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al-azad: May 28, 2009

Red Budenovka posted:

This is a "dragon shoot'em up" of which I saw videos on youtube a while ago.

I thought the name was Drakengard but I don't recognize it when I looked it up recently. It too had multiple endings apparently, most of them depressing. The final boss-battle is a giant statue/angel/god of sorts that comes crashing down into a city and you have to circle it and bounce back soundwaves (songs?) which the statue-thing shoots out against you.

The final boss of Drakengard is a giant angelic statue thingy in the middle of a city and you bounce white rings against it. The game also has multiple horribly depressing endings.

I'm 100% positive it's Drakengard.

# ¿ Jan 14, 2010 03:57

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 15:21

al-azad: May 28, 2009

DreadCthulhu posted:

So two games for me, from like 15 years ago, my memories of them are insanely vague so bear with me.

1) Sidescrolling platformer/adventure/rpg(maybe?) You were a dude on a space ship, I think. You got to run around the space ship, do some stuff on it. Then occasionally you'd get off the space ship, put on a suit and run around these weird planets looking for something. I think for some planets there was a limited amount of time you could spend on them cause they were toxic or something. I think your ship would also break sometimes and you had to find pieces to fix it.

Solar Jetman?

# ¿ Jan 28, 2010 03:28

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Realmz just reminded me of an RPG I played a good while ago. It was a PC RPG and I only played the demo of it around the same time Return to Castle Wolfenstein came out. It was top down, tile based with isometric buildings and crudely drawn sprites with a graphical style similar to Exile and Avernum. Like Realmz it was more or less an engine for people to build custom scenarios (I think it called them "stories") on it.

The scenario that I played involved some orc/troll woman who had a power called the Dreamweaver or something which did a lot of damage in combat. The unique aspect about the game was that you actually rolled virtual dice and saw them flop around the screen.

The demo disc came with an issue of PC Gamer Magazine and they devoted a few pages to it. Could never remember the name since and I can't find the demo even on their website.

# ¿ Jan 30, 2010 00:40

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Saint Septimus posted:

I came across RuneSword 2 which came out around the same time as RTCW, featured a scenario editor, and had virtual dice rolls. It's been released as open source, too.

This is definitely it, thanks. I don't know how I didn't come across the game sooner with the fact that I browsed Shrapnel Games' store a few months ago.

# ¿ Jan 30, 2010 01:09

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Placebo posted:

This is an old repost but no one figured it out last time and it's been bothering me for almost 5 years now.

It's a learning game, you play as a dog and the enemies are aliens. You wander around the levels, I remember the first level being just a normal town, then there was desert level(I think it was at night) and a forest level. I remember the sounds having a really creepy feel, I think they had a lot of howling. I remember using a forcefield, and I think you powered it by answering questions correctly, but I may be wrong.

The name finally came to me. Troggle Trouble Math.

# ¿ Feb 7, 2010 18:03

al-azad: May 28, 2009

mcvey posted:

An RTS from probably 5-6 years ago with a hero system in it. Was 3d I believe(not 100% sure). Some of the races were "undead" and then there was "human" and stuff. "Medieval" setting. It wasn't Warcraft(of course). I'm pretty sure it was a sequel.

Wish I could remember more

SpellForce? You just described almost every fantasy RTS post-Warcraft III so this is going to be tough without more info.

# ¿ Feb 12, 2010 01:19

al-azad: May 28, 2009

MrZig posted:

What's the game I've seen mentioned here a few times, it's old old and it's based around the cave man/nomad days in a temperate area. It's a 2d screen where you have to find food, make shelter, etc.

UnReal World

# ¿ Feb 12, 2010 06:36

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Zain posted:

I have one. Is this game on either the SNES or Genesis, not sure which one. But it's an action game where you collect rings to give you more powerful magic. Other then that I can't remember much from it.

Warlock?

# ¿ Feb 13, 2010 00:11

al-azad: May 28, 2009

poptart_fairy posted:

Holy gently caress that's it.

Now I just need to try and remember some more details about another game on the Genesis. That's even more loving obscure though - I can vaguely remember you playing a weird potato like thing, mostly puzzle based, where you had to collect various objects and use them as special abilities throughout the world. A chunk of the game was set in a really weird forest.

That seems to describe basically half the games out around that time though.

/edit - Holy poo poo, Puggsy was it. It was in the 'related videos' section of a Wiz and Liz video.

