Most Under-rated Game

[Chibz]

-mount and blade (the lack of attention this game got is criminal.)

I'm honestly still hoping someone can explain to me how this game is under rated. People I know never stop talking about it.

If you can get past the cuteness at all and you own a Wii, BUY IT NOW.

Does it taste like diabetes? That's how cute I like my cute games.

Also, anyone who claims that the wii "has no good games" has made an active choice to hate the wii well before looking at the game library (if they even did THAT).

I'm serious here, though. Of my original list of games, Phantom Brave: We Meet Again (I see what you did there, NIS) is criminally under rated. PLAY IT NOW, FOOS.

 

[nekroskoma]

psychonauts
beyond good and evil
lost kingdoms

does anyone remember that last one

 

[MrLee1990]

For me it had to be Seek and Destroy for the PS2 sure it wasn't great graphicly or super long but I had so much fun with it.

 

[Fenix7]

I really think Unreal II: The Awakening was an amazing FPS. A lot of people seem to think it was mediocre/don't care about it though.

I really enjoyed the King's Bounty remakes too.

-cryostasis (kinda like bioshock, on a ship, in the actic.)
-blood (you get everything from a pitchfork to a voodo doll as a weapon)

Cryostasis is a very important game for me. It kind of triggered something that changed my life. But overall it is a very convoluted game with nice ideas but poor implemetation. Definitely underrated and much better than many of the current FPS' though.

I remember plating Blood when I was 12. I had to play it secretely because my parents didn't let me play FPS games, let alone one as brutal as Blood. I remember how you could kick the skulls of dead enemies around and how I thought that was so badass. I also remember the Voodoo doll.

 

[WayOutThere]

King Kong The Game

It's less that "no one likes it" and more that "no one payed attention to it" (despite positive reviews). Can you blame them? It's a frikin' movie game. However, having played what must be most of the game I can tell you my experience with the game has been AMAZING. It's incredibly immersive and cinimatic. Even the section where you play as Kong are good, if not as good. The main reason I like it is because I actually feel like I'm on this island fighting for my life. Perhaps most impressive is that the game doesn't kill me so often I loose immersion but does so often enough that I feel in real peril. That's a hard line to walk that few game developers get right.

 

[veloper]

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.

You think a proper reviewer would sound like Yahtzee then? Haha.
Not that there are any good professional game reviewers.

 

[Alex Stevens]

Crash Time 3
its a $10 game on Xbox 360 and steam and in it has some of the funnest driving you can have in a racing game with this nice little feature that replays your awesome crashes a few seconds after you did it, traffic AI is fun and unpredictable (like it would be in real life)and the modding community is growing strong. another awesome thing is i have a fairly low end systm (a boot camped macbook to be exact)and i can run with most5 settings on high without lag or frame rate drop veen when i'm playing split screen with 3 of my friends (yes, split screen on a PC). one downside, it has won the award in my books for worst voice acting EVER, its just awful

 

[Kavachi]

Psychonauts.
Brutal Legend.

I thought most people like Psychonauts, but yeah, it's one hell of a game, same for Brütal Legend. I really like most Tim Schafer games tbh.

 

[Vrach]

Alpha Protocol. The dialogue system still blows my mind and is the best thing we've ever seen in gaming imo, the story's pretty good, the game has humour, combat's good enough (beats Splinter Cell: Conviction any day, even find it more than fun Chaos Theory which I considered the pinnacle of the franchise).

Also Prototype. The amount of freedom in that game just surpasses all it's other failings (*cough* story *cough*). The system for getting around is fantastic, combat is a bundle of fun and it's just something I can play for hours on end, just messing with it's sandboxy aspects. It's been too long since a decent sandbox game was made tbh.

 

[kobrian]

The Getaway Monday - Great game. Real shame the third installment was shelved...

 

[Xerosch]

Sly Cooper is HORRIBLY underrated.

Yes, it is! While I get overly excited when a new 'Ratchet & Clank' comes out, I'd pick Sly Cooper over the Lombax every day.

Both 'Saint's Row' games can easily join, I think they are a lot more fun than 'GTA' is. There's a little known game called 'Rule of Rose'. That one is pretty freaky, yet almost noone has ever heared the title. Same goes for 'Echo Night Beyond'. Seriously, play it for the ending alone.

Same goes for 'Lost Odyssey'. Guys, this game is more of a Final Fantasy title than any official game after Final Fantasy IX.

But all of them compare to the awesomeness that is 'Deadly Premonition'. Yes, it's got horrible graphics for a current gen title, but it's no excuse for dismissing it as terrible game. If you like the surreal Twin Peaks style of 'Alan Wake' then you must check out 'Deadly Premonition'.

 

[Nomanslander]

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

Fallout: New Vegas.

Hate? True! But the funny part is in two years people on these forums and every other will still be talking about the game forgetting whatever game out just a month ago.

Want proof? Notice how FO3 is still getting threads, and so is Oblivion, and MW.

the most recent i can think of is Vanquish

I think the 5 hour SP, and no MP was the raw deal that turned a lot people off. I mean a lot of shooters today get flank for being 8 hours but having a better MP. What's Vanquish's excuse? But the game wins on this list, I also had a lot of fun.

 

[Lazy Kitty]

I really enjoyed Oni on the PS2

But overall mine is Hunted: The Demon's Forge, that game was soo fun

I saw gameplay of oni today, looking over Bungies past work. I hope they rmake that game, looked great.

Overlord, it had a great artstyle, its story was quite good, funny,fun gameplay and good atmosphere. Just avoid overlord 2.

PLAY THE DEMO!

I agree, except for the avoid Overlord 2 part.
I do believe I exterminated the elves in the first game though...

 

[Goldeneye103X2]

No More Heroes, Heroes Paradise. Its only on the PS3 so thats why its underated. Bad first impressions, but at the end it was alot of fun. Highly recommend it.

I love you. I'm playing that game right now actually. I've clocked approximately 20 hours, and still not bored.

OT:The Trace Memory/Another code series. Beautiful story and decent characters. Outright wonderful.

 

[bulldogftw]

Sly Cooper is HORRIBLY underrated.

This man speaks the truth.

 

[Lancallot]

I'm gonna go with Baldurs gateark alliance, one of my favourate ps2 titles and I think it deserves more fame

 

[Winterfel]

I don't know if it's been posted yet but Baten Kaitos: Eternal wings and the lost Ocean(the longest damn title I've seen in quite awhile aswell) for the GC wins this category every single time.
It's easliy one of the best JRPG's of the past decade and yet it's rarely mentioned.

 

[TheAmokz]

Saints row 2 and Death to rights: Retribution.

 

[DiabloBub666]

Vice: Project D.O.O.M. Okay, okay, it was the bastard child of Castlevania and Ninja Gaiden, but it had its own charm and was really varied and fun.

 

[mcattack92]

I don't see why people are saying Saint's Row 2 was underated? It recieved mostly good reviews and sold over 3.5 million units. It was not under rated or anything like that.