Games you can't remember the title of.

[Jesse]

I fucking loved that game, and I remember it being hard as nails, too.

[el_loco_avs]

* Background: A medieval RPG where you can decide on what shape the various farms and areas are zoned in.
* System: PC
* Year: 2000-2005ish?
* Perspective: top down with a 3d terrain system
* Art style: Standard medieval art
* Environment: England-type-settings
* Mood: Serious
* Genre: RTS
* Gameplay: All I remember is zoning out farmland for pigs and grain and such and then using large armies to crush my enemies. Something about clicking and then drawing a box of whatever shape you wanted to make the farms. I know I'm making it sound like a farming simulator, but it really was a medieval RTS.

UI remember something like this but that wasn't 3d. much older too. Probably not it. Can't remember the name anyway.
Medieval RTS's are a fairly small group. so.

Stronghold?
This list might help?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology ... tegy_games

[SecondTalon]

* Background: A medieval RPG where you can decide on what shape the various farms and areas are zoned in.
* System: PC
* Year: 2000-2005ish?
* Perspective: top down with a 3d terrain system
* Art style: Standard medieval art
* Environment: England-type-settings
* Mood: Serious
* Genre: RTS
* Gameplay: All I remember is zoning out farmland for pigs and grain and such and then using large armies to crush my enemies. Something about clicking and then drawing a box of whatever shape you wanted to make the farms. I know I'm making it sound like a farming simulator, but it really was a medieval RTS.

Have you looked into the Settlers line? For some reason, drawing farms sounds familiar...

[CogDissident]

* Background: A medieval RPG where you can decide on what shape the various farms and areas are zoned in.
* System: PC
* Year: 2000-2005ish?
* Perspective: top down with a 3d terrain system
* Art style: Standard medieval art
* Environment: England-type-settings
* Mood: Serious
* Genre: RTS
* Gameplay: All I remember is zoning out farmland for pigs and grain and such and then using large armies to crush my enemies. Something about clicking and then drawing a box of whatever shape you wanted to make the farms. I know I'm making it sound like a farming simulator, but it really was a medieval RTS.

Have you looked into the Settlers line? For some reason, drawing farms sounds familiar...

Not settlers, or the stronghold series of games. Was something else. Will try to scour that wikipedia list, but it may be too obscure to be on there.

[what_is_it_called]

this game just came to me and I'm going crazy trying to find the name of it!!! it thinks it's just one word that starts with a "P" or something. i rememeber spending days and nights trying to beat this game about 20 years or so ago. Can someone help?

Background: A Side Scroller Game Set on another planet
* System: PC
* Year: early 1990's?
* Perspective: mostly set underground in a cave-type setting making your way topside
* Art style: Standard
* Environment: Cave/Alien world
* Mood: Serious
* Genre:
* Gameplay: the game starts out with a scientist (or something) crashing his rocket ship(?) on an alien planet and getting captured. he wakes up in a cage suspended in the air along with a native captive. he escapes the cage and the whole game is getting topside to his ship. the alien native helps throughout the game. you are mostly underground going through tunnels, kicking little wormlike things. one area you go underwater for a while. when you emerge topside you are in an arena, kind of like gladiator or something. you finally get in your ship and escape.

[SecondTalon]

* Gameplay: the game starts out with a scientist (or something) crashing his rocket ship(?) on an alien planet and getting captured. he wakes up in a cage suspended in the air along with a native captive. he escapes the cage and the whole game is getting topside to his ship. the alien native helps throughout the game. you are mostly underground going through tunnels, kicking little wormlike things. one area you go underwater for a while. when you emerge topside you are in an arena, kind of like gladiator or something. you finally get in your ship and escape.

Another World / Out of this World? Though there's no ship, it's a Teleporter.

Flashback may also fit, but starts with your memory being erased.

[Izawwlgood]

That game was fucking incredible by the way. I recall finding a free version online to play in java or such. I don't think I ever beat the game.

[what_is_it_called]

That's it! Awesome times!

[Menacing Spike]

Those games. I remember a jump I couldn't execute while my sister could. Found out years later that the jump was automatic, and pressing "jump" made you miss the ledge.

Also this.

[Izawwlgood]

That looked like Flashback.

[SecondTalon]

Because it is Flashback.

[SecondTalon]

Crap, this is now driving me nuts. From the Better Political System thread here in Gaming


* Background: Never actually played the game, just remember the marketing, PC Gamer being hopeful and the game ultimately being a disappointment.
* System: PC. May have been on consoles as well, but I am unsure.
* Year: Mid 2000s, I believe, so in the 2003-2007 range, though maybe 2008?
* Perspective: The advertising showed a lot of third person, but from what I read that was just a single mode. Not sure how the rest of the game looked, other than you could tell your influence and the like
* Art style: Going for a realistic approach to the models. I do recall the cover was a propaganda style fist with I want to say a Star in a circle behind it.
* Environment: A single city, possibly spreadsheets as well.
* Mood: Unknown, not important
* Genre: Third Person Political Revolutionary Simulator?
* Gameplay: While the advertising showed a lot of third person mode, the game apparently was in other screens. Overall, the story of the game was that you were a single citizen of a city and due to various abuses and whatnot of the government, you decided to overthrow it. You spent the game getting more influence and power, both to overthrow the government (and when you do, retain control) AND to keep power and influence over competing revolutionary groups.

