I'll start with mine.

Lets see...

Vampire Masquerade Bloodlines - my god this game had me hooked right from the start to finish and I dare say is one of the greatest RPGs I've ever played.

Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay - had graphics that resembled Doom 3 over a year before Doom 3 was even out and beats out Doom 3, FEAR, Farcry etc. as having one of the best single player experiences I've ever seen.

Imperium Galactica II - Think Civilization but in space and done extremly well. Pity not many people knew much about it.

AVP2, pure awesome game nobody played :(

"The Neverhood" for me - a 1996 claymation adventure game for pc, that sadly fell in to oblivion when adventure games became less popular. It still has a cult following though.

I would have to say viva pinata for xbox 360 was very underrated. I was hooked to that for a while.

d3kst3r writes...

Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay - had graphics that resembled Doom 3 over a year before Doom 3 was even out

Chronicles of Riddick was released on the box was released one month earlier than the PC Doom 3 version.

edit: time out

tim the stud writes...

for xbox 360

It's a PC thread...

I don't think people understand the brilliance of Carmen Sandiego.

jimjim writes...

Carmen Sandiego.

omg i loved that game as a kid back in like yr 3-4

pure awesome

Hunter Hunted (1996)

A side-scrolling action computer game developed by Sierra Entertainment. The player controls a humanoid creature (either a muscular human called Jake or a minotaur-like creature named Garathe Den) who fights enemies, completes objectives, and tries to find the hidden exit in each level. Wikipedia

Screenshot: image.com.com/gamespot/i...er_screen005.jpg

The the single player was engrossing, spent many weeks of my life completing missions with a riveting story. The multiplayer was awesome! (2 ppl on one terminal).

...going to see if i can find it now!

Clive Barker's Undying. Gave me goosebumps back in the day :)

I think Gamespot awarded it with "The best game that nobody ever played".

d3kst3r writes...

Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay
Just watched some gameplay of that on PooTube. Then went to ebay and bought a copy(PC) off some dude in SA, cant wait, looks great. Hope it works on Vista64b

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yMG8kSwrQ0

Also: Although not a game, I think 'The Art Of Flying' demo released by BlueMoon way back, was the best air combat game ever.

jimjim writes...

It's a PC thread...

It's also on PC :)

transport tycoon

Thief 3 would be on the top 10 list.

d3kst3r writes...

Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay -

What magazines are you reading mate? This game scored 9/10 to 10/10 across various game sources.

How is that underated?

my god i used to play that at school. Year 3 and 4. it was an awesome game.

Does anyone remember playing Goldfields at school?

The Creed

So underrated i can't even Google a link!

Released around 2000, it was set in the future with two characters to choose from, a bounty hunter and the guy she was trying to capture.

They crash into a city and take missions for 3 factions. One was your regular government type role, another was a gang, and the last was some doomsday cult.

It was free-roam like GTA, you could jack hovercars, have shootouts and it had multiple endings.

Hugo: Who Dunnit?
Crystal Caves

Dont know if they are under-rated, probably just un-heard of!

Total Overdose.

Most of teh negative stuff you see in reviews is true. However it somehow transcends all that because it's so much fun all the negatives are insignificant.

It's short, it's fairly easy, it as little substance, but the most fun I'd had in a long time on my PC.

What about "Bouncing Kamungas"? lol.

Seriously,

I loved the old adventure games like...

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Day of the Tentacle

serpeant writes...

I loved the old adventure games like...

I don't think they are underrated just unknown by todays audience.
Though they probably would be underrated because of there dated graphics because we all know graphics make a game :P

Noctropolis is one Ive found that not many people have played but it still a great game.
Same for Syndicate Wars, Oni and the Gabriel Knight series.

Shadow Warrior.

Little Big Adventure
Twinsen's Odyssey
Fire & Ice

Freedom Fighters on the PS2 was an amazing game around 4 years ago. This game was massively underrated in my opinion.

Jagged Alliance Series
Warlords Series
Myth Series

AVP2 and Vampire: Bloodlines were both great games but were really underrated, also anyone know where I could get a copy of AVP2 I really want to play it again but no stores have it anymore and Ive searched through around 30-40 online stores and none of them have it stocked!

I blame the ping!! writes...

Freedom Fighters
Yeah that game was awesome fun...

