well, it was modern in 1998. classy pedigree, low sales, but absolutely rabid following.
― old chisel (haitch), Monday, 6 July 2009 12:16 (fourteen years ago) link
dept. heaven games (riviera, yggdra union, knights in the nightmare)? probably erring more to the cultish w/these tho
^^^these games are so rad btw
― cozwn, Monday, 6 July 2009 12:19 (fourteen years ago) link
did not realise knights was by the same ppl as riviera
haha i scored a box copy of the latter for free not long ago and i just realised it's likely the most valuable game i now own
i wonder about far cry 2's cult status - it sold a million copies before the christmas rush even started, and i've seen overindulged 12-year-olds being bought copies
how big a deal was yakuza in the english-language markets? does it count if games are massive in their home territories but not elsewhere?
― thomp, Monday, 6 July 2009 12:31 (fourteen years ago) link
escape velocity
― goole, Monday, 6 July 2009 13:12 (fourteen years ago) link
demon's souls is the current mainstream modern-day cult game I lust after most; pretty big in japan and has a cult following in the us/uk
ps3 only, I'm afraid : /
think it's maybe too cultish for slocki's defn. tho, I'd place it w/valkyria chronicles in the cultish spectrum
― cozwn, Monday, 6 July 2009 13:25 (fourteen years ago) link
tbf, of all the games I've mentioned, I think only the club fits slocki's defn
― cozwn, Monday, 6 July 2009 13:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Seems like God Hand is this thread.
― ㇱ (Will M.), Monday, 6 July 2009 14:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think GH sold well enough to be considered, but perhaps the Viewtiful Joe series might count. I didn't think that sold greatly either, but Capcom kept franchising it out for a while so it probably did...
― Nhex, Monday, 6 July 2009 14:27 (fourteen years ago) link
before reading those far cry 2 blogs i had never really heard people talk about it (here or irl), but it looks pretty awesome?
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 6 July 2009 14:31 (fourteen years ago) link
black & white
― #/.'#/'@ilikecats (g-kit), Monday, 6 July 2009 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Madworld :(
― jjjusten, Monday, 6 July 2009 14:38 (fourteen years ago) link
My buddy insists that this game works much, much better on the PC.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Monday, 6 July 2009 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought middling reviews and poor sales and rabid following were the very definition?
On that note there's a bunch of also-ran RPGs that would "count" I bet, but those don't REALLY count.
― ㇱ (Will M.), Monday, 6 July 2009 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Psychonauts?
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Monday, 6 July 2009 16:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Psychonauts got good reviews, just sold like shit. Same with Beyond Good & Evil.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 6 July 2009 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
if thats the def then maybe madworld doesnt qualify, because it got pretty glowing reviews, it just isn't selling at all. rabid following seems fair tho.
― jjjusten, Monday, 6 July 2009 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I wonder if the Football Manager series has a small enough market to qualify here? I bet reviews have more or less no impact on how they sell, or the rabidity of the fanbase.
― Bearsport Cockvention (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 July 2009 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Do the Lunar games qualify for this?
― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Monday, 6 July 2009 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link
You know, the latest Prince of Persia might qualify. Sold okay, reviews were mixed to middling, but people (like me) seem to love it to death despite its flaws.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 6 July 2009 17:12 (fourteen years ago) link
How about non-limited edition games that sometimes fetch crazy prices on EBAY? seems like a reasonable metric.What are some good cult deals? "Frequency" is on BUYITNOW for $15.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 6 July 2009 17:52 (fourteen years ago) link
- God Hand (obvious winner of this thread; it's like the first Velvet Underground record, only with more kicking people into space)- Killer 7 (probably NMH too, although that seemed to catch on w/ the mainstream way more than K7. I actually had a Gamestop employee talk me out of buying K7 back in the day ["No, dood, it's on rails!"]; luckily I found it online for like $6 a few months later. it owns hard, btw.)- Beyond Good & Evil (reviews were glowing but since the game bricked like a Joe Buddens full-length I count it anyway)- Ninja Five-O (widely [and correctly] considered one of the best GBA games full-stop among the fourteen people who actually got to play it) - Fire Pro Wrestling (likely the last wrestling game a lot of people will ever buy)- Gitaroo-Man (imsmr this got awful reviews at the time and sold somewhere between squat and doodly-squat, but people still swear by it and were paying like $50 for a disc as recently as a year or so ago)
also dammit now I have to buy the Club
― passed on the lead in "all i can do is crossups cuz ihave no skills" (jamescobo), Monday, 6 July 2009 18:18 (fourteen years ago) link
parappa? Yakuza? seaman? Segagaga?Sega is king at doing this shit btw
― an average room of dentists (forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 July 2009 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Suikoden maybe?
SHENMUE
― an average room of dentists (forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 July 2009 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
"Shenmue most amazing game ever created hands down. I bought 2 spare dreamcasts for shenmue 1&2 in case my dc dies."
― an average room of dentists (forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 July 2009 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
man shenmue sucks
i think factoring in reviews is kind of pointless because games reviews are so retarded - theres a pretty good cult around the failed sega consoles generally managed to sell a bunch of my rare saturn games (pd, sfIII, sitd) for like $100+ on ebay at one point and the interent is filled w/ dudes that regret the death of the dreamcast
― Lamp, Monday, 6 July 2009 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link
otherwise - there are a lot of cult games that are just niche games maybe things like march of the black queen which is also like $80 on ebay, guardian heroes, hell blazblue is lookin to be a cult game - although the reviews for that have been pretty ecstatic - in the sense that it has a small but rabid fanbase, "weird", and is somewhat cut off from the wider games universe
― Lamp, Monday, 6 July 2009 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
not new but i think dr. mario is cultish. it could have been a terrible tetris ripoff that cashed in on the mario brand, and instead it's a great tetris ripoff that people are still playing (people i know, anyway).
