i don't think vagrant story and parasite eve are underrated. everyone i know who HAVE played it, absolutely loved it. it's not underrated, just under-the-radar, so to speak.
i'm with fs on the dirge of cerberus thing. i'm an ff7 fanboy among ff7 fanboy, but even i think this was a poor excuse of a game, it completely ruined the environment and feel that the characters and setting the original ff7 had. ff7 had a dark gritty world with characters that had real-world problems and a believable look and feel to them. dirge of cerberus gave us one character completely covered in all black bandaged with machine arms on his back, and characters with electronic suits with glowing LEDs all over their body, carrying giant electric guns or lightsabers. RPG shooter fix, go with anything fs_metal said, or play mass effect or bioshock, both are extremely fun and have amazing story telling.
i say ff9 is pretty underrated. i know some people who hate the game, even though they never played it a bit. others like to call it "kiddy", even though there was clearly nothing kiddy about it.
ff11 is also underrated. just because you don't like online games or don't want to pay a monthly fee for it doesn't make it a bad game. too many people like to bash on this game even though they have never even TOUCHED this game. i actually played it and liked it a lot, thank you very much. it really gave that feeling of going on a grand adventure across extremely vast lands.
i don't think parasite eve 1 was underrated, but i think 2 was underrated. that game got flamed for changing it's battle system, but people don't realize that the game would have been exactly the same as part 1 if it kept the same battle system. some people can't except change.
also, people seem to be confusing underrated with underplayed. vagrant story got GRAND reviews. it was not rated low at all. it just wasn't played by many people because they didn't even know about it back when it came out.
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