Most under-rated games ever?

[Ed Oscuro]

Nobody mentioned Rocket Knight Adventures / Sparkster SNES yet, the shame of the world

[MadScientist]

Demolition Racer - like Destruction Derby, but better.

N.GEN Racing - basically Wipeout with planes.

[Gespenst]

How could I forgot this: Air Force Delta Strike / Deadly Skies III: Not as awesome as Ace Combat , filled with a lot of retarded speeches (especially in the STAND-BY missions), pretty lame flight physics, and has one of the worst VA ever, but this game has plenty of unbelieveable moments and something that never tried in other air combat games (space missions, fighting twisters, flying inside gun barrel, etc), and has the largest amount of playable planes (so far?)
Oh yeah, Vic Viper and Axelay inside, too. (as well as some Konami's cameo)

[dcharlie]

How the f could i forget JUST CAUSE?!

GTA/Sandbox freedom mixed with Pilotwings hijinx :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vFRW__QaRk

[Thunder Force]

Enclave (X-Box)

oh YES, completely forgot about this one. Completely agreed.

One of my personal Top 10 games on Xbox as well. I hope the PC version gets on Steam sometime, I always wondered how well it was ported to PC but never saw a copy on shelves.

If we're lucky, then the in-development Wii port might even turn out respectable and get a publisher.

I recently ordered Demon's Souls on PS3, partly in the hope that it might be like a next-gen version of Enclave (although I've seen practically nothing about DS, so I could be totally wrong).

[Damocles]

Enclave (X-Box)

oh YES, completely forgot about this one. Completely agreed.

One of my personal Top 10 games on Xbox as well. I hope the PC version gets on Steam sometime, I always wondered how well it was ported to PC but never saw a copy on shelves.

If we're lucky, then the in-development Wii port might even turn out respectable and get a publisher.

When the hell did this happen and where the hell was I? Good to know those chaps are still out there.

[dcharlie]

I recently ordered Demon's Souls on PS3, partly in the hope that it might be like a next-gen version of Enclave (although I've seen practically nothing about DS, so I could be totally wrong).

you should be happy with Demon's Souls - i need to get back to playing it and whilst it's not completely unalike Enclave, it feels like a Kings Field game (which isn't a surprise given Takeshi Kajii said it was KFs "spiritual successor")

there are some awesome frustrated gamer vids out there - watching a stream of a japanese guy play the game real time when he just got it and die over 100 times in the first segment was pretty funny. It's not easy - especially at first.

[Solarus]

I recently ordered Demon's Souls on PS3, partly in the hope that it might be like a next-gen version of Enclave (although I've seen practically nothing about DS, so I could be totally wrong).

you should be happy with Demon's Souls - i need to get back to playing it and whilst it's not completely unalike Enclave, it feels like a Kings Field game (which isn't a surprise given Takeshi Kajii said it was KFs "spiritual successor")

there are some awesome frustrated gamer vids out there - watching a stream of a japanese guy play the game real time when he just got it and die over 100 times in the first segment was pretty funny. It's not easy - especially at first.

Being a fan of over-the-top difficulty games, I've wanted to play this since release. However, like Uncharted 2, I won't get the chance until my PS3 gets in It looks really awesome though. By the way, do you ever get to play proper multiplayer in that game, or is it always limited to the whole "ghost of death and messages" thing?

[Alec]

I love how shmups-forums just loves under-rated anything. 4 pages in a few weeks is rad.

Okay I might get laughed at a little bit, and I don't think this is the *most* under-rated game, but I really love Ira Ira Bo / Irritating Stick on the Sony Playstation. Both versions have radical announcers, are completely bizzare and are totally fun. My trackball-less-ass has never had the pleasure of enjoying the Neo Geo version (which I'm sure I'd love). I doubt it has the awesome soundclips like the Playstation CD though and that's what I feel gives the game its charm.

Also, mentions to Yoshi on NES and Yoshi's cookie on SNES. Esp Yoshi on NES. That's some of my favorite puzzling right there, don't hear them talked about much at all. Still to this day have to describe them as "something like Dr. Mario."

[doctorx0079]

The "story-telling" nature of the second disk occurred because of a budget cut Square imposed on the development team so that they could release the game earlier.

I know this, but it doesn't change the fact that it RUINED THE GAME FOR ME, to the point that I don't want to play through it a second time. I was all like, "WHAT?? WHERE'S THE REST OF THE GAME??" The weird philosophic debates don't help, nor do the pixelated graphics.

I recently played through Xenosaga I twice and found it infinitely better, nyaaah. Horses for courses I suppose.

