Good games that went under the radar or didn't sell very well

@Vodun said:

@whyareyoucrouchingspock said:

people who don't seal clap

What in the hells does this mean?

Are we talking like the STD or what?

@brehonia: Couldn't agree more about the ending. I kind of found that I was willing to look past that foreign odd of an ending considering just about anything else leading up to that very moment. It was so at odds with everything you had been doing before. Still too bad that it never had much in the way resonance amongst people, yet a gem that warrants some attention from those who never played it.

@Dagbiker said:

@Vodun said:

@whyareyoucrouchingspock said:

people who don't seal clap

What in the hells does this mean?

Are we talking like the STD or what?

tl;dr Sea World security has my photo on the wall.

Venetian Blinds

My pick is the best racing game of this generation. Excitebots! http://www.giantbomb.com/excitebots-trick-racing/61-25438/

Not only did it sell like crap, but thanks to the lack of sales we never got a release over here in europe. Thank god for imports.

Silent Hill Downpour probably won't sell well... and yet that steaming turd Operation Raccoon City was flying off the shelves in the UK at least =/ Think it made over 250K worldwide within the first week. There is no justice!

@WilltheMagicAsian said:

Venetian Blinds

This gets my vote.

Majin & the Forsaken Kingdom.

The developer even shut down. :(

Psychonauts

@Zenaxzd said:

@IndieFinch said:

The big one for me was Resonance of Fate. I thought it was a brilliant game that really brought a unique and awesome combat style. Most people I recommend it to have never even heard of it, which is a damn shame.

"Hey guys, let's release our big budget amazing console RPG exactly 1 week after Final Fantasy XIII comes out, the most well known JRPG franchise outside of Pokemon in the west that's been hyped up for 6 E3s and on top of that this game is a new IP."

Whoever the shit at Sega thought that was a good idea needs to be fired. At the very least they could of released it a week before FF13. Such an amazing game lost in the shadow of the FF13 fiasco.

Sega's marketing department is terrible, pretty much

Driver: San Francisco is pretty great!

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow

@DudeOlav said:

Image sizes reflect awesome game to sales ratio.

This is pretty much always the first game I think of regarding this topic.

I'm gonna say Metro: 2033. That game had some bugs for sure but man was it ever awesome.

Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts

Even if you only watch the top score replays, it's still one of the best games of this generation. It rewards creativity over "I headshotted that guy".

Mirror's Edge because it's amazing( at least on PC ) and I've beat it twice in the last month. So good, I don't know how it sold but it doesn't get enough credit from people in my opinion.

How can Alpha Protocol be considered a game that went under the radar? It was advertised everywhere and was talked about on these forums for a while before and after it came out. The reason it didn't sell was that it was a very average game.

@Liquidus said:

@Valkyr said:

Vanquish, Bayonetta, Shadows of the damned, Journey, Lost Odyssey, pretty much everything from developers outside the US and France borders?

......Journey is the fastest selling PSN game ever

I was thinking about Enslaved, a game that in fact I own, I don't know why I said Journey ha!, thanks

Yakuza 3 and 4 have only sold <200,000 in the west (not combined) but I'm glad they made it over here. Hopefully 5 does too.

It's a shame that Yakuza: Kenzan didn't, damn that game looks good.

Shadows of the Damned

@ShaneDev said:

How can Alpha Protocol be considered a game that went under the radar? It was advertised everywhere and was talked about on these forums for a while before and after it came out. The reason it didn't sell was that it was a very average game.

good games that went under the radar or didn't sell very well

and Alpha Protocol is amazing, definitely not "average", so there.

There's a large chance several people will not know what this game is but, before you watch the video below, there's a few things I think you should hear. This came out in 1993 on the Sega-CD. With those two things in mind, watch this video;

Doesn't that game look amazing considering? I fucking loved this game and played the hell out of it. But I'm pretty sure it didn't sell well considering it was on the Sega-CD (though they did make a sequel so maybe it did).

@Sooty said:

Yakuza 3 and 4 have only sold <200,000 in the west (not combined) but I'm glad they made it over here. Hopefully 5 does too.

It's a shame that Yakuza: Kenzan didn't, damn that game looks good.

It really is. Especially since that trailer alone > Dead Souls.

Driver: San Francisco is pretty great!

@Sooty said:

Yakuza 3 and 4 have only sold <200,000 in the west (not combined) but I'm glad they made it over here. Hopefully 5 does too.

It's a shame that Yakuza: Kenzan didn't, damn that game looks good.

It really is. Especially since that trailer alone > Dead Souls.

Shadows of the Damned

I loved three games that were not so well recognized or sold. Shenmue, Yakuza 2, and Recettear: An Item Shop Game. Those games were all awesome to play. Especially since shenmue 1 and 2 will always be in my top 10 games. Just loved the japanese/chinese martial arts lore in that game.

I really liked Solatorobo and Ghost Trick. Both games got fairly little recognition when they were released. Ghost Trick got some appreciation at the end of last year, but I don't imagine it improved its sales.

I'm sure someone has said "all of them"....

@whyareyoucrouchingspock said:

@AlexW00d said:

@Davvyk said:

Alpha protocol better than Mass Effect...I've heard it all now.

I much preferred Alpha Protocol to any of the Mass Effect games. It's called opinion.

I'v heard alot of people claim Alpha Protocol is better. Most of them basically people who don't seal clap what the gaming media tell them to think.

