Most Underrated Games
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*cough*Dragon Quarter*cough*Snotnarok said:
Weirdest story progression this side of Ephemeral Phantasia, only not as crappy.
Also, nice catch with Sparkster. I saw a remake or extension for our beloved rocket knight on Steam recently, so you aren't the only one with fond memories.
My underrated picks?
-X-Wing Alliance (constantly overshadowed by its more beloved brother, Freespace, which is also quite excellent). Bloody awesome fun.
Also in the sci-fi ship combat category...
-Star Trek: Bridge Commander
Quite possibly the only Star Trek anything since Wrath of Khan that I loved, and the only game of its type to consistently work (the only other sort of game like this being Battlecruiser: Millenium...ambitious ideas with awful execution.)
-Tribes: Vengeance
Nowhere nearly as popular as the original or even Tribes 2, but surprisingly solid. It's rare to see any sort of ambition in a FPS storyline, and while the single player story in Tribes: Vengeance is by no means "Halo", it still wasn't that bad. The gameplay was addictive, and I spent hours just skiing around the levels at a high speed.
Why did you have to murder this series Vivendi?? WHY?!!
EDIT: Almost forgot one!
-Bomberman: The Second Attack
I'm not kidding. I never had as much fun with Bomberman again after this. Great soundtrack, tough as balls levels and bosses, and the best multiplayer mode in the series.
Nobody, and I do mean bloody NOBODY I KNOW has ever heard of this game.
Timesplitters has always been highly regarded, in the UK atleast. They do seem to have fallen off the radar over recent years, though. Possibly because we still hope for TS4, (which is on the way, from what I understand), and possibly because FPS are a dominant genre these days.SomeBoredGuy said:
Star Fleet Command, Orion Pirates.
The whole series to that point rocked (the less said about SCF 3 the better).
They took a superb tactical spaceship combat game with too much book-keeping (Star Fleet Battles) and managed to make it run in real-time with no loss of depth.
Still looks good and runs well, although I need to re-install it on my main system after my Win7 upgrade.
The whole series to that point rocked (the less said about SCF 3 the better).
They took a superb tactical spaceship combat game with too much book-keeping (Star Fleet Battles) and managed to make it run in real-time with no loss of depth.
Still looks good and runs well, although I need to re-install it on my main system after my Win7 upgrade.
A lot of my underrated games aren't really underrated; it's just that no one talks about them anymore (Space simulators and turn-based strategy games don't have as vocal a fanbase as RPGs and shooter/stealth hybrids) Games like FreeSpace 2 and in particular Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri come to mind when asked what I mean by this.
As for truly "underrated" games are concerned (i.e. games nobody seems to like), I'd go with any Star Fox title outside of 64. Assault was like playing through a colossal sci-fi epic, and Adventures was a fairly solid Zelda clone. I remember enjoying Donkey Kong 64 when I was ten, and while much of the game is an item collection fest, it was fun, and there was a heck of a lot of game. I never hated any of the 3D Sonic games, either, save for Sonic 2006, though I wouldn't recommend most of them.
As for truly "underrated" games are concerned (i.e. games nobody seems to like), I'd go with any Star Fox title outside of 64. Assault was like playing through a colossal sci-fi epic, and Adventures was a fairly solid Zelda clone. I remember enjoying Donkey Kong 64 when I was ten, and while much of the game is an item collection fest, it was fun, and there was a heck of a lot of game. I never hated any of the 3D Sonic games, either, save for Sonic 2006, though I wouldn't recommend most of them.