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Terranigma. One of the best SNES titles I've ever played. It's just a shame that it didn't get released in the states. Top down adventure with fun combat, wonderful soundtrack, and very, very powerful story. The boss fights... man. I have seen difficult stuff like that for a while.
Freelancer, an incredible space shooter with tons of room for role playing. In fact, it was built on that premise mostly, with a modding community that takes events caused by roleplayers on one of the 24/7 RP servers to become canon in new updates. The universe continues growing, content continues being made, and the combat is actually really, really fun.
Nier. Underrated gameplay and story, I loved the voice acting, and the soundtrack is goddamn magical in how powerful it is. The singer actually made up lyrics based on how she believed language would drift over thousands of years, and came up with some of the most hauntingly beautiful songs I've ever heard. It's a 360 title, so you can still find it out there somewhere.
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TheRogueRose said It seems like the games I get invested in end up starting to be forgotten.I don't know if Skyrim falls into that category yet, but I feel that Dragon Age is getting there and Inquisition hasn't been released yet.Anyone remember Ty the Tasmanian Tiger?

Fucking yes. Good times until my major insectophobia from the time demanded I stop playing about halfway into the game forever.
And I guess it's time to post up about two more.

Spore
From the creators of The Sims, Spore is a game that makes any inner artist leap with joy. Imagine, if you will, The Sims on an entirely new scale. Instead of just crafting a person or their house, you'll be crafting everything. Create an alien species of your choosing, be they carnivore, herbivore, or omnivore. Watch them evolve as you choose, befriending or preying upon other creatures that you share a planet with. In time, your creatures will form a tribe, then advance later to a civilization on par with our own today. Eventually, the creature you designed and guided from a single-cell organism all the way to a global civilization will become an interstellar empire, trading with, befriending, or waging war with other empires. Craft your own monsters, buildings, vehicles, and starships, and see the creations of other players across the globe appear in your game. Because of all the variety you can find and the power of the simple tools you can use to create your world, no two playthroughs of Spore will be exactly the same, effectively turning it into something an artist can play endlessly.

Touhou 12.3: Hisoutensoku (a.k.a. Unthinkable Natural Law, or simply Soku) and by extension, Touhou 10.5: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
Before everybody jumps at "wtf y u Touhou!?" hear me out. I don't get what the haters of the franchise don't like about it beyond it coming from a country other than the one they're from, and even then, isn't this supposed to be a thread for games that don't get their fair cut anyway? :P

Being the second and third installments in the series to completely stray from Touhou's usual "dodge the bullets" style, SWR and 12.3 are 2D fighter games (well, more like an expansion pack in Soku's case) that uses both melee and projectile attacks. With a total of 20 playable characters, about a dozen stages, and a pretty hefty soundtrack that never disappoints, this duo of games only belongs in this thread because we've since had another Touhou fighting game (Hopeless Masquerade) that surpasses them in every possible sense. This isn't to say that SWR/Soku are bad games. While certainly far from the most ambitious fighting games, they're still pretty solid titles on their own. Graphics-wise, the 2D sprites and 3D backgrounds merge surprisingly well, and the character art (by the one and only Alphes) looks great. And I'm sorry, but Super Smash Bros. has nothing on a final boss theme like this.

Even in the Touhou fanbase, these games were pretty much never mentioned again after Hopeless Masquerade's release ^_^;
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Fucking yes. Good times until my major insectophobia from the time demanded I stop playing about halfway into the game forever.And I guess it's time to post up about two more.From the creators of The Sims, Spore is a game that makes any inner artist leap with joy. Imagine, if you will, The Sims on an entirely new scale. Instead of just crafting a person or their house, you'll be crafting . Create an alien species of your choosing, be they carnivore, herbivore, or omnivore. Watch them evolve as you choose, befriending or preying upon other creatures that you share a planet with. In time, your creatures will form a tribe, then advance later to a civilization on par with our own today. Eventually, the creature you designed and guided from a single-cell organism all the way to a global civilization will become an interstellar empire, trading with, befriending, or waging war with other empires. Craft your own monsters, buildings, vehicles, and starships, and see the creations of other players across the globe appear in your game. Because of all the variety you can find and the power of the simple tools you can use to create your world, no two playthroughs of Spore will be the same, effectively turning it into something an artist can play endlessly.Before everybody jumps at "wtf y u Touhou!?" hear me out. I don't get what the haters of the franchise don't like about it beyond it coming from a country other than the one they're from, and even then, isn't this supposed to be a thread for games that don't get their fair cut anyway? :PBeing the second and third installments in the series to completely stray from Touhou's usual "dodge the bullets" style, SWR and 12.3 are 2D fighter games (well, more like an expansion pack in Soku's case) that uses both melee and projectile attacks. With a total of 20 playable characters, about a dozen stages, and a pretty hefty soundtrack that never disappoints, this duo of games only belongs in this thread because we've since had another Touhou fighting game (Hopeless Masquerade) that surpasses them in every possible sense. This isn't to say that SWR/Soku are games. While certainly far from the most ambitious fighting games, they're still pretty solid titles on their own. Graphics-wise, the 2D sprites and 3D backgrounds merge surprisingly well, and the character art (by the one and only Alphes) looks great. And I'm sorry, but .Even in the Touhou fanbase, these games were pretty much never mentioned again after Hopeless Masquerade's release ^_^;


