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DrPillzRedux · Wed Jul 13, 2016 10:53 pm

Let's see some gems.

I never heard about this game from anyone else. It was a first person melee/shooter with clunky controls, but for the time good graphics. Story was interesting too. Very hard game as for the first quarter of it you can't fight back against shirtless dudes, and you have to run from the final boss. Plus healing could only be done by eating, which is rare in the final area of the game full of dumb platforming.

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Lumbermancer · Wed Jul 13, 2016 11:00 pm

Brutal Homicide.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Wed Jul 13, 2016 11:02 pm #195350

Probably none tbh. Anyone else play the shit out of zombies ate my neighbors for the snes? That along with donkey Kong country and super mario world were probably three of my most played games as a kid

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Wed Jul 13, 2016 11:20 pm #195355

I guarantee that there is no game only you played. The internet has devoured all of this shit. Trying to think of the shittiest, most random game I remember playing still gets me a dozen hits on youtube.

[youtube]0xUSlS1-qAA[/youtube]

There are some old Atari homebrew games I got to play that I imagine I'm one of fewer than a hundred people that ever got to play, because they were made by some dude in his garage and never available commercially. Lots of text adventures like Klondike, The Dalton Boys, or Escape! I doubt many people ever played.

EDIT: Holy fucking shit I just got so much nostalgia

http://gury.atari8.info/games/4756.php

OH MY FUCK THIS IS THE ONE

http://gury.atari8.info/games/3743.php

In this game you start out in a hotel room and you have to try to escape this whole fucking building that's all messed up and there are a ton of instant-death hazards everywhere. I remember being a leet fucking hacker back then and opening up the game files to edit so I could look at some of the text for hints and finding shit like that there were crocodiles in the lobby and they would eat you if you did the wrong things and shit. The game was the fucking worst when it came to just killing you for no reason. I remember if you took too long in the beginning the power goes out, and at that point anything you try to do kills you because you trip and fall and break your neck in the dark. So fucking stupid. Frustrated the shit out of me as a kid and I never got anywhere in it.

Lumbermancer · Wed Jul 13, 2016 11:44 pm

An0n3 wrote:I guarantee that there is no game only you played.

I played Amiga games that don't even show in google search.

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 12:01 am #195361

Oh shit we got a real badass on our hands here.

I think maybe a better use for this thread, rather than trying to brag about who has played the most obscure game (that modern conventions allow anyone to download in seconds, and thousands of youtube LP'ers have probably shit all over anyway) is to recommend really good old games people might not have heard of or skipped over that have aged good and might still be worth playing.

To that end, I can think of a fucking TON of shit from the 16-bit era folks might like that people never seem to give enough diligence to.

Starflight is one of my favorites from that era that people seem to not know jack shit about despite it pioneering a lot of OPEN WORLD GO ANYWHERE shit and 4X space sim stuff at the same time. If you like space games and rpg's and building yourself up, check it out. You run around the galaxy mining up resources and marking planets for colonization to make money, which you spend on pimping out your space ship. The story involves traveling the galaxy chatting up other aliums for clues to why different solar systems' stars keep blowing up FOR NO RAISIN. If you suck at talking to the aliums you might have to blow a few up. Or get blown up.

[youtube]GaYIk3MIFGI[/youtube]

Some of what this guy says is just straight up fucking wrong though. The universe is not procedurally generated, for starters. Also there's a version of this game on Sega Genesis that is better in every way, play that instead.

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 12:08 am #195362

Anyone ever played Starsiege? Not Tribes. Not that shit. But Starsiege. Dynamix's pseudosequel to EarthSiege 1&2, CyberStorm, and HunterHunted. The game that introduced the universe that spawned the Tribes phenomenon. The game was actually a Mech game in the days of Mechwarrior 2(and maybe 3 a little). It's mechanics were both fun AND FUCKING INFURIATING. It's hard to really get too into. BUt I love the game. Deepest Lore and all. the universe is really in depth and it's villain is a kill-all-humans AI, but they're damn cool about it.

THE MIGHTY GALVATRON · Thu Jul 14, 2016 12:18 am

Woah, a Team 17 game that isn't Worms! I feel like that developer is a one trick pony.

I can't really think of any games that only I played, closes that comes to mind is Mace Griffin: Bounty Hunter(featuring the voice of Henry Rollins!).
Was a PS2 FPS with some vehicle segments that I never got to play because I sucked at vidya and the levels were daaaaark on my TV.

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 12:19 am #195364

I was actually thinking about mentioning HunterHunted because I liked it a lot as a kid, and it's really crazy how that whole universe fits together.

