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Nomadic Sparks
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I'm trying to think of the name of a game which simulates 'playing' as a wild animal. I'm not sure how many different types, but I think you could play as more then only one single species. I think foxes and wolves were an option. It's a series, that's to say, I think there was at least one sequel to the original game.
I think it had heavy emphasis on finding food, raising cubs, stay out of harms way, avoid predators, etc. Also a very distinct look: not photorealistic, but more a bit low-poly, with subdued colors. Semi recent stuff too, not older then 5-7 years.
I think it had heavy emphasis on finding food, raising cubs, stay out of harms way, avoid predators, etc. Also a very distinct look: not photorealistic, but more a bit low-poly, with subdued colors. Semi recent stuff too, not older then 5-7 years.
Tokyo Jungle?
A bit more googling helped me out: I was thinking of the Shelter games. Third game called Meadow I just learned.
eso76
Member
There's probably hundreds, but maybe CD Man ?
bronk
Banned
Out of the hundreds you got it on the first try lol seriously thank you. Ive been looking for this game for quite awhile.
Boy Wander
Member
My memory is hazy on this one but here's what I remember - it may not be especially accurate:
PS1 game
Third Person perspective (I think)
Shooter
3d perspective from behind the player and the game scrolled towards you, kind of like a racer does.
You play a soldier - a bit Duke Nukem like in appearance perhaps.
Game was shitty.
I'm thinking it was released late 95 or early 96 in the UK.
I am hoping this is a semi-accurate description but it's been twenty years.
PS1 game
Third Person perspective (I think)
Shooter
3d perspective from behind the player and the game scrolled towards you, kind of like a racer does.
You play a soldier - a bit Duke Nukem like in appearance perhaps.
Game was shitty.
I'm thinking it was released late 95 or early 96 in the UK.
I am hoping this is a semi-accurate description but it's been twenty years.
Boy Wander
Member
Yes! Thanks! This is the last shitty game that I ever bought. I vowed never to buy on impulse again after purchasing this turd.
GrayFoxPL
Member
Hehe, yeah the game is a prime turd.
tailDASHeF
Neo Member
I've been trying to remember the name of a game for a long time, and this thread brought it back again and seems like the perfect place to ask the question.
I don't remember whether it was windows or dos, but I want to say I had a cable modem, so probably Windows (as it was a download game) and circa 1996-98.
It was a top down, not isometric, sort of 3d ARPG (well, as much as it could have been back then). I think you downloaded the compiled source code from some GeoCities website. You could pick up dropped weapons in either arm, guns, spells, wands, etc.. Some of the "campains" were special like a rogue with two daggers... I think there was even one where you were a Knight/Paladin. It was LAN multiplayer as I recall playing with some old friends, but it may have even been just one keyboard 2 players. If i recall correctly there wasn't even a splash screen or anything, you launched the .exe and you were there, might have had a console. There were puzzles and crap, it was actually good times. Shareware / Freeware era for sure. Doing some basic googling it looks similar to a freeware game called Kong in graphics, almost as if it was the same engine but I don't remember any HUD whatsoever at all.
It's difficult to explain lol, I hope i've done enough that someone else might remember...get this one out of my head please
I don't remember whether it was windows or dos, but I want to say I had a cable modem, so probably Windows (as it was a download game) and circa 1996-98.
It was a top down, not isometric, sort of 3d ARPG (well, as much as it could have been back then). I think you downloaded the compiled source code from some GeoCities website. You could pick up dropped weapons in either arm, guns, spells, wands, etc.. Some of the "campains" were special like a rogue with two daggers... I think there was even one where you were a Knight/Paladin. It was LAN multiplayer as I recall playing with some old friends, but it may have even been just one keyboard 2 players. If i recall correctly there wasn't even a splash screen or anything, you launched the .exe and you were there, might have had a console. There were puzzles and crap, it was actually good times. Shareware / Freeware era for sure. Doing some basic googling it looks similar to a freeware game called Kong in graphics, almost as if it was the same engine but I don't remember any HUD whatsoever at all.
It's difficult to explain lol, I hope i've done enough that someone else might remember...get this one out of my head please
I've been trying to remember the name of a game for a long time, and this thread brought it back again and seems like the perfect place to ask the question.
I don't remember whether it was windows or dos, but I want to say I had a cable modem, so probably Windows (as it was a download game) and circa 1996-98.
It was a top down, not isometric, sort of 3d ARPG (well, as much as it could have been back then). I think you downloaded the compiled source code from some GeoCities website. You could pick up dropped weapons in either arm, guns, spells, wands, etc.. Some of the "campains" were special like a rogue with two daggers... I think there was even one where you were a Knight/Paladin. It was LAN multiplayer as I recall playing with some old friends, but it may have even been just one keyboard 2 players. If i recall correctly there wasn't even a splash screen or anything, you launched the .exe and you were there, might have had a console. There were puzzles and crap, it was actually good times. Shareware / Freeware era for sure. Doing some basic googling it looks similar to a freeware game called Kong in graphics, almost as if it was the same engine but I don't remember any HUD whatsoever at all.
