Most Under-rated Game

[Uber Evil]

Definitely Saint's Row 2. Almost everyone I know only knows of Grand Theft Auto.

I tell them SR2 is better than GTA4 but they never listen.

I couldn't get into SR2. Don't know why. Might have something to do with playing the PC port, which I swear to god was optimized worse than GTA4. I can play GTA4 on all high and get playable frame rates. Can't say the same for SR2. SR3 looks like the game God would make if he existed, though.

 

[velcrokidneyz]

i would hafta say beyond good and evil and psychonauts. so so so fun! why did they not get the attention they deserved?

 

[relevantcore]

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 has received no where near enough attention.

 

[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.

umm, no >.<
Why should I believe you in saying that it is good, rather than yahtzee who thinks it is crap? Does your opinion mean more?

What? Opinions don't have value. They're subjective. But I can disagree with Yahtzee's reasons for not liking the game.

 

[Chibz]

Would you care to explain why he is a tool?

He goes into doing a review without doing the most basic amount of research on what to expect, to the quality of the review's detriment. Often he doesn't put a FRACTION of the time he should've into actually playing the game.

He's like a small child, wearing the guise of a professional. He can only imitate a proper reviewer and somehow gets paid for it.

 

[Chibz]

He critiques games, doesn't review them, and why should someone have to research a game to play it? Besides, he finishes most games and has more to do than just sit around playing with himself.

My, my, my. I was hoping someone would bring up the "Critiques not reviews" idea. It's like dodging the lava flow, by diving into the volcano. From an academic standpoint a critique is held to much higher standards than a review is.

Most people don't need to research a game before they play it, however a reviewer should. And... He doesn't finish most games. I've seen him dump an embaressingly small amount of time into some games while "critiquing" them. Once the video was uploaded and viewed he was (quite rightfully) called out on this. So he responded by stomping his feet like a petulant brat, and resorting to straw-man fallacy and vulgar suggestion.

If you don't have the time to do a proper & systematic analysis perhaps you shouldn't call yourself a critic/reviewer? If he was honest and simply referred to himself as a comedian who does a quick "first impressions" review then I would treat him with a lot more respect.

 

[WorldFree55]

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

damn you beat me to it .

 

[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.

umm, no >.<
Why should I believe you in saying that it is good, rather than yahtzee who thinks it is crap? Does your opinion mean more?

What? Opinions don't have value. They're subjective. But I can disagree with Yahtzee's reasons for not liking the game.

umm,

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.

You act like your opinion means more than his.

OK, clarity time.

I'm saying that I think the game is good, despite Yahtzee going down on it. I gave my reasons WHY I thought it was good. Really, there is a difference between a good game, and a game you enjoy. A good game isn't subjective, but enjoyment of a game is. Extra Credits should do an episode on it.

 

[Chibz]

I'm saying that I think the game is good, despite Yahtzee going down on it. I gave my reasons WHY I thought it was good.

I hope you don't mind me jumping in here, but if you played a game in depth then your opinion is probably "worth more" than his by merit of you actually experiencing the game in (more) proper detail.

 

[Dr Druza]

RED STEEL!
Everyone I know freakin' hates that game. It may not be a "masterpiece", but I liked it. I mean, c'mon, you could shoot people gangsta style! (According to Chrome spell check, "gangsta" is a word. =D)

Also, as someone mentioned above, Mount&Blade. I still boot up the original pretty often. In fact, I just played it two days ago.

Skate 3? Kind of a niche game I guess, but still one of my all time favorites.

 

[Chibz]

Also, as someone mentioned above, Mount&Blade.

I'm just going to leave this here, my shy guy friend with a PHD, that if a staggering number of people in a thread like this list it as a "under rated game" it ceases to be under rated/appreciated and simply become a properly rated/appreciated game.

 

[Anti Nudist Cupcake]

Jaws unleashed.

Bad day LA

 

[floppylobster]

Rush 'n' Crash (Arcade game)

 

[(N3RD) Duck_Hunt]

definitely have to go with Psychonauts. One of the greatest most under-rated, under-played games I have ever had the chance to play. Do yourself a favor and pick up a copy on Steam.

