Really Obscure RPGs

[KeighnMcDeath]

Yeah, that's mostly what I wanted up anyway as I've played most other versions of u3. It'd be this one and the old b/w version that's left. I played the trilogy on fm-towns so i skipped a few computers of similar make.

Skipped msx, famicom played NES
skipped pc88, pc98, fm-7 and played towns.

Never found the sharp x1. I think mobygames has an incomplete list and is obviously missing screenshots.

Jigsaw puzzle? No pics of watch or t shirt and I assume no port to msx2.

Which..... I'd pass on. Box art of the demon is far better.

Releases by Date

• 1983 (Commodore 64)
• 1983 (Apple II)
• 1983 (Atari 8-bit)
• 1985 (DOS)
• 1985 (Macintosh)
• 1985 (PC-98)
• 1985 (PC-88)
• 1986 (FM-7)
• 1986 (Amiga)
• 1986 (Atari ST)
• 1987 (NES)
• 1988 (MSX)
• 1989 (Sharp X1)
• 1993 Fujitsu FM Towns Marty
• 2011 Lairware Ultima 3 2.1
• 2014 (Windows)

Lairware version
Fujitsu FM Towns Marty

Added lairware and fm-towns to the missing mobygames list.

 

[JDR13]

I loved the NES version of Ultima III when I was a kid. It was basically my introduction to western style RPGs. Before that, I had mostly only played JRPGs.

 

[Serus]

I had Amiga 500 when I was a kid. Amazing half a megabyte of RAM, no hard drive. But the games... oh, what games it could run!

Sorry i'm a bit late but i have to ask. Half MB only? That was the basic amount of memory, yes but i thought most Amiga 500 had the upgrade to 1MB. But maybe i'm biased because mine had. On the other hand i remember there were games that required 1MB. What year it was?

 

[Lord_Potato]

I had Amiga 500 when I was a kid. Amazing half a megabyte of RAM, no hard drive. But the games... oh, what games it could run!

Sorry i'm a bit late but i have to ask. Half MB only? That was the basic amount of memory, yes but i thought most Amiga 500 had the upgrade to 1MB. But maybe i'm biased because mine had. On the other hand i remember there were games that required 1MB. What year it was?

Don't remember the exact year, 1991/2? Early 90s. Yes, I remember Mortal Kombat requiring 1 MB, couldn't play it properly on my Amiga. There were perhaps upgrades available but 8-10 year old me either did not know about them or didn't have the cash.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I had to recheck the A500 series. I know mine I upgraded to 1mb.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_500#Amiga_500_Plus

Seems 500+ came out later.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Dungeon Master's release for the Amiga in 1988 already gave Amiga users an excellent reason to upgrade their RAM.

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

Archangel
Action/Adventure/ARPG developed by Polish studio Metropolis Software House (Who themselves had a crack at a Witcher game before CD Projekt).

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[gamerguy]

anyone remember The Revenant


action rpg you could use a gamepad on PC... before anyone gave a shit about gamepads in PC

 

[Grampy_Bone]

The Revenant

You mean this game?



Fun fact: I went into town to go to Best Buy specifically to buy this game, not knowing it had been delayed. Not wanting to go home empty handed (trips into town being a premium), I purchased the next thing that caught my eye: Final Fantasy 8. Do not regret it.

 

[gamerguy]

yeah lol... I honestly don't know if I would enjoy it today, but I had a lot of fun with that one


funny, it's one of the reasons I got hard for Eidos, which is why I bought Omikron, which I hated

 

[Grampy_Bone]

Omikron

I did end up buying that one; still have it. David Cage's first game I believe. Bad game overall, it doesn't know what it wants to be (adventure + fighting game + FPS). Would have been better as a straight RPG. I thought the body-switching mechanic was pretty interesting, there's unique characters available if you die during different points in the story that you can't get otherwise.

I did dig the Bowie/Reeves Gabrels songs too.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

Evil's Doom

Interesting enough, I was exploring my Amiga emulation folder and found this game, and it runs fine. Immediately hit me with the Conan-plagiarized line "let me tell you of the days of high adventure." If I didn't see the blobber screenshots I would have thought it was some kind of VN. It does not start with any "gameplay", your stats and inventory are displayed as text in the window, there's no seperate stat or inventory screen that I saw. I wandered a bit in the first town and island but didn't get to any dungeons. The high-res graphics come at a cost of transitions and screen effects being kind of slow.

 

[gamerguy]

Omikron

I did end up buying that one; still have it. David Cage's first game I believe. Bad game overall, it doesn't know what it wants to be (adventure + fighting game + FPS). Would have been better as a straight RPG. I thought the body-switching mechanic was pretty interesting, there's unique characters available if you die during different points in the story that you can't get otherwise.

I did dig the Bowie/Reeves Gabrels songs too.

yeah... I really wanted to like it


those games were pioneering efforts though, and I don't resent even the bad designs

it's stupid easy to be critical today

 

[Lord_Potato]

Archangel
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Is the game worth giving a chance? I remember trying it twice but never reaching far due to clunky controls.

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

Is the game worth giving a chance? I remember trying it twice but never reaching far due to clunky controls.

