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Ryshi
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
Canada361 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-12-07 18:10:56
December 07 2008 17:05 GMT
#1
Lately I've been playing the game yume nikki recommended from this thread:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=83352

Although I don't feel anything surreal about it, I thought it was pretty fun walking around, though the world is large and I get lost easily >_<

Here is an image of the game:
http://www.indiegames.com/blog/images/timw/yumenikk.png

You can download it here:
http://rs24.rapidshare.com/files/104437478/yumenikki0.10eng.rar

So right now, I'm wondering if there are other free fan-made games that have been really popular in the past? Preferably games that are rpg or have a good storyline.

I don't mind other genre games so long as they are good from your experience or have been popular; but I am now looking for mugens or flash games (unless it is an rpg flash game that lets you save and is relatively short).

For example, I'm sure some of you have played fan-made games from RPG maker 200X, and I hope someone can recommend me one of those.

EDIT: From the thead "Top PC Games", I'm looking for games like these, but preferably with an asian background.
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On December 08 2008 01:50 Myrmidon wrote:
IMHO all of those PC RPGs where you only control 1 character directly can get pretty shallow and repetitive. If you must, the best are Icewind Dale 1-2 (more combat-oriented, few sidequests from main objective, you create your entire party) and Baldur's Gate 1-2 (many many sidequests to discover if you want, more NPC interaction, you find party members to join your team, all-in-all more fleshed out than IWD, etc.)

I'm not really a fan of FPS or other RTS, which are the two genres that you have a PC for, so there's not much else from me. I'll second freelander's GGXX#R, Monster, and Akatsuki Blitzkampf, which are by far and large among the more respected PC fighters out there. There's also Melty Blood: Act Cadenza and the two Touhou spinoff fighters but the above three are probably better.


If you're up for downloading some quality freeware games that play very nicely, some suggestions:

Cave Story: sidescrolling action shooter with some RPG elements, comparable in scope to GBA Metroids or Castlevanias or whatnot, except maybe better

Within a Deep Forest: nice platformer with some interesting puzzles and mechanics where you just control a ball that moves around, acquire different balls with different abilities, etc., nice environments
Operator Status (OS): the precursor to the above, is more difficult and has a really fun magnetism mechanic

rRootage: very good simplistic 2D shooter for practicing bullet hell patterns; has 5 bosses each stage, 4 stages per level, 10 levels (increasing difficulty) per mode, and 4 modes in the game. That's a lot of shmupping. You'll definitely be challenged by some level of stages.

Iwanaga: very good run-and-gun shooter. It has really solid game mechanics. Also check out Vacant Ark on that page for a pretty unique, good, 2D shooter. Don't be fooled by the graphics or anything else, as these games have gameplay that stands up to all commercial games out there.

Kaiten Patissier and sequel Ura Kaiten Patissier: surprisingly simple yet good puzzle games. In this game to move around you can push on walls to flip the world 90 degrees. So there's some interesting solutions for getting around to your objective using this system. IIRC 50 stages per game.

The World God Only Knows
Xiberia
Profile Joined September 2007
Sweden634 Posts
December 07 2008 17:45 GMT
#2
wait.. isn't doujin like, manga porn?
tracer
Profile Joined March 2008
Korea (South)693 Posts
December 07 2008 17:48 GMT
#3
On December 08 2008 02:45 Xiberia wrote:
wait.. isn't doujin like, manga porn?


Dōjin (同人 dōjin?), often romanized as doujin, is a general Japanese term for a group of people or friends who share an interest, activity, hobbies, or achievement. The word is sometimes translated into English as clique, coterie, society, or circle (e.g., a "sewing circle").


