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UPRC
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author=Craze
i have never given a fuck about braid. i hate the "~~indie~~" genre (note: i do not hate indie games. I hate "~~indie~~" games).
I feel kind of weird inside right now because I have the same opinion as Craze.
Anyway, I just thought of one game I started playing again that is really great - Cities XL 2011. Everyone should play a Cities XL game at least once. They are the best city building games since SimCity 4, which they easy go toe to toe against in terms of addictiveness gameplay and overall design. I have a feeling that the new SimCity by EA won't be able to top Cities XL because they're playing catch up (SimCity is just now letting you shape the direction of your roads, which Cities XL has always allowed you to do).
Seriously, Cities XL is the worthy successor to SimCity in the city building genre. I really feel that it's the king of the genre after EA allowed Sim City to turn into a crap series with Societies.
author=UPRC
I feel kind of weird inside right now because I have the same opinion as Craze.
Craze is a lot like me; he likes dispensing wisdom and answering people's questions. People who use Ace ask questions that he can answer, so he likes them better.
Not that this should be replied to.
the Growlanser series. In the US, we've only gotten a few of them... Working Designs' last move was to localize II and III in a collection (Growlanser Generations), which is the one I most recommend.
The games have a cool battle system that's a weird hybrid between Turn-based and Real-time strategy. It works well and makes for some challenging battles, especially if you want to get the past endings.
Also, since it's Working Designs, expect lots endearingly hammy voice acting (and I do mean lots. Even NPCs are given voices).
EDIT: totally missed that someone else already posted Growlanser! Sorry! Oh well... even more endorsement for a great series!
The games have a cool battle system that's a weird hybrid between Turn-based and Real-time strategy. It works well and makes for some challenging battles, especially if you want to get the past endings.
Also, since it's Working Designs, expect lots endearingly hammy voice acting (and I do mean lots. Even NPCs are given voices).
EDIT: totally missed that someone else already posted Growlanser! Sorry! Oh well... even more endorsement for a great series!
author=UPRC
Seriously, Cities XL is the worthy successor to SimCity in the city building genre. I really feel that it's the king of the genre after EA allowed Sim City to turn into a crap series with Societies.
I'm not in the mood to type everything right now, but Cities XL is a weak simulation compared to SimCity 4. EA isn't playing catch up because Monte Cristo hasn't matched them yet. This doesn't guarantee anything with SimCity 5 though, because it seems to be a completely fresh crew developing it.
Makoto
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author=sbester
Sakura Taisen 1-5. Although only the fifth one has been localized, PC versions of the first 4 are pretty easy to come by online and there are English guides for them on gamefaqs that are really well done. I've gone through the first two already, have the third one lined up. They're easy to play too, so getting by the japanese menus is no problem. Not so much underrated as underlocalized.
Echoing this. Sakura Wars: So Love, My Love (Sakura Taisen V) is one of my favorite games this gen. A fantastic Visual Novel/SRPG hybrid in one hell of a unique setting.
I really should get around to playing the others, I'm told that V is actually one of the weaker entries. Sounds almost to good to be true.
Jawnsunn
0
Just going to throw this in.
Mr. Gimmick/Gimmick!
This game is, hands f'ing down, the best game on the NES.
It has a kickass soundtrack, radical art direction, unique enemies, and
physics.
PHYSICS MAN. IN AN NES GAME! WOOOOAAAAAHHHHH!!!!
If you played this game all the way through, which I recommend, it's a freaking blast.
Mr. Gimmick/Gimmick!
This game is, hands f'ing down, the best game on the NES.
It has a kickass soundtrack, radical art direction, unique enemies, and
physics.
PHYSICS MAN. IN AN NES GAME! WOOOOAAAAAHHHHH!!!!
If you played this game all the way through, which I recommend, it's a freaking blast.
SladeJT
94
I recently came across an old SNES game called "Brain Lord" by Enix (pre-merger), an Action RPG in the vein of Zelda.
It feels like a crossover between Zelda and Final Fantasy with a heavy focus on puzzles. The bgm is nice, the level layouts are great (and I swear there are eyes in the walls spying on me), and I keep finding new puzzles. The combat system is pretty straight forward and there are more than one dungeon so once I finish this quest for dragon scales, I'll be able to move on to presumably even bigger places. Mind you there is a "Warp Home" item so you can skip the long walk back and within the dungeon itself there is a statue that warps you to other ones you've touched which makes backtracking easier if you needed to pop out to do some item shopping.
