Fruitkicker post=9.72877.776072 said:
Shining Force 1 and 2 for te Sega Megadrive. Awesome games.
When I tell people.. I get laughed at :/
Really? I remember Shining Force 1 received VERY warm reception and was credited as "starting the Tactical RPG series" even though I think Fire Emblem came out first in Japan. Shining Force 2 was also VERY good and there is no way in hell I'd ever laugh at you if you said something good about that...if anything I'd probably laugh out of joy if they decide to release it on the virtual console. (Shining Force 2 had better class balance even if healing was rather broken)
World of Warcraft - Here on this reality. It's just like saying you're an American in a room full of nationalistic Anti-American people.
Shadow Hearts series - this isn't really so much as no one else seeming to like them, this is really more of a case of no one else even seems to know they exist thanks to them having a market window shorter than the Siberian Summer. Shadow Hearts Covenant was pretty well received if I recall, even being given a "PS2 Game of the Year" award by a few gaming websites that advertise games. Of course Shadow Hearts, Covenant, or From the New World never sold well enough to get a "greatest hits" version while popular suckers like Shadow the Hedgehog, Shadow of the Colossus (...okay it's not that bad), and Spongebob made greatest hits within months.
And one thing that sets that series apart from others? it actually made it to PAL regions. Least it wasn't based around World War 2 or maybe they'd have thought twice about portraying Hitler the same way they portrayed Grigori Rasputin.
And oh yeah...Princess Anastasia dealing the final blow to the final boss = Win.
Tales of the Abyss - Hey it's a JRPG, they're widely hated, and I have to respect all forms of RPGs for remaining single-player-with-the-occasional-multiplayer mode (Like Symphonia, which I admit is far better than Abyss's multiplayer due to the Gamecube having 4 ports) when everything now HAS to have a multiplayer mode or we're being given a bunch of multiplayer-only games, sometimes disguised as a single player game. (I've been pretty much a Single-Player for life. I'm the only male below 40 and above 3 within a three mile radius in a suburban neighbourhood, especially one full of girls who think most games are "stupid")
King's Quest VII - Of course because VI was so well received and VII was instead trying to be a lot different and appeal to younger people (like myself I was only like 5 or 6 when this was released) with its cartoon-like graphics, but I still think this is actually one of the examples of why 2D and 3D should co-exist. Remember the hand-painted backgrounds and hand-drawn cutscenes? When we got Mask of Eternity it had that "staticy" N64 look and looked kinda dull, even if the early King's Quest games kind of blinded you with bright colours. (And as fitting as V and VI's graphics were, they did look kind of pixely in areas)
One of the reasons I liked this game was that it wasn't so much of a "King"'s quest but more of a "Queen" and "Princess"'s quest. Sure you controlled Rosella in IV but Valanice for pretty much the other 5 games wasn't really doing anything, just sort of being in the background saying "Hi I'm the enchanted princess...and oh yeah hi I'm Rosella's mother and King Graham's wife. Be back in time for dinner, honey!".
...even if we had Chicken Little being about as annoying as Cedric and the game was a little difficult for a little child to figure out. I swear that sorceress killed Valanice and Rosella at least 540 billion times and I had to ask my dad's friend how the heck I was supposed to solve a few puzzles. (at least his way of solving it)