Another one that's under-rated is One Must Fall...a awesome game

Stalker was also under-rated...too many people shouting out bugs

Malrick810 writes...

also anyone know where I could get a copy of AVP2
can't you buy a version at EB or gametraders? might be the gold edition though

Stalker was also under-rated...too many people shouting out bugs

Yeah forgot about Stalker that was a great game aswell.

Outcast
Really loved it, its a shame that they canceled outcast 2. :(

Dreamfall - The Longest Journey

It's great that Microsoft recently added this as a full game download on Xbox Live. Hopefully, it will slowly gain more popularity.

ETQW

d3kst3r writes...

Vampire Masquerade Bloodlines - my god this game had me hooked right from the start to finish and I dare say is one of the greatest RPGs I've ever played.

I was going to suggest this as soon as I say the title of the thread. Amazing game. Extremely atmospheric, especially the Haunted House early in the game. And it had one of the greatest small moments ever, playing as a Malkavian and having a conversation with a stop sign.

Constructor,

like sim city on a smaller scale. think local council.
had gangs, police, gaol, and upper and lower social classes!

Mike S writes...

Shadow Warrior.

Ooh, days of fun on that one :)

Used to also play it 1on1 via modem connection

Independence War
Battlezone 2

tokydan writes...

It still has a cult following though.

Of which I'm proudly a member. 'The Neverhood' was an absolute masterpiece of gaming.

Ballzieee writes...

Does anyone remember playing Goldfields at school?

lol, yer, I don't think that game was very good, was that the one where you try and get the golden fleece?

jimjim writes...

lol, yer, I don't think that game was very good, was that the one where you try and get the golden fleece?

If he means the old BBC Micro game "Goldfields", then that was mostly about foraging for gold during the gold rush. It was pretty fun. :)

NetStorm :)

jimjim writes...

lol, yer, I don't think that game was very good, was that the one where you try and get the golden fleece?

I am not sure. Could never find gold lol... It was a text based game

Vampire Masquerade Bloodlines - fantastic game, just the original release was buggy as. Can get it on Steam nowadays cheap cheap.

мigнτyвoy writes...

transport tycoon

this.

Cossacks Series, great RTS.

-sup- writes...

Outcast
Really loved it, its a shame that they canceled outcast 2. :(

You're right about that one. It never sold worth squat and it was such a shame because it was technically fantastic and had immense gameplay imo.

beefsack writes...

Vampire Masquerade Bloodlines - fantastic game, just the original release was buggy as. Can get it on Steam nowadays cheap cheap.

I fancied that one but didn't go there because of the bugginess I read about everywhere. Given it's mostly bug free with the unofficial patches now is it really worth going for or is the age of it going to set my teeth on edge now? :\

Boogerman.
Busby.

Oh the game where you were a ninja, fps style. It was around the time ROTT was big IIRC... anyone know it ?

jdrew writes...

So underrated i can't even Google a link!

'"the creed" game'

you fail at google

No One Lives Forever 1 and 2

Descent 3

Here are some more of the usual suspects:

Beyond Good and Evil,
Psychonauts,
Freespace 2,
Ultima VII,
World in Conflict,
Thief series,
Chronicles of Riddick,
Sacrifice
etc. etc.

Planescape: Torment - Rave reviews, greatest game story EVER and no one played it.

Vampire: Bloodlines. Like others have said, a great game.

Bungie's Marathon trilogy.

Ballzieee writes...

What magazines are you reading mate? This game scored 9/10 to 10/10 across various game sources.

How is that underated?

It was underrated by the public. Even a lot of gamers would have no idea that Chronicles of Riddick was a pretty good game.

+1 to Ultima vii being underrated. Ultima fans universally seem to hate it :)

keej writes...

Ultima fans universally seem to hate it :)

Those "fans" must be mad. U7 is one greatest games of all time :)

Mafia - it did get pretty good reviews but I don't think it got the attention it deserved. It's one of my favourite games ever!

Undying for sure. such an underrated game. i had many, many, many 'brown' moments playing that game. good times :)

jackpOt! writes...

Oh the game where you were a ninja, fps style. It was around the time ROTT was big IIRC... anyone know it ?

Was it MDK? That game was pretty good

Starcraft

Joshaldo writes...

Starcraft

They basically play that as a national sport in Korea....

I loved Knights & Merchants. It got mediocre->average reviews, but I thought it was a great little city builder.

d3kst3r writes...

Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay - had graphics that resembled Doom 3 over a year before Doom 3 was even out

I suggest you check your facts in the future. Doom 3 was released in August 2004. CoR:EfBB was released in December 2004 (the several-month difference between the release dates of the Xbox and PC versions was due to the engine getting a bit of a beef-up for its PC debut).

Freddy Fish writes...

Was it MDK?
Radioactive toast! eat that!

one of my more memorable games

another one i can't really remember the name of, but you were a cop and you piloted this mech that could transform between car and mech modes...(LAPD police? something like that)

Joshaldo writes...

Starcraft

who underrated starcraft? it's widely regarded as the best RTS of all time amongst .. well .. everyone

Chronicles of Riddick was one of the best single player shoot em up experiences up there with Half Life 2 and Doom 3 (IMO I even found the experience more fun than those 2). It got rave reviews from everywhere but the public almost paid it no notice.

Vampire Bloodlines as everyone mentioned is extremely buggy but there are big unofficial patches which make it stable as hell and it still holds up well against todays games due to it using the HL2 engine. Bloodlines isn't just a game IMHO, it's an experience all in itself. The 2 weeks or so I spent absorbing that game was like taking a 2 week vacation into another life.

Oh and speaking of immersive games, I also find Fallout 2 rather underrated. Those people who did check it out back in the day were greatly rewarded by 10/10 gameplay.

Hmm...

FFXI. You heard me. Most people give up on the game early on because it's so brutal, so they never realise how epic some of its storylines get. Particularly Chains of Promathia which is better than most single player FFs.

Alundra 1 on PS1 (definitely not its "sequel"). A Zelda clone that's better than any Zelda to me.

Jeanne D'Arc on PSP. Best srpg I've played.

Those are a few that come to mind. I can't really call any of the PC/DS/360 games I've played recently underrated.

Giants: Citizen Kabuto deserves an honourable mention, somebody already said Sacrifice

cbadvanced writes...

AVP2, pure awesome game nobody played :(

Amen.

Playing a Marine was intensely scary, playing an Alien was fast paced and the Predator was the coolest part of the whole game. I loved changing vision modes and hearing that *wsssh* noise.

Another terribly underrated game I was in love with, Myth II. I spent nearly a year playing just that game online.

Gobbo writes...

Amen.

Playing a Marine was intensely scary, playing an Alien was fast paced and the Predator was the coolest part of the whole game. I loved changing vision modes and hearing that *wsssh* noise.

I always played the Aliens, because I nearly shat myself playing the damn Marines.

Another terribly underrated game I was in love with, Myth II. I spent nearly a year playing just that game online.

Myth was an awesome game!! Remember the horrible monotone voice - Casualty..

Beyond good and Evil!

cbadvanced writes...

AVP2, pure awesome game nobody played :(

oh man i played that to DEATH ... it was TERRIFYING .. i loved every second of it .. man, so awesome. not even doom3 managed to make me that scared to play in the dark with surround. so great.

Mission Critical - This game was one of the first multi-CD games - it used 3 CD's!! Plus it had great voice acting from the likes of Michael Dorn who was in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

The following games are rated greatly, but long forgotten:

Full Throttle, Monkey Island, The Dig - Seriously, LucasArts made some of the best games back in the day. Such deep storylines and epic gameplay.

Rebel Assault 1 and 2, X-Wing (plus the B-Wing expansion), Tie Fighter, X-Wing versus Tie Fighter, X-Wing Alliance - OMG ... these games are what's missing from today's gaming options. SPACE FLIGHT SIMS. For star wars fans, these games were THE BEST of their time (XvT and XWA would still be the best if we had enough people to bring back the communities). XvT was absolutely great when played within a gaming organisation. I personally was a leader of the Aussie sections of The Last Starfighters (LSF) gaming league. If anyone remembers this league, send me an IM for nostalgia (I went by the name of MooMan and then Thunder in those days). That was when the Internet Gaming Zone was introduced (and owns what is there today), plus we had gaming ladders where people challenged people above them for fame and glory. I think the highest ranking I got was 18 in the world!

To the person that mentioned Little Big Adventure 2: Twinsen's Odyssey. OMG .... TOTALLY AGREE!! For what initially seems like a shitty kids game ... i had SO MUCH FUN playing it to the end. It was so challenging!

