Teh Best game you've never played (probably)

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Ok, here's the idea: We post the names, and details, of a videogame that you think no-one else is likely to have played.


Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral town for GBA.

Farming Simulator. Dosn't sound fun? Play it. It's the only real way to describe it. Strangely addictive.
 
Van Helsing (for the xbox)
I don't know why but I found it very entertaining. :E
 
Football Manager 2005
(Also known as Worldwide Soccer Manager 2005).

It's rather addictive.
 
S.O.S. for the SNES.

It's basically a videogame version of the Poseidon Adventure, almost like a survival horror game but without the cliche horror part. The objective is simply to escape a high-class sinking cruise ship that has been overturned by a gigantic wave. The thing is, the ship is constantly turning over and over while falling to the bottom to the ocean, so the levels (the ship is essentially one huge level) are constantly changing and shifting. Not to mention the game takes place in real-time so the ship is slowly filling with water (which can be a good thing because swimming allows you to access new areas). You choose from 1 of 4 totally different characters and also meet other survivors and they can help you reach new areas as well. The game starts out about 10 minutes before the disaster where you can explore the ship going about it's normal business, it's a lot like the beginning of Half Life 1 or 2. It never plays the same way twice. Simply awesome and atmospheric and ahead of it's time. Too bad nobody played it.
 
Shenmue (1 & 2)

Though i know some of you have played the game/s here. I know MANY of you havent. The game takes place in Japan and China in the late 80's. The main character Ryo, his father was murdered and a mystical mirror was stolen. Ryo sets out to avenge his father on a huge adventure, through real Japanese and Chinese locations. Ryo then begins to discover magical things including a second mirror.

The game is immensly detailed! Draw are filled with stuff you can pick up and look at. The environments have realistic background sounds, such as dogs barking. The weather (more so in Shenmue 1) looks very realistic and is the same weather that was on that day in real life. The character models are very impressive, the voice acting, though a bit slow at times, is very good. The fighting scenes, are perfect.

If you haven't played this game, check it out. Give it a chance, don't just play it for 5 mins and say "what!? no guns? Argh this is Sh*t..."
 
Sorry Ren, I played Shenmue 1 for about 2 hours and thought it was incredibly boring.
 
i played this one once... called half life 2... oh, wait .... :|

Matrix Online :D

now i bet, you all know it! but have never played it :D neither ;(
 
The Magic Knight series on the spectrum, Finders Keepers, Knight Tyme and Spellbound.
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Skool Daze and Back to skool, again on the spectrum
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Cybernoid, that was a cool game.
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Paradroid 90. Loved it
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3D Monster Maze hehehe.

This old ancient C64 game in a forest with huge creatures you had to shoot with a bow and arrow.. I found it again recently but forgot it now. Actually had parallax scrolling, impressive for something SO old. (was made long before games started using that trick)

Weird Dreams. used to be on an early morning Saturday kids show. Along with Xenon, both were so cool. but Weird Dreams was WEIRD and actually incredibly creepy.
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Feud, loved that game, you played a wizard fueding with another in the same village.. had a very big gameworld to explore and tons of ingredients to collect and mix together to make spells to try beat the other wizard. Has remake written all over it.
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Ghost Hunter, one of the first games that let you have two players controlling one character, one moved around, one controlled the target.

Fairlight on the speccy, cool isometric fun
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The Great Escape, more isometric fun and one of my all time favorites (big WWII POW movie fan)
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sweevo's world. again with the isometric, you could move just about any object in the rooms and walk on them and push them about, it was amazing considering it was a 48k speccy game.
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Little computer people

Purple Saturn Day

Captain Blood

Kult




That should do for now :) Think I'll grab an emulator and play some of those old classics again
 
Jintor said:
Ok, here's the idea: We post the names, and details, of a videogame that you think no-one else is likely to have played.


Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral town for GBA.

Farming Simulator. Dosn't sound fun? Play it. It's the only real way to describe it. Strangely addictive.
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did you get the idea from the ttlg forums thread?

anyway hidden and dangerous series,anyone played that,its quite a cult series
 
Thing on a spring on C64, oh and International Karate + on C64, oh and Burnin' Rubber on C64, oh yeah and Up and Down on C64...etc etc.
 
Grand Theft Auto 3 for Play Station2

Hard to say on PC - maybe Deus Ex or Fallout
 
Calanen said:
Btw - there is a warez remake of Skool Daze around for the PC. Skool Daze was a fantastic game. Im surprised anyone remembers it....
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yep I've played the remake (took like forever to find a working download). It's pretty damn good too, but its annoying as hell to try get it working as its from the win95 days and doesn't like win2k and above.