One really nice feature are the Fairies. Think of Navi, strip away the annoying voice and constant 'help', and give her the powers of a Phantasy Star MAG. You get Slow Heal, Attack Fae, Boosters and who knows what else. Bit of fair warning: there is limited inventory space so you can't buy like 50 healing items lest anything you find fit as well, let alone your equipment.
It feels like a crossover between Zelda and Final Fantasy with a heavy focus on puzzles. The bgm is nice, the level layouts are great (and I swear there are eyes in the walls spying on me), and I keep finding new puzzles. The combat system is pretty straight forward and there are more than one dungeon so once I finish this quest for dragon scales, I'll be able to move on to presumably even bigger places. Mind you there is a "Warp Home" item so you can skip the long walk back and within the dungeon itself there is a statue that warps you to other ones you've touched which makes backtracking easier if you needed to pop out to do some item shopping.
One really nice feature are the Fairies. Think of Navi, strip away the annoying voice and constant 'help', and give her the powers of a Phantasy Star MAG. You get Slow Heal, Attack Fae, Boosters and who knows what else. Bit of fair warning: there is limited inventory space so you can't buy like 50 healing items lest anything you find fit as well, let alone your equipment.
It's actually funny about Eternal Eyes; my good friend picked it up a long time ago and it was a running joke for years about how bad we thought the game was.
author=Jawnsunn
Just going to throw this in.
Mr. Gimmick/Gimmick!
This game is, hands f'ing down, the best game on the NES.
It has a kickass soundtrack, radical art direction, unique enemies, and
physics.
PHYSICS MAN. IN AN NES GAME! WOOOOAAAAAHHHHH!!!!
If you played this game all the way through, which I recommend, it's a freaking blast.
What he said.
Plus this game actually has ENEMY AI. No enemy is the same graphically, yes, but neither are they in their actions. Examples:
-Black blobs that shoot arrows at you when you're on the same point on the y-axis as them.
-Foxes that will actively avoid the stars you can throw AND you coming after them.
-Little devil guys that work together to attack you by flanking and keeping you in-between them.
-A furry creature that wishes you no harm at all, but rather chases after the stars you throw.
-A boss that attacks you when you back away, but will back away himself if you approach.
Honestly though, the reason you should play this game isn't because it's technically impressive, but because of how much thought the designers put into every level. There's things that are in this game for NO OTHER PURPOSE than to give you the warm fuzzies.
Best of all, despite being utterly cute and adorable its pretty difficult at times, and has a bit of a learning curve. Plus its short! I don't think it's the best game on the NES but it is terribly underrated. Mainly because no one knows about it, I think.
GO PLAY THIS GAME. ITS FUN.
Brain Lord is great. I'm a big fan of those kinds of puzzles that require a lot of thinking and not just pure trial-and-error.
TheNecromancer
3160
Mr. Gimmick is probably more unknown than underrated. It was created in the final years of the NES, so SNES was already out. Plus it doesn't look like it was even realeased in North America xD Underrated would suggest that it has been rated low but it's really fun anyways.
It is a good game that people should play. But not technically underrated.
*yeah, I know what the words mean. I just mis-typed.
It is a good game that people should play. But not technically underrated.
*yeah, I know what the words mean. I just mis-typed.
Jeroen_Sol
Nothing reveals Humanity so well as the games it plays. A game of betrayal, where the most suspicious person is brutally murdered? How savage.
3885
underrated*
Yeah, over-rated means it gets too much praise and it really isn't that good.
see: the hunger games
Under rated means that it gets too little praise and it is better.
edit2:
whatever then
Under rated means that it gets too little praise and it is better.
edit2:
whatever then
author=Makotoauthor=sbesterEchoing this. Sakura Wars: So Love, My Love (Sakura Taisen V) is one of my favorite games this gen. A fantastic Visual Novel/SRPG hybrid in one hell of a unique setting.
Sakura Taisen 1-5. Although only the fifth one has been localized, PC versions of the first 4 are pretty easy to come by online and there are English guides for them on gamefaqs that are really well done. I've gone through the first two already, have the third one lined up. They're easy to play too, so getting by the japanese menus is no problem. Not so much underrated as underlocalized.
I really should get around to playing the others, I'm told that V is actually one of the weaker entries. Sounds almost to good to be true.
There's a torrent for the "premium edition" that has 1-4 PC versions, which is how I got them. Someone just started a translation for SW1, but I don't expect that to pan out since nothing's been heard since its announcement. Anyways, I enjoyed both the ones I played a lot, and it even inspired my newest project, being a VN/RPG hybrid itself.
