Games you like that no one else does

chamlis

I'm not ashamed to say that I used to love Body Harvest on the N64 back in the day

I swear, it was the closest thing to a 3d sandbox game before GTA3 came out.

None of my buddies understood when I'd go on about it! It had everything!
You travel back in time with a cool futuristic suit, fight really big alien bugs, drive vehicles, big open spaced levels (that you do, admittedly get funneled through).

What's your favourite unappreciated game?

KdjaCL

Your off your head :eek:

Body Harvest is one of the greatest games ever made and is GTA 3 daddy.

DMA Design are now called Rockstar.


That game was awesome.


kdjac

chamlis

Yeah i'm saying I liked it.

My buddies never understood why though.

KoKane

Rolo to the rescue

Auvers

Rings Of Power on the megadrive, I remember reading crappy reviews of it at the time, but I picked it up pre owned and remember it being a fantastic RPG that didn't sell very well, for some bizarre reason

Cuddlesworth

Hello Kitty Island Adventure.

K.O.Kiki

Rez.
I don't know a single gamer IRL who actually understands it on my level -- they all just think it's... boring

Oh well, more synesthesia for me!


Anyone play Little Big Adventure 2? Great adventure game, that.

tHE vAGGABOND

Rez is on pretty much every "PS2 games you must own" list...

[its out on Live Arcade BTW - in case you did not know]

Bubs101

Wayne Gretzky hockey 98 on the 64. Brilliant Brilliant game tha no body understood

po0k

Flashpoint (relative to most of Ireland at least)

L31mr0d

Pro Tennis Tour on the Amstrad GX4000... absolutely loved that game. Guess nobody else loved it because nobody else played it

Also I loved Star Wars: Republic Commandos, its up there as one of my favorite games of all time yet it received a horrible reception and few people actually liked it. I think it came out in between Battlefront and Battlefront 2 so got overlooked by most people waiting for Battlefront 2.

jonski

Crimson Skies

tman

Somehow doubt that I'll ever meet another person IRL who actually gets why Ouendan! is one of my favourite games of all time.
Tried explaining it to a mate once, but couldn't quite sell the idea of a quirky rhythm based game with male cheerleaders to him:p

johnny_ultimate

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Rez.
I don't know a single gamer IRL who actually understands it on my level -- they all just think it's... boring

What.. really? Everyone I talk to about it (admittedly I know very few who have actually played it) seem to love it. Fantastic experience. Waited years to get to play it, and when I finally downloaded the HD version I understood the fuss immediatedly.

tman wrote: »

Somehow doubt that I'll ever meet another person IRL who actually gets why Ouendan! is one of my favourite games of all time.
Tried explaining it to a mate once, but couldn't quite sell the idea of a quirky rhythm based game with male cheerleaders to him:p

Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan is basically videogame drugs. It is possibly the most stupidly fun experience around. Its crazy Japanese game making at its finest. Again, have only heard positive things, although I am the only person I know who has played it in any depth. My Japanophile friends have loved what they have seen though.

Not really too many games I like that others don't... I have heard alot of negativity about King Kong lately though, which I think is the best movie adaptation in years.

savemejebus

Cold Fear on the xbox - no one else i've ever met rated it but i thought it was a quite decent but short resident evil rip off - and gianna sisters on the C64

Jilm

Dark Messiah of Might & Magic on the PC

mawk

L31mr0d wrote: »

Also I loved Star Wars: Republic Commandos, its up there as one of my favorite games of all time yet it received a horrible reception and few people actually liked it. I think it came out in between Battlefront and Battlefront 2 so got overlooked by most people waiting for Battlefront 2.

yeah, great game. Total annihilation, might be the best rts ever, but its kinda old so people refuse to play it.


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....sega bass fishing..

Gummy Panda

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Anyone play Little Big Adventure 2? Great adventure game, that.

