Hey don’t make this about PS2. I still get a bit emotional thinking about:
- [Swarm Assault ](https://dzierzan.itch.io/opensa
- Red Ace Squadron
- GTA Vice City (not exactly niche, but it was the first violent game I played)
Thanks for this post, because otherwise I would never have found out that someone recreated Red Ace Squadron in Unreal Engine
It’s a PS1 game, but still. I loved this game. If I wasn’t playing Twisted Metal 2 then I was playing this.
Onimusha for me, or maybe dark cloud if that counts.
I was gifted Alter Echo by my late Memere when I was a teenager. I’m early 30s now, and I still have it.
Swiv 3d 4 life
Oddly enough I recently played obscure. It’s niche but I enjoyed it. Multiplayer resident evil in a highschool.
Honestly online play has set co op games back 20 years.
Smugglers run all day.
Champions of Norrath
Never owned a PS2 but a friend had the game and I was so addicted. Sadly he preferred FIFA. Was never able to find the games name again for over a decade, and when I finally discovered it, it was in a demo video for an android handheld I had just preordered. Double win since it ran smooth as butter
Not even a shitpost but it’s a good repost so I’ll accept it
The shitpost was inside me the whole time.
And you were inside me
Head or butt?
Neither are obscure, but I played the shit out of Ace Combat Shattered Skies and Simpsons Hit and Run…
Ace Combat 4 was one of the most legit games of all time.
Of the holy trilogy, I still like AC4 more because of the anime picture cut scenes.
I feel like the anime styled cut scenes delivered a more nuanced story than the other games. The story is told through the eyes of a boy who lost his family to war. Your silent protagonist slowly achieves fame. By the end, it’s revealed that his story is a letter to you, the pilot. There’s more plot, so any retro gamers reading this, it’s super recommended for story and music. I love the gameplay, but obscure childhood game symptom.
Dude simpsons hit and run is a banger. I use to get that game from the video club store and play it for hours. Tbh all kid’s movies and tv series on games were bangers, Kung fu panda, toy story, rattatouille etc
Playing as Mobius One felt incredible when enemy comma started referring to you as the Grim Reaper and whatnot.
What a game.
You’re not going to believe this Jean-Louis! All of them have ribbon insignias!
The Legend of Dragoon. We need a reissue of it 🥲
Bro I had that for ps1. I had no idea how to play it but would waste hours on it just killing stuff
I’ll just leave this here
GitHub - Legend-of-Dragoon-Modding/Severed-Chains: Legend of Dragoon decompiled, reverse engineered, and ported to PC/Mac/Linux/Steam Deck · GitHub https://github.com/Legend-of-Dragoon-Modding/Severed-Chains
I thought that was ps1?
I would so fuck with that. It would be nice to see some of those cutscenes and dialogue with better translation and animation.
The proto expedition 33
Mister Mosquito
Wow someone else that played this gem lol
What is the gameplay like, the screenshots make it look like a mosquito simulator 😄
That’s exactly what it is!
You’re a mosquito that gets into a house and you have to suck as much blood as you can from the family as you can without getting squished.
You fly around, waiting for the right moment to land and start sucking blood, being careful not to be seen. Each level has a certain amount of blood to collect before you can move on, and the family gets increasingly more vigilant about killing you as they talk to each other about getting bit.
oh god. when i was a kid i bought one of those game magazine when ps2 launches. the first ps2 game they covered was mister mosquito and i remember thinking. wow, ps2 is so cool
gender-affirming lack of obscure ps2 game
coming back to this post later to find recommendations though…
There’s plenty of girls that bonded with an obscure ps2 game in their youth. Xenosaga was the shit.
Enteral Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem (GameCube)
Shadow of the Colossus… Man, way to put me in my feels
I’ve revisited this game more than any other.
It still gets me.