Uhhhh, Exed Exes is underrated but I don't know if it's "most underrated ever".

Darius and Darius II are underrated but that is purely my opinion.

[BIL]

Damn, I've got "Captain Neo" / Stage 1 BGM from Darius stuck in my head now... such an odd, depressing little song.

[doctorx0079]

Damn, I've got "Captain Neo" / Stage 1 BGM from Darius stuck in my head now... such an odd, depressing little song.

what's depressing about that song, that song rocks. sounds like a call to action to me.

[BIL]

Always strikes me as melancholy, even moreso with OGR's characteristic offbeatness. Really minor key for a shooter's first stage BGM. Not a bad song by any means (hell, the fact it sticks in my head to begin with says a lot).

Thunder Cross' "First Attack" is more my idea of the typical get up and go shooter first stage music.

[Wonderbanana]

Nobody mentioned Rocket Knight Adventures / Sparkster SNES yet, the shame of the world

I'm sure you know this but jic, there's a remake of this due soon on XBLA

[Thunder Force]

I recently ordered Demon's Souls on PS3, partly in the hope that it might be like a next-gen version of Enclave (although I've seen practically nothing about DS, so I could be totally wrong).

you should be happy with Demon's Souls

You were right. My decision to pick this up was a winning gamble. Glad to see a 150 page color manual included with Atlus' deluxe edition, it reminds me of the old days of DOS games with thick manuals. It does have some of the spirit and feel of Enclave but also seems to go way beyond it.

[lgb]

JUST CAUSE

That's not quite under-rated.

[Ed Oscuro]

Nobody mentioned Rocket Knight Adventures / Sparkster SNES yet, the shame of the world

I'm sure you know this but jic, there's a remake of this due soon on XBLA

I was trying to forget.

[Bloodreign]

Kickle Cubicle, an entertaining puzzle type game from Irem on arcade and NES, got that one on the brain as I don't own the NES version yet.

[Jon]

Legend of Mana

Agreed. Absolutely gorgeous 2D artwork. If it played as good as it looked it would have been a classic.

[Cuilan]

If it played as good as it looked it would have been a classic.

Well, I think it did. I know that most don't agree.

[No_not_like_Quake]

Ever? Dunno. I find Monster World III (aka Wonderboy in Monster World for Genesis, Game Gear, Dynastic Hero on PCE) underrated, all anyone ever talks about are II and IV.

[Damocles]

Has anyone mentioned Psi-Ops: Mindgate Conspiracy yet? I thought that game was great and, much like Enclave, was very bitter when the sequel was canned.

[kozo]

Damn, I've got "Captain Neo" / Stage 1 BGM from Darius stuck in my head now... such an odd, depressing little song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQnKIpEc-No

[BIL]

Dear god, Zuntata's live arrangements are great. I could browse through their 90/97/98 concert vids all afternoon!

[Valkrazhor]

Two answers.

1) Last Blade 1 (Neo-Geo)

2) Shenmue 1 and 2 (Dreamcast)

[Battletoad]

Nobody mentioned Rocket Knight Adventures / Sparkster SNES yet, the shame of the world

I totally agree, at least with Rocket Knight Adventures. (I haven´t played Sparkster.) Excellent game, one of the very best the Mega Drive has to offer... and that´s saying much.

Another game I´d like to mention is MDK 2 (Dreamcast, PS2). It got far too less credit. Just the tons of great ideas, the level design and the crude humour are enough for me to call it a classic and absolutely outstanding game. And that´s by far not all that´s awesome about MDK 2.

[StoofooEsq]

Power Blade. A great NES platformer that I rarely ever see get mentioned. Maybe somewhat easy by today's standards, but it had to be a refreshing change from harder platformer games available for the system at the time. Awesome soundtrack, too.

And holy shit, USA and Europe lucked out big time with this game. We almost got this instead: http://www.destructoid.com/off-brand-ga ... 0628.phtml

However, it is worth playing Power Blazer at least once to really see how much the game was improved upon when it was changed for release outside of Japan. The difference in quality is shocking. Also, I'd rather play with a generic Arnold Schwarzenegger clone named Nova than a generic Mega Man clone bastard called Steve Treiber (a name I find hilarious, for some reason).

[Elixir]

2) Shenmue 1 and 2 (Dreamcast)

Yeah those two are really underrated.

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[TLB]

It's already been said, but Advance Guardian Heroes. God I love that game.

Did say Gunbird 2, too, didn't I.

The Shikigami no Shiro games are pretty good, but don't seem to get any attention.

Dammit, you know, I had a specific game in mind and I just can't seem to remember it.

[Zeether]

Omega Boost. Great mech game.