I have never heard of the Touhou series but I have heard of Spore. It looks like fun
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Mirror's edge. When people talk about DICE, Battlefield automatically gets associated.
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Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. Buggy as all hell, but it had such a cool setting and gameplay. If it wasn't outright a commercial bomb when it came out, I believe it is at least a cult classic among small groups.
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Yeah, Saints Row doesn't get the kind of marketing or attention GTA does. I didn't like IV as much as III, though. Gameplay seemed more samey/padded.Edit: I can't think of a lot of underrated games off the bat. You could name most old RPGs, and it'd be true(Planescape: Torment and the old Fallout's, mostly), but that's true of most '90/early '00 games. Period.Borderlands was an extremely underrated game, probably still is. Borderlands II got a huge amount of attention because people recognized the name by then, though.


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Who here has ever heard of the Lufia series? One of the best two video games I have ever played. Ever. They ruined it with crappy sequels.


Ooh, I've heard of them! They are really good.

If anyone here likes Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest or Golden Sun, check the Lufia series out!

Has anyone here ever played 'Contact' for the DS? That's a damn good game.
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Descent Saturn.

Not Denscent, nor Descent 2, and definately not 3.

Becasue you didn't get mega-missiles nor smart missiles in the freeware version.
-and Parallax made nintendo-hard look like child's play. Seriously, we could do a 30-minute speed run through all our NES games, yet level 6-7 pretty much made us shit bricks.
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Mirror's edge. When people talk about DICE, Battlefield automatically gets associated.


One of my faves of all time, a lot of people seemed to think that the first person perspective didn't work well for a free running fluid movement game but I always felt like the sense of motion that it gave worked really well and once you got the hang of it it was really fun to play

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Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. Buggy as all hell, but it had such a cool setting and gameplay. If it wasn't outright a commercial bomb when it came out, I believe it is at least a cult classic among small groups.


I remember two things about this game no matter how long I go between playing it, the horrible dancing in the nightclub and the sudden scarey moment in that haunted hotel thing at the beginning.

Personally for me it's got to be 'The World Ends With You', an amazing game with a great story that sort of got overlooked, it had a lot of replay value too. It's also the only game that contains the words 'MUST CONTAIN EMO URGES!!'
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Quest for Glory and Dragon Warrior.
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TheRogueRose said
It seems like the games I get invested in end up starting to be forgotten.I don't know if Skyrim falls into that category yet, but I feel that Dragon Age is getting there and Inquisition hasn't been released yet.Anyone remember Ty the Tasmanian Tiger?

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Mirror's edge. When people talk about DICE, Battlefield automatically gets associated.


You two take all of my yes. All of it. Ty the Tasmanian Tiger was about 50% of my childhood, and Mirror's Edge is easily one of my favourite games of all time - innovative and unique with an art style I really gelled with.

My addition to this list is Jak X: Combat Racing. It received decent reviews, but I haven't ever heard anyone else mention it in gaming conversations, despite Jak and Daxter obviously coming up a lot. Jak X was a fast-paced aggressive racing game in the spirit of Burnout Revenge. Imagine Gran Turismo with rocket launchers and machine guns, and then set it in the Jak series' dark post-first-game world, with the same humorous writing and excellent animation to add great texture and flavour to the story that supports the awesome, badass racing gameplay. I adored driving around the desert in Jak III, and they went and made a whole game out of it - and it's effing brilliant. Rather than being a cheap spinoff like it could have been, Naughty Dog managed to make it a legitimately fun, enjoyable addition to the series, with just as much merit as any of the other games. It had its faults, sure, but I sunk way too many hours into it as a kid.
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This is a very good game with a whole lot of flaws. It was very unpopular.
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I echo Mirror's edge - loved that game.

Also, the original Dungeon Siege: Legends of Aranna was a solid entry for its time and I hold a lot of nostalgia for that game.

For me, though, my childhood was the Sierra Impressions city-building games: Pharaoh and Cleopatra, Caesar III, Zeus and Poseidon... I spent so many hours in my teens building cities and exploiting my workers. Caesar III still stands out as a masterpiece of the genre.
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