Weirdest Game You've Ever Played

[mike breck]

Games tend to quite predictable but occasionally you come across a game that is so weird it breaks the mould in a refreshing way.

My list of the weirdest FPSs would be

Blood - the daddy of them all.

Realms of the Haunting - the classic chiller that that Undying seems based on

Undying - as above

But my gold award goes to Killing Time.

This is a really weird haunted house FPS which boasts amoung other adverseries, killer Chefs with throwing knives, killer clowns with lots of "teeth", flying mini-skirted, nanny-harpies, and good old boys with hunting rifles and dogs. Highly-recommended.

What's your favourite weirdos?

[Charger]

There was an old Atari bootleg called Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The graphics sucked, but it was ahead of its time as far as gore goes.

I thought the original Half-Life (single player) was weird also.

[Pants]

Mine was an Atari game as well. I wish I still knew the name of it(it wasn't Space Invaders), but you shot down these alien creatures, then you were transported elsewheres to battle a demon looking fella. I thought it was weird, but yet in a neat kind of way too.

[Trent Steel]

Nintendo with "Boy and His Blob". And another one for super nintendo that was a platform game with you being some sort of gelatinous ball that could stretch to get through pipes, boy that game is not for someone with their head in the gutter, but I can't remember its name as I only rented it once.

[Prew]

Doom II with the Simpsons mod (Flanders throwing bibles, beer powerups, really goofy sounds)

[Nuclear Krusader]

Doom II with the Beavis & Butt-Head mod. Hilarious!!

Undying, Wing Nuts, Fallout and Fallout 2 (had a lot of funny random encounters if you chose the Explorer perk), Duke Nukem 3D.

[Xayd]

Sacrifice. The game kinda died when the developing company didn't support it's balance issues for multiplayer, but it was a nice game, simply because everything in it from the controls to the sound effects to the textures was 100% original.

It had one of the best control interfaces for a RTS that I've seen as well.

[Charger]

Redneck Rampage!

I wish they would put out the sequel:(

[mikeheitz]

Pants... I believe the game you are referring to was "Satan's Hollow". If not, it sounds eerily similar.

As for the weirdest game I've played... man, that's a tough one... I'd have to say Fallout & Fallout 2 had their moments.

[Iman74]

Originally posted by O Beachian
Redneck Rampage!



Beach beat me to it. I was going to say Redneck Rampage too!

[homer15]

pressure cooker, on atari. the guy made hamburgers!

[Insanepyro69]

That mine game winmine or something like that.

[mike breck]

Shadowman was pretty weird...not our friendly member on the forums..but the game.

[tranman]

Carmeggedon (spelling probably not correct). Kill as many people as you can by running them over. Pedestrians, little old ladies in walkers, etc. If you're really good, you get a saw blade for the front of your car to help with the disposal of your target.

[Demosthenes]

Carmaggedon (or whatever) was great. I never got the point of A Boy and His Blob.

But, the "weirdest" game I have played is Feed The Pig on bored.com. Almost fell off my seat when I exploded my first pig. Really did not see it coming.

Respectfully,

Demosthenes

[Stubby]

Hey Beach, there was a sequel to Redneck Rampage, plus an add-on pack. The add-on was entitled 'Redneck Rampage on Route 66', but I cannot remember the sequels title, but it was something like 'Rednecks Revenge'. However, my vote for weirest game would have to be 'Shrak' and 'Malice' which were both add-ons for the original Quake!!

[Stubby]

BTW, both 'Shrak' and 'Malice' were both commerical add-ons for 'Quake', but not from id. And Beach, if you thought Half-Life SP was alittle weird, try that free add-on for Half-Life entitled 'They Hunger.' In that you fight dead people, sort of like 'Night Of The Living Dead.' It was weird, but damn it was good!!!!!!!

[CurtM]

American Mcgee's Alice. They don't get much weirder than that.

[FantasySoul]

Stubby,where can i find the addon like that for HL??

[CurtM]

I can step in for Stubby and provide you the link to the They Hunger Website (http://www.planethalflife.com/manke/) The file download of course is hosted by fileplanet.