It's difficult to explain lol, I hope i've done enough that someone else might remember...get this one out of my head please
Well, I don't know if it's any help, but that's ringing a bell for me, too.
Edit: Egoboo's the one I was thinking of. It's a year later than you're saying, but might still be within the same bracket.
I think I have too little information on my game.
It looked kind of like diablo, but was a little more for children (I guess).
I always thought I remembered the Westwood Logo, but from the wiki page I didn't find any matching game.
I remember walking amongst some houses and a pumpkin garden. Yup. That's it.
edit: Oh and definitely 90/early 2000.
Ohhh and another one:
Pretty straight forward.
A kind of board game for the PC where you "race" around the world with your car, to different cities etc. in a world Map view, kinda cartoonish, turn based
It looked kind of like diablo, but was a little more for children (I guess).
I always thought I remembered the Westwood Logo, but from the wiki page I didn't find any matching game.
I remember walking amongst some houses and a pumpkin garden. Yup. That's it.
edit: Oh and definitely 90/early 2000.
Ohhh and another one:
Pretty straight forward.
A kind of board game for the PC where you "race" around the world with your car, to different cities etc. in a world Map view, kinda cartoonish, turn based
Technomage? Very unlikely though.
nope, wasnt 3d. but thanks!
It didn't come out until 2005, but Fate is what came to mind first.
http://www.giantbomb.com/fate/3030-4673/
Edit: Guess not since it is 3D
sadly nope.
Do you remember anything at all about the game play? I know you say it looks like diablo, but is it an action/adventure game too?
Mixed Up Mother Goose had a 1996 re-release I think, but I don't really think it "looks like diablo".
Do you remember anything at all about the game play? I know you say it looks like diablo, but is it an action/adventure game too?
Mixed Up Mother Goose had a 1996 re-release I think, but I don't really think it "looks like diablo".
Sadly I don't remember much
But it was definitely more top down like diablo
eso76
Member
Sadly I don't remember much
My last guess, but since you said it wasn't a Westwood game I doubt this is it.
Young Merlin
Holy Crap you're good.
That's the one. No idea how I missed that on the Westwood Wiki page. Thanks a lot!!
I'd argue it is more like Zelda than Diablo, but glad it could be solved.
tailDASHeF
Neo Member
A game similar to the one I'm thinking of was mentioned above, but it's not the game.
I played a PC game YEARS ago, I wanna say late 90s/early 2000s, where you played as a wizard kid who dressed in blue gowns and it was a top down game. The only thing I remember about it is that there were like 5 or 6 zones and in each zone you could find a piece of a golden staff. In the last zone you would find the final piece and you would create the staff.
Can't remember for the life of me what it was called though. Been wanting to remember for years.
I played a PC game YEARS ago, I wanna say late 90s/early 2000s, where you played as a wizard kid who dressed in blue gowns and it was a top down game. The only thing I remember about it is that there were like 5 or 6 zones and in each zone you could find a piece of a golden staff. In the last zone you would find the final piece and you would create the staff.
Can't remember for the life of me what it was called though. Been wanting to remember for years.
Nomadic Sparks
Banned
Another game I can remember is was sorta like a AR game (Eons before Pokemon Go and Smartphones) It was very ambitious, I remember reading and hearing about it.
I wanna say it was called Majesty but I may be wrong. You would get calls from the game itself (I swear to god I'm not making this up) The game was about kidnapping and conspiracy and what not. Drives me nuts I hadn't heard anything about it. It was very ambitious.
There was this RTS strategy game called "_____ Kingdom" or something. There would be all these civilizations and then there was this monster civilizations that were also magical. It was all dark and grimy and I can never remember it.
I wanna say it was called Majesty but I may be wrong. You would get calls from the game itself (I swear to god I'm not making this up) The game was about kidnapping and conspiracy and what not. Drives me nuts I hadn't heard anything about it. It was very ambitious.
There was this RTS strategy game called "_____ Kingdom" or something. There would be all these civilizations and then there was this monster civilizations that were also magical. It was all dark and grimy and I can never remember it.
NotMyUsername
Member
Afraid not
ResidentDante
Member
Boat racing game on the NES, I think the camera was a little behind the boat. There were jumps etc for the boat to go on.
ResidentDante
Member
Cobra Triangle?
I think that's maybe it! Thanks!!
Spooky Castle Adventures of Kid Mystic?
Sounds like Seven Kingdoms or possibly Seven Kingdoms 2, its sequel. Both really good games.
In the first, the Seven Kingdoms are various historical empires (chinese, japanese, normans, greek, vikings, etc) and the monsters (called Fryhtans) attack at random (and also yield treasure when conquered). In the second, there are 12 kingdoms and the Fryhtan empires could be either AI or human controlled with fairly different playstyles. Both games had fairly complex espionage and soldier growth systems.
