Games that you had a lot of fun with but are obscure?

mugarod · Jul 20, 2011

abnaxus said:

One of my favorite games. Still have to try Summoner 2 to see how bad it became.

Zomg · Jul 20, 2011

Drugwars

Edit - then I looked it up on wiki and they made a Zynga game out of it. My obscure BBS download from 1990 is being whored. What's next they will make some kind of worm-themed Scorched Earth??

sser · Jul 20, 2011

Powerplay Tennis for the DS. Best tennis game out there.

GarfunkeL · Jul 20, 2011

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Rorke's Drift. Wasn't very well known even back in 1990 but man if I didn't have a blast with it, shooting Zulu's in the face for hours and hours. Of course, I thought I was a master tactician for pretty easily winning but it turns out that the Zulu AI was clinically retarded. At least it worked, most of the time, which is more than can be said for the AI in Charge of the Light Brigade. Oh Impressions, you made some ambitious games that never worked...

MasterSmithFandango · Jul 20, 2011

Shouldn't the AI in Charge of the Light Brigade be retarded?

Oesophagus · Jul 20, 2011

you know, there's a sticky for this...

GarfunkeL · Jul 20, 2011

Flying Spaghetti Monster said:
Shouldn't the AI in Charge of the Light Brigade be retarded?

Unfortunately, it just didn't work. IF you played Allies, the Russians would just simply stand there. Not much fun. At least in Rorke's Drift the Zulus attacked, even if they were total morons about it.

EvilSatan · Jul 20, 2011

abnaxus said:

That and

Phelot · Jul 20, 2011

I'm not going to say this is good, but it is pretty obscure. I remember playing a demo of it:

BEATDOWN! Where you control your own virtual Afro-American gang full of homies.

I don't remember there being no white peoples in dis game!?

sser · Jul 20, 2011

Wow. I remember that and the other one... Hooligans, I think.

Phelot · Jul 20, 2011

I would LOVE to do an LP of it (and then abandon it) but I can't find it anywhere on the net.

Gragt · Jul 20, 2011

Try Underground Gamer.

Phelot · Jul 20, 2011

Good suggestion, but it doesn't look like they have it. They've requested it!

Admiral jimbob · Jul 20, 2011

Second Sight might count. I really liked the game when I was younger, not sure how well it'd hold up now, and I have to have some grievance against it because it was one of the forerunners of the popamole. However, the psychic powers are ridiculously fun to use - chucking hapless Russians at each other and off rooftops with telekinesis never gets old - and the story is pretty great. Fun little game overall that was unfortunate enough to come out at the same time as Psi-Ops: The Mindgay Conspiracy and get entirely ignored as a result.

udm · Jul 20, 2011

mangsy said:
lightbane said:

The Little Big Adventure series of course. Screw Link, Twinsen is much better than any of his incarnations.

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Yeah, this too, of course. LBA 1 was one of my first DOS games (my first computer games were actually all Mac). So much nostalgia for these games... Definitely among my favorite adventures. Amazing music, art, personality, etc.

@ Zed: Yeah man, it's really obscure. I've only met two people IRL who've played it.

Now that you mention it....
It's also the only game I know of where you can kill yourself by running into a wall

Unkillable Cat · Jul 20, 2011

udm said:
Now that you mention it....
It's also the only game I know of where you can kill yourself by running into a wall

I know of two others.

In Legend of Faerghail, bumping into walls costs you health to the point that you can kill a 6-man party by trying to show a wall who's boss.

In Thief 1, the "bunny hop" accelerates Garrett with each jump, and about the 7th or 8th consecutive jump he will have achieved terminal velocity - dead on contact.

DraQ · Jul 20, 2011

Unkillable Cat said:
udm said:

Now that you mention it....
It's also the only game I know of where you can kill yourself by running into a wall

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I know of two others.

In Legend of Faerghail, bumping into walls costs you health to the point that you can kill a 6-man party by trying to show a wall who's boss.

In Thief 1, the "bunny hop" accelerates Garrett with each jump, and about the 7th or 8th consecutive jump he will have achieved terminal velocity - dead on contact.

In System Shock 2 running and jumping into walls at max agility could bruise you pretty badly.

Wolfus said:
Another very hard game was (is!) Project Firestart:

How is THE seminal survival horror game 'obscure'?

fizzelopeguss · Jul 20, 2011

Trash said:
Dunno. It got some pretty rad reviews back in the day but quickly sank into obscurity. I think that perhaps it was too hardcore in some aspects.

It had meaty system reqs as well, one of those games that was pushing the newly released geforce 3.

There was a semi sequel released, and black cactus were working on an rts set in the crusades before they went tits up.

udm · Jul 20, 2011

Unkillable Cat said:
In Thief 1, the "bunny hop" accelerates Garrett with each jump, and about the 7th or 8th consecutive jump he will have achieved terminal velocity - dead on contact.

Good find, I didn't know about that. Gotta try that someday when I reinstall Thief.

Carlos' Bitch1 · Jul 20, 2011

Dungeon Master was another game where you could kill yourself walking into walls.

My current obscure game I play:

http://www.windowsgames.co.uk/ff.html

Excellent game.

Others have already mentioned the other titles.

zool · Jul 20, 2011

GarfunkeL said:
Rorke's Drift. Wasn't very well known even back in 1990 but man if I didn't have a blast with it, shooting Zulu's in the face for hours and hours. Of course, I thought I was a master tactician for pretty easily winning but it turns out that the Zulu AI was clinically retarded. At least it worked, most of the time, which is more than can be said for the AI in Charge of the Light Brigade. Oh Impressions, you made some ambitious games that never worked...

You might be interested in Jeff Lapkof's upcoming The Drift 1879 game then.

Darth Roxor · Jul 20, 2011

Unkillable Cat said:
In Thief 1, the "bunny hop" accelerates Garrett with each jump, and about the 7th or 8th consecutive jump he will have achieved terminal velocity - dead on contact.

The same can be done in Painkiller.

Also, Phelot's post reminded me of one game called Gender Wars.

Squad-based isometric tactical shooter, where you take one of the two sides - womyn or manly men - to eradicate the other one :thumbsup: