The most Underrated RPG of its time

These are for games you feel DIDN'T get the recognition they deserved, so no FF7 or KotOR or something like that.

For me?

PC: Planescape:Torment

DC: Skies of Arcadia (not underrated, but the system itself was under-bought)

 
I asbolutely loved it. 

n64-aidyn chronicles

n64-quest 64 

I asbolutely loved it. 

project343

That was a critically acclaimed bestseller :O

Dark Cloud? not sure if a lot of people played that

Dark Cloud? not sure if a lot of people played that

-Sora

That was a critically acclaimed bestseller :O

 

callmewaffle

[QUOTE="callmewaffle"]That was a critically acclaimed bestseller :O

 

project343

Yeah, which seems wrong since Legend of the Seven Stars is probably one of the best RPGs ever made.

[QUOTE="-Sora"]

Dark Cloud? not sure if a lot of people played that

MTBare

Good call! I totally forgot Star Ocean:2nd Story.

Legend of Dragoon.

It was a great game 

Legend of DragoonAsadMahdi59

Amen. That game was sweet. Very underappreciated. 

FFIX. A lot of people seemed to hate it. I loved it. Endfinal

Planescape: Torment was a down-right awesome game.  I dont know why it didn't do better than it did.. probably too much reading and not enough flashing lights for most people.

 Also, the Baldur's Gate series is quite possibily the best RPG series ever made.  It's a pretty highly rated game, but it doesn't get as much praise as it should.  Never has a game and its sequel had such great continuity.  Everything Black Isle touched back then turned to gold, it's actually kind of sad to see Neverwinter Nights compared to Baldur's Gate.  NWN is nowhere near BG.  Ah well.

Well, Final Fantasy IX didnt get great recognition.  Why do people call it the black sheep of the FF series, it was awesome.

Other than that, games like Baten Kaitos, Baten Kaitos Origins, and Skies of Arcadia (both the DC and GC versions) I dont think got much recognition. 

Xenogears, just because not many have played it and I loved it.Thrice_III

Yeah I love that game

Why hasn't anyone said the Shadow Hearts series yet either?SemiMaster

Final Fantasy VII doesn't get the praise it deserves.COBHC_reaper

yes it does its so overated, thier was a movie from it, a ps2 game dirge of cerberus, and a new psp game your kidding right.

No question, Xenogears.

Don't get me wrong, there are dozensof great underrated RPG's, but no single RPG has been recieved such a level of unporportional support.  Xenogears was released several months between FF7 and FF8.  Despite the fact that the game absolutely obliterates every FF game and JRPG made in the last ten years in almost every concievable manner, it never really recieved the respect it deserves because it lacks a franchise tag and was released at a strange period of time.

Xenogears defines the JRPG genre, featured a very JRPGish story in a unique and far more in-depth and critical manner, and contained a very wacky and fun combat system for its day.  The length, content, and depth of the story was simply too much for most gamers back in those days to handle.  If fans of the FF series errect shrines and cosplay to characters like Cloud and Sephy, then Krelian and Fei should have their own orbital platform sent into space as a display of fanboyism -- the game is simply that much better than other JRPG's.

Runners Up: Suikoden II, Planescape: Torment.

I believe Final Fantasy VIII to be the most under-rated RPG of all time. It's bold approach to realism was not well recieved in comparison to the cutesy and at times naucious charm of previous JRPGs. It was a real revolution as far as bringing RPGs into the true grown-up age, which it unfortunately is not credited for. Sadly, FFX -- arguably one of the worst the series has had to offer so far -- gets that praise.

Baten Kaitos.

That is all.

...well and the Golden Sun games.

I believe Final Fantasy VIII to be the most under-rated RPG of all time. It's bold approach to realism was not well recieved in comparison to the cutesy and at times naucious charm of previous JRPGs. It was a real revolution as far as bringing RPGs into the true grown-up age, which it unfortunately is not credited for. Sadly, FFX -- arguably one of the worst the series has had to offer so far -- gets that praise.

 

-Spock-

FF8 doesn't get the praise it needs. Your explanation is perfect. It's not superdeformed, but a more realistic approach with a deep love story, which is probably what turned more immature audiences away at the time. That and people were still hung up on 6 and 7 at the time. But 7 was damn epic, so I can see why. 

xenogears

xenosaga trilogy

all the kiddy gamers cant grasp a good story so games like these go overlooked