totaly under rated games

[Baralak]

Underrated or unknown....


Lost Odyssey- an RPG from Hironobu Sakaguchi that's NOT under the Final Fantasy brand? Got that right, and it's AMAZING. So many of the little stories made me want to cry so badly. Especially "Little Liar", I think it was called...

Lord of the Rings: The Third Age- A turn-based RPG, in the LotR universe. Nuff 'said

Final Fantasy X2- Seriously, The girls are hot, and it's fun. What else do you need? Then again, I could never get into FFX, Tidus's voice just, ugh..... He's cool in Dissidia though.

Dissidia: Final Fantasy- Seriously, I never hear of anyone playing this game besides my close friends, and the internet...

I'm also having to work to make sure I don't ignore every other game I own for Sacred 2. That game is so addicting.....


Now, for overrated...

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion- Take Elder Scrolls, but take out all roleplaying. GREAT GAME! Except ya know, It's freaking boring.... Daggerfall was the best one. Eagerly awaiting DaggerXL! Still, Fable 2 did everything Oblivion tried, but better.

Fallout 3- Oblivion with Guns! Only, with a minor amount of Roleplaying added back in!
Hmmmm WHat else...

 

[Plurralbles]

Chibi Robo.


NOONE plays that game.

I play it...

I'm not too sure if it was underrated, but Pikmin 1&2 are always fun games for me. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that the game was inspired by Miyamoto's fascination with gardening at the time.

I don't think you're in the majority but ha, I was thinking pikmin too.

 

[SpaceCop]

Some games I feel didn't quite get enough lovin' considering their merit...

Penumbra: Overture and Black Plague. Immersive Lovecraft-inspired horror with physics-centric gameplay that's actually intuitive and fulfilling throughout. The atmosphere is cloying, the story is minimalist but omnipresent, and the overall experience--first person, emphasizing stealth and realistic problem solving--is a tense and rather unique one.

The Exile series. Old school Ultima 3 style party-based fantasy, in a sprawling world that's well-realized and genuinely compelling to explore. The graphics were... passable... back in the mid '90s, but the game's writing has always been superb, managing to be both suitably epic and wryly clever. All Jeff Vogel/Spiderweb Software's games, from Nethergate to Geneforge, are interesting, irreverent treks through RPG territory, with later additions adding new gobbets of gameplay and "improved" graphics (if isometric is your thing)... But the Exile titles are still my favourites of the lot.

The Oddworld games. Pure art. Some of the most weirdly realistic/realistically weird characters and set pieces ever. Bug-eyed, vocally-challenged protagonists. Beautiful, alien industry meets savage wilderness backdrops. Fiendishly harrowing platforming. Guns with living ammunition. Corporate satire. Possessed flatulence.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

 

[More Fun To Compute]

I think a lot of people have underrated Mount and Blade or overlook it. Easily one of the most remarkable and time destroying games of the last ten years.

Grim Fandango

This is one of the highest rated games of all time and was plastered over magazine covers at the time, and at the time when magazine covers actually mattered.

Final Fantasy X2- Seriously, The girls are hot, and it's fun. What else do you need? Then again, I could never get into FFX, Tidus's voice just, ugh..... He's cool in Dissidia though.

Heh, this is the only Final Fantasy game I have completed.

 

[MercurySteam]

Argh Dead Space... bad bad. Shoulda been first person, dude was in the screen too much.

OT: Call of Duty MW2... just kidding.. thats the opposite.

Umm, Doom =D Duke Nukem =D Blood =D

Pretty much every game (if you escapists remember ) I've ever talked about on here.

If you want to play Dead Space in first person then play Extraction. It was third person for a reason; so you could take in all the open decks of the Ishimura and so you could use the mannual laser targeting system and shit your pants when you get cornered.

 

[Residentconker]

the new release deadly premonition
critics hated it
but everybody i know who played it loves it

could even say God hand as well

 

[TehJammers]

De Blob, I guess. When you destroy things, they explode with fun!

Oh, and definitely Okami. It was beautiful and one of the best games evar.

 

[Meggiepants]

Kung Fu Chaos(Xbox) is perhaps the very definition of underrated.

I loved Kung Fu Chaos! Such a quirky little title! And fun to play as well!

OT:
Beyond Good & Evil
Psychonauts
Toejam & Earl


Funkify!!!

 

[Layz92]

Oh another one I forgot to mention...

Vampires the Masquerade: Bloodlines.

Really? I've seen that on many of the countless "suggest a good game for me to get" threads.

On topic, maybe Gun on the ps2

 

[Rararaz]

earth defence force 2017

Anyone who has played this will know what I am on about.

Awesome game, far better than sooooooo many of the bigger budget well known games on the current gen consoles.

 

[hyker]

soldier of fortune
srsly,shooting someone in the balls,blowing heads off,remove the upper body from the bottom with a shotgun blast,dismemberment is awesome
just because it didnt had gta4 graphics doesnt mean it sux

 

[EHKOS]

soldier of fortune
srsly,shooting someone in the balls,blowing heads off,remove the upper body from the bottom with a shotgun blast,dismemberment is awesome
just because it didnt had gta4 graphics doesnt mean it sux

True, that game was advanced for its time.

Crash Bandicoot the Naughty Dog era
Timesplitters (it seemed under the radar for me)
Just Cause
Enter the Matrix
And yes Vampire the Masqurade was one of my favorite games ever, but only if you play as a Malkavian.

 

[neoman10]

Supreme Ruler 2020. An excellent sandbox game.

Basically you have the entire world with around 160 countries to take command of in the year 2020. What you decide to do is up to you.

I would agree, but one must admit it is really hard to get into

Paradox Interactive, while awesome, likes specialty games

now to EU3!

 

[The Real Sandman]

It was a survival-horror masterpiece.

Are you being sarcastic?

 

[Korten12]

Dukenukem forever. its really underated and is truly a great game.

 

[Lord Legion]

Arcanum: of Magicks and Steamworks Obscura.

I believe it is the best rpg of all time for the sheer depth of character development and plot lines. No one has come close to a steampunk world as well as this.

Besides, imagine defending yourself from a horde of nasties with a 1800's style machine gun. I would dare to call it Baldur's Gate: Advanced.

 

[fix-the-spade]

ALIEN RESURRECTION

Easily the best shooter on the PS1 and should be mentioned in t hesame breath as Perfect Dark. But thanks to the second part of that title it's largely forogtten.
Clever, atmospheric, long, fecking terrifying, best sound design in gaming history and the first FPS to use the dual stick control layout that's considered standard now (how's this for irony, on it's release most critics panned the control system for being akward, overly precise and different to the auto aim assisted single stick Quake/Goldeneye model, Halo was less than two years away...).

Should really be better remembered than it is, certainly shouldn't get the 'big whup' reaction that cretins who've never played it give.

 

[Wolfram23]

It was a survival-horror masterpiece.

Are you being sarcastic?

Dead Space is one of my favorite games too. I thought it was absolutely brilliant. Someone mentioned plot holes but I'd be glad to try and clear them up. There's an anime movie prequel as well as the rails shooter on wii that really fill in the story, but on it's own the only real "hole" to me was the "why?!?" but I get it now. To me it took survival horror to a very good place. Better than RE5 for sure.

Dead Space wasn't necessarily scary, but the last game I can think of that actually had me scared was RE2 on N64 when I was in junior high... However, Dead Space DID have me anxious when being swarmed and low on ammo, it also had a great method of story telling, and who can complain with the upgrade system? I felt that Dead Space was the total package. Which is a lot more than can be said for most games.