Obscure shooters thread

You also might want to look at Balgorg's The History of FPS Games series of videos to see in any of the entries are obscure, and to rip any assets from the Sprite-based 2.5d FPS games that haven't been ripped yet.

Bad Toys 3D. We had a Windows 95 computer when I was very young, and it had a ton of obscure games like this on it.

On 7/9/2021 at 2:13 PM, Kurogachii said:

You should get a windows 7 machine for old school gaming, just a cheap 2 ghz processor, 2-4 gigs of ram and a 512mb graphics card should do the trick, and if you want to play games from 2010 and lower, replace that with a 1GB card.

Not a terrible idea to be honest, I really need to get a piece of older hardware to play stuff like that on, I have a collection of old cancelled and alpha/beta builds of games from the 2000s era and trying to get full retail games from that period to launch on Windows 10 is bad enough, let alone unfinished stuff.

16 hours ago, Wadmodder Shalton said:

Psi-Ops The Mindgate Conspiracy, a third person shooter game released in 2004 by Midway Games of Mortal Kombat fame. This game got me into the band Cold, mainly because they contributed the exclusive song "With My Mind".

 

Psi-Ops is criminally underrated and not talked about as much as it should be, spent hours in the sandbox training room messing about.

17 hours ago, Wadmodder Shalton said:

Psi-Ops The Mindgate Conspiracy, a third person shooter game released in 2004 by Midway Games of Mortal Kombat fame. This game got me into the band Cold, mainly because they contributed the exclusive song "With My Mind".

 

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/psi-ops-the-mindgate-conspiracy-dvc

7 hours ago, mrthejoshmon said:

I have a collection of old cancelled and alpha/beta builds of games from the 2000s era and trying to get full retail games from that period to launch on Windows 10 is bad enough, let alone unfinished stuff.

It's all about the bits, Windows 7 32 bits should do the trick for every 2000's game, it even withstands DRM like Starforce, if you try installing a Starforce game on Windows 10 your system goes caput.

¿Why W7 and not WXP? Windows XP lacks online security, which is crucial in case of you wanting to download patches in a hurry, W7 also offers a lot of compatibility with older systems so choosing 7 over XP is the right decision.

Just wanted to bump this up if anyone is fine with that. Here's another obscure shooter that I remember from my childhood, it's Jimmy Neutron Invention Revenge, a kid-friendly non-violent FPS game originally released on the now defunct NickArcade PC game download service in the mid-2000s.

I wish to see somebody rip the textures from that game and recreate the three levels in other games, like the first three Quake games, the Unreal Tournament games, or any GoldSrc or Source engine game.

On 7/7/2021 at 2:04 PM, TheMagicMushroomMan said:

 

Just what the world needed in 1999: a hunting game advertising a washed up egotistical maniac. You get to use a guitar as a machine gun. One of those games that seemed normal back then, but ends up being a surreal oddity in 2021.

 

 

DONT BE A GOMER

17 hours ago, Wadmodder Shalton said:

Jimmy Neutron Invention Revenge

Interesting, never heard about this before. Looks like a solid Quake 3 Arena clone.

On 7/12/2021 at 1:33 AM, JustCallMeKaito said:

Bad Toys 3D. We had a Windows 95 computer when I was very young, and it had a ton of obscure games like this on it.

 

 

I was about to talk about this game. Underrated gem right here. It may have been some weird, cheap Wolf3D clone, but there was an odd charm to this game.

On 7/11/2021 at 10:54 PM, Wadmodder Shalton said:

You also might want to look at Balgorg's The History of FPS Games series of videos to see in any of the entries are obscure, and to rip any assets from the Sprite-based 2.5d FPS games that haven't been ripped yet.

 

It's a nice historical curiosity, but the video would be more accurately titled if it were simply called "The History of First-Person Games". Most of the games shown in the video are either primitive flight simulators, turn-based dungeon crawlers, simple maze games with grid-based movement, or vehicular combat games with tank controls.

14 hours ago, D.Vile said:

It's a nice historical curiosity, but the video would be more accurately titled if it were simply called "The History of First-Person Games"

True, but this video is a part of a large series (37 videos in all), which is mostly about FPS proper if you look at it as a whole. Hence, the history of FPS. It's just that the early years had so very few actual FPS titles in the strict sense of the term.

On 3/10/2022 at 8:04 PM, Lizardcommando said:

I was about to talk about this game. Underrated gem right here. It may have been some weird, cheap Wolf3D clone, but there was an odd charm to this game.

