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wingzero

834th Post

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"obscure game fun!" , posted Thu 11 Apr 18:47

K, I was just playin' some old SNES games and was wonderin' what games you guys have played that arent well known, now or ever. just like..i dunno name an obscure game and say what you liked about it!

here's mine-

Illusion of Gaia!- I love this game! the story was very different from other games of its like at the time and the characters had real personalities. it had a fun battle system, sorta like Zelda, and I liked how there was 3 forms for your guy(I think his name was Will), oh yeah.. the game had really cool music too!
The game had some touching moments too like

spoiler-

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when the pig( the main female lead's pet) sacrificed himself too feed the starving tribal villagers.

End of Spoiler

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'sniff' that was so sad!

Drip

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wingzero

835th Post

Red Carpet Regular Member+

"Re(1):obscure game fun!" , posted Thu 11 Apr 18:49

quote:
K, I was just playin' some old SNES games and was wonderin' what games you guys have played that arent well known, now or ever. just like..i dunno name an obscure game and say what you liked about it!

here's mine-

Illusion of Gaia!- I love this game! the story was very different from other games of its like at the time and the characters had real personalities. it had a fun battle system, sorta like Zelda, and I liked how there was 3 forms for your guy(I think his name was Will), oh yeah.. the game had really cool music too!
The game had some touching moments too like

spoiler-

-end spoiler

'sniff' that was so sad!

oh yeah, it was made by Enix too! another reason I like a lot! one of my favorite companies!

Drip

Fro Boy11

305th Post

Bronze Customer

"Re(1):obscure game fun!" , posted Thu 11 Apr 18:51

quote:
K, I was just playin' some old SNES games and was wonderin' what games you guys have played that arent well known, now or ever. just like..i dunno name an obscure game and say what you liked about it!

here's mine-

Illusion of Gaia!- I love this game! the story was very different from other games of its like at the time and the characters had real personalities. it had a fun battle system, sorta like Zelda, and I liked how there was 3 forms for your guy(I think his name was Will), oh yeah.. the game had really cool music too!
The game had some touching moments too like

spoiler-

-end spoiler

'sniff' that was so sad!

Well, a few weeks ago I was playing a age 18 and up version of Chrono Trigger. It starts out with Chrono's mom telling him to "get his ass up outta bed and kill the king" then Crono talks about wanting to have sex with Princess Nadia and Lucca. YES CRONO TALKS!!! That's as far as I've gotten before I stopped playing, it was just too much to take at one time.

Lick 'ems

Fro Boy11

306th Post

Bronze Customer

"Re(1):obscure game fun!" , posted Thu 11 Apr 18:53

quote:
K, I was just playin' some old SNES games and was wonderin' what games you guys have played that arent well known, now or ever. just like..i dunno name an obscure game and say what you liked about it!

here's mine-

Illusion of Gaia!- I love this game! the story was very different from other games of its like at the time and the characters had real personalities. it had a fun battle system, sorta like Zelda, and I liked how there was 3 forms for your guy(I think his name was Will), oh yeah.. the game had really cool music too!
The game had some touching moments too like

spoiler-

-end spoiler

'sniff' that was so sad!

yeah, Illusion of Gaia was cool. It was actually a sequel to another game that came out on SNES, but I forgot the name of it.

Lick 'ems

Rid Hershel

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"Re(2):obscure game fun!" , posted Thu 11 Apr 18:54

Most of my favoruite games are very obscure...

Silent Bomber: it's like playing a way faster and arcadey Bomberman, one of the best PS games. Too bad that everyone overlooked it...

Rakugaki Showtime: Treasure+Enix whacky fun, one of the craziest PS games ever!

Panzer Bandit: Banpresto's Guardian Heroes clone, not as deep as GH, but I like the gameplay in this one a little more.

wingzero

837th Post

Red Carpet Regular Member+

"silent bombs." , posted Thu 11 Apr 18:57

quote:
Most of my favoruite games are very obscure...

Silent Bomber: it's like playing a way faster and arcadey Bomberman, one of the best PS games. Too bad that everyone overlooked it...

Rakugaki Showtime: Treasure+Enix whacky fun, one of the craziest PS games ever!

Panzer Bandit: Banpresto's Guardian Heroes clone, not as deep as GH, but I like the gameplay in this one a little more.

yeah! silent bomer was an excellent game Rid! so much fun!

