underrated games

[adam_devry]

Put down the games that GI,gamepro,nintendomag, gamespot, and others have gave low ratings to put you have played and liked. For me its Eat Lead. GI gave it a 7 which isnt bad but they bashed the heck out of it I think its funny really easy but funny i mean you get 15 achivement points just for starting the game and 5 for the first time you push start.

[aclbandit]

Put down the games that GI,gamepro,nintendomag, gamespot, and others have gave low ratings to put you have played and liked. For me its Eat Lead. GI gave it a 7 which isnt bad but they bashed the heck out of it I think its funny really easy but funny i mean you get 15 achivement points just for starting the game and 5 for the first time you push start.

Speed Racer on the Wii -- one of the few games that uses the Wii remote in a way that isn't stupid. Great game.

Little Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ for Nintendo DS -- great shmup, and hilariously bizarre.

[Icarus Moonsight]

Wartech: Senko no Ronde

This game was used as a toilet by the vg journalists at large. When people start throwing around negative context quips like 'Dreamcast game' I stop listening.

[kupomogli]

Brigandine(PSX.) IGN gave it a 3/10 rating. Their main reason why they gave it such a low score is due to how long the battle animations took. Hey what's this? You can turn battle animations off?

God Hand(PS2.) IGN, again, gave it a 3/10 rating. Due to how hard the game was and Gene was too hard to control. Maybe the game doesn't suck, but IGN?

Wild ARMs 3(PS2.) Gamespot gave it a 7.5 rating, which isn't bad, but it certainly deserves higher. When you read why they gave it the ranking, they spend half the review comparing the original Wild ARMs to FF7 and giving false information(like FF7 coming out first, which is false by a few months.) The rest of the review they were bashing WA3 saying for a game during that time it should have voice acting(which hardly any RPGs during that year had voice acting) or picking at small things within the game that didn't matter if they were there or not due to that they had no effect on gamelpay. Let's not forget that Suikoden 3 came out the same month(after WA3,) and it had no voice acting as well as some glaring flaws but they rated it 9.1. Though don't get me wrong., I love Suikoden 3 and I'd agree on a 9/10 score, but from the standpoint of WA3 and its review, Gamespot is biased.

[HYB]

I like Enchanted Arms for the 360. I remember it getting mixed reviews, most bashed the us voice acting, which is horrible but you can turn the jap voices on anyway. I really like the battle system it uses, it's not too hard and not too easy. I also like the golem collecting aspect, since I'm a sucker for pokemon type collect and raise games.

[Nirvana]

Saga Frontier (PS) got a 3.5/5 in Official Playstation Magazine about a decade ago. Honestly, that game is one of my favorite RPGs of all time.

[c0ldb33r]

Jumping Flash 2

I love that game. It did okay when it was released, but no one really talks about it anymore :(

[iloveguns]

Saga Frontier (PS) got a 3.5/5 in Official Playstation Magazine about a decade ago. Honestly, that game is one of my favorite RPGs of all time.

OMG! i still have that game.. its my favorite...
well i am now running it on an emulator..

[Mark III]

Brigandine(PSX.) IGN gave it a 3/10 rating. Their main reason why they gave it such a low score is due to how long the battle animations took. Hey what's this? You can turn battle animations off?

God Hand(PS2.) IGN, again, gave it a 3/10 rating. Due to how hard the game was and Gene was too hard to control. Maybe the game doesn't suck, but IGN?




Heh, those were the same two I was going to reccomend.

Another great underrated game was Wizardry for the PS2. An old school dungeon crawler that has excellent artwork and atmosphere. Probably my favorite RPG on the system but seemed to get nothing but bad reviews when it was released.


I'd also like to veto Shadow of the Colossus. Whenever there's a thread about obscure or underrated games someone always has to plug that game. It was a critically acclaimed game that sold like a million copies, it is neither obscure or undderrated.

[sebastiankirchoff]

Mission Impossible (N64 and PS)- A decent spy game that got pretty low reviews from a lot of magazines. The voice acting is hilariously bad (almost Resident Evil bad) and there are some collision detection problems, but overall it is a decent game.