I had the first one and loved it so much. I gave it to a friend to play, he looked at it and thought it was gay. I told him to play it and he loved it to bits. Such a great game.

Helix

earth defence force 2017

littlejp

Amplitude on PS2. Without this game there'd be no Guitar Hero.

"What's going on Mekon, you told me that your on so baby your on......."

Holsten

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Hello Kitty Island Adventure.

Yourself and Butters so.

-annex-

po0k wrote: »

Flashpoint (relative to most of Ireland at least)

+1
Started playing it again last Christmas and all the trees were Christmas trees, genius!
Such a great game.

chamlis

savemejebus wrote: »

Cold Fear on the xbox - no one else i've ever met rated it but i thought it was a quite decent but short resident evil rip off - and gianna sisters on the C64

Ooh I quite liked Cold Fear as well actually

Chumpski

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Not really too many games I like that others don't... I have heard alot of negativity about King Kong lately though, which I think is the best movie adaptation in years.

Yeah, agree with you on that. It is probably the only good movie to game adaption ever released. I think the PSP, DS and 360 versions were poor so that might be why its regarded poorly by most gamers. It was short and a little easy but the gameplay and atmosphere it created was brilliant.

Its a pity that game and movie studios in the meantime didnt pick up on the close relationship Ubisoft and Peter Jackson had in developing the game. As far as i know the game and movie were made together at the same time. Peter Jackson even had a game in mind before he made the movie.

Bubs101

Helix wrote: »

earth defence force 2017

Very popular game, everybody who's played it loves it

joe_chicken

L31mr0d wrote: »

Also I loved Star Wars: Republic Commandos, its up there as one of my favorite games of all time yet it received a horrible reception and few people actually liked it.

Loved that game, best control of AI allies in an FPS I've ever experienced.

Beats the pants off the mechanism in Half Life anyway.

Not a very deep game, but a very enjoyable FPS.

Burning Eclipse

Mission Impossible on the N64.

Also, a lot of people here are listing out games their friends didn't like, but have huge followings and respect...

0ubliette

Turok 360

L31mr0d

joe_chicken wrote: »

Loved that game, best control of AI allies in an FPS I've ever experienced.

Yeah, I haven't played a team based AI FPS since that has such a good AI system. Even if you didn't tell your team what to do they'd take up defensive positions.

The voice acting was very good also, they had the guy who did the voice of Jango Fett as the voice of the lead Commando.

What I hated was they ended on a cliffhanger, but because it didn't sell well they canned the sequel and now I'll never find out how the story ended

Zulu

po0k wrote: »

Flashpoint (relative to most of Ireland at least)

I dunno man, I loved that game as did a good chunk of my mates.

Vegeta

L31mr0d wrote: »

Also I loved Star Wars: Republic Commandos, its up there as one of my favorite games of all time yet it received a horrible reception and few people actually liked it. I think it came out in between Battlefront and Battlefront 2 so got overlooked by most people waiting for Battlefront 2.

This was on the xbox yeah, great great game. Loved this to bits. The squad work was class.

Jesus I feel like getting that out now and playing it or getting my friends to play it.

Ross_Mahon

Spyro the dragon on playstation 1 with the rumble pad

Cunny-Funt

Street Fighter 3

Max_Damage

M25 Racer

The controls were shite, but the graphics were fairly good for the time (1999).

nice1franko

outlander on the snes

Geff

Just Cause.

Lost Planet Extreme Conditions.

Dr Bob

Auvers wrote: »

Rings Of Power on the megadrive, I remember reading crappy reviews of it at the time, but I picked it up pre owned and remember it being a fantastic RPG that didn't sell very well, for some bizarre reason

wow you were the other guy that bought it
I liked that a lot myself but I never met anyone else that had played it.

Evangelion

jonski wrote: »

Crimson Skies

That game was unbelieveable fantastic. Esp. on PC. The Xbox version was just good

L31mr0d

Geff wrote: »

Just Cause.

Lost Planet Extreme Conditions.

