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

[Bokrug's Basement]

Alter Ego, it's an old browser game where you control a character from birth until death. I've played through it more than once but haven't gotten a 'good' ending for it.

 

[Dr. Tremolo]

Gothic. That's assuming the game truly is obscure to this website unless we have a Slavic kiwi that knows about the series.

Shit was massive in Poland back in the day. We loved it despite the ass backwards controls.
It's by no means forgotten but nowadays the spotlight is on the homegrown Witcher series.

 

[Quijibo69]

I've played LSD Dream Emulator, it's one of those things that came out way ahead of it's time.

 

[IHeardThatCurtis]

Ape Escape 3, A fun little game that i beat a few times. A awesome mini involving monkey's and Solid Snake.

 

[ZehnBoat]

I know of a strange game called
PARAMETERS
it's not much, and most people wont like it
but just give a little play just to say you played it

it distills an RPG down to a basic clickable graphical form

 

[A Random]

Does it count if you don't remember the name?

It's some sci-fi post-apoc 3D game from the turn of the millennium, same era as the Uprising games for sure. You control a flying headquarters and send in vehicles to scavenge ruins for relics and such, and you can take control of them.

 

[darkstar0854]

Mine's a Marble Madness clone called Hamsterball. While not as obscure as others in this thread, it's a pretty fun game.

 

[Dio Brando]

Freedom Fighters on the Gamecube. It was this alt-history shooter where the Soviet Union didn't collapse and instead invaded America. The game came out post-9/11 and it REALLY exploited that; the opening level is pretty disturbing how much it resembles that day. On the other hand, the game was incredibly cheesy with a lot of AMERICA FUCK YEAH FREEDOM moments.

Anyways, it was a pretty good third-person shooter with some strategy elements like giving basic commands to soldiers with you. The multiplayer was complete trash though; from what I understand it just some rushed feature tacked on for the home console ports. It was actually by the same team behind Hitman 2.

 

[sasazuka]

An obscure PS2 racing game: Driving Emotion Type S from Squaresoft. It's a very early PS2 racing game, the graphics are okay for the time but the controls are ass. It *is* however notable as being about the only other multi-license racing game (excluding Formula 1 games) besides Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 on the PS2 that has the expensive Ferrari license, something even Sony/Polyphony didn't pony up the money for for Gran Turismo until the series hit PS3.

Like, if you're like me, you (still) play racing games on PS2 and you love racing Ferraris, there's that game and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 and then there were the three Ferrari-exclusive games on the console, Sega/Acclaim's Ferrari F355 Challenge, Sega's OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast, and Activision/System 3's Ferrari Challenge: Trofeo Pirelli and that's pretty much it aside from Formula 1 games and the Bizarrini F355 in Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition (licensed through a tuner using the same loophole where games like Gran Turismo licensed Porsches through RUF).

 

[Rudol von Stroheim]

Cho Aniki was the first PSX game I bought on PS Store. Not disappointed, worth every penny.
Yume Nikki and The White Chamber are great freeware PC games. Yume Nikki's got a little fanbase and is pretty much the 2D version of LSD Dream Emulator.
Idgaf what anyone says, Enchanted Arms is pretty good fun. But I don't think I've ever met anyone who's played it. Ditto for Forbidden Siren 2. I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream as well. That game is fucking awesome.
I used to actively seek out weird/obscure games. Most of them are pretty fantastic I've come to find.

 

[Lurker]

El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron for the Xbox 360 and PS3.

So it's based on the Book of Enoch... kind of? Ignoring its religious foundation, though, this game is fucking beautiful. But honestly, I consider it more of an art piece than a video game.

If you're into obscure artistic platform games, kind of in the same vein as Okami, this is a pretty neat game. In terms of playability, there are issues with it in 3D environments, but its 2D environment controls are pretty solid.

Storywise, it's... interesting. I'm not a religious person, but I was relatively entertained by its story, although I know nothing about the Book of Enoch.

Also if you're a weeb faggot who likes bishounen guys, then congrats, this is your game!

 

[Rudol von Stroheim]

El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron for the Xbox 360 and PS3.

So it's based on the Book of Enoch... kind of? Ignoring its religious foundation, though, this game is fucking beautiful. But honestly, I consider it more of an art piece than a video game.

If you're into obscure artistic platform games, kind of in the same vein as Okami, this is a pretty neat game. In terms of playability, there are issues with it in 3D environments, but its 2D environment controls are pretty solid.

Storywise, it's... interesting. I'm not a religious person, but I was relatively entertained by its story, although I know nothing about the Book of Enoch.

Also if you're a weeb faggot who likes bishounen guys, then congrats, this is your game!

I was totally gonna mention this game! But I completely forgot to, but yeah totally agree with you. I loved the art style of this game.

 

[Guardian G.I.]

I'm a big fan of city-building games, which are very scarce. So I have to look far and wide to find games to play.

Among obscure stuff I like, I can note these games:

Tycoon City: New York.

Spoiler: screenshots

Very underrated game from Deep Red Games. You build up various districts of Manhattan by constructing various residential buildings and shops and upgrading them, as well as landmarks and corporate HQs for your business chains. The amount of stuff to build is very large, plus the various kinds of buildings look differently in different neighbourhoods. Product placement buildings like D'Agostini grocery shops are ridiculously OP, though. The road grid and the location of landmarks and parks are fixed.

The game doesn't have much replayability value, but I like it anyway. It also has very impressive graphics for something out of 2006. Get it from torrents - the Steam version is reportedly very buggy, and there's a release on Kat.cr that works well on Windows 7.