Drip

RugalBernstein

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"Re(1):silent bombs." , posted Thu 11 Apr 19:30

Lords of Thunder: An amazing shooter with a truly amazing sound track.
Gate of Thunder: Same.
Air Zonk: Really fun shooter, hilarious, to boot. ^_^
Akumajo Dracula X: Well, I guess this is pretty well known...
Pretty much any Ys game. ^_^
Koudelka. ^_^
Samurai Spirits 64 2: Asura no Zanmaden.
I have many many more... but I'll stop.

ONSLAUGHT

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"Come in Jutah!!" , posted Thu 11 Apr 19:50

quote:
Silent Bomber: it's like playing a way faster and arcadey Bomberman, one of the best PS games. Too bad that everyone overlooked it...

Oh yeah! I'm currently playing Silent Bomber, and it rocks!!!

ZamIAm

371th Post

Silver Customer

"I-Spy" , posted Thu 11 Apr 20:34

I like Industrial Spy: Operation Espionage. It's a spy action game that's lighter on action (actually a little too light: they do need to speed it up) but heavy on planning and strategy. Do you use the superbrain hacker or replace him with rollerblader? Speed on hacking versus overall level movement speed. Both of these characters are wusses so you better back them up with the ex-Special Forces guy. It takes alot. The game is one of those with "untapped potential".

Fun ways to start flame wars:

Go to a Rival Schools forum and say that Akira looks like a Power Ranger.

ONSLAUGHT

1785th Post

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"Vagrant Assassin ex!" , posted Thu 11 Apr 20:58

quote:
I like Industrial Spy: Operation Espionage.

Mmmhh, I need to give this game a chance then!

And I forgot about obscure games I totally love!

Vagrant Story- One of my all time favourite games, the story is awesome, too bad nobody cared about this game...

SF ex- One of my favourite fighters out there! The character design is awesome, the dept in the combos is great! And the best feature ever in any fighting game: The expert training mode!

Tenchu- Amazing game, simply amazing! nuff said!

ZamIAm

373th Post

Silver Customer

"Caffeine Alert" , posted Thu 11 Apr 21:07

quote:
I like Industrial Spy: Operation Espionage.

Mmmhh, I need to give this game a chance then!

Warning! I-Spy is extremely slow paced and at times evil difficult. I like it but refuse to call it perfect. The number one kicker is the character art. IGN's DC section had wallpapers for it (most of which are on the game disc itself).

Fun ways to start flame wars:

Go to a Rival Schools forum and say that Akira looks like a Power Ranger.

Satoshi Miwa

803th Post

Red Carpet Regular Member+

"Re(1):obscure game fun!" , posted Thu 11 Apr 21:47

Well.I just got vagrant story, and the game amazes me with it's rockingness. Really one has to wonder why this game didn't sell well, since it's one of Square's better PSX efforts.

Y's book 1 and 2 is not as well known as it should be, thanks to TTI muffing up the Duo over here.

And while I haven't played it, Snatcher is an obscure game that probably deserves a Next Generation upgrade.

RugalBernstein

1564th Post

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"Re(2):obscure game fun!" , posted Thu 11 Apr 21:56

I can't believe I forgot Snatcher!!! Satoshi, have you ever played Snatcher SD???

ONSLAUGHT

1793th Post

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"Re(2):obscure game fun!" , posted Thu 11 Apr 21:58:

quote:
Well.I just got vagrant story, and the game amazes me with it's rockingness. Really one has to wonder why this game didn't sell well, since it's one of Square's better PSX efforts.

I agree entirely Satoshi, Vagrant Story is one awesome game!
Graphically speaking, is the best looking PSX game out there.
Look at their faces, at the entire detail of their clothings, the rich textures of the creatures, the level of detail on the walls, and the most amazing thing: The lightning, just awesome!

The battle system and the weapon customization is great as well, and you can complete the game many many times, and it never gets old!

It's a shame the game didn't sell well...

