I still remember this table, mainly because it reminded me of Outpost.
The Experiment/Experience 112
Adventure game where you don't have any direct control over the main character, but you can lead her around and help her solve puzzles manipulating the environments through your computer terminal. Another game I've yet to beat, but found the premise extremely intriguing. The HUD is a mess to deal with though.
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Thankfully PCWorld and PCGamer had reviews for them respectively or I'd have never heard of either. And I doubt GAF [even AdventureGAF] has much ahem, experience, with either title.[/QUOTE]
Played it, so did stump I believe. While I agree that it was a bit unwieldy, not directly controlling the main character was a really cool and interesting mechanic, which did keep me playing for quite some time.
I see two people already replied on the same page, but this was damn cool.
Damn! A good friend of mine had this and we would just play it for dropping nukes and trying to escape from them in the jammiest ways possible.
Played it when they were load testing it, but never got around to playing the full product. A few of my classmates at the time did artwork on it. Since they were an Indie game they got the most mileage possible out of unpaid internships that we needed for graduating credit.A Tale In The Desert
The Realm
My first MMO. I believe the game is still running, but I first played it around 1995.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Realm_Online
Also, is Torin's Passage considered obscure? It was a Sierra adventure game and I remember liking it a lot as a kid, but I've never seen it mentioned since.
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Snow Bros. 1&2. The only other person who I know who played this was my younger brother.
this is the only version of the game i have ever played, and i love half-life so, so much.
Oh god.
I wish people still talked about Dark Cloud and Dark Chronicle, amazing games, some of my favorites of all time. I just finished Dark Cloud again this morning.
Where's Dark Cloud 3? Also, why isn't there more games with weapon systems like these?
forgot to add my own contributions. i would have said chulip but obviously im not the only one.
mansion of the hidden souls - a short crappy sega cd game. basically a point and click adventure, just with a different interface and muddy sega cd graphics.
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raw danger - sequel to disaster report. i finished disaster report but didnt make it too far in this one.
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mr mosquito - you are a mosquito annoying a japanese family. you have to bite people and avoid being killed.
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whats shenmue - demo disc that came with japanese shenmue preorders i think.
Also, is Torin's Passage considered obscure? It was a Sierra adventure game and I remember liking it a lot as a kid, but I've never seen it mentioned since.
I _loved_ Torin's Passage. Unfortunately I was forced be to restart from the beginning a lot as my saves kept getting corrupted.
Fantasic game, felt ahead of it's time.I played Lords of Magic quite a lot when I was a kid, I don't remember much of it but I think it was a pretty decent game. It's available on GoG by the way!
Also, is Torin's Passage considered obscure? It was a Sierra adventure game and I remember liking it a lot as a kid, but I've never seen it mentioned since.
Gotcha Force - Say you've played it. I bet none of you have
Cabal on Amiga 500:
Already mentioned in this thread, and I've played it as well, so you're certainly far from the only one .
Never played it myself, but I know two gaffers who loved it.And the best of them all:
Captain Tsubasa 2: Super Striker.
A sports / RPG hybrid, composed exclusively of cinematic screens. Tecmo was god in Famicom.
Unless it was you someone else has already posted this. And I've played it.
This bad boy was so amazing. Always playing it with my cousins when we had sleepovers, never see it mentioned on GAF though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQQ_-Mej-Kk
Played, played and played.time hollow - another adventure game. as mentioned in my previous post i think its by the same people who made shadow of destiny.
incredible crisis - im sure a few people on gaf have played this. its a series of minigames. fun and quirky.
raw danger - sequel to disaster report. i finished disaster report but didnt make it too far in this one.
Already mentioned in this thread, and I've played it as well, so you're certainly far from the only one .
I've noticed that you've replied to some of my posts, are you picking on me :|
Speaking in terms of unsung RTS games, care to throw light on why the Earth series never hit the bigtime, despite surviving as a franchise? I really liked Earth 2160.
Check post #254
Yeah the soundtrack was good.
Speaking in terms of unsung RTS games, care to throw light on why the Earth series never hit the bigtime, despite surviving as a franchise? I really liked Earth 2160.
And me! Great games.
Wow, really? So you never played the expansions? (Opposing Force and Blue Shift.)
I enjoyed the games but I don't think they resonated with me as much as others did in the genre.
I 1997 when 2140 came out it also had Total Annihilation and the two Red Alert expansions to compete with.
In 1998 when the 2140 expansions came out there was Starcraft & Brood War and two TA expansions.
Then 2000 saw 2150 come out in the same year as the Tiberian Sun expansion, Homeworld Cataclysm, and the fucking dreadful Star Wars Force Commander which I regretted buying about 20 minutes after installing it.
2005 when 2160 came out was actually quite a quiet year for new RTS games by all accounts but it was just too long since the last in the series I think.
On that subject, I'm only just coming to the end of a very enjoyable World in Conflict and have Sins of a Solar Empire next on my list.
Is it a super well-known brawler or a very underestimated title? I played it on pc and found it awesome at the time.
Cabal on Amiga 500:
Captain Quazar on PC. Pretty sure they sold precisely one copy to this date.
SpyCraft - The Great Game
Was never very good at the game, and never beat it (still have it on the shelf next to me), but the idea of uncovering an international assassination conspiracy as a CIA spook seemed awesome, FMV point and click and all. Doubt too many on GAF would be old enough to have played it.
I could probably pick any number of random cracked Atari 800 games we had growing up, but I'll go with Action Quest, because it was one of my favorite games back then (and it was legit published):
You were a ghost who could transform into a gun, and your goal in each room was basically to collect a treasure and escape. But each room was a different abstract puzzle--half the game was just figuring out what you were supposed to do in each room. Oh and you had about ten or fifteen seconds to do so before you faded out of existence.
Though it is a much more deliberate game (and no music), Action Quest also has a very similar mise en scene to VVVVVV.
Actually, given this board and its general interest circle, might not be too unique.
Captain Quazar on PC. Pretty sure they sold precisely one copy to this date.
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Quite an enjoyable game as well.[/QUOTE]
Played it on the 3DO.