Great under rated games?

[superdance14]

SLY COOPER DAMMIT.

If you want to be specific, Sly 2.

 

[Stoic raptor]

... Oh, and Castlevania: Curse of Darkness. I never heard much about this. I assume (if incorrectly) that it wasn't too popular, but in my opinion it's ne of the best Castlevanias I've played.

That is one of my FAVORITE games. It is the only castlevania game I have played, and I heard it wasnt good. But its SO fun. I could go on forever about the things I like about the game

 

[Zombie_Goasts]

Mercenaries 2

 

[The Austin]

Company of Heroes.

A game that got generally good to very good reviews, one of the most unique RTS games with amazing graphics even 3 ways later now, but has sold less than a lot of other worse games

I freiking love you.

Company of Heroes was in my top 3 best games of all time (Somwhere in there anyway, at leat it was the best FPS) and, it was passed over for freiking Viva Pinata. Witch is actually pretty fun, BUT STILL!

 

[Phoenix Arrow]

Mirrors Edge. I enjoyed it the first time through back in November, and I still find myself playing it from time to time. I have no idea why the game appeals to me so much, it just does.

Hmm. When I first got it, I found it really confusing and stopped after first couple of levels. I played it again a few weeks ago and really enjoyed it. It does have the weakest ending in the history of storytelling and I didn't even know what the story was going on about apart from framing her sister and runners being the few good people but everyone hates them. But you know what, the freerunning was alright once you got into it.

Portal. Jokes.

 

[Lemur_Ninja]

Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards for the Nintendo 64. I loved playing the game when I was younger. You had staples in the Kirby series, suck up enemies and take their powers, but they added something even better- the combining of abilities. I was crazy for running around being able to throw exploding ninja stars and carrying a huge flaming sword. I wish I had this game again.

 

[Araym]

Wild Arms 3
The Legend of Dragoon
Brave Fencer Musashi
Okage: Shadow King
Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator

 

[Gabes]

Shadowbane (Sadly Obsolete one of a kind MMO, PC)

Thank you sir, I'm glad someone else knew this game's greatness. If it was remade with the same kind of complex class system, guild battles and extremely open pvp but somehow combined with say a Guild Wars type campaign on the side, oh magical things could happen. WoW would pale and wilt next to it.

I pitched this to Ubisoft, that a Remake of Shadowbane with Instanced missions and modern graphics and anti-hacker protections would really do well. The only reason Shadowbane fell is because of it's age/dated graphics and because they didn't know how to prevent hacking in MMO's back then.

I'm assuming they gave it a no. They seemed to have no love for the game even when it was still a past of them. It's too bad too. If they even found a way to keep it down with monthly subscription prices of even free, it would take away the hardcore crowd from a lot of games with it's PvP.

 

[CtrlAltD1337]

Only cause I just started playing it again: Sniper Elite. Not sure how it was rated, but damn is it fun

 

[Svizzara]

The Ace Combat series for the PlayStation 2. It was exclusive to the PlayStation until the sixth game, where it became exclusive to the Xbox. I've never played the sixth game, unfortunately.

 

[Aqualung]

It's not that great, but I love it- Harry Potter Quidditch for Gamecube. REALLY makes me wish someone would make an online Quidditch game where you customize your character, pick your profession, join a team, and just play. Sigh...

 

[Valentine82]

*snip*

There's always one person who makes a massive list. That said, from reviews and what I've heard (I've never played any of the items on this list [my loss for being so young, I guess]), Chrono Trigger isn't so much underrated as underapreciated. Also, the Fallout series is underrated? I never got that impression they were. Granted you are talking about the older games, so you probably have a point there. (on a se related note, Fallout has been on my hard drive for hard drive for a while now and I still haven't got aroud to playing it.)

OT: I haven't heard many people showing the love for Psychonauts or No More Heroes. Those aren't really underrated, but the sort of critic's darlings that get great review but don't do so well commerically. I also feel a lack of love for LoZ Majora's Mask too.

EDIT: I totally forgot these;Tales of Symphonia, Banjo-Kazooie (the whole series really) and PaperMario 2. No one ever mentions the games, but they were amazing.

By Under-Rated, I mean as of today. Some of the games I listed were quite well recieved in their time, but are now unknown and unappreciated by most gamers. A lot of people never even played them, and will not play them because


1: The Graphics are dated.
2: The game is too obscure to be acceessible
3: They involve too much reading (we're spoiled to spoken dialogue)

 

[Valentine82]

I'm assuming they gave it a no. They seemed to have no love for the game even when it was still a past of them. It's too bad too. If they even found a way to keep it down with monthly subscription prices of even free, it would take away the hardcore crowd from a lot of games with it's PvP.

Sadly yes, this is the impression I got. They gave me a big non-answer, but it was clear that just like EA with Dungeon Keeper 3, they have no intention of ever exploiting the overwhelming potential of such a title because it seems too risky. I wish some other MMO developer would buy the rights and do it, or make a game like it with all the racial diversity of player classes and open world PvP and player made Kingdoms and what not.

 

[Iskenator67]

GUN. It was an amazing wild west game.

 

[Void(null)]

Titan Quest & Its Expansion Immortal Throne.

The games were not only buggy as all hell, but graphically way beyond their time so when the games launched people had all sorts of problems and atrocious performance issues. But going back and playing them on a modern computer, the games are just glorious, as if Diablo 2 and Oblivion had a baby.

 

[Jemal]

Psi-ops for the PS2 was an Amazing game. How can you not like a game where you could set people on fire, throw them against a wall, and suck their brains dry, blowing up their heads to replenish your own energy. Not to mention mind control! Inumerable ways to destroy your enemies or bypass them.
/drool