The most underrated video game ever

[The Geek Lord]

Body Harvest

Fuck, I remember that game. Don't have my copy of it anymore.

Come to think of it, my entire childhood is filled with obscure games--under all the Kirby and Mario 'n shit. The aforementioned Body Harvest, Mischief Makers, Rocket: Robot on Wheels (supposedly the first game to ever use a physics engine, and oh yeah, it's made by the same people who made Infamous or whatever), Tonic Trouble... Stuff like that.

I think, though, that I'm gonna say all of the above AND Zettai Hero Project. Really, even if you just hate anime comedy, you still have to admit that Nippon Ichi Software knows how to take a basic kind of game engine and turn it into something that is, at the absolute minimum, interesting.

 

[blankedboy]

Morrowind I guess. It does take a shitload of patience to get the most out of, but not in a grindy way. Very cool.

 

[Ddgafd]

Cel Damage and Cel Damage: Overdrive. Both are the same game, but for some reason the PS2 version has and extra subtitle. A FANTASTIC multiplayer game. Play it. Now.

 

[Oliman43]

Has to be Scaler for PS2, man that was good. For just $30 new, you honestly had no reason not to have tried it.

 

[Nexus4]

Resonance of Fate, it is what Final Fantasy XIII should have been. Unfortunately due to being released at the same time as FFXIII, no one took any notice to it. And most that did declared it too hard due to the complicated combat system, which is awesome once you learn how to work it but there is indeed a rather steep learning curve to begin with.

 

[LarenzoAOG]

That's a pretty heavy question to ask...

...IMO, Metro 2033. It got good reviews, but many gamers haven't given it one look.

YES!!! I am in total agreeance.

Nier Perhaps the only perfect game ever made. All the lfaws in it were done on purpose! The game is the most brilliant parody/satire of video games ever made. Even though there is boring parts it is obvious satire! I mean throughout the game the characters make fun of things like stupid pointless sidequests, the forced text adventure game, the stupid puzzles in one dungeon, and hte game probably has probably the greatest plot twist in any video game that totally adds a different dimension to the main character and the enemies he has been fighting. The game is the best of all possible parodies.

Also, Alpha Protocol was a sweet fun game but I think other people are going to say that.

I've never played Neir but I was in close proximity to someone who did play it during that text adventure part, and if it was a satire I guess it was pretty good because it was boring as fuck, but a game that creates a incredibly boring text adventure and shitty boring sidequest to make a satirical statements still has shitty boring sidequests and incredibly boring text adventures. Also a purposeful flaw is still a flaw.

Also I agree that Alpha Protocol is a very fun game that is kind of "so bad it's good" dumb enjoyment.

 

[TheLoneBeet]

I really enjoy the original .hack series, but I don't think they're so much underrated as just impossible to get a copy of. Anybody lucky enough to get all four of them when they were still in production should consider themselves lucky. I had to spend upwards of $300 to complete my collection. Gotta love ebay.

 

[Zaydin]

Fatal Frame 2, Gun, Silent Hunter 4 for me.

Fatal Frame 2 is one of the few horror games to actually scare me. Gun had fun gameplay and pretty good voice acting. As for Silent Hunter 4, while bugged to hell and back without a patch, still has a fairly high replay value.

 

[ERROR989]

Majora's Mask or Micheal Jackson's Moonwalker.

 

[thenamelessloser]

That's a pretty heavy question to ask...

...IMO, Metro 2033. It got good reviews, but many gamers haven't given it one look.

YES!!! I am in total agreeance.

Nier Perhaps the only perfect game ever made. All the lfaws in it were done on purpose! The game is the most brilliant parody/satire of video games ever made. Even though there is boring parts it is obvious satire! I mean throughout the game the characters make fun of things like stupid pointless sidequests, the forced text adventure game, the stupid puzzles in one dungeon, and hte game probably has probably the greatest plot twist in any video game that totally adds a different dimension to the main character and the enemies he has been fighting. The game is the best of all possible parodies.

Also, Alpha Protocol was a sweet fun game but I think other people are going to say that.

I've never played Neir but I was in close proximity to someone who did play it during that text adventure part, and if it was a satire I guess it was pretty good because it was boring as fuck, but a game that creates a incredibly boring text adventure and shitty boring sidequest to make a satirical statements still has shitty boring sidequests and incredibly boring text adventures. Also a purposeful flaw is still a flaw.

Also I agree that Alpha Protocol is a very fun game that is kind of "so bad it's good" dumb enjoyment.

http://www.chronoludic.com/2010/09/nier-more-than-a-fishing-game/ about how Nier is a parody. =D Also, seriously Nier has the best plot twist in any video game, maybe any story for that matter.

Anyways. I actually found Alpha Protocol to be good, not in the "so bad it's good" sort of way... I mean, I enjoyed the game honestly more than either Mass Effect game. But I'm not a pure stealth or cover based shooting game fan but a fan of RPGs so I probably looking at different things in games than others.

 

[namewon'tfitin]

Stalker did many things right but it was mostly overlooked due to outdated visuals and dificulty.