[mike breck]

Yea,

They Hunger 1 & 2 are good survival horror mods.

The amatuer team did a great job.

The skeletons are particularly good with their little catchphrase of "Cooooold".

Just play them in a dark room, late at night, and they'll get you jumping.

Hmmm..must investigate Shrak and Malice.

What's the theme in both of them Stubby?

[Nuclear Krusader]

Originally posted by mike breck
Just play them in a dark room, late at night, and they'll get you jumping.

Same as with Undying. :eek:

[AcidJazz]

Originally posted by Nuclear Krusader

Same as with Undying. :eek:

Agree, Blood 2(my favorite FPS to date) could become quite scary at some places...

[shinigami579]

i think my weirdest was "giant citizen kabuto" but it was so fun and the graphics kicked ass. but the story was kind of a mixture between stupid, weird, and funny.

[Charger]

CurtM,

Yep, you're right, I forgot about Alice. I completed that game a year or so ago. Very weird indeed! Magic Mushrooms, an army of cards, a talking cat, a vicious caterpilliar, an ox in diapers, acorn dropping june bugs... and a world that was just WEIRD!

[Werewolfdaddy]

The weirdest games ever are the sims games. People play little electric people going through all the boring things that we play video games to escape. Ofcourse, they have expansion packs that allow your little electric people have "real" lives like HOT date and livin' large. I just want to get it out in the open, "I do not play video games so that I can pretend to take out the trash, use the restroom and cook; I play video games so I can ignore all those things."

[Werewolfdaddy]

The weirdest thing about those games is that there is actually a niche for it.

[Werewolfdaddy]

The sims might beat this game title in the category of horror, but I loved all the Resident Evil's. Now, that is a game that can make you jump.

[mike breck]

Ditto AcidJazz.

I'm playing Blood 2 at this very moment. I like Caleb's graveyard humour and the atmosphere. Hell on earth.

I like to give my old games an airing every few years.

My only criticism is Monolith got rid of the disembodied hands and robed cultists with their creepy language in Blood 2. However, they did redeem themselves by re-introducing both in the mission-pack.

[Stubby]

Hey Mike, the theme for 'Malice' is futuristic when where big corporations are vieing for the latest technology. However, you are playing the role of a 'mercenary' working for a crooked crime boss (is there any other kind?) and you have to steal plans for some new technology. It really is pretty decent and the graphics are pertty decent also if you play it with the OpenGL patch for Quake. The weapons are really well made too. And all the enemies are new too, just as in 'Shrak.' Speaking of 'Shrak.' It was the first total conversion of 'Quake' and it too is really good. However, it's been so long since I've played it, I cannot remember what the storyline is! Both of these have about 18 LARGE levels each and will keep you busy for awhile if you want to try them. Oh one more thing about 'Malice,' it has alot of new unQuake like features like a reload key, a parachute which is really cool, a probe that you can send ahead of you to look for trouble, a jet powered skateboard (they call it something different in the game) and a few other things that slip my mind right now. You can check it out at www.qmalice.com. I guess that's more than you wanted to know, huh? I just got started and couldn't stop!!!
:D :D

[Stubby]

Sorry Mike, the correct address is www.qamalice.com. I forgot the 'a'.
BTW Fantasy Soul, there alot of good free add-ons for Half-Life. Like 'Heart of Evil' which is the largest free add-on to date. It takes in Viet-Nam and is really great!! Check out www.hangar16.com and you'll find ALOT of free add-ons, like 'USS Darkstar,' (from the same people that made 'They Hunger'). The list goes on and on, so check them out if you want. See, I'm on the staff of Hangar 16, and I appologize for the plug!!!:p

[DilLy]

Originally posted by Trent Steel
Nintendo with "Boy and His Blob". And another one for super nintendo that was a platform game with you being some sort of gelatinous ball that could stretch to get through pipes, boy that game is not for someone with their head in the gutter, but I can't remember its name as I only rented it once.

was it Pipe Dreams??

[mike breck]

Stubby,

Thanks for all your interesting info and the links. I love getting extra mileage out of the old classics with mods and conversions.