It's certainly not classed as warez though, i believe the guys who made it asked if they could or something. I just wish they'd do one thats more forgiving for win2k systems.
 
One i had the demo of aggges ago and forgot the name of, till i found it on arcadia

netstorm:

basically you start off with an island in the sky and you have to capture and sacrifice the enemy islands priest using a large variety of buildings aligned to either sun, wind, thunder or rain
 
DarkStar said:
Sorry Ren, I played Shenmue 1 for about 2 hours and thought it was incredibly boring.
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Well at least you tried it. Most people i've spoke to that said it sucked only played it for a while...
 
Mega-Lo-Mania!!

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Now that was a fun game. Similar to Powermonger and Realms only very comical with camp AI leaders
 
Exhumed was a lot of fun

And there was a game called PO'ed for the Playstation. To this day I don't know what the hell it was about - there were arses on legs that farted, and you could hit them with a frying pan? But it may have had the earliest incarnation of the Redeemer i.e. the rocket launcher in the game has controllable rockets (from the view of the rocket). It was fun but completely bizarre!

Give the pics below a chance to load, they are off poorly hosted fan sites :p

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Calanen said:
Grand Theft Auto 3 for Play Station2
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Riiiiiiight. Only millions of people have played that one.

Breakdown for Xbox
Vigilante 8 for PlayStation
Vigilante 8: Second Offense for PlayStation
Super Dodgeball Advance for Game Boy Advance
Subterrania for Sega Genesis
Gunvalkyrie for Xbox
Alter Echo for Xbox

EDIT: The Ooze for Sega Genesis
 
Katamari Damacy figures in my list, because i'm in the UK and we're only allowed crap games here or something... Perhaps the antics of a little green guy rolling a ball around are considered too shocking for us tea-drinkers.

Tally Ho.
 
Grim Fandango for the PC, I love the Monkey Island games but I just never got around to playing this one.
 
mortiz said:
Grim Fandango for the PC, I love the Monkey Island games but I just never got around to playing this one.
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aw monkey island,those were the days,i'd love to play em again
 
Deus Ex, as much as its known, its as much unknown.
 
Dues Ex 1 just blew me away so did Morrowind
 
Gothic 1 and 2. Gothic 2 was the Best RPG of 2003 according to PCG US and yet hardly anyone has heard of it.
 
Nexus: The Jupiter Incident

Came out last year, almost no one plays it, but it's a fun, deep, and graphically beautiful space sim with a story better than any Sci-Fi shows right now.
 
Quarantine - the taxi driver game where you could fit machine guns and rockets and stuff to your taxi to fight the gangs and jump over buildings, pretty cool, only played the demo though.
 
EvilInside said:
Shadowrunner for Snes. Anyone here played it?
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I've played that, and an emulated genesis version which was more action, less rpg. The snes one was indeed much fun, tho I never did manage to beat it.
 
The Longest Journey

Great adventure game with great characters and story.
 
I'm gonna say Joint Operations :p

How many of you have played it? I just had one of the best times on it tonight, playing co-op with 3 other guys off the muse forums. There was 5 human people, doing lots of structed missions against AI enemies. It was so much better actually working as a team to accomplish stuff, this is how the game was meant to be played :D
 
joule said:
Riiiiiiight. Only millions of people have played that one.

Breakdown for Xbox
Vigilante 8 for PlayStation
Vigilante 8: Second Offense for PlayStation
Super Dodgeball Advance for Game Boy Advance
Subterrania for Sega Genesis
Gunvalkyrie for Xbox
Alter Echo for Xbox

EDIT: The Ooze for Sega Genesis
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Apologies - missed the point of the thread. My dyslexia must be working overtime and I stand corrected. I read it as the best game you have ever played....when

Its actually quite amusingly stupid to have posted that after reading the first post again heh.
 
Calanen said:
Apologies - missed the point of the thread. My dyslexia must be working overtime and I stand corrected. I read it as the best game you have ever played....when

Its actually quite amusingly stupid to have posted that after reading the first post again heh.
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I assuming you thought he meant what games you yourself haven't played but are critically acclaimed. That's what I thought too, and I would have posted the same as you but I happened to read the first one accidently
 
Breakdown-Xbox
Deus Ex-PC/PS2
Fallout 1 and 2-PC
Shenmue 2-Xbox
The Getaway-PS2
 
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