>Sacrifice
I'll probably never play another RTS that's quite this weird in an oddly maniacal sort of way. When I was down there on the ground with my troops, and let loose some world ending spell, I actually felt like I'd done something huge and epic because of the scale and my perspective of the world.

>Populous: the Beginning
I played this when it first came out, and, while there were other populous games and other god games none of them ever felt quite like this. Remember when God games like Black & White were coming back and people were asking for terrain deformation, so that you'd feel like a god? And the response was that machines couldn't handle it? Well, this game did the mass terrain deformation YEARS before that, and it was from Bullfrog which just tells you how far below Bullfrog Lionhead was.

>Dungeon Keeper
No way I can make an oddball game thread without mentioning this little gem. You're an evil entity and you're making your dungeon and heroes try to invade it and you have to use traps and creatures and mazes to fend them off. Just do it. You'll love it.

>The Void
>aka HOLY SHIT WHAT DID I JUST GO THROUGH

Enjoy restarting 4 times half way through the game because you fucked up in the 4th cycle.

Tell me more about Giants: Citizen Kuboto OP.

>Starsiege: Tribes
Years of making Mech games and suddenly they give us a team-based multiplayer first person shooter that brought us pretty much every multiplayer shooter element that today's games copy and pretend they created. And it did it all while giving you a massive lore book explaining the conflict.

Citizen Kabuto was great during the first scenario, decent during the second but became pretty shit during the last part of the game

That said, it's still pretty damn hilarious and worth looking into

OP, you are LITERALLY just listing all the games that I wanted to play in my childhood but never got around to.

Kudos.

>>110664890
jetpack shooter/rts/jetski/monster sim

and blue tits.

Giants: Citizen Kabuto is a great game, and it takes me back.

Loved it, and I need to dig it up again from my old box of shit.

>Nox
This gets overshadowed by Diablo so easily, but it's just so quirky and fun, and not to mention the endings. Yeah, I said endings, multiple endings isn't something you usually expect from something that - at first - appears to be a Diablo Clone. This and Divine Divinity are easily two of the most odd and enjoyable "supposed" Diablo-Clones that are ... actually better than Diablo 1 or 2 ever were.

>>110664887
>Enjoy restarting 4 times half way through the game because you fucked up in the 4th cycle.
devs themselves encourage people to use cheats with the void because resource acquisition is fucked

>Black & White
Okay, I sort of bashed this earlier, but it's still bloody brilliant. For someone like me that is happy to play around in the sandbox, I was able to ignore the complaints of people that found it too open and freeform. Even the creatures were fun if troublesome sometimes (STOP EATING MY WORSHIPPERS!!!)

>>110665024
>Divine Divinity
I thought I was the only one. DD seems so mistakenly like a Diablo clone at first, but is actually hiding a very good old-school RPG under it.

>dat interactive world, being able to move, open and take almost everything

>Spore
Yeah, I know if you take it in context of what it was supposed to be, it's pretty disappointing. However, for you world builders and creature builders, you can make some truly visually striking worlds, cities, vehicles and creatures - it's fun in its own right even if it's not what a lot of you wanted. If you're the creative player the sandbox player there's value for your dollar in this now that it's much, much cheaper.

>>110664631
>>Giants: Citizen Kabuto

It's that sort of game that you'd come up with while you were a child making up your ideal game and you thought "it should have a bit of everything".
Funny thing? They actually executed it extremely well AND it was genuinely funny.

>The Sims: Making Magic
You know what, I don't like the Sims games much but I loved the Sims Making Magic. This is easily something I'd play, and I wish someone would make a full game around the magic concept. I'd love to build up a little magicky town and guide my little would be magician through upping his magical abilities and improving his household and all that.

>>110665285
The RTS mode as mercurians is FUCKING fun i would play that for ages.

To this day I have no idea how they managed to make such a clusterfuck of genres fun. but it is godamn it and whats more its balanced

>Quest for Glory (series)
This series easily gets overshadowed by the Kings Quest series (good games as well mind you), but the puniful humor and intertwined drama, comedy, action, puzzle solving and item/gear collection made it such a unique and enjoyable experience that I can't believe we haven't seen more hybrids of Adventure Game/RPG.