A mag called PC Gamer in the UK has been very good in supplying such mods & cons over the years, on their CD-Roms (that's where I got "They Hunger 1&2"). So I'll check my back issues, in case I missed them.

Might save me downloading a few on my slow dialup.

:)

[Stubby]

Hey Mike, you forgot one; 'They Hunger 3!' Personally, I think that was the best one of the trilogy! Yeah, I like PC Gamer too, and I need to go get this months (Nov.) because they have that new game on their cd, 'US Army' or something like that!! Anyhow, it is the one that the US Government made. Darn, I cannot remember the correct name!! Sorry:( BTW, do you have UT? If so, have you tried that new SP mod for it called 'Operation: Na Pali?' It's free, but it's also 110 meg download!! I have a 56K and it took me all night to get that one, but it was worth it, all 37 large levels!!:D

[bigkev1001]

Insanepyro69: I think the "winmine" game you are referring to is actually minesweeper and it is not a wierd game. It is probably one of the most addicting games I've ever played and not that hard to learn.

[DilLy]

i always thought FantazyZone on the Sega Master System was wierd as all get out. I never really understood it too much.


It seems Sega always had some wierd games on thier systems.

wierd but cool

[mike breck]

You're right. I forgot about TH3. It was good.

Operation: Na Pali looks EXTREMELY interesting. More Unreal using the UT engine. Way to go.

How did you like it?

[Stubby]

Hi again Mike! "Operation: NaPali' was fantastic:D And your right, it is more Unreal except in ONP you fly a space ship at the end of level 1, plus you can use the more powerful weapons that were in UT. My personal favorite was the duel-Enforcers (Magnums). Another point I really liked was that you can have the Na Pali fight with you by just binding 2 keys. I never really used them, but they're there if you need them. Are you familiar with 'Old Skool?' That little program comes with ONP and it'll let you bind those keys and 'mutate' the weapons if you want. Anyone that liked Unreal would love ONP!! Yes, it's that good, in my opinion!! I know it's a huge download and if you didn't want to d\l it, you can go to their website and for a small donation they'll burn it on a cd for you and send it. I was going to do it that way, but I got rather short on patience and wanted it right NOW!! It has 37 levels, the same as Unreal and if you do decide to d\l it, don't forget to get the one patch they have out which is about 4 megs. Trust me, you'll need it:)
One last thing, there was another UT SP mod released a week or so ago that is well worth it too. "Xidia Gold.' It's only about 17 levels.

[mike breck]

Nice to hear it's so good.

Yes, I checked out the Xidia link. It looks good to.

I think I may use the donation method for ONP. I don't mind waiting for something that good.

Thanks Stubby.

[Stubby]

Good luck, Mike! I think you'll really enjoy it.:D

[morriswindgate]

Terminator was pretty good. But wierd was Heretic with H-Zone installed.

[Nuclear Krusader]

And with the jHeretic port!

[figarowa]

how about the Leisure Suit Larry series...hehe

[Trent Steel]

Originally posted by DilLy


was it Pipe Dreams??

No, I don't think so, Pipe Dreams seems to be a puzzle game where as the game I am refering to was a platform game (such as Mario series for Nintendo and Super Nintendo).

The space quest series had its funny points, just take one of the action icons and use it the main character himself, such as the touch, and taste. If you tried this you know what I mean.

The UT mod that allowed you to ride the Deemer like rocket is very interesting.

[DilLy]

" The UT mod that allowed you to ride the Deemer like rocket is very interesting."


mmm...
Strangelove2. Excellent mod. A little buggy though.

Good call.

[Demosthenes]

how about the Leisure Suit Larry series...heheOh man, that and Sam & Max. Priceless. I loved Sierra adventure based games. Unfortunately, these cut and paste coded First Person Shooters have all but killed adventure gaming.

Respectfully,

Demosthenes

[stevo]

BAku BAku on the dreamcast..
WEirdsville...

[DilLy]

I remember this game on the Dreamcast where you were a mosquito flying around this guys bedroom and he was swatting at you. It was wierd. I think it was a Japanese only game.

If American's only bought Japanese games they would really know what wierd is.

[Nuclear Krusader]

That mosquito game was also available for the PC.