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

[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

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/global/search/?q=underrated+games&cx=005672590579257297818:mkmrjhvsnwa&cof=FORID:9&ie=UTF-8&sa.x=0&sa.y=0&sa=Search

There, backed up, enough Underrated game threads for ya?

ok sure I guess i should have looked up underrated games forums..but there aren't like fifty in the hour like you claimed. The closest was 6 days ago. And if read what I said I didn't mean underrated or I wasn't thinking it. I was going for more personal tastes not a game you think is underrated. Its a different thing to me at least. I made it to express an emotion I have been feeling lately not for super originality. If making this thread has a offended you..grow up

 

[darkaardvark]

Blood and Blood 2: The Chosen.
old school FPS games that play like Duke Nukem for misanthropic cult 80's horror fans. In fact i'd say it was miles better than duke nukem. for one there was a better narrative, the weapons were a bit more imaginative than pistol, shotgun, machine gun, and 6 varieties of massive laser death cannon. Best of all the player character of Caleb was a lot less of a macho dick than the Duke and more like a cross between Clint Eastwood and Freddy Krueger, all badass cowboy attitude and cheesy serial killer one liners.

They were developed by Monolith studios, who went on to make the popular F.E.A.R. series which retains a lot of the atmospheric horror style and gameplay that Blood had but it just isn't the same without Caleb and his twisted running commentary (he would have loved the H.V. Penetrator).

Bring back Blood!!! You never got to play soccer with zombie heads and pitchfork street mimes to death with the Duke

 

[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

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/global/search/?q=underrated+games&cx=005672590579257297818:mkmrjhvsnwa&cof=FORID:9&ie=UTF-8&sa.x=0&sa.y=0&sa=Search

There, backed up, enough Underrated game threads for ya?

ok sure I guess i should have looked up underrated games forums..but there aren't like fifty in the hour like you claimed. The closest was 6 days ago. And if read what I said I didn't mean underrated or I wasn't thinking it. I was going for more personal tastes not a game you think is underrated. Its a different thing to me at least. I made it to express an emotion I have been feeling lately not for super originality. If making this thread has a offended you..grow up

1. I was not offended, I was mildly annoyed.

2. "there aren't like fifty in the hour like you claimed" They just invented this new form of speech, it's so un-heard of, it's called "Sarcasm"

3. Why the hell are you making such a big deal over this, I was tired of obscure game threads, saw that you made one, asked you to grow some originality, and got on with my life, why can't you do the same?

1. I am not offended, I am mildly annoyed 2. Normally when 1 makes a claim of 50+ posts it isn't sarcasm its exaggeration 3. I have moved on, but I am still stumped on how you have moved on if you are still responding to my posts?

 

[yamitami]

While they are popular I get eyerolls and sexist comments for playing Okami, Pikmin, and Sims3, since apparently only girls and 12-and-under boys play those games.

I have plenty of guy friends who really love those games..have yet get to okami and pikmin, though I know a lot about them. The Sims is just fun and hilarious no matter who you are

I heartily recommend both. While the story on Okami is kind of linear it's interesting and different enough that you barely notice, and there's lots of optional opportunities for you to keep going for after beating the game.

Pikmin is adorable but also VERY challenging. While I like the tandem system of Pikmin2 better the first game is still a lot of fun. There's a good assortment of challenges in both games.

As for Sims3, I write and it is an excellent plotbunny machine. I have about five short stories I still need to write and one that's trying to turn into a novel against my will, and all from letting the sims do what they do.

 

[crowbarlove]

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!

haha that paragraph about bulletstorm was freaking hilarious, I remember reading a review for geist and it being interesting concept but lacking in gameplay but ill give it a look

 

[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!

haha that paragraph about bulletstorm was freaking hilarious, I remember reading a review for geist and it being interesting concept but lacking in gameplay but ill give it a look

The worst part is that it's true, in gaming circles I'm sure it's the talk of the town, but the average man looking for a good game it's like the fucking Holy Grail, no one knows what the fuck it is or where it's from, and where it's from is what gives me hope. Painkiller meets a Gears game that wants to be Halo and they fly away to the land of kill them all in over extravagant deaths. I have to explain not only Bulletstorm, but fucking PAINKILLER to people, there's another game few have heard of it. It has a gun that fires stakes, and you can watch your foes lifeless corpse dangle in the wind like a mute wind, bell thingy. Plus, and this is what always seems to peak people's interest, a gun that fires, and (as I tell EVERY ************ when they don't know about the game) I kid you not, shurikens and lightning. I'm sure it could be more awesome, if say, it had tits and was on fire (to quote Yahtzee), plus the Painkiller is nice and creative, a way to give us a small weapon and cause such mayhem that you wonder why you didn't just put a stick on it and poke your enemies with it

