Maybe Shenmue and maybe Unreal Tournament 2004 :D
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Alpha Centauri. Just reading through all the wonder quotes and worldbuilding is amazing.
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Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force.
- It's a first person shooter from a venerable studio in the genre, Raven Software.
- Put out during their "golden age", before Wolfenstein and Singularity flopped and uncle Bobby sent them to work in the Call of Duty mines.
- Really cool selection of sci-fi guns, some of them pretty unique.
- Campaign is essentially a prototype for Quake 4. It was built by the same internal team at Raven.
- It has a more interesting story than Quake 4.
- It's an early example of a game that lets you choose your sex. NPC dialog changes to reflect this.
- The whole cast of Star Trek: Voyager lends their voice talent to the game, including Jeri Ryan.
It also has a sequel, made by another studio. Elite Force II isn't quite as good, but it is still worth playing if you like the original. It loses the female protagonist option, likely because it was 2003 and the story had a love triangle. It's a visual powerhouse though, really pushing the limits of the Quake III engine far beyond what many people likely thought possible.
Ooh I forgot about this. Elite force is one of the few games that I've actually finished. I thought the graphics were gorgeous for the time with lots of believable alien worlds. The characters are engaging and the missions never felt repetitive.
I've been playing retro games for the past years, and here's some that might fit the criteria of forgotten cult classics:
- ScummVM:
- The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble of Azimuth: It's a funny and interesting point and click game, use a guide though, there are some obtuse puzzle and pixel hunting
- TurboGrafx CD:
- J. B. Harold Murder Club: a straightforward but interesting crime mystery game
- SNES:
- Ihatovo Monogatari: an interesting no combat top down adventure game
- Sega CD:
- Sega Saturn:
- Policenauts: I like Policenauts more than Snatcher, but both are interesting sci-fi visual novel like by Kojima
- Playstation:
- Mega Man Legends
- Mega Man Legends 2: both MM Legends have heartwarming light hearted stories and okay gameplay
- Tail Concerto: similar to MM Legends, but gameplay is bit more basic. Features tons of cute anthropomorphized cats and dogs. Very lighthearted
- Playstation Portable:
- Remember11: The last game in Infinity series, co created by Kotaro Uchikoshi who went on and created Zero Escape trilogy. Out of the Infinity series, this is probably the best one, it is more sci-fi than romance/dating visual novel, there's no longwinded slice of life section.
All of those games are either in English or have been fan-translated
I’m probably alone in remembering this game but I loved Hardwar back in the day. It’s an Elite style trading game set on Titan. The player pilots a ‘moth’ ,a small flying craft, between craters.
It had an interesting story that played out as you explored with areas blocked out, due to events, and made accessible later on.
The developer closed doors but IIRC at least one member of the team released a patch that had been developed later on.
I played it pretty obsessively and it had a small passionate community but it wasn’t a hit.
Out of This World and Flashback. Always favorite old school cult classics.
I'd heartily recommend Fallout 1, with a less enthusiastic recommendation for Fallout 2
Just going to be that guy here but Fallout is neither forgotten nor a cult classic.
Edit just to be more productive: Arcanum is a classic isometric RPG that fits the post much more accurately imo.
Oh Arcanum is a great pick!
And you're right, Fallout's not exactly forgotten - although it was a cult hit at the time, and I'd argue the original still is in a way.
I'm gonna agree that the first two are more or less forgotten/less discussed than the newer games.
Happy to see my boy Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura in there.
If you are not averse to 90's isometric PC RPGs, it is a breathtaking journey through fantasy industrial revolution. Think mages, flintlocks, steram engines, and wonderfully elaborate facial hair. But also, think side-quests so good, they'd be the main attraction in some lesser games. Think evocative world-building scored by entirely by melancholic cellos, violins and violas. Think quests without any other markers than the clues indicated in your journal.
It's not balanced by any means, you'll need community patches for it to not die on you the second it launches, combat is good neither in the turn by turn or real time mode, and in the last stretch, the game looses quite a bit of its momentum. It takes quite a game to make all this unimportant in the face of everything else it does perfectly.
„Robinsons Requiem“, available on GoG.
It’s a survival horror first person rpg with a semi realistic health system. It’s creepy and hard and so goddamn good. I’m am actually surprised that it gets mentioned so rarely because I would not know of any other earlier game with those now so ubiquitous survival mechanics.
My answer to that question is always "King of Dragon Pass", a narrative/management game that is unlike anything else out there. It got a spiritual successor with "Six Ages".
I just grabbed it on Steam for $2! Looking forward to trying it out.
Have fun! It's a weird little game, but I am always happy when it finds some new players.
I still believe Warzone 2100 is one of the finest RTS games ever made. It is also now free and open source.
BladeRunner rpg by Westwood studios is fantastic
Quest for Glory 1 (called Hero's Quest at release) shaped my humor and gave me a lifetime love of fantasy in general, my username is the name of one of the minor characters. I recently spent a couple hundred dollars on a painting because it reminded me of Erana's Peace, a location in the game. Its sequels are great too.
Blade of Darkness. If you want to see the true origin of the soulslike genre, this is it. Be warned that the controls are extremely janky, though.