>MDK1,2
>Wild 9

>>110665415
>Adventure Game/RPG

Quest for Glory is one of the very VERY few examples that have actually done this hybrid right by maintaining both aspects of the respective genres.

>>110665334
Are you me?

>Dominus
Oh god, Dominus, you want Real Time Strategy? This was one of those old games that was an RTS before they became very "samey". You're an evil overlord, and your have a giant castle surrounded by your towns and lands. You start the game and you're already being invaded by clans of various species - from all sides. All fucking sides. Set up traps. Capture them. Torture them for info. Put them into your fusing chamber and turn them into hybrid monsters. Let the monsters loose to destroy their former comrades. Research magic and new traps. Collect ingredients and parts for your magic and traps. Make deals with the enemy clans, turn them against one another or get some of them to work for you. Command your generals (yes you have generals) to handle tasks on the side for you,e ach general having RPG-like stats that mean they're better for some tasks than others such as having one manage troops to gather ingredients while another manages defenses. Dominus. This game did not let up.

>Spellforce
It's not nearly as revolutionary as many other games listed here, but it combined RTS and RPG genres so well that it almost seems seamless going between them with your character. Also, expansions. Expansion everywhere.

>Vangers
Surreal ... action/racing game with complicated and unique backstory. Also, voxel graphics engine, full terraforming and shit.

>Legend of Mana
When this came out people I knew that liked Secret of Mana used to bash this game so hard. Luckily I see some people on /v/ that are on the same plane as me, that see this game for the somewhat easy but very, very deep game it is that let you go in depth with crafting, magic making, pet raising, golem making, and even tweaking your combat abilities by combining base abilities like crouch and jump to create new abilities like high jump that could be combined to make further abilities plus your weapon techniques. This is one of those gems from the golden age of Console JRPGs and there's no question as to why, despite some misgivings by some when it first came out, that it's been able to stand the test of time.

>>110666047
My favorite game on PS1.

fucking nostalgia everywhere...

>SaGa Frontier
The JRPG is often criticized, sometimes fairly, for being linear. Well, the SaGa series of games has almost always kicked that notion in the teeth. Games like Romancing SaGa 3 and this PS1 gem SaGa Frontier go far and away from the usual linear concept of a JRPG. Picking of from several characters you can cross paths with all manner of characters, including those you could choose to play as, and explore a strange fantasy/sci-fi mixed world of robots, monsters and corporations with deep pools of skills and abilities spread out across various styles such as unarmed and gun to sword, dual sword and even various schools of magic that can be mixed, matched and some even cancelling each other out.

Knights and Merchants is a medieval-time based Real-time strategy game. Free usermade remake available over at http://www.knights.x10hosting.com/index2.html

Evolva
You're from an alien species. You've got a team of 4. You kill other aliens that have infested your (?) planet. When you kill them, they drop pieces of their flesh which you absorb, thereby absorbing their DNA. In this way you can - from that point on - use the special abilities of those species like having a machine gun or a mortar as your arm, running faster, etc.
It's a nice RPG and allows you to distribute your "DNA points" as you see fit, so you can specialize certain squadmates.

>Jade Empire
I know, I know, so much Bioware hate, but let's look at this title. It wasn't as deep in combat or gear as some games, but let's appreciate just how out of the ordinary it was for a western developer to release. While it's definitely not the best game on the list, it has its inspired moments and ideas that really set it apart from many other western RPGs. Don't expect the world, but give this one a chance if you wondered what a Kung Fu RPG might look like.

>>110666354
OP here, thank you so much for listing that, it was one of them on my list to put up here. Definitely a strange little game worth looking at.

I kind of want to put that merchant girl rpg from Steam up here

Nostalgia thread?
Nostalgia thread

Dungeon keeper
knights and merchants

its like im back in 1997 playing on my 133 mhz pentium....oh i used to envy that motherfucker alex...he had an pentium 166 mmx!

