Extremely Weird And Obscure Games

[Lena CE]

It is truly tragic that despite how fun, unique and popular Fat Princess was that we only got 1 pseudo-sequel in the form of the PSP game. Every other attempt at progressing the IP was a shlocky spin-off. It they remastered or made a new one I'd be all over that shit!!


Cu-Neo already mentioned it, but I will second Folklore. Incredibly fun and unique RPG with a gorgeous visual style. It had a planned Move sequel that got unfortunately canned in an era where the Move desperately needed more non-shovelware to legitimize the platform. RIP to Game Republic, they made a small handful of stellar titles - almost none of which managed to catch on despite their quality - before primarily becoming a lower budget licensed studio desperately trying to pay bills between their original IP.

 

[Rylioli]

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i think the weirdest part about this game is it got a remaster like not even that long ago on pc and switch. same with another rather obscure ps3 title called blades of time

 

[Moreno909]

Gun Road. An obscure light gun, gorey, anime visual, japanese windows freeware game.

 

[What's His Face]

 

[Cu-Neo]

On 360:
Transformers War for Cybertron
Transformers Fall of Cybertron
Transformers Dark of the moon
Transformers Revenge of the Fallen
N3 "1"
Sonic 06

PS3:
Saint Seiya sanctuary battle
Tears to tiara 2 (with the artbook)
Ar nosurge
Disgaea 4
Valkyria Chronicles 1
Persona 5

3DS:
Soul hackers

PS2
A sealed box of GTA 3

Those are the most rare that I own. on 360 I also have things like Green lantern rise of the manhunters. And of course the most important xbox 360 game:

"It's Oblivion on steroids"
- Hardcore Gamer

 

[CaptainToad]

I have the full Steel Battalion controller and game (Japanese) that I bought when Surugu-ya did that week of free shipping before they cancelled it and it's probably the game I wanted the most. Need to beat it but as cool as it is, it takes up too much damn space.

 

[stealthRUSH stealthRUSH]

I held on to many of my childhood collection which had its share of 'weird and obscure' titles these games I had since their NA release either bought new or used complete in box :

• Sega Saturn- Robo Pit, Blast Chamber
• PlayStation- Silhouette Mirage, Trap Gunner, One Piece Mansion, Team Buddies, Spin Jam, Destrega, BoomBots, Evil Zone, Micro Maniacs Racing, No One Can Stop Mr. Domino, Galerians
• Dreamcast- Cannon Spike, Tech Romancer, Death Crimson OX, Psychic Force 2012
  PlayStation 2- The Adventures of Cookie & Cream, Stretch Panic, Bombastic, Heavenly Guardian, Bujingai, Iridium Runners, Robot Alchemic Drive, S.L.A.I, Yanya Caballista, Spy Fiction, Galerians:ASH
• GameCube- Gotcha Force, Cubivore, Ultimate Muscle
• Xbox 360- WarTech, Otomedius Excellent
• Nintendo DS- Bangai-O Spirits, Deep Labyrinth
• Wii- Domino Rally

A few imports on Saturn years later were Tama, Groove on Fight, Vatlva, and Noon. The past decade I picked up Fray CD: Xak Gaiden and Mr. Helo no Daiboken on PC Engine Duo. And more recently Guardian War on 3DO.

 

[Ailuropoda Melanoleuca]

A lot of y'all are mentioning games that were quite high-profile when they released. Like Folklore, for example, was hyped up to be the PS3's first major RPG (it wasn't, but it was still a solid game). The lack of games in the PS3 library early on really elevated the profiles of a lot of these early titles.

Anyway, I've gotta second the recommendations for 3D.Game Heroes (which plays perfectly emulated, by the way) and Tokyo Jungle. The latter, especially, is one of my favorites.

Beyond that, there are a number of experimental PSN games and Japan-only titles that are worth bringing up, I think. For the former, Echochrome was a delightfully mind-bendy puzzle-platformer based on M.C. Escher drawings, and Flower, since ported to every platform under the sun, was originally THE showcase game for the Sixaxis' motion control gimmick; for the latter, I'm a big fan of Gundam Senki (easily the best Gundam game to date) and Macross 30 (an open-world ARPG with transforming mechs, what's not to love?); Gundam UC is also a pretty solid gundam game confined to space, with some of the best visuals out of any game game before or since, and I was also quite happy with the very small mini-games (literally miniature games) that were included in the original blu-ray releases of the Macross movies -- both Frontier films as well as Do You Remember Love, iirc.

 

[Rylioli]

A lot of y'all are mentioning games that were quite high-profile when they released. Like Folklore, for example, was hyped up to be the PS3's first major RPG (it wasn't, but it was still a solid game). The lack of games in the PS3 library early on really elevated the profiles of a lot of these early titles.

Anyway, I've gotta second the recommendations for 3D.Game Heroes (which plays perfectly emulated, by the way) and Tokyo Jungle. The latter, especially, is one of my favorites.

Beyond that, there are a number of experimental PSN games and Japan-only titles that are worth bringing up, I think. For the former, Echochrome was a delightfully mind-bendy puzzle-platformer based on M.C. Escher drawings, and Flower, since ported to every platform under the sun, was originally THE showcase game for the Sixaxis' motion control gimmick; for the latter, I'm a big fan of Gundam Senki (easily the best Gundam game to date) and Macross 30 (an open-world ARPG with transforming mechs, what's not to love?); Gundam UC is also a pretty solid gundam game confined to space, with some of the best visuals out of any game game before or since, and I was also quite happy with the very small mini-games (literally miniature games) that were included in the original blu-ray releases of the Macross movies -- both Frontier films as well as Do You Remember Love, iirc.

i always thought lair was the sixaxis gimmick showcase (for better or for worse)

 

[Dyne]

 

[Brichye]

King of Dragon Pass. Only 8000 boxed copies made. Bought it sometime in the early 2000s.