The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy

There's like 20 of these games, official and unofficial.

Edit: never mind. I was going to say Puggsy but Dizzy was close to the same concept. Still a good game series and everyone should play it.

al-azad fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Feb 13, 2010

# ¿ Feb 13, 2010 00:18

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Insonix posted:

In RPG in which your character at the beginning is sort of defeated and then a dog comes and takes most of your power and transform into something human. For the snes I think, I can't remember any more details.

Shadowrun.

# ¿ Feb 20, 2010 10:49

al-azad: May 28, 2009

qwing posted:

This has been bugging me for ages. I'm thinking of.. well.. i'm almost positive it was a NES game. I think it was a 'beat-em up' but you had a party system where you could swap around characters. Anyway, you get to a point where you fight this badass ninja dressed in all white. You defeat him and he becomes a playable character.

That's all i got. This ninja dude has been burned into my mind.

Probably that shitpile Double Dragon 3.

# ¿ Mar 17, 2010 01:13

al-azad: May 28, 2009

I played this game, pretty sure it was flash, where you're a Japanese businessman whose entire goal is to run to the far right of the screen while jumping over poo poo. It was really weird and obviously Japanese in design.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2010 03:28

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Yoya posted:

That must be Tomena Sanner, although I can't find a flash version anywhere.

Yep, that's it. I distinctly remember playing the game online but what I was probably playing the iphone version.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2010 03:51

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Grifter posted:

I played both these games on PC, I think in the 90s or maybe the early 2000s.

The other was basically a shmup, but with better graphics than you see most of the time. I realize I may be hopeless on this one because I'm pretty much describing a genre. You played as some sort of futuristic flying craft and you could purchase upgradeable weapons. I don't remember much else but am open to suggestions.

Try Tyrian but yeah you just gave the vaguest description ever like "I played this JRPG that had a boy with a sword and you could level up and buy equipment..." You sure you can't remember anything other than futuristic ship and equipment purchases?

# ¿ Mar 30, 2010 20:22

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Tw1tchy posted:

Another simple one hopefully, there was this old playstation 1 (psx) game that was about this space guy, he had this ray-gun I think, and if you fell off a ledge he yelled "Geronimoooo". I can't remember what the game was called but it's been stuck in my head for years and years.

Blasto featuring the voice of Phil Hartman, one of his last projects. It wasn't a bad game but holy gently caress it was the hardest thing on the platform.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2010 15:15

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Hakkeshu posted:

I got one I'd like to remember the name of. It was back in 95 I got my first PC, a friend lent me a point & click adventure about some guy who warps into some comic series and becomes the dark hero with some sexy sidekick, I thought the game was necropolis but I was wrong, I thought it started with a N though.

Noctropolis.

edit: loving ninjas man!! :argh:

# ¿ Apr 24, 2010 19:49

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Sheriff Man-Thong posted:

There was this game I played at a friend's house back in High school that I can't remember the name of. It was a 3rd person semi-fantasy fighting game with GREAT combat mechanics - lots of cool moves and destructible armor and using enemy weapons. I think it had sort of a South American theme to it or something... this ring a bell to anyone?

EDIT: Now that I think about it, I feel like it was long ago enough to be PS1 but in my head the graphics seem PS2. Sorry to be confusing.

Sounds like Die by the Sword or Rune.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2010 02:42

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Freeze posted:

I bought a game online from somewhere a couple years back, but I can't remember what it was called. It was set in space, I remember traveling between planets and upgrading my ship. It was a lower budget title I think, probably came out in the early 2000s.

All I can distinctly remember from it is the opening intro movie had a rockin soundtrack and it involved two space ships fighting each other. One of the aliens was named "Hidezooken" or something like that.

Space Rangers 2. Great game but I can understand from its graphics you think it's from early 2000s.

# ¿ May 15, 2010 19:59

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Lord Master posted:

Worth a shot...

It was an isometric RPG similar style to Baldur's Gate and Arcanum, except it took part in a desert civilization setting.

I played the game at a friend's house, and I believe the game starts you off in some desert city and has something to do with a time machine.
For some reason I keep thinking "Dune" although I've searched and there is Dune the RTS series and Dune the mediocre 3D whatever-it-was.

I believe the game was bundled in one of those dual-jewel cases with some other game maybe.

Anyone have any clue?