>Galerians
This game shouldn't have worked as well as it did, and it did have its flaws, but it was still a weirdly enticing experience. You play as a young man that wakes up in a lab with a splitting headache, has superior mental powers, takes drugs to give him further powers, and who is always on the verge of migraines that will kill him if he doesn't take a drug to lessen the effects, the effects getting so bad as to cause people's heads to explode when he goes near them. It's sort of a survival horror in some ways, but you're the horror, guards running away as you clutch your head in pain while their comrade's heads explode like gorey fireworks.

>>110666713
PSH I just got my my new TNT video card bro

Think of an RTS where you have to build a base with factories, turrents etc.
Now place yourself in one of your own units (specifically, a hovertank) where you're building stuff and giving other units their orders from the first person perspective AND battling the enemy yourself.

sure it mightn't have been MGS, but the Timesplitters style character design, psychic powers, 2 timelines, the ending...
loved it

>>http://www.megaupload.com/?f=NZ3LVRHE

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>>110666875
Dat heat sink...dat gfx card
also contributan to the thread
Little Big Adventure 2 was an awesome action adventure science fiction game that managed to combine an awesome plot with superb action

>>110667079
Dat ending was superb even if the game lost momentum in the last third.

>http://www.mediafire.com/?ew1xal4zyxc
>http://www.mediafire.com/?ljesyzzmxwx

KNIGHTS AND MERCHANTS PEASANTS REBELLION RIGHT HERE

>>110667482
>Not Voodoo 3 3000

Nigga u gay

Game of the year - all years since '97.

The other game on my "play through once a year"-list.
The other is Doom 2.

>>110664631
The best thing about Giants: Citizen kabuto was that Delphi had to war a bikini top ONLY in the American Version because americans are afraid of nipples

>>110667909
And that'd make more sense with a picture, eh?

>entomorph: plague of the darkfall

a very underrated action adventure rpg where people are constantly disappearing. the source is a syrup that is turning people into insects and in order to save what is left, you must become stronger, by eating the syrup in its purest form and slowly losing your humanity.

simliar gameplay to al quadim: a genie's curse - another underated game

>>110667957
MDK was pretty short. And 2 was heaps better than the original imo.

>>110667955
remember how everyone knew how to restore the original version though?

archive this damn thread. So many gems I'd rather replay and so many tips i'd rather check out rather then playing COD 12 or w/e.

Giants: Citizen Kabuto is incredibly awesome.

And I used to love Twinsen's Odyssey to death, though I'm not sure if it's actually that good or if I was just young and it my first vidya with a story.

>>110668111
MDK 2 was an excellent game too. But well, it had a different kind of feel to it. It wasn't quite as mad as a bona fide Shiny game.

It was made by Bioware, after all.

>>110668356
maybe.. maybe not.. maybe both.

If you wanna try something very odd, I can recommend Cargo! - The quest for gravity.
It's made by the same developers who made The Void.

In my pic for example, I'm protecting a bunch of dancing gnomes, who are trying to reignite a volcano, from angry vuvuzelas.

>>110668505

Reminds me of "/v/ - vuvuzelas" back at the World Cup. ZZZZZzzzZZzzzzzZZZZ

>Myth 2: Soulblighter and Myth: The Fallen Lords
RTS without unit building, but with physics, unit experience, accuracy, great narration and hard gameplay. Dorfs blowing shit up, Trows kicking the living shit out of everything, archers with fire arrows.

>>110668505
I saw a few videos for that.

It looked a bit too LOLRANDUM, i.e. it was trying too hard to be weird just for weirdness' sake.

Journey.

>>110668655
DAMN, did Myth 1 kick my ass back in the day.

I'm still mad.

Evil Twin: Cyprien's Chronicles

Legend of Zelda but twisted as fuck.

>>110668724
I know that feel. But after you learn how to play so you don't kill all your units it's fucking awesome. I'm playing in almost everyday.

>>110668662
It's not so bad once you sit down and play it.
It's mostly when you look back at what you just did, you're left thinking "what the fuck were the devs smoking?".

