Your personal biggest underrated game of all time

[WildFire15]

City of Heroes

Very much under appreciated and killed well before it's time.

 

[Exius Xavarus]

I know it was. Sly 3 wrapped everything up real nice-like and it didn't need a sequel at all. But I can't personally complain about more Sly Cooper. :x

Did Sucker Punch comment on Sly 4? I wanna know what they think about it.

I don't honestly remember. I think I read somewhere that Sanzaru Games had spent an extensive amount of time studying the game's styles and all that fun jazz to make sure they do the series justice. But that's about all I can remember.

 

[Aurora Firestorm]

Jet Force Gemini! So overlooked, so amazing. Rare once made amazing games for consoles I cared about...

 

[Jfswift]

Easy.

Puzzle-RPG with some of the best music in the franchise. The characters are blank slates and 100% is actually possible for most players. As you fight monsters and bosses, their sprites show damage as the HP lowers. Here's some music...

That was a surprisingly fun game. I remember playing that back when it came out. I agree that it has a really sweet soundtrack. Here's Daniel Tidwell performing the song you had linked earlier.

 

[AndrewF022]

Mine would probably have to be Dark Messiah Might and Magic... it reviewed ok and has a small but dedicated following of fans but its a game I cannot recommend highly enough.

Tell me, is the PC version somehow radically different? Back in the day I picked it from the bargain bin for Xbox 360 and paid 30 euros for it, and found out that I absolutely hated the game for it was so incredibly mediocre and bland. I still regret the purchase; I feel embarrassed for being cheated into buying that trash.

Then later on I found out that some people actually like the game, but they all always said that you should play it on the PC with lots of mods.

You played Dark Messiah: Might and Magic Elements the Xbox 360 port... which is a terrible port yes. Play the PC version, mods aren't needed, but worth looking at if you can't play it 'vanilla'. Just don't go into it thinking it's an RPG or looking for a good story because you ain't gonna find much of either. Even so you just might not like the game, plain and simple... and their ain't nothing wrong with that.

 

[CommanderL]

Mount&Blade: Warband, one of the best games. Has a good modding community, great mods, good concept and I still heard people say it's not good. I can't believe them...

You stole my answer


Also alpha protocol
But mount and blade is amazing one thing it does is make you feel small but at the same time like your doing something The floris mod makes it all kinds of amazing But its such a good game the sence of pride you feel when you and your mind defend a castle even though your out numbered five to one is amazing

 

[TrevHead]

Vanquish, Binary Domain plus Fortune Summoners Deluxe which plays alittle like a Cutesy 2D Dark Souls lite. Also the Ys series for a top down ARPG, WarSong / Langrisser series which Advanced Wars cloned itself on.

Also the 8/16 bit adventure games by Mike Singleton (Lords of the Midnight, Midwinter) the guy should be up there with Peter Molyneux and Sid Meiers imo.

 

[havoc33]

I would say the Yakuza series. Especially Yakuza 4. Most people thought this was just a quick money grab by Sega, but it's actually the best in the series IMO.

 

[Mr Dizazta]

Star Fox: Assault

 

[Reyold]

For me, it's got to be Zack and Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure.

It's one of the few good games for the Wii, and one of the fewer that actually benefitted from motion controls. It's a puzzle-adventure where you solve adventure game-style puzzles to put a legendary pirate's golden skeleton back together...yeah.

It's also a really, REALLY hard game if you go without hints, but figuring out a puzzle on your own... I can't tell you how good it feels (plus it's good for your score).

Overall, awesome game.

 

[Karhukonna]

Lessee here, trying to contribute something new here...

Nope, Alpha Protocol is getting plenty of love. Level-5 in general is taken, as well. God Hand has been mentioned too. Jesus people, you ain't leaving me no choice but to whip out my trusty ol'...

Breath of Fire III. Or the entire series, pretty much. Why?

Spoiler: A couple of things...

The character roster is very impressive and interesting. An ancient guardian, a weretiger, a winged princess and a goddamn boxing onion. And the main character is a dragon, to boot.

Combine dragons and tigers, and you get what amounts to the single most awesome thing in a fantasy RPG since... I can't even tell.

You punks want to bring it up a notch? Breath of Fire IV. A goddamn exquisite masterpiece of a game, I tell ya. I still prefer III, but that's just my nostalgia speaking. I mean, they're both old games, but III is the one I play through once a year. Sometimes even IV, but always III. I won't go into details here, as I've already derailed plenty enough.

My final answer? BoF III. Hands down. Just too many fond memories to pick anything else.

 

[Iwata]

had rly low expectations based on the reviews i read but turned out great

I second that. Really superb game.

 

[razor343]

Gothic. Now, don't get me wrong. The people who do appreciate this game appreciate it's the second coming of christ. But to me it seems like it never really broke out of Eastern Europe in terms of its fan base.

 

[Iwata]

Second though; Mech Warrior: Mercenaries. Lived in the shadow of it's predecessor, but in it's own right a damn good game.

Which one? The one based on MW2 and the Clan Invasion is awesome, the one based on MW4 and the FedCom Civil War... not so much.

 

[Strelok]

~SNIP~

Couldn't agree more with this, used to be the only reason I kept my XBox around, since the better version came out I gave the XBox away, but kept the Alan Wake CE that came in the book turned my PC version into a proper CE. Great atmosphere, great story, and character that at times was hard to like, but that is what made him more human. Two really great villains, probably the best I have seen in a long time. Barbra Jagger and Mr. Scratch. So sad that it was a bit of a flop on XBox, able to recoup their development costs within 24 hours of release for the PC version though. Here's to hoping we see a sequel, and maybe this time everyone can enjoy it, even PS3 fans.

Hard Reset, think Serious Sam with amazing graphics and terrible voice acting. Still one of my favorites though and extremely unforgiving.

Binary Domain was really well done, not what I was expecting when I picked it up on Steam sale. Couldn't stop playing till 4 in the morning, had to call in sick because of it.

BioShock 2, not the best story, but I like the little sister elements, and with the Minerva's Den DLC, the story is just as good if not a little better than the first.

NecroVision and Lost Company, from a foot soldier in World War 1 in the trenches, to a magic wielding vampire riding a dragon or a mech, yeah that escalated quickly. Probably one of the most bizarre games I have played, really fun, but a system punisher.

The Void, creepy and weird, and very much an interesting story.

There are more, but I will leave them to the inevitable repeat of this thread next month.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

Madworld.
Not a single person I knew had played it (and a large percentage of that hadn't even heard of it) until I let them borrow it.

 

[CaptainKoala]

Mass Effect 1. How could you finish this game, and then even consider anything in me2 and especially me3 ANY good?

I disagree, at least as far as ME2 goes. ME1 was very obviously made on a budget, but was still one of the greatest games ever. Mass Effect 2 is the same design philosophy and great story as ME1, just with more money, and it's one of my top 5 favorite games of all time.

EDIT: I completely agree with you on Assassin's Creed though. Way too much changed from AC1, and it's been going downhill since mid AC2 when the story started getting batshit crazy.