7 Sequels to Huge Games You’ve Never Heard of Somehow

gaming has a few absolutely massive franchises for which every single release is an event you're legends of zelda your residence evil your pimps my ride the video game [Music] possibly that's just me but while these game franchises might be absolutely massive some of them are hiding in their long and storied histories obscure games that most people won't have even heard of let alone played here then are seven obscure games from huge series that we can almost guarantee you've never even heard of enjoy [Music] the elder scrolls series is one of the longest running and most successful video game franchises ever and fifth main entry skyrim has been re-released updated and ported so many times that you can play it in virtual reality as a board game and even on an alexa i drink a health potion you are out of health potions oh uh uh how many wheels of cheese do i have left 473. okay i eat all the cheese i eat all of the cheese what you may be less aware of however are the elder scrolls travels games a series of elder scrolls rpgs made for mobile phones these included the elder scrolls travel stormhold and the elder scrolls travels dawnstar both of which came out for java enabled mobile phones in 2003 and 2004 respectively which alternated between first person dungeon crawling [Music] and dialogue with npcs which made it look a bit like you were getting text messages from larp enthusiasts obscure yes but people did actually own java enabled cell phones even less likely to have been played by anyone currently watching this is the third game in the series the elder scrolls travels shadow key which came out exclusively for the ill-fated nokia n-gage universally regarded as one of the most disastrous consoles of all time [Music] while it's easy to make fun of the n-gage because it sucked and was bad and looked like an air-conditioning control panel shadowkey was a decent attempt at making an elder scrolls game on some very limited hardware and included a lot of the elements that make the series so popular including character creation first-person exploration and combat and a lore-heavy story based around a brewing magical war [Music] gotta say though that is the worst font i've ever seen what's this about donggas [Music] okay glad we cleared that up obviously the n-gage was a giant failure and that pretty much killed off the elder scrolls travel series there was one plan for the ps vita elder scrolls travels oblivion but that was cancelled and now what are we supposed to do if we want to play an elder scrolls game while on the move oh right we could play that perfect conversion of skyrim for the nintendo switch i guess that'll have to do in his capacity as nintendo mascot as well as video game star mario has shown up in countless games where you might not expect to find him appearing as among other things a boxing referee archaeologist and of course scrappy street baller with hoop dreams [Applause] probably the most obscure mario game of all time though is the mario sewing game weird i read that as sewing what with a needle and thread sewing okay mario actually featured in two garment making games released 15 years apart the first which came out in 1986 for the famicom was called i am a teacher super mario no sweater this game allowed you to create custom mario themed knitting patterns which you could then send by post to a japanese textiles company who would make the sweater for you following hot on its heels a short 15 years later in 2001 was sewing game mario family for the game boy color which has the distinction of being the last mario game for that console presumably that's because this was the pinnacle of everything they felt the character could achieve at this point in his career the good news for players was that mario family could be linked to the jaguar jn100 a sewing machine which would embroider your design onto fabric for you without you having to post anything to anyone the bad news was that the jaguar jn100 sewing machine cost 600 [Music] this made mario family even less accessible somehow dooming mario's embroidem up to eternal obscurity it sold so poorly that the idea of a kirby-themed sequel was summarily canned it didn't help that in mario family all you could really do was add or remove the approved palette of colors to a set of pre-made template designs not redesign them entirely to make mario and wario kiss or anything which makes me think that nintendo are probably saving that one for an official merch drop in the meantime the best we've got is sad greyscale mario here [Music] with the release of mass effect legendary edition bioware has bundled together the mass effect games into a slick hd package with graphical improvements gameplay tweaks and content updates like changing tarly's infamous bedside photo so it's no longer a stock photo of a catalog model with some antenna photoshopped on you may notice however that an important entry in the mass effect series is missing from this bundle a game that might be a bit more obscure than the others in the series but nevertheless is worthy