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Kingdom of Loathing?
themaskedndi
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I'm trying to remember a game I saw mentioned in a thread here. I've been digging around, but haven't been able to find it.
It's a cosmic horror adventure game. Everything is black and white; it kind of looks like manga. I don't think the game has been officially released, but it is playable. It may have been set in the 80s, but I'm not 100% sure of that.
It's a cosmic horror adventure game. Everything is black and white; it kind of looks like manga. I don't think the game has been officially released, but it is playable. It may have been set in the 80s, but I'm not 100% sure of that.
themaskedndi
Member
That's it, thank you! I was really hoping to play this today, and now I can.
Roufianos
Member
I've been thinking of this fighter recently. I had it on PS1. I remember the box art was black with a crest on it, pretty minimal. The only character I can remember is some old Asian guy with wolverine like blades on his hands. The final boss was some kind of creature I think.
Dimitri LH
Member
Sounds like Battle Arena Toshinden.
I second this, great series by the way.
I'm trying to remember a name of a project that was started probably around the time of Oblivion with really nice graphics and ogres in the tech demo. I don't remember if it was a mod or a fan project, but I just saw a trailer for Project Wright and it looks very close to this mod/project.
They had images of really realistic looking castle and glass work.
They had images of really realistic looking castle and glass work.
Probably Project Offset.
ESwat maybe?
Started googling it and I found it randomly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jAFPypeP14
Jail Break.
I feel old now.
Ebenezer Grymm
Banned
2 games.
First game is a Genesis game. 2.5 d. You controlled a mech and you could change its weapon loadout. Moonlight Sonota was I think the ending credits music. Made by Wolf Team or something like that.
Second game is either Nes or Genesis. Was first person and I remember it being basically just boss battles where you could target limbs and blow them off. One of the bosses was like a Dragon with rocket launchers I think. Pretty sure the box said something about mature audiences only but I rented it no problem as a kid back then.
First game is a Genesis game. 2.5 d. You controlled a mech and you could change its weapon loadout. Moonlight Sonota was I think the ending credits music. Made by Wolf Team or something like that.
Second game is either Nes or Genesis. Was first person and I remember it being basically just boss battles where you could target limbs and blow them off. One of the bosses was like a Dragon with rocket launchers I think. Pretty sure the box said something about mature audiences only but I rented it no problem as a kid back then.
theaffection
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Tech demo FPS thingy with great graphics at the time, main appeal was that it was only a few hundred Kilobites or lower. You fight a spider robot machine thing in it
Gangxxter
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Kain-Nosgoth
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Ranger-X for the first one maybe?
Ebenezer Grymm
Banned
Nope. I think I used the term 2.5 d incorrectly. It's not top down but not side scrolling. Like.... Diablo view and movement. In a mech. I remember one of the weapons was Vulcan cannons. You had to clear each stage of all enemies before fighting a boss. First boss was kind of a train.
Edit: Got it!! First game is called Final Zone! Great game back then. Fun to just zone out to. Not difficult at all and I'd beat it just to hear the end credits music.
Isometric view is the term for what I think your describing.
This might sound strange but I'm looking for Doom parody game or mod that I played long time ago. I'm not sure if it was Doom 1 or 2 but very likely 1. I only vaguely remember few details. Title screen had goat head impaled on spike with some building behind it (pyramid or something like that). You played as I would call it smiley man - big yellow head. One of the weapons was spray can and lighter - home made flamethrower. Thank you for help.
EDIT: Well I just found it five minutes after posting this. It's called DooM 3 Mr Smiley Head's Safari and newer version can be found here if anyone is interested. http://www.moddb.com/mods/mr-smiley-heads-safari-ii
EDIT: Well I just found it five minutes after posting this. It's called DooM 3 Mr Smiley Head's Safari and newer version can be found here if anyone is interested. http://www.moddb.com/mods/mr-smiley-heads-safari-ii
Thanks, this seems close but I'm not 100% sure if this is it. I'll look into it.
Lumpy Onion
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Super Famicom side scrolling action game. I remember it having very simple rpg elements (probably just experience). Takes place in a D&D like fantasy world. Pretty sure you could select from several characters (i.e.: archer, mage, etc), and it might have had 2 player co-op. Kinda clunky gameplay and visually bland and washed out colors. Character designs are somewhat cute...reminds me of "Monster Maker" series designs.
