games u feel no one remembers.... 🖳

[SWZTCH]

this, does anyone remember this masterpiece omfg.

WAIT TELL ME MORE....... i fear the cover is so familiar....... holy molyy

[SWZTCH]

My pick for "90's PC game mostly forgotten to time" is Hardwar

thanks for sharing this one as well!!! defo looking into this one more.. it gives a vibe i really like

[Al Baron]

A great recent example of this has been the phenomenal (and still ongoing) Ultima series retrospective by Majular: it's a franchise that can claim the credit for literally creating RPGs, MMOs and immersive sims (among many smaller game design traits now considered baseline)

Sorry to contiune this quote train but I found this comment funny on his Ultima Underworld vid:

[Trysdyn]

god, I remember spending an embarrassing amount of time in Shining Soul II for the GBA

Same! But that was a couple years ago. I kind of ruined its speedrun by discovering if you get to the pirate ship and glitch-dupe the free +1 STR power wine you get 200 times, you can destroy the rest of the game in an hour as any class.

Oops.

Amazing game though; I still run through it once in awhile for funsies.

[Mefurbëtas]

Scourge Hive is a game I have never seen ANYONE talk about, and this is coming from a Trauma Center/Team fan (Awesome DS/Wii series BTW,I do recommend playing through all the games)

It's been awhile since I played but I think it was a timed action adventure game that played like an isometric Metroid game, horror themings included.

[Ja'aran]

Ribbit King actually slaps

[hellojed]

Dillon's Dead Heat breakers is a game I only seem to remember. part of the problem is that it was a late late 3DS title, and it was eShop only in the US.

Turns your Mii into an animal after starting a new game. Turns streetpass friends into animals, which then become NPCs you can hire and level up. The character designs are all furries and it's all really good?

Missions are a frantic maelstrom of tower defense, beat em up, and map traversal. The final stage of each level turns into racing combat.

In between missions you have a little town you can walk around in and do various things, such as
- Running a shop
- Dirtbike racing
- Pachinko parlor

each minigame is really fleshed out and could be it's own game. Dirtbike racing could be a whole game. The shopkeeper minigame could be a whole game.

The writing and music are really really charming. I regularly will snap photos of dialog or item descriptions because they're really funny or charming.

Anyway I think I'm the only person who remembers this game.

[Lolo De Puzlo]

Ribbit King actually slaps

Only just recently played Ribbit King and it's extremely good.

[Ivy-IV]

I don't think I've ever heard anybody talk about Dead Head Fred:


Weird little game! Combination schlock horror/noir vibe, you play a detective who wakes up with no memory of the past few days, and a bad case of Decapitation. His brain salvaged in a jar and bolted back on, he has to find out who did it and why. Also he's voiced by John C McGinley.
It's kind of a search action-ish

Hidden text.

Headtroidvania

game where you get new abilities for puzzles/platforming/combat by finding heads you can swap between.

[xwildwhirlx]

DRAWN TO LIFE SERIES INSTANTLY POPPED INTO MY HEAD

Hidden text.

ITS REALLY FUN AND YOU GET TO DRAW STUFF AND THE STORY IS INTERESTING

ignore the newest game btw… Drawn To Life: Two Realms isn’t real and can’t hurt u… *is in denial*

[Cayman]

Dillon's Dead Heat breakers is a game I only seem to remember. part of the problem is that it was a late late 3DS title, and it was eShop only in the US.

Turns your Mii into an animal after starting a new game. Turns streetpass friends into animals, which then become NPCs you can hire and level up. The character designs are all furries and it's all really good?

Missions are a frantic maelstrom of tower defense, beat em up, and map traversal. The final stage of each level turns into racing combat.

In between missions you have a little town you can walk around in and do various things, such as
- Running a shop
- Dirtbike racing
- Pachinko parlor

each minigame is really fleshed out and could be it's own game. Dirtbike racing could be a whole game. The shopkeeper minigame could be a whole game.

The writing and music are really really charming. I regularly will snap photos of dialog or item descriptions because they're really funny or charming.

Anyway I think I'm the only person who remembers this game.

I actually have Dillon's Rolling Western on my boyfriend's 3DS! Never played Dead Heat Breakers, though. It's a pretty unusual game both in terms of game structure and mechanics, though I only played a little bit of it before.

[CosmicMocha]

god, I remember spending an embarrassing amount of time in Shining Soul II for the GBA



it's a hack'n'slash game where you can play as either a wolf man or a dragon man. the wolf man in particular also gets a passive skill where his HP regenerate over time, which is *really* good

OMG yes!! Shining Souls II is incredible, as soon as I saw this thread I was gonna post about the Shining franchise in general. Specifically the Shining Force series which is basically the most popular spin off




Shining Force was basically Sega's answer to Nintendo's Fire Emblem, but even then it has some amazing features for its time (that even Fire Emblem wouldn't get until way later) Shining Force 3 (with all of its 3 scenarios) is maybe one of my favorite games of all time. The whole series was developed by Camelot Software Planning, which would later become more well known for basically being a Nintendo 2nd Party (Mario Tennis, Golden Sun, etc)

Aside from being one of my favorites SJRPGs franchises, there's a few fur fellows that are actually good units! So definitely give them a go.

[RueAzure]

I was always partial to Legend of Dragoon



It's honestly one of my favorite JRPGs of all time. It suffered in the era from an awful localization, as well as competing with titans like Final Fantasy.

