Most Under-rated Game

[Scarim Coral]

Wait Monster Hunter Tri is underrated?

OT-My would be Phantom Crash and Gotcha Force. Both of these games got excellent gameplay despite their flaws (bad engrish for Phantom Crash and the repetitous in Gotcha Force).

 

[KaitlinNoelle]

Ooooooh, definately
1) Haunting Ground... sure it's not really a fighting game and your basically running around solving a few well placed puzzles but if you like a good scare THIS IS A MUST.
2) Clock Tower 3... it's pretty similar to Haunting Ground as in it's a thriller in which you have to run from the bad guys who stalk you but can't really fight back. This game is a little scarier than Haunting Ground because the bad guys COME OUT OF FREAKING NO WHERE.
3) 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors... I'm not sure if this is underrated or not but if it is it shouldn't be! This game was definately one of the best I have played on the DS for a LONG time... if you like reading and a storyline with multiple gorey endings and parts that make our heart break and characters you will relate to THIS IS YOUR GAME.

 

[aakibar]

Judging by the amount of hate it gets on this forum I'm gonna go with...

Fallout: New Vegas.

Ditto for me to, I absolutely loved that game and most of the bugs are fixed though and the dlc is very well done minus dead money

 

[ApertureJanitor]

I liked Splinter Cell: Conviction. And I feel dirty for doing so.

 

[Chibz]

Wait Monster Hunter Tri is underrated?

Very much so. Especially with Yahtzee's Fandumb following his every word as the gospel truth...

Another under-rated game? Almost any shmup.

 

[Laurents van Cauwenberghe]

dragon age 2
i dont care what anyone says

 

[THE_NAMSU]

Digimon World 1 for PS

Still play it to this day thought i was obsessed when i was like 9.

 

[Sanctus Hospes]

Fallout: New Vegas. Admittedly buggy but a great addition to the series I think.

 

[William Fleming]

Final Fantasy IX: It seems to lack the amount of fanboys VII and VIII has

Hyperdimension Neptunia: It has many flaws but I still find really fun

Star Ocean: NOT the 4th one, I'm talking about the first 2

Phantasy Star: The first 4, you know, before anyone even considered what the internet would be like today and before the whole franchise changed to just being MMO-styled games

White Knight Chronicles: The review scores are solely based on single player alone (which I admit is not great) it has the best online and community I've seen on consoles (better than COD anyway)

Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines: This sort doesn't count anymore because the cult following it has built up but if you could completely remake the game and get rid of the glitches it could be a masterpiece.

Rogue Galaxy: Awesome game but it feels like people have forgotten about it and a sequel needs to made!

Yakuza: There's just something special about going around smashing random gangs in the face with bikes or stamping on them until their mother wouldn't recognise them and making the apologise by giving you any random crap they have on them at the time.

Legacy of Kain: It's just Legacy of Kain, fuck Twilight, the LoK franchise is how vampires should be, complete with time travel and paradoxes which provide the greatest plot twists and WTF moments ever in games and also Squid gods voiced by Tony Jay (RIP 1970-2006)

 

[Danny 6Speed]

Judging by the amount of hate it gets on this forum I'm gonna go with...

Fallout: New Vegas.

Explanation as to why New Vegas gets so much hate Lets look at my two most played characters the two Bethesda Fallouts.

Fallout:New Vegas: Dexter LVL 31, Karma Good,Playtime 32:12
Fallout 3: Daniel LVL 30,Karma Very good,Playtime 120+ hours

 

[King Toasty]

War for Cybertron. Got mediocre reviews, but the gameplay was fantastic and cool-looking. I'll be damned if I should stop truck-ramming jets in midair just because Yahtzee said it's borin.

Seriously, get this game. It's awesome.

wait, how is you saying that it is awesome more quantifiable that Yahtzee saying it is terrible?
OT: XIII for Ps2. That game is fucking amazing and I picked it up for three dollars along with zone of the enders.

...What? My head hurt trying to read that.
"How is you saying that it is awesome more quantifiable that Yahtcee saying it is terrible."

...?

Sorry, I'll simplify it.
Why is
YOu saying WfC is great>Yahtzee saying it sucks.

you mean, "Why do you think WfC is good, while Yahtzee hates it?"

The gameplay is amazingly cool-looking and fun, the scenery is gorgeous in most maps, it's fairly balanced and holy crap, the gameplay is good.

 

[SpaceBat]

The ones that come to mind right now are NieR, Alpha Protocol, KOTOR 2 and The Darkness.
The first 3 suffer from broken, boring or buggy gameplay, while the last one is simply a great, but overlooked game.

I pity KOTOR 2 the most, though. Its characters are much better than the mostly bland ones the first game had, it has way more interesting dialogue and a storyline that has a lot of potential. It's a shame so much content was cut from the game. Actually, if KOTOR 2 was actually finished and polished like the first game was, it would be infinitely superior to KOTOR 1 and quite possibly one of the best RPG's of all time.

 

[zhoominator]

Cell Damage! Great party game! Lots of fun to be had with Local multiplayer!

Yay! Me and my friends played this game all the time when we got together for parties and such! I seemed to be the only person I knew who actually owned it though and I only found it second hand. Strange...

My pick: ET for the Atari 2600. Most people have written this off as the worst game ever without (a) playing it or (b) ever reading the instruction manual. In a completable Atari game, reading the manual is a virtual necessity. Sure, this game isn't great, I'm not even sure it's good but as far as Atari games go, I put it about average. There are much better but also much worse games for that very system.

 

[Chibz]

YOu saying WfC is great>Yahtzee saying it sucks.

Personally, my opinion that something is awesome means more than Yahtzee saying it sucks because...

Spoiler: Yahtzee is a complete and utter tool

 

[Wayneguard]

Mirrors Edge was fantastic. Those who dropped the "first person platforming can't work EVER" line just suck at the game >_>

Also, Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood is great and got virtually no recognition.

 

[Baralak]

Enter the Matrix. Yeah there's camera issues and a few AI issues but beyond that it's great.

Really? Aside from the camera, I thought the combat was awful.

Path of Neo, THAT was a fun game.

 

[mrhateful]

*pulls out list of all times favourites*
NWN2
Alpha protocol
Dark Messiah Might and Magic Single player
Jade Empire(have heard some hate on the game, but don't really know the story of this)

Planescape: Torment is ofcause also underrated but only by the mainstream which doesn't know good games anyway.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

Prince of Persia.
Though frankly, I could only stomach one play-through, because I was ignoring the princess on my first run, and I actually liked it.

 

[AnAngryMoose]

Nier. No question.

Got decent to poor reviews by most critics yet it was my favourite game of last year and the best game I had played in a while. Amazing game which proves most critics are superficial assholes who can't appreciate a good game despite minor flaws.
Fuck you, Gamespot and IGN.
Fuck you hard.

Ninja'd! I have to agree with Nier. Seriously, it's the best damn JRPG I have ever played. The main protagonist isn't an angsty teenager and saving the world is just a bi-product of the protagonist's main goal. Great story, nice twist. I loved it.

 

[CheesyPoof]

Impossible Creatures.