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Alright folks, here's one that's been bugging me for a while: This is a PC first-person adventure game. The story to the game is that you're part of an army sent in to invade a bug (big bugs) infested world via a portal/wormhole-thing. You have to wear suits and take drugs (I think) to survive the environment, but it turns out that, once you're knocked out and 'captured', the bugs and blasted landscape were just products of the suit/drugs, and you've been fighting fairly peaceful people all along, because your government wants to invade or something. I don't remember much about the mechanics, but it was definitely not like other games. I remember that, at certain points, you were given the option of 'emotions' to respond to something, like fire meaning 'angry', and whatnot. One of the endings had the main commander executing everybody, one by one, in the village you arrive at. Oh, and the game was primarily FMV-based, with the whole digitized actors and all that stuff a-la Phantasmagoria. edit: Ah, it's Quantum Gate II: The Vortex. Morpheus fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Jul 25, 2008 |
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Bieeardo posted:The scenario definitely sounds like Quantum Gate, but the ending you've described definitely isn't in the original game. Could be the sequel that I could never find, though. Yeah, it's definitely the sequel. At the beginning of the game, you get a crapload of cutscenes that don't seem to make sense, but they must've been from the original Quantum Gate. In the sequel, you start out just as the mask gets taken off.
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Jul 25, 2008 18:45
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BoiledHand posted:It has to be Isle of the Dead. There were also point-and-click adventure elements in addition to the FPS gameplay. I could never figure out how to beat it! I don't know if that's the game he was talking about, but his description definitely reminded me of this game, and I was trying like hell to find it. I kept searching for Islland, however. Thanks! All I remember is just being terrified as a kid of the game, however.
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Feb 1, 2009 02:40
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Bieeardo posted:Those weren't terribly uncommon, unfortunately. My best guess would be one of Moraff's games though. Jesus these bring back extremely faint memories. I remember the big blue orbs, but I seem to remember the version I was playing looking better than Moraff's World, but that just might be nostalgia. This is going to bug the crap out of me. VVVV Holy poo poo that game! I remember playing that a lot as a kid, but being unable to get anywhere. If I remember right, it took me a while before I even figured out how to get into the dungeon. Morpheus fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Feb 5, 2009 |
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Feb 5, 2009 21:02
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Hoopaloops posted:There was a game for SNES where you played as cavemen or something who battled a bunch of dinosaurs and dinosaur-like things (most of the big bosses were dinosaurs I think). You could play with 1 or 2 people co-op, and you could also spend outrageous sums of money to upgrade your hut with spiffy furnishings. Any ideas? Joe & Mac? I think you might be thinking of the second one. Maybe. Been a while since I played it. Also, I remember a game that used to be on...some system. I know that's exceptionally vague, but one of the unique properties of this game was that it was actually in the system's memory, so that when you turn the system on without any games in it, this game would start up. Might've been some sort of Sega system. It involved a little boy that carried around a punching glove, and it was a platformer. Beyond that, it's all lost. Oh wait I remember a second game. It was a skateboarding game for the Atari, and what you were supposed to do was go through an entire building and turn on (or off, I forget) every piece of equipment in the building by skating on it, or somesuch. I remember jumping off the roof because it was rad. Possibly gnarly. Morpheus fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Feb 10, 2009 |
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Feb 10, 2009 22:20
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Plinth posted:Possibly Alex Kidd in Miracle World? Right on both counts. I think I played Alex Kidd in New Zealand, which explains the built-into-the-hardware aspect of it. That mention of Sapiens does bring to mind another game I remember seeing, but never played, on the PC. I think it was a little over ten years ago. The camera showed the game like it was sidescroller, but it felt (if I remember correctly) more like a thinking, use-the-right-item-here-to-proceed kind of game. If I remember right, you were a native american warrior in the winter, so everything is covered in snow. The graphics were pretty good for the time, showing a lot of detail. There may have been a wolf, and a bridge of ice at one point. Morpheus fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Feb 12, 2009 |
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Feb 12, 2009 21:43
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There's an old text game I remember playing when I was younger. I remember very little about it except that I'm pretty sure it took place in a mansion and on its grounds. At some point in the game, zombies rise from their graves, but they're passive and only act as a barrier to (I think) a garden. It just says "You see a group of undead coming towards you" (paraphrased), but they never arrive. I never did beat the game.