Monopoly Tycoon

Spoiler: screenshots

The predecessor of the above-mentioned game, made by the same studio. Really old (2001). The game mechanics are similar - on a fixed map, you need to build different types of houses and shops, taking into account land value, building quality, etc. Also, you compete for control of utilities and railways like in Monopoly. Everything is tied to time of day and year - you pay taxes at midnight every day and must decide what to build pretty quickly (one in-game day = 5 years). Various types of shops become available or go out of fashion over time.

Warning: it's very old and doesn't like modern computers. It took me a while to make it run on 32-bit Win7, and I'm not sure if it even works on 64-bit systems. It's also so obscure it's not available on Steam and GOG.

 

[ZehnBoat]

COPY
PASTE

a game i think everyone should play is (and i don't see brought up at all)
HYPER PRINCESS PITCH
i quite like the look and feel of this, i grew up on old DOS games, and this would fit right in
it's a smash tv like where you go from room to room shooting everything
there's a TAS of the hardest difficulty you should watch if you end up enjoying it
also if you unlock reallyjoel's mom difficulty (the true hardest difficulty) don't bother playing it, it's supposed to be impossible.

 

[Army Burger]

I'm a big fan of city-building games, which are very scarce. So I have to look far and wide to find games to play.

Among obscure stuff I like, I can note these games:

Tycoon City: New York.

Spoiler: screenshots

Very underrated game from Deep Red Games. You build up various districts of Manhattan by constructing various residential buildings and shops and upgrading them, as well as landmarks and corporate HQs for your business chains. The amount of stuff to build is very large, plus the various kinds of buildings look differently in different neighbourhoods. Product placement buildings like D'Agostini grocery shops are ridiculously OP, though. The road grid and the location of landmarks and parks are fixed.

The game doesn't have much replayability value, but I like it anyway. It also has very impressive graphics for something out of 2006. Get it from torrents - the Steam version is reportedly very buggy, and there's a release on Kat.cr that works well on Windows 7.

Monopoly Tycoon

Spoiler: screenshots

The predecessor of the above-mentioned game, made by the same studio. Really old (2001). The game mechanics are similar - on a fixed map, you need to build different types of houses and shops, taking into account land value, building quality, etc. Also, you compete for control of utilities and railways like in Monopoly. Everything is tied to time of day and year - you pay taxes at midnight every day and must decide what to build pretty quickly (one in-game day = 5 years). Various types of shops become available or go out of fashion over time.

Warning: it's very old and doesn't like modern computers. It took me a while to make it run on 32-bit Win7, and I'm not sure if it even works on 64-bit systems. It's also so obscure it's not available on Steam and GOG.

Oh shit, Monopoly Tycoon, that takes me way back. Did you get it from a cereal box?

 

[Guardian G.I.]

Oh shit, Monopoly Tycoon, that takes me way back. Did you get it from a cereal box?

No, I downloaded it from some abandonware website. Cereal boxes here never had any disks with games as bonuses.

 

[Army Burger]

No, I downloaded it from some abandonware website. Cereal boxes here never had any disks with games as bonuses.

I see. CDs in cereal boxes haven't been a thing where I live for a long time, but I got a lot of fun out of those games, especially the first two Rollercoaster Tycoon games.

 

[Mimic]

Idgaf what anyone says, Enchanted Arms is pretty good fun. But I don't think I've ever met anyone who's played it.

El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron for the Xbox 360 and PS3.

Now that's some good taste!

It isn't too obscure, but one game I don't hear much about is Shiren the Wanderer. It was like the second official Mystery Dungeon game I think, the first being a Dragon Quest spinoff featuring Torneko from 4.

And on that note the PS1 version of Azure Dreams was pretty great. Game Boy Color one took to turn based battles, and it just didn't feel right to me.

 

[Keine]

Regardless if you liked the game or not, can you name a game so unknown that you suspect nobody else on the thread will have also played it?

Bonus points if you indeed have played one of these games.

Limiting rule: You have to had played it yourself. You need not have finished it.

Mine, is "Nox". A 2000 isometric fantasy RPG by Westwood studios (RIP), whom are more well known for the Command & Conquer games. It had the misfortune of being released around the same time as motherfucking Diablo 2... so naturally it got obliterated in the market.

I had fun with it, though I never finished it.

I loved Nox. I got to play the multiplayer a little while it was still active. It was basically Diablo meets deathmatch and it was fun as hell since there was no progression or anything and you could drop giant fists on people all day. I don't remember if I've beaten the game myself but I've seen the ending and it's pretty funny. The whole game kinda had a sense of humor in the background that I appreciated.

El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron for the Xbox 360 and PS3.

The best part about this game isn't the game itself, it's that it got its own pants.


Anyways, Psychic Force 2012.

I stumbled upon this game out of nowhere at a Fred Meyer (Kroger to the rest of the US) electronics department and bought it on a whim back in like... 2001/2002 when the Dreamcast was still sort of around since I was probably like 13 and just getting into anime.

It's basically a weird fighting game where you float around this arena and shoot lightning bolts and whatever at your opponent. Every character had a different element and the story mode as anime as hell. Was it flawed and weird to play? Incredibly, but it was also loads of fun once you figured out how the controls worked and how the different characters handled.

 

[QI 541]

There was this really old Frankenstien game on the Genesis

It's about the monster running around chasing his creator, beating things with a stick, and shooting lightning bolts from his hands. Along the way he faces angry villagers, angry farmers, angry cavemen, angry wolves, giant spiders, giant slugs, and polar bears.