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| 8 AUG 2003 at 3:06pm |
sennebecGuild Master
Posts : 3334
Joined: 15 NOV 2004
Location: US, maine
Status : Offline | thanks for the input everybody...
hmmm...
i like the looks of ...
wasteland
erevos
and...
bad milk ...
some games i already own that i think would fit in this category...
peter gabriel's eve (excellent art, music and creativity)
drowned god (haven't played it yet)
bad mojo (cool, oddly different)
creature crunch (great ! sometimes you just gotta have a cartoon !)
harvest (another great indie)
sophie's world (philosophical edutainment)
liath (haven't played it yet)
isabelle (whoa... is this weird)
litil divil (can't get it to run)
any more suggestions ?
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| 8 AUG 2003 at 3:58pm |
| Deleted User | isabelle (whoa... is this weird)
Nonono... not weird at all! Different yes, weird no. Not many 3rd person games without dialogues and without inventory around. The player has to discover the story. Beautiful, wonderful game, makes perfect sense. (Not that I have finished it... it isn't an easy game.)
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| 8 AUG 2003 at 4:55pm |
sennebecGuild Master
Posts : 3334
Joined: 15 NOV 2004
Location: US, maine
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Betje (8 AUG 2003 3:57pm)
Nonono... not weird at all! Different yes, weird no. Not many 3rd person games without dialogues and without inventory around. The player has to discover the story. Beautiful, wonderful game, makes perfect sense. (Not that I have finished it... it isn't an easy game.)
that's good to hear, betje...
quess i'll have to re-install this winter when i have more time to focus
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| 8 AUG 2003 at 7:34pm |
MissBSchattenjger
Posts : 2217
Joined: 15 OCT 2002
Status : Online | I really liked "Fable" and don't really hear much about it. espite the fact that the interface and the ending sucked, I still think it's just an adorable little game!
My name is Bethany and I'm the daughter of Gamergal/Michelle.
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| 10 AUG 2003 at 7:04pm |
Goddess of All Things MagicalSchattenjger
Posts : 1565
Joined: 27 MAY 2003
Status : Online | FREDDY PHARKAS:FRONTIER PHARMACIST IS GREAT!
IT JUST PROVES THAT THE OLD GAMES ARE 100% BETTER
THAN THESE GAMES TODAY. I AM JUST THANKFUL THAT I
CAN GET THEM TO RUN ON XP WITH THE CAPATABILITY
ADJUSTMENTS.
I AM CURRENTLY GETTING READY TO START PLAYING
TORIN'S PASSAGE-LOOKS GREAT! CAN'T WAIT! IT'S
ANOTHER OLDIE.
THE FUNNY THING-NOT REALLY- IS THAT THE SOUND IS
PERFECT ON THESE GAMES UNLIKE THE CHOPPY,
GARBLED, UNINTELLIGBILE SOUND ON MANY DREAM-
CATCHER GAMES. GO FIGURE!
&&&&Listening to XM Radio Starbucks Cafe Channel 45&&[IMG]http://img227.echo.cx/img227/8458/dancelikenooneiswatching6ld.png[/IMG]
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| 10 AUG 2003 at 11:01pm |
WimliGuild Master
Posts : 3259
Joined: 14 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | Torin's Passage is a great game, Romnut! It's got that typical Al Lowe kind of humor, just hilarious at times. You know, it was supposed to be the first part of a whole new adventure game series (although it stands perfectly on its own). I never understood why the game never reached a big enough audience to guarantee a sequel.
Oh, and for rare games: have you tried Down in the Dumps? It's got this wacky style of humor that not everyone might like, but I had great fun with it (at least at those moments the game was stable. It did crash regularly, but that might have been a problem on my pc :).
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| 11 AUG 2003 at 3:48am |
Z-GirlPrivate Detective
Posts : 503
Joined: 12 MAR 2003
Status : Online | I don't think it's very obscure, but I liked Clue:Fatal Illusion a lot. I'm sure there are people out there besides me who've played it, but I just haven't heard much about it.
Z-Girl
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| 12 AUG 2003 at 2:40pm |
Armand1880Sorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 223
Joined: 14 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Perhaps not too obscure, but rare...the Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective series. I know Volume 1 isn't rare anymore, but it was one of my first computer games back in 1992, and I finally found Volumes 2 and 3 about a year ago. I find that I can re-play those a lot. But then again, I love Sherlock.
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| 19 AUG 2003 at 5:25am |
jalexSchattenjger
Posts : 2503
Joined: 5 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Romnut (10 AUG 2003 7:04pm)
FREDDY PHARKAS:FRONTIER PHARMACIST IS GREAT!
IT JUST PROVES THAT THE OLD GAMES ARE 100% BETTER
THAN THESE GAMES TODAY. I AM JUST THANKFUL THAT I
CAN GET THEM TO RUN ON XP WITH THE CAPATABILITY
ADJUSTMENTS.
I AM CURRENTLY GETTING READY TO START PLAYING
TORIN'S PASSAGE-LOOKS GREAT! CAN'T WAIT! IT'S
ANOTHER OLDIE.
THE FUNNY THING-NOT REALLY- IS THAT THE SOUND IS
PERFECT ON THESE GAMES UNLIKE THE CHOPPY,
GARBLED, UNINTELLIGBILE SOUND ON MANY DREAM-
CATCHER GAMES. GO FIGURE!
Cool That is a good game too. We have a lot of adventure games to choose from now but I think a lot of them are created with the consol game machines in mind and the ported over to IBM Now days. Some of the are good but it's very hard to tell without buying it and that's a little too late. LOL
Jim
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| 19 AUG 2003 at 6:07am |
JoGuild Master
Posts : 3313
Joined: 3 NOV 2002
Location: AU, Qld.
Status : Offline | gatalaw - loved Wrath of the Gods and also Conspiracy although I've an idea that Conspiracy was a bit "buggy" on my machine.
BarcardiJim - Funny you should mention The Prisoner. Just saw the whole series yesterday on video in the middle of a shopping centre here - they had heaps of old movies on "special". Would love to have the series but there are quite a few videos and thought it worked out too expensive for something that would probably only be watched once. id you watch the series on T.V. years ago? We thought Partick McGoohan was perfect in the role and loved the rather eerie atmosphere. Can't say it all made a lot of sense in the end although I don't remember it that well after all this time and I think people thought there should have been a follow-on series.
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| 19 AUG 2003 at 7:28am |
SentientIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 21
Joined: 12 AUG 2003
Status : Online |
Gene Machine-Somewhat obscure-but a fun British adventure game.
Crusader-fun edutainment game.
Riddle of Master Lu--I heard it's a difficult game but I wouldn't know since I can't get it to run on Win 98 because of some mouse problem.
Longest Journey--just kidding.
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| 19 AUG 2003 at 10:57am |
ElfstoneGuild Master
Posts : 5892
Joined: 4 NOV 2002
Status : Online | Escape from Delirium
A German point&click a la Monkey Island tranlated (with many mistakes) into English. It's a nice little game with some really cool puzzles and even a good degree of non-linearity.
[b]playing[/b]: Destination Treasure Island (done in two sittings, but it's nice), Syberia (ho-hum), Dracula: Last Sanctuary (on hold)&&[b]reading[/b]: even more study papers&&[b]listening to[/b]: [url=http://www.last.fm/user/Brax82/]this and that[/url], plus [url=http://www.musicovery.com/]Musicovery[/url]&&[b]TV favorites[/b]: (currently) Pushing Daisies, Chuck, Journeyman (cancelled! grrr...), Heroes&& all-time) 24, Stargate SG1, X-Files, Lost, House
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