Unrecognized Great Games

[jakub963]

Star control: Ur-quan masters -dunno if its indie but its definately a great game

Its a flash game but

Company of myself - Flash game with 11/10 story and idea. I cried in the end...

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[Botowned]

Dark reign was great....lost my cd for it though and never backed it up (Silly me)
My favorite game lately is E.Y.E : Divine Cybermancy a little complex and weird sometimes but still overall an excellent game.

[Xoria]

Imperialism

Defined Panzer.

YES! Did you ever master Imperialism II? I just couldn't get the hang of it and kept running out of cash before getting any economy set up. Ah, but that first one is a beauty of turn based economics and set piece battles.

For my own contribution to the thread, I still love Lords of Magic for the diverse fantasy elements, balance of factions and classes that make it possible to literally win with any combination (although some are much more challenging than others), and the real time combat. The game did suffer from non randomized battlefields, so you get to fight on the same terrain or in the same dungeon over and over again, and the AI is unpredictable, so as a turn based game it can be either very hard or very easy depending on how your neighbors treat you. I'd love to see it updated to current graphics and AI capabilities. It plays very similarly to the Total War games, but is a fantasy setting instead.

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[Jimothy]

Galactic Civilizations: Twilight of the Arnor

^ THIS, a million times this!
Spend a good hour or so on the ultimate edition every now and then, largest galaxy size, max opponents 9/10 difficulty. I'm about 80 hours in (Each turn takes me 1/2 hour-ish) and it's pretty much just a horrible warzone with 3 alliances at each other's throats. Not even got the biggest ships open yet.
Oh, Protip - custom build your trade ships as huge warships with weapons and armour to rival a starbase = profit - literally!

Trine 1-2 - Maybe not underrated, but I only heard about it by accident. Cool platformer.

^ Blame the Yogscast for my accident.

Zeno Clash

^ Only got it 'cos it was mentioned in G Mod, and loved it!

Dwarf fortress. - Kinda clunky, but also "Losing is fun":D

^ Oh, and this.

Company of myself - Flash game with 11/10 story and idea. I cried in the end...

^ So did I :'(

Also:
1NSANE

- Best race game ever, no questions asked, no quarter given.

Dune (I & II)

- C&C's DOS predecessor, 'nuff said

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I was formerly know as Spiritar.

It's been a while.

[BaconSoda]

World in Conflict was a really great game that never got the recognition it deserved.

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[8:32:45 PM] Dusty Lens: Oh no, let me get that. Hello? Oh it's my grandma. She says to be roleplay.
[12:49:19 AM] Elgatodiablo: You know its nice that you have all that proof and all, Bacon... but I just don't believe you.

[lw'nafh]

DEFCON. It's a beautiful game. Easy to learn the basics (and not what the tutorial tells you, it's all heresy, no joke) but it's very hard to master. Sadly, not a large community as not many picked it up...

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[Botowned]

World in Conflict was a really great game that never got the recognition it deserved.

I thought so too...I used to play it online a lot till it started dieing out...and that's when I picked up wow....*sighs*

[Sarawr!?]

Omikron: The Nomad Soul

It was developed by Quantic Dreams and published by Eidos Interactive, (Same guys behind Indigo Prophecy) it's probably one of the least known titles published under Eidos/Quantic Dreams' name, too.

Anyway it's an -awesome- game, open world even, which was really major for 1999.

It's set in a Dystopian future/alternate realm.

Has a soundtrack featuring David Bowie who wrote songs specifically for the game, he also makes a couple of appearances as a character in the game itself.

It has elements of adventure, FPS, and Fighting games all rolled into one.

It's really weird, and at some points even twisted.

Aaaand yeah, it's just, seriously, an epic game.

<<<<SYNOPSIS>>>>

The Nomad Soul is set in a futuristic city known as Omikron, which is a densely populated metropolis on the world of Phaenon, the second planet of the star Rad'an. At the start of the game, players are asked by an Omikronian police officer named Kay'l 669 to leave their dimension and enter Omikron within his body (thereby breaking the fourth wall). After doing so, players continue with the investigation of serial killings that Kay'l and his partner Den were originally working on, attempting to pick up where Kay'l was apparently stopped from investigating. The city of Omikron exists beneath an enormous crystal dome, which was constructed to protect against the ice age that Phaenon entered into after its sun's extinction. The city is split into different sectors: Anekbah, Qualisar, Jaunpur, Jahangir and Lahoreh. Because it is forbidden for the inhabitants to leave their respective sectors, each area has developed uniquely, which is reflected by the diverging lifestyles and architecture. Common to all Omikronians, however, is the heavily oppressive and controlling government, which is run by a supercomputer called Ix.


Soon after the beginning of the game's introduction, the player begins the investigation in the Anekbah sector. He uncovers information that suggests the serial killer he is looking for is in fact not human but actually a demon. When members of an apparent underground, anti-government movement contact the player and confirm his suspicions, the investigation deepens and uncovers information; one of Omikron's chief police commanders, Commandant Gandhar, is a demon pretending to be human and lures human souls into Omikron from other dimensions by way of the Omikron video game. Kay'l 669 asking the player to help him was a trap: supposedly, if the in-game character dies, the real human playing the video game will lose their soul forever. Despite many assassination attempts on the protagonist's life by other demons working behind the scenes, the player destroys Gandhar with supernatural weaponry.

After this brief victory, the player is invited to join the mysterious anti-government movement named "The Awakened" (referring to the fact the characters have "awakened" from the lies and drugs of the government). The Awakened work in tandem with an ancient religious order who are led by Boz, a mystical being that exists in purely electronic form on the computer networks of Omikron. The Awakened refer to the protagonist as the "Nomad Soul" since he has the ability to change bodies at will. The Nomad Soul learns afterwards that what is going on in Omikron is merely an extension of a thousands-of-years-old battle between mankind and demons led by the powerful Astaroth. Astaroth, who was banished to the depths of Omikron long ago, is slowly regenerating power while using demons to both collect souls and impersonate high members of the government; he believes he can eventually take complete control and move across Phaenon and the Universe beyond. Only by harnessing ancient, magical technology and by re-discovering several hidden tombs underneath Omikron's surface, can the Nomad Soul hope to discover how to destroy Astaroth, return to his own dimension, and prevent his soul from being captured by demons.

<<<<SYNOPSIS>>>>

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[Omicron]

Sword of The Stars. Space strategies are not so popular these days.

First Red Faction - I haven't heard about it having any sizeable community.

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[Silmathien]

Evil Genius maybe. Don't know if it is popular.

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