Great but extremely unknown/underrated games.

[Insanum]

Transport Tycoon.

I STILL play to this very day, It makes me VERY happy.

 

[Rofl-Mayo]

Champions of Norrath

 

[Bonkekook]

Quest 64. People say it was the worst RPG ever made, but [opinion]I thought it was a lot of fun. The graphics were terrible, but that doesn't really matter (see: Crysis) as long as it's fun to play. The combat system was interesting how you could move but it was still turn-based.[/opinion] And I don't know anyone personally who's ever heard of it.

I played through it. My friend owns it. During the summers he would visit his dad a couple of states away for the entire summer, so I'd borrow his 64 games. Quest was one of them I played through a bunch of times. I was too young though, I barely remember anything about it, just bits and pieces. TBH, I don't even remember beating it. :/

OT: I really enjoyed Evolution Worlds for the GameCube(I think it was originally on Dreamcast), but that was when I wasn't much into RPGs.

I think Prey and Crackdown from this generation are very underrated.

I really enjoyed the Ace Attorney games for the DS too.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

I've previously stated my love for Republic Commando, and I also love Metal Arms: Glitch in the system. I'm noticing a pattern here: These both REALLY NEED SEQUELS. As in, right now.

Are you listening, LucasArts? I want to know what happened to Sev! That guy was Awesome!

Oh for fucks sakes, I want it to happen so badly! MA GITS was a great little game, and RC needs a sequel!

However, there is the problem that Pandemic is now closed, and Lucasarts is run by morons.

 

[Rofl-Mayo]

The original Pokemon series, almost everybody I knows has never played the first series, which also happened to be the best, considering all the games do is repeat each other now!

 

[blankedboy]

Croc: Legend of the Gobbos. I became addicted to this game....and I still love it..

Instant this. And the old AvP2 game.

 

[nin_ninja]

Vandal Bandits and Shadow Hearts 1-3.

 

[Glover09]

Not sure what applies, so heres a short list;

RC Pro Am (NES)
Metropolis Street Racing (DC)
Monaco Grand Prix (DC)
Sega GT (DC)
NGEN Racing (PS)
Jarrett & Labonte Stock Car Racing (PS)
Areo Elite: Combat Academy (PS2)
Warship Gunner 2 (PS2)
WWE Crush Hour (PS2)

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Armed and Dangerous on the Xbox. A surreal, hard-as-nails shooter with a very British, utterly hilarious sense of humour. Absolutely nobody I know has even heard of this game, which is a shame.

Wasn't that a Lucasarts published title? That game was fucking funny.

The tea drinking robot (forgot his name) shoving his hand up that creature's ass was hilarious.

 

[lacktheknack]

"Yobi's Basic Spelling Tricks" is the BEST EDUTAINMENT GAME. EVER.

And if you claim to have played it, I'll be more than a little skeptical.

 

[kaz610]

abe's odyssey/exodus for ps1

and.

gun for xbox

 

[Howzlife]

unholy wars on the ps1, g8 game

 

[Sev72]

The Settlers series. It is fairly unique and if you haven't tried it before I would give it a whirl. I just noticed on Steam that the seventh one (Paths to a Kingdom) came out recently and since I was a big fan of Heritage of the King's I might give it a try.

On a slightly unrelated note I read the IGN review of it and the main complaint was is was an RTS, had a steep learning curve, and was hard if you hadn't played RTSs before, or weren't willing to be patient enough to learn. Well no shit Sherlock.

 

[Mariakitten]

Ah myst one, good times.

 

[CultistRat]

The two most beautiful games I can think of, Okami and Odin Sphere.

 

[thepopeofatheism]

This really isn't a stand-alone game, but has anybody heard of the Half Life 2 mod "Research and Development"?

Research and development was beyond fun. And surprisingly functional for a mod that changed game mechanics so thoroughly.

How about Rocket Crowbar?

 

[kaziard]

plants vs zombies, it is THE shit.