Help Finding Three Games (With VERY Vague Descriptions)
 

Okay, so I'm not so good at remembering, but I wanna try and find some of these again. So, thanks in advance if you can help any.

The first I remember getting the shareware off of one of those "1000+ Great Games!" that I bought in the mid 90s. It was... I THINK an RPG, but you may not have leveled up and stuff. I'm pretty sure you did, though. I definitely remember it being medieval fantasy. DOS-based. top-down view, and I don't remember it being turn based. I THINK you could pick classes, but I can't remember 100%. You could pick up items lying around, and I don't remember music. The only area you could go around in the shareware was a kind of forest/cave. I also remember it being really hard, but that may have just been because I was a really stupid kid.

The second game came off of the same disc, also shareware, but this one ran in Windows. I think it had some generic name like "3D Fighter" or something. But, it was a 3D (VERY, VERY basic. Think Star Fox-esque, single-color polygons graphics) beat-'em-up that I also remember being very difficult. The characters had big block heads, but the fronts were textured 2D images of faces, while the rest of the bodies were just solid colors (usually blue for pants, maybe some brown shoes, and the rest was red. I think the fists at least were flesh colored). There was an option to load in pictures from your computer to use as the face textures, so you could theoretically play using your own face.

The last... I don't remember where I played it, or even when really, but it's been at least four years or so. I think it might have been DOS... Either way, I remember playing it fullscreen. It was newer than the other two, or at least by a more professional company, because the graphics were better. 3D, I think, and around early Playstation quality. It was a 3D shooter, but different because I remember it had a very unique camera. I remember it being a sort of isometric, bird's eye view... But it would always stay behind your character and would follow you. So it wasn't quite a usual isometric, and it wasn't quite your normal 3rd-person. Set in modern day or at least near future, as a lot of the guns were pretty normal and not lasers and stuff. I also remember it being really hard, and I THINK it had a darker theme, where enemies were zombies and other types of monsters, but I could be remembering wrong. I also remember... Having to run to a truck? That may not have been an objective, just something I did because I was gonna die.


You know, I said something about how all of those were hard... But I was probably just a bad gamer as a kid. XD Anyway, sorry for the vagueness of these descriptions, but this is honestly about all I can remember about these games, other than that I really liked them. Take certain things I said with a grain of salt, because my memory is a bit fuzzy. If you can think of a game that sounds CLOSE but doesn't match up exactly with one or two things I said, suggest it anyway because I'm probably just remembering wrong.

Thanks in advance!

The first game is too vague for me to venture a guess...

The second game sounds like 4-D Sports Boxing.

The last game sounds a lot like Resident Evil 2..Especially the part about running to the truck since there are a lot of outdoor locations in it.

Unfortunately, neither of those are right. Thanks for guessing, anyway!

I'll look into 4D Sports Boxing, though, it seems kinda' neat.

Could it have been SIN or SIN: Wages of Sin?

Nah, I specifically remember it not being first person... But thanks for the guess!

Name of the Game?
 

One I remember that had a weird - and, for me, hard-to-control - cameras was "Die By The Sword", a mediaeval knight errant kinda game, sort of RPG-FPS hybrid. from what little I remember

I always wanted to play that, and I even borrowed it from a friend once and couldn't get it to work on Vista. It sounded like Rune: Viking Warlord and I LOVE that game... Unfortunately, it's not what I was thinking of. Thanks for trying, though.


Geez, I know this is REALLY vague. Thanks for all the guesses, though, really. Sorry for not being more helpful!

#1 sounds like Castle of the Winds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_of_the_Winds

you could use game browser from mobygames, it has pretty neat filters, maybe you will recognise something

Not it, but definitely seems neat. I'll check it out!

Wow, I didn't know they had this. Thanks, I'll try it!

#1 could be Dink Smallwood.

Not it, either, but that is a good game. The graphics weren't that good, I don't think. Nor did it had that pseudo-3D feel.

There is another game I wanted to suggest, but I can't remember the name.

It was a very cheesy game, could not stand it. It had something to do with hex or hexagon in it's name, and it's a dark and forgotten game.

That doesn't ring any bells... The only thing that makes me think of is Hexen, but that's an FPS. And also not cheesy.

I remember it now. It was Hexplore.

Wow, you weren't kidding when you said cheesy, huh? Still, it looks like it could be amusing for a little while. I'm sad to say this isn't it, either. This looks too new... Also I remember controlling only one character.

i don't know how the game itself is but on the screenshots it actually looks kinda fun

Good news! Using the MobyGames browser, I found out what #3 is! It's Take No Prisoners.

No such luck for the other two, even using the browser... Ah well!

I just found #2. The game is called 3D Dudes. The developer seems to have dropped off of the face of the planet, and all internet downloads seem to be only the shareware version. Although according to most sources, that's for the best since this apparently was an absolutely atrocious game. Still, I remember it from my childhood and it makes me sad that I can't dig up the full version... Or run it with Vista.

#1... I don't know. It COULD be Wraith I'm thinking of. But... Even after playing the shareware I'm not absolutely certain. How stupid is that? I can remember playing a game, but I don't even know if this is the same one. Maybe I made the game up. I don't know, this SEEMS to have similar gameplay and a similar inventory system... And the character creation seems familiar (then again, I played pretty much every one of the games on these "1000+ Great Games!" CDs, so a lot of stuff is familiar), but I could've sworn that the game I'm thinking of has larger sprites for characters and is a top-down view, not this pseudo-3D stuff. I also remember it being more... Cave-like. And fighting some kind of green enemy, though I can't remember if it was a lizard, an orc, or something else entirely. I'll try to find a full version of this and play it a bit more, but in the meantime feel free to make more suggestions.

Also, thanks for the previous guesses guys.

Hmm, what about WarWizard? It was released for Ms-Dos also.
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Is it Exile?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exile_(computer_game)

Nope.
Also not it, although I DO love the Exile games. I'm considering buying the whole Avernum series soon.


Thanks again, though.