Underrated Games

[FrieChamp]

Generic as hell but a great atmosphere.

Ahhh Chris Taylor, not hearing a whole lot from him these days

[KungFuSquirrel]

":3vmrhszr]Ah, prey was not underrated... was it? Great game btw, they really put idtech4 to good use. better use than the quake4 guys. :-|

It's not exactly held up as some bastion of gaming goodness, didn't have super stellar sales... I think it deserved more success than it had.

And I see what you did there.

[Mazy]

Vagina doors FTW!

http://www.gamingblog.org/images/preyy.jpg (NSFW LOLO!)

[-HP-]

ah ah, just fucking with ya KungFuSquirrel!

[Buddy]

system shock 2 underrated ?! i thought its being held in "universal acclaim" by just about everybody critics and consumers alike ?!

i think it just didn't sold too well ( i bought it back then though )

[D3ads]

system shock 2 underrated ?! i thought its being held in "universal acclaim" by just about everybody critics and consumers alike ?!

Oh and D3, System Shock 2 and NOLF? Underrated? What the hell are you talking about. Both those games sold quite well for the time, and they got amazing reviews. Everybody that's played them will probably hold them up as some of the best games of all time. In fact they're games, especially SS2, that are still influencing the industry to this date.

Well it might not be as underrated as some titles but it didn't recieve the sales it deserved and there's loads of people today who have never heard of it. I mean if you mention Looking Glass studios to anyone they're more likely to think Thief than SS2.

Of course I could say SS1 is massively underrated like many people do, but I've never played it so I can't comment.

As for NOLF, when people think Monolith these days they think of F.E.A.R., compared to that title NOLF had nowhere near as much influence on gamers, you and I and a fair few here might hold it with high regard, but there's plenty out there that have never heard of NOLF.

Id love to still get a chance to give requiem a shot. I played the demo a whole lot when it came out but eventually bought AVP instead with the little money I had then

Great game, being able to cast spells is the best thing about it, since the weapons are pretty crappy. It's awesome being able to turn an enemy into salt and watch them disentegrate before you, or summon a swarm of locusts that surround them or boil their blood so much they explode into a gibbed mess. Most awesome powers are definately the possess ones where you can either trick an enemy into being a ally and attacking other enemies or possess them directly so you can either go stealth or mow them down before they know what's hit them, especially great for the dreadnought class

[madgernader]

Ahhh Chris Taylor, not hearing a whole lot from him these days

I would assume he's working on Supreme Commander 2, seeing as the first one was so good...

[Bic-B@ll]

[jaboo224]

GREAT sense of humour and a constant change on gameplay! amazing if you ask me.

[Erratic]

Oh shit the N64 -

Mystical Ninja - So awesome. Everything about it.

Winback - This shit was the first REAL cover shooter, fuck that Kill Switch shit.

Truly underrated titles right there.

[JohnC]

Ah, Winback. The game I always wanted to play and all the video stores never had.

[insta]

It's a turnbased squad game set just after WW2 in an alternate history or something like that. It had fully destructible enviroments, ragdolls (that was major back then!) and lots of other cool shit. It's sort of like UFO Xcom, with nazis and ragdolls.

[D3ads]

lol.. yellow nazis. I like the idea of an alternative future where WWII went on longer than it did, Iron Storm is the only other game I can think of that tried this and it was shit, someone needs to do the idea justice!

[insta]

lol.. yellow nazis. I like the idea of an alternative future where WWII went on longer than it did, Iron Storm is the only other game I can think of that tried this and it was shit, someone needs to do the idea justice!

May I suggest....Silent Storm?

[Taylor]

Most underrated game this gen imo.

I love you.