Underrated classic games

Jikashi

tok9 wrote: »

Only thing I disliked was the very end.. considering [Beyond Good and Evil] is 10 years old and nothing has come out since.

It sold very poorly when it came out, eventually building in popularity later. The sequel has been in development hell for years now

jonny24ie

jonny24ie wrote: »

Actually one that was underrated somewhat at the time was "Soldier of Fortune" on the PC, me and my brother got countless hours out of that game.

Soldier Of Fortune got great reviews & sold well...not underrated.

tok9

tok9 wrote: »

Finished Beyond Good and Evil there. For some reason I assumed it'd take me a long time to finish but it's actually a relatively short game.

Only thing I disliked was the very end.. considering the game is 10 years old and nothing has come out since.


Now.. might just pick up God Hand. It'd be nice if SCEE had more PS2/PSP sales.

You sir, are in for a treat. Just be patience and you will be rewarded. Takes a while to get the hang of the control system.

Then it's about fine tuning your attack setup.

And wasting time and gold in the Casino

I'm going to start my 'Hard' play-through.

Kimbot

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Soldier Of Fortune got great reviews & sold well...not underrated.

I remember not alot of people even heard of it at the time. Altho I just loved the way you could blow parts off everyone haha

leesherwin

Wanted the game i taught was a good game and was fairly underated

Glebee

Enslaved:Odyssey to the West
Spec Ops:The Line
Alan Wake
Warhammer 400000:Space marine
Singularity
Crysis:Warhead
Call of Juarez Series(Maybe not "The cartell")
Bulletstorm
Far Cry 2
Conan MMO
Beytrayor

All for PC

Probally named before

TerrorFirmer

Most of games on that list are critically acclaimed and commercially successful!
Singularity was definitely under-appreciated though.

Soldier of Fortune and SOF2 were incredible (I preferred the SOF2 MP to Counter Strike and COD), shame they made such a cheap, crappy budget job of Soldier of Fortune 3.

CiDeRmAn

I think the team that made Singularity, Raven, have made a lot of games that failed to light fires to be honest.
A lot of sequels and derivatives of other peoples work/game engines.

gizmo

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I think the team that made Singularity, Raven, have made a lot of games that failed to light fires to be honest.
A lot of sequels and derivatives of other peoples work/game engines.

As a studio they previously worked pretty closely with iD, using various iterations of their engines for most of their titles. The result was a series of absolutely cracking games throughout the 90s and early 2000s. Things started going slightly awry after that with some solid if unspectacular releases as well as the odd flat out disappointment. The development issues related to Wolfenstein (2009) and Singularity led to a massive team upheaval and seem to have seen them related to a Call of Duty add-on factory now which is a crying shame given their lineage.

um7y1h83ge06nx

Just did a Google there, my under rated game The Lost Vikings was developed by Silicon and Synapse.

That team later changed their name to Blizzard! Good pedigree!

Duggy747

Sandra Fit Write-off wrote: »

Just did a Google there, my under rated game The Lost Vikings was developed by Silicon and Synapse.

That team later changed their name to Blizzard! Good pedigree!

Loved that intro music on the SNES :pac:

Great game

gizmo

Hostile Waters.

Possibly one of my favourite PC games from the early 2000s, Hostile Waters was like Battlezone crossed with Carrier Command. Using your carrier, Antaeus, as your base, you scavenged for resources built up your fleet of customised units, both air, land and sea based, and fought an enemy across an archipelago in the Pacific. The story, written by Warren Ellis, was actually pretty damn good too.

Alas, while critically well received it didn't sell the best, like many of RAGE's later titles.

It was recently made available on Steam too having been on GoG for the last while. Definitely give it a shot if you're a fan of the above games.

Herzog Zwei for Sega Mega Drive. Miles ahead of its time in terms of RTS's. Incredibly complicated compared to most games released on that system. It also had split screen 1v1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EO53h7nWEU

I just found its spiritual successor!

Kiith

Sacrifice.

Not sure how underrated it is, but i almost never hear anyone talk about it. Kind of like an RTS, where you directly control a wizard who sides with one of five gods. They grant different spells and creatures to control. The gods were brilliant, and siding with one would lock out another. It was also really funny from what i remember.

tok9

Bought God Hand off one of the PSN sales relatively recently and started playing it over the weekend.

Bloody hell it's tough. Played it for about 4 hours now and I've made it to the 4th chapter but man.. I get my ass handed to me quite a bit (especially in that fight against Shannon)! Getting better now.

Took me a while to realise levelling up makes the game harder which is honestly a brilliant idea. Haven't managed to hit the die level yet.

Unsurprisingly it's chugs a bit here and there but it's still very playable.

How long is the campaign?

tok9

tok9 wrote: »

Bought God Hand off one of the PSN sales relatively recently and started playing it over the weekend.

Bloody hell it's tough. Played it for about 4 hours now and I've made it to the 4th chapter but man.. I get my ass handed to me quite a bit (especially in that fight against Shannon)! Getting better now.

Took me a while to realise levelling up makes the game harder which is honestly a brilliant idea. Haven't managed to hit the die level yet.

Unsurprisingly it's chugs a bit here and there but it's still very playable.

How long is the campaign?

It only get's better, every fight makes you a better player.
My first time round it took around 25+ hours if I can remember.

