Most Overlooked Games.....ever?

cazsim83 · Post by **cazsim83** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 7:51 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrgeiz

I spent about twenty minutes trying to find the name of this game - I've always hated fighting games, except maybe Soul Calibur and Marvel vs. Capcom - so when my friend brought this over to my house one day about .... 9 years ago or something like that, I was *very* disappointed.

However, once he beat me up a few times, he had to go home (thank god) but he left the game at my house so I could 'practice'.

Needless to say, I just went and tried to see if I could find the 'sound test' that so many games had back then, and my god they had a dungeon-crawler questline, which was pretty damn fun I might add.

I remember two characters, and luckily I leveled them up pretty evenly, because the only shit part I remember was the last boss, who, when you defeated him, blew up and killed your character. Making the second character have to go through the whole damn dungeon to finally make it to the last room, have a little nostalgia, and then beat the game.

Dreadnought · Post by **Dreadnought** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 10:26 am

What's with Japs being fascinated in German words?

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 1:13 pm

Ban caszim?

rabidpeanut · Post by **rabidpeanut** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 1:16 pm

Japanese people are nazi's therefore they obviously love the ones who started it all.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 4:15 pm

why are ff7 characters in this
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rabidpeanut · Post by **rabidpeanut** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 5:19 pm

Because the chinks at square penis head dont understand that creating something NEW is a good thing. THey must have at LEAST 99% of their game be identical to the last one and character names MAY NOT CHANGE. EVER. if you are a black buy with a gun your name is barrett, if you are a fire monster you are irfit, if you are an ass tentacle lover whole rapes little children you name is cloud, and you carry a big sword to cover up your generic miniature erectile stub you call a penis/squid probe.

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 5:57 pm

I think one of the most overlooked games was Terminal Velocity by Terminal Reality and published by 3d Realms. It came out in '95 and is sort of a big outside version of Descent on various worlds with some indoor flying. In my opinion, it was way more fun than the whole of the Descent series.

Years later I discovered there was a terrible sequel called Fury3 which sucked balls.

Caleb · Post by **Caleb** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 6:50 pm

Mad Max RW wrote:I think one of the most overlooked games was Terminal Velocity by Terminal Reality and published by 3d Realms. It came out in '95 and is sort of a big outside version of Descent on various worlds with some indoor flying. In my opinion, it was way more fun than the whole of the Descent series.

Years later I discovered there was a terrible sequel called Fury3 which sucked balls.

tv was one of the best games of that era. still quite good and worth replay. BTW - thanks to hamachi/dosbox it CAN be networked if anyone wants to play(it had multiplayer if i recall correctly...been quite a while)

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 6:54 pm

I would have to say Laser Squad Nemesis from the guys who made x-com. It came out a couple years ago and was really a cool idea but it just never caught on, if it had a lot more people playing it I would have most likely joined but at the time I didn't think it was worth my time to get involved. It had a unique battle system in which both teams plan their moves then send it in and each teams moves play out at the same time so you have to have a bit of prediction skills. It also had over email play so you could play a whole bunch of games at once.

Theres probably still some people playing it if you guys want to try it out. You could probably play against the computer too but that doesn't sound as fun.

Post by **Dogmeatlives** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 7:12 pm

Definitely one of the most overlooked games ever is Hogs of War. Great turn-based combat. Sorta like the 3-D Worms games, but ten times better.
Very funny, and can get quite intense if you play against a skilled opponent.

I definitely recommend it, and can't wait for the second.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 8:09 pm

POOPERSCOOPER wrote:I would have to say Laser Squad Nemesis from the guys who made x-com. It came out a couple years ago and was really a cool idea but it just never caught on, if it had a lot more people playing it I would have most likely joined but at the time I didn't think it was worth my time to get involved. It had a unique battle system in which both teams plan their moves then send it in and each teams moves play out at the same time so you have to have a bit of prediction skills. It also had over email play so you could play a whole bunch of games at once.

Theres probably still some people playing it if you guys want to try it out. You could probably play against the computer too but that doesn't sound as fun.

With a better name, maybe it would have been more popular

When I read about the demo it just sound like laserquest.

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 8:27 pm

Laser Tag was THE place for birthday parties as a kid but it was always fuckin gay in hind sight. I would be standing behind some barrier and the chest thing start vibrating and I shoot at other people and their shit never goes off, plus you had to like recharge at stations after like a few shots. I remember they had a no running policy which was really gay too, you would see kids forcing themselves to walk or speed walk but I understood why after I was running and accidentally ran into my friends sister and knocked her on the ground and she started to cry. Her mom came and help her and shes like "go on its okay" so I could kick some more ass cause thats how I roll.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 8:50 pm

I only went once, and we were going around the place in duos; I was with my friend, he was up front and I was checking our back, but each time he'd step in front of a mirror he automatically shot, moved away, and the fucking thing hit me after bouncing of the mirror.

I still managed not to finish in last position. That was kind of humiliating for the shitty kids who were like 19th on 22 kids.

rabidpeanut · Post by **rabidpeanut** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 9:20 pm

Skull monkeys and the neverhood.

And just about anything in the underdogs hall of fame.

Laser tag is paintball for swell guy. If you get hit you deserve pain.

google buttkicker.

Stainless · Post by **Stainless** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 9:07 am

I still go to laser tag at least once a year. It's a good way to catch up with mates who you don't see often othern then just getting drunk.

rabidpeanut · Post by **rabidpeanut** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 12:05 pm

:Cock to face ball bag eye slap:

Go and play paintball instead.

Frater Perdurabo · Post by **Frater Perdurabo** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 1:50 pm

Mad Max RW wrote:I think one of the most overlooked games was Terminal Velocity by Terminal Reality and published by 3d Realms. It came out in '95 and is sort of a big outside version of Descent on various worlds with some indoor flying. In my opinion, it was way more fun than the whole of the Descent series.

Years later I discovered there was a terrible sequel called Fury3 which sucked balls.

I played Fury 3 a long time ago and it was a shitload of fun. Really. One of my favourite games back in the day. And I'm pretty sure I've played Terminal Velocity as well, the name sounds awfully familiar.

Caleb · Post by **Caleb** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 6:29 pm

lasertag is awesome as long as you involve some form of contact/bring nerf bats

Aonaran · Post by **Aonaran** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 8:22 pm

These probably weren't very good games but I loved the shit out of them for their simplicity and fuck around gameplay fun. Destrega and Ghost in the Shell for PS1. Both had abnormally large game environments for the "generation" and genre. I also dug the shit out of the combination of long and short range attacks in Destrega. For Ghost in the Shell I respeced the balls it had to include a gameplay dynamic that was removed entirely from the theatrical release: the Fuchikoma. The sheer amount of crazy acrobatic shit you could do was a blast.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destrega

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_t ... eo_game%29

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 8:53 pm

Shining Force II

I had this one for Genesis. Awesome RPG, nice art style, cool characters with really different styles(centaurs, werewolf, golems, vampires, robots, gunners, birdmen and even ratmen

), plus it had a really good turn-based, strategy intensive, combat system. All the ingredients for a totally addictive game.