I always thought Phantom Dust never got enough love. Also Breakdown, which like Phantom Dust was on xbox. I have a soft spot for Advent Rising too.
Also for the PC, Anachronox. Though that game is less underrated and more just..not known by a lot of people.
Originally posted by Nemesis X
That game should've gotten a sequel.
If we are talking about Clive Barker games that deserve a sequel, Undying is at the top of that list.
Originally posted by Smasandian👇 Gotta disagree. The only thing that game had going for it was good shooter mechanics. Every aspect of the SP was generic and uninspired as they come, the enemy's design was derivative, etc.
Crysis 2.
Haven't played 3, probably never will, but Crysis and Warhead > 2, imo.
Originally posted by Smasandian
I never played Undying but I remember it getting some love back in the day.
It's a really great game, and it creates a really great atmosphere too, it has really great sound effects too, which is something I don't usually notice. Plus it does the whole magic/guns thing in a FPS shooter well.
To be clear, while it is a FPS shooter, it is nothing like Jericho(it's also actually a lot better in both gameplay and story).
Originally posted by BackFire
I didn't like Crysis 2 much the first time I played it, but I recently replayed it and thought it pretty good. The story is bad and it's simply not as good as the first game, but it's a solid shooter with a pretty good campaign.
Yeah, the story in the series isn't good anyways so I didn't really care but I liked how it had more direction than the first.
I enjoyed the first as well and I can understand why people wouldn't like the second as much (or all) but I liked the environments and setting much better in the second. It came out before all the "destroyed major city" look became popular.
In Crysis, the first part of the game are brilliant. The cat and mouse game between you and the North Koreans is fascinating. There isn't a game out there that does it like that but once you get into the ship, the game becomes much worst. The ship sequence is frustating and boring, and while the frozen sections are really cool to look at (but extremely taxing), the alien's are boring as shit.
I'd like to add DB Raging Blast 2, that game got no love back in the day just because RB1 was shit. 😬
And Mass Effect 3, everyone talks shit about it but the only thing I see it's wrong with it is the endings, which could've a bit more different between each other and could've made your choices actually matter. But the game in itself was EPIC imo.
I agree about ME3. I wanted something truly epic and that's exactly what Bioware did.
I still think the Reapers in the Mass Effect series are the best species/supreme bad guys in any series. I wanted Reapers to fly through planets destroying everything in their path. They have an awesome look and the sounds they make are ****ing brilliant. In Mass Effect 3, where they're was going to be no chance of surviving, they actually create gameplay moments where it felt there was no chance on winning. Can't wait for the the new set of games and hopefully they remaster them so I can play them again on new consoles.
Yeah, I would agree on your assessment that people do over-exaggerate the faults of ME3 because of the lackluster ending.
I will admit that the ending is not what I wanted but that's because the series was so well done in terms of caring about characters and what happens in the world it created that I don't know if any ending would of been sufficient. Most endings in most games are not good. This is just one of them.
But the ending does not ruin the 40 hour experience I had. When I replayed the game, I still ****ing loved how well Bioware created the atmosphere for the universe that I didn't mind the ending.
Originally posted by Smasandian
Yeah, I would agree on your assessment that people do over-exaggerate the faults of ME3 because of the lackluster ending.I will admit that the ending is not what I wanted but that's because the series was so well done in terms of caring about characters and what happens in the world it created that I don't know if any ending would of been sufficient. Most endings in most games are not good. This is just one of them.
But the ending does not ruin the 40 hour experience I had. When I replayed the game, I still ****ing loved how well Bioware created the atmosphere for the universe that I didn't mind the ending.
I know that I would say it had more faults than you would, but it still did a lot of things right, and that shouldn't be ignored.
Yeah, every game has faults. The thing with ME3 is that it brought an epic closure to one of the best sagas of last generation. And I mean EPIC.
It succeeded in making you feel the pressure of war, the pressure of knowing that no matter how hard you try you won't get to save everyone. That alone trumps the asinine ending.
I meant underrated in the sense that critically, people tend to trash talk about the game saying things like the ending ruined the series just because they didn't get a clear happy ending, or Shepard clearly surviving or his decisions actually having an impact beyond mere war effort points. Are this complains justified? Of course, bioware basically fooled ME's fandom, but it's not reason for disregarding the game imo.
Originally posted by BloodRawEngine
Assassin's Creed III. Not only are its problems blown out of proportion (or just plain inaccurate), but Black Flag honestly has way more problems.
Only problem I had with it was the horrendously boring protagonist. Didn't enjoy playing the sailing but there wasn't anything wrong with it technically. Just not my thing.