Kings Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest, Quest for Glory Anthology, Legends of Kyrandia Series - These games are going back a fair way, but i spent countless hours getting stuck on the simplest of problems. They are available to download from most good Abandonwarez sites and I highly recommend you do so for some nostalgia on a cold rainy day.

Heroes of Might and Magic 3 - Absolutely the best 2-player turn-based strategy game!

Yep as other's have stated

Vampire Masquerade Bloodlines is a very underrated game, particularly with the player-released patches.

Boglet writes...

Myth was an awesome game!! Remember the horrible monotone voice - Casualty..

Only to be outdone by an equally monotone "Casualties".

I always played the Aliens, because I nearly shat myself playing the damn Marines.

That's what made playing Marine so damn exciting! The familiar sounds from Aliens just brought back all that fear from my childhoold.

panzer general
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_General

turn based gold.

Red Faction

Deadset, best game i have ever played, although when i first played it was...a fair while ago, and i have no idea what the reviews would have been at the time, but still, awesomeawesome game.

Return Fire 1 - Oh man ... I almost failed TEE exams because of this game. I had 2 exams on one day and went home in between exams to play this as opposed to study lol. The music made this game haha. Return Fire 2 was a massive disappointment. Go the JEEPS!

Grey writes...

Same for Syndicate Wars, Oni and the Gabriel Knight series.

OMG yes... on all three counts.

Joe BJJ Judo writes...

Planescape: Torment - Rave reviews, greatest game story EVER and no one played it.

Not true. I played it from beginning to end twice. It was an awesome game.

Tzortst writes...

Beyond good and Evil!

+1

hmm this is turning into a nostalgia thread, of which we already have one

I think Railroad Tycoon 3 and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri were underrated PC games.

On Xbox1 it was Chronicals of Riddick, The Godfather and there was an army clone of GTA which I can't remember the name of.

Dominions 3 - I challenge anyone to a fight between this game and CIV4/Might & magic series Etc.

Planescape:Torment and Fallout series would be other candidates. Simply no-one I know in RL have heard of them. Evil Genius is another, perhaps?

(a few have been said earlier)

Deus Ex 1
Hidden & Dangerous
V.M: Bloodlines
Transport Tycoon

Wokeye writes...

Dominions 3 - I challenge anyone to a fight between this game and CIV4/Might & magic series Etc.

I was very interested in this game, but I read its the most detailed game ever. The manual in itself looks like a novel and you gotta devote yourself to researching the game like a religious fanatic to become good at it.

I would say Transport Tycoon is overrated more than underrated based on the hype I read about it on forums.

I was thinking "hmm I remember this game being kinda crap, maybe I was wrong because all these people can't be wrong, I will try OpenTTD. Oh its crap like I thought".

You guys who think TTD is good, should try RRT3, that is a massively underrated game.

d3kst3r writes...

Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay

didn't that get a perfect 10 in PC USer?

A lot of people seem to be confusing "underrated games" with "games that I didn't bother to check critical reviews of". ;)

DML writes...

Deus Ex 1

Who underrated Deus Ex?

Inferno89 writes...

The following games are rated greatly, but long forgotten

Ah I missed this line in the original post, I was about to berate you mercilessly! Good taste my good man, good taste. You have listed most of my childhood.

Underrated doesn't just mean that critics gave it bad reviews...

It also applies to games that weren't received as widely as they should have been.

omano-jaku writes...

Little Big Adventure
Twinsen's Odyssey

Yes. My favorite games of all time.

I really enjoyed The Longest Journey and The Longest Journey 2: Dreamfall, no one I know had even heard of them before I mentioned them. The gameplay was fairly average (and thats if you like point-and-click adventures), but I really enjoyed the story.

Lakers vs. Celtics and the NBA Playoffs

made me want to play bball and revolutionised bball sports games

Purity666 writes...

Yes. My favorite games of all time.

The Twinsen series! +1

Jones in the fast lane
Bentley Bear's General Store
Ports of Call
Street Rod 1 & 2
Freelancer
Wing Commander series
Duke Nukem 3d
Street Legal

To name a few golden oldies that didn't get the sales they deserved

Colonization! I still play it.

spacehead writes...

Street Rod 1 & 2
Wing Commander series
Duke Nukem 3d

..all fondly remembered by every person i know who had all of them

Freelancer

..averaged 85% in reviews and i don't know as single gamer who wasn't hooked on it for at least what i'd call an extended period

The First Ghost Recon.

