Games That Were Wrongly Ignored.

[Rathy]

Major lack of Shadow of Destiny in here...

 

[The Wooster]

Major lack of Shadow of Destiny in here...

Probably because the game had voice acting that made Resident Evil look like Shakespeare.

 

[Simbarc]

Shadow of the Colossus and ICO were two of the best and most beautiful games. And the general public seemed to ignore them.

 

[H_Smith]

Crackdown. Funny as hell. I'm gonna play it now.

 

[The_Deleted]

Some people seem to be getting ignored confused with critically acclaimed.
I forgot Shadow of Memories. Anyone who has played that will know what I mean. A genuinely different gaming experience.

 

[fedpayne]

I didn't read alla this because my lunch is cooking, but I'm gonig to take a guess and say... I SECOND BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL

 

[Rusman]

Any of the Tales of series, and Any Harvest Moon series... Whats wrong with a farming sim????

 

[The_Deleted]

Any of the Tales of series, and Any Harvest Moon series... Whats wrong with a farming sim????

I don't know that HM is ignored as much as niche gaming.I had the Rune Factory game for the DS and could lose hours in it and my partner has the Harvest Moon game for the PS2. I'm more a Burnout / FPS kind of gamer but these had a strange grip on me I cannot explain.

 

[Uncompetative]

Robotron 64 was excellent for the N64, would be nice to see a version of it on the Xbox LIVE Arcade. It was in 3D.

 

[alsamisath]

Dreamfall. You know... the sequel to The Longest Journey.

 

[snakeys]

Twinsen's Odyssey (also called Little Big Adventure 2 outside the US I think). I haven't read the whole thread so I'm not sure if it has been mentioned. Fantastic PC game that came out about 1996-1997 or so.

 

[LeChuck99]

RUNE, the most awesome hard core game i've ever played

 

[OuroborosChoked]

Aside from that, can we all agree that after a game gets mentioned over four times on here that it wasn't actually ignored?

I wouldn't exactly say that... just because 4-5 people mentioned the game means that it had a minimum of a whole 5 sales... that's not exactly a chart-topper or most recognized if you ask me. It just means it was a good game that a few people liked and thought it was worth mentioning. A few people have to buy it to have it be discovered at all, you know...

Ever heard the term representative sample? And just because something wasn't a chart topper, doesn't mean it was ignored (see Okami, Beyond Good and Evil, Shadow of the Colossus, Ico, etc. etc.). Did those games deserve to be chart toppers? Probably. That doesn't mean they were ignored, though.

 

[OuroborosChoked]

Fatal Frame/Fatal Frame 2 (some of the best pants-wetting horror that you can get, except its kinda hard to find anymore. although there's a fanbase, not enough people appreciate these games)

You know there's a third game in the series, right?

Oh, and a fourth on the Wii... but that's not out in the US yet...

 

[KreacherOfbloodandRank]

Yatzee would disagree with me, but I think Tabula Rasa didnt get the praise it deserved. its so rare you get a massive online experience like that.

 

[rbnttn]

Shadow of the colossus and Pikmin 1 & 2. Loved them both and no one seems to know what they are or has herd of them.

 

[Dr._Undegarde]

I'd say the Tak series. Although I didn't much care for the third one, I thought the games were pretty fun and it definitely had some original ideas, like the Chicken Suit, and it was funny to boot. Though I have to say, the Chicken Temple will make you hate chickens, eggs, and all things related therewith forever. F***ing chicken sentries.

 

[poleboy]

Final Fantasy VIII definately.

Within two days of its North American release on September 9, 1999, Final Fantasy VIII became the top-selling video game in the United States, a position it held for more than three weeks. Aside from grossing a total of more than US$50 million within the first 13 weeks to follow, in Japan, it sold roughly 2.5 million units within the first four days of release, and during 2006 was voted by readers of Japanese magazine Famitsu as the twenty-second best game of all time. More than six million units were sold in total by the end of 1999

Yeah... completely ignored.

Shadow of the Colossus and ICO were two of the best and most beautiful games. And the general public seemed to ignore them.

ICO sold 700.000 copies worldwide. Not a huge amount, but I would hardly call it ignored. When it was first released, it didn't receive that much attention but it made up for it later. Shadow of the Colossus sold much more than that, and most gamers know it.

In comparison, Arcanum which I mentioned earlier, has to date sold 234.000 copies. It was Troika's best selling game.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Alpha Centurai was an awesome game until you realised that the Cloning Vaults and being Green automatically won you the game.

 

[zachbob2]

Call of Juarez
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Thief: Deadly Shadows