Most underrated game?

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I just reinstalled my copy of Sacrifice and that has to be the most underrated game in recent memory.

The graphics to this day are great, and beat many games just coming out today and the gameplay is so much more fun for a RTS style game than the Ages games and Warcraft series lately.

And the storys better with a multiple branching system.

Another most enjoyable game was Giants Citizen Kabuto.. though not in the league of Sacrifice by any means, it was probably the last time I remember being genuininly entertained playing a game.

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I've never heard of Sacrifice, I had to look it up!

My vote for 'most underrated game' has to go to "Warzone 2100" and "Darkstone." 2 games from 1999 that I still play to this day.
 
I missed those, I'm going to have to look them up too!

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Deus Ex I say, it wasn't underrated by the press but it never caught on with the public, it was way ahead of its time merging rpg elements with a first person shooter with an awesome story and multiple endings.

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Yes Deus Ex is indeed the most underrated game !! This game really ruled !! I am looking forward to the sequel for month & month !!
 
Most underated games are System Shock 1 & 2. From the creator of Deux Ex. Looking Glass studios bankrupted and some guys from SS went and did Deus Ex. Really siilar games.
 
YES! sacrifice was awesome!! that game was so cool.
I'm gonna have to go find it and play through the singal player again.

Giants was fun, but it got too repeatitive after awhile :/
 
Giants is only fun when someone plays the kabuto really well... Mind you the reapers are WAY over powered... but if you're at a lan, and you have a 1337 kabuto he can even up the teams easily.

It was a cool concept, but the more I played it on lans, the more i hated.

Sacrifice was a lot of fun, never tried it MP though, is it worth it?
 
ahh the lemon stand game =)
That brings back memories of the jeep game where the jeep shoots diaganle-upwards or straight, and the jeep can jump... what was that one again?

lol.
Ya sacrifice was good in it's time, except the tutorial was long and boring, and if you skipped ahead the game would stop.
 
System Shock 2 was the best game I ever played. Any ideas on something similiar? Would be appreciated.

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Don't want to go to old. GLQuake always stuck in my mind as a great fast game with brilliant graphics. Played it 2 weeks ago and my bubble burst.

You know what could be great? Someone really bored, taking Doom2's levels, and import/rebuild it with the Quake3 engine, use the same pallettes and colours, but obviously enhanced.

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if you want a cool remade game, look up tenebrae. its the quake 1 engine redone, it was really cool for me. need at least a geforce3 to make it playable though. also, there were some updated versions of doom, pretty cool. (gldoom and doom legacy)

http://tenebrae.sourceforge.net/index.php
http://www.projectdoom.com/Files.html

underrated game : carmageddon (and its sequels)
 
Shot!

I'm busy checking. It's Friday morning, everyone's on leave and I have a 384kb line all for myself. In this country that's huge, so don't laugh. It's not odd to get a download of 500 bytes/s in this country. And please note I said "bytes".

Thanks

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Giants is only fun when someone plays the kabuto really well... Mind you the reapers are WAY over powered... but if you're at a lan, and you have a 1337 kabuto he can even up the teams easily.

It was a cool concept, but the more I played it on lans, the more i hated.

Sacrifice was a lot of fun, never tried it MP though, is it worth it?
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I never played Giants in MP. I assumed it was buggy so never tried. Plus never knew anyone else that had it.

I never played sacrifice MP either but I read it kicks ass. The management of the troops and souls and spells gets hectic sometimes and I just imagined playing someone going back and forth in a battle that no one won.
It could get really tiring, I found similar situations in the single player game sometimes.


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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>
 
Well... maybe not Most Underrated... but Planescape: Torment really should've had a bigger following. I don't remember any real RPGs made since then (although i haven't played Morrowind yet.. i'm just not into 1st person RPGs though.. doesn't work for me). Games like Diablo II are FUN, but definitely not true RPGs, more just Hack n Slash.

Planescape Torment had THOUSANDS of pages of text to read. They literally created a UNIVERSE (or multiverse to be more precise 😛) for this game.

Hundreds of quests most people wouldn't even get to do exist.

You can play the game a totally different way every time, and it's player growth is unique.. you allocate points as you go, and gain classes and such along the way. And of course your actions change what you are (Neutral, Evil, Good, Chasotic, etc). So you basically start as a generic Hero and can make a few changes to stats... then by your actions through the game you shape your character. Rather than by building Mr Uber Warrior right from the start. I like this method because it seems more realistic, and since this is a Role Playing Game, it also encourages people to actually PLAY the role they wish to be. good stuff.

Another thing was the sounds/music. Maybe it wasn't the best quality (many were 64kbps), but it was quite unique, and ALWAYS fit perfectly with whatever was going on.

Playing Planescape for me was like reading a good book.. you get completely lost.. and once away you wish to go back.. and you're like "What the heck? REAL WORLD? Bah. i like my fake Universe (Multiverse) better"

It's a good thing no more games are going to use the Planescape idea/ruleset... because they'd probably not live up to the uberness of Planescape. I'd like to find some other True RPGs this absorbing someday.

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PROTO, now that's an old and underated game!

In short it was a space game in which one had to find resources and trade them and or find crew mates, fight space dogfights, improve your spaceship (buy new ones) research knew lifeforms, scout the galaxy for new planets with interesting things/trade posts.
All to send money back to earth so they could defend themselfs and also you had to rally allies to counter attack

An extremly versatile game!, the galaxy was huge hunderds of planets (looked quite alike but diffent resources/needs/safety) and extremly long gameplay (mabye to long for some)

For the time the graphics were excellent too (on a 486 or a 286 I'm not sure, it was along time ago)

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sacrifice... looked great and was a great game to play for like.... a day...

then u realised how repetitive it was and how annoying it was to control yur troops when the action picked up... then u uninstalled it, broke the cd and flung it into the fire least u be tempted to install it again in a bout of nostalgia a month or two down the line

also ive only just noticed that posting a response knocks the topic to the top of the list.... so im gonna stop posting to old topics now

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Mafia, got great reviews but wasn't as popular as it should've been, probably cause it was made by some Czech dudes (though it is one of the most american games I know). Graphics were stunning and gameplay was terriffic, but the story... oh, the story...
For anyone who's played it and hasn't finished it, I'd like to note that the graphics in the last level are breathtaking (it's in an art galary and every painting and statue is there... too bad you come blasting throug that place).

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