What is the Strangest Video Game You've Played?

Ditto.

 

Gonna have to go with this. Fantastic game but having a cute squirrel peeing on bad guys was kind of weird but hilarious at the same time.

 

Out of this World for snes/genesis

honorable mentions to katamari and ww smooth moves

 

Looking back, I must admit that, conceptually, Myst was one really weird game. Can you imagine the meeting where they pitched their idea...

Game Designer: "Ok, so you're reading this book when all of the sudden you fall through a crack in the earth and black-out. When you come to, you're the only person in a universe which consists of an island with this sunken boat, a giant gear, some spaceship, and an astronomic observatory. Then you come across these talking books..."

Publisher: WTF?


What a great game, though.

 

My view on this (reacting to some games mentioned in this thread) is:

1. Female nudity is never weird. Ever.
2. Exploring new game mechanics is for the most part not weird (e.g., Katamari).
3. Source material/cultural references that I don't understand are not weird. Example:

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(Ok, maybe just a bit weird. But this is a TV show in Japan.)

With these rules in mind, the following 2 are definitely weird:

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(RC already posted some vids, but this was the original game and probably the weirdest of them all. It's also a sucky game.)

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(I just find "bullet hell" games weird. Who plays them? This one also has an unusual theme that unfortunately you can't see too well on Youtube.)

In Japan, "Kuso-ge" (s**t games) and "Baka-ge" (idiot games) are actually valid genres. Here's a pretty good list of games that probably qualify as both (and by extension, weird in a "what the hell were they thinking" kind of way, though not always intentionally so): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_games_notable_for_negative_reception

 

I only buy 3 games a year for my PS3. NCAA,Madden, and a basketball game(used to be live but I'm switching over to 2K)

So I guess you can choose from that.

 

Shadow of Destiny



You go back in time to prevent your own death.

 

I LOVED this game - used to spend hours playing it at the UH game room. Wish I could find a version of it online to play.

 

Shadowman is very weird and underrated game. Played it for DC and it was on the best video game experiences ive had.

 

yeah it was just a random spark in my brain. havent thought about it in forever.

 

I was thinking I might like to replay this one, but I looked at prices and was shocked to see the game would cost around $50.

 

Postal II.

That game is messed up. Messed up...

 

Good times.

 

Looking back anything outside of mainstream NES and Atari format, like even regular PC games, I thought were too strange to try out or just didnt appeal enough to be curious about. I'm the very anti-Asian title gamer. I thought freaking Ecco the Dolphin was looking too peculiar. I didnt mind shooting and killing and violence in games, just for whatever reason didnt dig the sci fi elements that much.

Time Killers lol, blast from the past. I thought the obvious attempt at exploitation trying to appeal to the what the "kids are into these days" came across a little too sick and demented than appealling.