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More weird than terrifying tbh. I miss that oddity in video-games. Take for instance Space Station Silicon Valley for N64, you don't see games like these anymo

by talles 12y ago

More weird than terrifying tbh. I miss that oddity in video-games. Take for instance Space Station Silicon Valley for N64, you don't see games like these anymore. The indie scene saves the day when it comes for creativity in video-games, but there aren't really odd games like before (AFAIK).

ashark 12y ago
You haven't seen the work of thecatamites, have you? http://harmonyzone.org http://harmonyzone.org Search on Rock Paper Shotgun for reviews. Or just dig in. If there's anyone else out there consistently cranking out this much weirdness in game form, I'm not aware of them. Also Frog Fractions, which is... certainly surprising, anyway. Read nothing about it if you haven't played it already. Just GO. http://twinbeard.com/frog-fractions http://twinbeard.com/frog-fractions My GOTY for the year for 2012. I'm not kidding. It's so meta though that I'm not sure it's quite what you mean by weird. Lots of games in the "weird twist on X" category. Horse Master, Hatoful Boyfriend, Hotline Miami... huh, that's lots of words starting with H. Tons of others. Lots of games messing with classic concepts/mechanics in new ways. http://noncanon.com/HorseMaster.html http://noncanon.com/HorseMaster.html http://clione.halfmoon.jp/hatoful-boyfriend/english.html http://clione.halfmoon.jp/hatoful-boyfriend/english.html http://www.hotlinemiami.com http://www.hotlinemiami.com Hammerfight's weird in the way you mean, I think. Steam link because the official site is really bad. So's the game, really, though the art and concept carry it for quite a while. http://store.steampowered.com/app/41100/ http://store.steampowered.com/app/41100/ Blendo Games' Thirty Flights of Loving, Atom Zombie Smasher, and Gravity Bone are all this sort of weird. I can't speak for their other games only because I haven't played them, but they're likely weird too. http://blendogames.com http://blendogames.com There are more. Free stuff tends to be the weirdest. Poke around in Rock Paper Shotgun's archives for articles about free games and you'll find weirdness in abundance. Lots of weird-for-the-sake-of-weird but plenty of weird-due-to-experimentation-and-childlike-fancy too.

by talles 12y ago

ashark 12y ago

You haven't seen the work of thecatamites, have you? http://harmonyzone.org http://harmonyzone.org Search on Rock Paper Shotgun for reviews. Or just dig in. If there's anyone else out there consistently cranking out this much weirdness in game form, I'm not aware of them. Also Frog Fractions, which is... certainly surprising, anyway. Read nothing about it if you haven't played it already. Just GO. http://twinbeard.com/frog-fractions http://twinbeard.com/frog-fractions My GOTY for the year for 2012. I'm not kidding. It's so meta though that I'm not sure it's quite what you mean by weird. Lots of games in the "weird twist on X" category. Horse Master, Hatoful Boyfriend, Hotline Miami... huh, that's lots of words starting with H. Tons of others. Lots of games messing with classic concepts/mechanics in new ways. http://noncanon.com/HorseMaster.html http://noncanon.com/HorseMaster.html http://clione.halfmoon.jp/hatoful-boyfriend/english.html http://clione.halfmoon.jp/hatoful-boyfriend/english.html http://www.hotlinemiami.com http://www.hotlinemiami.com Hammerfight's weird in the way you mean, I think. Steam link because the official site is really bad. So's the game, really, though the art and concept carry it for quite a while. http://store.steampowered.com/app/41100/ http://store.steampowered.com/app/41100/ Blendo Games' Thirty Flights of Loving, Atom Zombie Smasher, and Gravity Bone are all this sort of weird. I can't speak for their other games only because I haven't played them, but they're likely weird too. http://blendogames.com http://blendogames.com There are more. Free stuff tends to be the weirdest. Poke around in Rock Paper Shotgun's archives for articles about free games and you'll find weirdness in abundance. Lots of weird-for-the-sake-of-weird but plenty of weird-due-to-experimentation-and-childlike-fancy too.