Can't remember the name of that game from your past?

[Clippy]

A bit of a Hail Mary but I haven't seen Baroque or Maken X mentioned so maybe it could be one of those?

 

[gwardojones]

It's not one of the Genji games, is it?

Genji: Dawn of the Samurai gameplay video

 

[Deleted member 132407]

Hello friends! There's a PS2 or PS3 game that I've been trying to remember for almost two years now, but I just can't seem to find it. Recently, I decided to play some old games through an emulator (like Jak, DMC 1-2-3, Metal Slug, Onimusha, etc.), and it felt really great. However, I still can't find that one game I've been thinking about for years. I remember it being a mix of Onimusha and DMC, though it might not actually be like that.

I only recall a very short 2-3 second clip: Imagine you're in a boss arena—a circular room. I distinctly remember the main character having a cape (ım not sure) (possibly a sword user?). That boss room had a brain-like structure, with round, eye-like things popping up from the ground. There were vein-like textures on the floor and walls, and I'm somewhat sure the ground looked like a brain. One of the enemies attacking us was something like worms coming out of the ground, or maybe some kind of energy wave, but it also had a fleshy texture.

The graphics weren't bad for its time—I remember the textures and effects being fairly detailed, which made the whole "living" environment even creepier!

If you could help me find it, I’d be really happy! When I played it as a kid, it got me so excited—I even got scared and asked my mom, "Do people’s brains look like that when they die?" :D I’m sure I played this game between 2005-2007, and it was either a PS2 or PS3 game.

 

[AlucarD]

Could it be this? Pretty similiar from the way TS described, worth to have a look.

 

[Suptuou]

It's funny cause what you describe fits perfectly with Lament of Innocence but it could be you merging a couple memories together and sending yourself on a wild goose chase as a result lol

Probably..

 

[Sinmenon]

The way you described, it could be either Castlevania: Lament of Innocence or even Curse of Darkness. Both have extra playable characters, so I'm wondering if you saw a clip of Joachim as a playable character?

In any case...
At some point, when you are relaxed, try to do this:
Recall the day when you saw that game. How was the weather? Were there any external sounds around you? And what about the smells? Now, how was your day, and what were you doing just before seeing the game?
Now that you are "in the mood", in a similar headspace as back then, try to recall what you saw. Try to describe the main character: what are their colors? Can you remember the hair? Weapons?
Then the location. You mentioned gothic-like setting and brain-like tissue. Can you remember anything that stands out? Something about the place, maybe more details of the enemy? Can you remember anyone speaking in the game?
Yes, I'm trying to help jog your memory. I hope it helps.

 

[PhaseJump]

If it wasn't Darksiders, or a Castlevania game, including Lords of Shadow.

Could it have been a platformer like Maximo 1 and 2, MediEvil, even Akuji the Heartless?

 

[nobitakun]

The way you described, it could be either Castlevania: Lament of Innocence or even Curse of Darkness. Both have extra playable characters, so I'm wondering if you saw a clip of Joachim as a playable character?

In any case...
At some point, when you are relaxed, try to do this:
Recall the day when you saw that game. How was the weather? Were there any external sounds around you? And what about the smells? Now, how was your day, and what were you doing just before seeing the game?
Now that you are "in the mood", in a similar headspace as back then, try to recall what you saw. Try to describe the main character: what are their colors? Can you remember the hair? Weapons?
Then the location. You mentioned gothic-like setting and brain-like tissue. Can you remember anything that stands out? Something about the place, maybe more details of the enemy? Can you remember anyone speaking in the game?
Yes, I'm trying to help jog your memory. I hope it helps.

I think it would be more interesting if he asked his mother about it, because I quote from his first message:

When I played it as a kid, it got me so excited—I even got scared and asked my mom, "Do people’s brains look like that when they die?"

I assume he showed her to ask that question.

Otherwise I would be very surprised if by a 2-3 seconds clip anybody who didn't see that clip would guess what game is it, among all the thousands and thousands PS2 and PS3 games that exist. How can you know it was PS2 or PS3 and not Xbox or Xbox360, if you can't tell PS2 from PS3 graphics? :O

 

[Vaggplus]

Was it by any chance the final boss from Grandia 2?

Spoiler: Grandia 2 final boss

 

[PSVitaForever]

Was it by any chance the final boss from Grandia 2?

Spoiler: Grandia 2 final boss

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When they mentioned brains and things like that I immediately thought of Grandia 2 because of that part inside an enemy, but I feel it's not so "creepy" like the rest of description make it seems, also it's not like Grandia reminds of DMC.

Let's hope the author of this topic will be able to find that game, eventually; sometimes it happens to me as well, I have some scene in mind and I can't remember which game was, lucky me when I find out!

