I Can't Believe It's Not Mainstream

[The GEL]

idk why but this one ps2 Japan game called RAG (Robot Alchemist Drive) I think thats what its called.

HECK YEAH! Well...the problem was that you'd spend half the stage running around a city going from point A to point B and then some before they FINALLY let you in the robot. But once you get the robot goin'? It's AWESOME.

The developers later recycled the engine to make the Earth Defense Force series and just recently did a Wii MotionPlus based sword combat game called Zangeki no Reginlev (which if it doesn't come to America, someone dies). Also seem to have used the engine to make a Gigantor game.

WHICH REMINDS ME: Earth Defense Force 2017. ALSO a good contender. Simple straightforward shooter that can be played split-screen co-op and has TONS of weapons to collect. It's basically a game based on every cheesy old sci-fi film ever made. It has a GREAT sense of scale and it's just awesome actually trying to take out Godzilla on foot with a bazooka!

 

[MalevolentStaircase]

yea battle for bikini bottom was fun. probably HAZE

 

[azncutthroat]

Einhänder
In The Hunt
Dragon Seeds
Brahma Force
Conker's Bad Fur Day

 

[wwjdftw]

Medal Of Honor: Airborne. Only 73(including myself) play online in the whole world!

O.O IT HAS ONLINE?!?!?!?!? tomorow there will be 74

 

[Veldt Falsetto]

Though I can understand it, Fire Emblem should just be more popular or even just known more than it is.
It's a huge SRPG franchise around as long as classic Nintendo titles like Zelda, Metroid and the only people that know about it played as Marth, Roy or Ike in Smash Bros.
What's more, it's one of the most hardcore titles released this gen and it's a Wii game.
How can more people not know about it?
I guess SRPGs as a whole get neglected over here, excluding Valkyria Chronicles which gets praised like it's god...we don't usually neglect full genres so why this one

 

[Therumancer]

Metal Saga.

There is a series of them in Japan but only one made it to the US under the radar. I think that game had potential on a lot of levels, but for whatever reason it never caught on even with obscure RPG junkies. "MS Saga" (a Gundam RPG) despite having a less than wonderful story is another one that surprisingly few people have heard of.

 

[Sneaklemming]

Did someone mention Mechs and Mechwarrior?

 

[ZZoMBiE13]

Otogi: Myth of Demons.
It's the wonderfully beautiful hack n' slash game set in feudal Japan where the main focus was on the amazing art design and really great music and general themes of philosophy and spirituality.
The gameplay was pretty fun too, not complex but still fun.
Frankly, it was a treat and yet despite being popular enough for a sequel it fell off the charts shortly after and never to be heard from again. Honestly I don't have any issue with the people who liked God of War or Devil May Cry or even Ninja Gaiden I just feel that Otogi should have had a place there too.

I'll certainly agree with this one. I had both of the Otogi titles and they were great fun.

 

[JS ibanez]

i would like these games to be mainstream. meaning i wish there would be sequels and more hype about them.

Shadow of colossus
Black
Timesplitters

 

[Outright Villainy]

ArmA II. The only reason it's not really, really well known and something that every PC gamer should have is because it requires a ridiculously powerful PC to play. However, unlike Crysis, that isn't advertised as a feature as such, so it doesn't get that market either.

However, thanks to crazed military-o-philes like me, the games will always have their audience.

My flat mate is always going on about that game. I saw some videos, and it looks like you run around in really big scale battles, do very little, then bumble into an enemy and get shot once and die. Fun! I actually mean that, I'd like to have the player's role downplayed more in games, it breaks immersion in a military shooter if you're gunning down hundreds of dudes before breakfast.

 

[blankedboy]

Alien vs. Predator 2.

Not the new one, not the horrendously old one, the 2000 release for PC.

That game was FUCKING EPIC, pity it doesn't run on my computer.

 

[Codeman90]

I love the Samurai Warriors series. I have 2 but I need to hunt the first one down at some point. I don't know why I like the game but I suppose I like that period of history and find it really interesting. Well ok, its really exaggerated, but still fun!

 

[SantoUno]

KOTOR 2, seriously it irritates me on the inside how whenever KOTOR is brought up the person almost always refers to the first one, like if the second one doesn't exist. WELL IT DOES! And it is better than the first KOTOR in every god damn way!

/fanboyism

 

[Weaver]

I say this a lot on the forum, but Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.
Everyone KNOWS the game, but very few people actually played it; they just know it involves someone yelling "OBJECTION!" in court. I'll just say there's many reasons it's famous.

Everyone I knows has played all 3 of them. Not many played Apollo Justice though.

Alien vs. Predator 2.

Not the new one, not the horrendously old one, the 2000 release for PC.

That game was FUCKING EPIC, pity it doesn't run on my computer.

Oh COME ON, every PC gamer played that!!

 

[JMan]

God Hand, ICO, Psi-Ops, Eve of Extinction, Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner, Yu Yu Hakusho: Dark Tournament, Downhill Domination, and Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil

 

[Weaver]

 

[Worgen]

C&C renegade, it was a fps C&C game and its single player was pretty good with a few hiccups but its multiplayer was spectacular, each side had a C&C base and you could make tanks and shit to attack the other side to destroy thier base, loads of fun, its still got an active online community... at least it did a few years ago when I last checked

 

[wall5970]

I love "Haunting" for Sega. It's just a ghost running around this rich family's home and haunting them. Every once in a while, you have to power yourself up in Hell and come back. There's no way to tell if that was exactly "mainstream" or not though.

A group of games I love that are pretty definitively NOT mainstream are any of those crazy Bible games, particularly "Bible Buffet". Half of the time with those games, the ideas were blatantly ripped off of other games (not very Christian-like!) and the other half they were original (but really terrible) games with the Bible somehow shoved in, (usually in some nonsensical fashion). They were great in the way that movies like "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians," "Plan 9 from Outer Space" and "Manos: The Hands of Fate" are great movies.

 

[Searleski]

I always thought that 'Faces of War' was a pretty solid RTS Game, but I know no one else who owns the game. It also had funny mistranslations like, 'Head into the Bunker and get the secret Stuffing!'