It's not better at all. It's a broken piece of shit. It's still pretty awesome though, but Mass Effect didn't break if you went down the wrong skill path, didn't have an awful PC version, and wasn't glitchy as all hell. I really liked what I played of Alpha Protocol, but jesus was it just a steaming pile of shit, especially on PC. Although I heard terrible things about performance elsewhere, so maybe it wasn't so much worse. I was playing on the macho difficulty as a stealth and pistols character. I got to the boss fight with the dude on a big stage or whatever, and just couldn't beat him. So I stopped playing.

I still would prefer ME to AP even if AP wasn't such shit. And I'm talking about original Mass Effect. Alpha Protocol could have easily been up there with Mass Effect, and depending on your preferences totally better. But it isn't, and people who say it's better than ME are crazy, or crazy lucky. Either way, their wrong. That game is not a quality product, despite being awesome. I'd say overall quality is higher by a slim margin in Two Worlds, to be honest. I enjoyed that game too, despite it being a pile of shit in a lot of ways.

I'd say Zone of the Enders: The Second Runner and Valkyria Chronicles

Shadows of the Damned. I just do not understand it, a trippy well thought out game w/story, not outstanding but more than good enough and it falls flat like it was crap.. I do not get it, I mean not even anything so silly as the dreaded hipster backlash(hipster still means something good to me, just not how you guys define the term). I could visuallize every other college, uni or otherwise gamer(me) thinking it was an interesting title to pick up.

I do have Alice and Vanquish lined up for summer, and I know I am going to be saying hello to the steam offering of Binary Domain at that time. I'm sure Hard Reset makes a reappearance also, hopefully with adjustment for owning the previous hard Reset.

Ghost Recon: shadow wars was probably the best 3DS launch title, but little to nothing was said about it. I wonder how it sold.

@Animasta said:

@ShaneDev said:

How can Alpha Protocol be considered a game that went under the radar? It was advertised everywhere and was talked about on these forums for a while before and after it came out. The reason it didn't sell was that it was a very average game.

good games that went under the radar or didn't sell very well

and Alpha Protocol is amazing, definitely not "average", so there.

Alpha Protocol is very, very average. A lot of reviewers thought it was average and so did other players and that's why I think it didn't sell well. At the same time I am not going to argue with you about either of our opinions.

This

Is Rayman Origins selling better now? Last I remember it wasn't selling very well late last year despite it being a magnificently made 2D game that I find no personal problems with. I hope the recent PC release made it more money if that's the case. Bought it via Steam pre-order and don't regret it.

I'm looking at my Wii library and I see about a dozen of them right now.

@GunnBjorn: Grim Fandango is a great example. That game, along with Psychonauts, show just how amazing a game Tim Schafer can design. I'm sorry to say I didn't pick up either of them until long after they had been considered commercial failures.

On the DS, there was an Age of Empires II Age of Kings turn based strategy that was better than I thought, but didn't sell very well. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to play a good RTS on the DS or 3DS. The game is basically Advance Wars but with AOE music, resource management and has medieval units fighting each other.

terra nova

people really rate alpha protocol that highly? the only enjoyment I got out of it was some humorous email responses about maces and polar bears, I just kinda stopped playing it and can't bring myself to put the disc back in.

Rayman Origins gets my vote, me and a friend had a great time playing that and finally hundred percenting it.

@louiedog said:

@Dagbiker said:

@Vodun said:

@whyareyoucrouchingspock said:

people who don't seal clap

What in the hells does this mean?

Are we talking like the STD or what?

tl;dr Sea World security has my photo on the wall.

Euuuugh

I've had Alpha Protocol sitting in my steam library unplayed for quite awhile now and I'm looking forward to trying it after all the support its gotten in this thread. I picked it up in a trade for some TF2 items, so my expectations have been really low for it.

I don't know if they sold badly, but i demand a 3rd entry to no one lives forever

@DelroyLindo said:

I don't know if they sold badly, but i demand a 3rd entry to no one lives forever

This times fucking ten. I loved No One Lives Forever but it sold poorly. I really liked the over the top, cartoony sixties spy vibe and it had some amazing missions. It did had some shitty stealth sections and even though those were cut in the sequel, I prefer the original over the sequel.

The Last Express

@Revan_NL: They both stand as 2 of my favorite games ever. But I agree, the first game was superior, purely because the stories were funnier and you spent less time in each location, so it was more varied.

2nd game is still fantastic though. I'd love if they got an hd upgrade.

God Hand. Vanquish. Shadows Of The Damned.

@kalmia64 said:

Little King's Story. By far my favorite Wii game.

I've heard that a lot of people love that game, though I know next-to-nothing about it. I'm tempted to buy it solely on all the love I heard for that game. It's like I'm missing out on something big. Anyway, my list:

• Psychonauts
• Beyond Good and Evil
• Madworld
• Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
• Okami
• Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure
• Bully
• Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

Rock Of Ages

I thought it was a very cool little game. Still some of the best experiences I had in local multiplayer (never found anyone online through matchmaking)

@ThunderSlash: No love for Gene! I so wish this game got a second life on more advanced hardware. I still think its one of the most charming games around and one of my favorite PS2 games.

@whyareyoucrouchingspock: I'll be honest. I sooooooooooooooo wanted to love Alpha Protocol but if you played and spec'ed for stealth, it handled like an early N64 game. Everything else about it was great though.