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Not sure if someone mentioned it already, but around the time 3.04.56 of the video below there are worms coming out of the ground. "Dante's Inferno", never played it but I recall I thought it was shocking when I first saw it years ago, and the description made me think about it.

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3.55.29 (time in the video below), this one came to mind when mentioning swords and action battles, "The Sword of Etheria" (I wanted to play it but I haven't still, never seen before today that it becomes creepy, maybe it could fit with your description)

After this I give up and I wish you good luck :)

 

[Suptuou]

Alright friends, I'm throwing in the towel. I'll inevitably stumble upon it during my 'play every PS2 game ever' challenge. And if not? Well, guess my imagination betrayed me. Thanks a ton for all your efforts – now I'm off to cry-play Onimusha 3.

 

[deephousefreak28]

Hi guys.

I don't know if this is the right place to be asking this but I hope someone can help me with finding this game.

I saw this video of a game on twitter (didn't bookmark the post and can't remember the account) where they were playing as a girl on the way to get groceries and she had to dodge cars that were trying to hit her. The game had sixth generation-ish graphics and looked to be set in Japan. I've tried googling variations of "Japanese grocery shopping girl ps2/gamecube/dreamcast game" but have had no luck.

Does anyone have any idea what this game might be?

 

[Glimbo]

Kind of sounds like Incredible Crisis but it's a PS1 game.

 

[Deleted member 77791]

I saw this video of a game on twitter (didn't bookmark the post and can't remember the account) where they were playing as a girl on the way to get groceries and she had to dodge cars that were trying to hit her

I have no idea what makes you think this. What made you think it's a she, "on her way for groceries" and "she had to dodge cars"? If the human is a girl what's her age range? Little girl or young woman or older woman?

Kind of sounds like Incredible Crisis but it's a PS1 game.

I thought of this game too lol because this is that kind of crazy BS you would have to do lol.

 

[deephousefreak28]

Kind of sounds like Incredible Crisis but it's a PS1 game.

I don't think that's it but thanks anyway.

I have no idea what makes you think this. What made you think it's a she, "on her way for groceries" and "she had to dodge cars"? If the human is a girl what's her age range? Little girl or young woman or older woman?

I thought of this game too lol because this is that kind of crazy BS you would have to do lol.

In respect to your questions:

They had shoulder length hair and were dressed femininely. I guess they could've been male identifying but it seems unlikely from a game that looks like it came out in 2003.

I'm pretty sure it had some kind of "Get Groceries!" objective but I may be misremembering.

The cars were trying to hit her.

I would say the character had at least gone through puberty.

 

[Deleted member 612095]

Interesting a game where you have to shop properly.

 

[Deleted member 77791]

I don't think that's it but thanks anyway.


In respect to your questions:

They had shoulder length hair and were dressed femininely. I guess they could've been male identifying but it seems unlikely from a game that looks like it came out in 2003.

I'm pretty sure it had some kind of "Get Groceries!" objective but I may be misremembering.

The cars were trying to hit her.

I would say the character had at least gone through puberty.

Now I thought of 2 things:

1) Japanese games can have so much "unexpected" aspects in them, it would be hard to pinpoint. The big variety of platforms really limits the answer to a person who played it and cared about it enough to remember it. It seems so familiar yet not too familiar after playing tons of games from many platforms.

So the games I remember are on PS2: Disaster Report and Raw Danger. The games are disaster simulations, rather than a meme in their own context that you can see even on Twitter these days because these games have many scenes that are funny or can be interpreted that way. So, the games may seem like ordinary games you gather items akin to shopping, and if you really wanna record a humorous video I guess it can be twisted in a way to make it look like you gotta dodge cars. There are lots of characters and their stories to play in these games. Too much to remember. Perhaps I played the game you mean but your message doesn't ring a bell to me. I hope someone will find it because I don't think I can.

2) Sometimes people ask about an "old game" they saw and it turns out to be a mobile game or something, especially if they saw on Twitter. Not to mention Twitter is a good place to share "projects" that looks like a game or indie games. So your really unclear description of the game can only mean me something like this lol:

 

[deephousefreak28]

Now I thought of 2 things:

1) Japanese games can have so much "unexpected" aspects in them, it would be hard to pinpoint. The big variety of platforms really limits the answer to a person who played it and cared about it enough to remember it. It seems so familiar yet not too familiar after playing tons of games from many platforms.

So the games I remember are on PS2: Disaster Report and Raw Danger. The games are disaster simulations, rather than a meme in their own context that you can see even on Twitter these days because these games have many scenes that are funny or can be interpreted that way. So, the games may seem like ordinary games you gather items akin to shopping, and if you really wanna record a humorous video I guess it can be twisted in a way to make it look like you gotta dodge cars. There are lots of characters and their stories to play in these games. Too much to remember. Perhaps I played the game you mean but your message doesn't ring a bell to me. I hope someone will find it because I don't think again.