Fuck man this soundtrack was so badass

I played Earthsiege and liked it a lot. It had a cooler story going than Mechwarrior IMO. If you lost a mission in Mechwarrior it was like eh you died fuck you but if you lose in Earthsiege the whole human race gets eradicated holy shit.

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 2:41 am #195388

Heh. It's funny with Hunter. Years later, people have elevated the man to a level equal to fucking Jesus fucking Christ because he fucked up a bunch of aliens and shit. Hell yea.

But yea man. The cybrids were the shit. In all of the games. I think they truly came into their own personality with Starsiege.
Human//animals must be burst//ruptured//shot. HURT//MAIM//KILL.
Praise <First-Thought//Giver-of-Will>. ACKNOWLEDGE//SUBMIT.

Screemonster · Thu Jul 14, 2016 3:30 am

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hardly anyone talks about this one but it's like the only actually-good doomlike to hit the Amiga

and it's another not-worms Team 17 game

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 3:39 am #195398

I remember this game getting a ton of praise back in the day for pioneering a lot of shit. I don't know if it's really the first third-person shooter but I remember the reviews going ape over it.

Since scree posted a doomlike I'm going to share my favorite of all the 2D FPS era games: Blood

Also one of the hardest fucking games I've ever played. Good fucking luck playing it.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 4:29 am #195407

I think you can play Blood on doom 2 source ports like ZDoom

Saegrimr · Post by **Saegrimr** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 5:10 am #195416

Man I got a plethora of obscure weeb shit. PC-98 and DOS had some fucking weird treasures.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 10:35 am #195487

I'm a pleb, the most obscure game I played was Arcanum.

I also played Daggerfall and I think none of you can appreciate the days when TES games were good so I guess I might be the only one here.

Comrade Leo · Thu Jul 14, 2016 11:02 am

An0n3 wrote:

Loved that game.

Some old 8bit dos games (Mostly by Apogee because they were BOSS):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Agent_(video_game)

First incarnation of dook nookum

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

This game where the main character looked like he was permanently scolded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Nukem_(video_game)

The first in the franchise. The sequels were even better, and the story was hilarious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein_3D

First video game I ever got scared playing. Turning a corner and having a kraut scream HOTDOGS in your face, feckin jump-scares mang.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_Sto ... ns_of_Gold

Same engine, with some additions in gameplay and the story wasn't half bad.

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

Originally made as a sequel to Wolf3d but they wanted to sell it in germany, and germany didn't like all the nazi crap so they turned it into the triad cult instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek ... uter_game)

This was an awesome point and click adventure, they actually got the original cast members to do all the dialogue.

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 11:08 am #195497

Game seemed to have dropped off the face of the planet
Beasts and Bumpkins

EndgamerAzari · Thu Jul 14, 2016 3:03 pm

Wyzack wrote:Anyone else play the shit out of zombies ate my neighbors for the snes?

That game was SO FUCKING HARD. Plus when I got it when I was a kid I always got scared by the scream that civilians made when they died. That shit was super-loud and way too visceral for such a tongue-in-cheek game.

AND SPEAKING OF TONGUE

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Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 5:11 pm #195561

God damn the music was so fucking good. I still have the password to skip to the 5th level memorized, XHRS. Shit is permanently burned in to my brain, as i used it every time i played. The 4th level was a chainsaw maniac hedgemaze level and it was SO FUCKING HARD and also scary.

The farthest i ever got was to a level called Monster Phobia, one of the ones where you need to fight Doctor Tongue in his massive spider monster form in the haunted mansion style level. It was just so fucking brutally hard. Also yeah the screams freaked me out bad at first

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 6:05 pm #195583

My younger brother and I used to play that game together but could never beat it.

It was up there with Toejam and Earl in terms of games-we-loved-to-play-coop-but-could-never-finish.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 6:17 pm #195588

I recently beat it using an emulator. It is still hard as fuck, final boss is Dr tongue, first in spider form and then he morphs into a giant spinning head that barfs projectile tongues at you. Once the level ends you get to play a credits level which in kinda neat

EndgamerAzari · Thu Jul 14, 2016 6:18 pm

THAT GODDAMN GIANT BABY FIGHT WAS NEAR IMPOSSIBLE

Even with bazookas and monster potions it took forever to bring that big bald bastard down.

The worst part is you HAD to beat it, because it became a regular baby you had to rescue after you beat it.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 6:21 pm #195594

The baby was actually a bonus survivor and one of the only ways to actually increase your survivor count. You could bypass it technically, but only if you got a super rare skull key as a random container drop sometime beforehand

Post by **MrStonedOne** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 6:30 pm #195600

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Natural Selection 2.

