I'll second the Close Combat love. Those games were wonderful - it's a refreshing change to play a game where often you're fighting a battle you can't hope to win - you just have to do the best you can. Not sure how well balanced it is competitively, but it was damn fun - one player got the early missions with everything in their favour, then the other players armour division arrived in support and it's completely flipped around.
Back on the Mega Drive (Sega Genesis for Americans) I really liked a game called General Chaos. It was funny, interesting squad combat at that time.
On the PS1, the Unholy War was a strange but great game with some interesting mechanics. As a kid I sunk a lot of time with friends into Twisted Metal 1, but not sure how it holds up now.
I loved Armoured Core. Like being a mechwarrior merc with great jumpjets.
Mech commander 1 was pretty cool in the early levels. Some real 'oh fuck' moments when a big enemy mech appeared and it felt like you had nothing which could stand up to it.
Hmm, I'm rambling a bit (have been given an unexpected holiday due to bureaucracy and am a little drunk). Anyway, those games are good.
Also, some of the warhammer games were good. Shadow of the horned rat was way ahead of its time (and impossibly hard), while spacehulk was slow but scary as hell.
Probably one of the best platformers of the last half-decade. Reviewers said it was too hard. Lol.
This. I'm kind of afraid that even though they're now independently developing Monster Tale(which is coming out in a few months), they took that criticism to heart and neutered it. This game will be metroidvania-style too, so they might have added significant grinding :/.
On January 26 2011 20:15 DisaFear wrote: Deus Ex: Invisible War
Obviously not as good as the original, but a fun game nonetheless
I gotta go with this one, even though I had fun with the game most people pissed all over it because it was held to a higher standard than most games because of the first deus ex. It might not be an excellent game but I dont think it should have gotten the shit it got and probably wouldnt if it wasnt a deus ex sequel. I found it a good way to kill a few days, a fun game.
Minecraft I know this is getting a lot of attention now, but whenever I mention or show this to friends, they start bashing it and hate on the graphics.
Final Fantasy X-2 Yeah, the story was bad. Very, very, very bad. Worst story in a FF game so far, but the combat was pretty damn awesome.
Soldat - funfunfun scroll shooter with free online and a free online download here: http://soldat.thd.vg/en/ you have to pay to customize, but i never did, 10 different weapons, 4 backup weapons, a few grenades, and even has zombie mods, i have some really great memories of this game haha
My Top 5 Underrated Games. (in no particular order, sorry if I double up on someone elses)
1. Rock & Roll Racing (SNES) this game really got swept under the rug... the company, Silicon & Synapse, now known as Blizzard (lol) made a top scrolling (RC PRO AM Style) racing game back in the early 90's. and it was amazingly fun to play. I recommend everyone to play it for nostalgia purposes.
2. Adventures of Lolo (NES) this was a puzzle game released in 1989 by HAL, and boy... was it a thinker... it managed to spawn 2 sequels, but never made the transition to the SNES. it was a niche game that never really took off. but the developers believed in it. and for those that played this game, will remember it very well.
3. Blast Corps (N64) Now this is a game that should be remade. the concept was completely original, unbelievable replay value. and despite a heavy marketing campaign from it's developer, Rare (Creators of Banjo Kazooie/Goldeneye/Donkey Kong Country) it never had the deserved response that it really should have received.
4. Wario Land (VIRTUAL BOY LOLOL) Holy crap, talk about an amazing game on the WORST POSSIBLE SYSTEM. it was the first to utilize 2 planes of movement on a platformer, and was difficult, but not to the point of frustration. luckily, emulators have come around, so that you can play this without having your eyeballs bleed after 20 minutes... I recommend this VERY HIGHLY.
Rise of the Triad (DOS) In my opinion, this is the most underrated FPS game out there. It's worst flaw was the fact that it used the Wolfenstein 3D engine.
On January 26 2011 06:30 Szgk wrote: Sacrifice (2000) One of the most original rts games I've ever seen, visually stunning for a ten year old game. Wide critical acclaim but didn't sell very well. I highly recommend you watch TotalBiscuit's review video:
YES! I have never heard of another person that's ever played this. God damn this was such a good game.