Metal Gear Ac!d (PSP)- Got good reviews by magazines but gets shit on by pretty much everyone else. I think its a pretty good game and pretty challenging, and my friends who are Metal Gear fans also enjoy it.

[Nesmaster]

According to Metacritic, Two Worlds is sitting at 50 average on the 360. I absolutely loved the game and seriously can't wait to dig into their second one, The Temptation whenever it ships.

Others in the 50s:
Beowulf
Civil War
Bullet Witch
Tenchu Z

In the 60s:
Need for Speed Undercover
Crash of the Titans
Wheelman
EDF 2017
Enchanted Arms

Lower 70s:
Full Auto
Timeshift
The Simpsons
Call of Juarez
Amped 3
Mercenaries 2
Just Cause

I'll stop there, once you get into 75+ you get a slew of good games. Plus 75 isn't "mixed" or "negative" anymore. For being 50 - 75 games, I enjoyed all of these. Some of them moreso than the games showing up higher in the list.

[misfits859]

I seem to recall that Flatout 2 (Ultimate Carnage) was dismissed by lots of reviewers. Incredibly fun game with lots of Oh Shit! moments. Fun racer with great physics.

[JunkTheMagicDragon]

as the resident AR fanboy (not accounts receivable), i have to pimp advent rising. phenomenal game. did what force unleashed tried to do, 3 years earlier, and better. engaging story, moving soundtrack. but the major sites panned it for some technical glitches (which i never encountered on my playthroughs).

egm 5/10, gamespy 5/10, g4 4/10

[SpaceHarrier]

Vampire Night - 65% Metacritic.. but Time Crisis 3 gets an 81? I dunno, I had a lot of fun with it. The voice acting is hilarious. "Don't COME! Don't come!"

and 2nds to:
Bullet Witch. Had a ton of fun with this. The only major thing that bugged me were the glitchy shadows.. A fantastic leading lady and whoa, once those floating brains starting tossing whole cities full of cars at you! Fun times...

[Sonicwolf]

NIGHT TRAP

Yes, I liked it and found it pretty entertaining and even difficult at times. The 3DO and PC versions made it a little less shitty what with the dramatically improved video resolution and load times. Its just a big campy mess but still fun nonetheless.

[jedimind7]

Off the top of my head the first game that comes to mind is The Red Star for PS2. Really fun beat em up/shooter game.

[Ed Oscuro]

The voice acting [in Mission Impossible for N64] is hilariously bad (almost Resident Evil bad)
It's worse; much worse.

But here, y'alls can be the judge of that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwHWi9dV-cY&fmt=18

[Wraith Storm]

Bullet Witch. Had a ton of fun with this. The only major thing that bugged me were the glitchy shadows.. A fantastic leading lady and whoa, once those floating brains starting tossing whole cities full of cars at you! Fun times...

AGREED!
For me, this is one of the best damn games I have played in the past 8 years or so. I absolutely LOVED it! I beat it on Normal, then Easy, and now i'm going through it a third time!!!


NIGHT TRAP

Yes, I liked it and found it pretty entertaining and even difficult at times. The 3DO and PC versions made it a little less shitty what with the dramatically improved video resolution and load times. Its just a big campy mess but still fun nonetheless.

I have always had a soft spot for full motion video games. I love Dragon's Lair and Space Ace (How can you hate Don Bluth) and when I got a Sega CD I fell in love with Time Gal and Revenge of Ninja.

Eventually I got Night Trap for the Sega CD-32X (MUCH better than the Sega CD version) and have ton's of great memories of my friends and I staying up all night playing it.

[LiquidPolicenaut]

I totally agree with Night Trap and Vampire Night!! Vampire Night is a classic that I , too, enjoy a little more than Time Crisis. I also love Night Trap for its campiness and I enjoy both my Sega CD and 3DO copies every now and then :)

To me, I think two underrated games are Lunar:TSS and Lunar:EB for the Sega CD, especially Lunar:EB. It is still my favorite 16-bit RPG to date....

[kupomogli]

To me, I think two underrated games are Lunar:TSS and Lunar:EB for the Sega CD, especially Lunar:EB. It is still my favorite 16-bit RPG to date....

