Your favourite lesser-known games

[Time Travelling Toaster]

Know what game this dude is from?

You should, It's a classic. Too bad it wasn't more Well Recieved.

I though Bad Fur Day was quite well recieved, ack well, I'm with this one then, that game was great so was Conker Live and Reloaded.

 

[JediMooCow]

Warlords Battlecry II. Never got 'mainstream' popular, despite being so much better than Warcraft II and III, around the same time.

 

[IntoxicatedKnight]

I really like Freedom Fighters; the progression style, the squad combat and the story itself all were top notch. I hardly find someone that knows about it though and that makes me a little sad.

This.

Also XIII...

 

[Topher_1]

Outcast!!!

An absolutely superb game that receieved little notoriety despite fantastic praise from reviewers. Way ahead of its time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcast_(game)

 

[Mekado]

Evil Genius

Plays like dungeon keeper, with an evil mastermind and a plot to take over the world. Zap government agents, while your minions die left and right, trying to keep your hidden volcano base running.

While the gameplay mechanics are buggy, the humor is so awesome.

Oh yeah i forgot about evil genius, that game was pretty awesome, especially setting a system of traps and seeing agents getting kicked, gassed and burned hehehe

 

[Seventeen]

Metal arms: Glitch in the system
Yager
Battle Engine Aquilla
Jet set radio future
turok 3
Okami
Shadow of the colossus
Deus ex: Invisible war
Crime Cities
Freedom Fighters
In Cold Blood
Stronghold
Perfect Dark Zero
Quantum Redshift
Every Extreme G bike game ever made
Star wars Episode 1
James Bond: everything or nothing (one of the funnest co-op games in my mind)
G-police

This one gets its own god damn space

****Future cop: LAPD****

list continues lol

Total annihilation
Jedi Power Battles
Jade Empire (not to sure how popular this one is)
Urban Chaos

erm and some more I cant remember....

 

[LordSphinx]

Legend of Mana
On the surface, this game is just a huge clusterfuck. But once you "get" the meaning of the game, it just makes so much sense. Overall, it is a game which revolves around the concept of "If you want, you can" / The world is what you wish it to be / Mind over Matter. You even kick god's ass at the end! There so much to do, and each of the player's actions have so much influence.

Earth Defense Force 2017
If fun could be compressed to a solid state, it would result in a copy of this game. Which I am glad to own Simple, fun and yet offers a good challenge.

 

[BolognaBaloney]

Fallout 1 & 2 People are forgeting about the orginals since that peice of shit 3 came out

Nobody's forgotten them, most people playing three weren't old enough to play 1 & 2.

 

[BolognaBaloney]

Braid....brilliant.

Braid was the top-selling arcade game last year, hardly a lesser-known game.

 

[Simalacrum]

Know what game this dude is from?

You should, It's a classic. Too bad it wasn't more Well Recieved.

honestly knowing the content it includes I'm not suprised it wasn't received very well... especially by mothers and other paranoid entities

oh, on topic my favourite unknown game would have to be Dark Cloud, my first PS2 game... absolutely loved it.

 

[BolognaBaloney]

KOTOR and KOTOR II

and Star Wars Republic Commando

These are all very well known, and very well received games, try harder.

 

[electric_warrior]

Primal, a great big gothy masterpiece that was cruelly overlooked upon release

 

[yeah_so_no]

Nanashi no Geemu (The Game with No Name) for the DS. It was Square Enix's foray into the horror genre, and not really known because it hasn't been translated. But it is AWESOME, in a "The Ring meets DS" kind of way. They got creepy atmosphere down pat, and the cursed game-within-the-game freaked me out way more than the actual ghosts coming after you. I loved the little touches, like the way the ghost of your dead friend would actually say your name (it's first-person, and you got to input your character's name and gender) before trying to kill you, and how you couldn't fight the ghosts; all you could do was run away or freeze and hope they didn't see you.

 

[Deathsong17]

I searched and found a similar thread posted months ago, but thought I'd start another to get different responses.

Anyway...
I was looking through my old PS1/2 game collections and realised that a lot of my favourite games are actually games which are not so well known, perhaps underrated or just games which intrigued me but I never saw any reviews of and just bought out of curiosity.
On PS2 one of my favourite games was the fairly dark RPG 'Shadow Hearts'.
The Legacy of Kain series springs to my mind as well. Although it's fairly well known, it's never gained massive popularity, but I thoroughly enjoyed every game of the series.

Does anyone else have favourites which never really reached a well-known status?

I loved Shadow Hearts! It's a shame the difficulty curve was so unforgiving.

Fluffy Mcfluffenstien and Tactical Assasin.

I don't think Flash games count.

 

[The Infinite]

Freedom Fighters, seems a lot of other people actually have played it which is good to hear.
Oh and for another one that i liked a lot Alundra 2, that game made me freaked out by keys.
XIII for awesome celshaded sneaky awesomeness.

 

[ae86gamer]

Legend of the Dragoon. It was a very fun game.

 

[Xorghul]

Overlord.

I seriously think this game is probably the best most original idea of 2007

Yes^^ And the sequel is coming!*mentally hyperventilating*

 

[S-Unleashed]

Another chance to say how much I love Jet Set Radio future.
No More Heroes also surprised me by being somewhat fun, none of my friends though were brave enough to play, mostly because of Destroy Man.

 

[Meado]

Overlord
Star Wars: Republic Commando
Jedi Power Battles

And if I haven't hammered home my fanboism of Kingdom Under Fire yet, I need to start posting more.

 

[Croaker42]

For me had to be Vegrant Story (Im the only one I know that ever played it)I loved the weapon abilitys, crafting system and the story was really good.