The problem with gaming outside of these communities is that the cult classics, and the real gems, especially from generations past or systems you don't have or the computer, are left unknown, and people also won't look at what's coming out, but what's already out. I'm all for living in the now, and playing what we have, but you have to at LEAST look a bit into the future of the games out there, and Bulletstorm should hopefully, since this entire reply was because of the game, kick the ass of Call of Duty and all that other shit out there that calls itself hardcore, because it's that amazingly awesome

 

[Legion IV]

Final Fantasy 13.

Am gonna say it, i don't know why am gonna say it cause am gonna get flamed but its the truth. A game i originally wanted to HATE (which in turn made me miss the limited editon case and all the merchandise before release and that makes me so sad) It turned out to the greatest Final fantasy game i'll ever play. This is coming from a guy who had a japenses console and had my best friend translate the games when i was younger.

The characters are amazing. The gameplay is perfection. What really makes this game a masterpeice is attention to detail!.As an example theres a point where the party all calls out to lightning as she does smthing awsome. Now for 1 second and i counted it 1 second it cuts to everyone else they all do somthing diffrent all diffrent expressions just everything. You'd never even notice any of it but one of the characters since its only there for one second.

It really feels like a living breathing world. In every cutscene theres dozens of things you would never look at but its all there. Its amazing. I'll watch the cutscenes over and over and watch diffrent things instead of focusing on what everyone else would normally. Like theres another part like this. For a like 2 seconds it cuts to lightning running through a mob firing her gun and bringing hope with her by the hand. Now this is taking up like 85% of the screen but if you ignore the epic scene and look to the background you notice the psicom troops are all doing these crazy things. One signals to move one as one fires behind him as two troops advance forward because of the command. YOU"D never notice this crap but its there because thats what would really happen. The partys arnt the only one in this game.

Truley a masterpeice and my favorite game with starcraft BW in a close second.

I cannot for the life of me understand the hate it gets. played through it like 7 times and still playing it and enjoying it like the first playthrough.

 

[Aerialfrogg]

I have to say I quite liked Alpha Protocol. Also, the Yakuza series is very close to my heart, but it's appearantly not very popular in the west. The stripped down european Yakuza 3 was also really good despite the lack of several minigames deemed unfit for western audiences. If only we'd finally see "Kenzan!".

I also greatly enjoyed The Force Unleashed. Haven't played the sequel yet, but I'll grab it once the price drops. Other games I enjoyed are Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, Army of Two, Darksiders and that funky cel-shaded Prince of Persia game. I liked the colors and the world as a whole. It was very fun to explore. K&L and Ao2 were simply good, simple and enjoyable shooters. And don't even get me started on Darksiders. The only flaw I see in the game is that Simon Templeman totally should've voiced War.

I raved about Yakuza, but most people I showed it to thought it looked like a Japanese version of GTA and were fairly unimpressed. I let my brother borrow it and one of his friends stole it before I was very far in the game. Maybe someone was listening when I was hyping it to them. The sales must not have been very good, because I've had a hard time finding it used and cheap (haven't checked in some time, though).

 

[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

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/global/search/?q=underrated+games&cx=005672590579257297818:mkmrjhvsnwa&cof=FORID:9&ie=UTF-8&sa.x=0&sa.y=0&sa=Search

There, backed up, enough Underrated game threads for ya?

ok sure I guess i should have looked up underrated games forums..but there aren't like fifty in the hour like you claimed. The closest was 6 days ago. And if read what I said I didn't mean underrated or I wasn't thinking it. I was going for more personal tastes not a game you think is underrated. Its a different thing to me at least. I made it to express an emotion I have been feeling lately not for super originality. If making this thread has a offended you..grow up

1. I was not offended, I was mildly annoyed.

2. "there aren't like fifty in the hour like you claimed" They just invented this new form of speech, it's so un-heard of, it's called "Sarcasm"

3. Why the hell are you making such a big deal over this, I was tired of obscure game threads, saw that you made one, asked you to grow some originality, and got on with my life, why can't you do the same?

