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_____V_____ 01-05-2009 09:35 AM

Most underrated games
 
I have been reading up on some of the Top 10 threads (and articles) and it surprises me to see so many people missing out on Clive Barker's Undying.

It was a game which had everything - awesome atmosphere, creepy-as-fuck background score and music, levels which tested the reflexes (and the sanity) to the maximum, and some kickass boss levels which were a bitch to overcome.

Add the spell-casting (I loved the Skullstorm spell, and of course the wonderful Scrye), with the weapons. Ahh...wonderful game! Gonna load it up again sometime soon.

Also, Siren is another which deserves much more recognition than it actually gets in the gaming world. Anyone who has played this one will VOUCH that it literally sweeps you off your feet! Not mentioning the fact that it will make you run for the light and tremble even in day-time while playing.

Any others out there worth a lot more mention than the usual?

Angra 01-05-2009 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by _____V_____ (Post 775561)

Also, Siren is another which deserves much more recognition than it actually gets in the gaming world. Anyone who has played this one will VOUCH that it literally sweeps you off your feet! Not mentioning the fact that it will make you run for the light and tremble even in day-time while playing.



I totally disagree with you on that one, V.

The oh-so-clever gameplay just sucks. You wanna fight the evil you're up against, not run away from it. That was the case with the original Siren.

At least in the new Siren: Blood Curse you get the chance to more or less fight them off. But i still don't appreciate the concept.

The Mothman 01-05-2009 10:32 AM

I completely agree with you on Undying, freakin great game, got great reviews, but still fell under the radar.

VampiricClown 01-05-2009 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Angra (Post 775575)
I totally disagree with you on that one, V.

The oh-so-clever gameplay just sucks. You wanna fight the evil you're up against, not run away from it. That was the case with the original Siren.

At least in the new Siren: Blood Curse you get the chance to more or less fight them off. But i still don't appreciate the concept.

I have to agree with Angra on this one. Siren really wasn't that great of a game. It just didn't hold up in comparison to other survival-horror games.

Clive Barker's: Undying, on the other hand, is a sinfully scary experience. Very good game.

scissorhands 01-05-2009 08:55 PM

A game I've heard very little about, but which impressed me imensely, is Gun. It's an improvement on the overated Grand Theft Auto games. And since it's set in the Wild West the idea of getting away with crimes is justified. This is unlike the GTA games where you only get away with crimes because the coppers are lazy. If everybody did anything they wanted to civilians in big cities like that there'd be no one left :P.

ManchestrMorgue 01-05-2009 10:12 PM

Evidently rFactor, by the amount of responses to my thread :)

Phalanx 01-05-2009 10:46 PM

The Thing
Painkiller - well, comparatively "serious sam" got a lot more praise...
shit, I can't think...I guess underrated is just any other game I liked and not many others did, I could be in the wrong there.

newb 01-06-2009 08:06 AM

PSI-OPS

http://drh.img.digitalriver.com/DRHM...si_Ops_box.jpg

Posher778 01-06-2009 09:13 AM

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory



It's free for crying out loud.

_____V_____ 01-06-2009 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Angra (Post 775575)
I totally disagree with you on that one, V.

The oh-so-clever gameplay just sucks. You wanna fight the evil you're up against, not run away from it. That was the case with the original Siren.

At least in the new Siren: Blood Curse you get the chance to more or less fight them off. But i still don't appreciate the concept.


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Originally Posted by VampiricClown (Post 775608)
I have to agree with Angra on this one. Siren really wasn't that great of a game. It just didn't hold up in comparison to other survival-horror games.

Clive Barker's: Undying, on the other hand, is a sinfully scary experience. Very good game.


I totally get what you both are driving at, but I thought it was different. At a time when RE and Silent Hill were fanboy's wet dreams come true, the makers of Siren wanted to make something different, and not just another RE/Silent Hill clone.

Ergo, the slightly complicated gameplay. It was unique and offered something different, IMO. Not everything has to be confront-get best weapon out-shoot 'em up kinda stuff. I loved it.


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