2) Sometimes people ask about an "old game" they saw and it turns out to be a mobile game or something, especially if they saw on Twitter. Not to mention Twitter is a good place to share "projects" that looks like a game or indie games. So your really unclear description of the game can only mean me something like this lol:

It doesn't seem to be any of the disaster report games but thanks for the suggestion. I don't think it was a mobile game but your point does have me wondering if it could have been an indie game trying to go for a retro aesthetic.

 

[Deleted member 77791]

It doesn't seem to be any of the disaster report games but thanks for the suggestion. I don't think it was a mobile game but your point does have me wondering if it could have been an indie game trying to go for a retro aesthetic.

Yes. That's what I also meant. I hope you'll find the game, if it's even a game that wasn't produced as meme worthy "game aesthetic" video.

 

[betterhiroto]

Robot Alchemic Drive?

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Robot Alchemic Drive?

No objective... but close enough (i hope)

 

[deephousefreak28]

Robot Alchemic Drive?

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No objective... but close enough (i hope)

That's it! I guess I sorely misremembered the video but that's the exact video I had seen. Thanks a lot (awesome pfp btw).

 

[Deleted member 77791]

Robot Alchemic Drive?

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No objective... but close enough (i hope)

Oh yeah. That's actually a known meme!!! I forgot this game exists lol.

 

[ThatOneLum ThatOneLum]

There's this edutainment game that I think is for the BBC micro which I remember playing in first school a lot, but for the life of me I've been entirely unable to find out which game it was.

It was something of an adventure game for kids where you had to solve a bunch of logic puzzles and quizzes, etc, but there are a few key moments I remember:

• Early on you arrive on an island and there's some sort of puzzle where you have to fix a drinks machine.
• There's a scene where you have to solve a puzzle while a robot slowly cuts the door open.
• There's a chicken-race scene where you have to answer quiz questions, and each time you get one wrong, your chicken gets another foot blister...(weird)

Graphics are standard fair for the BBC micro. The only reason I believe it to be from the micro is that I Found another game I used to play at school where you had to give commands to this little red ball guy and he'd do different stuff depending on what you type in, and that game was also on the micro.

If anyone had any idea wtf I'm talking about, please let me know, would love to try it again and realize my childhood was a waste of time.

 

[iplaygames42069]

there was this dsi game i used to play when i was a kid. it was a fashion game where you would pick out clothes for customers. i thought it was style savvy, but i'm almost certain it was less anime. for some reason, i remember the style of one specific brand logo in the game. i recreated it as best i can for reference.

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Let me invoke my alpha male ultra masculinity powers here

It could have been the Fashion Designer games, High Fashion or Style Icon. It could have been Girls' Life: Fashion Addict. It could have been Imagine Fashion Designer: World Tour

To be honest it could've been a ton of games. These are all the "career simulation" DS games on GameFAQs:

DS Cheats, Reviews, FAQs, Message Boards, and More - GameFAQs

For the DS, GameFAQs has game information and a community message board for game discussion.

gamefaqs.gamespot.com

On reddit /r/tipofmyjoystick i regularly use gamefaqs genre lists.... but for something like this, there's so many similar games, and most of them aren't particularly great

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Is it Suikoden 1? It's single disc though but the only game that comes to my mind for the 3 cups minigame and everything else.

Suikoden 1 was single disc, but came in a double jewel case because the booklet was about 60 pages. Same with Tales of Destiny and Brigandine. A lot of old RPGs and strategy games from Japan were like that.

 

[Combofish]

Not quite looking for a game, but I have a silly story about a game (or two) that eluded me for years.

I used to watch my older brother play practically all of the PC RPGs and strategy games of the late 90's, but there was one that stuck out in my memory. The cover art had your typical hooded wizard/sorcerer type guy with no visible face, and the gameplay fascinated me because you had what I remembered to be an isometric overworld in the style of Heroes of Might & Magic, but combat encounters suddenly turned the game into a Warcraft 1&2 style top down RTS.

Cut to a couple decades later, and I couldn't tell you what that game was to save my life.

Until one day, while looking for something unrelated, I found the cover art from my memories:

Mystery solved! Except... Betrayal at Antara is a pretty typical RPG, not any kind of strategy-RTS hybrid thing.

But then I came back around to a game I initially crossed off the suspect list, due to a lack of wizards on the cover: Lords of the Realm II.

And well, long story short, my brother used to keep a copy of Lords of the Realm II in the box for Betrayal at Antara. Thank you brother for decades of confusion.