Heretic Kingdoms begins in a desert land and it's one of those games that's sort of tossed around in random bargain bins.

# ¿ May 29, 2010 01:10

al-azad: May 28, 2009

The Fifteenth Pen posted:

No it doesn't. In fact there's only one area that's vaguely desert-ish, and it's hardly much of a desert, at least from what I've played of it, which I think was a fairly large portion. It starts out in a ruined monastery and immediately goes on to a nice grassland town and forests.

I don't remember much of my playthrough but I do remember at least half of the game's locations including the aforementioned monastery take place in craggy canyons and barren fields. I distinctly remember a desert town and the game's dreamworld may be confused for time travel to someone who doesn't remember it. Now that I checked up on it the game isn't that old and he said from the turn of the century so that definitely isn't it.

I know of another 2000 RPG that was packaged in a jewel case with Planescape Torment called Soulbringer which had a fairly large desert town but that game was 3D with a rotating camera. I don't think this game exists as described or maybe it's a really, really small chunk of it.

# ¿ May 29, 2010 19:25

al-azad: May 28, 2009

guppy posted:

If you liked that, you may be interested to know that there are others in the series like it for assorted platforms.

And they're all pretty hit or miss even among fans of the series.

Rollersnake posted:

A 3rd person horror adventure game for the NEC PC98�the overall style of the game seemed to resemble the original Clock Tower. It was not a porno game, which given the system it's on, should narrow things down significantly.

All I can recall is that it has some of the most gorgeous, most atmospheric sprite artwork I have ever seen. The backgrounds were highly detailed, with lots of green and brown, and the light and shadow were especially well-drawn, with the careful alternating of green, brown, and black pixels looking like pointillism. As for more specific details, the protagonist was female, and there may have been a grandfather clock in one of the screenshots I saw.

Pretty sure it's Tokyo Twilight Busters which was recently remade on the DS.

# ¿ May 29, 2010 22:33

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Rollersnake posted:

That actually doesn't look quite as good as I remember it, but that is definitely it. I assume the DS remake won't ever get released outside of Japan either, right?

I thought the DS one came out last year but turns out that was an announcement. It's slated Q3 this year and the company porting it I believe is an offshoot of Wolfteam who are assimilated with Namco-Bandai. In short, probably not.

Still it's not too bad looking. Came out in '95 on hardware that was literally 13 years old at the time. I like how they only use two or three colors to get some top details into the backgrounds.

Lord Master posted:

I played this game around 2002-2003, Heretic was released 2005.

I'm thinking of giving up, since this looks like a needle in a haystack case, and I really don't remember too much about the game.

Thanks to you goons that tried at least

Could be anything. Might not even be an RPG because that's my search parameter.

The thing is your description instantly triggered a memory of a game I can't remember anymore. It came packaged in one of those "RPG Bests Compilation" type things you find in the bargain bins. It contained a bunch of European RPGs such as Jack Orlando, Once Upon a Knight, some WWII RPG where the first area has you captured by Germans, and Odi-um/Gorky 17. The game itself had 2D backgrounds with 3D characters and the first area was a dusty abandoned desert town with ruined pyramids and stuff. The name was probably something absolutely weird and ridiculous.

Edit: The WWII game I was looking for is called Another War and the other game is Gooka and they have nothing to do with what you were looking for.

al-azad fucked around with this message at 23:06 on May 29, 2010

# ¿ May 29, 2010 23:03

al-azad: May 28, 2009

The Good Professor posted:

Help! My girlfriend is looking for a game she played back on the SNES -- something like Castlevania (side-scrolling platformer with a similar art style) and lots of outdoor levels. She thinks you played as "a blond dude with lots of muscles and either a whip or a gun".

Also we're pretty sure it's not Blackthorne. Is there a list of SNES Castlevania clones somewhere?

Sounds like SkyBlazer. You didn't have a whip or gun but you had dirt-blond hair and it used large, colorful sprites like Castlevania with pretty detailed outdoor levels.

# ¿ Jun 10, 2010 23:28

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Orzo posted:

good guess (I looked at some screenshots) but I'm almost certain that isn't it. the game I'm looking for looked a little more modern in terms of graphics

Is it Solstice? It's still crude NES graphics but you're a Gandalf-esque wizard collecting keys in a truly isometric style.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2010 00:11

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Orzo posted:

No, fast forward about 3-4 years. That game looks great though

Haha, definitely not. It was definitely an isometric game.

