Hidden gems (underatted, underhyped games)

Know of any games that were never really mainstream that you personally enjoyed?

Battle of Britain II: Wings of Victory

Take Command: 2nd Mannassas

Dangerous Waters

Over Flanders Fields, Phase 3

First Eagles

Harpoon 3

Armageddon Empires

AGEOD's American Civil War, Napoleon's Campaigns, Birth of America

Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun

War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition

Independence War 2: The Edge of Chaos

Defence Grid: The Awakening

ArmA 2, and some others.fudgeblood

Red Orchestra

Nexus - The Jupiter Incident

And any of the Silent Hunter games. The 3rd one especially.

Hitman Blood Money. I don't remember hearing anything about it at the time, but it's a great game, and probably the only Hitman game that's worth playing.

[QUOTE="fudgeblood"]ArmA 2, and some others.Nibroc420

It doesn't suck and it's not far too buggy. Don't say something about a game if you don't have a clue what you are talking about

Arcanum and sacrifice.

VtMB to a lesser degree since over the years it has gaine more and more recognition in the CRPG circle.

Second sight :)

Viking: Battle for AsgardLiftedHeadshot

We have a WINNER! (IMO at least :P)

Haven't played many underated/underhyped pc games, but Risen is better than what GS gave it.

Imo the most underrated game in my collection is Psychonauts, that was a lovely gem that got little love. Also, Viking as someone stated was extremely underrated, not a bad game atall, was only a rental, but still quite nice.

Viking as someone stated was extremely underrated, not a bad game atall, was only a rental, but still quite nice.

trijity

you could rent PC games?

[QUOTE="trijity"]

Viking as someone stated was extremely underrated, not a bad game atall, was only a rental, but still quite nice.

teardropmina

you could rent PC games?

Viking: Battle for Asgard is on PC? :shock: How did I not know this?

Viking: Battle for Asgard is on PC? :shock: How did I not know this?

SemperFi10

Lol, I saw someone else mention it and agreed with them, my apologies, I took this as underhyped games in general, spose I forgot where I was for a second. I had rented it for the 360 a few months ago, no clue if it's out for PC.

[QUOTE="SemperFi10"]

Viking: Battle for Asgard is on PC? :shock: How did I not know this?

trijity

Lol, I saw someone else mention it and agreed with them, my apologies, I took this as underhyped games in general, spose I forgot where I was for a second. I had rented it for the 360 a few months ago, no clue if it's out for PC.

Is Thief mainstream? I remember in that heroes competition someone referred to it as "the beta for Assassins Creed" - a little part of me died then!!biggest_loser

Is Thief mainstream? I remember in that heroes competition someone referred to it as "the beta for Assassins Creed" - a little part of me died then!!biggest_loser

Mount and Blade

The Witcher also did not get enough recognition IMO.

Mafia

Red Orchestra

Mount & Blade

Il-2 Sturmovik

STALKER (underrated)

Stronghold Crusader

[QUOTE="Nibroc420"][QUOTE="fudgeblood"]ArmA 2, and some others.simardbrad

It doesn't suck and it's not far too buggy. Don't say something about a game if you don't have a clue what you are talking about

King's Bounty: The Legend

Lately? Bionic commando, that game is fine, its new its unique it has great graphics and gameplay, nice levels and music and some story compared to most action games.

Rise of the argonauts, ai think that story and script wise its better than mass effect.

Machinarium, KillingFloor, Psychonauts, and yet it moves, Day of Defeat source

Mount and Blade, brilliant game.Ikavnieks

is that build on the source engine??

Uplink. I loved that game and bet a lot of other people would as well, but no one talks about it. My fav game from Introversion. It'slike a futuristic hacking sim thing.

Hitman Blood Money. I don't remember hearing anything about it at the time, but it's a great game, and probably the only Hitman game that's worth playing.

AFraud

Wrong and wrong. The game is mainstream, and the previous 2 hitman games are also amazing.

[QUOTE="Ikavnieks"]Mount and Blade, brilliant game.jettpack

is that build on the source engine??

no, it's on it's own engine.

Mount & Blade, Torchlight, Arma 2.

May I remention Mount&Blade, Freedom Fighters, Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines and Arx Fatalis?

And add two personal favourites, NoX and Clive Barker's Undying?

Despite its old look and bad story, NoX is strangely addictive:)

Clive Barker's Undying

Despite its old look and bad story, NoX is strangely addicti

moodflow

Cryostasis

Punumbra: Black Plague

Timeshift

Battlestations: Pacific

Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault

Icewind Dale + expansions. Everybody mentions Baldur's Gate (especially now when Dragon Age is about to be released) and Planescape but I find ID to be one of my all time games and probably the most atmospheric AD&D game ever. Very beautiful dungeon crawler.

Wizardry VIII - the swan song of first person dungeon crawlers

Birth of the Federation - Master of Orion is ST universe

Temple of Elemental Evil - best transition of D&D 3.5 rules on the computer

UFO Afterlight - definitely underrated

Star Wolves - GS never even reviewed it.

Arcanum - for all that think modern RPGs have depth

Torchlight
Silver
The Movies

King's Bounty: The Legend

GPAddict

Why does the Russian(I'm assuming) verison have so much better of a main menu

I think Risen is the latest underrated game.