Games you love, but not very popular?

[Sampsa]

Death to Spies. Copy of Hitman-series which takes player into second World War. Eventhough it's published by 1C I've never heard of anyone who'd play it. Despite the glitchy cutsecenes and clumsy controls it's good game that could've been nearly perfect with little polishing.

 

[iseeyouthere]

Avatar, the video game - The gameplay was single-button mashing combat and a poor storyline... But it was just the graphics and the enviroment which made me love it.

 

[Yureina]

Mafia: City of Lost Heaven
Star Ocean: The Second Story
Europa Universalis II

I know... all of those were reasonably popular, but those are the only ones I can think of. Most of the games I have recieve either lots of praise or are extremely popular (Fallout 3, Total War games, CoD4, etc).

 

[Reaper69lol]

Clive Barker's Jericho, Haze, Killing floor( not sure if KF fits into the category)

 

[fozzy360]

Alone in the Dark
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Yeah, I said it. I like it.

 

[DarkDain]

Gundam Crossfire and Mount&Blade

Mount and Blade for sure. Also, Warlords Battlecry series...and impossible creatures.

 

[Umwerfer]

dark messiah? not really sure if it s really hated. It should be hated for having a story that bad. But the gameplay was awesome.

 

[Silent Eagle]

Vigilante 8 1 and 2 those games actually require some skill to play (on hard mode) A great starting out game to develope some long term skills in instinctual shooting (release date 1998)

 

[Iron Lightning]

*deep breath*

In alphabetical order:

Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
BattleTanx Global Assault (first one was pretty good too)
Custom Robo
Darkstar One
Decent: Freespace
Destroy All Humans (arguably unpopular)
Final Liberation
Freelancer
Full Throttle
Gauntlet Dark Legacy
Giants: Citizen Kabuto
Goblin Commander
Homeworld
Ice & Fire
Jim Power in Mutant Planet (for the Atari ST, all other versions are relatively crap)
Knife Edge NoseGunner
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
Psychonauts
Primal Rage
Rage Incoming
Robotech Battlecry
Sacrifice
Sin & Punishment (In this game, the final boss is THE GODDAMN EARTH)
Starlancer
Star Wars Rogue Squadron
The Godfather
The House of the Dead: Overkill
The Void
Timesplitters 2
Timesplitters Future Perfect (one of the only games to be named after a verb tense)
Warhammer 40,000 Fire Warrior
War of the Monsters
Wild 9
Wipeout
Zeno Clash

*whew*

 

[Nouw]

Castle Crashers if it counts

 

[Shiny Rabbit]

Blue Dragon
Disgaea
XIII

 

[Mechsoap]

one of the first games i fell in love in was when i was 8, its called sly, its about a thief racoon with a hipoo buddy and a turtell with a big brain, i really found it amazing at the time

 

[JEBWrench]

Syberia.

I really need to get my mitts on Syberia 2.

 

[RaphaelsRedemption]

Spore.Brilliant game,your imagination is the limit!

A little cutesy, but yes, one I love.

I can't admit to it though... because people then assume I also automatically love the Sims!

 

[Custard_Angel]

Harvester was a breath of fresh air in the FMV genre, a genre populated with less than quality titles during the 1990's.

Alas, despite it's controversy for the incredibly gruesome second half, not many people talk about it - or even know about it.

You mean the serial murderer training guide?

Yeah... I know it.

 

[Jupsto]

I enjoyed far cry 2 alot. It was a bit of of a love/hate relationship and I was not blind to its flaws and shortcomings. but it was so much more fun for me than GTA4, it was a proper shooter. not some boring simulation of the depressing life of some violent twat, with autoaim terribad combat. but a fun sandbox shooter.

 

[Erja_Perttu]

Shadow Hearts. It's a jrpg that came out a week before FFX and got completely ignored, but it one of the most fun, bizarre, interesting games I've ever played, and the dollhouse sections was eery as hell. One of my favourite parts was that

Spoiler

you fail and you fail hard. Much like FFVI, the bad guys plot works and boom, there goes that city you liked so much.

That, and the main character wasn't a whiny, teenaged emo brat. Thank god.

 

[Leviathan_]

World in Conflict.


That is all.

 

[UnusualStudios]

Little Big Planet

 

[Hazy]

Would it seemed weird if i'm the only person in the world who likes Zelda 2?

Not at all, because Zelda II was actually fairly decent when compared to a number of other NES titles.

It didn't stack up to the original or anything, but what could?