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

A Hot Potato said:
I've never met another soul who has played the Shrek 2 game.

For what it is, it's a pretty decent beat em up.

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Me and my brothers played through that multiple times one month during summer break back when it released, we really enjoyed it and would take turns doing the Hero Time events.

The game I have played is pretty Autistic, which the autism starts with the name "Tongue of the Fat Man"

 
Elemental Gimmick Gear for the Dreamcast. It's a Link to the Past-style dungeon crawler where you ride in a exoskeleton suit in a post apocalyptic steampunk-y setting and explore a single massive interconnected dungeon.

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The game was super hard. You have two main ways to attack: Punching, which barely has any range , especially compared to something like Link's sword in the Zelda games, and spinning. When you do the spin attack you move fast and damage anything you touch, but it takes a couple seconds to spin up and constantly consumes health while active. That said despite the difficulty the game is designed well, and the spritework and ambiance are amazing. I get the itch to go back and play it every once in a while.
 
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Johnny Bravo said:
I don't even know the name of this game and am not 100% sure it exists, but I have memories of playing it quite often. It was kind of like ABZU or Endless Ocean but was on the PS1. Poor graphics, short draw distance, but it had a mysterious, sort of creepy atmosphere that kept me playing. I think it might have been about Atlantis? I remember lots of underwater ruins.
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sounds like Blue: legend of water, a game that only came out in Japan:



I want to add some other obscure games I played: the Zero Divide trilogy. First two games came out on PS1, last game came out on Saturn. (also, it was released only in Japan. ZD2 was also not released in the USA, but got a release in Europe. Only the original game got a worldwide release)



Zero Divide 1 had a great soundtrack though. It hasn't aged well (I would say 2 and 3 aged better) and it's pretty obvious it's one of the earliest 3d fighting games ever. But it can be fun, in it's own cheesy way (gravity can go fuck off lol)
Admitedly, the Tiny Phalanx minigame in the first game (yes, there was a Phalanx minigame hidden) was debatably a better game than Zero Divide itself.
 
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RIP_SANITY said:
sounds like Blue: legend of water, a game that only came out in Japan:

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That looks very similiar to what I played but that's not it. The game I played was in first person. You could also dive very deep, like right down to the abyss. I remember underwater mountains and a huge drop-off.

It's possible this wasn't a PS1 game. It could have been on the Jaguar. I'm pretty sure it was pre-N64.

EDIT: I think it was Treasures of the Deep.
 
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sasazuka said:
So, it's essentially a Valis game, except with a whip instead of a sword?

Valis, of course, being the quintessential "MetroidVania with girls" series. Okay, Samus in Metroid is a girl too, but she wears a robot suit most of the time.
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There's a series I could play for my channel...
 
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Valis is one of those weird series where the games are objectively not so good compared to many of its 16-bit contemporaries (the graphics are mediocre and the animation is sub-par, though the cutscenes are admittedly pretty good), but it has a lot of "character" going for it and the cheesiness of the presentation is part of the charm.

On the Sega Genesis, playing a game as a girl was still kind of a novelty.
 
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sasazuka said:
Valis is one of those weird series where the games are objectively not so good compared to many of its 16-bit contemporaries (the graphics are mediocre and the animation is sub-par, though the cutscenes are admittedly pretty good), but it has a lot of "character" going for it and the cheesiness of the presentation is part of the charm.

On the Sega Genesis, playing a game as a girl was still kind of a novelty.
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Ah.

Expect Rusty and Valis videos at some point...
 
Woodruff and the Schnibble of Azimuth is pretty obscure. It's a really nice sci-fi adventure game from 1994 that sunk into obscurity despite getting good reviews.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bizarre_Adventures_of_Woodruff_and_the_Schnibble

WhoWhatWhere said:
Harvester from DigiFX Interactive is the weirdest and one of the most obscure games I've ever played. I think I found it on some abandonware site a really long time ago. It is in Steam now but I seriously doubt it's got a huge customer base.

The only thing that tops it in weirdness would be Deadly Premonition.

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That game is one of my favorite things ever. It's so surrealistic!
 
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Hotline Miami. The only people who has heard of this is probibly because of PayDay 2. (That's how I heard of it)
Even my brother, who has played Hotline Miami, didn't even know that there is a second one.
 
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Mr. Fister said:
Hotline Miami. The only people who has heard of this is probibly because of PayDay 2. (That's how I heard of it)
Even my brother, who has played Hotline Miami, didn't even know that there is a second one.
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played hotline way before i picked up payday 2
jacket was one of the reasons i looked into payday 2, in fact i main him
 
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Fighters Destiny. I don't know how well known it is, but I loved it. It has some really weird mechanics for a fighting game.
You have your basic HP bar, but first it works as a stun bar and if you can avoid attacks after your HP is down, you can recover back to the fight, if you manage to throw your opponent and they hit ground, you pretty much get points instantly, or you can ringout them for points, also it's not about the rounds of victory, the way you win a round gives you certain amount of points and you win once you have enough of them, for example, you could ringout enemy 7 times in a fight and win by that.

Edit: Fuck the cow
 
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Hind from 1996 was a really, really good combat flight sim that no one ever seemed to play. It had the best helicopter flight model PC gaming had ever seen until DCS:Black Shark, properly handling things like ground effect, blade stalls and even over-torque. The AI was phenomenally interesting, each group and air unit could act within scripting but then would emerge depending on scenario to do surprising shit. Every mission was practically a war within itself. The graphics were solid for the mid 90s and the game itself was really fun.

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Kevin Spencer said:
Vagrant Story. Was a turn based rpg from Square on ps1. Used to play the hell out of that game. Even found out if you spammed heals on enemies, you could turn them to your side.
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Hey, somebody else who played Vagrant Story! :like:
Anyway, I played Radiata Stories. Didn't like it because absolutely everything was so...slow...to...happen! My party must have been level 45 before I hit some random plot trigger that...maybe...kickstarted something in the story? Maybe? If another real-life month passed?
The only fun part was recruiting dudes (and dudesses) for my increasingly insane pile of party members. One of them was some chick with a water-element whip who I liked immensely but I had to wait til level 40 until I could recruit her. I probably would have stopped trying to recruit her a lot earlier than that, but she shares a name with someone I know in real life. And come on...she whips things! :3
 
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