Because they're not in a language you understand, not on a system you can get right now, too obscure to find much info on, whatever. You get the idea.
Port begging isn't really going to derail this thread, so try not to complain about it if it happens.
Here are two of mine:
Gihren's Ambition.
The name invokes Nobunaga's Ambition, and Gihren's Ambition is a similarly complex turn-based strategy game. But instead of being based off of a historical conflict, it's based off of the One Year War from the original Mobile Suit Gundam series. You can also use certain factions from other media in the UC timeline.
The selling points, as far as I know, are the scale and the detail. You control what Mobile Suits are developed. You can spread Minovsky particles to jam you opponent's radars. You can control who is recruited by your faction and who betrays it. You can kill off major characters. You can choose whether wartime atrocities happen or not. Basically, the point of the game is to totally destroy Gundam canon.
Pretty awesome, right? The problem is that none of the games are in English and there are no fan patches either. If you want to play the game without knowing Japanese, you have to get by on wikis and translated images. Blegh.
Princess Maker.
This is a series of fatherhood simulators by Gainax. Yes, that Gainax. They even did an anime based on Princess Maker. If you've played Monster Rancher or Long Live the Queen, they're inspired by this game's gameplay.
Despite being the "princess" in the game, a big part of the game is its sandbox nature. The games have a huge number of ending careers for your daughter, including positions as warriors, high ranking officials, or in the other direction, stuff like prostitution or the Queen of Darkness. The player schedules the daughter's work, study, and leisure to educate them however they want.
The games are mostly set in a fantasy setting where the player is a retired adventurer. Some of them also allow your daughter to go on adventures, which is a little RPG minigame mode full of hidden events and treasure.
Unfortunately, this is another series that's Japanese only, at least for the most part. If I recall, there's a partial fan translation for Princess Maker 5. There's also an English version of Princess Maker 2 floating around, but the guys that translated were never able to find a publisher to manufacture and sell it. The version that's found on abandonware sites was actually given out during an E3 by a shady publisher they were dealing with. It's an interesting story; you can read up more on it here if you want. It isn't mentioned, but a lot of people somehow got the impression that Princess Maker 2 is a hentai game - it isn't - which may have also been part of why publishers were scared off.
Port begging isn't really going to derail this thread, so try not to complain about it if it happens.
Here are two of mine:
Gihren's Ambition.
The name invokes Nobunaga's Ambition, and Gihren's Ambition is a similarly complex turn-based strategy game. But instead of being based off of a historical conflict, it's based off of the One Year War from the original Mobile Suit Gundam series. You can also use certain factions from other media in the UC timeline.
The selling points, as far as I know, are the scale and the detail. You control what Mobile Suits are developed. You can spread Minovsky particles to jam you opponent's radars. You can control who is recruited by your faction and who betrays it. You can kill off major characters. You can choose whether wartime atrocities happen or not. Basically, the point of the game is to totally destroy Gundam canon.
Pretty awesome, right? The problem is that none of the games are in English and there are no fan patches either. If you want to play the game without knowing Japanese, you have to get by on wikis and translated images. Blegh.
Princess Maker.
This is a series of fatherhood simulators by Gainax. Yes, that Gainax. They even did an anime based on Princess Maker. If you've played Monster Rancher or Long Live the Queen, they're inspired by this game's gameplay.
Despite being the "princess" in the game, a big part of the game is its sandbox nature. The games have a huge number of ending careers for your daughter, including positions as warriors, high ranking officials, or in the other direction, stuff like prostitution or the Queen of Darkness. The player schedules the daughter's work, study, and leisure to educate them however they want.
The games are mostly set in a fantasy setting where the player is a retired adventurer. Some of them also allow your daughter to go on adventures, which is a little RPG minigame mode full of hidden events and treasure.
Unfortunately, this is another series that's Japanese only, at least for the most part. If I recall, there's a partial fan translation for Princess Maker 5. There's also an English version of Princess Maker 2 floating around, but the guys that translated were never able to find a publisher to manufacture and sell it. The version that's found on abandonware sites was actually given out during an E3 by a shady publisher they were dealing with. It's an interesting story; you can read up more on it here if you want. It isn't mentioned, but a lot of people somehow got the impression that Princess Maker 2 is a hentai game - it isn't - which may have also been part of why publishers were scared off.
