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openA game described as weird Videogame
I saw a stream of a game where the player character apparently is having the worst day of his life.
Several of the levels have him being chased by a giant metal globe, another level had him strapped to a cot where he gets electrocuted if he answers wrong, and the following level has him haphazardly tossed out of it and onto the road where he has to steer around oncoming traffic and barricades.
It as described as a weird game by the person streaming it.
openPirate-Seatown video game? Videogame
I can recall several details of a game trailer I saw on a CD a long time ago, but I can't recall what the name was...
A man meeting with a butler figure on a dock.
Man: "Dr...Ariginaut?" (Names may be incorrect)
Butler: "No, My name is Japez. Ariginaut's servant. Welcome to Aqua County."
Japez opens up a door on a cliff face.
Japez: "This shortcut will take us right to Ariginaut."
Man: "What's the rush?"
Japez: "I...don't like to keep my master waiting."
They run through the cave, and then there's a cave-in with Japez leaving the man behind. The bridge collapses under him, but he leaps to safety, much to Japez's disappointment.
Japez: "It's clear our 'master' is able to take care of himself."
Anyone have any idea what game this is?
openArcade Game set in the jungle (SOLVED) Videogame
This was an arcade game I played as a kid. I never got passed the first level.
It was a sidescroller that took place in a jungle, or maybe a forest. You played as some kid. In the first level, there was a part where you reach a river and you need to buy a boat to make it across. If you bought the mud boat, it would make it halfway across and then sink, meaning you had to jump far to reach the other end, but a grass boat would take you all the wall. If you got a game over, you'd see the player character unconscious in the background while some girl in the foreground would cry and beg you to continue. If you continue, the hero gets up and runs back into the action while the girl thanks you. If you choose not to continue, the PC dies and the girl angrily calls you a bad guy.
Sorry, that's all I remember.
Edited by DelphineTheDelphoxopenSpace sim (?) where a character says "Will it ever end" Videogame
So, I have a strong memory of playing a space sim or the like where you have people fighting along side you and at one point you face a seemingly endless onslaught of enemies and one of your friends says something like "Will it ever end?" I thought for the longest time it was something Slippy from Star Fox 64 said, and can even hear him saying it in my head. However, more recently I have played the game multiple times and never heard it. I also asked this on another site and had someone who claimed to have played so many times he memorized all the lines say he never says it, the closest thing is Falco saying "These guys keep coming" and I'm sure that's not it. I think now that it might be Starsiege but I'm not sure. Can anyone confirm or deny? And if it's not that, anyone know what it's really from?
openGame about Forced Perspective (SOLVED) Videogame
There was a trailer for a video game that was shown this year (90% certain during E3) which showcased gameplay that heavily involved Forced Perspective. It was a first-person game and the player was doing things like picking up objects that seamlessly transitioned from being small and close to large and far and other weird visual trickery. Anyone remember what it was called?
EDIT: Just realised the trope I'm thinking of is Depth Deception, not Forced Perspective, which has the game listed there
Edited by iloveserperioropen90s PC game about breaking colored blocks Videogame
It was an old PC game from Windows 95 or 98 where you controlled a ball and had to change colors to break blocks of the corresponding color. The goal was to get a key and take it back to a lock and there were blocks with skulls on them that were insta-death.
openMail-order breakout in 3D Videogame
One of those mid-2000s mail-order games (think the Wonderland series) that was like breakout but in several realistic environments and with 3d graphics. There were a lot of mechanics that made it more than just standard breakout - I think it might even have been more like pinball. I think the levels were sorted into worlds, and there was a complex level editor.
Edited by iwantedtoaddsomethingopenScuba Videogame
A diving/mining Flash game, similar to Video Game/Minecraft but 2D. It had a 3x3 crafting grid and items would stack up to 64, just like Minecraft. Your goal was to craft a new engine for your crashed ship. I also remember it being possible to craft anything out of dirt if you had enough of it.
