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[HoonDing]

Beyond good & evil

[Moondoggie]

SOLID_EVEREST wrote...

Dungeon Keeper 1 was the freaking bomb! Too bad BullFrog went under. Bullfrog and Westwood were great companies.

I would say that Blade Runner was my favorite both in movie and in PC game (1997 release), but I don't know if it is a cult classic. You people with your Grim Fandago I would take Blade Runner anyday. From the top of my head, I know some of the games mentioned are not even close to cult classics like KoTOR. I remember X-Play reviewing that game daily.

Blade Runner like many of the point and click style games is a cult classic.

Yeah some games people mention aren't even close to being cult following type games they were mainstream and sold really well.

Here's a defination of what this thread is about "A cult following is a term used to refer to a group of fans who are highly dedicated to a specific area of pop culture.
A film, book, band, or video game, among other things, will be said to
have a cult following when it has a small but very passionate fan base."

A game with 500k - Millions of sales is not a small fan base.

Modifié par Moondoggie, 02 juillet 2011 - 06:47 .

[Druss99]

Blade Runner was awesome. Though I remember trying to play it again a couple of years ago on a newer laptop and it just looked like someone had puked on my screen. I wish they had remade that instead of Monkey Island.

[Skarwael]

Sylvf wrote...

Clive Barker's Undying.

It's a first-person horror shooter set in the 1920s around an ancient Irish mansion and the cursed family that haunts its grounds. It really evoked some gut-clenching dread as well as refreshing moments of wonder in me. (The levels set in Oneiros were beautiful and eerie - one of the best "dreamland" worlds I've ever seen done)

It also had a terrific, dead-simple dual-wielding system for using weapons AND magic at the same time - left mouse button fired your mundane weapon, right mouse-button magic. It worked like a charm. (To this day the Scythe of the Celt is one of my favorite melee weapons. Anyone who played it knows what I'm talking about - you could use it to lop off limbs with gleeful precision).

If you're a horror fan, it's well worth seeking out. The story's interesting and it takes care to build up its atmosphere. It's a shame Undying sold so poorly, since there was definitely room for a sequel.

This!

I loved the story of it so much.

Scarier game than dead space in my opinion.

[Moondoggie]

Druss99 wrote...

Blade Runner was awesome. Though I remember trying to play it again a couple of years ago on a newer laptop and it just looked like someone had puked on my screen. I wish they had remade that instead of Monkey Island.

Nowadays the graphics don't hold up but still look really good for the time. I remember watching my Dad play it when it came out and it looked really cool back then some of the best graphics ever seen at the time of release.

[bussinrounds]

Moondoggie wrote...

Druss99 wrote...

Blade Runner was awesome. Though I remember trying to play it again a couple of years ago on a newer laptop and it just looked like someone had puked on my screen. I wish they had remade that instead of Monkey Island.

Nowadays the graphics don't hold up but still look really good for the time. I remember watching my Dad play it when it came out and it looked really cool back then some of the best graphics ever seen at the time of release.

   I actually thought the graphics look quite good after checking out some vids.  But bad graphics to me are like atari 2600 games, so i guess it's all about your perspective on such things.

[Get Magna Carter]

Kagero- Deception 2

[Mr Kazett]

Garou: Mark of the Wolves.

[AtreiyaN7]

Can I say the Zork games? Actually, make that most Infocom games in general...oh, and the X-Com games.

[FlintlockJazz]

I have a few:

Monkey Island 1 & 2
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders (wish there were more 'Ancient Alien Astronauts' game, think the genre has such great potential and it's a travesty it hasn't been used more).
Lure of the Temptress
Elite and Frontier:Elite 2
Baldur's Gate games
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade graphical adventure

Hmm, most of them seem to be point'n'click games. Of course, there are later games that I consider classics that are not p'n'c games, but I decided to go with the first games I considered classics, since each 'era' in my life has loads of classics.

[Sylvf]

iOnlySignIn wrote...

I AM SHODAAAAAAAAN.

The mother of all sci-fi action/horror games.

Excellent choice. Playing System Shock 2 (along with Thief 1 & 2 - Looking Glass Studios built absolutely absorbing worlds) was one of the definitive moments of my gaming life. I guess I never think of it as a cult classic because it's so well regarded on gaming sites, but by all accounts it fits the definition by being a poorly-selling title with an ultra-loyal following.

