Underrated games you like?

[Purkake]

Considering the de facto 7-9 rating system, I'd say under 80%.

 

But that's just me.

 

Also:

 

Dark Messiah

Desperados

[Purkake]

as well as Fahrenheit.

[entrerix]

that one always cracks me up

[Orogun01]

Just remembered one, "Second Sight"

[mkreku]

Fable 2

Eurogamer awarded it 10/10...

 

So what did it deserve? 11?

 

Metacritic average is 89/100..

 

So.. exactly how good was this game? Seeing as it is a whole 9 points behind the highest rated game in the history of Metacritic..

[Walsingham]

Agreed on Star Wars Rebellion (Supremacy in the UK). A game I enjoyed and played so much that I now actually understand the astromech droid bleeps.

[Majek]

Legacy of Kain series.

 

These games are underrated? o.O?

Well yes. 5 games and two of them are good, rest are rather avarage. But the story kicks ass!

 

I think the first 3 are great, the 4th is a little worse and the last one just has problems with camera but that never bothered me. Story is indeed great as were all the VA's. Trivia: The writer is writing stories for Uncharted these days.

 

Oh and the underrated game i like is Silver.

Though the game did get are great score from the reviewers i respect and IGN and Gamespot are the biggest idiots of the game reviewing industry and they confirm that every single year. Pc gamer is not much better either.

[Rostere]

UFO: Afterlight by Altar (Tactical + 4x)

Man, there are so many things wrong with this game, it deserves all the hate it got. There was so much potential for it and many interesting features from research, to general base management to their pseud-real-time combat system, but the lack of environments, actual tactics and most of all, variety killed it.

 

I have to disagree here. Ever since I played Altar's Original War I have liked all their games for no particular reason other than bias (kind of like how some Morrowind fans defend Oblivion, I guess). I understand if others might think it's bland though.

[cronicler]

Ah yes, thanks for reminding me .

The Original War by Altar

 

Evil Genius

 

Spellbound's commandos rips were mostly bland (desperados, d2, d3, Robin Hood, the gangster one) but I did like them. Shame no one makes any more rts puzzle games anymore

 

 

 

UFO:A

I agree that the game has truckloads of problems yet, it still manages to capture my attention and answer my preferences; Small team, Tactical combat, Secret (ish.... ok not secret in any way but still it's an upgredable) base, A story.

Edited December 16, 2010 by cronicler

[Hassat Hunter]

Oh and the underrated game i like is Silver.

If you mean the same game at least. Shame they never got around to making the 3D patch they apparently had in the works, that would make it a bit more able to run on modern PC's, even with all the community fixes there are issues on certain spots .

[Morgoth]

Spellbound's commandos rips were mostly bland (desperados, d2, d3, Robin Hood, the gangster one) but I did like them. Shame no one makes any more rts puzzle games anymore

Oh btw, what is Pyro up to these days anyway? Haven't heard from those in eons.

 

Commandos 1 has a very special place in my heart, as it was the game that turned me into a serious gamer.

[Malcador]

Afterlife is another one, thinking about it. It's a SimCity clone, but the humour of the punishments and virtues was great. "Unlike a certain software company, the denizens of Hell have cable..."

[Majek]

Spellbound's commandos rips were mostly bland (desperados, d2, d3, Robin Hood, the gangster one) but I did like them. Shame no one makes any more rts puzzle games anymore

First Desperados game and Robin Hood are as awesome as the first Commandos game, other are crap but Commandos 3 and this latest thing they made aren't worth mentioning either.

 

I mean this Silver Hassat

and i0d love to play again if the manage to make it work.

Edited December 16, 2010 by Majek

[Purkake]

Ah yes, thanks for reminding me .

The Original War by Altar

 

Evil Genius

 

Spellbound's commandos rips were mostly bland (desperados, d2, d3, Robin Hood, the gangster one) but I did like them. Shame no one makes any more rts puzzle games anymore

 

 

 

UFO:A

I agree that the game has truckloads of problems yet, it still manages to capture my attention and answer my preferences; Small team, Tactical combat, Secret (ish.... ok not secret in any way but still it's an upgredable) base, A story.

Desperados(1) is the Commandos formula refined to a shiny diamond. You have useful, diverse abilities, fun characters, varied missions and a really nice challenging campaign.

 

Afterlight feels like they finally managed to get everything right, but then remembered that they actually had to add the gameplay combat part as well and it ended up being bolted on at best.

Edited December 16, 2010 by Purkake

[sorophx]

Oh and the underrated game i like is Silver.

oh ,man I still have my copy but I could never make it run on any of my PCs... maybe I should just find a working cracked version

[Raithe]

Agreed on Star Wars Rebellion (Supremacy in the UK). A game I enjoyed and played so much that I now actually understand the astromech droid bleeps.

 

Ah hah! Indeed. That was one that was great for slow, day long lan matches. Lost a few weekends away during uni with beer and Supremacy..

 

Also, firmly agreed with Evil Genius. That was a stonking fun game...

Edited December 16, 2010 by Raithe

[Hassat Hunter]

I mean this Silver Hassat

and i0d love to play again if the manage to make it work.

oh ,man I still have my copy but I could never make it run on any of my PCs... maybe I should just find a working cracked version

That's the one yeah.

 

And I got a host of community patches here to make it work. The site went offline, but I could send them by mail. Take less than 4MB in total, and you wouldn't need to use all except if you get the issues listed of course. May still crash on the inventory overview screen, but you really never need it, although it's forced upon you one, it also includes a save for the point after that so you can just use that if it crashes there on you.

 

I also hear 7 has less issues than Vista, but I know of neither since I use XP anyways :D.

[sorophx]

I tried it on two different XP machines (both SP2 though). I do have a laptop with Vista, I'll try installing on it too. the problem was it'd never even start up. after the installation it just gives a couple of errors when I try to start the game.

[Hassat Hunter]

Well, same here without the modified .exe that I found somewhere, and applying the GeForce patch.

 

Still requires the CD obviously, since most content (VO lines and such) are on the disk.

[Syraxis]

ys series PSP games; they're great hack&slash/ARPG/Platformer games.

[GreasyDogMeat]

Anybody mention Anachronox?

[~Di]

Anybody mention Anachronox?

 

OMG, how could I have forgotten Anachronox?? I loved that quirky game, just loved it.

[cronicler]

How could you like a game that features a Planet (on the run from creditors) as a companion??!?

Ps: I'ts ultimate weapon is found on itself?!

Edited December 18, 2010 by cronicler

[Big Bottom]

How could you like a game that features a Planet (on the run from creditors) as a companion??!?

Ps: I'ts ultimate weapon is found on itself?!

 

That sounds quite cool to me.

[sorophx]

I thought Anachronox had gone way overboard with a lot of things