I remember it being titled "Scuba", but I can't seem to find it anywhere. I need a link.
openGiant Transmedia Game Videogame
I can't recall the name but it was a game in a website (kinda indie) and as you would play you would go through "pages" each of these pages was a mini-game in of itself or had some comic pages or other transmedia interactions and each one would lead you to the next one but not in a linear way (like you could skip from page 20 to like 84 and come back to 21 depending on where you'd click); I'm pretty sure I found it through Youtube in 2011 and I think it already had like 900 pages or something like that.
open"Structual Integrity Compromised!" Videogame
I have strong memories of a work (which I'm pretty sure is a video game), where a robot gets shot or otherwise badly damaged and simply responds with "Structural integrity compromised!" the blandness of the phrase being the funny part. I was pretty sure this was something one of the robots on System Shock 2 said when damaged, however, when I searched for that phrase (as I was hoping for a clip from the game with said robot saying it) turned up nothing of the sort. All I could find was a band named that (which I'm 100 percent sure isn't what I'm looking for), and a screenshot from Team Fortress 2 with that caption, which I'm also sure isn't it as I've never played that game either and I'm not even sure from the page if it's an actual quote from the game or just a caption.
openVery simple flash game about drawing shapes Videogame
Once the "game" loaded up, all that was visible was a solid green background with tiny text at the bottom that explained what some of the keyboard buttons do. There was no goal or objective, and the background never changed from green. All you could do was click to draw lines and shapes, which were affected by gravity and instantly fell, and the shapes were always solid white. You could also pick up and drag around shapes you've already drawn. One important detail I remember is that the game lacked any sort of title screen, but for some reason, the flash game website I found it on had it named as "Nyphs", But searching that doesn't turn up anything.
openAction game I played 6 years ago Videogame
What I remember most clearly is that you jump from car to car in a high speed chase and in the beginning a villan attacks your wedding.
openSnake but you're crayons and it's PVP Videogame
The gameplay was Snake, but instead of collecting fruit, there are three other snakes, you're all infinitely long and only vanish when you die, and the objective is to kill the other three.
The Excuse Plot is that you, the red crayon, are a Villain Protagonist for reasons I can't remember, and Forest Green is the Big Good Hero Antagonist.
For some reason I remember this game being part of a bundle of screen savers.
openDisney browser/flash game featuring blue bear (SOLVED!!!) Videogame
I played this as a kid sometime in the late 2000s (2008-2009 for a more exact guess) on the official Disney website. You played as a short blue bear (drawn in a vaguely Rodney Greenblat-esque style) walking around an isometric board collecting honey and avoiding traps/enemies. I think it was an original property not otherwise connected to Disney, and if memory serves it wasn't hosted on Disney's main game site but somewhere else (again still an official Disney website - some sort of experimental game platform? Abandoned branding?)
Edited by CosmicCatopenGame in a video Videogame
Can someone tell me what the game in the background at around 1:58:20 in this video (The one with the woman getting all demonic looking and her face splitting into four faces) is? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpZs3mP1UVI (NSFW)
Edited by BootlebatopenGame like Alone in the Dark Videogame
This was an older game but newer than Maniac Mansion. You controlled four people and you went into a house. You could select the jobs of the characters.
resolved Help with a curious cube puzzle game. Videogame
As the title says, am trying to remember the name of a series of puzzle games. What I remember is that it was a point-and-click game, it had to do with this cube that the player was trying to open, with a lot of cool advanced puzzles that tested the players knowledge on various fields, it had to do with demons (apparently) and each time the player completed the puzzle they would get teleported inside of it. It also had this beautiful 3D HD graphics. And each part of the puzzle was its own game. Please help.
openA kongregate game about noneuclidean geometry. Videogame
The premise is that the Large Hadron Collider malfunctioned and warped reality and you have to turn it off, the gimmick is that the levels loop back on each other and are made of tiles that you can move around to solve puzzles, in the first level you're in an infinitely looping hallway and have to put a door tile in the right place to enter a room, then place a fax machine tile next to the outlet tile to get a message.
I cannot for the life of me remember too much about this certain game, but from what my 5 year old self can recall, the game's graphics looked kinda scary and 3D-ish. I believe it was an late 90s/early 2000s game. I think the game plays from what looks like your own perspective. Your doorbell rings and a scary, goopy, #D looking alien answers. I don't know if he attacked or not. As you play the game, there were more aliens that show up that are trying to take over the world. In order to stop them you had to solve math problems and stuff. Sorry the description sounds vague.
Edited by goldenpurple