Favorite games nobody else likes....

[fedriksimon]

We all have our little secret games that nobody else likes, but we play them because there's something about them that just appeals to us. What are some games you absolutely love that others don't? They have to be obscure games, too.

Mine would have to be...

1. Goblin Commander (bet you didn't guess that one).
2. Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
3. The Bard's Tale

[CharmyBee]

1. Xjump
2. Snake's Revenge
3. Sonic Heroes

p.s. I actually do like Dark Alliance, just wish they didn't tack on an unrelated brand name for it.

[btraill]

1. Graal
2. Runescape
3. Tibia

[Bölvaður]

Crack Attack
Mines (from gnome-games)
FreeCol

[Exheon]

I'm not pretty sure of the meaning of 'obscure games', but I know these games non of my friends like it.

1)3 Wonders (Midnight Wanderers, Chariot, Don't Pull) ARCADE
2)Snow Bros (Nick & Tom) ARCADE
3)Mortal Kombat 4 (win32 exe)

Well that's it, I hope not to be off-topic.

Salu2, I mean...
...Greetings

[hikaricore]

Here's an obscure game for ya that I like.

Super Columbine Massacre RPG

[myromance123]

Mmm from the good old Xbox days,

1. Sudeki (dang it I feel sad now ~.~)
2. Chrono Trigger (ps1 oh yeah)
thats about it... Around the world these may be known but where I'm from these weren't favourites let alone given a second chance mmm

They just don't make RPG's like they used to...
Makes you feel old doesn't it?

[Dimitriid]

Not many people know about my favorite shooter: Painkiller.

[Lord Xanatos]

1. Runescape (I usualy just work on a character project with a friend.)
2. Fallout 3 (Bethesda Version, I like it as a non canon fallout game but if it was made by Interplay... FACEPALM)

[Dark Aspect]

My list,

Silent Hill Series (http://www.mobygames.com/game/playstation/silent-hill)

Because its a video game with a story, OMG thats a new concept. Plus its actually scary, I mean a little bit. Unlike every other horror movie/game.

Microman (http://www.mobygames.com/game/win3x/adventures-of-microman)

Awesome windows 3.1 game

Chasm The Rift (http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/chasm-the-rift)

Because its fun, run it via Dosbox on cycles=max

Painkiller (http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/painkiller)

Because its bad*** wicked fun.

Exile Game series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exile_(video_game_series))

Good old school RPG, run it via windows 3.1/windows 95 (dosbox).

Postal 2 (http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/postal_)

Because sometimes I just need to kill everyone since my real life sucks.

Demon Attack (http://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-2600/demon-attack)

Its an Atari game, need I say more?

Open Arena (http://www.mobygames.com/game/linux/openarena)

I liked this better than Quake 3 for some reason but some one told me it sucked (here on the forums).

Star Trek Away Team (http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/star-trek-away-team)

Another old time RPG, I could do without the star trek theme.

Star Trek Armada II (http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/star-trek-armada-ii)

IDK, It was the first game I played as a child, on my brother's old 350 Mhz computer (Windows 95)

Area 51 (http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/area-51_)

IT HAS MARILYN MANSON AND DAVID DUCHOVNY, I LOVE MARILYN MANSON AND X FILES WOOT

[MuddBuddha]

"Star Trek Armada II"

Wow....I can remember spending hours on the first release of armada!

[LinuxFox]

I thought this forum was for Linux games only. I don't know if they're obscure, but I don't think other people liked them. I won't go into details, but they are...

Unreal Tournament 2003 on PC (I thought it wasn't very popular)
Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi: The Genie and the Amp on DS
Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis on GBA

Like CharmyBee, I also like Sonic Heroes.

[xarhelios]

Here's an obscure game for ya that I like.

Super Columbine Massacre RPG

This guy isn't kidding, The game exists. The game is also hard. But its a great game all around.

Most of the games you guys listed are just old, not obscure, they were once popular, but not now. Like baldurs gate, painkiller, fallout 3, postal 2, silent hill, and Runescape.

An obscure game that I like that nobody else likes is

Communist mutants from space, Atari 2600, Space invaders clone
Soldner X:Doppelsoldner, PC, 10$ on Play-asia, RType-like game

and many more.

[hikaricore]

Also since most of you have never heard of it.. Xaxxon

There's even a linux remake: http://www.pankhurst.uklinux.net/zaxxon.html

[NovaWasp]

I like Typhoon 2001.

It's a tempest clone. You can get it from http://typhoon.kuto.de/index.html

If you want to play the game with sound and listen to rhythmbox at the same time use

padsp ./typhoon

thanks,

[jlg6184]

Well, alot of stuff I played, no one else played because I one of the few PC gamers back in high school, but here is my mini list that I caught hell about for those that did play PC games...:

Sid Meyer's Alpha Centauri
Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
Psychonauts

[phreakyo]

Mmm you made this thread on the fedora forums...

A game I like and very few others do is Might and Magic IX. Old-school rpgs and other dos games are particularly fun, and I don't think there's a wide audience for those.

[dakilla]

RTS-ish:
Dwarf Fortress
Populous 3

MMO-RTS:
dreamlords
ballerium

[shaunsmith_99]

We all have our little secret games that nobody else likes, but we play them because there's something about them that just appeals to us. What are some games you absolutely love that others don't? They have to be obscure games, too.

Mine would have to be...

1. Goblin Commander (bet you didn't guess that one).
2. Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
3. The Bard's Tale


HAHAHA Mine would be 'Nam.' It's an old 1st person shooter that ran on the DOS Doom engine and had terrible graphics and gameplay. Corny story line: US Gov drugs up Alan "the Bear" with some super secret drugs and now he's a super warrior. Run around, shoot pixleated bad guys with crummy weapons.

I don't know why I like it, but I can spend hours on it. I played it back in 1998 when we got our first PC and it was an old $5 game then...

Check it out!
http://uk.videogames.games.yahoo.com/pc/reviews/nam-847089.html

[Shazaam]

Probably way off topic but...
First generation Playstation games=
Blasto.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasto_(video_game)
Not so obscure-
Medievil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediEvil

[3rdalbum]

In the Ubuntu repositories, right at the top of Ubuntu Software Center under Games: 20,000 Light Years Into Space. I guess it's a puzzler/strategy game where you have to keep steam flowing into a city via pipes and steam makers. Sounds easy? You also have to deal with the damage caused by earthquakes, storms and alien raids.

You really have to try it to really understand what I'm talking about; it's a game with surprising depth.

The other game I like to play that nobody has heard of is Marathon 2 on the Aleph One engine. Marathon was an FPS from around the same time as Doom, but it's much more advanced than Doom (for instance, you have to aim up and down, your weapons have a second trigger, there's a real storyline, and there's sometimes a bit more of a puzzle aspect and using tactics and the environment to help destroy the baddies).

Aleph One requires you to compile it on Linux, or if you're on Windows you can get a pre-built binary. You also need a scenario. Marathon 2 is my favourite scenario, but Infinity is pretty good too.

[LinuxFox]

The other game I like to play that nobody has heard of is Marathon 2 on the Aleph One engine. Marathon was an FPS from around the same time as Doom, but it's much more advanced than Doom (for instance, you have to aim up and down, your weapons have a second trigger, there's a real storyline, and there's sometimes a bit more of a puzzle aspect and using tactics and the environment to help destroy the baddies).

Aleph One requires you to compile it on Linux, or if you're on Windows you can get a pre-built binary. You also need a scenario. Marathon 2 is my favourite scenario, but Infinity is pretty good too.I also like the Marathon series. I completed the original on Windows, and started Marathon 2 when I switched to Ubuntu. Never did finish it or get far in it though. Still the original was just cool and weird (in a good way). 8)

[oldrocker99]

I'm a little surprised that nobody has mentioned Globulation II, which is in the repositories. It's a RTS-ish game with zero micromanaging; you simply indicate on each building how many units you want working on it. Maybe nobody but I like it?

:guitar:

[hikaricore]

Oh I almost forgot, I always enjoyed Baldies.

[Rodart]

xcom: enemy unknown :D

[Irritant]

Blake Stone Aliens of Gold. Sort of bridged the gap between Wolf 3D and Doom I.

[Parangtha]

I enjoy a plethora of old games over the newer games my friends play ^_^
1. Sonic 1,2,3, & Knuckles on the Genesis
2. Deus Ex
3. Zork
4. Zero Wing

[Capt. Blackwood]

1) Ultima I-IX (including aklabeth)
2) The Elder Scrolls I + II (I don't know why everybody's saying II is so...buggy.)
3) The Sims <<< Origional.

[CharmyBee]

I think everyone likes the games the last few posts mentioned.

[Artificial Intelligence]

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A.I. Dude
Ubuntu Forum Staff

[compiledkernel]

In no partcular order

1. http://gwos.org/doku.php/games:alphabetical:b:billiards
2. http://gwos.org/doku.php/games:alphabetical:s:sacred_gold_edition
3. http://gwos.org/doku.php/games:alphabetical:t:the_mana_world
4. http://gwos.org/doku.php/games:alphabetical:n:netpanzer

[tuahaa]

Project IGI!

It's a rare gem. If any of you dual boot windoze, these are the demos (try IGI 1 first)
IGI 1 demo: http://www.gamershell.com/download_4774.shtml
IGI 2 demo: http://www.gamershell.com/download_1312.shtml

[TheTank]

C'mon guys, we want the "games other's don't like"

My fav which I seem the only one to play is the Starfleet Command series:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/star-trek-starfleet-command

[LinuxFox]

I think everyone likes the games the last few posts mentioned.Maybe between people they know in real life, instead of in general. I'm just guessing.

Seeing how this is a Linux gaming forum, I really like Solar Wolf. It's a simple space ship collect the boxes game, but can get really crazy on higher levels. I guess it's not that popular since I haven't seen it mention often on these forums.

[Dark Aspect]

Here's an obscure game for ya that I like.

Super Columbine Massacre RPG

How do you play that on Ubuntu, I have found a ColumbineRPG.zip on frostwire. However, the sound lags on XP via virtualbox and wine has doesn't play the midi music at all. Dosbox was my last resort but windows 3.1 complains about a 32-bit binary and windows 95 gets the fatal blue screen of death.

I am at a lost - I have some old crossover/cedega binaries but I haven't brought/updated in a while since wine emulates most things well. Maybe I should try that, also, has anyone ported it so snes because zsnes would be great here?

[Grishka]

However, the sound lags on XP via virtualbox and wine has doesn't play the midi music at all.

Wine needs Timidity (apt://timidity) to play midi music.

[gadget3000]

I have got back into playstation games since pcsx came onto linux.
I'm playing lots of spyro and The Emperors New Groove. Yes it's not just a movie game but a children's movie game. It's a fun adventure game though!

[It'sLLOYD!]

Adventure quest.
It's just too damn addictive. My friends laugh at me.

[shaggy999]

Stonekeep - It's an old DOS-based game that came out like 2 years too late. Had it come out when it was planned it would have floored everyone. But by the time it came out games were looking better and it got passed over by most people. It's incredibly buggy, but it's fun. It plays well in Dosbox.

You can watch some guy play the entire game on Youtube across like 100 videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/Kikoskia#grid/user/29570590B653E2EF

[earthpigg]

World of Goo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Goo), the best game no one played (http://www.gamespot.com/best-of/dubious-honors/index.html?page=6).

[Sindwiller]

Escape Velocity (slowly being replaced by NAEV)
EVE Online
Natural Selection (Wohoo, NS2! :P)
Heroes of Might and Magic (don't bitch about IV and V)
Warcraft II/III & custom maps (slowly being replaced by HoN)
Starcraft
Every X game (differs though)
Freelancer
Evochron
Dungeon Siege
Etherlords

[569874123]

Etherlords

I loved etherlords back when it was released,but none of my friends liked it.

[cherva]

The Settlers 1 (DOS) And every other extremely hard game witch wants you to think not just press buttons and win like all of the new games ... I really think that realistic = hard , but all of the new games enhance the graphics and the details and call this game realistic ... Go and lie the windows users :)

[mmmmna]

All my faves (which nobody who I knew liked even back in the day) are text based, no graphics.

- Moria (no, not angband, Moria). Adventures in ASCII....
(similar to moria is MacBoss for the Macintosh Plus crowd). Moria is still available, I hear.

- Zork: the underground empire. I can still picture the green monochrome screen....

- Castle, a treasure hunt for DOS.


For me, then comes Solar Winds, the first graphics game I used on the SVGA 80286 DOS PC.... 3 times I downloaded it, and from different servers/BBS'es. That game always ended in me getting lost in the same place... was it only released as a broken game?

[johnboy1313]

the 3 stooges nes game!

[matt3206]

Someone put EVE Online , which is not very obscure or unpopular. <- can you tell i play?

I like the flash game Bush Shootout, =D
HOMM II and III were great (oh and i will b**** about IV and V)