Great under rated games?
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So there probably won't be another.
Persona 2: Eternal Punishment
Quite underrated as P3 is what got most people into the SMT series, and most have never played the earlier games. Such as...well, yeah. Persona 2, Nocturne (SMT3), and Digital Devil Saga. But yeah, Persona 2 is awesome. No dating sim crap to be forced into on the side. Just a straight forward awesome, dark story. It's on PS1 though, and actually VERY rare. So if you're interested in finding it...good luck. Been out of print and highly coveted for years.
Another set of games in a similar situation is the Fatal Frame series. Great games, underrated, very rare, very hard to find.
Quite underrated as P3 is what got most people into the SMT series, and most have never played the earlier games. Such as...well, yeah. Persona 2, Nocturne (SMT3), and Digital Devil Saga. But yeah, Persona 2 is awesome. No dating sim crap to be forced into on the side. Just a straight forward awesome, dark story. It's on PS1 though, and actually VERY rare. So if you're interested in finding it...good luck. Been out of print and highly coveted for years.
Another set of games in a similar situation is the Fatal Frame series. Great games, underrated, very rare, very hard to find.
Another person that has played that game? It was a very fun game.VanityGirl said:
OT: Titan Quest as someone mentioned, is a great underrated game.
I also enjoyed Evil Genius
My personal favorite game is Radiata Stories and hardly anyone I know has played it. 170 some odd recruitable characters, two story lines, and just an overall great plot and cast.
While everyone else is nostalgic for their underrated games of the past, my favorite underrated game is by far Heavenly Sword.
It had solid gameplay, great pacing, excellent voice acting, decent and predictable story, and superb boss battles.
It was possibly the greatest 6 hours spent beating a game for me, I'd go back and play it again if school didn't start so early.
It had solid gameplay, great pacing, excellent voice acting, decent and predictable story, and superb boss battles.
It was possibly the greatest 6 hours spent beating a game for me, I'd go back and play it again if school didn't start so early.
Conflict: Global Terror (or Global Storm as it was changed to for whatever reason), the last title in the series that was still good, as Denied Ops was a pile of Dung.
Seriously, though, the game was mostly mediocre on the whole but it was the Co-op that stood out. Back before Co-op was prevalent, Global Terror implemented possibly the best Co-op I've seen so far. My wife and I must have gone through the campaign at least a dozen times, which is more time than we've spent on any other Co-op game since. The things that made it so great were, in no particular order:
1. The different characters had distinct roles so you actually had to work together to do well. This is the only real problem I had with Left 4 Dead; everyone would grab the same weapons and the game degenerates into who can kill the most zombies. In GT if everyone tries to fill the same role you're either going to end up picked off by snipers or getting flanked and cut down.
2. Stat tracking. As you progressed through the campaign you earned points for different things (Headshots, bonus objectives, stealth kills, etc.) and these points accumulated to earn you promotions for the character the performed the action. In single player this feature is cool, but not that spectacular. In Co-op it adds a bit of competition to the experience, trying to see who can rank up the fastest, who can get the highest headshot to kill ratio and so on. This feature, combined with the need to work together allows the game to be both cooperative and competitive at the same time.
3. Co-op feels natural. Left 4 Dead and Gears of War did this too, but not many others have. This means that not only does the co-op mode not feel show-horned in, but it goes so far as to seem more natural than single-player, as if the game was designed specifically for it.
Seriously, though, the game was mostly mediocre on the whole but it was the Co-op that stood out. Back before Co-op was prevalent, Global Terror implemented possibly the best Co-op I've seen so far. My wife and I must have gone through the campaign at least a dozen times, which is more time than we've spent on any other Co-op game since. The things that made it so great were, in no particular order:
1. The different characters had distinct roles so you actually had to work together to do well. This is the only real problem I had with Left 4 Dead; everyone would grab the same weapons and the game degenerates into who can kill the most zombies. In GT if everyone tries to fill the same role you're either going to end up picked off by snipers or getting flanked and cut down.
2. Stat tracking. As you progressed through the campaign you earned points for different things (Headshots, bonus objectives, stealth kills, etc.) and these points accumulated to earn you promotions for the character the performed the action. In single player this feature is cool, but not that spectacular. In Co-op it adds a bit of competition to the experience, trying to see who can rank up the fastest, who can get the highest headshot to kill ratio and so on. This feature, combined with the need to work together allows the game to be both cooperative and competitive at the same time.
3. Co-op feels natural. Left 4 Dead and Gears of War did this too, but not many others have. This means that not only does the co-op mode not feel show-horned in, but it goes so far as to seem more natural than single-player, as if the game was designed specifically for it.
I agree with Oddworld, Otogi, and Panzer. I'd also like to put in Psi ops. The co-op was amazing trying to control one guy between two people. And Timesplitters. LOVE TimeSplitters. Where else can you be a giant sock in a gunfight with a zombie monkey and a giant calamari?Cuddly Knife said:
Bully for the PS2, wii, and Xbox360. Its from the same guys who made Grand Theft Auto San Andreas and is absolutly hilarous. its also rather disturbing accurate to high school life.......