You either play as marines, or aliens, or the commander for either. Commander has a RTS view, and can drop buildings, give players orders, and the marines com can bluespace medpacks and ammo to the field. You fight over resource points to increase player and team resource grow rate (used to buy buildings for com and upgrades/evolutions/weapons for players) and tech points (command chair or hive).

Game ends when one team kills all the tech points of another team (or eliminates all buildings used for spawning and kills all team members).

EndgamerAzari · Thu Jul 14, 2016 6:59 pm

NS2 is one of those games that I thought looked super cool for the longest time, then when I finally bought it there were maybe a total of 50 people still playing it worldwide.

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 7:02 pm #195616

I bought NS2 when it was in whatever passed for early access back then, played it some and liked it, but quickly stopped when the weird MLG PRO meta mindset came in and it became a completely un-fun community to be a part of.

Most rounds I played consisted of other people literally screaming at eachother over comms, us losing in under 10 minutes, and then more screaming over whose fault it was that we lost.

I would love to be able to play it again with a group of people that are just enjoying the goddamn game.

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 7:14 pm #195618

An0n3 wrote:I bought NS2 when it was in whatever passed for early access back then, played it some and liked it, but quickly stopped when the weird MLG PRO meta mindset came in and it became a completely un-fun community to be a part of.

Most rounds I played consisted of other people literally screaming at eachother over comms, us losing in under 10 minutes, and then more screaming over whose fault it was that we lost.

I would love to be able to play it again with a group of people that are just enjoying the goddamn game.

This
I got the game once and tried it
Then got yelled at for not being accurate, yelled at for not knowing the map, and finally yelled at for not knowing what the enemy abilities were
Once I told people I literally picked up the game under an hour ago, they were more friendly though, and actually tried to help teach me.

I also once tried the commander thing and of course I kept getting told I sucked and shouldn't play commander because I wasn't aware of the meta and best build orders. We lost that round because the other team was aware of the best, most advantageous build orders and they were apparently talking to eachother a lot, while my team just sorta played and tried to have fun
Plus one case where one of them killed 3 of my team without dying, just plainly not balanced there (They were just better at the game)

Game does seem fun if everyone is just playing for fun though. And teams are balanced

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 7:18 pm #195623

Most games were like:

first 90 seconds nobody says anything

commander places a single structure somewhere

HOLY SHIT YOU FUCKING STUPID FAGGOT WHY DID YOU BUILD THAT/BUILD THAT THERE
FUCK YOU FAGGOT I KNOW WHAT IM DOING
YOU OBVIOUSLY DONT RRARARARRRARGGGGGHHHH
AARRRRRGGGHHHHHHHH PUSSSSSSYYYYYYYYY

>Your team has lost!<

ColonicAcid · Post by **ColonicAcid** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 7:20 pm #195625

YOU BETTER GET YOUR TIMINGS RIGHT SO YOU CAN DIRECT YOUR SOLDIERS FOR ALL IN AT FucKING EXACTLY 5 MINUTES AND 23 SECONDS AFTER YOU RESEARCHED STIMPACKS AND YOURE +1 ARMOUR AND +1 WEAPONS SO THAT YOU CAN BEAT THE ZERG ALIEN THINGS BACK TO WHATEVER HELLHOLE THEY CAME FROM OR YOURE NOT MY COMMANDER.

also im down for playing ns2 we should do it and lose all the games LETS GO

Zilenan91 · Post by **Zilenan91** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 8:02 pm #195631

I made a thread on the forums about NS2 a while ago. I nolifed the shit out of that game and got really good, about 150 hours on it.

Screemonster · Thu Jul 14, 2016 8:20 pm

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Also this. Set up a mining base on an asteroid, wipe out whatever filthy xeno scum are also trying to mine your rocks.

Bonus points for strapping engines to one of your colonies once the ore is mined out and using it as a missile.

ColonicAcid · Fri Jul 15, 2016 12:41 am

DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THAT FUCKING LIKE THIRD PERSON LEGO GAME WHERE YOURE A FUCKING KNIGHT IN THIS OPEN WORLD KINDA BUSINESS AND THERES A WIZARD IN THE TUTORIAL AND THATS ALL I REMEMBER.

Zilenan91 · Post by **Zilenan91** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 12:45 am #195718

ColonicAcid · Fri Jul 15, 2016 12:46 am

NO YOU FOOL I SAID THIRD PERSON NOT TOP DOWN AND ITS NOT ANY OF THOSE SERIES ITS AN ORIGINAL IP

Zilenan91 · Post by **Zilenan91** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 12:48 am #195722

ColonicAcid · Fri Jul 15, 2016 12:57 am

THINK EARLY 2000's, MAYBE EVEN EARLIER

Zilenan91 · Post by **Zilenan91** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 12:59 am #195727

All googling gets me is KotoR, it's probably that game cover I linked above.

