here is the link: https://archive.org/details/LEZDA

Cheers!

Amazing!

Was thinking maybe I'd just imagined it or something. Now I just have to get things set up to check it out.

Thanks so much for finding and uploading it.

 

[skykiii]

So there's this Nintendo Switch game I talk up often because it's criminally unknown.

It's called Burgertime Party. Yes its a sequel to the arcade classic, and a great modern update.

It has several game modes, including a mode similar to the original game, and also multiplayer where one player plays the chef and other players are the monsters. There's also co-op in certain game modes with multiple chefs.

To be honest the versus mode is a lot of fun, I play it 1vs1 with my nephew every time we meet up.

I only have three gripes.

One--its one of those cases where an entirely 2D game requires movement with the analog stick.

Two--in the co-op mode you can't move through each other. It's easy to forget this in the heat of the moment.

Three--each level you can potentially get a a gold-star rank by getting enough points, but it turns out you have to *surpass* the point threshold, not simply meet it. In one level this literally requires the random scoring item to spawn in the right place (and yet I was such an addict that I played until it happened anyway).

But all these are minor gripes and the game is very worth playing. It has a demo if you're not convinced, and it often goes on sale. Maybe if it suddenly gets popular, the makers will patch it to fix the minor issues and maybe add in more multiplayer maps.

 

[BetterFuckChuck]

Counterspy. It's got a good idea, a neat satirical touch, some good mechanics and a great aesthetic. however the game is garbage lol. and thats purely because the level design is randomly generated...in a stealth game. guess how that works out?

 

[Chaos Theorist]

https://elastomania.com/
Anyone remember Elasto Mania?

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

https://elastomania.com/
Anyone remember Elasto Mania?

Me and my friends played a lot of that and the predecessor Action Supercross


Motorcross Maniacs on the game boy was also really fun, I would recommend it if I knew that it still holds up.


The KikStart games for the C64 and Amiga was also really good, they were more "realistic" though and not as fast paced.

 

[Kheapathic]

Lifeline

PS2 game that came with a headset+mic, because the point of the story is you're on a space station and I forget what happened exactly, but things went to shit. You're a person in the security center and it's a puzzle game where you give verbal commands to a survivor to help you escape. So imagine any typical game where there's someone talking in your ear, telling you what to do while you risk all the dangers. Now flip that scenario, you're the asshole talking in the ear and having the computer do it. Pretty interesting game.

 

[Sean_Igger]

Tecmo's Deception series where you play the master of a castle and your purpose is to kill/capture any invaders. You get a lot of ingenious and funny traps to use and the stages have their own environmental hazards you can trigger. You're awarded with points based on the complexity of your trap setup which you can use to purchase more traps as well as upgrade them. Deception IV: The Nightmare Princess (PS3/4, Vita) was the last entry.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

Lifeline

PS2 game that came with a headset+mic, because the point of the story is you're on a space station and I forget what happened exactly, but things went to shit. You're a person in the security center and it's a puzzle game where you give verbal commands to a survivor to help you escape. So imagine any typical game where there's someone talking in your ear, telling you what to do while you risk all the dangers. Now flip that scenario, you're the asshole talking in the ear and having the computer do it. Pretty interesting game.

I bought that game, tried to play it for 15 minutes then gave up.

It might be slightly obscure but Heart of Darkness was awesome. It's not very long but it is full of beautiful hand drawn pixel animation and unique elements, a lot of it is only used on a single screen and that made the game take forever to come out. It was Eric Chahi's next game after Another World and the development was truly cursed, it had a ~6 year development time starting in the early 90's which is bonkers.
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It is well worth playing. There's a PS1 version that's probably a hundred times easier to get running than the PC one but I have never played it.

 

[Kaze no Kuronoa]

Back when I still owned the first NDS, I also owned an R4 card, and I would always go out of my way to pirate and play as many titles as I could find online. One of these titles, which I had zero idea about, was Ontamarama, a 2007 rhythm game by Atlus.

On a surface level, the gameplay was the standard where you'd hit the notes with the d-pad. However, at the same time, you'd use the touch-screen to capture the titular Ontama (basically music spirits), otherwise the notes would not register and would break your combo. It was basically like having your left hand play a rhythm game and your right hand Pokémon Ranger.

I don't remember much from the story, it was a pretty standard "rescue the Ontama" plotline, but I know for a fact Trance Macabre is the best song in the entire game. Everything else is basic but okay. The character designs were also very 2000s, but for a rhythm game from that time they worked. A charming little game for that time. Too bad you can only find the OST bitcrushed to hell and back.​

 

[A-Stump]

I used to be pretty big into VNs which comes with the territory of most people having never played them. A few that come to mind:

World End Economica. Set on the moon and almost exclusively about day trading. It was a weirdly good way to learn about investing but comes with the territory of shoving a bunch of technical jargon down your throat.

Raging Loop, a horror mystery featuring time travel and werewolves. The OST is also pretty awesome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUZFP6Vz-Fw

The Narcissu series. Not exactly an unknown title for those who like VNs but it's a good one about dealing with the end of one's life and accepting reality.

 

[TV's Adam West]

I believe I win.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Secret Ponchos. It was an isometric, stylish, Western shooter, multiplayer. It was pretty good. Can't play it anymore because the community did what all multiplayer only games do, it shriveled up and died.