There's a sequel called Equinox but the main character is an Arabic dude.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2010 02:10

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Cooking games are pretty extensive in Japan. Xplay (back when they were Gamespot TV and actually good) did a series of videos on quirky Japanese games (only name I remember is Harmful Park) and the game 9999DMG mentioned sounds pretty close to something they showed off. If only there weren't 1,000 loving episodes to think back on.

# ¿ Jun 23, 2010 01:47

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Polsy posted:

Actually, I think that's this PS1 game. I wouldn't even have heard of it, but there was a partial LP of it. (video featuring beer-pouring, onion-chopping and phone-dialling)

Aaaand this is the same game Gamespot Tv featured almost ten years ago!

# ¿ Jun 23, 2010 08:05

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Morpheus posted:

So I'm looking for a game that looks almost exactly like Dungeon Master in every way, except that the graphics were better. Also, each character had a face next to their hands. I remember the art of these faces being very...what's the word...soft? There weren't any hard lines, it was very soft shading. I don't remember anything else, since I sucked at the game, unfortunately. Oh, the 'hand' icons were also colored in, not the line-art stuff in these screenshots I'm seeing.

Eye of the Beholder? There are a lot of first person RPGs from the mid-90s so this will be pretty tough.

# ¿ Jun 28, 2010 22:41

al-azad: May 28, 2009

PS1, 3rd person sci-fi adventure. The beginning has you as this bearded dude that steps out of a cryotube butt naked. You meet up with a robot (whose name I think was teepo or something weird like that) and walk around fiddling with keypads and poo poo. The two distinct things I remember from the game are A) the main characters nudity in the intro (first time I've ever seen a polygonal dick in a video game) and B) a scene where a door comes slamming down on the protagonist, nearly chopping him in half, and you have to play as the robot or something to find medical aid.

# ¿ Jul 20, 2010 10:38

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Saint Septimus posted:

OverBlood. Didn't see any nudity in the two youtube videos I glanced at though.

Ah, okay. It was genitalia-less nudity. My mind... must have filled in the dick.

# ¿ Jul 20, 2010 12:07

al-azad: May 28, 2009

A Passing Feeling posted:

I used to play this game when I was younger (maybe around 1997-2000 roughly). You played the role of a king, and it was a combination of largely text-based situations such as a usurper to the throne, and real-time battles. I remember there was a papal army, which was rather strong and was yellow/gold in colour. I wish I could remember more, other than that one of the choices for an event was to "grovel".

King of Dragon Pass fits the 1999 timeline and text-based situations but no real-time battles.

[quote=]There was a game I played with my father when I was a little tike. It was (I think) on the original NES and it was a dungeon crawler. Similar to 'Dungeon Master' except I don't remember there being any sort of inventory or group system or even a UI. Just hallways.

I remember specifically there was no map, so we had to make our own with graph paper. If you wanted to go back to 'town' to rest you had to backtrack your steps through your own map.

I don't think it's Dungeon Master cause I'm almost positive there was no cursor. (I can't remember clearly though cause we played it when I was like 4)

Any ideas? [/quote]

This could be quite a few RPGs. Most of the NES ones had an inventory screen but it was in text which is probably why you can't remember it.

Pool of Radiance (has a map and inventory screen so probably not)
The Bard's Tale (no map, everything in text)
Might and Magic (map, everything in text)
Tombs & Treasure (graphical, includes top down segments)
Dungeon Magic
Swords and Serpents (this is the closest game to the PC Dungeon Master)

# ¿ Sep 12, 2010 07:29

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Orgophlax posted:

Wise fwom yor gwave!

So this just popped in my head out of nowhere and now it's bugging me.

I really have no idea what the game was for, though I'm leaning towards console, possibly PSX or PS2.

Anyway, the game from what I can remember had an old gloomy feel to it, though I don't know if it was an actual horror game or just a suspense action/adventure game. The player character's look was a cross between The Undertaker and an old west cowboy. It was 3D.

I remember it was a game with screens you traveled between, it wasn't a free roam type thing. You hit the edge of the screen and it loaded the next section. The 2 I can remember is a night time scene on a dusty road, cloudy sky and dark in the distance. The road has a sign post or something in the middle with some sort of light source on it. The next screen over (which I think was to the right or bottom) was a town street of some sort. I don't remember if the town was inhabited at all, though I'm guessing not since I'm not remembering any interactions. I also remember you can poke around in at least one of the buildings.