[this message was edited by ONSLAUGHT on Thu 11 Apr 22:00]

ninjabastard

508th Post

New Red Carpet Member

"Re(1):obscure game fun!" , posted Thu 11 Apr 22:04

quote:
K, I was just playin' some old SNES games and was wonderin' what games you guys have played that arent well known, now or ever. just like..i dunno name an obscure game and say what you liked about it!

here's mine-

Illusion of Gaia!- I love this game! the story was very different from other games of its like at the time and the characters had real personalities. it had a fun battle system, sorta like Zelda, and I liked how there was 3 forms for your guy(I think his name was Will), oh yeah.. the game had really cool music too!
The game had some touching moments too like

spoiler-

-end spoiler

'sniff' that was so sad!

Rez!! It's a simi-new game and people still forget about it.
Bangai-0 Small run but good game. Fucken long
Guitar Freaks I think this is the best of Konmi music games. But, most people just remember DDR and Beatmania.
Kizu encounter It was a vs game made by SNK. Tag team and super jumps included.
Einhander one of last great shooters.
Techu aien't obscure everyone knows that game.

Ecchi
148th Post

Regular Customer

"Re(3):obscure game fun!" , posted Thu 11 Apr 22:06:

Mischief Makers (n64) is a great 2D sidescroller by Treasure in which you're a robotic maid who needs to save the professor and stop evil, or something like that.
anyway it's pretty fun, cool bosses, and you can chuck and shake nearly everything like the funky Clan people. if you throw them they cry

Valkyrie Profile (psx) is a fun rpg by Enix. you go through various scenarios of people dying (not in a violent way) and your character recruits them to serve in the "afterlife army" against some evil. the battle system is SO MUCH FUN. combos and super moves galore, and there's a lot of cool characters to use.

uhh can't think of anymore, but when i do i'll edit

game over?? but i beat the game!

[this message was edited by Ecchi on Thu 11 Apr 22:12]

Satoshi Miwa

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Red Carpet Regular Member+

"Re(3):obscure game fun!" , posted Thu 11 Apr 22:27

No, I missed on it cause I didn't own a Genesis and Sega CD. But damn it looks like the kinda of game i would of loved ot play...

HazZan

546th Post

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"Re(1):obscure game fun!" , posted Fri 12 Apr 00:26

quote:
K, I was just playin' some old SNES games and was wonderin' what games you guys have played that arent well known, now or ever. just like..i dunno name an obscure game and say what you liked about it!

here's mine-

Illusion of Gaia!- I love this game! the story was very different from other games of its like at the time and the characters had real personalities. it had a fun battle system, sorta like Zelda, and I liked how there was 3 forms for your guy(I think his name was Will), oh yeah.. the game had really cool music too!
The game had some touching moments too like

spoiler-

-end spoiler

'sniff' that was so sad!

I like Clay Fighters. I only like it because it was funny looking.

HOW DARE YOU LET YOUR EYES LOOK AT ME AS IF WE ARE EQUAL IN POWER!!!! FOR THAT I SHALL SHUT THEM.

Fuchikoma
171th Post

Regular Customer

"Re(2):obscure game fun!" , posted Fri 12 Apr 00:58

On psx I like Slap Happy Rhythm Busters... it's a cel shaded fighting game that mixes in a dance dance revolution flavor into it. In order to do the most powerfull supers you have to hit all the beats to the music. It's a lot of fun.

On DC I'd have to say Cool Cool Toon. SNK's only original game for Dreamcast, but it's great! It's one of the better music games I've played and I like the idea of having to use the analog stick and hitting the buttons to the beat at the same time. Rez on DC is another cool music game. Vertex graphics, funkadelic colors, and a mix of a music game and a shooter... that Sega comes up with some cool games.

Holiday

1025th Post

Red Carpet Premium Member

"Re(3):obscure game fun!" , posted Fri 12 Apr 01:27

Mmm, who has played Culture Brain's Flying
Warriors and Flowerball on the NES? Two of
my favourite games!

Flying Warriors had RPG sequences, 1 on 1
street fighter-ish battles, side scrolling
and plaform action, fun fun fun.
Hiryu-No-Ken!!! ^_^

Flowerball is quite rare; it's a side
scroller about a boy who skateboards and
defeats enemies, and boss battles are played
out with cards. Sounds cheesy but it's well
done and has tons of secrets.

As for my Sega Genesis, I had Lady Stalker.
It's the sequel to Land Stalker and plays
really nice, but I wonder why they
didn't release this game in English :(

Rid Hershel

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"Re(2):obscure game fun!" , posted Fri 12 Apr 06:39

Of course I've played Rez, Bangai-O and Valkyrie Profile, too (these game were mentioned here).

