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Lyrka Bloodberry

Spybeaver

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#21 - 2012-02-14 11:33:57 UTC

+1 for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (although it was the buggiest game I ever played)
+1 for Mount and Blade

There are so darn many:
Giants: Citizen Kabuto
Supreme Commander
Mirror's Edge
Jagged Alliance 2
Oni
Nox
Septerra Core
M.U.D.S. - Mean Ugly Dirty Sport
Temple of Elemental Evil
The I of the Dragon
Messiah
Red Baron 3D
Transformers - War for Cybertron
Sacrifice
Freedom Force
Loom
Grim Fandango
Sheep Dog n Wolf
War of the Monsters
Gradius V

And that are by far not all...

Not underrated, but underplayed:
- MDK
- Beyond Good and Evil

They had very high ratings, but were no real commercial success.

Spybeaver

Destination SkillQueue

Doomheim

Likes received: 6,678

#22 - 2012-02-14 13:30:05 UTC

Rings of power RPG on the sega genesis. Is it awesome? **** no, the gameplay is hard to get in to, alters from bad to awful and the music will **** your ears in certain places. As a bonus, if you don't pay attention to what people say or the clues you're given, you have practically no chance of ever completing the game. If you want action or roleplaying, look somewhere else.

So why even mention it? It's actually a great puzzle and exploration game and is much better played using an emulator and save states. Since the in-game note system sucks, you will need to play it with a notepad to mark down all the clues and info, but besides that the puzzle and exploration aspects are good and varied. It's an entire planet you can travel freely, if you just have the resources(money/food/water) and can survive the few, but tough random encounters. Walk by foot or hire vehicles from dinosaurs, boats, ships and dragons. Money is made mainly by trading between cities and if you know a good route, you can bypass micromanaging the resource system entirely.

It's one of those game, that is fun to play through from time to time. It's also a game where you really feel the temptation to read a walkthrough, since some of the puzzles can be hard, but relying on a detailed walkhrough makes playing the game pretty much pointless, since you play it for the puzzles and exploration and not really for the gameplay.

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Alpheias Tactical Farmers. Pandemic Horde Likes received: 9,004	#23 - 2012-02-14 13:39:24 UTC Gemini Rue Agent of Chaos, Sower of Discord. Don't talk to me unless you are IQ verified and certified with three references from non-family members. Please have your certificate of authenticity on hand.

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Indahmawar Fazmarai Likes received: 5,954	#24 - 2012-02-14 14:58:31 UTC Lyrka Bloodberry wrote: (...) Red Baron 3D (...) Great game, i loved it. One of he best times I had playing was with it, getting back home with a crushed top wing, following a river trhough no man's land (couldn't climb with the stick all port), and then landed safely behind my lines... And I used to make my own custom paint schemes, btw...

Telegram Sam

Sebiestor Tribe

Minmatar Republic

Likes received: 1,569

#25 - 2012-02-14 20:36:08 UTC | Edited by: Telegram Sam

+1 Red Baron 3D - Great game, lots of adrenaline! Over Flanders Fields is more sophisticated, but somehow doesn't have the same drama.
+1 more for Mount & Blade

Battleground Europe: World War II Online - Giant allies vs. axis PVP campaigns. Play as an infantryman, drive a tank, fly a fighter or bomber, drive a PT boat or destroyer. Every bullet, shell and bomb is plotted with ballistic accuracy, so the game map has to be realistically rendered to the horizon. (No background textures; it's rendered completely for scale miles). Gameplay basically involves stalking and being stalked by the opposing side's players. Everybody's using the same spawned-in "equipment," so it's entirely player skill that makes the difference in getting a kill or getting a death.

Worms series (Worms World Party, Worms Armageddon, etc.)

Indahmawar Fazmarai

Likes received: 5,954

#26 - 2012-02-14 21:26:06 UTC

Well, ain't time cruel? I had almost forgot it. Shocked

Enter 1998 and hail the last of Microprose...

European Air War.

I played it for 4+ years, intensive modding included. Meatwater's sound mod for EAW was probably one of the best soud packs ever released.

And about gameplay... bomber formations were gorgeous, as there could be over 60 bombers in them. And 60+ B-17 ain't no joke.

Weirdest occurence I had with EAW was shooting down a B-24, which crashed against another B-24, which let off its bombs and got to hit a third B-24. Those guys really ran out of luck that day... Lol

Dray

C.O.D.E

Likes received: 41

#27 - 2012-02-14 21:58:54 UTC

Parthonax wrote:

just about every Gary Grisby game

War in the pacific admiral edition
War in the East
Over the reich
Battle of brittain
All of them some really number crunching games

Also alot of the older paradox games classic wargames
the operational art of war series
Campaign series ( eastern front , western front , rising suns etc)
Battleground series (shiloh, gettysburg, bullrun chickamagua(sp) antietam, waterloo, borodino , etc )
Granted these are hopelessly outdate'd graphic wise but they still go relative good in the PBEM communities

Battle of jutland
one of my favorites if you like big ships with big guns

+1 to WITE, WITP, also the Battleground games, love 1812, Borodino offers so many options for both sides that it still amazes me that the best Napoleon could come up with was a frontal assault against well prepared positions.

Telegram Sam

Sebiestor Tribe

Minmatar Republic

Likes received: 1,569

#28 - 2012-02-14 22:37:07 UTC

Dray wrote:

Parthonax wrote:

Oh yeah, the Battleground games. Endless replay on those, especially the Borodino and Waterloo ones, IMO. I still have multiple copies of the disks. Can you get them to work on Vista/ Windows 7?

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FloppieTheBanjoClown Arcana Imperii Ltd. Likes received: 3,740	#29 - 2012-02-14 22:48:47 UTC +1 for Total Annihilation. A brilliant game that was overshadowed by StarCraft...don't get me started on StarCraft. Founding member of the Belligerent Undesirables movement.

Valei Khurelem

Likes received: 457

#30 - 2012-02-15 08:51:56 UTC

Emperor Battle for Dune! Can't believe I forgot this game!

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxnbV5Eb0Jc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtEX2WjPjaI

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Parthonax

Likes received: 21

#31 - 2012-02-15 09:13:20 UTC

Telegram Sam wrote:

Dray wrote:

Parthonax wrote:

Oh yeah, the Battleground games. Endless replay on those, especially the Borodino and Waterloo ones, IMO. I still have multiple copies of the disks. Can you get them to work on Vista/ Windows 7?

i think you can i haven't tried it but if i remember correctly you can with a small fix you need to download , but not sure
i should try it one of these days

so this is permanence

Solinuas

Viziam

Amarr Empire

Likes received: 114

#32 - 2012-02-15 11:04:48 UTC

Lets see:

Okami
STALKER series (except clear sky)
Mechwarrior Living Legends (a crysis mod, but better and more complete than most games)
Black and White 1/2
Demon's/ Dark Souls
Shadow of the Colossus
Monster Hunter Series (Whyunoreleasefrontieroutsidejapan?!?)
Homeworld series
X3 Terran Conflict
Tribes: Ascend Beta

Listed in the order i thought of them, not the order i like them :P

Valei Khurelem

Likes received: 457

#33 - 2012-02-15 13:00:55 UTC | Edited by: Valei Khurelem

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Black and White 1/2

Black and white definitely wasn't underrated lol Lionhead have their own company and studios now.

Telegram Sam

Sebiestor Tribe

Minmatar Republic

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#34 - 2012-02-15 17:51:16 UTC

Dray wrote:

I think maybe just getting the army together and lined up in front of the Russian army was the best he could do. The soldiers were in bad shape from weeks of exposure and near starvation. Their boots and uniforms had fallen to pieces and they were wearing anything they could find (peasant smocks, women's clothes and hats, whatever). Soldiers had straggled off individually searching for food, or just died along the way, so the units had lost most organization. A survivor from the French army says they were all delirious and just a mob fighting in a big chaotic melee. (The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier). So maybe Napoleon just didn't have an army that was organized enough to do any maneuvering. Just getting the troops together and throwing them at the Russians was the best he could manage.

Parthonax

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#35 - 2012-02-16 15:23:02 UTC | Edited by: Parthonax

Parthonax wrote:

Telegram Sam wrote:

Dray wrote:

Parthonax wrote:

Oh yeah, the Battleground games. Endless replay on those, especially the Borodino and Waterloo ones, IMO. I still have multiple copies of the disks. Can you get them to work on Vista/ Windows 7?

i think you can i haven't tried it but if i remember correctly you can with a small fix you need to download , but not sure
i should try it one of these days

small update
If you are using the original Talonsoft version of the battlegroundseries they do NOT work on Win 7 nor is their any fix , they just too old , however , paradoxgames still sells them pretty cheap and their updated version works just fine on Win 7

so this is permanence

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Klown Walk Science and Trade Institute Caldari State Likes received: 233	#36 - 2012-02-16 17:07:17 UTC \| Edited by: Klown Walk nexus the jupiter incident c&c tiberian sun knights & merchants metal fatigue final fantasy 8 broken world series ninja blade Redjack: Revenge of the Brethren ( if you can find it somehow, you should play it)

Parthonax

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#37 - 2012-02-20 08:52:28 UTC

I had a look at my collection this weekend and some of the following titles i really still think are great games

Europa Universalis II.. number III was a dumbed down version of this masterpiece with updated graphics
OOh i remember the frutration when suddenly the reformation starts and 1/2 your provinces convert to protestantism
Or when playing Englansd the frustration you have with scotland

Victoria same as EU II buth so much more complicated

Mechcommader

, pharaoh and Zeus
City builders you learn to love i disliked ceasar because the abscent of blocks prevented you to build really large cities , i think i ve wasted months on pharohs final mission building that perfect city

so this is permanence

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Reiisha Likes received: 1,017	#38 - 2012-02-20 09:20:49 UTC Reunion. The original impossible game. If you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all...

Saul Shardani

People of the Saiya

Silent Company

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#39 - 2012-02-22 02:21:20 UTC | Edited by: Saul Shardani

prwar desu wrote:

VKhaun Vex wrote:

Planet-Side

To this day people tell me they've never heard of it. SoE's people have said some crap in interviews about how 'the world was not ready' and Planet-Side 2 will do better now... but they didn't advertise it worth a damn, cancelled their F2P model, refused to do combo subs with it and MMO's, on and on. They just allowed the thing to die then beat the dead horse with terrible expansions.

Never heard of it. Looked it up and reminds me of quake, the gameplay looks great yet outdated.
Forgot Kerbal Space Program, and World of Tanks.

World of Tanks, I played that game more than I play EvE. Kinda lost interest when BF3 came out, then one of my clan members got banned for no reason and those Russians never answer his emails. I got all the way up to an IS7, and was working my way up the US Heavy tree, maxed out the T32 but held off on buying the T34 for now.

Telegram Sam wrote:

Battleground Europe: World War II Online - Giant allies vs. axis PVP campaigns. Play as an infantryman, drive a tank, fly a fighter or bomber, drive a PT boat or destroyer. Every bullet, shell and bomb is plotted with ballistic accuracy, so the game map has to be realistically rendered to the horizon. (No background textures; it's rendered completely for scale miles). Gameplay basically involves stalking and being stalked by the opposing side's players. Everybody's using the same spawned-in "equipment," so it's entirely player skill that makes the difference in getting a kill or getting a death.

used to play this too! so many memories with this game. I started playing back in 2003-04? Back when they still had the 2D tree graphics and invincible forests that you couldn't enter. I was one of the top 100 tankers quite a few times, even made it in the top 20 I think.

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Shivus Tao Brutor Tribe Minmatar Republic Likes received: 294	#40 - 2012-02-22 02:29:45 UTC \| Edited by: Shivus Tao Privateer 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET6UEXAmc68 Even though it didn't live up to the original privateer it has Clive Owen, David Warner, and Christopher Walken, what more can one ask for? Well, aside from Nicholas Cage.