[Dason]

Republic: The Revolution?

[SecondTalon]

Thank you. I am no longer going insane now.

[NOFXAK]

I`ve been looking this game for ages. Hopefully someone recognizes the game I`m looking for.

* Background: It got it from my friend somehow, I think the game might have been on disk/s. I found it on the interner somewhere between 2000-2003, but now I can`t find it anymore.
* System: I think it was win95, and you played it with your mouse. PC at least.
* Year: mid 90`s perhaps, but game might be older
* Perspective: upside map
* Art style: Similar to Risk, but background was black and little bit more simple and less detailed than Risk.
* Environment: ?
* Mood: ?
* Genre: strategy
* Gameplay: Turn-based Risk-style game, might be freeware game at least it was legally downloadable. Every country was a separate area and should be conquered. At the beginning everyone has only one country/city and some troops(only one kind of troops). Every city/country you have conquered produce 1 troop more in every turn. Right side of the screen was a "infobox" which "showed" battles=which troops were killed. Troops are only showed by numbers. I`m not sure if there were more than one opponent, but not over two. Game might have been USA vs CCCP, but not sure about that. I think human player was always green on map and opponent was red.

My subconscious keeps saying that the word Empire is part of the name. Somehow it is at least related to the game.

[Felstaff]

One of the Lux games? Unfortunately, they keep updating the graphics of Lux Deluxe, like wot PopCap does with Bejeweled, so the modern incarnation of the game looks nothing to how it did in early 2000s

There is also a Risk-clone called Empire Deluxe, which fits your description of having "Empire" in the title, if little else.

[NOFXAK]

One of the Lux games? Unfortunately, they keep updating the graphics of Lux Deluxe, like wot PopCap does with Bejeweled, so the of the game looks nothing to how it did in early 2000s

There is also a Risk-clone called, which fits your description of having "Empire" in the title, if little else.

No, unfortunatly none of those.

There was no blocks, or what do you call those on risk playboard. Only countries were separated. Also there was no "animations" or menus in the game. Only startup menu. Only the map and the "infobox" on the right side of the screen.

Black was the main color on the map. It only was changed to green or red, when someone conquered it. Oceans might have been blue.

e. Graphics were even more simple than Empire deluxe above.

[AvatarIII]

* Background: i remember playing the demo in the late 90s
* System: pretty sure it was win 95 era,
* Year: mid 90s* Perspective: upside map
* Art style: quite dark,
* Environment: Desert, possibly Earth and/or Mars
* Mood: dark with a little bit of humour.
* Genre: RTS
* Gameplay: normal RTS, Humans Vs Grey style aliens, humans use Technology, Aliens use Biological technology, one thing i remember is that it was unique in haveing a Day/Night cycle, and humans had an advantage during the day, and aliens had advantage during the night.

[Felstaff]

[AvatarIII]

that's it!! you don't happen to know if it was any good do you? i liked the demo, but i was probably only about 12 when i played it, and my idea of good was not as refined as it is today.

[Felstaff]

Click on the image for my laudable, if succinct, review!

Basically, it wasn't as good as 7^th Legion, but worth a squirt if you like your Isometric RTSs.

[AvatarIII]

Click on the image for my laudable, if succinct, review!

Basically, it wasn't as good as 7^th Legion, but worth a squirt if you like your Isometric RTSs.

yeah i saw that, however i never played 7th Legion so i had no basis of comparison, i might see if i can find it cheap anywhere,

[drphat]

This has been driving me crazy for months now, hopefully there's help here.

* Background: It's vague, I know each level was a set of puzzles, I remember the name of the last level was "the bowels of _____ "
* System: PC
* Year: mid-90's
* Perspective: 3rd person, side-scroll with 3d perspective
* Art style: cartoonish - pre Kq7 disney style though
* Environment: Varied depending on the puzzle/challenge
* Mood: Serious-ish
* Genre: RPG/Puzzles
* Gameplay: The game consisted of different puzzles, I remember one was on a field where veggies had to be picked or ordered a certain way, while others I had to work on a machine of sorts. I seem to remember rabbits or carrots also.

Sorry for being so vague. I did play this around the same time I picked up KQ5-7

[SurgicalSteel]

pre Kq7 disney style though

I don't know what this means. I can't for the life of me think of a Disney movie or game that could be abbreviate Kq7.

[Deva]

pre Kq7 disney style though

I don't know what this means. I can't for the life of me think of a Disney movie or game that could be abbreviate Kq7.

Stands for King’s Quest, probably. Compare these images.

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[SurgicalSteel]

That makes sense. I interpreted it as "The style Disney used before Kq7."

[drphat]

Sorry about that. kq7 is indeed kings quest 7.

[SurgicalSteel]

It's ok. I'm not really up on all the game lingo you crazy kids have nowadays.

