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Well I've been ninja'd like 10000000 times but Psychonauts. Outside of this site and some other gaming circles, Psychonauts is mostly unknown to the public.
Parasite Eve. Man, I will forever be singing the praises of that game. The music, the scenery, and the combat system were all great.
Also, Jumping Flash! For PSX.
Also, Jumping Flash! For PSX.
Really? I thought it was pretty bad. The AI is the worst I've ever seen, and it's incredibly frustrating, especially when you can die instantly in a 30 minute long mission with no checkpoints. The later missions got really tedious as well.X-23 said:
Anyway - Homeworld and Sins of a Solar Empire
I'm going to run with saying Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem on Gamecube. It's really one of those games so unique you can not define yourself as a "hardcore gamer" (as opposed to a casual gamer) without giving it a swing. It relies on a concept that never had been used before and never will be used again at this rate (the sanity meter), it has a solid story, a fantastic collection of characters with varying weapons and stories without feeling over the top and is, in general, a very good game.
I'd also say Rune: Viking Warlord on PS2 is another great game worthy of notice. While it's not a game that you must punish yourself for not buying, it's a great game that feels manly when you play without going over the top. Plus, the progression of all the different weapons, armour and shields is great. There is plus a nice variation of environments without going over the top. From running around in a cave, trying to cut little goblins out, to urban Dwarfish environments, to Hel to the very cold and, well, snowy environment. If you ever want to see how a Viking game is done right, this is your Valhalla.
Another great unknown/under-rated game worthy of notice is Mount And Blade: Warband on PC. While there is a severe lack of a story to it (which may feel to some like eating a 99 ice-cream without a flake in it), it's made up for how nice and realistic it is. Sure there is still an annoying health bar metre and it's got nothing on Bushido Blade (which I may as well mention), it's still is realistic. Not always in the large bigger picture but just the many little small things. Things like men acting sexist towards female soldiers and the ability to alter the difficulty to take the same damage as the enemy soldiers. I wrote a review about it if you want more. Plus, there is a demo of the original Mount And Blade. Just play that if you're not sure and if you like it, just get the Warband version with more things and a multi-player which, predictably, is somewhat unbalanced but is also fun. It's also one of the few games that I've had to stop playing just so I don't burn the entire day playing it or because it's 5am and I really should go to bed.
Another game worth mentioning is Bushido Blade on PS1. Whatever you really thought was realism in sword fighting, Bushido Blade beats that and then rubs it's face into the mud like a 20 year old bully in a primary school playground (no, it's not a paedophile, it's a guy who physically grows up faster due to a genetic disease, don't worry). It's got no health bars, what weapon you chose will affect how slow you swing the thing or how you generally handle it. It's got a honour system for crying out loud to punish those idiots who feel the need to kill their enemies by stabbing them on the floor before they get up. Pretty cheap to pick up as well.
I better stop there before I turn this into a mass essay about all the different games and how they only ended up a worse game in it's time due to the lack of publicity.
I'd also say Rune: Viking Warlord on PS2 is another great game worthy of notice. While it's not a game that you must punish yourself for not buying, it's a great game that feels manly when you play without going over the top. Plus, the progression of all the different weapons, armour and shields is great. There is plus a nice variation of environments without going over the top. From running around in a cave, trying to cut little goblins out, to urban Dwarfish environments, to Hel to the very cold and, well, snowy environment. If you ever want to see how a Viking game is done right, this is your Valhalla.
Another great unknown/under-rated game worthy of notice is Mount And Blade: Warband on PC. While there is a severe lack of a story to it (which may feel to some like eating a 99 ice-cream without a flake in it), it's made up for how nice and realistic it is. Sure there is still an annoying health bar metre and it's got nothing on Bushido Blade (which I may as well mention), it's still is realistic. Not always in the large bigger picture but just the many little small things. Things like men acting sexist towards female soldiers and the ability to alter the difficulty to take the same damage as the enemy soldiers. I wrote a review about it if you want more. Plus, there is a demo of the original Mount And Blade. Just play that if you're not sure and if you like it, just get the Warband version with more things and a multi-player which, predictably, is somewhat unbalanced but is also fun. It's also one of the few games that I've had to stop playing just so I don't burn the entire day playing it or because it's 5am and I really should go to bed.
Another game worth mentioning is Bushido Blade on PS1. Whatever you really thought was realism in sword fighting, Bushido Blade beats that and then rubs it's face into the mud like a 20 year old bully in a primary school playground (no, it's not a paedophile, it's a guy who physically grows up faster due to a genetic disease, don't worry). It's got no health bars, what weapon you chose will affect how slow you swing the thing or how you generally handle it. It's got a honour system for crying out loud to punish those idiots who feel the need to kill their enemies by stabbing them on the floor before they get up. Pretty cheap to pick up as well.
I better stop there before I turn this into a mass essay about all the different games and how they only ended up a worse game in it's time due to the lack of publicity.