ColonicAcid · Post by **ColonicAcid** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 1:02 am #195728

actually i dont even know if it was lego, but it did involve blocks...

nsos · Post by **nsos** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 1:08 am #195729

are we including just "regular" video games in this or demoscene/flash stuff because i'm sure you can make an argument for the latter being games that you could literally possibly be the only person to actually play it and at least remember it

but in general obscure stuff:

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weird fighting game with olympic style points scoring system (points for knockdowns, ringouts, etc., you won the match after reaching like 9 or 10 pts or something)? was actually a little fun and fresh as a concept but playing it on a n64 controller was very close to intolerable. also they pretty much had dennis rodman as a character in this game

[youtube]N1_VNmSkU1g[/youtube]

skating game except with inline roller skate guys instead of skateboards and inexplicably, a rpg stats progression/level up system based on doing tricks repeatedly to do them faster/score more points. i think irl i would have enjoyed inline skating way more than skateboarding but then you are unironically inline skating and it's like, i don't need that stress in my life

[youtube]VF8ryfC2kA4[/youtube]

S L A M S C A P E
this game has something in common with Big Rigs Over The Road racing in that there is literally no ending or win condition. MTV and Viacom took out a huge ass 90s as fuck XTREME advertising campaign for this game and almost nothing advertised in the commercial is in the game. there was a soundtrack by this local grunge buttrock band called God Lives Underwater on it and by soundtrack i mean "one or two fmv music vids on the cd", the actual soundtrack is just random shitty midi acid house. like i randomly found this game in a thrift shop in like 2000 and even back then i was baffled by how much a non game this was

but on the other hand, its fuckin
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nsos · Post by **nsos** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 1:10 am #195732

also it may have been Lego Knights' Kingdom was it handheld

Post by **MrStonedOne** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 1:26 am #195741

An0n3 wrote:Most games were like:

first 90 seconds nobody says anything

commander places a single structure somewhere

HOLY SHIT YOU FUCKING STUPID FAGGOT WHY DID YOU BUILD THAT/BUILD THAT THERE
FUCK YOU FAGGOT I KNOW WHAT IM DOING
YOU OBVIOUSLY DONT RRARARARRRARGGGGGHHHH
AARRRRRGGGHHHHHHHH PUSSSSSSYYYYYYYYY

>Your team has lost!<

There is a server, its not always seeded, called TaticalGamingNS2, but they have zero tolerance for that shit. It's always an enjoyable match of strategy and wits that even has the losing team feeling like they had a fun match.

In general it never gets to the point of screaming because the admins are really good about gently teaching these without skill and knowledge how to be an effective team member.

They also let you still join and spectate if the server is full.

Zilenan91 · Post by **Zilenan91** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 1:28 am #195742

NS2 was fun every time the game went on sale. Lots of new people who were exploring things, being on the mic to teach them stuff was fun. It was also fun eating them alive if you were on the opposite team.

Post by **MrStonedOne** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 2:37 am #195776

Add me on steam, and i'll invite you when i'm trying to seed the tgns server with players. its much more enjoyable then playing on the pub servers.

Zilenan91 · Post by **Zilenan91** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 2:40 am #195779

My computer can't run NS2 anymore sadly, else I'd take you up on your offer.

Saegrimr · Post by **Saegrimr** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 2:46 am #195785

MrStonedOne wrote:Add me on steam, and i'll invite you when i'm trying to seed the tgns server with players. its much more enjoyable then playing on the pub servers.

Shiiiit don't make me reinstall this.

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 2:57 am #195793

What if I just want to take Gorge and belly slide around tokyo drift style?

Zilenan91 · Post by **Zilenan91** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 2:58 am #195795

Or make butthole tunnels everywhere and clot dicks

Saegrimr · Post by **Saegrimr** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 3:28 am #195803

I fucking forgot about those buttholes. Oh my god what an update that was.

I just imagine a space marine inching down a corridor, turning a corner expecting to light up xeno scum and instead there's a fucking puckered anus on the floor. His HUD lights up (Would you like to know more?)

Zilenan91 · Post by **Zilenan91** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 3:30 am #195805

I also find it funny that the main method of combat against the Khaara for the Frontiersmen is jumping backwards randomly firing your rifle at whatever is biting you.

Post by **MrStonedOne** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 8:56 am #195887

Jumping backwards is nub material. Now it's all about that strafe jump. Gotta have them moves.