JP'S
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Have to agree here!
Most underrated game you've ever played?
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Have to agree here!
Ser_Bunnylot
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Pardon my ignorance, but I don't quite get it. AFAIK all those games were rated quite highly and did have some exposure in the mainstream gaming market. Maybe I'm going purely on personal experience, but even non hardcore gamers from the day all knew of those games.
Tsar
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They weren't successful.
to0kenZA
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Vampire masquerade:bloodlines.
It was such an underrated game. Huge cult classic,there isn't even a sequel
Very dark atmosphere,lots of horror movie references,great music and ambient tracks.
Bloodlines was the sequel. Lol.
The first game was Vampire: The Masquerade – Redemption.
Tsar
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Lycanthrope
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They had very little exposure in the mainstream gaming market and were overshadowed by AAA titles at the time. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines lost out to Half-Life 2 (or at least that's the claim), Arcanum lost out to the Baldur's Gate 2 expansion, Throne of Bhaal and the Gothic series lost out to Morrowind.
Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean that had those games not been released that those three titles would have been any more successful, but at the release of each, marketing was heavily inundated by adverts and press lapping up the AAA releases at the time.
People also criticised them heavily for being buggy and claims of being "unplayable" and "unfinished." Troika also had major problems with their publishers with both Vampire and Arcanum.
And the Gothic series was a little-known German-developed game that nobody cared about. Gothic 3 was their attempt at becoming more "casual" and to break through to that market and when that flopped, ArcaniA was made by a different developer (JoWood and Piranha Bytes had a falling out; Piranha Bytes went their own way, but made a deal with JoWood that allowed them to make one game in the Gothic universe while Piranha Bytes kept the intellectual property) and that was hugely casual and flopped big time. In fact, I believe it was the last "big" game JoWood published before they went bankrupt.
The thing is, all three of those games were "flops" to some extent, none of them sold well and many people bought into the bullshit that they were "bad" games and, at the time, they really did just appeal to a niche group of gamers. But they all became cult classics.
In that regard, Planescape is hard to ignore because it falls under precisely the same drama these games had. But I feel that series has somehow redeemed itself and became popular these days, whereas the others, I feel, are still kind of left "unplayed" and "unloved" and so I consider them underrated
Clive Woofer
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Arcanum is definitely underrated. If we were to open a poll for who has played it on these forums, I'd be surprised if that number exceeded 10% of the total forum members.
ave
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I just loved the whole pirate theme. Very atmospheric
There's a lot, but I thought these were great compared to what else was available at the time. They were very good to me because I did not expect them to be THAT good purely because of their exposure, even though critically they have done fine.
Singularity
Vanquish
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
All 3 from 2010.
Then there's Natural Selection 2, my current favorite MP game by indie devs.
Singularity
Vanquish
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
All 3 from 2010.
Then there's Natural Selection 2, my current favorite MP game by indie devs.
Snare
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My List:
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (the domino that started my steam library)
Sleeping Dogs
Lol, transformers is so underrated that Dee is the only person who plays it
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Ahh, a man after my own heart
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Oh and I forgot my favourite RPG of all time. It may be an FF game, but its the most overlooked of all of them and i personally think it was by far the greatest. Final Fantasy XII
Saint_Dee
The Phantom Poet
DarthMol
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I'm still trying to get hold of this game for Xbox, from what I've seen of the game and played in the demo I know that I'll love it.
MetalSoup
There's a GIF for that
I enjoyed it a lot, but the story :wtf: it hardly made any sense to me.
Snare
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Kingdoms of Amalur...... if only more people played it
And Sadly we shall never get another one. That was well and truly the epitome of a fun RPG. Was one of the few games where progress excited you. Pity it bankrupted the studio
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No lies
Lol, maybe you're the hipster and not Dada
ave
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And Sadly we shall never get another one. That was well and truly the epitome of a fun RPG. Was one of the few games where progress excited you. Pity it bankrupted the studio
Im still holding out for the ip to go on auction, although I think Copernicus will get most of the attention.
Snoek
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Kingdoms of Amalur...... if only more people played it
I genuinely tried to finish this but couldn't quite bring myself to. Maybe if I had a controller for playing on pc but it just never captured me