Recommended Unpopular Games\Bands

Makagulfazel

Makagulfazel

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Here are some bands/games that not many people know about that I would recommend:

Games:
Space Rangers 2:
- Retail
- RPG/RTS/Crazy Space Sim
- Best game since Fallout 2

Mount and Blade:
- Internet, Shareware
- Great open-field combats.
- Best horseback combat. Period.
- Action-RPG.

Avernum:
- Internet, Shareware
- Series of games
- Party-based RPG

Bands:
Failure:
- Original Authors of "The Nurse Who Loved Me" remade by A Perfect Circle
- I don't even know how to explain the music... Awesome instrumentals? Bass, guitar, drums all work together.
- Get 'Fantastic Planet'. It's a heroin-induced launch into Space. While I don't support the use of heroin, it sure made for some interesting songs on the CD.

Dayton Family:
- I hate rap, but this is an exception
- These guys rap about stuff like getting back at enemies. Much cooler then rapping about how much money you have
- They're genuine. Incarcerations and stuff like that.
- Get 'Family Feud'

I know there's a lot more, I'm just going through a mind-fart right now. Add to the post, I need to find some new games to play.
 
Games
Space Rangers 2... it is one of the few games that "tries to do everything, and encompasses every genre" and does it right. Watch out for one quest that isn't translated right, though.

Stronghold 1/Crusader/2... two games that absolutely rock. It's reminiscent of Settlers/Serf City and Caesar 2/Pharoah, set in medieval Europe.

Bands
Elexorien... Viking metal band from the Netherlands. It is fast, heavy, but intensely lyrical with vocals from Ine (a classically trained vocalist) and Lainedil (who provides the gutteral growls to offset Ine's melodic voice). A song I highly recommend is "Running with the Wolves of War". www.elexorien.com

Opus Dai... a Progressive Rock band, with influences from Led Zepplin. I just started listening to them a while ago, and while I don't know much about them, I like what I've heard so far. "Rain" is probably one of their better songs. www.opusdai.com
 
Seraphim Pwns U said:
Stronghold 1/Crusader/2... two games that absolutely rock. It's reminiscent of Settlers/Serf City and Caesar 2/Pharoah, set in medieval Europe.
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Ah, Stronghold 2 is a great game. I liked the idea of producing hops so my troops could get drunk, therefore increasing morale.

Seraphim Pwns U said:
Opus Dai... a Progressive Rock band, with influences from Led Zepplin. I just started listening to them a while ago, and while I don't know much about them, I like what I've heard so far. "Rain" is probably one of their better songs. www.opusdai.com
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Sounds good, I'm looking at the site now. On a similar note, I saw a ZoSo concert in Columbia, Missouri a couple of months ago. They are a cover band for Led Zeppelin, and while I am too young to have originally seen Led Zeppelin, several older people at the concert said it was exactly like one of their concerts. My own opinion: the concert rocked. Definitely was one of my favorites.

I also saw a Tool concert this last Friday. While I love Tool and the audio was magnificent, there was no showmanship. They kind of just stood there and played. I don't like "10,000 Days" too much, so I was relieved when they played songs from AEnima, Undertow, and Lateralus. The best songs were "46 & 2" and "Lateralus".

Edit: Opusdai website is down. Google searched it and found their myspace site.
 
Here's another band I forgot about - Boy Hits Car.
Their music is alright, but I liked them more when I was younger. Their stage performance, however, is amazing. I also saw them in Columbia, where the singer did a stage dive off a speaker even though they told him not to.

After that concert, I did a little research on them and found this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mEKxG9DVDHU

Watch it. If you want to listen to some of their music, go to their myspace page. They have a few samples on there.
 
Zaron said:
So, this thread is a desperate attempt to achieve alternativeness?
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Or maybe it's a thread designed to attract useless posts...

YOU WIN!

P.S. Sorry about the double post. I'm sloppy.
 
Mount and Blade is indeed an excellent game. Most realistic cavalry battles of any game in existence. Extremely mod friendly and good fun overall.
 
Everybody : play SACRIFICE !

A great action/RTS game brought to you by Shiny and published by Interplay at a time when both companies didn't suck ass...

Also, if you like Lovecraft and adventure games, you may enjoy PRISONER OF ICE !
 
Specialist said:
Mount and Blade is indeed an excellent game. Most realistic cavalry battles of any game in existence. Extremely mod friendly and good fun overall.
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Nice a new toy to play with! And they let you download and play to level 6! Cool concept

As for games, I didn't mind Sacred

Music, Oomph, Rammstien, Union Underground, Spooks, Blackulicious
 
Games: Indigo Prophecy

The weird Simon Says action sequences were sucky-weird, but everything else about the game I loved. Picked it off a shelf without ever having heard about it. Discounted price. If you can find it cheap, it's one of a kind.

Tinity

Text Adventure game on my Mac circa 1988. Alice in Wonderland meets Nuclear Apocalypse. Last year I used telnet to access somebody who had it, but that's down now. Maybe someone has produced a Flash version.

Music:

Alvin Youngblood Hart - best album: Big Mama's Door

Young guy playing blues. You'd swear he died forty years ago. Word is he studied with Taj Mahal.

Cesaria Evora

Music from Cape Verde with origins in Portugese music? I don't understand the language or know much about her, but her voice!

Soweto Gospel Choir

They actually won a Grammy this past year, and I was very excited for them, because maybe now they will start to sell some of their music in the States.

Misteryo
 
Games:

Giants Citizen Kabuto: Hard to place this in a genre, I would label it an action comedy, great humour, original gameplay. Another Interplay casualty ;/

Independence War 2 (IWAR2): Space sim, similar to the X series but not as complex. Best space flight model (in terms of realism and fun) I have ever played, very modable (be sure to check out the Torn Stars Mod one if your curious).

Imperium Galatica1/2: RTS games similar to EaW but far larger in scale, with land battles you can control directly. IG2 is quite buggy, but awesome nevertheless.

Arcanum: Ok this isn't 'unknown' (or at least shouldn't be amongst this community), but hardly anyone I know has actually played it.

Outpost2: Interesting/different RTS, quite slow paced with colony management being as important as combat. Available for free now, and is being updated by fans.

Music:

Alone Music: Nice ambient electronica.
Chiasm: Industrial/Electronica (She made the club music from VTMB)
 
The more I play Mount&Blade the more potential I see. I've been a-broosin the web looking for mods and what not since their forms went belly up for me. I found an amusing post.
"Dear god, the grind is worse than WoW.

And for a single player game, that is stunningly depressing."

Found at Seattle-gothic.org

Go Mount&Blade! And go that moron at seattle-gothic for never played any other RPG asides from WoW and assumes that most RPG's are as easy as it is.
 
Anyone know Joe Meek?

He's cool. In a sad way.
Sort of the Phil Spector of the 50's and 60's.
Produced like 50 top ten hits in the pre-Beatles era.
If you don't think you know him, try and listen to this.
Most people know this tune, and Meek produced it.
It was the very first British number to become a number 1 hit in the USA.

Joe Meek, however, also made one of the weirdest records ever: I Hear A New World.
I bought this a couple of years ago, and even though I've listened to it for like a million times by now, the sheer freakiness of it still amazes me. It's like the Aphex Twin of the late 50's/early 60's.

Check it out, yo! :dance:
 
Well it is not like you never heard of Alpha Centauri but it is not climbing the ladder of popularity either. I find this to be the best turn-based strategy game ever made. It is the only game I constantly played since I have discovered it...6 years ago I think.
 
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