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Mar 11, 2009 15:24
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Oh I just thought of another one, though this is a Japanese games that never got brought over. It's a 2D sidescrolling beat-em up on the SNES, one player or two. You are two guys (you can switch between them in single player) that have been thrown in prison for some crime that I don't know, because it's all Japanese. Something involving a motorbike? Anyway, you escape when your prison mates pretend to be ill, and then you run to your school where you pick up your girlfriends, a blue-haired girl and an orange-haired girl, whom you could also fight with. I've played through this game like ten times with a friend and can remember everything about it except the name. You have a battle in a go-kart arena with a karate guy (whom you fight later), you fight this big, bulky tranvestite-looking person in a casino and later in the enemy's base, etc. At one point your girlfriends get shot. You have special moves that can be executed by pressing L or R and a face button, and they range from uppercuts to dragon kicks to mule kicks to this awesome backhand fist.
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Mar 13, 2009 18:55
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pud posted:Shin Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun - Kunio Tachi No Banka. That looks like I just smashed random letters but I'm pretty sure it's the one you're talking about. That is it, you are awesome. Edit: Holy poo poo, there're translation patches out for it! I can actually find out what the hell was going on!
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Mar 19, 2009 23:25
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I remember playing a flash game a while back where you had to use a set of four animals (Pigs? Maybe lambs. I have no idea) that were secret agent-ish. You had to use them to infiltrate a building, and the way to do it was to trigger a series of events in a specific order. The game played out from the side, where you could see the entire building (and basement). For example, you'd have to move one agent forward, have him ring the doorbell, which would distract a guard. You'd then use another agent to sneak to where the guard was and steal a key or something. I know one agent landed on the roof and was responsible for taking out power, but I don't remember much beyond that. It was fun. VVV Ahhh BEARS of course! Thanks. Morpheus fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Mar 27, 2009 |
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Mar 27, 2009 17:18
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Soho Joe posted:I'm trying to remember a game on the NES, it was a cutesy sidescroller, one of the levels was a big train and I think you could get power ups from smoke rings from the train, and at least one level intro/cutscene was in a forest? I think the character was a little animal of some kind, but I'm positive it wasn't that Puss in Boots game, the game was way more colorful and cartoony. Might you be thinking of Mappy Land? I don't remember if you could get powerups from smoke rings, but I'm pretty sure it fits the rest of your criteria.
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Apr 7, 2009 15:24
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HauntedRobot posted:A web based drilling game where you started out in a crappy drilling hover ship, and had to mine metals and minerals to sell at a shop on the surface, and upgrade your ship. Every so often there were avalanches. Motherload. Quite addicting.
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Apr 8, 2009 16:32
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OH WORD SON posted:An old point and click adventure game my mother got me at costco 11-12 years ago. Ahhh man I remember this! This definitely sounds like Inherit the Earth. One of the first adventure games I played through.
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Jun 18, 2009 16:35
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Okay this one should be easy. It's a horror game with 3D models and fixed cameras. The 3D models were all made of spheres, aside from that the game had a very Alone in the Dark feel to it. It involved the main character going into a dark and spooky town, where at one point a wolf-creature hunts him. The name began with an E, I know that much, but can't remember the rest. VVVV Ecstatica, I knew it had some sort of weird name like that. Someone should LP it. Morpheus fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Sep 9, 2009 |
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Sep 9, 2009 17:49
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I remember watching my friend play a game a long time ago (maybe...10-15 years ago) on the PC. I think you were a native american in the game, and you needed to progress past screens that involved not really puzzles, but not just all action. The pace was fairly slow. I seem to remember a wolf in one of these screens, and I'm fairly certain you had a bow. The game (at least the part I saw) took place outside, and it was winter. Also, I seem to remember it looking fairly realistic, good graphics for its time if I remember right. Can't remember a drat thing else though.
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Mar 8, 2010 22:15
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Googling [hex strategy pc game robots "aging"] got me MissionForce: CyberStorm , which seems to fit most of your criteria. The sequel went with a square grid.
