Hidden Gems

Is there any games that you played that were simply brushed aside but were really great titles in your eyes?

My choice is only last gen but was totally panned and then just fell into the blackhole where all games go to die when critics kill them with words.

This game was a total diamond in the rough and in my opinion was one of the most innovative FPS's ever made. The story of this game was brilliant and the realism it brought from just opening a door to getting a drink or chocolate bar from a vending machine to replenish health.

Oh yes, there are sooo many, but I will keep the list just to the one's that I feel were absolutely praise worthy on almost every level yet remain some of the most underrated, under-appreciated titles I've played:

Zone of the Enders (PS2)

The entire King of Fighters series minus the 3D ones and XII

Ikaruga (GC)

Shenmue 2 (Dreamcast/XBOX)

Strider 2 (PS)

Is there any games that you played that were simply brushed aside but were really great titles in your eyes?

My choice is only last gen but was totally panned and then just fell into the blackhole where all games go to die when critics kill them with words.

This game was a total diamond in the rough and in my opinion was one of the most innovative FPS's ever made. The story of this game was brilliant and the realism it brought from just opening a door to getting a drink or chocolate bar from a vending machine to replenish health.

Mr-Espresso

i LOVE Breakdown!!!! Very underrated

My hidden gem would be:

I love the cutscenes and the gameplay, even though it seems short :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzwfNXxXwIs

here's an example of a Cutscene. :P

Back in the Sega Genesis days..... Target Earth.

the bit generations games for gameboy advance were very interesting.

My hidden gems are Big Rigs: Over the Road racing, Zelda: Wand of Gamelon, Link: Faces of Evil, Shaq Fu and Zelda's Adventure. Underrated as hell.Oil_rope_bombs

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Heirren

Nice!

This game pretty much inovated the duck and cover blindfire concepts used by uncharted and Gears.

Bulk Slash on the Saturn , kind of a free roaming mech shooting game, very fun , runs well , looks great , sounds great, and is just overall a great game.

also has some indoor missions as well as a mission set out in space .

not really unknown , but its no Mario or Sonic, but is also very fun , made by what would become Blizzard too.

grim fandango, beyond good and evil, alpha centauri, sins of a solar empire

Beyond good and evil

Little big adventure 2

Sacrifice and Outcast

Sacrifice and Outcast

nameless12345

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Sacrifice and Outcast

Darkman2007

Outcast does, not sure about Sacrifice.

[QUOTE="nameless12345"]

Sacrifice and Outcast

Darkman2007

Outcast is a voxel game yes.

I realize not all of these are "legacy platform" games, but...

Phantom Dust (Xbox)
The Red Star (PS2)
Bujingai: The Forsaken City (PS2)
Galerians (PS1)
Galerians: Ash (PS1)
Knights in the Nightmare (DS)
Rengoku II: The Stairway to H.E.A.V.E.N. (PSP)
Shadow Hearts (PS2)
Shadow of Destiny (PS2)
The Void (PC)
Darwinia (PC)
Shadow Tower (PS1)
King's Field series (PS1, PS2)
Otogi 1 & 2 (Xbox)
Panzer Dragoon Orta (Xbox)
Halley Wars (Game Gear)
Arrow Flash (Genesis)
Stargate (SNES)
Journey to Silius (NES)
Shatterhand (NES)
Nier (360, PS3)
Raiden IV (360)
Gunners Heaven (PS1)
Sin & Punishment (N64)
Sin & Punishment: Star Successor (Wii)
Blast Works (Wii)
Castle Shikigami series (PS2, Wii, and-- if importing-- PC and Gamecube)
God Hand (PS2)
Mars Matrix (Dreamcast)
Bangai-O (Dreamcast)
Under Defeat (Dreamcast)
Triggerheart Exelica (Dreamcast, XBLA)
Border Down (Dreamcast)
Galactic Attack (Saturn; aka Rayforce, Layer Section, and Gunlock)
Dark Savior (Saturn)
Darius Gaiden (Saturn)
Silpheed (Sega CD)
Robo Aleste (Sega CD)

"Treasures of the Deep" (PSOne)

Ghosthunter (PS2)

God Hand (PS2)

Shadow of Rome (PS2)

Buffy The Vampire Slayer (Xbox)

Oddworld: Strangers Wrath (Xbox)

Phantom Dust (Xbox)

Stubbs The Zombie (Xbox)

Eternal Darkness (Gamecube)

not really unknown , but its no Mario or Sonic, but is also very fun , made by what would become Blizzard too.

Darkman2007

I love that Blizzard hasn't forgotten about it and has included sevaral refereances to the Vikings over the years.

The Lost Vikings in World of Warcraft:

They most recently appeared as NPCs in Blizzard's MMORPG World of Warcraft in the dungeon Uldaman. One of the quests in Uldaman also requires the player to collect the Shaft of Tsol and Amulet of Gni'Kiv, which spell out "Lost" and "Vik'ing" when read backwards. The shaft and amulet are combined to form the Staff of Prehistoria, which fits the theme of Uldaman and also is an area in The Lost Vikings. In the new expansion, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, they feature prominently in a quest line for both factions in the Badlands area of Eastern Kingdoms.

In the Frozen Throne's "Monolith" scenario, the names for the Dark Troll Commando hero are the same as those for the Lost Vikings: Erik the Swift, Baleog the Fierce and Olaf the Stout.

A new unit in Blizzard's recently released StarCraft II is called the Viking, and there is a picture of the unit on their website, subtitled The Lost Vikings.

In addition to this, repeatedly selecting the Viking unit in Starcraft II makes the Viking pilot mention Erik, Baleog, and Olaf getting lost, as he tries to contact them. He also sets in co-ordinates for Norse by Norse-west.

There is also an arcade console in the Cantina of Battleship Hyperion in StarCraft II called The Lost Viking, which is a playable mini-game .

[QUOTE="Darkman2007"]

not really unknown , but its no Mario or Sonic, but is also very fun , made by what would become Blizzard too.

AcidSoldner

I love that Blizzard hasn't forgotten about it and has included sevaral refereances to the Vikings over the years.

The Lost Vikings in World of Warcraft:

They most recently appeared as NPCs in Blizzard's MMORPG World of Warcraft in the dungeon Uldaman. One of the quests in Uldaman also requires the player to collect the Shaft of Tsol and Amulet of Gni'Kiv, which spell out "Lost" and "Vik'ing" when read backwards. The shaft and amulet are combined to form the Staff of Prehistoria, which fits the theme of Uldaman and also is an area in The Lost Vikings. In the new expansion, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, they feature prominently in a quest line for both factions in the Badlands area of Eastern Kingdoms.

In the Frozen Throne's "Monolith" scenario, the names for the Dark Troll Commando hero are the same as those for the Lost Vikings: Erik the Swift, Baleog the Fierce and Olaf the Stout.

A new unit in Blizzard's recently released StarCraft II is called the Viking, and there is a picture of the unit on their website, subtitled The Lost Vikings.

In addition to this, repeatedly selecting the Viking unit in Starcraft II makes the Viking pilot mention Erik, Baleog, and Olaf getting lost, as he tries to contact them. He also sets in co-ordinates for Norse by Norse-west.

There is also an arcade console in the Cantina of Battleship Hyperion in StarCraft II called The Lost Viking, which is a playable mini-game .

there was actually a sequel , which came out on the SNES/Saturn/PS1/PC, though I didn't play too much of it.

interesting feature is that the SNES version looked totally different from the others.

[QUOTE="AcidSoldner"]

[QUOTE="Darkman2007"]

not really unknown , but its no Mario or Sonic, but is also very fun , made by what would become Blizzard too.

Darkman2007

I love that Blizzard hasn't forgotten about it and has included sevaral refereances to the Vikings over the years.

The Lost Vikings in World of Warcraft:

They most recently appeared as NPCs in Blizzard's MMORPG World of Warcraft in the dungeon Uldaman. One of the quests in Uldaman also requires the player to collect the Shaft of Tsol and Amulet of Gni'Kiv, which spell out "Lost" and "Vik'ing" when read backwards. The shaft and amulet are combined to form the Staff of Prehistoria, which fits the theme of Uldaman and also is an area in The Lost Vikings. In the new expansion, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, they feature prominently in a quest line for both factions in the Badlands area of Eastern Kingdoms.

In the Frozen Throne's "Monolith" scenario, the names for the Dark Troll Commando hero are the same as those for the Lost Vikings: Erik the Swift, Baleog the Fierce and Olaf the Stout.

A new unit in Blizzard's recently released StarCraft II is called the Viking, and there is a picture of the unit on their website, subtitled The Lost Vikings.

In addition to this, repeatedly selecting the Viking unit in Starcraft II makes the Viking pilot mention Erik, Baleog, and Olaf getting lost, as he tries to contact them. He also sets in co-ordinates for Norse by Norse-west.

There is also an arcade console in the Cantina of Battleship Hyperion in StarCraft II called The Lost Viking, which is a playable mini-game .

there was actually a sequel , which came out on the SNES/Saturn/PS1/PC, though I didn't play too much of it.

interesting feature is that the SNES version looked totally different from the others.

But since you've spent some time with it, is it any good?

[QUOTE="Darkman2007"]

[QUOTE="AcidSoldner"] Definitely a hidden gem. Spent many an hour with this game.

I love that Blizzard hasn't forgotten about it and has included sevaral refereances to the Vikings over the years.

The Lost Vikings in World of Warcraft:

They most recently appeared as NPCs in Blizzard's MMORPG World of Warcraft in the dungeon Uldaman. One of the quests in Uldaman also requires the player to collect the Shaft of Tsol and Amulet of Gni'Kiv, which spell out "Lost" and "Vik'ing" when read backwards. The shaft and amulet are combined to form the Staff of Prehistoria, which fits the theme of Uldaman and also is an area in The Lost Vikings. In the new expansion, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, they feature prominently in a quest line for both factions in the Badlands area of Eastern Kingdoms.

In the Frozen Throne's "Monolith" scenario, the names for the Dark Troll Commando hero are the same as those for the Lost Vikings: Erik the Swift, Baleog the Fierce and Olaf the Stout.

A new unit in Blizzard's recently released StarCraft II is called the Viking, and there is a picture of the unit on their website, subtitled The Lost Vikings.

In addition to this, repeatedly selecting the Viking unit in Starcraft II makes the Viking pilot mention Erik, Baleog, and Olaf getting lost, as he tries to contact them. He also sets in co-ordinates for Norse by Norse-west.

There is also an arcade console in the Cantina of Battleship Hyperion in StarCraft II called The Lost Viking, which is a playable mini-game .

AcidSoldner

there was actually a sequel , which came out on the SNES/Saturn/PS1/PC, though I didn't play too much of it.

interesting feature is that the SNES version looked totally different from the others.

But since you've spent some time with it, is it any good?

good but not as good as the first.

also the cutscenes in the Saturn/PS1/PC versions are cheesy, very cheesy, which is both good and bad depending on your view :P

the SNES version uses the same engine as the first games, while the other versions have a different artlook with pre renderd characters.