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[Singularity125]

Certainly less obscure than the others here, but I've been contemplating starting a Rune Factory 4 thread. Seems like it'd interest a lot of people here, but maybe not.

Seems rare that threads about portable games appear, myself would love to play RF4 but i dont have the 3DS.

Hm, I guess that's true. They have a higher cost of entry than normal console games, which are probably gonna be ported to at least one console you already own. Pokemon, as always, is the glaring exception But if you have a normal DS, RF3 is decent too. Good luck finding it anywhere but amazon though.

played Rf1-3 with emulators, 3ds does not have one yet and i do not feel like buying a 3ds just for one game.
How is it compared to the previous ones anyway?

I skipped over 2, but if you liked 3 you'd like 4. The townspeople aren't QUITE as quirky (nothing on the level of Pia from 3) but they're interesting enough, and there's nobody truly generic like Shara. You can choose either a male or female to play as, which is a nice touch. You start with one small-ish field, but you can eventually get up to 5. Soil still wears out and such, but it's easier to keep in check because you can actually find Withered grass more than once in a blue moon. You're not half-monster in this one but you can attack with fist weapons, which plays out similar to the wooly combat in 3. There are plenty of upgrades through the "Prince/Princess Points" system, including those extra fields, monster barns, bigger storage and such. Life is easier as an item hoarder. The crafting is more indepth with a lot of unique upgrades later on, including one that adds range to your weapon. And... that's probably enough rambling. But yeah, I'd recommend it.

Crackdown was fun too, what little I played of it. A college friend had it and we played a bit of co-op. I think we did just as much beating each other up as we did going through the game. Still remember the admonitions of "That's an Agent, Agent!"

[Nao]

For me it would be Eador: Genesis which does have a 9 page thread here, but whenever i mention it, nobody knows what i'm talking about.

And it's even worse with "Vantage Master Online" a great Japanese fantasy turn based strategy, kind of similar to Battle for Wesnoth.
Doesn't have deep story or lot of customization, but i really like it's gameplay (varied but balanced with asymmetrical elements).

It's really well made, with detailed pixel art, single player campagin, and PvP duel mode with lots of maps including well balanced asymmetrical ones. And IT'S FREE with basic English translation on the dev website, but nobody knows about it T_T

[Virtz]

Brutal Doom - best mod ever.

Also, I guess Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri gets dissapointingly little love. Wish there were more power armour simulators out there.

[IronTomato]

The two Oddworld games for PS1.
They're so great in every way, I've played them for longer than I can remember, and only a couple months ago did I save all 99 idiots in the first game - now I must take many more years to do it for the second game. 

Also, the Spyro games. Even The Legend Of Spyro games. Along with Metal Gear Solid 3, The Legend Of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon is the only game that has made me almost cry. (MGS3 Made me actually cry though  )

Probably because I got really attached to the little purple guy after playing the PS1 games my entire childhood. SO MUCH NOSTALGIA!

[Sappho]

Oh, what about Samorost? You can play 1 for free online, and 2 is very cheap on Steam. I love everything by Amanita Design, and I get a bonus tickle inside that they're a Czech company.

[Bouchart]

Tried a playthough of Abe's Oddysee a few months ago.  It's very difficult to rescue everyone.  Never did get far into it before getting frustrated.

Brutal Doom is fun.

Also, three cheers for Descent 1 and 2.

[GlyphGryph]

Starsiege.

Goddamn did I love Starsiege. It was an incredibly formative game for me, basically Mechwarrior with an amazing campaign you could play either side of, a super interesting world, fun gameplay and good music.

[Mesa]

Oh, what about Samorost? You can play 1 for free online, and 2 is very cheap on Steam. I love everything by Amanita Design, and I get a bonus tickle inside that they're a Czech company.

I'm playing this atm, and boy, this game is weird.
Weird in a typically Czech way.

You guys have some sort of photorealistic, pixelated graphics fetish. :V (just saying, but that's what this game, Factorio and every old Czech cartoon has led me to believe)

[Sappho]

They're usually photorealistic because they're real. They don't do a lot of digital animation here. It's almost entirely stop-motion and hand-animated things. Computers are only used to add extra effects and patch things together. Hence the unique look - this is the only place I know of that has a strong stop-motion animation industry which has been continually developed over all the years since it was invented, rather than largely replaced by digital techniques.

For example, the logs that make up the asteroid things in Samorost are actual photographs of actual logs. Almost everything in the game is patched together from real photos. They only get pixelated when they zoom in too much. As to why they do that, I don't have an answer, but it does seem to happen quite frequently.

If you have a look in a typical Czech home, one that's been in a family for a few generations, the decor is very similar to the type of stuff you see in Czech animations. Loads of mismatched antiques, everything carefully arranged but just an incredible variety of different things with no purpose other than to create this sort of atmosphere.

I love it. : )

[Mesa]

Even more baffling considering that I live relatively close to the Czech-Polish border (and for the record I am Polish), and stuff like Mole (or Krtek/ Krteček/Krecik) was stuff of my childhood. I still have a few DVDs lying around this goddamn house. I need to give it another spin.

[scrdest]

Even more baffling considering that I live relatively close to the Czech-Polish border (and for the record I am Polish), and stuff like Mole (or Krtek/ Krteček/Krecik) was stuff of my childhood. I still have a few DVDs lying around this goddamn house. I need to give it another spin.

Krtek was 2spooky at times. I preferred A je to!/Susedy/Pat a Mat. Classic.

[Graknorke]

Creeper World
I haven't seen any of them mentioned. The second wasn't too great (it departed so far out from the style of the first by completely changing perspective and mechanics and they didn't really do it well), but the first and third are excellent. Definitely my favourite take on the tower-defence-like genre.

[Humdilla]

MediEvil 1 and 2 are two of my favorite games from childhood. Sir Daniel Fortesque... beating badies with his own torn-off arm since PlayStation 1. What a hero.

[foil]

I never hear people on about I-War/Independence War much.

Its the game that got me into space sims years ago and still nothing has came close for drawing me in since.  Lots of variety of missions and sim like physics with real weight and inertia vs arcade turning on rails without drift on newer space games.  you could also take control of any station on the bridge or manage damage control for the ship.

Played it a few times then again when the 3dfx glide patch came out lol.

The 14 minute intro is worth a watch alone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9AN1hpbw2Y

[itisnotlogical]

Infocom text adventures. If anybody knows one it's usually Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which isn't even the best one IMO. All of the "____ Quest" games by Sierra seemed extremely unfunny to me in comparison to games like Leather Goddesses of Phobos. Leisure Suit Larry is a different matter, but that's a nearly one-for-one graphical recreation of an earlier text game called Softporn Adventure.

If anybody wants to play a game that was way ahead of its time in terms of storytelling, check out A Mind Forever Voyaging. Make sure to read all the background story in the manual too. AMFV was 'cinematic' before most games even had graphics to speak of.