Actually those as well.sgt. soap mctavish said:Mercenarieslayground of destruction & Destroy all humans 1.
The most underrated video game ever
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Area 51 (2005) and any James Bond game other than Goldeneye. Seems like Goldeneye gets all the love, and while on some counts it does deserve it, the other games were good too and they've all seemingly been dismissed as hopeless cash-ins. Nightfire, Everything or Nothing, and Goldeneye: Rogue Agent are my personal faves out of the whole series.
About Area 51, yes it does come off as sort of a twisted hybrid between Halo and Half-Life with a pinch of Doom 3, but it's got a totally epic single-player compared to more recent FPS's, the mix of super-powered alien constructs and slavering mutants adds plenty of variety to the combat, and the gameplay is actually quite interesting while gunning down hordes of mutants with dual assault rifles (wtf) and turning INTO a mutant to finish them off. The split-screen multiplayer (remember that, kids) was also fun; don't let your friend find the Meson Cannon or your ass is gonna get deleted.
About Area 51, yes it does come off as sort of a twisted hybrid between Halo and Half-Life with a pinch of Doom 3, but it's got a totally epic single-player compared to more recent FPS's, the mix of super-powered alien constructs and slavering mutants adds plenty of variety to the combat, and the gameplay is actually quite interesting while gunning down hordes of mutants with dual assault rifles (wtf) and turning INTO a mutant to finish them off. The split-screen multiplayer (remember that, kids) was also fun; don't let your friend find the Meson Cannon or your ass is gonna get deleted.
Do some Indie game count? Then Defcon and Darwinia by Introversion software (seriously check them out). As for more mainstream games......I feel Assassin's Creed doesn't get nearly as much love as it should, so, that.
No one has mentioned Ico yet? I'd also have to go with Lunar, Legend of the Dragoon, and Legend of Legaia.
Fuck, I remember that game. Don't have my copy of it anymore.clutch-monkey said:
Come to think of it, my entire childhood is filled with obscure games--under all the Kirby and Mario 'n shit. The aforementioned Body Harvest, Mischief Makers, Rocket: Robot on Wheels (supposedly the first game to ever use a physics engine, and oh yeah, it's made by the same people who made Infamous or whatever), Tonic Trouble... Stuff like that.
I think, though, that I'm gonna say all of the above AND Zettai Hero Project. Really, even if you just hate anime comedy, you still have to admit that Nippon Ichi Software knows how to take a basic kind of game engine and turn it into something that is, at the absolute minimum, interesting.
Morrowind I guess. It does take a shitload of patience to get the most out of, but not in a grindy way. Very cool.
Resonance of Fate, it is what Final Fantasy XIII should have been. Unfortunately due to being released at the same time as FFXIII, no one took any notice to it. And most that did declared it too hard due to the complicated combat system, which is awesome once you learn how to work it but there is indeed a rather steep learning curve to begin with.
YES!!! I am in total agreeance.RUINER ACTUAL said:
I've never played Neir but I was in close proximity to someone who did play it during that text adventure part, and if it was a satire I guess it was pretty good because it was boring as fuck, but a game that creates a incredibly boring text adventure and shitty boring sidequest to make a satirical statements still has shitty boring sidequests and incredibly boring text adventures. Also a purposeful flaw is still a flaw.thenamelessloser said:
Also I agree that Alpha Protocol is a very fun game that is kind of "so bad it's good" dumb enjoyment.
I really enjoy the original .hack series, but I don't think they're so much underrated as just impossible to get a copy of. Anybody lucky enough to get all four of them when they were still in production should consider themselves lucky. I had to spend upwards of $300 to complete my collection. Gotta love ebay.
Fatal Frame 2, Gun, Silent Hunter 4 for me.
Fatal Frame 2 is one of the few horror games to actually scare me. Gun had fun gameplay and pretty good voice acting. As for Silent Hunter 4, while bugged to hell and back without a patch, still has a fairly high replay value.
Fatal Frame 2 is one of the few horror games to actually scare me. Gun had fun gameplay and pretty good voice acting. As for Silent Hunter 4, while bugged to hell and back without a patch, still has a fairly high replay value.
http://www.chronoludic.com/2010/09/nier-more-than-a-fishing-game/ about how Nier is a parody. =D Also, seriously Nier has the best plot twist in any video game, maybe any story for that matter.LarenzoAOG said:
Anyways. I actually found Alpha Protocol to be good, not in the "so bad it's good" sort of way... I mean, I enjoyed the game honestly more than either Mass Effect game. But I'm not a pure stealth or cover based shooting game fan but a fan of RPGs so I probably looking at different things in games than others.
Stalker did many things right but it was mostly overlooked due to outdated visuals and dificulty.