of mention whoa whoa whoa why are you showing mass effect andromeda get this out of here [Music] that's better i am of course talking about mass effect galaxy which came out for the iphone in 2009 and which to be fair probably reviewed even worse than mass effect andromeda released just before mass effect 2 came out mass effect galaxy let you play as mass effect 2 squad mate jacob taylor in a top-down shooter that you're barely in control of in that you had to tilt your phone to move jacob around while he automatically shot at enemies for you [Music] in between the combat sections we get some of the mass effect series trademark conversations with jacob looking nothing like jacob chatting to various friends and enemies picking between different paragon and renegade conversation options [Music] i'm not seeing any romance options though which is odd considering the obvious chemistry between jacob and miranda [Music] and jacob and captain tudge [Music] and jacob and this batari warlord [Music] look stop beating around the bush bioware and just make a mass effect visual novel dating sim now if you'll excuse me i think i'm making some headway with this space pirate romance [Music] street fighter 2 was such an enormous success that it triggered a wild scramble to release as many tie-in games cartoons board games and action figures as possible and obviously not all of them are going to be as amazing as the original game [Music] i'm going to kick bryson's ass i don't think so at least the movie was great stone cold classic right there believe it or not though the most obscure street fighter game from this era isn't even street fighter colon the movie colon the game which gave us the high concept spectacle of a video game based on a movie based on a video game no that dubious honor belongs to street fighter 2 the interactive movie which was released exclusively in japan for the playstation and sega saturn [Music] a tie into this street fighter anime movie street fighter 2 the interactive movie had you playing as a shadoloo cyborg sent by m bison to monitor fighters from around the world to learn their secrets and grow stronger what this meant in practice was watching scenes from the street fighter anime movie and pressing a button to take photographs at crucial moments that would allow you to analyze the different fighters moves stats and fighting styles yes i see kicking writing this down taking pictures of the right things would boost your cyborg stats with the end goal being to fight and defeat ryu you could see how you were getting on between scenes by fighting a ryu hologram who would usually kick your robot head in because you were a slow-ass cyborg with ken's move set but no actual power or defense and also you look like a cast off from rise of the robots [Music] watch enough grainy movie to level up enough and you could face off against the real ryu and get the chance to change street fighter history by beating him in single combat at which point m bison would congratulate you and then somehow become president of the united states despite not being born there or from there or having any connection to politics [Music] but it turns out ryu is fine actually and they start fighting again which to be fair is better than ryu's ending in the actual original proper street fighter 2. i worked hard for that trophy ryu [Music] we all know the main legend of zelda series mostly because it's also a pretty functional list of the best video games ever made from ocarina of time to breath of the wild because of how beloved the legend of zelda series is even its more obscure entries are reasonably well known as is the case with tingle spin-offs like rosie rupee land and the terrible zelda games for the philips tdi like wand of gamelon yeah that old ganon's no match for the king the most obscure zelda game of all time however is legend of zelda ancient stone tablets for the sitella view a satellite modem peripheral for the japanese super nintendo equivalent the super famicom that was released in [Music] 1995 the way the cetela view worked was by sending out satellite broadcasts that satella view owners could download on their consoles at specific times legend of zelda ancient stone tablets was originally broadcast in 1997 and then re-run three times during the satellite's lifespan meaning there were only four opportunities for zelda fans to get to play it which i think qualifies it as the most obscure zelda game in history yes even more than the japan-only tingle games [Music] [Applause] i've got to stop mentioning tingle games there's always a clip ancient stone tablets was fairly unique among zelda games in that you didn't play as link but rather as yourself or at least your teleview avatar plunked down into a game world very reminiscent of the one from snares zelda adventure a link to the past the story set six years after linked to the past sees your avatar being transported to hyrule and roped into a plan to recover eight ancient stone tablets that will help defeat the returning forces of ganon link has left the country apparently which is why you have to do it