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 6 July 2009 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Guardian Heroes is one of the best games I have ever played in my entire life btw
― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Monday, 6 July 2009 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah - its fantastic. i def understand the nostalgia around saturn titles console was "ahead of its time" in a lot of ways but hi dere if u have any of those working designs saturn titles they are worth a mint now and i doubt youd miss that albert odyssey
― Lamp, Monday, 6 July 2009 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
chronicles of riddick
― cozwn, Monday, 6 July 2009 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I wish Seaman would make a comeback; that "game" was dope.
― an average room of dentists (forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 July 2009 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Seaman would make a come
― Lamp, Monday, 6 July 2009 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
come-dy
― an average room of dentists (forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 July 2009 19:08 (fourteen years ago) link
manstream
― Lamp, Monday, 6 July 2009 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I would not miss Albert Odyssey at all because, aside from one ridiculously awesome scene, it sucks hardcore.
― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Monday, 6 July 2009 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
u should sell it
fyi sorry slocki completely missed the "modern-day" part of this thread title. best example of new cult games other than blazblue i can think of is maybe the nancy drew wii game
― Lamp, Monday, 6 July 2009 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 6 July 2009 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
(lol I just looked on eBay and maybe bidding culture has changed in the past few years so what I'm seeing doesn't mean anything, but it looks like no one actually wants to buy AO (which is as it should be))
― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Monday, 6 July 2009 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
What about Castlevania: SotN?
― kingfish, Monday, 6 July 2009 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
wind waker?
― cozwn, Monday, 6 July 2009 23:04 (fourteen years ago) link
This is a pretty difficult thing to do these days, though, since if something's "cult" it basically means EVERYONE loves it due to the internet saying they shuold. Like BG&E would be a great example if it didn't gain traction from EVERY PERSON ON THE INTERNET basically saying "best ps2 game" all the time or whatever.
Right, but did all that love for BG&E actually result in sales? Also, cultists are way over-represented on internet forums.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Monday, 6 July 2009 23:20 (fourteen years ago) link
or like Rocky Horror Picture Show gets called a "cult" movie all the time, since people seem to like it well enough but a particular subset of the population BREATHES it (at least one night a year, anyway). I suppose Earthbound is the Rocky Horror Picture Show of games.
I think Will's misposting to this other thread (inc. the bit poly just put there) is actually pretty key here. RHPS and Earthbound are exactly what "cult" means. However, I don't believe that's what s1ocki was attempting to get at here. There are lots of cult games with relatively small, super devoted fans. If I interpret correctly, I'm guessing you're looking for stuff more like Fight Club or The Matrix - stuff with inherent cult appeal but clearly still attempting to gain a mainstream audience AND at least somewhat succeeding. Most of the examples here I think don't quite make this definition, being just cult and/or unpopular, though BG&E probably does (as well or Zack and Wiki, probably - maybe Riddick too).
Stuff like Wind Waker, Castlevania, no way, that is just mainstream. Still great stuff, tho.
Anything by Grasshopper is straight-up cult material (and man do I love Killer7, so so much). God Hand is just way too weird to be anything other than seriously cult. Same with everything jamescobo mentioned. MadWorld probably destined to remain cult, since it was definitely not going for the mainstream Wii audience.
― Nhex, Monday, 6 July 2009 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link
luigi's mansion?
― cozwn, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 00:29 (fourteen years ago) link
― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Monday, July 6, 2009 8:10 PM (Yesterday)
er it seems like no one ever bothers to bid seriously on stuff on ebay until there's <2 hours remaining these days, so that might be the change yr looking for
― thomp, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 12:55 (fourteen years ago) link
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didn't this get some great reviews though? otherwise it surely fits here, anyone who played it loved it.
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 13:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I posted that on the wrong thread? Shit. Someone should take away my tabbed browser until I can prove I can use it responsibly :(
― ㇱ (Will M.), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
copied over to here for u:
This is a pretty difficult thing to do these days, though, since if something's "cult" it basically means EVERYONE loves it due to the internet saying they shuold. Like BG&E would be a great example if it didn't gain traction from EVERY PERSON ON THE INTERNET basically saying "best ps2 game" all the time or whatever.What's a good comparison to "cult" in this context? Like for example I've heard people call Oldboy a cult film, and yet virtually everyone I speak to about movies around my age has seen it and loves it.― ㇱ (Will M.), Monday, July 6, 2009 10:40 PM (Yesterday)or like Rocky Horror Picture Show gets called a "cult" movie all the time, since people seem to like it well enough but a particular subset of the population BREATHES it (at least one night a year, anyway). I suppose Earthbound is the Rocky Horror Picture Show of games.― ㇱ (Will M.), Monday, July 6, 2009 10:41 PM (Yesterday)
What's a good comparison to "cult" in this context? Like for example I've heard people call Oldboy a cult film, and yet virtually everyone I speak to about movies around my age has seen it and loves it.
― ㇱ (Will M.), Monday, July 6, 2009 10:40 PM (Yesterday)
― ㇱ (Will M.), Monday, July 6, 2009 10:41 PM (Yesterday)
― 5:00 manatee showing (jjjusten), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 15:18 (fourteen years ago) link