What is a game you love that's kinda obscure? As in, its forum on Giantbomb is drier than a popcorn fart in the middle of the Attacama Desert in the summer?
What brought this to mind was a playthrough of one of my old favorites, Looney Tunes: Sheep Raider. That was, in my opinion, one of the best PS1 games, even though no one bought it. Most Looney Tunes adaptations fail to get the surreal sort of humor that Warner Bros was so good at, but this game had me chuckling numerous times.
The "I'm Not a Hipster" Obscure Games Thread
*cracks knuckles* This is going to be fun. *lists off tons of obscure games, explaining why they're not in an actual list in the process of doing so*
Little Big Adventure 2 (Twinsen's Odyssey) . At least I think it's obscure because no one ever talks about it.
A great quirky little game that I never hear anything about, it's an RPG and it kinda looks like if time burton made a RPG, this would have been it. I played from beginning to end and enjoyed it, though the ending was lackluster it was a fun experience.
@benjaebe said:
My sister own's this game.. it's not a good game, but it's pretty fucked up. We beat it and just.. wow. XD
Where do I start? I know of (and own) a lot of obscure games and some aren't even in the giantbomb wiki.
Commander Blood (no info on this page, don't bother clicking it :P)
Bedlam (I don't think there's anything on this page either)
Psychotron (I don't think there's really any info on this either)
Crusader no Regret and Crusader no Remorse
There's others, but you get the idea. A lot are obscure merely because they're old, some of those, though, don't have anything on the actual wiki pages.
@Mr_Skeleton: I played it way back when. It's ok, I never finished it though.
My usual go-to. Chibi-Robo.
It's really not that obscure but it's a good little strategy/RPG - King's Bounty: Armored Princess
Town-building + Roguelike dungeon exploration + Monster-raising and fusing = Fun times.
Phantom Crash - Anime-as-fuck mech shooterThis is on my list too, surely this makes it mainstream?
Ding! One of my favorite game soundtracks ever, too.Little Big Adventure 2 (Twinsen's Odyssey) . At least I think it's obscure because no one ever talks about it.
I'll go with: Timequest, Eric the Unready, Spellcasting 101 (okay, you could put a whole mess of the Legend Entertainment games here), I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, Darklands (so horribly broken at launch but, after what seemed like 87 patches, it turned out really interesting) and Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna.
Night Shift - a pretty hard platformer where you keep a factory making toys. Weirdly Lucasarts made this and all the toys are Lucas properties.
Cubivore - this weird evolution game for the Gamecube.
Robot Odyssey - A educational game where you solve puzzles by programming robots. And I mean programming in the "build realy logic gates and combine them into ICs" sense. Not at all easy
@Mowgers said:God I wish it was mainstream, they'd make a fuckload more of em. Apparently there was a PS2 sequel, I didn't even know!Phantom Crash - Anime-as-fuck mech shooterThis is on my list too, surely this makes it mainstream?
A weid PS1 game that blends turn based strategy with one on one combat.
i never played it but i always wanted to play Metal Wolf Chaos, but it never came to the US.
<3. One of my favorites. It has a villain I can actually empathize with.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AnOedDG_uI
You probably never heard of it.
Chocobo's Dungeon 2. A Final Fantasy spin-off if you couldn't tell by the title. I never see it mentioned in any FF discussion, so I feel as if no one else had ever played it when they were kids. I think it was one of my first RPGs and I was absolutely enthralled by it. Never beat it though. It got brutal in some of the last dungeons. I might even still have the disk somewhere.
Baten Kaitos: OriginsI haven't completed that myself but I have two friends who loved it.
My favorites would definitely have to be the two Rollcage games they really aren't that popular in the states but they are more well known in Europe, I also really quite liked Psychic Force back in the day. Most games I like are obscure to my personal friends as many of them don't even buy downloadable games but here on Giantbomb there is a bit of a different standard for what is obscure. Oh it's not really obscure but the first Pokemon Ranger was a great game.
Space Station Silicon Valley for the N64. It can look ugly and be glitchy, but it is extremely creative and charming.
You controlled a giant robot, but you did not play as the robot. You were a person standing off to the side, who could freely move around, remotely controlling it. It made the scale of the game feel legitimately huge.
Almost made up for the fact that the game wasn't really any fun to play... Almost.
I highly recommend Ben There, Dan That! to anyone who enjoys adventure games, as it is free.
Plus, it's vintage.
Mendel Palace. The forum is just me talking about this game, no replies, desperately searching for someone else who has played this hidden gem. To this day, I have found none. I'm not even sure if the people who made the wiki are real, or if they're alternate accounts of mine.
I played this game a ton as a kid though at my grandmother's. She had an NES so we could have something to do, and this game was one of the better ones. It's fucking TOUGH when you get to the end, though.
Tactics Ogre: Let us cling together. And it is amazing, makes Final Fantasy tactics look like a pile of shit. Anyone remotely interested in strategy RPG's has to play it.While I agree with the bolded, I disagree with the underlined. Final Fantasy Tactics improved upon a lot of what the original Tactics Ogre kinda screwed up. However, if we're talking about the PSP remake, then while I haven't played that, I do recognize that it fixed a lot of the flaws present in the SNES original, letting the game beneath shine through, maybe (again, haven't played it).
@Nottle: The Earthbound/Mother games are far from obscure.. Nintendo's refusal to re-release them hurts, but still.
If Blast Corps counts as obscure, that's my choice. Or Crystalis since the only forum topic is the one I started. I'd say Earthbound, but I think the cult following has made it less obscure over the years.
Zone of Enders 2!
Best looking PS2 game? Maybe? Probably not but YO IT'S PRETTY GOOD!
You can throw enemies at other enemies and shoot 50 homing missiles, it's a sweet mech beat-em-up I guess.
Also God Hand was really interesting. Does anyone remember how difficulty worked in that game? It scaled up n down while you were playing, it was a cool idea. Also both these games have great music.
Taskmaker and Tomb of the Taskmaker were reasons why I loved growing up in the PowerPC Mac days. Also: Combat Mission
@allworkandlowpay said:
beat me to the punch, you fucker.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AnOedDG_uI
You probably never heard of it.
Railworks 2. in all honesty, I really enjoy that 'game.' It's relaxing in a way very few games...and I mean very few...manage to achieve.
Dai Senryaku Exceed VII. Crap graphics and utter lack of story can't completely destroy this title. Worrying about gas, ammo, terrain, and radar use at all times made every placement of M109A6 paladins that much more important. If they would have injected some advance wars type of personality, this could have been a great title for those looking for a little mental workout.
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