Your favorite underappreciated games...
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Assortment of Jap only games.
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Tremulous (open source)
Omega Boost (PS1 best mech game EVER)
Escape Velocity Nova (shareware)
Assortment of Jap only games.
Planescape torment was immense and pysconaughts is a game everyone should play
the LBA seires were weird and wonderful...
wonder if theyll make another 1?
the LBA seires were weird and wonderful...
wonder if theyll make another 1?
Halo 3.
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Exile 3: Ruined World. I'm not much of an RPG fan, but this is the first RPG I've ever played. Complicated and somewhat boring at first, but has awesome customization (there are no preset classes, and you can make your guy from scratch). You can download a huge demo (about 1/3 of the game) at www.spidweb.com
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Exile 3: Ruined World. I'm not much of an RPG fan, but this is the first RPG I've ever played. Complicated and somewhat boring at first, but has awesome customization (there are no preset classes, and you can make your guy from scratch). You can download a huge demo (about 1/3 of the game) at www.spidweb.com
Off the top of my head...
Psychonauts wasn't underrated, but I guess it comes in as underappreciated due to its sales. Hopefully it'll get a renaissance with the XBox Classics thing.
Marathon, as it's largely forgotten outside of Mac and die-hard fan circles. A bit dusty, but still a fun shooter even on low-grade hardware and the storyline is great. It's got a freeware version now, too, that works on PC as well as Mac... pity so few know about that.
-- Steve
Psychonauts wasn't underrated, but I guess it comes in as underappreciated due to its sales. Hopefully it'll get a renaissance with the XBox Classics thing.
Marathon, as it's largely forgotten outside of Mac and die-hard fan circles. A bit dusty, but still a fun shooter even on low-grade hardware and the storyline is great. It's got a freeware version now, too, that works on PC as well as Mac... pity so few know about that.
-- Steve
warzone has been ported to Linux i'm playing it as we speak and yes it is a fun gameSatki said:
Jagdedge deserves cake for Rez, and so does dylansavage for LBA. Satki gets a nice pie for Warzone, a game I believe was one of the few to get a campaign in an RTS correct.
Okay. My turn. Considering I tend to play games for new concepts no matter how badly flawed they are, I do my best to name games people have never heard of and/or would throw in the nearest landfill rather than play. So the few I'm suggesting are going to confuse some people.
Trust and Betrayal again gets a mention for being the only game I know to actually convince me the computer had feelings and was able to speak in coherent sentances. Carnage Heart, a quirky program-your-own-AI-battling-robot game deserves a remake (and a less vertical learning curve). Blaze and Blade: Eternal Quest deserves an award for beating Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles to the idea of four player offline multiplayer RPGs by about six years even if it has no economy.
Oh, and Deaththrow for being just a few play balance issues away from being a faithful, fun crossbreed of basketball and Speedball. Chaos League for being the same and a shameless rip off from Blood Bowl.
Topping this list are three strategy games which truly need to be considered underappreciated due to thier amazing content, innovative gameplay, and the fact the game studios STILL were shut down due to commercial failure despite positive reviews. Elixir Studio's two shining glories Republic and Evil Genius are two of the most engrossing experiences I've had in a computer game, and Murkyfoot's Startopia (which could only be described as capitalistic Dungeon Keeper in SPACE) deserves a remake.
Other games that may have made the list if they weren't on the slightly too-popular-but-not-quite-popular-enough side would have been Sid Meiers Pirates! and Uplink.
Okay. My turn. Considering I tend to play games for new concepts no matter how badly flawed they are, I do my best to name games people have never heard of and/or would throw in the nearest landfill rather than play. So the few I'm suggesting are going to confuse some people.
Trust and Betrayal again gets a mention for being the only game I know to actually convince me the computer had feelings and was able to speak in coherent sentances. Carnage Heart, a quirky program-your-own-AI-battling-robot game deserves a remake (and a less vertical learning curve). Blaze and Blade: Eternal Quest deserves an award for beating Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles to the idea of four player offline multiplayer RPGs by about six years even if it has no economy.
Oh, and Deaththrow for being just a few play balance issues away from being a faithful, fun crossbreed of basketball and Speedball. Chaos League for being the same and a shameless rip off from Blood Bowl.
Topping this list are three strategy games which truly need to be considered underappreciated due to thier amazing content, innovative gameplay, and the fact the game studios STILL were shut down due to commercial failure despite positive reviews. Elixir Studio's two shining glories Republic and Evil Genius are two of the most engrossing experiences I've had in a computer game, and Murkyfoot's Startopia (which could only be described as capitalistic Dungeon Keeper in SPACE) deserves a remake.
Other games that may have made the list if they weren't on the slightly too-popular-but-not-quite-popular-enough side would have been Sid Meiers Pirates! and Uplink.
