I love the Freedom Force games to death, I would pee my pants if they announced another one ... but I think I am the only one.
You are most certainly not the only one! Those games were hilarious and fun :D
I second that. I'd love to see another one, preferably a downloadable title faithful to the style of the original, only a bit more refined and with some decent tools for creating new content.
On topic: Drill Dozer for the Game Boy Advance. Not completely underappreciated because it got positive reviews but very little people played it because it came out so late on the GBA life cycle and the DS was already out for some time. Fun portable game with beautiful graphics, a nice control scheme and a cartridge with rumble that added a good feel to the drilling. I'd welcome a sequel but I'll doubt it will ever happen.
While I agree with some of the other games posted in this thread, I'm going to make a unique pick and sing the praises of Second Sight. It's a third-person action game made by Free Radical, the developers of the TimeSplitters games. In terms of what you'd expect from a game of that kind, it's really got the complete package - it looks great, it has some very unique and interesting mechanics, and it feels great to play. It's also very well written and voice acted - to this day, it's one of my favourite video game stories, period. Although it did fairly well critically, it's very rare I chat to another gamer who's played and enjoyed it.
OK, maybe not my favourite, but I was thinking before about id - Commander Keen gets a lot of appreciation, but people usually forget the Rescue Rovergames. Both of them are actually pretty good puzzle games :o
Banjo Kazooie Nuts N' Bolts, and Viva Pinata. Oddly, both made by Rare for the Xbox360 early. A pattern perhaps, and the reason why rare is no longer a proper game studio.
@dankempster: Second Sight was pretty good. 2004 though was a pretty amazing year, so it got put aside. Half-Life 2, GTA: San Andreas, Halo 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, World of Warcraft, Doom 3, KOTOR 2 (I could just go on and on).
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Monster Truck Madness for the PC, the greatest PC game ever made.
@dankempster: Second Sight was pretty good. 2004 though was a pretty amazing year, so it got put aside. Half-Life 2, GTA: San Andreas, Halo 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, World of Warcraft, Doom 3, KOTOR 2 (I could just go on and on).
@dankempster: Second Sight was pretty good. 2004 though was a pretty amazing year, so it got put aside. Half-Life 2, GTA: San Andreas, Halo 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, World of Warcraft, Doom 3, KOTOR 2 (I could just go on and on).
Those are all usually pretty highly regarded.
Of course. Some of the best / most influential games of modern times.
@dankempster: Second Sight was pretty good. 2004 though was a pretty amazing year, so it got put aside. Half-Life 2, GTA: San Andreas, Halo 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, World of Warcraft, Doom 3, KOTOR 2 (I could just go on and on).
Those are all usually pretty highly regarded.
Of course. Some of the best / most influential games of modern times.
I almost agree on Brütal Legend, but the RTS elements later in the game really broke it for me. The universe, story, characters, music, etc, was amazing, but the gameplay just broke down for me.
Skyrim, but that's just because it's humanly impossible to give that game the appreciation it deserves!
Have you played it yet? If not, how do you know how much appreciation it deserves?
Yeah...that always bugs the shit out me for those big games. I loved Uncharted 2, but I'm not gonna give UC 3 a 10 till I play it. We get it, you're pumped and that comment doesn't belong in this thread. If anything that game, like UC, will belong in the "hyped games you don't get" scope.
I almost agree on Brütal Legend, but the RTS elements later in the game really broke it for me. The universe, story, characters, music, etc, was amazing, but the gameplay just broke down for me.
I agree 100%, the RTS system, while neat, just wasn't fleshed out well enough.
I love the Freedom Force games to death, I would pee my pants if they announced another one ... but I think I am the only one.
You are most certainly not the only one! Those games were hilarious and fun :D
I second that. I'd love to see another one, preferably a downloadable title faithful to the style of the original, only a bit more refined and with some decent tools for creating new content.
Good to see there are still people with taste out there ;)
@dankempster: Second Sight was pretty good. 2004 though was a pretty amazing year, so it got put aside. Half-Life 2, GTA: San Andreas, Halo 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, World of Warcraft, Doom 3, KOTOR 2 (I could just go on and on).
Those are all usually pretty highly regarded.
Of course. Some of the best / most influential games of modern times.
Yeah but those aren't really under-appreciated.
Oh, I'm sorry. Maybe I didn't make myself clear. I was giving a reason to why Second Sight, a great game, was so under-appreciated. Because it came out in 2004, arguably the best year in video games since 1998. The games I mentioned are just an example of the games that shadowed Second Sight that year.
Twinsens Odyssey. Came with the packard bell computer my mom bought when I was little. I played the shit out of that game. Fuck you Professor Funfrock!
@dankempster: Second Sight was pretty good. 2004 though was a pretty amazing year, so it got put aside. Half-Life 2, GTA: San Andreas, Halo 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, World of Warcraft, Doom 3, KOTOR 2 (I could just go on and on).
Those are all usually pretty highly regarded.
Of course. Some of the best / most influential games of modern times.
Yeah but those aren't really under-appreciated.
Oh, I'm sorry. Maybe I didn't make myself clear. I was giving a reason to why Second Sight, a great game, was so under-appreciated. Because it came out in 2004, arguably the best year in video games since 1998. The games I mentioned are just an example of the games that shadowed Second Sight that year.
Oh duh. That was my bad. I totally missed that part.
I almost agree on Brütal Legend, but the RTS elements later in the game really broke it for me. The universe, story, characters, music, etc, was amazing, but the gameplay just broke down for me.
I agree 100%, the RTS system, while neat, just wasn't fleshed out well enough.
Yeah it was super basic but I think that was the point, it wasn´t a full hack n´ slash , Eddie couldn´t even jump or move fast enough and it wasn´t a full RTS either, but man did I enjoyed the hell out of the gameplay is one of those cases where you just let that slide for the sake of enjoyment.
I'm sure I'll think of another one later, but Chrono Cross comes to mind.
What? People love Chrono Cross.
I've seen a lot of hate for Chrono Cross, mostly stemming from how it's not Chrono Trigger. A lot of people, at least the vocal ones, give it a lot of shit for "not living up to" Chrono Trigger in the same way people act about FFTA.
I think part of it was that it didn't meet the expectations of the fan base, which I'm sure had something to due with the lack of a returning cast other then Crono, Lucca, and Marle...and even then, they only really showed up toward the end of the game and were only ghosts. Oh, and a distinct lack of time travel.
My problem with the game was that I had a really hard time following the story when I first played it compared to Chrono Trigger and the ending was really vague. Course, I also didn't know the true way of beating the Devourer of Time to free Schala (who I didn't even know that was Schala) until MUCH later and by then, I didn't care enough to go through the game again to do that.
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