Games you never understood to play (the right way) - Page 16

lovebus5 · 15 August 2019, 16:18

+1 for Mega-lo-mania, played that soooo much. And the graphics were just mindblowingly good and awesome for me back then!

Gilbert · 15 August 2019, 18:12

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Originally Posted by Shatterhand

Exile .

Everyone always said this game is incredible and awesome. When I finally got it and played it, all the time I was "What the hell am I supposed to do? I fly around, cool... and?"

Without a manual that game is impossible.

haha yes Exile is freaking amazing. It uses loads of keys on the keyboard though. Literally all the function keys and about 12 other keys from memory.

If you pick up a grenade for example : there's a dedicated button to prime it and another to drop or throw it and maybe 2 more keys to use to change the direction you aim it in

No wonder you had problems!

bolding · 15 August 2019, 20:19

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Originally Posted by Gilbert

haha yes Exile is freaking amazing. It uses loads of keys on the keyboard though. Literally all the function keys and about 12 other keys from memory.

If you pick up a grenade for example : there's a dedicated button to prime it and another to drop or throw it and maybe 2 more keys to use to change the direction you aim it in

No wonder you had problems!

+1 I loved Exile as a kid! But had no idea what-so-ever how to play it. I usually just roamed about and had fun flying a space suit

Can't wait to try it again as an adult... maybe I'll actually figure it out now

gandamaluco · 18 August 2019, 12:30

Space Ace and Dragon's Lair games...
Almost broke a few joysticks with all the frustration!
I don't remember very well but I think I never used the others disks ( 2, 3, 4, etc ).

haynor666 · 21 August 2019, 19:03

Carthage - I was never interested enough to understand this game.

svabos · 23 August 2019, 15:39

Storm master - never learned how to play it, still intrigues me
Barbarian (Psygnosis) - really frustrated me how unplayable it was and jet attracted me so much to try after some time again
Armour geddon - I guess the problem was long load time which killed the ability to learn from mistakes after starting again? I don't remember exactly thou

Mega Lo mania - not so hard to get a grip, extremely hard to master. Never finished it and I believe computer has serious advantage of not needing to wait for selecting the bigger amount of people which gives it a huge advantage in play.
Diggers - painstaking game play. But I remember mastering it and managed to get very far in the game. And then stopped for some reason and forgot how to play it in total. I remember it as a great game when I got hang of it
Genesia - same as Diggers. I just couldn't figure it out and then at one time, I did and played it and build balloon, had research going on and everything but stopped for some reason and forgot how to play it in total
Elvira - never had any clue what to do, never learned how to play it although it still haunts me

JohnnyWalker · 06 September 2019, 22:29

Don't recall ever having problems with Mega-lo-Mania. Such a great game. Pretty sure I finished it.

Never got to grips with Populus II. It seemed impossible to do so without a manual.

EXILE was another great game. There's no levels, you just have to think everything through. It's *incredibly* clever, but a manual probably helps. Can't say I've played many games like it.

piesel · 08 September 2019, 16:06

Always found Barbarian (Psygnosis) and Obliterator to be almost unplayable due to the laggy and unresponsive controls.

saimon69 · 10 September 2019, 19:57

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Originally Posted by piesel

Always found Barbarian (Psygnosis) and Obliterator to be almost unplayable due to the laggy and unresponsive controls.

Ever tried to play Barbarian or Obliterator in an emulator on a tablet or touch screen? Should be a bit better... (i did not)

ExiE · 11 September 2019, 01:53

Burntime (http://hol.abime.net/251) – postapo genre always lured me but I never knew what to do in the game

Anubis · 11 September 2019, 17:03

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Originally Posted by ExiE

Burntime (http://hol.abime.net/251) – postapo genre always lured me but I never knew what to do in the game

I love manual with that game, and one of good games with HD installation back in day. Used to play it quite a lot, but never completed it. IMHO it was very good surviving game where you have to worry about everything, food, water, health, radiation... and interact with people/mutants. That was fallout before fallout games.

piesel · 11 September 2019, 17:21

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Originally Posted by saimon69

Ever tried to play Barbarian or Obliterator in an emulator on a tablet or touch screen? Should be a bit better... (i did not)

Interesting suggestion, thinking about it that control method seems really suited to a touch screen, Psygnosis was ahead of its time

weaponx031277 · 22 October 2019, 14:00

Armageddon + Carrier Command.

Because i had copy versions of both and no instructions i didn't have a clue how to play either. Just used to like flying around on them until i crashed or was shot down.

mantakno · 22 October 2019, 14:20

youtube has plenty of let play video or "wtf is gamename?"

i highly recommend that, and a good way to see other play it, and a good coffie brake sometimes insted of the same funny videos all the time.

Shatterhand · 22 October 2019, 14:53

Hill Street Blues is another game that always looked very interesting but most of the time I felt I didn't know what I was doing.

utri007 · 29 October 2019, 11:53

Burntime was interested, but that time I didn't have enough patience to read manuals.

Genetic Species, it is actually Paradroid 3D

http://hol.abime.net/2716

DrBizzaro · 24 November 2019, 11:08

The first game that comes into my mind that I did not understand back in the day is Utopia - Creation of a nation.

