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Posted 09 April 2012 - 08:26 AM (#1)

I must. find. this. game.

So sometime in the late 90s, someone game me this game demo CD. There were two games on it, and I can't remember the name of either. But there's one in particular that I used to love, and my googling isn't getting me anywhere.

My memory of this game is pretty bleak, but the basic premise is that you're a soldier on a space ship, one of many guys sent to help terraform a new planet for human life. Turns out, this planet contains some pretty ferocious aliens (nothing sentient, apparently) that you and your other soldier buddies have to kill off because they keep attacking on the ground. So you crawl into these suits (or maybe it was just an interface for controlling robot drones on the ground? I forget) and you see the aliens through the screen and you shoot them and they die and blah blah blah. But one time the screen glitches out and it's not these ugly green aliens, it's these angelic almost-human faces. Then the display snaps back and you see the aliens again. So that's creepy, right? So you start to suspect that the things you're killing aren't evil ferocious brainless creatures at all, and dig down to get to the bottom of it ... and you find out you've been murdering this peaceful race of people the whole time, so that some asshole can profit off of a new planet to move humans to.

Aside from the basic outline, I don't remember much more about it ... except for the mess hall having a really cheesy advertisement for bratwurst at one point. And I barely remember the graphics, other than I think part of it was more like Myst, where there were occasionally sections of video overlaid on top of the main graphics when there was any significant animation.

Does this ring any bells for anyone? This is driving me NUTS.

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Posted 09 April 2012 - 08:32 AM (#2)

Alpha Centauri,?

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Posted 09 April 2012 - 08:42 AM (#3)

Nah -- that's an RTS. I should have been more clear about that

This is definitely more of an adventure game/myst style, with the only live action part being the little tiny bits where you target and shoot at the "aliens".

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Posted 09 April 2012 - 08:43 AM (#4)

Sounds cool!

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Posted 09 April 2012 - 09:45 AM (#5)

If it's in the same genre as Myst, it may be on this list: http://en.wikipedia....adventure_games
I've looked through a couple but found nothing significantly similar to the description.

On a side note, this has just reminded me I have an uncompleted copy of Riven in a drawer somewhere... <_<

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Posted 09 April 2012 - 10:18 AM (#6)

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Posted 09 April 2012 - 10:31 AM (#7)

Lemon, on 09 April 2012 - 09:45 AM, said:

If it's in the same genre as Myst, it may be on this list: http://en.wikipedia....adventure_games
I've looked through a couple but found nothing significantly similar to the description.

Yeah... I won't eliminate the possibility that it's there and I'm just not catching the name, but it doesn't appear to be. This was such a short game -- maybe 1-2 hours, even. And I can't recall whether that was legitimately all there was or if it was just a segment of the larger game. Either way, it may not have qualified as a full "adventure game" status.

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On a side note, this has just reminded me I have an uncompleted copy of Riven in a drawer somewhere... <_<

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Posted 09 April 2012 - 10:35 AM (#8)

Lemon, on 09 April 2012 - 09:45 AM, said:

Edit: Also, what on earth 1992

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Posted 09 April 2012 - 01:46 PM (#9)

Perhaps try asking in a thread such as this: http://forums.xkcd.c...18807&start=600
There are a couple others I also found in other forums too and you're probably more likely to find help there than here.

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Clearly must be this: "made use of 256-colour graphics."

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Posted 09 April 2012 - 02:14 PM (#10)

I remember playing a game like that, in my cousin Oscar's house. It was emulated on his computer, I believe.

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Posted 09 April 2012 - 03:00 PM (#11)

Halo? xD

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Posted 09 April 2012 - 03:03 PM (#12)

NeilHanlon, on 09 April 2012 - 03:00 PM, said:

Halo? xD

YES!!! That's it!!

Smartass xD. Halo was a little ... advanced ... for this game's time ;-)

Lemon, on 09 April 2012 - 01:46 PM, said:

Yeah, I figured it was worth asking here just in case it was one of those games that everyone played but no one talks about... like Chex Quest ;-). But I'll have to start branching out if it doesn't come to me.

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Posted 09 April 2012 - 05:55 PM (#13)

Chex Quest was amazing. I had so much fun playing that game.

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Posted 09 April 2012 - 06:09 PM (#14)

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Posted 09 April 2012 - 09:30 PM (#15)

CHIP'S CHALLENGE??? I have a copy of that game somewhere around here. God, Windows 98SE was the shit.

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Posted 19 April 2012 - 11:48 PM (#16)

Are you still looking for this game or have you found it yet? If you have, could you give me the name cause I want to play it (it sounds interesting).

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Posted 20 April 2012 - 08:03 AM (#17)

Nope, haven't had the chance to look any further

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Posted 20 April 2012 - 12:37 PM (#18)

Ask somewhere like:
http://www.pvcmuseum...e-experts.9.htm

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Posted 26 October 2012 - 01:07 PM (#19)

SUCCESS. I found a subreddit today called TipOfMyTongue and decided to ask there:

http://www.reddit.co...ure_game_about/

This is called Quantum Gate

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Posted 26 October 2012 - 02:49 PM (#20)

Kyek, on 26 October 2012 - 01:07 PM, said:

SUCCESS. I found a subreddit today called TipOfMyTongue and decided to ask there:

http://www.reddit.co...ure_game_about/

This is called Quantum Gate

Great subreddit. I've yet to post anything in it, but I've been subscribed for a couple months now. With almost 50,000 subscribers, it's impressive how at least one person seems to recognize everything.

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