indie games: post your findings and recommendations

[Szlia]

Since it's a jungle out there, let's try to make a collective effort to find the needles in the hay or something.

My pick would be rRootage a shoot'em up by ABA Games. The genius of it is that it reduces the game to a Boss shooting barrages of bullets and a ship shooting at it. No power ups, no setting, no nothing. Cherry on top, you can play the game on Normal mode (bombs), Ika mode (2 color bullets and color switching ship like Ikaruga), Psy mode (you become more powerful and invulnerable for a while after "buzzing" by going near bullets like in Psyvariar) and Giga mode (you can absorb the bullets around you and shoot them at the boss like in Giga Wing).

Very addictive, thrilling (thanks to a million bullets and a contact zone for the ship that is minuscule) but very hard (sometimes bullets simply go to fast or in patterns that are not brain friendly).

It can be found along with other games by ABA on the following page: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/index_e.html

So.... what are your findings?

[Diwali]

Indie xbox game that was REAL fun when I played it.

It's called Enclave.

Basically, you play a bunch of typical fantasy characters i.e necromancer, warrior, gnome technician, archer etc etc through a campaign.

It was really fun and it's like 10$ now in the bargain bin but it's well worth it.

Screenshots...

[Vorph]

Enclave was a great game, and not just xbox btw--it was released for the PC too. The same people who made it went on to make Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, and they have a new game coming out next year for xbox360/ps3 called Darkness that sounds really interesting, and at the same time really disappointing because it's not coming out on the PC too.


As for indie games, Darwinia and Uplink top my list. I think Darwinia is actually the only RTS I've ever bothered to finish. Uplink has been discussed on the boards before too, and I think the concensus is that it's best played with mods. I've tried SimplyUplink and Onlink; the former is mostly just a tedium-reducer that doesn't actually change the gameplay a whole lot, and the latter is a total conversion that is still in beta. Mods are available at http://www.modlink.net

[James]

http://www.brainchilddesign.com/Bott...bPage=Download

Jump 'N Bump, Quadnet, and Chickens 2 are all very excellent games. Quadnet is probably my favorite out of them all since it requires an absolute insane amount of hand-eye coordination to make it past 1,000,000 on one life.

[Hateyou]

http://www.tacticsarena.com/

Does that count as indie game? I played it when the guy first made it and it was alot of fun. However once people started getting rare units, or lots and lots of units it became too unbalanced and was more about what units you owned instead of strategy. I'd play it once in a while still if he made a server where everyone has the base starting units and that's it.

You guys are the first people I've heard say Enclave was good. A friend and I played the shit out of that for like a month, I thought it was great. Challenging as hell but doable once you practice alot...I thought it had the perfect challenge balance.

[Cadrid]

Originally Posted by James

http://www.brainchilddesign.com/Bott...bPage=Download

Jump 'N Bump, Quadnet, and Chickens 2 are all very excellent games. Quadnet is probably my favorite out of them all since it requires an absolute insane amount of hand-eye coordination to make it past 1,000,000 on one life.

I downloaded Quadnet, but neither of the .exe files would work. They'd open a command prompt for a few seconds, then close. I couldn't find anything in the Readme or their website on what was going on.

[Iannis]

i had heard enclave was obnoxious *shrug* never picked it up myself, although if i notice it with a nice cheap pricetag I might give it a whirl.

[James]

Originally Posted by Cadrid

I downloaded Quadnet, but neither of the .exe files would work. They'd open a command prompt for a few seconds, then close. I couldn't find anything in the Readme or their website on what was going on.

It's an old DOS game, need a DOS emulator to run it I believe.

[Ronne]

If you can find it get Rez for PS2, it's fucking awesome. The whole soundtrack/sound FX system is based off of your character and it's movements/actions.

[Duppin]

Oh my god, Enclave.

That game made me want to throw my fucking controller SO MANY TIMES.

That one part towards the end with the mages nuking you from fucking rooftops...

It was a good game though.

[Hateyou]

Originally Posted by Iannis

i had heard enclave was obnoxious *shrug* never picked it up myself, although if i notice it with a nice cheap pricetag I might give it a whirl.

I see it for like $5.99 at EB all the time.

I agree with the other poster about wanting to throw your controller sometimes hah, some of the shit is hard as hell. However when we finally beat it, we were like....hells yes bitches.

[Diwali]

Originally Posted by Hateyou

I see it for like $5.99 at EB all the time.

I agree with the other poster about wanting to throw your controller sometimes hah, some of the shit is hard as hell. However when we finally beat it, we were like....hells yes bitches.

Dude the end parts with the roman style arena and the lava bridge were fucking awesome.

[Hateyou]

Originally Posted by Diwali

Dude the end parts with the roman style arena and the lava bridge were fucking awesome.

Hmm, is that where you were kinda trapped on a small square and people would come out of a door and attack you? It's been 3-4 years since I played it. If that's the part you mean then ya, that was my favorite part of the game. Shit was hard to beat.