 

[Eckori]

Always loved Deadly Premonition, probably due to my love of Twin Peaks, its not really a great game but I love it!

 

[Doomstruck]

Speaking of weirdly good DS driving games. Did anyone play C.O.P. The Recruit? It’s an open world police sim (like a reverse GTA) with a large map, surprising level of environmental detail and it targets 60 frames per second… on the DS.

It’s not amazing gameplay-wise but from a technical standpoint it’s an incredible achievement and a real showpiece of the DS’s capabilities. It’s cheap too! Nobody ever talks about it so you can pick up a second hand copy for not very much.

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oh yeah I played a bit of this back in the day, though as far as 3D driving on the DS goes I don't think anything can top Sideswiped, that game's a masterpiece

 

[Deleted member 7989]

I have a pristine copy of Sonic's Schoolhouse I found at a Goodwill for like 2 bucks. I also have the color variant disc of Crash Team Racing with the Trophy Girls on it. I have Big Bumpin' and Sneak King, the Burger King 360 games, I don't have the third one though. I bought the Postal XX box set that came with every game up to Postal 2: Paradise Lost that one of the devs signed. The signature says "Leave it in my Backdoor" with whoever signed it's signature. It's a reference to when I ordered it I put under the special instructions to put it at the backdoor because my front door is a slider we don't use lol.

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I have a pristine copy of Sonic's Schoolhouse I found at a Goodwill for like 2 bucks. I also have the color variant disc of Crash Team Racing with the Trophy Girls on it. I have Big Bumpin' and Sneak King, the Burger King 360 games, I don't have the third one though. I bought the Postal XX box set that came with every game up to Postal 2: Paradise Lost that one of the devs signed. The signature says "Leave it in my Backdoor" with whoever signed it's signature. It's a reference to when I ordered it I put under the special instructions to put it at the backdoor because my front door is a slider we don't use lol.

Also remembered this from another post I just commented on. I have this box set of these PC games based on a character called Snowy the Bear. The box set was like 10 bucks and it has Snowy: Treasure Hunter 1 and 2, Lunch Rush, and Fish Frenzy. This was an obscure yet big series in the budget market for pc. There was a particular one I really liked as a kid called Space Trip where you had to guide these aliens to safety from robots. Really weird thing I'm in to.

 

[Deleted member 7989]

I get to talk about this. There is a PSN release called Snowy: Treasure Hunter. It's a port of these three old PC games put together in to one release. I never played the PS3 version because you can't buy it anymore and no one has the license for it so you can bypass the demo. But as a kid I played the PC games a lot, they were neat little platformers where you had to go across the level and collect all of the treasures while avoiding enemies. The game gets super difficult with puzzles later on. I think here on the Repo there's the Snowy: The Bear's Adventure's psp mini that it's related to.

 

[Doomstruck]

If you've been active on fightcade you might have come across a game that you love, but there's maybe 2 people in there if you're lucky and none of them are active. For me this is mostly toy fighter, since I've been able to get a couple games in my other favs, but toy fighter I have to actively bring people in and that's a huge gamble. Do you guys have any fighting game white whales like that? (fight whales if you will)

 

[bobobobo2]

fightcade

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[ciro64]

Galaxy Fight. I love Roomi!

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

this?

 

[Deleted member 537]

Asuka 120% Final: Burning Fest. Final for the PS1, i main Caty Wild a grappeler/wrestler from Florida, very fun character and easy to do stupid combos.

 

[kuroninneko]

Evil Zone on Playstation

 

[Varyag]

Touhou 12.3 Hisoutensoku, usually just referred to as HTS. It was the first fighting game I actually made an effort to get good at and play against my friends.

 

[stealthRUSH stealthRUSH]

Cyberbots, Rage of the Dragons, Waku Waku 7, NeoGeo Battle Coliseum and Tech Romancer.
Not on Fightcade- Groove on Fight, Astra Superstar, Touryuu Densetsu: Elan Doree, and Destrega.

 

[Doomstruck]

this?

YES I love hinokakera, I haven't done any real fights outside of a few matches with my sister but I love labbing combos in it

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Asuka 120% Final: Burning Fest. Final for the PS1, i main Caty Wild a grappeler/wrestler from Florida, very fun character and easy to do stupid combos.

I love that one, I forget the names but my main is the baseball girl, I love her big dumb bat swing moves

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Cyberbots, Rage of the Dragons, Waku Waku 7, NeoGeo Battle Coliseum and Tech Romancer.
Not on Fightcade- Groove on Fight, Astra Superstar, Touryuu Densetsu: Elan Doree, and Destrega.

out of those my absolute favs are waku waku 7 and groove on fight, though I've been trying to learn rage of the dragons, I just get stomped so hard in it lol

 

[ATenderLad]

Briefly had a small circle online, with some Kaillera-compatible MAME forks, to play Rage of the Dragons and Matrimelee. I don't think anything on the NeoGeo is all that obscure but that was the only time I found competition for those games, at least.