There was also a newer game, Seven Kingdoms: Conquest which bore virtually no resemblance to the earlier games and had no monsters (and was terrible).
Seven Kingdoms and the SK2 remake are available on GOG: https://www.gog.com/game/seven_kingdoms_2
That said there are probably other games fitting that description.
Ok this one is going to be tough, mainly because my memory of the game is very foggy and some details may be inaccurate. Regardless, I'm hoping the Gaf Gods can come to my aid:
It's a Gameboy game. My only distinct memory of the gameplay is walking between buildings or small huts which each contained a puzzle. I never got very far, but if I recall correctly, the puzzles were mainly shape-based (like rearranging blocks).
The best hint I can give is the game's art on the cartridge. I'm pretty sure it has a mainly orange background with a man in the foreground (maybe wearing white)?
I understand this description is utter shit, but I was like 6 or 7 when I played this game and that's all I can remember. If someone can track this game down, I will be amazed and forever grateful!
It's a Gameboy game. My only distinct memory of the gameplay is walking between buildings or small huts which each contained a puzzle. I never got very far, but if I recall correctly, the puzzles were mainly shape-based (like rearranging blocks).
The best hint I can give is the game's art on the cartridge. I'm pretty sure it has a mainly orange background with a man in the foreground (maybe wearing white)?
I understand this description is utter shit, but I was like 6 or 7 when I played this game and that's all I can remember. If someone can track this game down, I will be amazed and forever grateful!
Holy shit, that's it! That was so fast, you're the best, thanks a lot!
Thanks! I only played a little bit of it so it may be that but I'm not sure. I'll look into it. Cheers.
Rapscallion
Member
Huh, the kicking chickens thing is strange.
There's not many WW2 shooters on the Genesis AFAIK
Check out Crossfire or Twin Hawk
PHOENIXZERO
Member
Xybots is a game I played once over 20 years ago at one of the short lived arcades that popped up in the small town I live in. I thought it was great at the time but I forgot about it and it took me a long time to find the name of it again, I think it was just last year when I remembered a better way to describe it to the Google machine, then a bit of time passed and realized I forgot it again while seeing this topic.
Okay so it was a game I remembered but a name I didn't but then found on my own and then forgot again until I repeated my search.
Okay so it was a game I remembered but a name I didn't but then found on my own and then forgot again until I repeated my search.
I think that's it, lol. Thanks. Don't know why I thought it was WW2 game...
Need an assist GAF.
I never played this JRPG but I have some memories of the intro and it's been nagging me for more than ten years because I'm really curious as to what it was. Some stuff I recall
- it was definitely either 5th or 6th gen
- the protagonist seemed to be this roguish type who had sorta spiky/fluffy blonde hair and wore a sleeveless red/blue shirt. Basically like slimmer Cloud Strife
- The intro was in anime form, complete with a sorta Jpop song. It also ended with the protag sitting a top of a hill/peak back to back with a girl in the sunset.
Hope somebody knows what I'm talking about
I never played this JRPG but I have some memories of the intro and it's been nagging me for more than ten years because I'm really curious as to what it was. Some stuff I recall
- it was definitely either 5th or 6th gen
- the protagonist seemed to be this roguish type who had sorta spiky/fluffy blonde hair and wore a sleeveless red/blue shirt. Basically like slimmer Cloud Strife
- The intro was in anime form, complete with a sorta Jpop song. It also ended with the protag sitting a top of a hill/peak back to back with a girl in the sunset.
Hope somebody knows what I'm talking about
Cob32
Member
fantastico
Member
Not sure if theres enough to go on here but Ive been impressed by many of the quick responses in this thread:
This game was in the arcades in 1988, however it may have been released a bit earlier, but not much as the graphics were fairly contemporary. I dont think it ever received a home conversion.
At the intro an 80s type rock band with a female singer are playing a concert, the singer is kidnapped by what I think were aliens, and the rest of the band cry out her name, the game is a scrolling beat em up type game where the other band members use their instruments as weapons and keep shouting the singers name every so often.
This game was in the arcades in 1988, however it may have been released a bit earlier, but not much as the graphics were fairly contemporary. I dont think it ever received a home conversion.
At the intro an 80s type rock band with a female singer are playing a concert, the singer is kidnapped by what I think were aliens, and the rest of the band cry out her name, the game is a scrolling beat em up type game where the other band members use their instruments as weapons and keep shouting the singers name every so often.
Yes, there is this game from when I was young. My father had in on his PC.
I remember I liked it, but after a while I couldn't find it anymore. I remember you played as some kind of caveman and you had to transport other people with some kind of self-made helicopter-ish thing. That's all I remember.
I remember I liked it, but after a while I couldn't find it anymore. I remember you played as some kind of caveman and you had to transport other people with some kind of self-made helicopter-ish thing. That's all I remember.