The Strangest game you ever played

[cdbeck]

We have had threads on best game, weird things in movies, most tactical.. now I am going to start one on the strangest or most bizarre game that you ever played. It can be a wargame or not, a PC, console, or board game - if you wish.

Mine would have to be a little known gem called The Tone Rebellion. It was made by Logic Factory, the same people who made the oft talked about Ascendancy. It shared some of the visual aesthetic, but the story was wacked out beyond belief. You semi-controlled, kinda like an RTS, this tribe of tone (think mana) swimming tentacled creatures (called Floaters) as they tried to erect certain sigils to kill Leviathan and his minions, which came as spores, infected the tone pools (resource for building) and created monster generators. I never beat the game, came close, but it seemed like a lot of fun. Check out that wiki article and look for screenshots... if my description sounded strange, imagine playing the game...

Now, what is your strangest game, and why?

SoM

[mikul82]

Probably Planescape: Torment here, also one of my favorite games in general.

[Grell]

Master of Orion 3. Just a terrible game by any standards, when my wife saw me playing it she said "is that pong?" now that is weird.

Regards,

Grell

[JAMiAM]

Snit's Revenge.

[Terminus]

ORIGINAL: Grell

Master of Orion 3. Just a terrible game by any standards, when my wife saw me playing it she said "is that pong?" now that is weird.

Regards,

Grell

It wasn't weird, just awful...

As for weird, MDK is a big candidate, along with Sacrifice.

[ravinhood]

That would have to goto the game S.A.C.R.I.F.I.C.E. I've never seen another game like it and it is totally different from any other RTS game out there. Very underrated and underhyped. One of the best all time RTS games I ever played and still play. The concept of the game is strange, the units are defintely strange, but, it all comes together almost perfectly. If you've never played this game you gotta download it and play it just once. If you've never liked RTS games I can almost bet you will like this one. Cause I hate RTS games those resource gathering cookie cutter template ones for sure.

[Jevhaddah]

'Sentinel' is the strangest game I ever played.... I sold my PS1 version to Rockstar Games in Edinburgh probably gonna make 'Grand Theft Auto: The Sentinel' [:D]

Cheers

Jev

[jvgfanatic]

Seventh Cross - Sega Dreamcast
Project Seaman - Sega Dreamcast - The first of these defies explanation, the second is just strange

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Various - Not unexpectedly strange by any means but a severe departure from previous and much more logical text adventures.

Dozens of more obscure console games that I've forgotten about and thus aren't worth mentioning.

[Marauders]

I thought Lemmings was strange when it came out.
 
 

[Hertston]

Probably Spheres of Chaos (now freeware), in recent years, anyway. It's like asteroids on steriods until you start messing with the graphics options, whereupon it becomes asteroids on steroids, LSD and assorted other illegal substances. Try 'fluid' as the background setting, and have sunglasses and a box of aspirin on standby.

Going back a while, The Sentinel was indeed seriously strange (and very good) - was that really 20 years ago?! And pretty much anything Jeff Minter coded.

[cdbeck]

ORIGINAL: JAMiAM

Snit's Revenge.

Funny, Steve Jackson Games also has some pretty strange games in the Munchkin series. Those Munchkin games have a D&D version (with various funny D&D spoofs), a Space version, and even two Cthulhu versions! All are spoofs (you have the GRAPE Old Ones in the Cthulhu version with H.P. Munchkraft).

I'll agree with Sacrifice. While I think Ascendancy's aesthetic was weirder. Sacrifice had a weired storyline with stranger units. PS:Torment let you do lots of crazy things... but if you ever played the Planescape PNP module, it wan not all that out of the ordinary.

Good games on this list guys, lets keep them coming!

SoM

[SemperAugustus]

Besides the obvious Llamasoft titles like Attack of the Mutant Camels and ColourSpace, I can only think of
Dragon Lord which was pretty weird at the time...

[WYBaugh]

Captain Blood for the ST:
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Blood_(video_game)
 
 

[cdbeck]

OOOH! Dragon Lord! Now that IS a blast from the past. Nothing like adding strange herbs to eggs, then hatching them a burninating the countryside. It was like a Trogdor Simulation.

SoM

[Marauders]

Oh yes, Toon! was fun.
 
Roleplaying cartoons was sometime out of hand with the right group of players.
 
Well, maybe the game wasn't as strange as the group of guys were.

[Kuokkanen]

Strangest, hmm...
Sentinel and clones
Worms serie
Perimeter

If I'd have to choose one, I think it would be Perimeter.

[marcusm]

Little Big Adventure 1/2. Strange but also wonderful.

The French are experts at making twisted weird games.
Also just about any Japanese game aimed at Japanese market (dress up dolls hehe).

Btw. Found a Windows version of LBA. The artwork was really exceptional for its time, it
still holds up well.
http://lbawin.akoonet.com/

[jesperpehrson]

Turborakketi (cannot find any reference to it anywhere unfortunatly). Very cool game where you would drive a sort of spaceship (a triangle) and try and shoot down your opponent (both on the same keyboard). Gravity was set before starting each round and made it very difficult. This was in the old amiga-days.

If anyone have this game please share it, it should probably be freeware if it can be found anywhere.

[Goblin]

Worms was strange, but very fun and addictive. [:D]

[ravinhood]

I think SSI made a sucky one back in the day called "Warwinds"?? It was pretty strange and I never got into it at all cause it was another one of those resource gathering ones. That's what I got for buy everything SSI published. Later in their life some of the games they released sucked oodles. lol