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

One I can remember is Breakdown on original XBox. It was an FPS that played similarly to Metriod Prime, where you lock on to the enemies to aim for the most part. The difference is that this game heavies on melee to beat the T'lan enemies, as they were invincible to bullets for some reason. The story involved time travel and the head T'lan was a cut-rate Sephiroth clone, so it was a little lacking at best, but the game over all was actually pretty enjoyable. I'm wanting to say Namco was the developer.
 
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Not sure how obscure these are... but Dark Colony and 7th Legion bring back memories, both are RTS games. They had many flaws but still...

Also Desperados, which was basically a clone of Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with cowboys instead of nazis.
 
I played Caesar 2 as a kid when we had a DOS operating system. I think you got to choose between different provinces to build a town on and sometimes you'd get clips of stuff happening, like arson or something? It's been a while since I played it.
 
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I can't remember the game's name, maybe you guys can help me?
It was for the Dynavision console an the main theme was war, it was an scrooling shooter type of game.
I can't for the life of me remember the name, and I already looked on Google, but none of the games matched my memories...
It was a very obscure game, I remember that everyone wanted to play and my friend was the only one who had an copy in our friends circle.
 
@DrainRedRain I admit that I had to look up "Dynavision"; it is itself an obscure brand of consoles if you're not in Brazil.

Are you talking about the "Dynavision 1" (Atari 2600 clone) or "Dynavision 2, 3 or 4" (Famicom/NES clones)? Because if it's one of the NES clones and it's a scrolling shooter, you're talking literally a couple of hundred games.

Let's narrow it down a little, do you mean an overhead run-and-gun like Ikari Warriors, a side-scrolling run-and-gun like Rush N' Attack or Contra, an overhead airplane shooter like 1943: The Battle for Midway or is it nothing like any of those games? (I'm not asking if it was any of those exact games, I'm just trying to narrow the genre.)
 
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sasazuka said:
@DrainRedRain I admit that I had to look up "Dynavision"; it is itself an obscure brand of consoles if you're not in Brazil.

Are you talking about the "Dynavision 1" (Atari 2600 clone) or "Dynavision 2, 3 or 4" (Famicom/NES clones)? Because if it's one of the NES clones and it's a scrolling shooter, you're talking literally a couple of hundred games.

Let's narrow it down a little, do you mean an overhead run-and-gun like Ikari Warriors, a side-scrolling run-and-gun like Rush N' Attack or Contra, an overhead airplane shooter like 1943: The Battle for Midway or is it nothing like any of those games? (I'm not asking if it was any of those exact games, I'm just trying to narrow the genre.)
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Thank you for you response! I'm actually from Kazakhstan, and the console was owned by a friend of mine, that sadly, I lost contact.
I think it was the Dynavision 3, because it was, as you said, a type of Famicom clone.
The game was very similar to the 1943: The Battle for Midway, I remember I thought it was the one, but now I'm certain it wasn't.
If I remeber correctly, theres was a stage that toke place on the space. I think it was one of the last ones, right before the big boss...
I'll see if I remember more details!
 
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@DrainRedRain

I think this one might be a likely candidate: Captain Skyhawk
It's got a mixed pseudo 3rd person behind-the-plane perspective like After Burner & also overhead shmup (shoot em' up) levels and it also takes place both on "Earth" (or an Earth-like planet) and in space.

Here's a site with a list of many different NES shoot em' ups (too many to list here).
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Thank you! The Captain Skywalk one is very similar to the game I'm trying to remember, even the music sounds familiar!
I'll check the list and see if I my game is there!
 
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The Outfoxies. It's an arcade game made by Namco and it's basically Rolling Thunder turned into a fighting game. It's a platform fighter that predates Super Smash Bros. by a few years. You play as one of 7 hitmen who has been hired by a mysterious employee known as Mr. Acme to kill the other 6 assassins. Characters range from an average joe who'll do anything for money, to twin assassin children to a chimpanzee. The stages are amazing, too, consisting of a collapsing skyscraper caused by a bomb your opponent plants at the beginning of the match, which later blows up as you and your enemy fall through the various floors of the building, to military plane, to a circus and a ship in the middle of a deadly storm. It also has a jazzy soundtrack which I like, and the reveal of Mr. Acme is priceless. It never got released on home systems, though.
 
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Star trek Armada 1 and 2. I liked the idea of an RTS game set in the star trek franchise, building a big fleet, and waging big battles.
 
Abomination: The Nemesis Project by Hothouse Creations qualifies I think. I will take a look at my old games shelf and see what else qualifies that I do not remember right now.
 
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Don't know if this is too obscure since this series was sorta popular at one point, but the last game was released in 2003 and Hudson Soft has been long gone so I guess it counts. I once owned Bloody Roar: Primal Fury which was the Gamecube port of Bloody Roar 3.

Even as a kid, I was a whore for fighting games and Bloody Roar had a really cool gimmick where all characters could transform into their own beast forms called Furries Zoanthropes. In these beast forms, they regain some of their lost health, become more powerful, basically you become a different character. The form is only temporary as you take damage, so there is a lot of strategy on when you go into beast mode and dish out extra damage at just the right moment. I think if the series were to be rebooted, it could find its audience today; the gameplay was solid and quick, there was a lot variety with the characters both design and gameplay-wise, and the beast forms brought in a whole new set of strategy to it.

Of course, Hudson Soft's a distant memory now, and don't at all expect Konami to bring back this series, let alone any of Hudson Soft's other properties.

tl;dr Animorphs: the fighting game
 
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Don't know if this is too obscure since this series was sorta popular at one point, but the last game was released in 2003 and Hudson Soft has been long gone so I guess it counts. I once owned Bloody Roar: Primal Fury which was the Gamecube port of Bloody Roar 3.

Even as a kid, I was a whore for fighting games and Bloody Roar had a really cool gimmick where all characters could transform into their own beast forms called Furries Zoanthropes. In these beast forms, they regain some of their lost health, become more powerful, basically you become a different character. The form is only temporary as you take damage, so there is a lot of strategy on when you go into beast mode and dish out extra damage at just the right moment. I think if the series were to be rebooted, it could find its audience today; the gameplay was solid and quick, there was a lot variety with the characters both design and gameplay-wise, and the beast forms brought in a whole new set of strategy to it.

Of course, Hudson Soft's a distant memory now, and don't at all expect Konami to bring back this series, let alone any of Hudson Soft's other properties.

tl;dr Animorphs: the fighting game
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Didn't the Bloody Roar crew go on to make the Gamecube Naruto games?
 
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Psychic Force, 2, 2012 and Puzzle Taisen. All great games.

Live a Live - Love it, HATE how it is plagued with Undertale bullshit.

Bloody Roar - Hudson's fighter where you can become a beast. 4 was pretty much a bad game.

Monster Rancher - I liked this over Pokemon and using my mom's Music CDs, DVDs, games and so on was fun. Mainly to find the monster you liked. It was more of a Monster Raising sim and you could put it into battle to win money or items.

Brave Fencer Musashi - This game kind of fell under the radar in the day. It did come with a demo disk of FF8. The game had decent English Voice acting.
 
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