Games you like but no one else seems to know about/like/understand

[Pseudopod]

Brutal Legend. When you understand how to play it it's absolutely fantastic and an awesome take on the RTS genre, but with limited explanations and tutorials, a lot of people got into the Starcraft mindset and tried to micromanage their way to victory, completely ignoring the massive fuckoff battleaxe in their hands and the incredibly powerful double team attacks that the whole campaign had spent hammering into them. The fact that EA refused to let Double Fine admit there were RTS elements didn't help either.

If you like games that actually dare to step out from the crowd and do something different, I'd seriously recommend giving Brutal Legend a shot. Run through the campaign, keeping in mind that in the stage battles, you are the most powerful unit, and any time you spend in the air doing nothing, rather than double teaming, playing solos, or killing stuff with your axe and guitar, is wasted. Then if/when the action strategy gameplay clicks with you, try a couple of games on multiplayer. Since I started playing online last summer, it's become my favourite multiplayer game of all time, and has barely left my 360 since then.

Very agreed. The game is a wonderful hybrid of RTS, brawler, and exploration that defies the RTS genre conventions in a great way. Having the player avatar be a functional unit amongst the troops adds a lot of fun and makes it work better on a console than other RTS games.

Another one for me is Gitaroo Man, a PS2 music game that I love and seems to quickly frustrate anyone I know who tries it. The Phoenix Wright games don't click with a lot of people I know either, though those have a pretty devoted fanbase overall.

 

[illas]

If you have a PS2/3 and haven't played Ico, you really should. One of the most beautiful and moving games ever made - it just lacked mainstream appeal.

Cryostasis (technical issues asside) is a very immersive survival horror/psychological thriller/adventure FPS.

Research & Development is a very clever source engine physics puzzle mod (and thus, free), set in the Half-life universe.

Ground Control is, to me, the most interesting RTS on the PC; but for some reason it didn't get the exposure to be as wildly successful as it deserved, IMO.

 

[FolkLikePanda]

Killer 7, friends couldn't get the idea of it.

 

[OliverTwist72]

Call of Duty. Despite being the best selling game it seems nobody actually likes it.

LOL. I like it [small]shh don't tell anyone[/small]

 

[fingerbang143]

Saints row 2 was one of my most favourite games of all time and none of my freinds will try it, gta as a series has been going down hill fast and Saints row is fantastic

 

[FabiotheTurtle]

Well, I grew up with Mishceif Makers, as N64 game. As of about, 5 days ago, it was stunningly more popular than I ever thought, as all of my N64 friends didn't know about it.

Point remains, it's freaking awesome.

 

[Deverfro]

No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise (None of my friends seem to think it looks cool)
Kiler 7
BioShock (They dont get why Im think so deeply about it)
Silent Hill 2 (Don't get it)
Alan Wake (I guess they don't like horror)

Maybe I need horro loving friends or ones who like obscure games...

 

[baddude1337]

Body Harvest for the N64. Being a kid when I first played I loved it, and it can still be some pretty decent fun, but apparently was quite critically panned when it was released.

 

[Ih8pkmn]

Every "gamer" ii my school plays hardcore on consoles so much, they are unaware of the existence of PC gaming. I tried to tell them about TF2, but they just brushed me off when I got to the part about the sword that gives you health every time you decapitate someone.

I won't even bother trying to talk to them about obscure games like Okami and Beyond Good and Evil...

 

[Stip45]

Impossible Creatures; A game by Relic that's hardly known by anyone but, in my opinion, one of the best RTS games.

 

[kakaomasse]

my two favourite games are underrated without mistake....
VtMB (dont give a shit about the bugs) and Clive Barker's Undying (dont give a shit about the graphics...its been 10 years now!). Also it was friggin amazing, and it was my first horror game ever. definitely underrated and poorly sold.

 

[LightOfDarkness]

Minecraft.
Before you go "WTF EVERYTHING I KNOW IS WRONG/IT JUST PASSED 1 MILLION SALES IDIOT" none of my friends have heard of it and when I describe it to them it sounds "like a gay/retarded game/suckier than Black Ops"

 

[Baralak]

Too Human. Me and a friend love it, but for some reason, the press and most people hate it. Can't see why.

 

[crowbarlove]

As of late I have been looking at games that are a little older and/or a little obscure. It may be the "whole stagnation of gaming" thing that everyone keeps talking about but Im actually a man of almost all genres (exceptions being most puzzle games and realistic sports). Little did I expect that when I start decribing or showing some of the games I have been playing recently I get confused looks or my friends shaking their heads and saying the games you play. Me describing Sakura Wars-So Long My Love ended in my friend saying "and you bought this why?", Jet Set Radio Future let to my friends and family being confused by the obscure music and graphics, and I was just bought Clock Tower 3 being a huge Survival Horror fan and really enjoying it...then my roommate comes in and says this game looks really boring then asked me if he could play battlefield bc2 (my game as well). So escapeists do any of you feel like this? Any games you like and get confused looks about even from other gamers?

Christ dude, this thread has been made 50 bloody times this hour, try to be more original.

OT: I guess.....WoW, no one else on the Escapist seems to like it.

Umm...sir I dont like your tone..i have no idea what you are talking about..i made this yesterday and still do not see what you are talking about. This is the first time I have ever bothered to start a thread because I'm not really a big fan of forums. Your rude comment really disapponted me as I really like all the great feed back I have been getting and learning about games I never knew about. I dont want a flame war over this but you should really try to back up your claims

 

[crowbarlove]

Call of Duty. Despite being the best selling game it seems nobody actually likes it.

thats funny...but i cant agree that no one likes it..i know plenty

 

[xqxm]

Silver.

It's a fantasy RPG that came out in 98 or something, and i think it's effin great. It's definately got one of the best soundtracks in a game, ever.

Play it if you can.

Edit: Here's a link to the main theme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GIXs7o7ink

 

[Josh Diaz]

i like splatterhouse (remake) and i love dfo and combat arms. both are mmo's but ones and mmorpg and the other is a mmofp that kiks call of duty's ass 2 times over simply for the weapon selection perk selection and focus on team work rather than a feeling of every man for himself

 

[CheckD3]

Geist, does NO one like to hear about this game, or at least know of it?

Also Bulletstorm. You crazy motherfuckers know about it, but whenever I talk to people at work about it they know almost nothing about it, and I continue to spout the same lines that I consider masturbation to them and so far no one has preordered it. I call my speech masturbation since every time I say it I'm the only left feeling satisfied and I do it mostly for my own enjoyment it seems

Seriously though, Geist is a fucking great game, you play as a ghost, and and haunt things, people, rats, objects, turrets, more rats, and other stuff, it's fucking brilliant!

 

[infohippie]

I-War, also known as Independence War, and I-War 2. Great old space sims that nobody seems to have heard of, let alone actually likes to play.