Mosquiton

334th Post

Bronze Customer

"VS and etc." , posted Fri 12 Apr 09:42

Vagrant Story didn't sell terribly I don't think, just not as good as higher-profile Square titles. The strange thing is some people rate the game as a 9-10 and other people think the game absolutely bites.

I really liked the bastard myself. Silent Bomber is also awesome, in fact it's heavily linked to Devil May Cry (I'll explain it if anyone's curious).

For my own picks, I have to mention the PS Strategy game Brigandine... Cybernator for the SNES (not completely obscure, but goddamn did that game rock)... and most DC games I own :P

/ / /

Juan

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"Re(1):VS and etc." , posted Fri 12 Apr 10:51

Cybernator was ubber awesome, but for some odd reason they removed the anime style potraits from the conversations in the US version of the game. Sometimes it was a bit confusing since you couldnt tell who was saying what.

How is silent bomber linked to devil may cry?

quote:

For my own picks, I have to mention the PS Strategy game Brigandine... Cybernator for the SNES (not completely obscure, but goddamn did that game rock)... and most DC games I own :P

http://www.angelfire.com/tx/carniceria

Mosquiton

336th Post

Bronze Customer

"DMC and Silent Bomber" , posted Fri 12 Apr 13:34

quote:

How is silent bomber linked to devil may cry?

Well, there's no indisputable proof, but there are several coincidences. Others are more hefty.

- DMC uses a very similar combo system to Silent bomber, rewarding players for successive attacks and large combos.

- Like Silent Bomber, DMC awards identical ranks (D-S)when you've completed a mission. These are based on time to complete, combos, damage taken, etc.

- The huge Battleship where the most of Silent Bomber takes place is called the "Dante"

I'm not suggesting that DMC is heavily based on Silent Bomber, just that the dev staff might have played the game at some point and been subtly influenced.

/ / /

Iron D

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"You want obscure?" , posted Fri 12 Apr 13:43

I'll bet none of you have even heard of Decapattack for the Genesis. It's a first or second generation platformer and it's quite good, especially for it's time. The story is pretty stupid, but the gameplay is all there.

Or how about my favorite sports game besides NBA Jam...Mutant League Football!

Or Konami's awesome western style shooter Sunset Riders?

Or how about the might Panzer Dragoon series (for the Saturn)? I wish that this had gotten more attention than it did.

Let's not forget classic Treasure goodness, like Guardian Heroes, Gunstar Heroes, and Silhoette Mirage!

Although the Sonic series itself isn't obscure, Sonic Jam (a compilation featuring Sonic 1,2,3, and Knuckles plus a lot of extras) is.

Fighters Megamix is pretty obscure, although I destroyed my copy a while back...

Freeter

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"Re(1):You want obscure?" , posted Fri 12 Apr 13:49

quote:
I'll bet none of you have even heard of Decapattack for the Genesis.

I have. Never played it though.

And as for obscure...

-Annet Again
-Yu Yu Hakusho(MD)
-Soul Blazer(Gaia was its sequel)
-Granstream Saga
-Rocket Knight Adventures
-Tobal 2
-Wild Arms

wingzero

842th Post

Red Carpet Regular Member+

"Re(3):obscure game fun!" , posted Fri 12 Apr 13:58

quote:
Of course I've played Rez, Bangai-O and Valkyrie Profile, too (these game were mentioned here).

yeah, these were some definately awesome games bro. Loved em all!

Drip

Iron D

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"That reminds me!" , posted Fri 12 Apr 13:58

quote:
I'll bet none of you have even heard of Decapattack for the Genesis.

I have. Never played it though.

And as for obscure...

-Annet Again
-Yu Yu Hakusho(MD)
-Soul Blazer(Gaia was its sequel)
-Granstream Saga
-Rocket Knight Adventures
-Tobal 2
-Wild Arms

I just bought Rocket Knight Adventures for my Nomad! I almost forgot about it. It's a fun, and utterly classic, platformer.

RugalBernstein

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"Re(4):obscure game fun!" , posted Fri 12 Apr 16:12

Snatcher SD was the Snatcher RPG for MSX... it was great fun, and featured a super-deformed cast. ^_^ But as for the real Snatcher, try and get the Saturn or PS version, they're excellent.