Games you think are great, even though no one else seems to like them.

[huntedannoyed]

Destroy all Humans. I love that game.

 

[Solacia]

The Halo trilogy
I just don't understand why people hate Halo so much. It's fun, solid and multiplayer is even better! And also Forge.

And Too Human. I think people hate it because they don't understand the Norse mythology. I also liked the way they adapted the mythology into a futuristic RPG.
And even though it's flaws, i like it, not love it, and spent like 16 hours on it.

 

[white_salad]

Fatal Frame 2: chrimson butterfly. Whenever my friends see me playing, they say " All you do is walk around with a flashlight" Which is true. But the way you kill the ghosts is rather intresting and freaky.

Spore: sure it defintly wasnt the game that we all were looking forward to bringing us out of the shitty games land and into the promise land, but its still wasnt that bad. Plus the creature creator is really cool. But maybe thats just cause I love games that allow you to change who you are.

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

Star Wars: Bounty Hunter. Some people don't like it...

I love Star Wars: Bounty Hunter!

Evil Genius (I think this was created by the similar people who made Fable series; Lionhead Studios.)

Also seconded.

 

[Simalacrum]

Driv3r... when it came out, everyone said it was absolutely terrible, but i loved it! i still do! even though i now own GTA IV! (which rocks btw XD)

 

[K_Dub]

I gotta go with the original Spyro game and Ape Escape 1. Those are the two games that turned me into a gamer.

 

[Sgt. Giggles]

I enjoyed Dark Sector, but I don't know anyone else who actually played it.

 

[jamesc]

Assassins creed and especially the force unleashed. I fucking love that game.

 

[alwaysrockon]

ok for starters, anyone who mentions halo, gears, or assasins creed
YOU ARE STUPID!! it is not a game everyone hates, its just a game that everyone with taste hates.(other than ac, that was pretty fun if repetitive).
great games,
well
jet force jemini
killer 7
psi ops(sooo much better thatn force unleashed)
the last guy
the godfather
black
stubbs the zombie(childish my ass)
sniper elite
and thats just ofr starters

 

[tcolberg]

Deus Ex. I know plenty of people here love the game, it's just that I can't get any of my friends who are gamers to go near it.

Vampire: The Masquerade- Bloodlines. Damned good story, fun RPG elements. Another one that's just too old and "campy" for anyone I know to give it a look.

 

[Gestapo Hunter]

Star Oceans 3 till the end of time. Battle system couldve used a bit more work other then that it was a long and epic RPG ive played in a long while

 

[Gestapo Hunter]

Deus Ex. I know plenty of people here love the game, it's just that I can't get any of my friends who are gamers to go near it.

Vampire: The Masquerade- Bloodlines. Damned good story, fun RPG elements. Another one that's just too old and "campy" for anyone I know to give it a look.

YEs! Vampire! I still have it and play it. sorry for the double post

 

[Dr Spaceman]

Deus Ex. I know plenty of people here love the game, it's just that I can't get any of my friends who are gamers to go near it.

Vampire: The Masquerade- Bloodlines. Damned good story, fun RPG elements. Another one that's just too old and "campy" for anyone I know to give it a look.

Boy, I don't know how to feel about people who think Bloodlines is too old for them... it came out in 2004! It uses the Source engine! (Which, you may know, is powering one of this year's big releases, Left 4 Dead!)

But then again, those are great games. Bloodlines is definitely one of the best written games I've ever come across, especially when you consider the fact that every line is voice acted.

I really wonder if in a few years if Bloodlines will become a mythic RPG on the level of Fallout, Deus Ex, or Planescape: Torment.

 

[Gestapo Hunter]

Deus Ex. I know plenty of people here love the game, it's just that I can't get any of my friends who are gamers to go near it.

Vampire: The Masquerade- Bloodlines. Damned good story, fun RPG elements. Another one that's just too old and "campy" for anyone I know to give it a look.

Boy, I don't know how to feel about people who think Bloodlines is too old for them... it came out in 2004! It uses the Source engine! (Which, you may know, is powering one of this year's big releases, Left 4 Dead!)

But then again, those are great games. Bloodlines is definitely one of the best written games I've ever come across, especially when you consider the fact that every line is voice acted.

I really wonder if in a few years if Bloodlines will become a mythic RPG on the level of Fallout, Deus Ex, or Planescape: Torment.