Looks like a much older Witcher 1 to me, especially the beginning, and the ambience/music. I'm a Witcher 1 simp (as can be seen in my profile pic), have a soft spot for old euro jank, and an atmosphere fag. If any of that relates to you at all, worth a shot. Can't promise "good", but definitely something unique.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Speaking of Witcher - main character (Michael?) shares the voice actor with Geralt in Twitcher trilogy.
Would recommend it? Only for people liking to conquer every jank they encounter and can adapt to weird controls. Still have to try my own copy from certain "chamber of collection"...

anyone remember The Revenant


action rpg you could use a gamepad on PC... before anyone gave a shit about gamepads in PC

I still play it once in a while.
Best combat system in this genre, period. Had to tweak some config files for some mana/stamina/HP regen that would counterweight brutal spawns behind my back and hours spend in maze'n'caves.

 

[Lord_Potato]

Is the game worth giving a chance? I remember trying it twice but never reaching far due to clunky controls.

Looks like a much older Witcher 1 to me, especially the beginning, and the ambience/music. I'm a Witcher 1 simp (as can be seen in my profile pic), have a soft spot for old euro jank, and an atmosphere fag. If any of that relates to you at all, worth a shot. Can't promise "good", but definitely something unique.

HowLongToBeat says completing Archangel takes about 11 hours, so at least the time investment is not large. I might try again perhaps. In the fullness of time. One of these days. Or those days.

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

Will drop some entries I've made for the RPG list in which I haven't seen any/very little discussion on the Codex:

A.I.M.: Artificial Intelligence Machines
Released: February 27, 2004
Country of Origin: Russia
Developer: SkyRiver Studios
Publisher: 1C Company
Tags: Real-Time, Action, First Person, Third Person, Vehicle Combat, Open World, Sandbox, Sci-fi, Robots, AI, Factions

^^Only one post I could find, and it was made just over a week ago

Battle Mages
Released: October 10, 2003
Country of Origin: Russia
Developer: Targem Games
Publisher: Buka Entertainment
Tags: Real-Time, RTS, Class-Based, Top Down, 3D, Fantasy, Magic, Army Management

Dark Tower Conspiracy
Release: May 22, 2006
Country of Origin: Russia
Developer: Semargl Game Studio
Publisher: Akella
Tags: Real-Time, Action, Diablo-like, Class-Based, Party-Based, Point & Click, Isometric, 3D, Fantasy

Day Watch
Release: May 16, 2007
Country of Origin: Russia
Developer: Nival Interactive
Publisher: Noviy Disk
Tags: Turn-Based, Party-Based, Isometric, Tactical, Action Points, Sci-fi, Fantasy, Vampire, 3D, Female Protagonist

Death Blade
Release: 1996
Country of Origin: Russia
Developer: Crystal Reality
Publisher: Crystal Reality
Tags: Real-Time, First Person, Pseudo 3D, Dungeon Crawler, Mac

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End of Twilight
Release: November 1, 2001
Country of Origin: Russia
Developer: Craftpath Software
Publisher: New Media Generation
Tags: Turn-Based, Third Person, Grid-Based Movement, 3D, Norse Mythology, Viking, Fantasy

 

[Modron]

No one mentioned Hybrid Heaven the action rpg for nintendo 64 where you play an abductee trying to escape a strange base full of alien/human hybrids. You learn new combat moves from enemies inflicting them on you, level up limbs/attacks/grapples through using them. It's probably the only rpg where you can supplex your enemies so it should have the Latro seal of approval.

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

Will drop some more Polish stuff:

Inny Świat
Fucking hell Poland, "Świat", really? Svet, svit, svet, svyat, etc. all exist but you need to spell it like that? Text based adventure RPG, illustrated in black & white and release for Atari 8-bit.

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Legion
1996 Amiga RPG/Strategy game in a fantasy setting. Have a mix of strategic map to conquest, as well as getting some terrain action & adventuring.

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Otchłań
Don't know too much about this one. It's only in Polish, and it's some kind of SUD (With a massive map).

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[BosanskiSeljak]

If what you're looking for is a good, obscure RPG in a nice setting then you should try Jewel of Arabia : Dreamers. It takes place in an Arabian Nights setting, focuses on exploration first and foremost, in a fully open world or so, and has everything you could expect such as party creation and turn-based combat. It uses a keyboard-based dialog system and in particular you'll hunt keywords to get quests...

Do you happen to know anything about the developers or where they're from?

 

[vitellus]

I loved the NES version of Ultima III when I was a kid.

this fucking song is engraved in my fucking brain for all eternity, we were poorfags so we only rented games and i must've rented this like, ten times and never really understood what was going on, then again i was maybe eight or nine

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I guess they didn't combine...

 

[vitellus]

i found this game, hylics 2.



i am gonna have to purchase this soon. it looks fucked up and right up my alley

 

[JarlFrank]

If what you're looking for is a good, obscure RPG in a nice setting then you should try Jewel of Arabia : Dreamers. It takes place in an Arabian Nights setting, focuses on exploration first and foremost, in a fully open world or so, and has everything you could expect such as party creation and turn-based combat. It uses a keyboard-based dialog system and in particular you'll hunt keywords to get quests...

Do you happen to know anything about the developers or where they're from?

https://www.qnote.com/

https://www.qnote.com/Jewel/jewel.html

https://www.qnote.com/qnotepeople.html