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« on: August 01, 2007, 10:30:47 PM » |
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a 'Lost Gem' is an extremely good game, but is barely known. Post some and tell what they were like.
Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen and Ogre Battle 64 were the best games out there. They're tactics games with a twist. I can't really explain it well....too complicated.
The Xbox Live Arcade Games: No one plays 'em enough. Band of Bugs, Small Arms, Carcassonne, Bomberman Live, etc...
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« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2007, 10:43:33 PM » |
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Eternal Darkness One of the premier games for the Nintendo Game Cube, it never got ported to anything else, and never got a terrible amount of publicity. But it's so awesome! You have a health gauge, a magic gauge, and a sanity gauge. The lower your sanity is, the more, and the more severely, you hallucinate. This can range anywhere from blowing your own head off while reloading a gun to having your television blue screen when you pause. I think one of my favorites is when you walk into a room and are mobbed by a dozen or so zombies.... and are then given a controller connection error while they're mauling you to death.  You mainly follow Alex, a girl who is called in the middle of the night by police to be informed of her grandfather's death. It's not just any death though... it's so grizzly a murder that Alex determines herself to investigate her grandfather's life until she finds out what the heck could have happened. She then finds, in a hidden room, the tome of Eternal Darkness. As you read through the chapters, you play as a different possessor of the tome each time. Going through different eras, weapons, items, settings, and play themes, it's a nicely varied scheme that all leads up to a psychopathic God attempting to invade our own reality. And when it comes down to it, the only thing standing in the way is a young Buffy the Vampire Slayer knock off in a Rhode Island mansion. -My friends and I had a blast playing through this. Three times. The kicker is that none of us own a Game Cube.  There are a few places where things game wise could have been programmed better... a LOT better... but over all it's just good old magic casting, zombie slaying, run around fun. There's even an Indiana Jones spoof level. You can probably find this game used at your local gaming store for $9-15 US if things still stand as they were when I was sniffing it out. |
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Are you sure it's supposed to do that? Because I'm pretty sure metal shouldn't be fuzzy...
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« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2007, 10:47:22 PM » |
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Sounds Scary. Stuff like that happened in Silent hill games and MGS2 (I'm looking at you olid Snake 2.0)
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« Reply #3 on: August 02, 2007, 01:11:15 AM » |
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It's fun, because the creepiness is everywhere but at the same time it's also somehow hokey... I guess it's just difficult to take a game entirely seriously when you can walk into a room and suddenly find your head on the floor reciting Edgar Alan Poe poetry. So it's sort of like, 'Yea, okay, a reaper just plowed into my chest and took over my body. That was totally my bad. Oops.' |
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Are you sure it's supposed to do that? Because I'm pretty sure metal shouldn't be fuzzy...
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« Reply #4 on: August 02, 2007, 04:56:43 AM » |
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That the one where you can enchant weapons using different seals and stuff? Because that was one helluva game For my Lost Gem, I choose the Super Nintendo game... Plok!
Plok owns. Period. Basically, you're this guy made of red+yellow fabric, and your limbs are attached to you by, wait for it... VELCRO! So you can use them as weapons to defeat enemies
Your first goal is to defeat the Bobbins Brothers, a duo of big weird things with giant mouths for heads (o.O) that fire boomerang-shaped projectiles at you. But to get there, you have to go through a series of stages that involve defeating enemies with your arms+legs, avoiding falling logs+jumping skeletal fish, and trying not to fall into water. You can sometimes find special fruits on trees. Some of them, when hit a certain amount of times, allow you to go through a 'special stage' of sorts, wherein you must race to the finish line on any number of vehicles (from helicopters to motorbikes) in order to advance a few stages.
When Plok defeats the Bobbins Brothers and returns to his home island, he finds disaster has struck; the Bobbins Brothers were merely luring him away from his island so the fleas could invade! Plok must vanquish the fleas, along with hordes of other enemies, including Womack Spider, Rockyfella, the Penkino Wizards, and the dreaded Flea Queen. But Plok isn't alone: as well as being able to open presents scattered throughout stages to temporarily gain special outfits (such as Plocky the Boxer and Rocket Plock) he can also find hornets which, when captured, Plok can use to attack his enemies.
The whole thing seems very daunting to Plok. It would be a lot easier if he could find his Grandpappy's lost amulet...So there you go  |
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« Reply #5 on: August 02, 2007, 03:56:12 PM » |
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« Reply #6 on: August 02, 2007, 04:05:03 PM » |
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I need to stop replying to posts with just a single word.
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« Reply #7 on: August 02, 2007, 04:06:42 PM » |
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Does anyone know who he is?
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« Reply #8 on: August 02, 2007, 04:08:25 PM » |
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Something to do with the words 'Dominoes' and 'Noid'?
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« Reply #9 on: August 02, 2007, 05:19:50 PM » |
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Comix Zone was one of the greatest games ever. You played a comic book artist that got zapped into his own comic while the villan escaped into the real world. A great game for the Genesis.
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« Reply #10 on: August 02, 2007, 06:26:21 PM » |
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I remember that! i think my cousin had it personally, its lost vikings for me |
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« Reply #12 on: August 02, 2007, 08:54:40 PM » |
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Yes Kentan, weapons enchanting via various different God endowments was one feature of Eternal Darkness. Xelo'tath was totally the most awesome... You know those bone thieves? And how the easiest way to kill them was to lop their heads off? And how Xelo-tath decided to help you out by removing their heads? But then it just makes them harder to kill?! Bwuahahahahahaha! How about Gunstar Heroes for the Sega Gensis? That one rocked. it's still got a pretty big fan following though, so I'm not sure I could call it a 'lost gem'. :/ |
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Are you sure it's supposed to do that? Because I'm pretty sure metal shouldn't be fuzzy...
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« Reply #13 on: May 15, 2008, 01:22:07 PM » |
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ok maybe not super-lost-gems
but abes odyseyy and crash bandicoot
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« Reply #14 on: May 15, 2008, 01:43:56 PM » |
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Chips Challenge is well-known but it's still an awesome game.
Boulderdash Is also a great game for the NES.
And solstice (NES) is awesome. One of the greatest games for the nes. You can't save, but it's still great.
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That is because you are the bestest and the awesomenest.
You become incredibly well-muscled and accidentally crush Pel's head. |
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« Reply #15 on: May 15, 2008, 01:54:35 PM » |
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i remember boulderdash
i think...
i still have my snes upstairs
i will prepare a list of my games when i can be bothered..
too busy reading bleach
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« Reply #16 on: May 15, 2008, 02:20:39 PM » |
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The only major nintendo consoles (Not G&W) we don't have are snes and any from the gameboy series.
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That is because you are the bestest and the awesomenest.
You become incredibly well-muscled and accidentally crush Pel's head. |
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« Reply #17 on: May 15, 2008, 02:27:04 PM » |
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i got rid of most of my games and consoles and everything like that
to get games for my xbox 360
like some ritual addiction
but never ever ever will i rid myself of the snes and games upstairs
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« Reply #18 on: May 15, 2008, 02:33:53 PM » |
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We have a games room containing all our games consoles.
Surprisingly we managed to plug 4 consoles, a DVD player and a VHS player into one telly.
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That is because you are the bestest and the awesomenest.
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« Reply #19 on: May 15, 2008, 02:47:15 PM » |
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ahha
the back of my telly is a mass of wires, as i dont have a games room, my old old house did, but we only had a playstation 1 then.b
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