Games That Were Wrongly Ignored.

[DeadlyFred]

Shadowrun. That game deserves better treatment. Many of the problems with it would have been fixed in a patch, but Microsoft shut them down.

And as stated about, Symphonia was very underlooked, in the same why that noone is talking about Vesperia. I am hammered on it right now. Have not even touched any other game in the last 4 days.

Shadowrun should never have even been released. That game is a ripe example of how to thoroughly fark up an otherwise great license in some lame attempt to make a quick buck off name recognition attached to patently derivative, uninspired gameplay. *spits*

Just Cause isn't bad, but its not horribly engaging, either. The surroundings begin to get incredibly repetitive and dull after about 15 minutes and the size of the map definitely works against it because 90% of the area is full of nothing but bloody trees. There's a handful of unique ideas here and there but overall the sheer blandness which begins to set in after a relatively short period of playing is stifling. It was pretty much rightfully ignored because there's really not alot about it which makes it singularly worthwhile; its just another open-world sandbox shooter.

 

[Typecast]

Sacrifice, damn you Shiny and Interplay! We come on our knees, begging for more, and we'll do ANYTHING!!!!!!! :'(

 

[rougeknife]

Is anyone familiar with the concept of 'A pile of Shame'

The pile of shame is a little list of all those wrongfully ignored games. Critical successes, but commercial flops, or forgotten by the masses yet remembered fondly by all those who played them. Or games that are just so revolutionary, ground breaking and great that they need to be played. These games are usually absolute gems with the highest critical acclaim, or games that, when mentioned to fans of the genre, cause them to sputter things like "You absolutely must play this!". Ignored by the Call of Duty, Halo and WoW-going general public; these games are quite often featured prominently on people's top ten lists, and can be any number of years old.

Sometimes, its a combination of all three. So why are they shameful? Because you most likely haven't played them

Your pile of shame is these games which you have not played. For example, I?m going to give a little (very short) list of such games. And if you haven?t played at least a third of them; Please, hurt yourself.

Just a few:

• Beyond Good & Evil
  Arcanum
  Psychonauts
  Deus Ex
  The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
  Planescape Torment
  The Longest Journey
  Dreamfall
  Any Thief game
  Freespace 2
  System Shock 2
  Grim Fandango
  Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines
  Okami
  Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
  Tribes: Vengeance (singleplayer)
  Abe's Oddysee
  Abe's Exoddus

 

[Typecast]

Yay I've played a third of them! Although, I must shamefacedly admit, that I have not, despite being a huge space-com-sim whore have never played Freespace 2(but I have played 1).

 

[rougeknife]

Made its own topic.

 

[RedElectric]

For both Tombi and Brave Fencer Mushashi, I thank you.

Hmm...I think I'd have to say the First Galerians game.... And in my totally inappropriate category, I'll nominate Parasite Eve.

 

[NiceGurl_14]

The Shadow Heats series, They were constantly overlooked because of the release dates (shortly after FFX) but by far some of the best games that I've ever played. Honestly, I'm willing to say that it could rival Final Fantasy. It was that good.

 

[DeadlyFred]

Battlefield 2142 : doesn't seem to have nearly as much of a user base as BF2 does. I like it much better, personally.

 

[Grim Phoenix]

Eternal Darkness by far. D:

 

[A_Red_Sky_Morning]

Your pile of shame is these games which you have not played. For example, I?m going to give a little (very short) list of such games. And if you haven?t played at least a third of them; Please, hurt yourself.

Just a few:

• Beyond Good & Evil
  Arcanum
  Psychonauts
  Deus Ex
  The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
  Planescape Torment
  The Longest Journey
  Dreamfall
  Any Thief game
  Freespace 2
  System Shock 2
  Grim Fandango
  Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines
  Okami
  Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
  Tribes: Vengeance (singleplayer)
  Abe's Oddysee
  Abe's Exoddus

Well, shit, I have to kill myself, then.

 

[klarax]

XII
Skies of Arcadia
Kula Ball
Zak and Wiki
Okami
Stuntman 2:ignition

[Edit:]
adding:
Psychonaughts
Grim fandango

 

[The_Deleted]

XIII was frickin' superb. You can get it for pennies in the UK so no excuses, people.

 

[The Wooster]

The search button.

It came out on PC's a while ago. Wasn't very popular. Shame really. Everyone should have played it.

 

[Platos]

Why hasn't 'ICO' been mentioned yet?!

 

[karn3]

Sacrifice for the PC. It contained many innovative concepts and technologies that Black and White got the credit for even though sacrifice came out nearly five years before it. Also the writing and story was a work of genious. There just isnt clever writing like this anymore.

 

[karn3]

Sacrifice, damn you Shiny and Interplay! We come on our knees, begging for more, and we'll do ANYTHING!!!!!!! :'(

Oops, sorry I didn't notice you wrote that. I have to say you are a man or woman of impecable taste.

 

[khululy]

Goemon Legend of The mystical Ninja and Goemon's Great adventure for the n64. Thank to you guys, Konami only releases titles in Japan.

I remember playing goemon on the N64 so maybe they did in europe as well (still looking for the snes version)

but this topic can be long one. there are so many games that are lost in the hypes of games like halo. They come flooding the market like a tidal wave leaving multitude of the games for death on the shore.

but here I go.

Severance Blade of darkness
Urban Chaos
Donald duck in cold shadow
Little big adventure 1 and 2
Kill.Switch
Duke Nukem manhattan Project
Shadow run (snes)
Beneath A steel Sky
Balls of steel(pinball game with awesome tables)
Lunar knights
Otogi
the witcher
ofcource previous posted games in this topic and many more.
my rule of tum in gaming is never to fall for a hype. just trust your own gaming senses

 

[Noznin]

I second the jade cocoon nod and would like to add a guitaroo man nod

 

[GuerrillaClock]

Metal Arms:Glitch in the System.

I agree with that. Another good game would be FlatOut, which is a surprisingly solid racer. Better than Need for Speed anyway. Nothing I can really add that hasn't been said before, but the DS has a lot of great niche games that get overlooked like Ouendan.

And finally, Global Defence Force on the PS2.

 

[TommyGun465]

as i said in a "similar" thread i posted, killer7. its easily one of the most addicting games ever, for me.