I remember being tricked into buying since I was told it was an rpg, but it was not. Now I want to remember what it was called for some reason.
Edit: it's Melfand Stories. Always thought it was Farland Story, but that's some SRPG.
I remember being tricked into buying since I was told it was an rpg, but it was not. Now I want to remember what it was called for some reason.
Edit: it's Melfand Stories. Always thought it was Farland Story, but that's some SRPG.
Wacky Wheels is most likely, but see also Skunny Kart and Big Red Racing - quite possibly the latter if she's right about that last recollection.
Dimitri LH
Member
Maybe it was Capcoms Kings of Dragons? I would say Capcoms Dungeons & Dragons games but im guessing you tried searching that one up.
Lumpy Onion
Member
It isn't that, but the characters you can select from had the same kind of traits. This was a pure side scroller without any walking in and out of the planes like King of Dragons.
Edit: remembered the name after all. Melfand Stories.
theaffection
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Roufianos
Member
Sounds like Battle Arena Toshinden.
Yea, that's it!
Thanks a lot, turns out it's a really well received game, I always thought it must have been some shovelware that my mum picked up on the cheap.
Mildudon
Member
y best guess is it's a 90's pc game(dos). You are a worm that travels from level to level. This is illustrated by a map that shows were the worm is. The goal of the levels are to eat all the blue fruit before the time runs out. The more you eat the longer the tail gets. There are powers that help the worm, like more time, reduce tail and more. Some levels are all dark and you can only see the level if you get a lightning to show the level for a few seconds. I think there was something about the worms wife being kidnapped.
Trying to remember the name of this game has been bugging me for a few months. It was a PC educational game that I played in elementary school, so probably around 2000-2003. The setting was a medieval period and I remember you having to collect items with the goal of climbing a tower. It's not much but that's all I can vaguely remember from then.
almostjuliuscaesar
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N64 game where you control a microchip that let's you take control of various animals in space stations. i can never remember the name.
Space Station Silicon Valley.
Rapscallion
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almostjuliuscaesar
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Yes! Thank you!
tirkaroKujo
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Alright this has been eating away at me the past couple days
There was this, I'm PRETTY SURE it was a dreamcast game, but i could be wrong, and i think it was some kind of survival horror-action type game and it had multiple playable characters- One of them pretty much looked exactly like Jill Valentine with the beret and everything, and i think she carried twin tonfa things, or some other kind of dual weapon.
There was this, I'm PRETTY SURE it was a dreamcast game, but i could be wrong, and i think it was some kind of survival horror-action type game and it had multiple playable characters- One of them pretty much looked exactly like Jill Valentine with the beret and everything, and i think she carried twin tonfa things, or some other kind of dual weapon.
Pancake Mix
Copied someone else's pancake recipe
Chaos Break for the PSX.
tirkaroKujo
Member
Cannon Goose
Member
I remember playing this very simple looking pixelated game on PC years ago where you controlled a blob (or virus?) and you had to take over a grey, rocky map. The levels might have been randomly generated and I think it was local multiplayer. When your colour touched another they would blend a bit until one took over.
I've drawn what I remember it looking like if that helps:
I've drawn what I remember it looking like if that helps:
Shot in the dark after a quick google search... Dino Numbers? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80UXm0sAuc8
Holy fuck this is the worst thing I've ever seen, and it's apparently absolutely the right thing, thanks! She is absolutely delighted!
I remember playing this very simple looking pixelated game on PC years ago where you controlled a blob (or virus?) and you had to take over a grey, rocky map. The levels might have been randomly generated and I think it was local multiplayer. When your colour touched another they would blend a bit until one took over.
I've drawn what I remember it looking like if that helps:
Liquid War(s)
Addictive stuff. There are also modern versions on mobile of it
Jimnymebob
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I've got two. One I do remember but I've forgotten the name of- it was a PC fighting game with a Robotic dog or wolf.
The second one was a PC game from the 90s presumably, and all I remember I'd that it was top down, the view was sort of vertical (like Ikaruga for example) and it was a sort of point and click where you played as a guy with a brown hat, and the name was something like Berlin, then a year.
The second one was a PC game from the 90s presumably, and all I remember I'd that it was top down, the view was sort of vertical (like Ikaruga for example) and it was a sort of point and click where you played as a guy with a brown hat, and the name was something like Berlin, then a year.
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