I would say Spec Ops The Line. Now i know a lot of people have played it and its not an obscure title. But it was one that i rented to kill a weekend but it surprised me with its story telling and was better than i thought.
I played the game, and rest assured it's very much fun. I used to think I was alone on this opinion but lately it seems it's become popular to lobby for the game's fond memories, regardless of whether you've played it or not. Just one of those things everybody seems to agree with. Like jocks playing CoD and ME3 having a crap ending. So I was hesitant to bring it up, lest I be assumed to be forwarding an opinion that wasn't as personal as I like them to be.scorptatious said:I've actually watched an LP of the game. Looks fun.Johnny Novgorod said:I'm gonna go ahead and say God Hand, even though as of late I've seen a few Escapists highly commending the game. Just one of those games that's popular to mourn for, I guess.
Plus anything with a poisonous chihuahua in it has to be good right?
Someone mentioned crap controls in another thread. I don't know. I don't remember them feeling crappy at all. I was actually very impressed with how real it felt controlling Ico and how real it felt leading Yorda around - the little tug, followed by a sprint, then the sudden halt and how momentum would carry her on for about a sec. I thought it was of some beauty you play as a weakling escorting a weaker weakling. It all felt very vulnerable. One poster dismissed it as crap controls but I'm not sure.someonehairy-ish said:Gonna say Ico. A lot of people have at least heard of Shadow of the Colossus but hardly anyone seems to have played or knows about Ico.
Yeah I think it's also cos they traded the humour for a more personal story. I wish the Sly series was playable on PCSX2 but alas.UncleUlty said:Oddly enough I always preferred Sly 3 to 2 when I was kid and now that I've replayed them I dig 2 more.Sly 3 is still great but there is just something about 2 I like more.
I'm not sure underrated is the right word. So far as gameplay and graphics are concerned Postal 2 is decidedly unpolished, but the free roaming level design has some great ideas behind it that sadly the tech just can't live up to, and of course it's relentlessly, unashamedly outrageous and offensive (and hilarious) to a degree that makes other 'controversial' games just pale into insignificance by comparison.Strazdas said:Postal 2. dont get me started.
I admit that neither graphics(altrough ok for its time) nor game engine is shining there. The free roaming and ideas it had for dark humour, like the whole petition thing were great fun. IT dared to be brave, but not brave enough. This could be technical limitation of course, but dismembering a vomiting head goes old quite fast actually. its no masterpiece by any reason, but when people talk about it as it was the worst game ever made all the time it really is underrated.Sixcess said:I'm not sure underrated is the right word. So far as gameplay and graphics are concerned Postal 2 is decidedly unpolished, but the free roaming level design has some great ideas behind it that sadly the tech just can't live up to, and of course it's relentlessly, unashamedly outrageous and offensive (and hilarious) to a degree that makes other 'controversial' games just pale into insignificance by comparison.Strazdas said:Postal 2. dont get me started.
They're not crappy at all, in fact the controls work pretty flawlessly. They're responsive, the tug does stand out very well and what you said rings entirely true. And yes, Ico is severely underrated.Johnny Novgorod said:Someone mentioned crap controls in another thread. I don't know. I don't remember them feeling crappy at all. I was actually very impressed with how real it felt controlling Ico and how real it felt leading Yorda around - the little tug, followed by a sprint, then the sudden halt and how momentum would carry her on for about a sec. I thought it was of some beauty you play as a weakling escorting a weaker weakling. It all felt very vulnerable. One poster dismissed it as crap controls but I'm not sure.
Also, the kicker, it's only as violent as you want it to be, loved that about it. The hilarious voting thing, buying the milk, cashing your check- you don't HAVE to get violent in any of those. The graphics and engine were extremely weak, but, I mean, we're talking about a game where you can use a cat as a shotgun suppressor...Strazdas said:I admit that neither graphics(altrough ok for its time) nor game engine is shining there. The free roaming and ideas it had for dark humour, like the whole petition thing were great fun. IT dared to be brave, but not brave enough. This could be technical limitation of course, but dismembering a vomiting head goes old quite fast actually. its no masterpiece by any reason, but when people talk about it as it was the worst game ever made all the time it really is underrated.Sixcess said:I'm not sure underrated is the right word. So far as gameplay and graphics are concerned Postal 2 is decidedly unpolished, but the free roaming level design has some great ideas behind it that sadly the tech just can't live up to, and of course it's relentlessly, unashamedly outrageous and offensive (and hilarious) to a degree that makes other 'controversial' games just pale into insignificance by comparison.Strazdas said:Postal 2. dont get me started.
when people say violent games like psotal make you violent... what if the first gameplay i laughed all the way though, does that make me a comic now?