what are the PC games that you think never got the attention they deserved?

I'd love to play some of those. Like I played 'Knights ofhonor'.It's a good game with some little problems in the area of AI(though it was improved a bit on the later released patch) and the speedof the game. Do you know games like that? Give me some names people...........Regards.

Excellent topic.

There are so many. But you then have to ask yourself questions like. If its not a seller in America but a seller in europe at which angle are you looking at? Settlers is big in europe but in America its not. Halo is big in America but in Europe its not.

That kind of thing. But coming from the UK and being a PC gamer i would say these.

Anno1701.

Knights of honour was a good choice.

Faces of War

In the face of hype its annoying when a game is not working for a mass market. Black and white and The movies are 2 such games. Peter Molyneux is ahead of is time sadly the audience is not.......

The decline of game ideas is similar to communism. I am sorry but i cannot accept WoW as a great game. It reeks of a game designed for a Mass audience. Its like Capitalism interspliced with Communism. I only hope that audiences get more intelligent without the world being choked by multiplayer mayhem or run and jump affairs the japanese buy.

How many puzzlers do we need? Aren't they all Tetris in a different form??? Meteos? Where are those ideas ??????

I'd love to play some of those. Like I played 'Knights ofhonor'.It's a good game with some little problems in the area of AI(though it was improved a bit on the later released patch) and the speedof the game. Do you know games like that? Give me some names people...........Regards.

dev_ron

lol...i'm addicted to the knights of honor demo right now.

another game i think should get more praise isstar wars galactic battlegrounds

Definitely Mafia.

I found this game to be one of the best action games on the PC in the past 5 years, and I enjoyed it more then any of the GTA games, yet it didnt get nearly the attention.

I'd have to say some of these games didn't get enough loving...

Mace Griffin: Bounty Hunter
Cossacks: European Wars
Clive Barker's Undying
Thief 1 & 2
System Shock 1 & 2
Wheel Of Time
Rune
Severance: Blade Of Darkness
Red Faction
Anachronox
Arx Fatalis
Sacrifice
Giants: Citizen Kabuto
Tron 2.0
NOLF 1 & 2 - they were popular, but not popular enough imo. Love those games.
Vampire Masquerade: Bloodlines - this game is still being regularly patched by the community.
Gothic
Call Of Cthulhu: Dark Corners Of The Earth
Chrome

NOLF 1 & 2 - they were popular, but not popular enough imo. Love those games.RobertBowen

Yep, no question about the No One Lives Forever series. I think many people are realizing how good those games are lately, but in their time, they were definitely overlooked :(

I'd have to say some of these games didn't get enough loving...

Mace Griffin: Bounty Hunter
Cossacks: European Wars
Clive Barker's Undying
Thief 1 & 2
System Shock 1 & 2
Wheel Of Time
Rune
Severance: Blade Of Darkness
Red Faction
Anachronox
Arx Fatalis
Sacrifice
Giants: Citizen Kabuto
Tron 2.0
NOLF 1 & 2 - they were popular, but not popular enough imo. Love those games.
Vampire Masquerade: Bloodlines - this game is still being regularly patched by the community.
Gothic
Call Of Cthulhu: Dark Corners Of The Earth
Chrome

RobertBowen

pretty good list, I'd add tribes to it also.

Personally I felt the carmageddon should of been more popular, but I think that's just me.

I also thought shadow warrior deserved more respect.

I don't know how much attention Pharaoh got, but that game needed more just because it was so awesome.Funkyhamster

I'v played this game for more than a year and it's really a awesome game. u should also try playing caesar-III.

[QUOTE="dev_ron"]

I'd love to play some of those. Like I played 'Knights ofhonor'.It's a good game with some little problems in the area of AI(though it was improved a bit on the later released patch) and the speedof the game. Do you know games like that? Give me some names people...........Regards.