Yeah, the game had some charm and distinct personality; maybe its the cartoony art style, most of the monsters barring smiley and the big robots didn't even looked like toys, and it was funny that despite the kid friendly vibe, it had random posters of a cartoony topless smiling chick and random creepy ambient noises like machinery and echoing screams.

po'd, from 1995, made for the 3do and ported to the playstation. it's wild and unpleasant on the whole. its just gross looking and gross feeling. i did not find it fun but it does fascinate me

as for something i actually have fun with, i like kileak: the dna imperative. its gameplay isn't much of a step beyond catacomb 3d or wolf3d. you are supposedly a very large robot but it never feels as if you are. nothing to go too crazy over.

On 7/8/2021 at 5:59 PM, mrthejoshmon said:

 

If I ever figure out how to get this thing working on modern hardware I will post the tutorial myself.

I'm of the few people who apparently played this. And I liked it. I have some nice memories of it. Another supposed "Halo killer".

Btw it's Unreal 2, it shouldn't be too hard to get running I guess.

On 7/8/2021 at 12:19 AM, Arrowhead said:

Gore: Ultimate Soldier [2002] is extremely obscure. Fun little low budget shooter w/ well, gore!

 

Pyl [1998]  or Dust, as it is known in America - is an obscure Polish shooter. Definitely worth your time, if you can get a hold of a working / localized copy. I remember it looking very Quake 2-ish, so if you're into that aesthetic, you may like this one.

 

 

Is this the kind of thing Civvie 11 would review?

39 minutes ago, jupiter_ex said:

Is this the kind of thing Civvie 11 would review?

Honestly, I could see him doing it at some point. It's a pretty decent game. :)

Always liked this game, though the weapon sounds were kind of tinny.   

The Hidden Below.

A german FPS released by Soft Enterprises in 1994.  I bought the original cd years ago on amazon.de

HERE The Hidden Below Fansite

On 3/17/2022 at 7:22 AM, Dyshoria software said:

Er... there are at least 2 big lies in that photo xD

Btw, the fact that a husband + wife team is called TriSoft... ahem... who's the third...?

https://web.archive.org/web/20030807055736/http://www.qamalice.com/

that one was really nasty...

One of my favorite arcade games ever. It had co-op and deathmatch modes and could link up to 4 machines together. If I ever get filthy rich I'll definitely be tracking down a few of these cabinets.

Super underrated.

Mr. Pibb: The 3D Interactive Game 

ZPC is a stylish Doom-like FPS on the Marathon 2 engine, designed by English artist Aidan Hughes. One of the more charming "Doom clone" examples of the era to me.

And of course we should not forget the quake-clone from our ukrainian comrads...

On 7/8/2021 at 9:59 PM, mrthejoshmon said:

 

If I ever figure out how to get this thing working on modern hardware I will post the tutorial myself.

I actually own the OG Xbox version of this.

I also have this buried in a crate somewhere:

Classic mid-2000s Euro-jank most notable for its main character, a guy by the name of Jack Hard. Somewhat overshadowed by another shooter set under the sea that came out the same year.

2 hours ago, scalliano said:

I actually own the OG Xbox version of this.

That's the way I played it originally, I lost it years ago however, I distinctly remember being stuck in a section where you had been turned on by the strange government you work for and at one point you get into a city battle with a load of vehicles from both the military and the bandits, never finished that level.

I own a PC version on disc now and it is literally impossible for me to get it running, I've done everything people have recommended even down to replacing the executable with a cracked version (that's also after a battle with Securom to get it installed in the first place), I really want to finish it one day.

2 hours ago, scalliano said:

Classic mid-2000s Euro-jank ... main character ... by the name of Jack Hard

Say no more I'm sold.

Edit:

Ok, i found it and i am so bad :D
It is called Skout and it seems to be a german Game.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/skout/screenshots

I'll test if it runs from my old CD (that i never used :>).

It doesn't look as bad for a custom 3D Engine from 1999.
 

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Oh, i just remember that a Friend gave me a Game in the early 2000s called Shot or Shoot.

The Cover was just the Name with a red Background and think it had an Exclamation Mark in the End.

I never installed it :P

But the Screenshots in the back where more 3D like Quake.

Due to the Name i can't find anything.

Has somebody more Luck?

Also on Archive.org i found nothing, in the End i have to dump it myself and play it after 20 years.