Ten Great Games That Deserved More Success Than They Got
Added 2019-08-14 19:14:41 +0000 UTCSuccess is relative. Except when it's objectively defined. These games did not, objectively, succeed.
They should have done, though. They deserved better than they got. Truly great games that underperformed, got forgotten, and just didn't sell very well.
Just... just find and play Gitaroo Man!
Comments
Sadly I've only played a couple of these... growing up in North Ontario, Canada SEVERELY limited game access before the internet, and believe me it didn't help much after either...
Trevor Bond
2019-08-16 11:22:25 +0000 UTCThis was a fun list if for no other reason than because I learned of a couple games I'd never heard of like Gitaroo Man. And it's a cool list because it's a fun premise: games you loved that few others did. 🙂
Perpetual Noob
2019-08-15 23:11:22 +0000 UTCGod, I thought I was the only person who knew about Metal Arms: Glitch in the System. Its campaign was great and its multiplayer, although imbalanced as hell, was our family's go-to FPS during the Gamecube years.
Jeff Groves
2019-08-15 21:00:50 +0000 UTCNice to see a top 10 where I had not heard of some of the games and couldn't predict the whole list. Nice Jim :)
James brown
2019-08-15 07:57:45 +0000 UTCGreat list. Glad to see Amalur get some love. Here are a couple honourable mentions to consider: Pupeteer (ps3) and Darkwatch (ps2). The latter is a very unique take on an fps, with cowboys and demons in a beautiful western-steampunk world.
Brendan K McBride
2019-08-14 23:05:50 +0000 UTCPeople talking about how much they think something is great is vastly underrated. It's always such a joy.
CS Drennan
2019-08-14 23:04:07 +0000 UTCI can't hear about Beyond Good and Evil 2 without thinking about that one time Laura K Buzz said "I've realised... I am Beyond Good and Evil 2?" I just really liked that joke.
CS Drennan
2019-08-14 23:01:43 +0000 UTCSweet! A positive video. A nice break from the depressing game industry news. Many of those games listed on the video have been on my to play list for a long time but never got around to. I at least have Enslaved and Beyond Good and Evil on my game libraries. Just got to get around to playing them.<br><br>So many good games man. What a time to be alive!
noxamillion
2019-08-14 21:36:25 +0000 UTCI played Singularity when it first came out because I was enamored with the time manipulation gimmick, but as I recall it didn't actually do that much with it and I found it somewhat disappointing. I do give Singularity credit for taking an obvious red shirt character and keeping him alive longer than expected, just long enough for me to get attached to him so that his death actually had impact.
Ben L.
2019-08-14 20:54:25 +0000 UTCI adored Singularity for its time-traveling, dark Soviet storyline. The moment you go back in time, save a random scientist from a blazing fire, only to come forward and see a statue of Stalin replaced by that scientist is a true, "Oh, I have well and truly fucked up..." game moment. And I remember NEEDING more about Killer 7's bizarreness, not just being able to accept it. Reading PhD-length essays about the themes, names, and deeper meanings that were almost all, looking back on them, complete pretentious BS.
Dr. Judge, Private Eye
2019-08-14 20:45:38 +0000 UTCGreat list! I enjoyed Singularity when it came out, and was disappointed we didn't get to revisit that world in a sequel (to fix the hash we'd made of the timeline in the first game)!
Ed
2019-08-14 20:39:14 +0000 UTC