>>110667981

Ahh... Entomorph.
Remember playing that through and getting obsessed with the setting long ago. Even ended up making a tabletop rpg based on it for a while.

>>110664887
That fucking game man. I cannot figure out for the life of me how to not fuck up & starve to death.

>Etherlords 2
Card collecting game mixed with RPG. Pretty cool and isn't your typical elfs vs ork stuff, but actually invents races and monsters.

Oddballz you say...

>>110669057
i played the first one and found it really fun, but hated the world-mappy bits, for me it was all about the battles.
how does 2 improve on the first?

>>110668958
fuck yes bro
i hope you played al quadim as well

>>110669313
I loved that game as a kid!

>>110669381
The second improves by not being a bad game.
I just couldn't get into the first game.

ITT:

SHINY AND PLANET MOON ARE THE DOG'S BOLLOCKS.

You guys have convinced me to buy some of these games. They look fucking amazing.

>>110664864

I found Dungeon Keeper 2 on Ebay and it's really cheap. Do I need to play DK1 first?

>>110669785
Nope, but I suggest you play both anyway.

>>110669785
Nah, Dk1 and DK2 are both pretty good. Get Dk1 if you can though, because it really is fun.

>Freedom Force

Superhero RPG with heavy influences from the golden age of comicbooks. The sequel, FF vs. The Third Reich, was in turn influenced by the silver age of comics.

>H.E.D.Z.

You're an alien on earth and fight other aliens over the heads of humans which give you their respective abilities, e.g. a racedrivers head will give you a tiny car in which you drive around. Great fun, though it didn't age well, graphics wise. Early 3D isn't anything to look at anymore.

Here's a video for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfoccsHGZvY&feature=related

>>110671425
It was fun.

Sure OP, I'll include the two great games I never see /v/ discuss

>Rez

It's trippy and awesome. You are infiltrating an AI consciousness as it's becoming self-aware. The music is great, the art style is great, and the controls are solid. Look up game footage if you want to know how it plays because it is definitely a unique experience. You used to only be able to get it on the PS2 but they now sell it on the Xbox Live marketplace as an HD remake. The PS2 version will run you around $60 if you MUST play it in the original format, but the HD remake is much better and far less expensive.

>>110672579

forgot pic, feel dumb

I love this thread so much

>Child of Eden

It's pretty much like Rez, except MUCH harder. It is also more rewarding. You can time your shots with the beat for extra points far better than you can in Rez, and as a result the whole game becomes much more intense.

>>110665146
I LOVED that game. I remember figuring out that sacrificing children gives you the most bang for your buck, as it were. To this day I have never found another game that let you do that.

>>110666789
I thought I was the only person who ever played that game! You forgot to mention that it plays just like the old Resident Evil games, with the fixed cameras and survival-horrorish feel.

>Pathologic
As far as I remember you start out visiting a small town to interview a person who calls himself immortal. Ironically, as soon as you arrive you hear the news: The guy is dead. So after dealing with shelter you go to investigate the death.
Soon after you get visited by weird people who explain that this is a game and you have to save certain people, or otherwise everybody will die. And each night one of them will die if you don't actively prevent their death. Also, there's a virus outbreak going on. So you not only have to care for others, but through the outbreak it's not even easy to care for yourself.

The game is a first person adventure game. You can shoot, you can break into houses. You can trade. Buy food for example. You can starve. Most of the times you run around the fully explorable town to see certain persons to talk with them / do them favors so they'll help you with your quest.

There's also a lot of weird shit going on, strange buildings, with strange purposes.
The game is made by the same developer which created The Void.

>>110673776
but he did say survival horror only that it was reversed where youre the monster

Can't help but add Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines.

Ya, that's right, vampires, but these aren't you stupid shitty twilight vampires, they're real vampires, from back when vampires sucked blood, not cock.

It's an RPG in the sense that you actually have stats and can change how your character plays; it's not the kind of RPG you see nowadays where they give you an invetory and slap RPG on it.

