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[QuakeIV]

Unfortunately doesn't seem to be that one.

[Akura]

I'm looking for a tactical JRPG. It was a bit like Fire Emblem. Could have been released at any date before 2005. It had aesthetics similar to any old 2D Fire Emblem game. I remember there was an unit with axes (dual wielded, I think) and his attack animation was some kind of a jump and spinning and landing with a slash with his axes. He was wearing green. Honestly I don't remember much. You could customize your main character a bit and upgrade your roster. I remember the axe dude changing his appearance after getting upgraded. He could deal a lot of damage but would miss often.

Shining Force? Not sure it when it was originally released(on the Genesis) but it apparently had a remake in 2004. It's been described as Sega's answer to Fire Emblem; I've not played FE, though. The green guy with the spinning jump attack animation is probably Gort; he and Luke were the only characters that could wield axes if I remember correctly(and have the same animations. Luke is blue).

[Stench Guzman]

Der Langrisser was another sprite based tactical RPG from the 16-bit era.

[Sergius]

This one for the lulz, and probably out of scope for this thread.

It was a portable battery operated game. It ran 3 belts with aliens painted on them, and you had a start stop button which you had to press when your 3 cannons were lined up with them (so each gun had 3 aliens above it, 9 total). The game would reveal explosions in some of the aliens, and sometimes on one of your cannons you had to move a slider to cover that cannon to signify that you lost a life, this also made it not possible to shoot the alien above it. You counted your points with a clicker, which had a manual reset button, and if you lost all your gun batteries you lost the game.

I once opened it and it literally was just belts, a couple gears and one or two small electrical motors on a plastic base.

I remember something like about... 25 years ago? It was basically mechanical Space Invaders. Cool little thing.

Edit: And not the ones that keep coming up when you search for 'mechanical Space Invaders' that have the lights either; it was maybe 5x12in?

It was probably that old, or more, I must have been 12 or so back then, so close to 30 years ago. The device was about the size of a large iPad but fatter.

Yeah, those games that keep popping up in my searches which look archaic are like nanotechnology compared to that one.

The closest one in terms of functionality and construction (but not gameplay) is Tomy Toys Digital Derby Auto Raceway, and even that one seems at least 10% more advanced.

[Felius]

There was this old 3d CRPG I can't for the life of me remember the name, not very popular, had an early "npc daily routine", and at least two of the characters were, I think, a monk (western, not martial arts) novice who used to be a thief, and a young woman who was a wizard apprentice.

I remember it wasn't all that good, but if I can't remember the name it will absolutely gnaw on my brain until I do.

[Aoi]

There was this old 3d CRPG I can't for the life of me remember the name, not very popular, had an early "npc daily routine", and at least two of the characters were, I think, a monk (western, not martial arts) novice who used to be a thief, and a young woman who was a wizard apprentice.

I remember it wasn't all that good, but if I can't remember the name it will absolutely gnaw on my brain until I do.

Was that the first-person/grid one that had Far Too Many Stats to keep track of, and if you weren't absurdly careful, you'd probably get hypothermia/frostbite in the first five minutes after starting and die from it like ten hours later because you couldn't manage to cure it?

[Il Palazzo]

Was that the first-person/grid one that had Far Too Many Stats to keep track of, and if you weren't absurdly careful, you'd probably get hypothermia/frostbite in the first five minutes after starting and die from it like ten hours later because you couldn't manage to cure it?

Hey I know that one. It's the Realms of Arkania series - or at least the first two games in it, since IIRC they did away with most or all of the travel woes by the third instalment.

But I don't remember any such characters as Felius described, or npc-specific daily routine, so he might be thinking of a different game after all.

[Aoi]

Was that the first-person/grid one that had Far Too Many Stats to keep track of, and if you weren't absurdly careful, you'd probably get hypothermia/frostbite in the first five minutes after starting and die from it like ten hours later because you couldn't manage to cure it?

Hey I know that one. It's the Realms of Arkania series - or at least the first two games in it, since IIRC they did away with most or all of the travel woes by the third instalment.

But I don't remember any such characters as Felius described, or npc-specific daily routine, so he might be thinking of a different game after all.