 

[Hot Madness]

Primal for PS2, I loved the story, the concept, even the broken as hell fighting system.

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, One of the most immersive and atmospheric games I have every played that barely anyone knows about.

Warhammer 40K: Fire Warrior, I even know it's a mediocre adaptation of the 40K universe but I still play the crap out of it.

Godzilla: Save the Earth, cause I'm a sucker for kaiju and it was the best of the Godzilla fighting games that Pipeworks and Atari put out

 

[Warlord211]

Metro 2033 definitely. I just love that game so freaking much. I will pre-order Metro Last Light and get it on release date regardless of reviews.

 

[JackWestJr]

Either the first Uncharted (in some sections it looks a lot better then Uncharted 2) and Sonic Heroes!

 

[Fenn]

The entire Mech Warriors franchise.

Those Japanese assholes at Robotech may very well have killed the franchise for the dumbest fucking reason imaginable. They sued the developers all the way back in 2009 because one of the mechs in the Mechwarrior 5 trailer looked vaguely similar to one of their other FICTIONAL mechs. You know, despite the fact that mech model had been in existence since the mid 90's.

Just talking about this makes me livid even two years later, why the fuck couldn't they have just live and let live?! A FICTIONAL MECH BEING USED IN ANOTHER EQUALLY FICTIONAL GAME UNIVERSE WILL NOT DAMAGE YOUR FRANCHISE'S SALES YOU ROBOTECH TWATS!

Also, Sins of a Solar Empires, Red Alert 2, and R.U.S.E. Particularly R.U.S.E. though, because it was met with fairly mediocre reviews, but that game is surprisingly creative and can be incredibly entertaining. Really just poor marketing in my opinion.

 

[gruggins]

yay! obscure game time!
(massive internet high five if you recognise any of these)
Ahem:
-stratosphere: conquest of the skies (flying island combat. woo)
-kings field (think "japanese elder scrolls")
-redline (madmax-ish)
-hyperdimesion neptuna (the console wars depicted as actual wars. what else do you need to know?)
-cryostasis (kinda like bioshock, on a ship, in the actic.)
-blood (you get everything from a pitchfork to a voodo doll as a weapon)
-i have no mouth and i must scream (the title says it all)
-scrapland (an american mcgee game that reminds me of GTA... BUT WITH ROBOTS!)
-mount and blade (the lack of attention this game got is criminal.)
-netstorm: islands at war (this was released around the same time as age of empires so its mainly been fogotten. however i found it immensly enjoyable)

whew.. these are all i can think of right now


captcha: tourre that

 

[Eventidal]

Little King's Story on the Wii.

I'm not kidding: Don't even look at the packaging. Don't let ANY preconceptions about the game alter your ideas of what it might be. It is absolutely a GOD-tier game, and I can't possibly sum up why that is so without a full-on essay. If you can get past the cuteness at all and you own a Wii, BUY IT NOW. It's not only better than most 3rd party Wii games, but better than most FIRST-party games. Dying for some Pikmin 3? Give LKS a try. (that's the closest comparison you can make, really, but it's still quite different) There is nothing else like it out there, and the game got NO attention at all. I'm not joking when I say it should have been GOTY when it came out.

(also, don't judge the game on what you see in the first few hours, either. It builds up slowly but where most games would stop piling on new things, LKS just keeps going deeper and deeper, more and more intriguing and difficult, crazier and more thought-provoking. You have no idea what you're in for with LKS. You cannot say the Wii has no good games if you have not beaten this one.)

Edit: I realized this is a topic more about games people played but said were bad, but I guess with all the bad rep the Wii gets, I could put the whole damn thing on here as my pick for most underrated. Especially 3rd party on the Wii. The adoption rate for the Wii's shining gems of 3rd party is insanely low compared to the worse first-party games. Like Mario Party 8 or Wii Sports Resort. So many Wii owners out there own like 5 games, all first party. They're ignoring not only a nice handful of the first-party stuff but a LOT more. Sure there's a lot of casual crap on the shelves, but the good 3rd party stuff can be really GOOD. Also a good number of truly HARDCORE games, which I don't usually see many of on the HD systems.