Man i i first played vampire I knew it was going to be great when i listened to Smiling Jacks tutorial beside he had the best line in the game.."Every time i rip an assholes jaw out and jam it into his eye socket i know im making the world a better place!"

 

[Link Kadeshi]

Advent Rising: I'm probably the only one who liked this game, but I though it presented a neat story and lots of fun ways to mix telekinetic powers with gun combat (blasting opponents mid-air with a rocket launcher after you throw them up there with telekinesis as you dive away Matrix-style for example).

Seriously, I loved that game, I almost bought a PSP for the side story, Advent Rising Shadows, but I couldn't justify the expense of a single game and a system of trashy games (Oh, I went there).

Also, I've long since loved Homeworld. Sadly, Homeworld 2 was the victim of Sierra wanting monies. And though it's not really a disliked game, how about more Freespace? Am I right, people?!

 

[tcolberg]

Boy, I don't know how to feel about people who think Bloodlines is too old for them... it came out in 2004! It uses the Source engine! (Which, you may know, is powering one of this year's big releases, Left 4 Dead!)

Hey, I'm not the one who's saying Vampire Bloodlines is old, it's other people I know who can't look at a game unless its bumpmapped with HDR and mo-capped animations. Hell, until CivIV: Colonization came out, I still played the original Colonization from 1994 on a regular basis. The only point where I start complaining about the age of a game is if its control scheme is too antiquated to easily use (I'm looking at you System Shock 1).

The sad thing about Vampire is that the dev team kinda got screwed by both Valve and their publisher. Valve kept delaying the final build of the engine and the publisher thought it was a good idea to nix the original plan to release Bloodlines 6 months after HL2's release and instead released the game unfinished and at the same time as HL2. If HL2 had Source 1.0 and HL2Ep1 had Source 1.5, then Vampire Bloodlines got stuck with Source 0.5.

@Link Kadeshi: Oh man, Homeworld was great. I once spent 20 hours or so meticulously capturing every ion frigate on that one mission where they were arranged in a sphere around the mission objective. Those last couple missions afterward were eeeeeaaassssyyyyyyyyyy.

 

[milomalo]

kane & lynch and the last simpsons game... both were alot of fun to me...

 

[Dr Spaceman]

Boy, I don't know how to feel about people who think Bloodlines is too old for them... it came out in 2004! It uses the Source engine! (Which, you may know, is powering one of this year's big releases, Left 4 Dead!)

Hey, I'm not the one who's saying Vampire Bloodlines is old, it's other people I know who can't look at a game unless its bumpmapped with HDR and mo-capped animations. Hell, until CivIV: Colonization came out, I still played the original Colonization from 1994 on a regular basis. The only point where I start complaining about the age of a game is if its control scheme is too antiquated to easily use (I'm looking at you System Shock 1).

The sad thing about Vampire is that the dev team kinda got screwed by both Valve and their publisher. Valve kept delaying the final build of the engine and the publisher thought it was a good idea to nix the original plan to release Bloodlines 6 months after HL2's release and instead released the game unfinished and at the same time as HL2. If HL2 had Source 1.0 and HL2Ep1 had Source 1.5, then Vampire Bloodlines got stuck with Source 0.5.

@Link Kadeshi: Oh man, Homeworld was great. I once spent 20 hours or so meticulously capturing every ion frigate on that one mission where they were arranged in a sphere around the mission objective. Those last couple missions afterward were eeeeeaaassssyyyyyyyyyy.

Oh no, I wasn't being sarcastic at you, I was commenting about your friends' inability to see past so-called "dated" graphics. Hell, if you're a fan of both Bloodlines and Deus Ex, you are definitely all right in my book.

I feel like I'm really starting to become a "crotchety old PC gamer" the likes of which I kind of despised over a decade ago when I really started to get into PC games. I was blown away by the graphics of Warcraft II while people like who I am becoming were bemoaning the death of the text-based adventure. Sometimes I wonder if I've gained perspective or are merely looking at the past through rose-colored glasses. I wonder if I go back and play the old Fallouts if I'll be captured by the world in the same way I was back then, or if Fallout 3 is really where I'm at right now.

Boy, existentialist crisis in PC gaming. I need to go to bed.

 

[jamesc]

Assassins creed and especially the force unleashed. I fucking love that game.

I don't think you read the title of this thread properly.

Sorry, I don't know what you mean. But if you meant the wording of my post, I kind of meant to say that everybody hates tfu, but I like it. I thought that was what the title implied.