Sin Episodes-Emergence. The story and characters are hysterically bad. However, the actual gameplay is excellent. The attention to detail is amazing in some cases. Its a pity that it was the only one released since it was going to be the first of a series.
Dude I loved Metal Arms: Glitch in the System! I have yet to bet it though because I didn't have enough washers to buy the final control chip when you fight Corrosive and now I lost the disc. ARGH!
Worms 2 was also awesome as well. Chucking around the Holy Handgrenade was so much fun.
Laser Squad Nemesis is another game I like and that I doubt is very well known. Its an old TBS game with 4 different sterotypical Sci-fi races. (Human Marine dudes, The Greys, some angry machines, and a zerg-esque race). Since it was turnbased you could have two people playing on the same computer. Me and my friend had some real fun with that, me swarming his marine gunline with a bunch of drones. Ahhh... good times, gooood times.
Finally one of my most favorite games of all time: Hearts of Iron II. I love that game to death. It's escentially a grand-strategy game set from 1936-1953. You can play as any (and I mean ANY) country that existed at the time. Luxembourg, check. Ethiopia, check. Bhutan, check. And since you could play as any country you could totally screw up the timeline. Case in point: as the Soviet Union when you have the choice to agree with a non-agression pact with Germany, you have a decision to make an UNHOLY ALLIANCE with them. :0 Yes that game is just that awesome.
Worms 2 was also awesome as well. Chucking around the Holy Handgrenade was so much fun.
Laser Squad Nemesis is another game I like and that I doubt is very well known. Its an old TBS game with 4 different sterotypical Sci-fi races. (Human Marine dudes, The Greys, some angry machines, and a zerg-esque race). Since it was turnbased you could have two people playing on the same computer. Me and my friend had some real fun with that, me swarming his marine gunline with a bunch of drones. Ahhh... good times, gooood times.
Finally one of my most favorite games of all time: Hearts of Iron II. I love that game to death. It's escentially a grand-strategy game set from 1936-1953. You can play as any (and I mean ANY) country that existed at the time. Luxembourg, check. Ethiopia, check. Bhutan, check. And since you could play as any country you could totally screw up the timeline. Case in point: as the Soviet Union when you have the choice to agree with a non-agression pact with Germany, you have a decision to make an UNHOLY ALLIANCE with them. :0 Yes that game is just that awesome.
Broken sword 1 & 2, wing commander 3 and 4, privateer 2, machinarium, grim fandango, full throttle, day of the tentacle, the dig, beyond good and evil, psychonaughts, Steven Speilbergs Directors Chair, the black dahlia, sam & max, beneath a steal sky, sonic adventure, jet set radio/future, shenmue 1&2, realms of the haunting, donkey kong on snes, alladin on snes, mario kart on snes, rayman 1, 2 and 3, quake 1 and 2... I've played a lot of games
And I am the one and only person who genuinely liked 'Alone in the Dark', on xbox 360
And I am the one and only person who genuinely liked 'Alone in the Dark', on xbox 360
hahahahaha, awesome, i had totally forgotten ever playing that game. it reminded me of another one too.Daedalus1942 said:
The rugrats, for PS1. it was soooo good. or maybe i was just young and would play anything.
Urrrm, CastleVania for gameboy (not even colour), but i think thats a relatively popular game now. even though its more like a JRPG nowadays... back then you only had a whip.
Skies of Arkadia, for Dreamcast i believe but remade for Gamecube. such an awesome rpg.
Monster Hunter, popular in Japan, but pretty much a secret here in England. or if it isn't, people don't but it because of the Childish name
gah, another frikking game my brother had and sold as soon as he was done with it! i watched him on it once and it looked awesome, never got to play it myself...Riobux said:
Sanity meter has been used in those adventure books... you know the ones, turn to this page if you want to...
yeah, i'll shut up now
EDIT: no i won't
bull crap, i was the only person within my friends who disliked that game, but i played it again recently and love it... its just probably not as well loved on the internet.Morty815 said:
oh, and the same guy reminded me of Sonic Adventure. 1 was alright i guess, but 2 is so immense... the opening level you grind down a busy city hill full of traffic on a helicopter propellor... how many games have the balls to do that!? shame Knuckles levels made the rest of the game a big pile of donkey poo.
The Breath of Fire series, specifically Breath of Fire IV for the PSX. It essentially ruined Final Fantasy for me because I played it BEFORE I played FF7 and BoF4 has a better story, better gameplay, more interesting characters, and just makes FF7 look boring.
If that doesn't sell it to you, it's also currently one of only two games I still play on not-current-generation consoles (Shadow of the Colossus being the other. Perfect Dark WAS on that list, but I don't play the N64 version since the XBLA made one available in current generation graphics).
If that doesn't sell it to you, it's also currently one of only two games I still play on not-current-generation consoles (Shadow of the Colossus being the other. Perfect Dark WAS on that list, but I don't play the N64 version since the XBLA made one available in current generation graphics).