The most underrated video game ever
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Shadow Hearts 3. I just really expected more people to be asking for damn sequel already. And .hack series. I mean it comes with an anime movie with every copy! How awesome is that!?
Unreal Tournament 1999. It's so awesome and no one is talking about it... well it is 12 years old now, but it's still great
Not that its particularly underrated, but Shenmue received no where near as much praise as it deserved for achieving what it had done so.
A more recent example would be Deadly Premonition - an absolute rough gem but one of the most memorable games for all those who've played it. Doesn't help that review amateurs like IGN have damned it via harsh reviews.
A more recent example would be Deadly Premonition - an absolute rough gem but one of the most memorable games for all those who've played it. Doesn't help that review amateurs like IGN have damned it via harsh reviews.
Damn straight. Such a shame even the makers didn't seem to realise this when they made the sequel, which really WAS only about the explosions. They made up for it with The Saboteur though...ChupathingyX said:
Indeed.TriggerHappyAngel said:
T.W.I.N.E. was OK, but the rest, save maybe for Everything Or Nothing, really were hopeless cash ins. Especially Rogue Agent. Nightfire had great visuals and animation, but the story was abysmal and was like a 6 year old's interpretation of what makes a Bond game. EoN at least tried to do a new spin on things.Bre2nan said:
Hey at least it gets more talk than that bore-fest UT2003.Irriduccibilli said:
There was a little gem for the Dreamcast called Red Dog, i got it on a whim from a bargain bin. I thought it was going to be pretty crappy. The game actually ended up being pretty fun and challenging.
Playstation One - Tobal No. 1 - Ended up spawning one of the finest finest fighting games ever created with Tobal 2
Playstation 2 - Fatal Frame / Project Zero Series - Pure great horror, and really captures a japanese folklore feel
Xbox - Otogi Series - as others have said very atmospheric, and excellent gameplay on both titles, pretty challenging as well.
Playstation One - Tobal No. 1 - Ended up spawning one of the finest finest fighting games ever created with Tobal 2
Playstation 2 - Fatal Frame / Project Zero Series - Pure great horror, and really captures a japanese folklore feel
Xbox - Otogi Series - as others have said very atmospheric, and excellent gameplay on both titles, pretty challenging as well.
PRAISE THE LORD! Someone else on here who's played the series!Mr.K. said:
But I'm gonna have to disagree. I found the art style in the second one to be better, and they really screwed up the Hero leveling system in the third. Not to mention that the 3 new races were pretty average.
I get so much replay value out of the second one. So so much.
However, I still enjoyed the third, just not in the same league as the second one for me.
I remember that game! I'm going to go beat it again. and i might actually do the secret dungeon this time around.
Of course it did, UT2003 where crap. Only good thing was that we got a bit more Assualt maps, but they too got boring pretty fast. Thinking back, they really fucked up that game. Too much focus on making it look pretty instead of having it play well like UT99 didSquilookle said:
Damn ninja'd if only the fourth one was released maybe we'd have a non codcopy fps for onceTriggerHappyAngel said:
For me its Shinobido: Way of the Ninja on PS2. It was so much fun!! Deciding which feudal lord you were going to work for (although it was a lot more fun to work for all of them but go the whole game without any of them ever finding out!). You could be so creative with strategies, the stealth worked exceptionally well (as it should, its all about stealth), the gameplay was good, the story was interesting, it could on ocassion either make you feel, to quote Yahtzee, like "a monster truck that walks like a man", stuff can happen that has you laughing your head off...
And yet Im the only person I know personally who has even heard of it let alone played it 0.0
And yet Im the only person I know personally who has even heard of it let alone played it 0.0
its because the mechanics were waaaaaaaaay too simple :[, turned off a lot of rpg fans, was quite a good story/ good char design though.Bobbity said:
id say the most underrated game ive played was vampire the masquerade: bloodlines, probably the best atmosphere ive ever seen in an rpg, but when it was released, it was probably one of the buggiest things known to man, nobody got around to playing it. Fortunately, an unofficial patch has come through.
Portal, lol. But seriously Dawn of War 2: Retribution, it's such a fantastic game which more people should really play but it's just overshadowed by the behemoth known as Starcraft 2.
Prey. It was unique in almost every conceivable way. Non-white protagonist (for once), mind bending physics play, astral projection as a central fucking game mechanic, the death an re-birth system, entirely organic and unique weapons (and when I say organic, I mean that they are literally animals), and one of the scariest and most compelling opening scenes of any game I've ever played. Pure gold, and most people wrote it off.
Too bad the sequel got handed to different developers.
Too bad the sequel got handed to different developers.
Grim Fandango.... the game is truly awesome, but it is a point and click adventure, and it came out some time in the late '90s... so no one really bought it.
There is still some hope:zombieeater6000 said:
http://crytekuk.info/crytek-uk-to-make-big-announcement-at-e3/
(he talks about a big announcement at, or after the E3)