Anthony9000

lol...i'm addicted to the knights of honor demo right now.

another game i think should get more praise isstar wars galactic battlegrounds

u r gonna love playing knights of honor full version. it's a awesome one. read my review about this game and if u need help, let me know.

[QUOTE="RobertBowen"]

I'd have to say some of these games didn't get enough loving...

Mace Griffin: Bounty Hunter
Cossacks: European Wars
Clive Barker's Undying
Thief 1 & 2
System Shock 1 & 2
Wheel Of Time
Rune
Severance: Blade Of Darkness
Red Faction
Anachronox
Arx Fatalis
Sacrifice
Giants: Citizen Kabuto
Tron 2.0
NOLF 1 & 2 - they were popular, but not popular enough imo. Love those games.
Vampire Masquerade: Bloodlines - this game is still being regularly patched by the community.
Gothic
Call Of Cthulhu: Dark Corners Of The Earth
Chrome

jrhawk42

pretty good list, I'd add tribes to it also.

Personally I felt the carmageddon should of been more popular, but I think that's just me.

I also thought shadow warrior deserved more respect.

i've played 'Giants: Citizen Kabuto' at 2000. game play was difficult on that time for me. but i liked it.

HOMMV. It feels like no one is familiar with Heroes at all. RK-Mara

I've played the version-IV. just a simple game to me. nothing special

Definitely Mafia.

I found this game to be one of the best action games on the PC in the past 5 years, and I enjoyed it more then any of the GTA games, yet it didnt get nearly the attention.

Robnyc22

well...mafia is a good game but still it doesn't have that extra to be on top. speically it's too short.

darwinia and ut2004footballa27

not sure about the first onebro...didn't play but ut04;well...i won't vote for that.

System shock 2 and umm Sacrifice

UT2004? I think it was pretty popular man. Could have been more popular

How bout max payne? think they got snubbed especially on Max Payne 2

has anyone played "evil genius"? i kinda liked it and thought of some upgrades or new version. didn't show up though. this game was really frustrating at the later part of the gameplay. but still good entertainmentdev_ron

Evil Genius was good but it did get frustrating. Another kind of game that was similiar to that was Dungeon Keeper and it didn't become worse during the end.

HOMMV. It feels like no one is familiar with Heroes at all. RK-Mara

Yup, I'm agree with you, "Heroes Of Might and Magic" is a good games, but a lot of people didn't notice about it.

I'll affirm some that have been mentioned already. (I like to gauge these choices by how many times I replayed them and the score/acclaim they got).

Mafia

NOLF 1&2

Rune

Tribes

Here's ones I haven't noticed (skipped a few pages on the thread)

Trespasser (yes it had major problems, but I like dinosaurs)

Kings Quest: Mask of Eternity

NOX

Hunter Hunted (in the Tribes universe somehow)

Boiling Point: Road to Hell

Deep Shadows' game provides lots of freedom to make your own choices, and does not rush you into anything. There are a few drawbacks but all in all, it should have recieved lots more attention.

[QUOTE="Funkyhamster"]I don't know how much attention Pharaoh got, but that game needed more just because it was so awesome.dev_ron

I'v played this game for more than a year and it's really a awesome game. u should also try playing caesar-III.

[QUOTE="dev_ron"]

[QUOTE="Funkyhamster"]I don't know how much attention Pharaoh got, but that game needed more just because it was so awesome.Funkyhamster

I'v played this game for more than a year and it's really a awesome game. u should also try playing caesar-III.

Yeah, Caesar III is fun... I kind of like Pharaoh and Emperor (basically the same thing except in China) more, just because they have some gameplay features that make a big difference to me.

have u played Cleopatra?

Boiling Point: Road to Hell

Deep Shadows' game provides lots of freedom to make your own choices, and does not rush you into anything. There are a few drawbacks but all in all, it should have recieved lots more attention.

turbo1000

can u give some more descriptions of this game bro..