I had mentioned this in a previous post about the difficulty;

'But the great thing about the difficulty is that it's fair. There is never anything cheap about it. If I ended up dying it's because I wasn't good enough and had to get better, or learn a particular enemy attack pattern to dodge and attack.'

tok9

Ya true. Once I learned her move sets I was well able for the fight.

Fate Amenable To Change

Deleted User wrote: »

Body Harvest on the N64 was clunky, reviewed averagely yet I loved it

It was unreal for the time, tanks, airplanes, talking to NPCs, walking around open world and getting to fight aliens. I can't see how it was rated averagely I remember a load of the N64 mags raving about it. Most also done gameguides for it spanning weeks which only happened for things liek Zelda and Mario at the time.

da gamer

Anyone ever play cold winter on ps2? I found that to be a good fps that didn't get much hype at the time.

Alien resurrection on the ps1 was another underrated classic and the best alien game imo (haven't played isolation yet)

Fate Amenable To Change

da gamer wrote: »

Alien resurrection on the ps1 was another underrated classic and the best alien game imo (haven't played isolation yet)

That one went on forever, class from the get go though

who_me

I loved the Saboteur, in spite of all its flaws. Yes, the voice acting was hammy, the graphics were very low-res and murky, the storyline was cheesy, the cars were tricky to handle and the character animations were a bit stilted.

In its favour: an Irishman - a racing car driver and spy - running around war-time Paris, killing Nazis, blowing up Zeppelins, winning races in gorgeous old cars and generally being a badass. He even lived in the backroom of a cabaret bar where he could peek into the changing rooms with topless dancers (I ship you not). It was just silly fun.

One of the things I loved about it was the achievements/perks. Unlike some games (collect 1000 of these items, get a "trophy") in the Saboteur the perks were always fun to achieve (stealth kill 3 generals. Kill 2 soldiers with 1 bullet. Steal a Tiger tank...) and gave you something useful in-game: easier to use bombs, better guns, faster cars.

I'd love to see it re-made (or a sequel) in a modern game engine. Assassin's Creed - WWII?

Danonino.

Body Harvest was epic at the time.
Fighting Force. I think it was called, an early PS1 streets of rage/final fight but 3d job, I remember it being great fun.
Conan on the 360/PS3 was actually a brilliant slash em up with boobies and still plays great today.
Rocky on the cube/ps2/Xbox was also fantastic.
Eternal Darkness is one of my top 10 memorable games, loved it.
Astro Boy on the GBA was proper brilliant too.
Sonic Rush on the DS, probably the only sonic game I enjoyed since the megadrive days. SHOX (ea big) haven't played it since it was released but remember this being something special, off to find a copy now

I can think of more but they probably enter the old and almost forgotten not underrated category

Special mention to Vanquish and Castlevania Lords of shadow. Both are far better than people seem to give them credit for.

Edit: shox is PS2 only

da gamer

Alice madness returns Xbox 360
Enslaved Xbox 360
Driver San Francisco Xbox 360
Ghostbusters Xbox 360
Mystical ninja n64
Castlevania 64
Jersey devil ps1
Music/music 2000 ps1
Duke Nukem time to kill ps1
Nightmare creatures ps1
X111 ps2
Haunting ground ps2

gizmo

da gamer wrote: »

Mystical ninja n64

Oh, how did this compare to The Legend of the Mystical Ninja on the SNES?

Maximus Alexander

Danonino. wrote: »

Think it was called fighting force, an early PS1 streets of rage/final fight but 3d job, I remember it being great fun.

I only remember having played Fighting Force 2, but it was great fun! Would enjoy a game of that sort nowadays with all the bells and whistles.

Retr0gamer

gizmo wrote: »

Oh, how did this compare to The Legend of the Mystical Ninja on the SNES?

Not as good but way more bonkers. It played a bit like a completely insane Ocarina of Time. There was a second N64 game as well that played more like the SNES version. It's a kind of hard to find an a can go for a decent amount.

Retr0gamer

Fighting Force was meant to be a Streets of Rage game until Core wanted to release it on PS1 and Saturn and that fell through. Can't say I hold the same love for the game though, I found it an incredibly mediocre brawler with awful camera isues.

CiDeRmAn

da gamer wrote: »

Anyone ever play cold winter on ps2? I found that to be a good fps that didn't get much hype at the time.

Alien resurrection on the ps1 was another underrated classic and the best alien game imo (haven't played isolation yet)

With the former I have mentioned it on this thread and elsewhere as being a genuine hidden gem, a pure belter of a game and, now, cheap as chips.
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At only €2 it is actually cheaper than chips!


As for the latter, not really underrated, I think it sold well although the far poorer Alien Trilogy was a massive seller too, despite being lackluster.
I have Alien Resurrection myself and it's brilliant, works well with the PS mouse as well.

Generic Dreadhead

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 was a great game, great engine, balanced play, some of the best weapon upgrading and cusomtisation and was hampered by a lack of content which obviously was meant to come as DLC before everyone got pulled to work on Doom 4: The Doomening

da gamer

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 was a great game, great engine, balanced play, some of the best weapon upgrading and cusomtisation and was hampered by a lack of content which obviously was meant to come as DLC before everyone got pulled to work on Doom 4: The Doomening

Totally agree with you, rage was a very good game