In all honestly, it's pretty bog-standard fantasy writing, starting at a tyrant trying to overthrow a king, but...

I dunno, maybe there's something to be said about the fact that the main characters insert the souls of dragons into themselves to tap into their power (and don really sick armor besides). I think the design work and aesthetic of the dragoon armor is what really did it for me.

[Lord Tirion]

Scourge Hive is a game I have never seen ANYONE talk about, and this is coming from a Trauma Center/Team fan (Awesome DS/Wii series BTW,I do recommend playing through all the games)

It's been awhile since I played but I think it was a timed action adventure game that played like an isometric Metroid game, horror themings included.

I kmew i saw that cover before, the game is planned to rerelease on steam at some point

[LiraKat_]

I was always partial to Legend of Dragoon



It's honestly one of my favorite JRPGs of all time. It suffered in the era from an awful localization, as well as competing with titans like Final Fantasy.

In all honestly, it's pretty bog-standard fantasy writing, starting at a tyrant trying to overthrow a king, but...

I dunno, maybe there's something to be said about the fact that the main characters insert the souls of dragons into themselves to tap into their power (and don really sick armor besides). I think the design work and aesthetic of the dragoon armor is what really did it for me.

OH FUCK YES I LOVED THIS GAME when i was a wee child i just could not fight the last boss but years later, i realize how god damn easy it is

the art design, music, and vfx, not to mention its fun combat system is really really something wonderful, i miss this game

[RueAzure]

OH FUCK YES I LOVED THIS GAME when i was a wee child i just could not fight the last boss but years later, i realize how god damn easy it is

the art design, music, and vfx, not to mention its fun combat system is really really something wonderful, i miss this game

There's a pretty vibrant fan community for it still. Someone's even working on a full report of the game to PC, there's a script overhaul, and some difficulty hacks (both hard and easy modes, plus QoL improvements)

I guess it's more people don't talk about it enough, and less people don't remember it aheh.

[Mefurbëtas]

Scourge Hive is a game I have never seen ANYONE talk about, and this is coming from a Trauma Center/Team fan (Awesome DS/Wii series BTW,I do recommend playing through all the games)

It's been awhile since I played but I think it was a timed action adventure game that played like an isometric Metroid game, horror themings included.

I kmew i saw that cover before, the game is planned to rerelease on steam at some point

Oh hell yeah?!

[SWZTCH]

I kmew i saw that cover before, the game is planned to rerelease on steam at some point

wishlisted on sight tbh whoa....... thanks for the link!!!!!!!!!!

[azushark]

oh boy have i got a game for y'all

Ashes to Ashes: Feeding the Fires of War!



Developed by Deep River Games and published by COREL.

yeah, that COREL

Mediocre boomer shooter with a pretty simple gameplay loop (KETM, pick up 3 evil brains, move on to next level), but it has a special place in my heart as the first FPS i ever played lmao

I even found out how to go out of bounds in one of the levels recently:

[Emblem]

Hahaaaaaa, I'd be shocked if anyone's seen this one before. Gubble is at least LOOSELY in the public consciousness, if barely, but NOBODY knows about the sequel. Apparently, the devs just kinda forgot to send out review copies and most of the reviewers thought the game the game was cancelled LMAO

I'm pretty sure my mom got my copy in the bargain bin at Circuit City when I was a kid, but I played the hell out of it.

[Al Baron]

Me: So here's my main OC, Giacomo-
Other Person: Oh did you get the name from Baten Kaitos?
Me:...actually no. I got the name from an old mid-aughts RTS called Rise of Legends. One of the main character is called that.

[XerShadowTail]

Wild Metal Country! Made by the same people who made Grand Theft Auto, who are now known only as the makers of GTA. This is a nice and slow tank game where you collect rainbow cores and return them.

[NovaSquirrel]

Evil Zone for PlayStation 1 is a game I played a lot as a kid that I don't think I've seen anyone else talk about. It's a neat fighting game with a very simplified control scheme, only featuring the d-pad, an attack button, and guard button (but the attack button can do all sorts of different things when combining it with a direction (or directions), duration of the press, or the distance between the characters) The story mode presents itself as if each character is starring in their own anime which is a very creative choice. It's definitely a much more solid fighting game than Digimon Rumble Arena which was also a childhood PS1 game for me (but that game has Terriermon so that's a huge plus in its favor.)

[vurrsys]

I'm convinced I dreamt this game at times but there was a tie-in game for an Animal Planet series called "I, Predator" with the same name. It was a multiplayer game where you simulated the life of several animals, having to eat to survive and avoid getting hurt. You either played as a herbivore or had the random chance to play as a carnivore. I remember the chat being pretty toxic and having to put a sticky note on top of it or else my mom wouldn't let me play. Its basically lost to time, being a multiplayer-only licensed game, but I was super into it for a bit

[Weasel]

Wild Metal Country! Made by the same people who made Grand Theft Auto, who are now known only as the makers of GTA. This is a nice and slow tank game where you collect rainbow cores and return them.

Oh, I really love Wild Metal Country, it falls into the genre of Games Where Hard Controls Are The Gameplay.

Speaking of, Psygnosis' (1999) Lander is definitely in it. The game is unfortunately a right pig to get running these days, but man, what a game.



And speaking of early 3d games, Galapagos is also delightfully weird. Think adventure game, but the main character is Black&White's creature and the only controls you have are interacting with the environment around it.