[Ryllen Laerth Kriel]

I would have to go with Earthworm Jim. That game was great, and still is. And it got such great reactions from people who either just hated it, couldn't figure it out or loved it. I think I could judge friends by their reaction to that game.

Also, System Shock 2 was pretty darn good and way ahead of it's time. Some of the concepts in that game still make is nicely scary to me, better than most survival horror titles even in recent years.

Dune, Battle For Arrakis was another good classic. I was hooked when I first played the original and I remember how quickly alot of people gave it a confusing look and lost interest but it launched the RTS genre, something alot of people still don't get.

[MrFob]

iOnlySignIn wrote...

I AM SHODAAAAAAAAN.

The mother of all sci-fi action/horror games. SHODAN >>>>> GLaDOS

That one was excellent but it was always a bit too ... lonely for my taste. So I'd have to go with good old Deus Ex.

[Special_Agent_Goodwrench]

Okami - Fantastic art style and music. I couldn't put it down once I started playing it. It had one of the most profound impacts on me as a gamer.

Primal - Great leads and very immersive atmosphere. The wraith realm remains one of my top game levels/locations to this day.

Brutal Legend - One word: DECAPITATIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!

[WidowMaker9394]

Can I say Halo: Combat Evolved and still live through the day?

[Druss99]

bussinrounds wrote...

Moondoggie wrote...

Druss99 wrote...

Blade Runner was awesome. Though I remember trying to play it again a couple of years ago on a newer laptop and it just looked like someone had puked on my screen. I wish they had remade that instead of Monkey Island.

Nowadays the graphics don't hold up but still look really good for the time. I remember watching my Dad play it when it came out and it looked really cool back then some of the best graphics ever seen at the time of release.

   I actually thought the graphics look quite good after checking out some vids.  But bad graphics to me are like atari 2600 games, so i guess it's all about your perspective on such things.

The graphics were great back in the day. They even look great on the back of the box but when I tried to play them on my laptop screen they were so pixelated you could barely make anything out it was a blur of colours. Turning the resolution down probably would have helped. The soundtrack was still fantastic.

[Dune01]

I'll have to say Bioshock...Simply the game with best atmosphere and it has enourmous amount of followers.

[CroGamer002]

Not sure are they considered cult classic games but:

[ErichHartmann]

1. The Longest Journey
2. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure (I still haven't played Fate of Atlantis).
3. Okami

Modifié par ErichHartmann, 03 juillet 2011 - 01:25 .

[Get Magna Carter]

DominusVita wrote...
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Something to keep in mind for your choice:
" "A cult following is a term used to refer to a group offans who are highly dedicated to a specific area of pop culture.
A film, book, band, or video game, among other things, will be said to 
have a cult following when it has a small but very passionate fan base.""

So Mario, Halo, and Call of Duty are out of the picture.

a quick reminder to the people who have forgotten what this thread is about..

[SOLID_EVEREST]

Get Magna Carter wrote...

DominusVita wrote...
......

Something to keep in mind for your choice:
" "A cult following is a term used to refer to a group offans who are highly dedicated to a specific area of pop culture.
A film, book, band, or video game, among other things, will be said to 
have a cult following when it has a small but very passionate fan base.""

So Mario, Halo, and Call of Duty are out of the picture.

a quick reminder to the people who have forgotten what this thread is about..

Yeah, definitely this! I keep seeing Halo and CoD being mentioned, but they are nowhere near a cult following since they have a huge fanbase. I don't think Civilization would be a cult following either because they are still making those games like the Sims.

Well, I'm glad everyone knows about the Blade Runner game. I actually played the game before I watched the movie, and I thought (at first because I was still a kid) the movie was so boring. Me and my cousins and brother actually stayed up until 1:00 a.m. to catch Blade Runner on the Sci-Fi channel and we regretted it lol. I watched it again when I was 15, and I still put it on my top 5 best movies list.

If anyone hasn't played the game, you should it doesn't just follow the movie, but it creates it's own side story complete with some of the same voices from the movie and everything. Ray McCoy is the bomb. As someone else mentioned, this game should've been updated it's a freaking masterpiece.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Alpha Centauri. My brother still has my copy of the game, but just mentioning it I found out it's on Good Old Games; I'm buying it !