[QUOTE="RK-Mara"]HOMMV. It feels like no one is familiar with Heroes at all. drummerzzz

Yup, I'm agree with you, "Heroes Of Might and Magic" is a good games, but a lot of people didn't notice about it.

as i said before bro..this game doesn't have that extra to be on the spot....though the game is good entertainment. there could be trade management and a better kings' panel to make the game more interesting.....can't remember much more than that.

Chronicles of Riddick

Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines

Titan Quest

have u played Cleopatra?

dev_ron

Not yet; I'm going to buy it sometime online though, since they have it for like $5 on Amazon. Is it a good expansion?

[QUOTE="turbo1000"]

Boiling Point: Road to Hell

Deep Shadows' game provides lots of freedom to make your own choices, and does not rush you into anything. There are a few drawbacks but all in all, it should have recieved lots more attention.

dev_ron

can u give some more descriptions of this game bro..

[QUOTE="dev_ron"]

have u played Cleopatra?

Funkyhamster

Not yet; I'm going to buy it sometime online though, since they have it for like $5 on Amazon. Is it a good expansion?

Have u guys played 'Enter the Matrix'. I'm a big fan of the movie also enjoyed the game. But I didn't find it favorite to anyone's list. 'Path of Neo' goes the same way. Though the movie clips in the game was a special attraction for the movie fans.

Have u guys played 'Enter the Matrix'.

dev_ron

I loved the movies too but found the game to be short and not enough good storyline....it's like it was forced into it somehow.

I too would vote for Boiling Point, a totally open RPG action game with great ideas in it. Like all open non linear games, it shipped with bugs, just like Morrowind and Oblivion (and every Bethesda RPG release!) and just like all the other open-ended non linear games of this type. However, if you release a game like this witr a dozen bugs and you are a small publisher you will be slammed by the media, if you are a big purblisher like Bethesda with a game that now has an unofficial patch with over 1,000 fixes, the media will still never, I repeat never, associate it with bugs, so to this day people do not talk about all the bugs in Oblivion, but like the earlier writer, talk about the bugs in Boiling Point.

With the 2.0 patch Boiling Point is perfectly playable, a little rough, like STALKER, but with just as much fun as STALKER. It has speech for every character in every conversation, and there are hundereds of them, it has lots of weapons, lots of vehicles and lots of tasks that are not at all typical, it has open ended gameplay. You can get drunk, you can get hooked on drugs, you can do so many things not done in open ended RPG's at all. And finally, oh the finally! It creates a whole ton of immersion that Oblivion, for example, cannot touch, due to it technically brilliant NO LOADING SCREENS at any time! It will slow occasionally as it streams the data, but if you have a decent PC (2.0ghz+) it is barely noticeable!

All of the reviews for this game will forever be the 'bugged' 1.0 game. No magazine is going to review with the 2.0 patch that solves 90% of the problems. This is a crying shame, and we shoot ourselves in the foot by ignoring it because games like this come along once every 4-5 years -they are so rare and such a wonderful genre we should support them with all our gamer's might!

So go and read the reviews, but think to yourself 'what if all these bugs had been fixed - what score would they give - and then decide if you want to buy this game, install the 2,0 patch and have the best 100 hours of playing an RPG since Morrowind or Silent Shock 2!

So I vote for Boiling Point, with a nomination on the side for Space Rangers 2. Another game with tons of fun that got sidelined by most media because it was not 3D and did not come from a major publisher! (It's why I am a fan of Gamespy, they made it number 4 in their Game of the Year top 10! While the rest of gaming media just didn't get it - but thankfully, many gamers did and the game has got great user reviews and independent gaming site scores!)

i think knights of honorcould have been more popular if the intelligence level of the AI would a bit higher. it's such a good game with some helpless AI opponents. multiplayer mode could be brought to the world campaign level, rather than keeping it just in one on one wars.
a good number of gamers enjoyed playing this game, but still its' developers should have focus on these factors which we complained again and again.

WoW and Half-Life 2.jazztrumpet5

damn straight