Lunar? Underrated? Regardless of the original incarnations or the complete versions, the Lunar series are in no way underrated. The fanbase is a bit too large seeing as neither are very good.

[alexkidd2000]

Speed Devils Online for Dreamcast.

God I LOVED that game. It was so great online. Had the perfect mix of racing, upgrades, money, and rankings. I have no idea why it got so little love by mainstream.

[CaptainFalcon13]

I like Dark Sector. I don't know why people make fun of that game. I like the Gears of War duck and cover style. I like the Glaive and stuff you can do with the glaive. The fights are innovative and challenging. The only thing I can say is that the story is a little off kilter and the voice actor for Hayden sucks. It is also a little difficult, but what fun is a game that is a cake walk?

[Chadt74]

I second Dark Sector. Esp for the fact that it is only like $10. I played the PS3 version and liked it and yes the Glaive was cool.

[SegaAges]

I will say for sports games, definately Steep Slope Sliders. With games like cool boarders, SSS did not get the recognition, imho, that it deserved.

I used the play the hell out of this game on Saturn, and now that I have it for arcade, it is the main game that I play out of everything, again.

Very awesome game.

[jcalder8]

I'm not sure if this is supposed to modern games only or not but assuming that it is:

Civil War is a unique take on the overdone FPS War genre. I'm playing through it right now and although the graphics and AI isn't the greatest, it adds a unique atmosphere due to the fact that many of the guns only hold one shot and then take 3-5 seconds to reload. It makes you pick your shots more carefully.

[Poofta!]

Postal 2. CGW gave it a 0/10. pretty much saying that the game looks like ass (it doesnt, unreal 2 engine) takes too long to load (maybe, i never had issue, then again i had a fast pc) and more than anything, due to the offensive content, which i found hilarious and sunk hours upon hours into.

[Nirvana]

OMG! i still have that game.. its my favorite...
well i am now running it on an emulator..

Seriously, I've done like every single thing in that game with every character. I don't know why but I freakin loved that game.

[Icarus Moonsight]

Lunar? Underrated? Regardless of the original incarnations or the complete versions, the Lunar series are in no way underrated. The fanbase is a bit too large seeing as neither are very good.

Maybe not underrated (in certain circles), true, but to say Lunar SS or EB are not good games is just plain ignorant. They are legendary among 16-bit RPGs. The Lunar series and Snatcher made the Sega CD worth having back then.

[j_factor]

Lunar is great, but it got consistently positive reviews at the time, so I fail to see how it belongs in this thread.

Disaster Report got crapped on by some. I loved it.

[Spartacus]

Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green is a first-person shooter based on the George A. Romero zombie movie Land of the Dead. Most of the reviews I've seen gave it a 1/10 score. The average reviewer score at Metacritic.com is 32 / 100, while users gave it 6.7/10. I think the user scores are much more fair and accurate. Being a fan of zombies and Romero myself, I would give the Xbox version I played a 7/10 rating. It had it’s flaws, but it had some good moments too.

[c0ldb33r]

Lunar is great, but it got consistently positive reviews at the time, so I fail to see how it belongs in this thread.
I expect that what the original poster of that comment meant was something along the lines of the following:


The Lunar Sega CD games are absolutely wonderful and didn't get anywhere near the attention that they deserved. Sure, they may not be underrated per se as they rated quite well, but should have received easily as much mainstream attention as the Final Fantasy series, and didn't, which is a shame.

...and if that IS what he meant, I agree.

[LiquidPolicenaut]

I expect that what the original poster of that comment meant was something along the lines of the following:


The Lunar Sega CD games are absolutely wonderful and didn't get anywhere near the attention that they deserved. Sure, they may not be underrated per se as they rated quite well, but should have received easily as much mainstream attention as the Final Fantasy series, and didn't, which is a shame.


...and if that IS what he meant, I agree.

That's actually the best way I SHOULD have said what I meant in my original comment :) In some circles, obviously, it's a very well known series , but, sadly, I still mention it to many a gamer now and they are like "What's Lunar" *sigh*

[c0ldb33r]

...but, sadly, I still mention it to many a gamer now and they are like "What's Lunar" *sigh*
Same thing with the game I chose, Jumping Flash for PSX.