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Nov 9, 2010 05:49
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I'm looking for a game and its sequel that I saw trailers for a while ago. They're Japanese titles, both on the DS. The games themselves are about these haunted video games with retro graphics. The first game-within-the-game is an jRPG-style game, and the second is a platformer. I don't know what was actually going on in the trailer (all in Japanese), but I remember that there were FPS segments, where only one screen on the DS (you hold it sideways) would display ghosts that wanted to kill you. Looked pretty freaky, I wanted to show it to a friend. \/\/\/\/ Nanashi no Game, thanks! Morpheus fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Dec 4, 2010 |
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Dec 4, 2010 06:35
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So I was talking with my sister the other day, and she sort of remembered this pretty old game that she couldn't remember much of, and I said I'd try the internet. Unfortunately the details are preeeetty vague. - It was on the SNES or Genesis. - It was in Japanese. - It was (probably) an top-down isometric view, with the characters walking around. - There were a few characters that had varying abilities, and this is where she might be misremembering, but anyway: there might've been an old man, a young man, and a girl. The young man was a ninja, perhaps, and one of the others had some magic ability. - The characters each had different abilities, and you could switch between them. - The graphics were fairly cartoony Not a lot to go on, I know.
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Gorilla Radio posted:Sounds like Legend of the Mystical Ninja. It's a good game. That's what I thought too, but she's pretty sure it's not, and I know that we never owned that game (played the third one at my Japanese friend's home though, why isn't there a translation patch for that  ). When I think back to the game in question, I have some exceptionally distant memories of what she's talking about, and if I saw pictures of it I'm certain I'd know it.
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Feb 14, 2011 22:16
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Dewgy posted:If it's not that, you might be thinking of Pocky & Rocky, which is pretty similar and also incredibly Japanese. Not this either, unfortunately. I definitely remember P&R, specifically how terrible I was at it and how I could barely get past a few levels.
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Feb 16, 2011 16:22
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I remember very little about this game except that my friend played it. It was on the PC, and I remember seeing him play it...oh, about '95-'96, somewhere around then. The game's action took place from the side, so I'd call it a sidescroller, but it didn't involve platforming or anything. The setting was all natural - I remember him walking through a snowy forest. The game, if I remember right, was pseudo-adventure, as in you needed to get items to use them on things to proceed, but it didn't have large areas or much dialogue (at least from what I observed). All I remember is the character being, I think, a native american, and at one point he needed to get a spear and later to get by a white wolf who was blocking the path. I think there may have been a part where he needed to cross a small chasm. This is all very hazy. I think the graphics were similar to King's Quest V, although the main character took up about a third of the screen I think.
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My sister sent me this email: "What was that old game we played [around 1996-2000]? Ok so it was one of those games kind of like myst where you can't see yourself. There was a city under a glass dome that I never got into. You could use magic and there were no dungeons or really enemies that I remember." When I asked if it was Death Gate, she responded with: "It didn't have inventory. And i don't think it was point and click the same way monkey island was" Seems like the 'glass city' is the only notable thing she remembers. Edit: I think it may have been partial typing. Like 'throw fireball' sort of game. And it's like just where you don't see you, or an inventory or anything. Morpheus fucked around with this message at 23:00 on May 1, 2012 |
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May 1, 2012 21:19
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redmercer posted:
Most definitely not Loom, though that's what I thought too. We played the hell out of that at least half a dozen times. New info: I think it may have been partial typing. Like 'throw fireball' sort of game. And it's like just where you don't see you, or an inventory or anything. Why we were playing a text-parser game in 1996, I have no idea.
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May 1, 2012 22:59
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Ybrik posted:It's not Kings quest 7 it was animated kinda like Curse of Monkey Island except not quite as well. I wanna say it was broken up into levels with the second being a town and the fifth at nighttime around some mountains or something. Pretty certain that's King's Quest 7. Man, I've forgotten how poorly animated this game was (at least in cutscenes). It looks like something from a Zelda CD-i game.
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May 8, 2012 16:56
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Poniard posted:A SNES game: you played as a kid who had a yo-yo that levelled up into a chained ball, and it levelled down if you got hurt. It had an overworld, and you would go into different levels. I remember one of the levels was in a spaceship on a tropical island. You sure it was an SNES game? Sounds like Startropics for the NES.
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Aug 21, 2012 16:24
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Managed to find it since another guy on another forum was also looking for it: http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=3842&d=30
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Dec 14, 2012 19:45
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Shine posted:Does anybody have any other ideas on the game I mentioned a little ways up? I've looked around but haven't come across it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus_(video_game) Edit: Beaten to the punch.
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Aka Severance: Blade of Darkness. I remember that game, it was loving hard and didn't have any checkpoints, so my friend and I could never get anywhere. Pretty cool though, from what I remember.
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