Loved both of those games. Just Cause is so underrated. The sunrise and sunsets look better than even GTA IV now. People complained about repetitive gameplay, but what GTA game doesn't have repetitive gameplay. These games are more about the expansive open worlds and the exploring rather than hundreds of different game types.

I loved the ability to just grapple onto a passing helicopter and hijack it in the air.

There making a Just Cause 2 anyway which should also be sweet

Retr0gamer

I quite enjoyed red faction on the PC despite the AI rail gun bug that ****ed up your save games. It wasn't anything special but it was fun.

tony 2 tone

Shellshock: Nam'67 on the PS2

johnny_ultimate

Chumpski wrote: »

Its a pity that game and movie studios in the meantime didnt pick up on the close relationship Ubisoft and Peter Jackson had in developing the game. As far as i know the game and movie were made together at the same time. Peter Jackson even had a game in mind before he made the movie.

I think the combination of Jackson and Michel Ancel (creator of the truly sublime Beyond Good and Evil - the most criminally undersold game in recent history) was perfect - two great talents combined to make fun gameplay with kickass, cinematic atmosphere. The first time I played the river raft mission was breathtaking.

And whoever said Spyro - I have a soft spot in my heart for that two. Had the first three PS1 outings, which I loved at the time. As I grew up and the franchise grew stale I gave up, but they are very fun, cute platformers. Don't know if I'd say that today though or if its just the nostalgia talking. Maybe will give it a whirl some day soon...

Dartz

Stalker, Shadow of Chernobyl...

Had such an awesome potential, but was nerfed by THQ beating GSC Game World on the head to get the thing out a published... so a lot of advertised features were never completely finished. They still exists in the game code, but haven't been used.

This game had so many things that were eradicated just to get it out on time, it's criminal. Entire levels were erased... and it is obvious where they once existed when you play through the game.

that said, I love this game for it's atmosphere... with a decent set of speakers and a good screen, you really do feel like your in the zone. Animal cries at night sent chills up your spine, and the animal/enemy/combat AI is still good. Weapon physics were noted as being the best of their time.

Of course, it's also buggy as hell.... but it's so simple to feck around with that they were fixed by the user community long before GSC thought about it.

I'm loking forward to the oprequel...Clear Sky... which is promising to be everything SOC failed to be. For one thing, THQ are no longer involved.

jasonbourme.cs

I liked assassins creed , one of mates got it then brought it back to store same day .

TheDoc

solider of fortune double helix

Trode

Space Rangers/Space Rangers 2 on PC.
Kind of a 2D, turn-based Elite update, but with sections ranging from arcade shooter to RTS to old-school text adventure. Here's a review that might give you a better impression. Got unfairly ignored because it lacked spangly nVidia-requiring graphics, was a bit rough around the edges and came from an obscure Russian outfit.

also
Shiren the Wanderer on DS.
Enjoyable little Roguelike, but with some persistent elements between plays, and a really novel approach to multiplayer. It can be pretty harsh, especially when you are so completely reliant on the stuff you happen to find, but it's engaging and tense, and resourcefully surviving when your back's to the wall is one of gaming's more rewarding moments.

pwd

Might & Magic 9.

"The game was widely lambasted by critics, citing lack of environment interactivity, uninspiring graphics, and a general lack of polish. In addition, a number of potentially serious software bugs were uncovered shortly after its release"
--wikipedia

I really enjoyed it personally.

I like IF and roguelikes too

Mikeyt086

True Crime: Streets Of LA

Slutmonkey57b

XCOM: Enforcer. Widely hated by Xcom fans. I loved it. Totally stupid kick-ass robot blasting fun.

Cokehead Mother

Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness

Seifer

Kung Fu Chaos on the original xbox. Apparently it sold terribly and I've never met anyone else that had it but it is the best party/fighter I have ever played.
Really well balanced combat system and interesting arenas and games. It's pretty funny too.