For some reason Eternal Darkness is popping into my head after typing all that. I know you played different characters throughout history, was there one similar to this? Or is it a completely different game?

Nocturne?

You're a "cowboy" with night vision goggles, it has that clunky style of play like Eternal Darkness, and had a really advanced lighting system for the time.

# ¿ Sep 16, 2010 13:08

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Bargain bin Laden posted:

I've got several here I've been trying to remember...

1) NES game. It was a side-scroller shooter, I seem to remember the character being a futuristic space person, and you could upgrade your guns. Similar to Metroid, but mixed with Contra. I specifically remember moving left in one level, I think the floor was a bluish green color, there were stars in the background and the gun I had shot a star in a wavy pattern. It wasn't Mega Man.

Air Fortress? Power Blade? The Krion Conquest stars a witch but the game is literally a rip off of Mega Man right down to the health bars.

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7) Another PlayStation game. It was like Dragon's Lair, in that it was cinematics where you'd press a button at the right time. I remember a rocket wheel chair in the hospital, three discs, and incredibly big save files even though there was a password system only three characters long.

Fox Hunt. I could never get past the third disc where you have to fight these rear end in a top hat secret agents that stalked you the entire game. One of the better FMV games I played, though. Rather humorous.

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8) PlayStation 2 game. I saw my cousin playing this one, it was like a real time strategy game, where you deployed 4 characters onto a battle field. You could change their types from infantry to cavalry to a couple others. There'd be advantages and disadvantages to each. You had to capture the enemy's base, and if you encountered an enemy it'd go into a fighting game scene. There were also towers you could capture that had to be defended.

Wrath Unleashed

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9) PC? game. It was along the lines of Age of Wonders, and Lords of Magic. There was a fire spell in it called Point Flare, which reminded me a lot of Chrono Trigger's Flare spell. That's all I remember.

Rage of Mages? Magic and Mayhem?

al-azad fucked around with this message at 13:24 on Sep 30, 2010

# ¿ Sep 30, 2010 13:20

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Arcade game. It was an isometric fantasy action game with a graphical style similar to Treasure's Light Crusader except more detailed. The game began in a tavern where you choose your character and it had multiple branching paths each connected to a world map with a shop you could buy upgrades from.

# ¿ Oct 9, 2010 12:17

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Solvalou posted:

Dungeon Magic AKA Light Bringer (Taito, 1993)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSCpf1SEb78

That would be it, thank you. I knew it was Dungeon something but Dungeon Magic was also an NES game by Taito that was totally different.

# ¿ Oct 11, 2010 13:43

al-azad: May 28, 2009

CAT rear end now!!! posted:

Edit: Oh yeah, I asked about this one before in the other thread but might as well try again, maybe I'll have better luck this time:

Braminar.

# ¿ Oct 12, 2010 09:17

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Just to be a dick and hurt your pride, I found it in literally 5 minutes by going to mobygames and setting the search parameters to "interactive fiction" and "RPG."

# ¿ Oct 12, 2010 13:17

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Tarquinn posted:

Okay, I am looking for an old game. Early 80's old.

It's a PC game which I played sometime between 1981 or 1983. The setting was one room with some furniture in it and your character was cat. The cat left footprints on the floor and was chased by a broom, which was following the footprints and cleaning them up. If the broom caught you, you lost a life. tTe longer you stayed alive, the more points you got. That's pretty much it.

Anybody remember that game? _{(I don't really expect it...)}

Pretty sure this is Alley Cat. Wasn't someone else looking for the same thing?

# ¿ Oct 12, 2010 13:41

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Rikimaru posted:

This one should be easy. I'm pretty sure it was a genesis game. It was a helicopter game kind of like the Strike games. Hell, it may have been a strike game. All I remember about it is it had very sharp graphics. And the very first level was very red. Red everywhere. That's all I can remember.

*edit* It is not Red Zone.

Here ya go. All 13 helicopter games for the Genesis. None of them seem to match your description about "red" although there is a game called Red Zone but there's surprisingly little red in it aside from a few splashscreens.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2010 18:03

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 15:21

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Lucky & Wild was awesome. It begins with some assholes shooting out your car window and taking pursuit through a shopping mall or something. You don't chase them because they're criminals but because those fuckheads shot up your sweet ride.

# ¿ Oct 29, 2010 08:21

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