i don't know maybe he's on holiday the unique way that the citeleview worked made this unlike any of the more well-known zelda games in fact it was more like a playable tv show in that the game was divided into hour-long playable episodes four of which were broadcast a week with two weekly stone tablets for players to get building to the season finale after all eight were acquired the online element of the game also meant that it could include timed events like weather effects spells or periods of unlimited ammo that players could take advantage of it was also fully voiced thanks to the satella views sound link feature which streamed a full vocal track alongside the game with voice actors discussing the plot or giving players direction as seen here in the television's previous zelda game zelda no denzetsuno in short ancient stone tablets while probably being the most obscure zelda game ever also sounds like one of the most interesting it even used the internet to feed players scores back to the developers and the top scoring players could sometimes win prizes like memory packs for the satella view which i mean now i'm wondering where my prizes are for playing breath of the wild i have a nintendo switch online membership nintendo why am i not being mailed fabulous prizes is it because i'm bad at breath of the wild because i don't see how that's relevant [Music] the doom series has been letting players frag demons in increasingly gory and overblown ways for nearly 30 years from 1993's original doom to 2020's do maternal it's been a bad three decades to be a demon basically fans of demon killing who prefer to take things at a slightly slower pace however might be pleased to learn that there exists a doom rpg released for mobile phones in 2005. now normally the letters rpg in the vicinity of doom would have your mind immediately going to a rocket-propelled grenade being fired into the giant unblinking eye of a luckless cacademon here though they stand for role-playing game because this version of doom for cell phones wisely chose to turn the standard doom action into a much slower pace and thoughtful dungeon caller because if you ever tried playing a shooter on a phone exactly while it was the right decision it's still very weird to see doom the most metal video game series in existence turned into a sci-fi version of a dungeon crawling rpg with things like critical hits an item shop and xp that you used to level up your stats there was also greater emphasis on conversations with npcs and reading terminals to learn more about the game's story which another big change i guess it had a story added to this were puzzle elements including items you needed to pick up such as a fire extinguisher for putting out blazes and an axe for chopping down broken doors or smacking monsters in the face i guess that too weirdest of all combat takes the form of turn-based skirmishes which means you end up with these very polite fights where everyone lines up to get smacked in the face with an axe not that i'm complaining i think you're onto something doom rpg all right everyone form an orderly queue [Music] we all know what uncharted games are like right epic sprawling adventures that span the globe involve ancient treasure and include at least one scene where hero nathan drake falls off something while shouting oh crap a classic formula and while that is indeed true for most uncharted games it isn't the case for the most obscure title in the series uncharted fight for fortune that's because uncharted fight for fortune is a digital collectible card game that came out on the playstation vita a one two double whammy of limited mass market appeal on par with a new line of anime body pillows featuring characters from cs lewis's chronicles of narnia by all accounts uncharted fight for fortune was a perfectly serviceable ccg sure it's no half stone but the cards do all feature uncharted characters so you can look at them and imagine what it would be like if you were say playing a much more exciting uncharted game [Music] one neat touch was that fight for fortune linked up with ps vita uncharted spin-off golden abyss so the treasures discovered in that game would be converted into power-up cards that you could use in your fight for fortune matches [Music] or and here's a wild idea you could just carry on playing golden abyss because that was a proper uncharted game with jumping and stuff just a thought all right listen when you jump just make sure sorry you're saying thank you so much for watching this video about sequels but have you heard about the prequels to this video uh there's hundreds of them and they're all in this playlist over here so uh enjoy those oh also before 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Channel: outsidexbox

Views: 400,322

Keywords: outsidexbox, andy farrant, jane douglas, mike channell, 7 things, list, top 10, top 5, countdown, sequels, obscure, weird, zelda, mario, mass effect, elder scrolls, skyrim, the elder scrolls, street fighter, uncharted, doom, rpg

Id: X1dXDNJGE3E

Length: 18min 57sec (1137 seconds)

Published: Thu May 27 2021