BippyM · 24 November 2019, 14:22

Powermonger.. It just wasn't a pick up and play game

DamienD · 24 November 2019, 14:43

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Originally Posted by BippyM

Powermonger.. It just wasn't a pick up and play game

I'd add to that and say the Populous series also

Mikerochip · 25 November 2019, 23:10

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Originally Posted by svabos

Storm master - never learned how to play it, still intrigues me
Elvira - never had any clue what to do, never learned how to play it although it still haunts me

Storm Master was soooo good.

Best £9.99 I ever spent on a game. It ended up not being too deep, and if you let the computer do the 3D battles you often lost.
But it still amazed me.
(Until I got Civilization!)

Elvira, I knew how to play... I just kept dying. And couldn't figure out much more than 2-3 puzzles for the whole length of time I owned/played it.

And I paid full price for it. Not the worst purchase I made, but definitely up there! (Actually, maybe it is the biggest disappointment after the fact)

11 September 2019, 01:53	#310
ExiE Registered User Join Date: Apr 2016 Location: T/C Posts: 199	Burntime (http://hol.abime.net/251) – postapo genre always lured me but I never knew what to do in the game Last edited by ExiE; 11 September 2019 at 11:53.

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15 August 2019, 16:18	#301
lovebus5 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2019 Location: Lidingö Posts: 52	+1 for Mega-lo-mania, played that soooo much. And the graphics were just mindblowingly good and awesome for me back then!

18 August 2019, 12:30	#304
gandamaluco Registered User Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Albufeira / Portugal Age: 46 Posts: 5	Space Ace and Dragon's Lair games... Almost broke a few joysticks with all the frustration! I don't remember very well but I think I never used the others disks ( 2, 3, 4, etc ).

21 August 2019, 19:03	#305
haynor666 retro maniac Join Date: May 2002 Location: Tarnobrzeg/Poland Age: 45 Posts: 1,748	Carthage - I was never interested enough to understand this game.

23 August 2019, 15:39	#306
svabos Registered User Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Belgrade Posts: 23	Storm master - never learned how to play it, still intrigues me Barbarian (Psygnosis) - really frustrated me how unplayable it was and jet attracted me so much to try after some time again Armour geddon - I guess the problem was long load time which killed the ability to learn from mistakes after starting again? I don't remember exactly thou Mega Lo mania - not so hard to get a grip, extremely hard to master. Never finished it and I believe computer has serious advantage of not needing to wait for selecting the bigger amount of people which gives it a huge advantage in play. Diggers - painstaking game play. But I remember mastering it and managed to get very far in the game. And then stopped for some reason and forgot how to play it in total. I remember it as a great game when I got hang of it Genesia - same as Diggers. I just couldn't figure it out and then at one time, I did and played it and build balloon, had research going on and everything but stopped for some reason and forgot how to play it in total Elvira - never had any clue what to do, never learned how to play it although it still haunts me

06 September 2019, 22:29	#307
JohnnyWalker aka ThunderPeel2001 Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: UK Age: 45 Posts: 303	Don't recall ever having problems with Mega-lo-Mania. Such a great game. Pretty sure I finished it. Never got to grips with Populus II. It seemed impossible to do so without a manual. EXILE was another great game. There's no levels, you just have to think everything through. It's incredibly clever, but a manual probably helps. Can't say I've played many games like it.

08 September 2019, 16:06	#308
piesel Registered User Join Date: Aug 2019 Location: Italy Posts: 18	Always found Barbarian (Psygnosis) and Obliterator to be almost unplayable due to the laggy and unresponsive controls.

22 October 2019, 14:00	#313
weaponx031277 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2019 Location: Nottingham Posts: 6	Armageddon + Carrier Command. Because i had copy versions of both and no instructions i didn't have a clue how to play either. Just used to like flying around on them until i crashed or was shot down.

22 October 2019, 14:20	#314
mantakno Registered User Join Date: Oct 2019 Location: denmark Posts: 8	youtube has plenty of let play video or "wtf is gamename?" i highly recommend that, and a good way to see other play it, and a good coffie brake sometimes insted of the same funny videos all the time.

22 October 2019, 14:53	#315
Shatterhand Warhasneverbeensomuchfun Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Rio de Janeiro / Brazil Age: 41 Posts: 3,450	Hill Street Blues is another game that always looked very interesting but most of the time I felt I didn't know what I was doing.

29 October 2019, 11:53	#316
utri007 mä vaan Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Finland Posts: 1,653	Burntime was interested, but that time I didn't have enough patience to read manuals. Genetic Species, it is actually Paradroid 3D http://hol.abime.net/2716

24 November 2019, 11:08	#317
DrBizzaro Registered User Join Date: Oct 2017 Location: Germany Posts: 7	The first game that comes into my mind that I did not understand back in the day is Utopia - Creation of a nation.

24 November 2019, 14:22	#318
BippyM Global Moderator Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Derby, UK Age: 48 Posts: 9,355	Powermonger.. It just wasn't a pick up and play game

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