Well Im glad you grew up by your third bullet point..but are forum threads that big a deal that you came into my thread to make a rude comment? Im mildly annoyed with rude people and that the reason I usually ignore forums and I guess I will continue to now.

Pfft, you've had an account on this website for almost a year and you've decided to leave now that you have encountered a spec of negativity?

Sorry to break this to you, pal, but not everyone in the world bleeds sunshine.

I should really have stopped this a long time ago but what the hay. I will not drop my account for this..thats just stupid. and I know not everyone in the world bleeds sunshine but the internet sure breeds gentlemen like yourself who think gaming forums are serious business and make rude comments for no reason..Im not gunna feed this troll anymore..peace dude

 

[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

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/global/search/?q=underrated+games&cx=005672590579257297818:mkmrjhvsnwa&cof=FORID:9&ie=UTF-8&sa.x=0&sa.y=0&sa=Search

There, backed up, enough Underrated game threads for ya?

ok sure I guess i should have looked up underrated games forums..but there aren't like fifty in the hour like you claimed. The closest was 6 days ago. And if read what I said I didn't mean underrated or I wasn't thinking it. I was going for more personal tastes not a game you think is underrated. Its a different thing to me at least. I made it to express an emotion I have been feeling lately not for super originality. If making this thread has a offended you..grow up

1. I was not offended, I was mildly annoyed.

2. "there aren't like fifty in the hour like you claimed" They just invented this new form of speech, it's so un-heard of, it's called "Sarcasm"

3. Why the hell are you making such a big deal over this, I was tired of obscure game threads, saw that you made one, asked you to grow some originality, and got on with my life, why can't you do the same?

Well Im glad you grew up by your third bullet point..but are forum threads that big a deal that you came into my thread to make a rude comment? Im mildly annoyed with rude people and that the reason I usually ignore forums and I guess I will continue to now.

Pfft, you've had an account on this website for almost a year and you've decided to leave now that you have encountered a spec of negativity?

Sorry to break this to you, pal, but not everyone in the world bleeds sunshine.

I should really have stopped this a long time ago but what the hay. I will not drop my account for this..thats just stupid. and I know not everyone in the world bleeds sunshine but the internet sure breeds gentlemen like yourself who think gaming forums are serious business and make rude comments for no reason..Im not gunna feed this troll anymore..peace dude

See ya!

P.S: You obviously don't understand what a "Troll" is.

P.S. This sir is a troll
http://hippiekiller.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/troll.jpg
Ill keep talking to all the lovely people having a civilized conversation here

 

[crowbarlove]

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

haha so deep but yet so messed up

 

[crowbarlove]

I have to say I quite liked Alpha Protocol. Also, the Yakuza series is very close to my heart, but it's appearantly not very popular in the west. The stripped down european Yakuza 3 was also really good despite the lack of several minigames deemed unfit for western audiences. If only we'd finally see "Kenzan!".

I also greatly enjoyed The Force Unleashed. Haven't played the sequel yet, but I'll grab it once the price drops. Other games I enjoyed are Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, Army of Two, Darksiders and that funky cel-shaded Prince of Persia game. I liked the colors and the world as a whole. It was very fun to explore. K&L and Ao2 were simply good, simple and enjoyable shooters. And don't even get me started on Darksiders. The only flaw I see in the game is that Simon Templeman totally should've voiced War.

I raved about Yakuza, but most people I showed it to thought it looked like a Japanese version of GTA and were fairly unimpressed. I let my brother borrow it and one of his friends stole it before I was very far in the game. Maybe someone was listening when I was hyping it to them. The sales must not have been very good, because I've had a hard time finding it used and cheap (haven't checked in some time, though).

wanted to check out yakuza 3 but might wait till 4 or that new zombie one..that looks awesome and hilarious

 

[crowbarlove]

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.

Defiantly some there ill look up. im a huge half life fan so r&d look neat, and ive seen cryostasis and wanted to check it out

 

[Warachia]

black sigil, breakdown. the first one is bad, but appealing and genuinly has a good narrative, characters, quests, and world, the second was awesome, but next to noone bought it.

oh, and how could I forget Lux Pain, a game that narrative changes whethter you read it or listen, easily the most bizarre gaming experience I've ever had.

 

[Verex]

Nethergate

It is primarily a mac game with crappy graphics and more quests then Runescape on steroids. It's the cornerstone of RPGs I say. I mean, come on, what other game has a talking cow?