Lol, manga porn.
Ryshi
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
Canada361 Posts
December 07 2008 18:07 GMT
#4
On December 08 2008 02:45 Xiberia wrote:
wait.. isn't doujin like, manga porn?


lol is it? I know that word appears in h- a lot, but I think it just means fan-made. Tracer's definition is probably right.
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Ryshi
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
Canada361 Posts
December 07 2008 18:08 GMT
#5
I hope thedeadhaji can list some good games here..
The World God Only Knows
Myrmidon
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
United States9452 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-12-07 18:40:07
December 07 2008 18:33 GMT
#6
If my understanding is correct, a lot of doujin games are sold at the twice-a-year Comiket in Japan. And lot of them would fall into the eroge (porn) category for certain elements, although my guess is that many of those are RPGs or TRPGs. Anyhow if people spend a lot of time making something, they usually want to actually sell it at such a venue to get some cash back, even if it's just an independent guy by himself. Any of the more polished games like Touhou shooters, fighters like Monster, Akatsuki Blitzkampf, etc. are sold there I think.

I'm not sure if there's many people making freeware RPGs though, just by the effort required to make an RPG. And I wouldn't count on any of these independent developers to come up with something with a good plot, especially something with a good plot that's also translated.

The most famous recent RPG maker game is Charles Barkley: Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, a nonsensical post-apocalyptic RPG that's apparently decent and kind of funny at times but not very cohesive.

Anyhow, what do you mean by "asian background"? Made by Asian people? You can find plenty of freeware 2D shooters and the like from Japan. By the way from my post you quoted, only Within a Deep Forest and Operator Status, by Nifflas from Sweden, was made by someone outside Japan.

edit: I would be interested in being proven wrong here about the presence of worthwhile doujin RPGs because almost all of the above is conjecture from a very limited viewpoint.
Syxygy
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
558 Posts
December 07 2008 19:00 GMT
#7
Yume Nikki was just weird and trippy for me~

Although not doujin at all, check out the 5 Days a Stranger series by Yahtzee, they are really good and each game is fairly short (adventure-horror type). 1213 is also another game he made but it focuses more on action and with an adventure game engine it doesn't always work so well.

There's also visual novels for good storylines, but most are in Japanese and only a few that were translated into English are any good, tho most have random sex scenes just because. Narcissu is however free for download and safe for work. Kana Little Sister, Crescendo, Tsukihime, Fate/Stay Night though Nasu's writing style in Type-Moon stuff is kind of hit/miss.
Demoninja
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States1190 Posts
December 08 2008 05:53 GMT
#8
The story line in Barkley is amazing. I mean holy crap you have to play it to believe it.
OmgIRok
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Taiwan2699 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-12-08 06:15:53
December 08 2008 06:13 GMT
#9
www.doujinstyle.com

On the Navigation pane, click Touhou

I recommend Scarlet Weather Rhapsody and Phantasmagoria of Flower View.
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SonuvBob
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Aiur21550 Posts
December 08 2008 06:30 GMT
#10
Cave Story is highly, highly recommended.
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SaveYourSavior
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States1071 Posts
December 08 2008 07:10 GMT
#11
cave story is pretty fun


pretty lengthy for a free 2d adventure game that is similar to metroid/ castle(metroid)vanias but in my opinion more fun. There's three endings to the game. To get to the secret last level / ending you need to do really specific stuff..

Anyways its fun and free. Good 8 bit style graphics and music and it can run on a shit mound of a computer


Within a Deep Forest Is fairly cool as well. A puzzle game where you are a bouncey ball that has to bounce its way past puzzles and stuff. You can collect different powers that make your ball bouncier, glass, metal, etc. It has very ambient music and best of all its free.


Charles Barkley: Get Down and Jam: Gaiden is a pretty decent RPG, but if its gameplay you are looking for its above mediocre but not . It has a funny story that oozes of weirdness and style in its own funky post-apocalyptic way.

Another weird one is Synaesthete. Action DDR...
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KissBlade
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
United States5718 Posts
December 08 2008 08:05 GMT
#12
I like Type/moon's games.
Morzas
Profile Joined August 2005
United States387 Posts
December 08 2008 08:11 GMT
#13
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/index_e.html
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