If you want to make a sneaky, lockpicking, hacking, refined vampire, you can. Want a completely batshit insane vampire that basically thinks it's a ninja and only can specialize in Melee weapons? You got it.

Also, when I say you can make a a sneaky locking picking one, if you choose one of the clans(Think races in MMO terms. There's I think 6-8) it completely changes how you play the game, as you have to be very sneaky at almost all times and use different routes just to move from mission to mission. Another clan causes EVERY SINGLE bit of text(It's text based for you, though all NPCs have voice over) you say to be completely different, namely because you're fucking insane.

It has multiple endings depending on your choices and how you've acted to key NPCs, and I think there's about 4 or 5 in total.

More...

>>110674685
It does have it's short comings, though. It has plenty of bugs, but there are community made patches still being made that not only fix them, but also add more content to the game; the community plus patch is almost required. It also suffers from the usual thing near the end that "character choice" games do in that you're going to need at least put some points in to some combat skills and defenses- even through the game there ARE some missions where combat is unavoidable.

All in all, it's a kind of game you likely won't see again ever thanks to the usual crap we get any more and the fact that the company has since gone out of buisness. They also made Arcanum, if that rings any bells, and I'm told the original Dues Ex, as well as the Fallout games(At least 1 and 2) are sort of similiar.

Don't look it over just because you see "vampire", it's actually a very good game with a great story, and no, you don't NEED to be familiar with the VtM franchise to enjoy it. I know I wasn't prior to it.

>Killer 7
This game is like playing through a conspiracy nuts wet dream on acid. The story is fucking awesome, the character ares badass, and the gameplay works really well once you get past the unconventionality of it all. Very colorful as well, highly stylized graphics.

>>110664690
>Was going to post Sacrifice
>It's the second post in the thread
>My face
I really can't say enough good things about Sacrifice.

In fact, the game, its gameplay, its mechanics, are so PERFECT, that what flaws I can think of are only noticeable in comparison to the sheer goodness of the rest of the game, like a single stain on a pure white tablecloth.

Play Sacrifice people.

Quantic Dream's first and best game.

>>110668655

THIS. These are two of the best games ever.

>>110666002
hello there.
Youre not alone.
>dat OP wormaster
>dat fucking messiah planet
>dat fucking bureau
>dat fostral theme


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>>110665038
How do I use cheats on a PS2?

>>110675640
I like how every person who finished Myth considers it as a GOTYAY

>>110665334
magician's quest: mysterious times

its like animal forest but with magic.

>>110666930
loved battlezone. it was brilliant.

>ctrl-f
>Hostile Waters
>no results
shame on you /v/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUOBXdLfu0g

>>110668655
i still have soulblighter lying around, wonder if i can get it to work now

>>110668356
>little big adventure
i know i didn't ask but i thank you anyway, been trying to find the name of that game

>>110670784
FREEDOM fucking FORCE

it's cheap on steam and well worth it. Brilliant games. I prefer the second one where you go back in time and fight nazis.

>>110677794
Install it and download latest patch from here:
http://tain.totalcodex.net/
Also: online community:
http://www.mariusnet.com/

I'm wracking my brain to try to add to this list, the best thing I can come up with is Warhammer: Dark Omen. Good old fashioned Real Time Tactics, no base building, unit progression, Warhammer universe... whats not to like? fuck that I'm downloading it now (my discs were stolen by a 'friend'/neighbour)

This thread is so awesome.

I'll contribute some of my own picks.

Kingdom Under Fire: Crusaders and Kingdom Under Fire: Heroes.

While we're on the subject of mixing genres, this is a rts/hacl&slash where you're on the battlefield. You control your character during melee and can execute your usual combos and supers but at anytime you can also open a command map where you can order your whole army around. RTS control with a xbox control is hard but you get used to it. Anyway, cleaving orcs in the two while ordering your cavalry to flank a group of archers is a pretty unique and awesome experience.

>>110668655
Oh and thumbs up to the guy who mentioned the Myth series, I've been hoping forever for it to show up on /v/.