Underrated classic games

Nerdlingr wrote: »

Two games that I enjoyed back in the day :

Severence : Blade of Darkness (PC)
Legacy of Kain : Soul Reaver (PS1)

Severence was never really under-rated though ..It's an all time classic.
Wish they would do a HD Remastering of it.

Nerdlingr wrote: »

I dont play PC games that much so wouldnt know anything about them to be honest. I just remember playing thinking "this isnt half bad..and it only cost 4.99 !!"

There's a quote that sums up PC gaming pretty well IMHO :pac:

Cormac... wrote: »

Every time I go to post something here I get cold feet cause someone will invariably interject and go "that wasn't underrated, it was a classic, and was considered a commercial success for the time cause of these sales figures"

But sure I'll give it a go:
Rage

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

There may be an misunderstanding of "underrated"
...
maybe others like Rage as mentioned, but that was a big release with massive marketing behind it but it compared poorly to Fallout 3, it's closest equivalent, despite having a very similar premise though with FPS/Driving front and centre. Fallout 3 was superior though with it's customisability and expansions imho, but Rage was never underrated I reckon, still a decent game though.

I told you :pac:

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Well something can hardly be underrated if it sold really well and was critically well received like Rage.

It was only €20 within days/weeks of launch, hence the well selling, everyone i knew and their dog got a copy of Rage that christmas :pac:

Legend of the dragoon PS1
Stronghold Crusader PC
Crash Team Racing PS1 (Not underrated at all really but forgotten about too early imo)

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Me too. The price of it now sickens me!



That game reviewed badly on release for one reason, it sucked. In fact I'd go so far as to say that it wasn't dealt with harsh enough since it was released at a time when all RPGs got decent marks no matter how bad. Thrash like LoD and Beyond the Beyond managed to score in the 6-7 range. It's pretty much up there with Beyond the Beyond as the worst RPG on the PS1 for me.

As for Crash Team Racing, it was always seen as a half decent Mario Kart clone but nothing special, it's only recently that people have been claiming it's an amazing game. It's decent enough it it isn't that great.

It didn't receive that bad of a reception from most critics tbf. I think it was tough at the time for it to make an impression with FF9 coming out just before it and FF10 coming out a few months after it, it was easily lost in the mix as it fails in comparison to both of them games.

It certainly wasn't anything special but i really enjoyed it and felt it had great potential, just my take, i understand the hate.

CTR got amazing reviews and rightfully so, again it had the problem of being so similar to Mario Kart but imo it blows Mario out of the water. I'm not a fan of Crash,spyro etc or of racing games in particular but there was something about CTR that i just loved, i lost/sold it prob around 03 and bought it again in 06 to see if i'd still enjoy it and it was just as good as i remembered.

Lost/sold that prob 08ish and bought it on psn last year, still play the thing to this day. As for the recent praise? I don't know anything about that I've always sung it's praises.

Not familiar with Crusader?

DOn;t know how people felt about them but Smash TV and Greendog were two of my favourites form the Sega

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Smash tv is a well known classic although the on,y real way to play it is in the arcade with twin sticks. Green dog on the other gand, that game was awful, so bloody slow!

That actually sounds class for Smash Hits, Im actually tempted to dig out the megadrive and see if I can finish it.

Greendog, I always thought was cool, even if I was a bit freaked out by the character and enemy designs. I was fairly young at the time.

Some great shouts on here.

Underrated is one of those perennialy difficult qulalities to quantify. Shenmue was critically lauded, but only thrree of us owned a dreamcast so I reckon it serves

Agree with Eternal Darkness, totally overlooked at the time. Something of a flawed masterpiece, but got closer to that lovecraftian feeling than most survival horror with their flickering neon lighting (hell, my utitlity room does that to me all the time) and cat out of the cupboard scares.

Noone has mentioned ICO yet. Criminally ignored by the buying public despite rave reviews and to date one of my most satisfying gaming experiences.

Wopuld also agree with Tenchu, yeaaaah there were a couple of control issues, but it was unfairly maligned considering how right it got most everything else.

Black. An awesome but very short FPS on PS2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-HR6Q6hxdE

It's hard to define underrated really. Would it be a game critically lauded but ignored by the gaming populace, or something that got critically panned but developed a cult following?

I'd like to say Bushido Blade for the PS1 because I've never actually met anyone who's heard of it, let alone played it, and I haven't heard it mentioned in years. But on release it got great reviews and sold quite well if memory serves.

A few other PS1 gems I've rarely heard mentioned since the turn of the millennium:
Exhumed I really enjoyed, it was a FPS set in Egypt and was insanely difficult (for me anyway), I think I gave up after getting lost repeatedly!

Spider was the imaginatively titled game where you played... as a spider. It was an interesting little platformer but took a lot of getting used to given that you could walk upside down on surfaces. You were essentially the arachnid equivalent of Rose McGowan in grindhouse, adding weapons onto your legs to defeat other spiders and the like.

Blood Lines and Dead Ball Zone were both games that were nothing special in single player but great fun with a friend.
Blood Lines is hard to describe, you were in an arena where the aim is to light up a set amount of orbs, but you can only light them up once you have attacked your opponent. If he attacks you back then he gains the ability to light up said orbs, and back and forth it goes. Bad description but there you go.
Dead Ball Zone was a futuristic sports game except you could pull out assault rifles and chainsaws or even blow the ball up if the opposing team had it. Lots of fun!

Every damn time :pac: