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sounds a little like scarface!
which would be very, very cool!!!

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If you could buy it as an old game it would be really worth it... It's a 3rd player shooter, takes place in the 30's and has a really long single player campeign (and no multiplayer 🙁 )

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hi..

i think battlezone was one of the best games of all time... it was way before its time... the graphics and the gameplay are still amazing now... multiplayer was really fun too..

my two cents.
 
yea it wasnt too bad of a game, and multiplayer kept it alive for a lil afterwards.

i give it a b- for effort.

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Hmm... Sacrifice was good, the Fallout Series wa very good. (You can pick up I & II for around $15)

My most underated game of all time would have to be Earthbound for the SNES... what can I say, I am a cultist.

Fear what has been, not what is to come.
 
Best games ever? Here's my top picks (yes, several of these have been mentioned already):

1) Fallout/Fallout 2. Great weapons, armor, story, setting, etc. And hey - you could get married in F2, become a &$@# star, and pimp out your wife! How's that for real role-playing? Not only that, but you could go through the game as various character types with wildly different options for some missions. Play a stupid guy, and the conversations get HILARIOUS! I also really liked Fallout: Tactics, although many Fallout fans were pissed because it wasn't the Fallout 3 they were waiting for.

2) Planescape: Torment. It's a Dungeons and Dragons game, but it's D&D like most people never play it. By far the best story telling of the Black Isle D&D games. You play an immortal, and you actually have to die at times to advance the plot. How cool is that? :)

3) Baldur's Gate Series. Yeah, it's AD&D, so if you don't like that, this isn't likely to change your mind. If you DO like that system, though, this is probably the best CRPG implementation of D&D that has been done. (IMO, Neverwinter Nights did not come close to surpassing it.)

4) Chrono Trigger. Best RPG on the consoles, bar none. Still worth playing even today.

5) System Shock 2. (The orinal was great as well, but going back and trying to replay it ruined my memories. The story was still good, but the user interface is SO outdated!) One of the scariest games I've ever played, with some AWESOME sounds. There's a mod that's been done to enhance the character models...
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/etienne.aubert/sshock/sshock_rebirth.htm
Also, some enhanced textures...
http://shtup.home.att.net/downloads/shtup_alpha002.zip

6) Deus Ex (Ooooo - a sequel is coming soon!) was a well done RPG/FPS hybrid, with skills and such.

Honorable Mentions:
Note - most of these are games that were GREAT (in my opinion) when they came out, but they're old now, and some people may not be very forgiving of the ancient graphics and sound. :)

The early Ultima games were great for their time. I don't know if I could still go back and play them, but Ulima through Ultima VI were great games and stories. The Guardian really took the series downhill. Also, check out Worlds of Ultima: the Savage Empire and Worlds of Ultima 2: Martian Dreams. Very cool games with great stories, they used a modified Ultima VI engine. (Worlds of Ultima 2 was written by Warren Spektor of Deus Ex fame. At one point in time, he said he thought it was the best story he had ever done.)

Wizardry series. Again, I don't know if I could still go back and replay them, but Wizardry 8 was a great send-off of the series.

Might and Magic III through V. They went downhill after that.

For sci-fi RPG fans, Shadowrun (SNES and Sega Genesis - the two are very different from each other) is pretty cool. Neuromancer on the PC is still a cool RPG/adventure story, but the graphics are ancient. These are two of the very first (and very few to this date) cyberpunk themed games I've played. If you like the genre, give them a shot.

There was a PC game called Hard Nova in the early 90s that I liked a lot. Also, there was a game done by New World Computing before they became part of 3DO. It was called Planet's Edge.

Finally, last but not least, if you like Fallout and Fallout 2, be sure to check out the original Wasteland: A Post-Apocalypse Adventure. This was done by several of the people who would go on to create Fallout almost a decade later. VERY old graphics, but it's still got a pretty cool story. (MANY similarities to the Fallout games.)
 
Loderunner rules!

I'm waiting for a FPS loderunner.

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I know there was a DOS based loderunner by sierra and a remake in the 90s based on windows 95. Pretty cool game, I get it confused with Thexder though... another oldie.

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I just tell it like it is and some can't handle it. If your experience is different, well congratu-fukulation.
<b>I’M NOT A ATI FANBOY, I’M NOT A NV FANBOY, I’M A STABILITY FANBOY</b>
 
I believe on SNES you could also find Loderunner 3 and 4. Basically, it was like the original Loderunner with updated graphics. Loderunner 2 by Sierra was pseudo-3D, which was sort of odd. IMO, though, Loderunner was *not* underrated (it was about the ONLY game on the early Macs, wasn't it). Besides, it was pretty mediocre.
 
How dare you say that?! Loderunner is the shiznit. REPENT!

Although the Trogdor game comes in second.

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There was a Sierra game called Realms of the Haunting, which in my mind was the perfect mix of adventure and first person shooter. Unfortunately its engine has not aged gracefully, but it was a lot of fun.

A game I feel was underrated was C&C red alert 2. C&C fans trash it all the time because of its goofy storyline, but it is a game that I still play for hours with my friends when we do LAN parties. It has fast gameplay, and good balance. The graphics are modest but not annoying, and you can play it in a 3 year old laptop without any problems. In my opinion it is the best C&C game ever made.
 
I found my Loderunner floppy during thx giving but my old Mac is packed away somewhere dark so I didn't get to play it.

I also found an old AOL 1.0 floppy.

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Back in the AOL 1.0 days I think they either came in the little paper case or they were sticky glued to the inside of PC magazines. I was one of the first people on AOL. You could put in a fake checking account and they would never notice.

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I'm glad someone other than me pointed out the greatness that is the Trogdor the Burninator game. And Population Tire was also quite nice. Not to mention the marvelous Duck Pond simulation. (Feed 10 ducks to get the upgraded 16 color version!!!)

For those of you not in the know, you can go back to your boring, hum-drum existences. Or, go check out www.homestarrunner.com - visit every link you see. By the time you're done, you will have laughed your ass off. Which is much more effective than any diets I've seen.

And no, I am actually NOT one of the people who works on that web site. I just think Trogdor kicks ass, so I stole his name. Shame on me.
 
I haven't been to the site in 6 months or so but sisters was my favorite!

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My favorite underrated game is Terranova, also by Looking Glass Studios. Coming out in 1996, it was overshaddowed by Doom, even though it offered superior graphics and gameplay IMHO. It was one of the first tactical squad FPS and it had a cool sci-fi setting. You basiccally assembled a squad before each mission, assigning them different body armors, weapons, and an extra item slot for things like autoturrets, landmines, repair kits.
Once in game you could give on the fly commands to your squadmates on the command map in your HUD. The game is also set in outdoor areas giving you the ability to manuever your troops for crossfires, ambushes, and such. The game also has some pretty badass weapons like an energy wave gun that fries anything close to you and a long range cannon that can take out entire squads.

Tribes seems to have borrowed a lot from this game, with the powered body armor and jetpacks in outdoor environments.
 
IMHO the following were the most underrated:

The Magic Candle (C64)-- one of my top 5 favorite CRPGs. This had set encounters on the world map (i.e. no random ones every two steps--Yee Ha!), a unique end game sequence that did not entail killing a final enemy, ability to make money through employment, recruitment of NPCs (the only other game doing that at the time was Ultima 4 IIRC), and best of all: no respawning except after 90 days of game time.

Realms of Arkania series: Another great RPG series. It was largely received with average reviews, but I loved it for the PnP feel I thought it had. I may have to replay this one through DOSBox.

Temple of Elemental Evil: I know it's had its share of serious problems with bugs and weak dialogue, but this game really took me back to the 80's gathered around the table with fellow gamedorks rolling 20 sided dice. This game took CRPGs back to turn based combat-- where CRPG combat belongs. A game based on a specific ruleset needs to adopt the style of combat used by that game IMHO. I'm sure there are many other underrated games I did not mention.

BrandtP
 
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