[SecondTalon]

It's.. actually in Rule 5. I should probably start enforcing that one more - if you're going to use an acronym, define the acronym first. It.. really helps when Star Control Soul Caliber Starcraft are all applicable understandings of SC2 in a post.

[SirBryghtside]

It's.. actually in Rule 5. I should probably start enforcing that one more - if you're going to use an acronym, define the acronym first. It.. really helps when Star Control Soul Caliber Starcraft are all applicable understandings of SC2 in a post.

Not to mention GoW, or... ugh, MewTwo.

First time I heard someone say that, I thought they were talking about Pokémon. Seriously, where does that 'e' come from?!

[Jorpho]

Clearly, the game needs to be distinguished from the popular alternative, MuchWarriorTwo. Or not.

[AvatarIII]

ok this is a tough one, i only remember a few details and only played the demo but here it goes

* Background: i played it as a demo in the late 90s from the magazine PC Gameplay i believe, it reminded me a lot of Monkey island 3, in art style and play style, where in MI3 you had a gold coin as your action selector tool, in this you had a mushroom, i believe mushrooms were a major part of this game ,there may have even been mushroom in the title. i'm almost certain that the MCs name was part of the title too, but i could be wrong.
* System: PC
* Year: late-90's
* Perspective: locked camera
* Art style: cartoon, lots of browns, not quite as cartoony as Monkey Island 3 though.
* Environment: a tudoresque villiage, it may have been on a cliff top.
* Mood: lighthearted, i don't remember it being as comedic as MI
* Genre: Point n click adventure
* Gameplay: traditional monkey island 3 style point and click puzzle adventure, mushroom shaped selector tool,

[Felstaff]

Gilbert Goodmate and the Mushroom of Phungoria

[Poopenheimer]

I remember this PS1 game that I had, but the name is completely lost on me.

It was done with the very early 3d graphics, the kind where enimies (I carnt spel) where 2d and always faced you, but the map was 3d. The enimies (Stil carnt spel) were monsters of a sort, and you would walk around this green maze trying to avoid them, maybe shoot them too. It scared the shit out of me when I was a kid, And I would like to relive that experience.

[AvatarIII]

Gilbert Goodmate and the Mushroom of Phungoria

felstaff, you are a god, thank you.

i actually thought it had "good" in the title, but i always assumed i was getting it confused with the Goodsoups from MI3

[Felstaff]

It had early 3D graphics; the kind where enemies were 2d and always faced you, but the map was 3D. The enemies were monsters of a sort, and you would walk around this green maze trying to avoid them, maybe shoot them too. It scared the shit out of me when I was a kid, And I would like to relive that experience.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest Doom or Hexen. You might want to use the template (that everyone else is using. ...See?) to refine it a little bit, and then people might get a clearer idea of what game you mean.

i actually thought it had "good" in the title, but i always assumed i was getting it confused with the Goodsoups from MI3

I remember the demo from an issue of PC Gamer at some point in '99 or 2000. This was back when a.) I had enough cash to flash to buy PC gamer, and b.) I would install every demo of every game ever. I ended up being the best of the best for the first level of so many games (Splinter Cell, Project IGI, Soldier of Fortune, Max Payne...) but if I actually went out and bought the game, I'd tire of it pretty swiftly, and would sometimes just replay the level I got in the demo. This is how I came to be the undisputed King of level 10 of the GDI Campaign in the first Command & Conquer.

[AvatarIII]

i actually thought it had "good" in the title, but i always assumed i was getting it confused with the Goodsoups from MI3

I remember the demo from an issue of PC Gamer at some point in '99 or 2000. This was back when a.) I had enough cash to flash to buy PC gamer, and b.) I would install every demo of every game ever. I ended up being the best of the best for the first level of so many games (Splinter Cell, Project IGI, Soldier of Fortune, Max Payne...) but if I actually went out and bought the game, I'd tire of it pretty swiftly, and would sometimes just replay the level I got in the demo. This is how I came to be the undisputed King of level 10 of the GDI Campaign in the first Command & Conquer.

lol, i was wondering if you actually could remember all these games or if you just had really strong google-fu
i actually did similar thing to you, only being a kid (i turned 14 in 2000), it was a lot cheaper to buy gaming mags (my mag of choice was PC Gaming World untikl ZD stopped it, then my almost finished subscription was replaced, free of charge with a brand new subscription to PC gamplay, which had more pages, but it wasn't as good a magazine) and play the demos to death than to actually buy games. i was fricking awesome at the first level of Rogue Squadron.

[Poopenheimer]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest Doom or Hexen. You might want to use the template (that everyone else is using. ...See?) to refine it a little bit, and then people might get a clearer idea of what game you mean.

I'm afraid it's not doom or Hexan. I mean REALLY early. It only used the colours green and purple think. Also, I'm calling Felstaff "The man with the plan" From now on.

[SecondTalon]

Are you certain it was on the PS1?

Also.. how can you possibly misspell Hexen when it's right there in the part you quoted?

[Menacing Spike]

Are you certain it was on the PS1?

Also.. how can you possibly misspell Hexen when it's right there in the part you quoted?

He sounds like a /v/ dweller.
Mispellan galoran.