Your Most Underrated Game of 2008-2009

This is more of a relative question really, there's sooo many games every year, that surely some fly under the radar of most gamers. Some of those manage to be really great games, yet not a lot of people play them. Or the press didn't give them enough coverage or there just wasn't any marketing for it.
 
Sometimes we get lucky and play such gems. What is YOUR one favorite game that no one played?

Looking back, mine would be Siren: Blood Curse. It's a very intricate Japanese horror game, very Japanese. Great story, great atmosphere, kinda fucked in good way. I wrote some impressions a while back and I still believe it's a damn shame not a lot of people played it. It seems that way at least. But Siren: Blood Curse is still a great example of how you do scary game.  
 
Edit: it's for the PS3.

 

This is more of a relative question really, there's sooo many games every year, that surely some fly under the radar of most gamers. Some of those manage to be really great games, yet not a lot of people play them. Or the press didn't give them enough coverage or there just wasn't any marketing for it.
 
Sometimes we get lucky and play such gems. What is YOUR one favorite game that no one played?

Looking back, mine would be Siren: Blood Curse. It's a very intricate Japanese horror game, very Japanese. Great story, great atmosphere, kinda fucked in good way. I wrote some impressions a while back and I still believe it's a damn shame not a lot of people played it. It seems that way at least. But Siren: Blood Curse is still a great example of how you do scary game.  
 
Edit: it's for the PS3.

 

Siren does look pretty cool, unfortunately I'm a complete pussy when it comes to horror games. I haven't heard of many people who played Burn Zombie Burn from PSN which is awesome, wacky fun.

I really like Tales of Vesperia, it's a cheesy JRPG guilty pleasure, but it's still tons o' fun.  
 
But most of the games I played this year are pretty acclaimed, also not much has come out that interests me this year anyway.

" Siren does look pretty cool, unfortunately I'm a complete pussy when it comes to horror games. I haven't heard of many people who played Burn Zombie Burn from PSN which is awesome, wacky fun. "

I played it and didn't like at all. I thought the Controls were a bit weird and even with brightness on highest the game was too dark.

Dead Space, i bought it for about £10 and i was so surprised with the game. 

Question: Is Siren anything like Resident Evil? If it is I may buy it.

i'm all of a sudden interested in siren.  

Siren: Blood Curse does look pretty scary and strange in a compelling way. It also is a huge downloadable title right? That game does really interest me.

Prince of Persia. That game was my 2008's game of the year. Sadly, everyone said it was JUST OKAY when it was absolutely amazing. It was daring, different, and innovative. It was highly polished, with amazing visuals and top-notch production values. I can't think of anything that could've been done to make the game better.

Prince of persia is very underrated in my opinion, i thought it was superb :)

 
@RHCPfan24: Yesh, I'm sure it's gone down in price by now.
 
@buzz_killington said:

" @artofwar420: Funny you metioned it. That was a little distracting, but I got around it by thinking the so-called is Drake's ancestor. "

Mercs 2, I loved that game. No one else did...

The World Ends With You was my Game of the Year for 2008, and it still is. 

I'll go with the obvious 'noone played this' game,  Valkyria Chronicles 
It really really deserved more attention, glad Sega decided to give it another shot with the psp sequel.

I feel like everyone's neglecting the "no one played part". I was hoping to find some gems. 
 
I love Dead Space and Prince of Persia too, but they were far from hardly played.

" @spankingaddict:@buzz_killington: Don't forget Mr. Drake's talented voice. "

Dawn of War 2

I thought Mirrors Edge was a good game, whilst most people thought it was only decent. Whilst there were definitely problems with it (combat especially felt ridiculously weak, and the lack of lood seemed very strange as you are shooting people with shotguns and machine guns. It was also a pretty short game.)

Mirrors edge was one of my top 3 fave games of 2008. And I seem to be the only person on the planet who absolutley loved blue dragon...

Tales of Vesperia and Pure were two, really great, but overlooked titles in 2008.

Bionic Commando.

dark sector, a lot of people never played it. i just recently beat it.

For me most underrated games was Lost Odyssey. It's a great game!
 
About siren, i never really got into it...  that and fatal frame.  

 Pure was a very good arcade racer , I can´t really think of any others that I played

" This is more of a relative question really, there's sooo many games every year, that surely some fly under the radar of most gamers. Some of those manage to be really great games, yet not a lot of people play them. Or the press didn't give them enough coverage or there just wasn't any marketing for it.
 
Sometimes we get lucky and play such gems. What is YOUR one favorite game that no one played?

Looking back, mine would be Siren: Blood Curse. It's a very intricate Japanese horror game, very Japanese. Great story, great atmosphere, kinda fucked in good way. I wrote some impressions a while back and I still believe it's a damn shame not a lot of people played it. It seems that way at least. But Siren: Blood Curse is still a great example of how you do scary game.  
 
Edit: it's for the PS3.

Mirror's edge seems like one that a lot of people might have not played, it did get a fair amount of press and stuff, but I haven't played it. I'll pick one up for sure.

" I'll go with the obvious 'noone played this' game,  Valkyria Chronicles  It really really deserved more attention, glad Sega decided to give it another shot with the psp sequel. "

" @RHCPfan24: Yes, each episode is about 700gb give or take a 100mb. There are 12 episodes. Totally worth it though, it's just convenient for me, I downloaded 1-5, then I played through that. Meanwhile I could start downloading the next few, and so on. So really you could "hide" the downloading and it'll be like it was all there. If you still don't want to download it, in Europe came out a physical copy you can import, it helps that the PS3 is region free. "

to me everything is overrated.... haven't played a great game since MGS4, Killzone 2 was good but MP killed it for me

" @TheMustacheHero: That's not really that much, just think how big games are getting, that's about right. Besides, it shouldn't really be a problem because each episode should last you a few hours, and I think we're past dial-up. "

Battle Fantasia (I prefer this much, much more than  the developers followup game Blazblue)annnnnnnd Bionic Commando... I absolutely loved every minute of BC even moreso that something like Batman (which is awesome too)

" @artofwar420 said:

" @TheMustacheHero: That's not really that much, just think how big games are getting, that's about right. Besides, it shouldn't really be a problem because each episode should last you a few hours, and I think we're past dial-up. "

He's highlighting the error that RCHPFan24 accidently said 700GB when he meant 700MB. "

" @Azteris:@TheMustacheHero: Lol, didn't catch that. "

Oh, Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines was a great game too, think Deus Ex but with vampires.
Sure it was buggy as hell and the developers Troika went bust the second it came out but man is that a good game