The Best Game No One Plays

[Kelly]

Post what you think the best game that no one plays or knows about. I'm thinking card/board/p&p rpg but I guess console and PC could work too.

Boardgames - Wizwar and Roborally
Card Games - Star Wars TCG and The Great Dalmuti
Role Playing Games - d6 Star Wars (the original)

 

[NumberOneSon]

This is an oldy; before the 32-bit era, the best military strategy game ever made was an NES catridge called Shingen: The Ruler. Romance of the Three Kingdoms doesn't hold a candle to this little gem, one that most people have never played or even heard of. The Romance games looked and played liked a fancy board game; Shingen offered huge environments and individual, 2-dimensional soldier units, with caverly that actually galloped and archers that actually fired arrows. The interface was easy to learn (for an NES game), and the battles themselves offered incredible (for the time) strategic opportunites. The Romance games were a poor man's Shingen in my opinion. I learned more Japanese history from that game than I did during my entire gradeschool career. Some of my fondest gaming moments came from nights of playing Shingen. For those of you who like old-school gaming as well as strategy games, Shingen: The Ruler is definitely worth getting...if you can find it.

In Christ,

Acts6:5

 

[Dracil]

Woo, Wiz War! Are they EVER going to come out with that Deluxe edition?

 

[Uzi_4_U]

Card Games - Star Wars TCG

Star Wars CCG was better than TCG imho. Too bad Lucasfilm revoked Decipher's franchise.

 

[Macewindu77815]

I loved the Young Jedi game...but sadly LFL decided to kill Decipher.

 

[LeeEliot]

Ico for PS2... If you know about this game, I need not say more. If you don't know about it, again I need not say more. It's the best game hardly anyone knows about.

 

[MoonlessNight]

Role Playing Games - d6 Star Wars (the original)

This was probably the easiest to set up RPG that still maintained some degree of realism ever. Sure there were a lot of minor rules, but almost 100% of the time it was easy to make up a new one if you couldn't remember what was called for at the particular moment.

 

[Argon88]

Ico - Wonderful game in every respect.

Grim Fandango - Another realy great one. Ask anyone who's played it or any profesional review, for instance http://www.gamespot.com/pc/adventure/grimfandango/index.html I can't understand why people didn't play this one.

 

[Felron]

well, i cant think of any table top games no one plays, so i will just say, Lunar 2: eternal Blue, this is my favorite game, most havent ever heard of it, but its a masterpiece.

 

[CHR15T05]

Requiem on the PC rocked and no one talks about it....


...but Best game of all time has t be CHESS!!!!! You can't beat Chess man!

 

[William Nunn]

Suikoden II on PS1. Fantastic RPG, the best I ever played, yet few have heard of it seemingly.

 

[dragannia]

Chess? EVERYBODY plays Chess!

 

[Argon88]

Sanitarium -- This is the next game I'm planing to buy. http://www.gamespot.com/pc/adventure/sanitarium/index.html
Madness, madness, all is madness!


Ooooohh, I love things about madness.


Gamespot also says that Outcast is good. http://www.gamespot.com/pc/adventure/outcast/index.html Though I don't think I'll get it, it's not my syle of game.

 

[LaptopBoy81]

I love suikoden 2 not played it in anges though

 

[CHR15T05]

Chess? EVERYBODY plays Chess!

True.. but very few REALLY play chess. Most just know how to use the "horse" lol.

 

[davyuk]

ICO must be the most loved, yet unplayed game in the history of videogames.

 

[dennisreid]

Planescape: Torment. Best RPG that rarely anyone has played. Fantastic characters, story, and a great deal of fun to boot.

 

[MoonlessNight]

The greatest board game ever: Micro Shogi.

All the complexity (and more) of Chess on a 4X5 board.

 

[Dracil]

Puerto Rico for board game! Seems to be a niche thing for board gamers, but the casual person has never heard of it. Rated #1 at http://www.boardgamegeek.com by the users.

 

[OceanAngel]

PC Game: Mafia, one of the best games ever made, GTA with a moral storyline

My RPG group also plays the d6 Star Wars, one of us bought a few of d20 books but the d6 version was better to play, we found.