 

[Ben Agar]

Mount and Blade and Sonic Colours

 

[joshuaayt]

The Valkyria Chronicles series as a whole (I feel that, pros and cons weighed up, all three are on about equal footing [Well, assuming 3 actually does do story well, I suppose I can't speak for a plot I've never consumed]) receives only part of the adoration I feel it deserves.

 

[Mogget128723]

Advent Rising. An amazing game with an amazing story, but it got flatlined by reviewers, and now, nobody knows what would have happened next. It was planned as a trilogy, after all... written by Orson Scott-Card himself. Man, what happened to that game has always made me sad.

Past that, Metro 2033 was godly, and Sins of a Solar Empire was an epic RTS that nobody played.

Oh, one more thing.

MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINECRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFT

 

[bl4ckh4wk64]

Definitely Men of War and all the sequels. They got such shitty reviews of Metacritic, yet they're one of the best RTS games I've played. Then again, almost all of the user reviews are by people that mass Stuarts in CoH...

Sins of a Solar Empire

I have a couple of friends who play it all the time. Is it hard to get used to? I've been considering buying it for some time.

 

[putowtin]

Mercnaries: Playground of Destruction - It wasn't just all about explosions, it had a really nice storyline (which is basically a more realistic version of Homefront) and I found the political satire to be very well done, it had great voice acting, was well written and had a lot of good content such as weapons and vehicles.

This! It's one of the games I'll go back to when I'm bored

 

[LarenzoAOG]

That's a pretty heavy question to ask...

...IMO, Metro 2033. It got good reviews, but many gamers haven't given it one look.

YES!!! I am in total agreeance.

Nier Perhaps the only perfect game ever made. All the lfaws in it were done on purpose! The game is the most brilliant parody/satire of video games ever made. Even though there is boring parts it is obvious satire! I mean throughout the game the characters make fun of things like stupid pointless sidequests, the forced text adventure game, the stupid puzzles in one dungeon, and hte game probably has probably the greatest plot twist in any video game that totally adds a different dimension to the main character and the enemies he has been fighting. The game is the best of all possible parodies.

Also, Alpha Protocol was a sweet fun game but I think other people are going to say that.

I've never played Neir but I was in close proximity to someone who did play it during that text adventure part, and if it was a satire I guess it was pretty good because it was boring as fuck, but a game that creates a incredibly boring text adventure and shitty boring sidequest to make a satirical statements still has shitty boring sidequests and incredibly boring text adventures. Also a purposeful flaw is still a flaw.

Also I agree that Alpha Protocol is a very fun game that is kind of "so bad it's good" dumb enjoyment.

http://www.chronoludic.com/2010/09/nier-more-than-a-fishing-game/ about how Nier is a parody. =D Also, seriously Nier has the best plot twist in any video game, maybe any story for that matter.

Anyways. I actually found Alpha Protocol to be good, not in the "so bad it's good" sort of way... I mean, I enjoyed the game honestly more than either Mass Effect game. But I'm not a pure stealth or cover based shooting game fan but a fan of RPGs so I probably looking at different things in games than others.

I read the article and I can appreciate what the game was doing, probably more so if I played the game, but when you throw in the shitty parts to make a statment then you still have shitty parts no matter how good the commentary is. Other games have had shitty bits of gameplay or dialogue or whatever for no reason then to be ironic, and IMO if you add shitty bits to make an ironic statements you missed the point of making a good game.

To qoute Zero Punctuation "If you rub shit on your face to make a statement then more power to you, but you still smell like shit," or something of that sort.

 

[Bakuryukun]

You know I've at least HEARD of most of the games on this thread. My choice for most underrated game is Ranger X on the Sega Genesis, most people in my experience so far haven't even heard of the damn thing, but it's such a good game.

 

[Michael Brunson]

Body Harvest

I second that notion Body Harvest was the sandbox before there were sandboxes. Throughout time you could operate any vehicle from a Bi-Plane in 1916 Greece, a tank in 1941 Java, a harrier and a UFO in 1966 America, and lest we forget a SCUD Missile launcher in 1991 Siberia.

Plus it had giant bugs.

Did I mention a SCUD missile launcher!!!! with a frickin tactical nuclear warhead ready to go?

Body Harvest is easily in my top 5 games of all time, and when I try to talk about it with people they have absolutely no clue what I'm talking about.

On a second note...

Also, Alpha Protocol was a sweet fun game but I think other people are going to say that.

I really have to disagree with you there. Alpha Protocol was one of my biggest disappointments in 2010. The first time I heard about that game I was giddy. I love spy fiction and I love action RPGs. Alpha Protocol was hyped up to be the epitome of spy games and after a very long delay announcement days before was originally supposed to come out and an eight month or so wait I finally got it and it was not what I was hoping for. The game play mechanics were very dumbed down and it was not aesthetically pleasing at all. Don't get me wrong I still beat it three times... admittedly the third was simply achievement hunting, but it just didn't live up to what it was hyped up to be.

Phew...

 

[Boombox2003]

Psychonauts all the way its such a fantastic game, its just got that style of humour made famous by the Lucasarts adventure games.