Games you love but no one seems to talk about

[bandman232]

The Homeworld series. Seriously, If you haven't played it, you are a terrible person.

 

[Auninteligentname]

The lack of Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance on these forums is disturbing...

 

[excalipoor]

Oh! Oh! I've got another one: Minesweeper. Because Solitaire blows.

 

[Swifty714]

The timesplitters trilogy. Am I the only one who remembers......?

If you are a true fan, then my avatar should be familiar to you.

I really do wish that they would make Time Splitters 4 already. They released some teaser trailers, and GI even did an article on it like a year or two ago.

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

For recent games I've not seen many people talking about Sleeping Dogs to be honest. I loved that game.

 

[Cheesepower5]

The lack of Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance on these forums is disturbing...

"Dang... Shoulda brought... More priests... Maybe some... Babies..."

Gotta love PoR. I nominbate Terranigma, a SNES action RPG with fun gameplay and a brilliant end.

 

[Hazzard]

Kingdom Hearts.
I'm talking about 1 and 2, to my knowledge all of the others are terrible except possibly Birth by Sleep.

Funny, I hear of people talking about Kingdom Hearts all the time, and they're typically bitching cause Sora's the main character instead of Cloud or some bullshit like that. Insofar as the games themselves go, I liked 1 and 2, and the remake of Chain of Memories was a lot better than the GBA version if for no other reason than proper voiced cutscenes and making KH2's plot make sense. Although I hated the shoehorned-in backstory with Xehonort and the Keyblade Wars which really came in kinda outta nowhere near the end of the game.

I'll probably never touch BbS or 365/2 Days cause I just want them to move the plot forwards instead of backtracking for the last 6 years. It's sad, cause Kingdom Hearts had a lot of potential in my eyes, but Nomura keeps muddying it up with FF and needless drama-filled backstories. Now it feels like the series just survives by adding old Square characters, cause I've had quite a few people tell me that's the only reason they got DDD.

Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 are good games, the gameplay is fun (a bit too easy though, but KH2 was clearly marketed at the people who had watched Disney films and the difficulty reflected that) I do think that the plot is not so good, it has some really badly written dialogue in places and from what I remember, the enemy design and graphics in the first one didn't age well.

 

[Mr Cwtchy]

Anyone? No?

Bah.

 

[Burrito With Legs]

Sleeping Dogs. I'm not all that interested in it, but I'm just surprised that it's not getting a lot of coverage.

 

[scorptatious]

I'm honestly surprised not very many people on here are talking about The Last Story. Considering how many Final Fantasy/Square-Enix threads there are on here.

Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, the best PS1 platformer that nobody played.

Great game.

I played that game as a kid, and I've downloaded it off the PSN. My only real issue with it is that it was kinda short. One or two more visions would have made the game perfect.

 

[vrbtny]

The Sabateur as it is the most stylish game ever.
add a flamethrower tank in the later stages and the abulity to steal uniforms and bash a nazi genrals brains out from behind him with a tommy gun and you have perfection. I think the exec who shut down pandemic deserves to be put out on the street.

You're selling the game short! The best part of that game was grabbing a stg44 by the barrel and swinging it at a Nazi's head like a baseball bat, and that was only the stealth option!

 

[CarlMin]

Battlefield 3

Nah, just joking.

I'd say Grand Control 2. The RTS that just seem to have slipped under the radar but it is (in my opinion) better than Age of Empires and World in Conflict together. Can't say about the Command and Conquer series though.

 

[Dirty Apple]

Moonbase Commander. What a fantastic forgotten treasure.

 

[Araksardet]

Jazz Jackrabbit. Not that I think it's a design masterpiece, but as one of the first video games I avidly played, it has huge nostalgia value for me, and I don't think the game was bad by any stretch of the imagination. Yet I almost never hear talk about it.

 

[auron200004]

Dark Cloud and its sequel. I'm pretty sure the devs have moved on to Professor Layton and stuff like that, but they still exist! So, you know, they could make a Dark Cloud 3 if they really wanted to.

Likewise, Legacy of Kain (although that's more of it being old than obscure). My only concern about possible reboots is that if they exclude Simon Templeton the new version will automatically be vastly inferior.

 

[solemnwar]

Kingdom Hearts.
I'm talking about 1 and 2, to my knowledge all of the others are terrible except possibly Birth by Sleep.

.... I don't think you're going to the right places then. I end up hearing about those fcking games constantly xD


OT: The original Unreal (Unreal Gold for the version that has the expansion pack bundled). As my first REAL game (that wasn't a weird point and click a la The Egyptian Prophecy or insane puzzle game like Keepsake) it holds a special place in my heart but nobody ever talks about it. At most I just see people talking about Unreal Tournament.

"Pants to that," I say. Oh well.

 

[jebara]

Ghost Trick.
Best handheld game of all time.
That game has style...

 

[axlryder]

Probably because these are pretty old games, but I absolutely love Mega Man Legends, Threads of Fate and Mischief Makers. Those three are some of my favorite games of all time and I wish they got more love.

Honorable mentions go to Power Stone and Skies of Arcadia.

 

[Pharsalus]

The X-COM series, in particular Apocalypse. While the first one is regarded as a true classic, I found APOC to be a whole lot more fun. You defended a small city with a distinct look and personality, as opposed to a world viewed only as a zoomed out globe and some mission sites. There was allot more depth as well, your relationships with the many organizations and gangs in the city affected prices and could even result in attacks or your base by armed humans. The SVGA graphics of APOC are much clearer and more attractive the the original, and the real-time combat is a blast, I'm sad that it's not going to be an option in the upcoming sequel.

Ginga Sengoku Gunyuuden RAI, a 1996 Super Famicom release that I found by accident. It combines real time strategy of building up planets and assembling fleets (with an interface so sublime that the lack of translation isn't a problem), and turned based battles between multiple fleets. The fleet action echoes of Fire Emblem as each fleet is led by a hero, those heroes can die and even defect to other sides if beaten during a boarding action (another cool real time tactical game in itself). If you mess around with SNES emulators and like strategy/tactical games at all get it.

Battlefield 3

Nah, just joking.

I'd say Grand Control 2. The RTS that just seem to have slipped under the radar but it is (in my opinion) better than Age of Empires and World in Conflict together. Can't say about the Command and Conquer series though.

I gotta disagree with you there, I loved the piss out of Ground Control 1, played it the expansion loved it all. GC 2 was a massive letdown, controlling single units instead of squads, fighting in some ugly city where you can't see anything as opposed to a hilly outdoor setting with lots of tactical terrain, and the cherry on top, replacing a sexy, rebellious, and morally driven female lead with a tool (ok i didn't really play enough to learn about him but just look at the guy:
http://habaza.net/uploads/posts/2010-11/1289837728_8181e4c0-7fee-4882-bae6-f2fdbedc7525.jpg).

I dunno, some of the screens I've seen do look damn good, maybe I should've stuck it out and played through it more, but it made a terrible first impression.

 

[axlryder]

Dark Cloud and its sequel. I'm pretty sure the devs have moved on to Professor Layton and stuff like that, but they still exist! So, you know, they could make a Dark Cloud 3 if they really wanted to.

Likewise, Legacy of Kain (although that's more of it being old than obscure). My only concern about possible reboots is that if they exclude Simon Templeton the new version will automatically be vastly inferior.

I really didn't like Dark Cloud 2 very much. It was a cool game but it honestly felt really repetitive from the building to the battle system. The story wasn't really substantial enough for how much time I poured into it (I got the secret ending so that ended up being quite a few hours).