I think the one I was thinking of is slightly newer, had a smaller party, and... I want to say there was a river right near the starting area with your objective on the far side, so, being a game, most people would just walk through the river. And immediately get sick. I think the idea was that you were supposed to die very easily on your first try, which would teach you about the illness mechanics and whatnot so you'd follow the river in either direction until you reached a bridge, but it mostly just made people angry at how the game tried to kill you in a 'cheap' way right off the bat. (Not that I'm actually trying to remember what it was, other than it might help if it IS the game that other people are looking for, in which I have something marginally more interesting to do than to wonder if I'm going to have my travel plans disrupted by coronavirus even more. -_-)

Edit:

Spoiler: Unrelated, unless you want to hear about my travel plans which I'm venting on since I mentioned in this post prior. Warning: Profanity. (click to show/hide)

Well, fuckfuckfuckfuck. Courtesy of being routed through China for a technical stop that I didn't even get off the plane for, I'm being denied my next-next leg of travel. Which now strands me in Singapore for 11 days with only a carry-on's worth of luggage and definitely not enough cash. And the ever-so-helpful support office they supplied the number for 30 hours before boarding is closed right now, since they're in the US, and their in-transit problem emergency contact number just says 'Oh. Well, try and board anyways. Hell if I know what'll happen.' REALLY NOW. That's your advice for international travel? Welp, if there's news about dumbass US citizen ending up dead and homeless (or, rather, homeless, shortly followed by dead) in Singapore in the next week, i guess that'll curtail any further posts from this account.

[Felius]

It was definitely a third person game, and I do recall it being newer than Arkania. I actualy checked those one outs, because the name got a bit familiar, but it wasn't that.

Also, Aoi, get in contact your local embassy if you haven't already. They are probably the best equipped to help and counsel you in this situation.

Edit: Aha! Found it! It was Arcatera The Dark Brotherhood. I knew it had something sounding like "arc" or "ark" in it!

[Ai Shizuka]

I'm thinking about this game from the early/mid 90s.
It's a tactical game with team management elements, top-down view, during the american revolution or slightly later.
I remember you could hire soldiers, native guides and possibly non-combat people in your roster.
I also remember you could buy stuff in forts/villages: consumables, weapon upgrades, stuff like glasses or hats for your units.

The title had "fire" in it, but I can't find it.

[Sean Mirrsen]

I'm thinking about this game from the early/mid 90s.
It's a tactical game with team management elements, top-down view, during the american revolution or slightly later.
I remember you could hire soldiers, native guides and possibly non-combat people in your roster.
I also remember you could buy stuff in forts/villages: consumables, weapon upgrades, stuff like glasses or hats for your units.

The title had "fire" in it, but I can't find it.

The only thing from that time period I can think of that kind of sounds like it, is called Jagged Alliance. It's not anywhere near the american revolution as far as I know, and I don't think there were natives of any sort (but there were guides, or rather "tappers", since you were among other things collecting sap), but otherwise it's a top-down tactical management RPG where you get to hire a whole bunch of people and buy stuff for them from villages. And some of the later sequels did have 'fire' in the subtitle, "Wildfire" and "Crossfire", though they were way into the 2000's.

Honestly, looking through some lists I can't really find any tactical RPG sort of game from the 90's time period that has "fire" in the name, unless it's Fire Emblem.

[Ai Shizuka]

Mystery solved.
The title was War along the Mohawk, known as Fields of Fire in Europe.
It was slightly before the  american revolution, during the french and indian war.
And it came out in 1998.

Pretty bad game by the look of some reviews, but I remember having some good time with it.

[Rolan7]

Hey, longshot: 
Did anyone here play Frequency or Amplitude for the PS2?  A rhythm-music game where you have to play various instruments, swapping between them after 2 scores, otherwise much like guitar hero but for the PS2 controller.

I wonder if there are any modern games like that, where you have to swap instruments to keep the band going.
(the instrument keeps playing for a while if you play its notes correctly)

I know this isn't technically thread-appropriate, but I have earned some credits.

[Aoi]

Hey, longshot: 
Did anyone here play Frequency or Amplitude for the PS2?  A rhythm-music game where you have to play various instruments, swapping between them after 2 scores, otherwise much like guitar hero but for the PS2 controller.

I wonder if there are any modern games like that, where you have to swap instruments to keep the band going.
(the instrument keeps playing for a while if you play its notes correctly)

I know this isn't technically thread-appropriate, but I have earned some credits.

Well... I can answer the only actual question in the post~~!  : Yes. In fact, Frequency was one of the games my sister got for the PS2 at time of purchase, and I'm still rather fond of Freezepop.

Oh, and evidently, there's a PS3/4 remake that launched around 2015-16 with new songs, so that might work?

[MCreeper]

Ye olde (but not very) DOS chess-that-is-not. Strictly top-down view, gray-brown color palette. Pieces go in a separate realtime arena when they are attacking each other, you then control yours. HP meters look like blades, with lenght dependent on importance of the piece. Pawns are dieing, knights are running around crazily and try to hit the opponent with their obtuse sideways attack, queen throws fireballs (i thought it was jam back then  ), king throws clouds of sparkles and is also a slowpoke. Don't remember what bishops and rooks were. Picture for exe was a morningstar.

Not like i want to play this gobshite again, but i'm interested in knowing the name.