I remember PCPP gave it a 7/10. The atmosphere and graphics made it a much better game than that.

Totally OT, but I think Super Mario World 2:Yoshi's Island was malto underrated. I'm honestly not a nintendo fanboy, i haven't lovingly embraced a nintendo since the snes.

Pmizzrym writes...

Colonization! I still play it.

bastard. now i can't get the theme song out of my head!

anyone have it in a form that'll work on a modern PC?

Hogs Of War.

Turn based war strategy game with pigs in it. Rik Mayall did the voices. Was a very fun and quite amusing game, with some really bad puns.

Speaking of old school war strategy games, Cannon Fodder was underrated. An absolute classic.

cbadvanced writes...

AVP2, pure awesome game nobody played :(

seconded.

We used to and still occasionally run LAN parties and AVP2 was one of our greatest games that we played.

Its a simply great multiplayer game

I've never played the Twinsen or the Aliens Vs Predator series... *hangs head in shame*

Another few games that I feel were underrated and didn't get the sales and glory they deserved:

The Last Express
Ascendancy
Starsiege: Tribes 1 and 2
Total Annihilation
Homeworld
Fragile Allegiance
Magic Carpet I and II
Shogo
Dungeon Keeper
Battlezone
Interstate 76
Lemmings 3D (I thought it was quite good!)
Eurofighter 2000
Lock-On
European Air War
Star Trek: A Final Unity
Arcanum: Steamworks Obsura
Alpha Centauri
Grand Prix Legends
Portal
The Witcher
Bioforge
The Dig
Battletech: Crescent Hawk's Inception/Revenge

...that's all I can think of at the moment.

Call of Juarez
Chronicles of Riddick

spacehead writes...

Wing Commander series
Duke Nukem 3d

These two did not undersell. At one point Wing Commander 3/4 respectivly were the highest budget games of all time. I wish they brought it back or continued blairs story :(.

New Zealand Story (Full Stop)

Wish I could play it on my PC :-(

Guinness writes...

New Zealand Story (Full Stop)

Wish I could play it on my PC :-(

I had that on Amiga. I was pleasantly suprised to see there was an xbox1 version of it which was released, its called taito arcade legends or something like that. It also has bubble bobble.

call of juarez
populous: a new beginning
FF8
I think most of the bullfrog franchise was really good

Tone. writes...

Speaking of old school war strategy games, Cannon Fodder was underrated. An absolute classic.

.................

Lord Panda writes...

Magic Carpet I

Starsiege: Tribes 1 and 2

Total Annihilation

..................

i'm beginning to think no-one in this thread understands the difference between 'old' and 'underrated'.

Interstate 76.
Dreamfall - The Longest Journey (played this on the XBox though). One of my most memorable games in recent times.
Fahrenheit.

Oh I also think Commandos was sweet. The XBox version of Commandos 2 was so difficult though, too many keys/buttons.

Finally, the original Postal! If only more people got to play that..

"i can't breathe.... i can't see anything!.... WHY"

Oh man hahaha what a game.

Viper3 writes...

I really enjoyed The Longest Journey and The Longest Journey 2: Dreamfall, no one I know had even heard of them before I mentioned them.

Wooo.. someone else on my wavelength :)

Guinness writes...

New Zealand Story (Full Stop)

I will never, ever, ever, ever forget the type in cheat for this game lol.

Rated M
www.chaptercheats.com/cheats/pc/16976.htm

Even though it was on playstation 1 i feel this has to be mentioned -
Star Wars: Jedi Power Battles. This by far has got to be one of the best co-op games i have EVER played.

You and a mate running through all the single player missions just smashing droids and things, the best thing is if you got good at using block you could deflect lasers back at enemies ;)

loss4words writes...

i'm beginning to think no-one in this thread understands this difference between 'old' and 'underrated'.

LOL, more than half of the games listed here are actually not under-rated!

Lord Panda writes...

Portal

Aw yeah. Props to the old school. Back before Portal was the industry's golden child, it was an interactive novel. Quite a decent one, too!

Cafeman writes...

Aw yeah. Props to the old school.

at least, we hope that's the one he meant ..

The best game ever invented was in like 1991: Jones in the fast lane by sierra. Absolutely awsome game.
Also, roller coaster tycoon is very good too..
This is my first post too!!

Ballance

Excellent puzzle game that very few people have ever heard of.

My vote's for Deathlord. Quite underrated, and yet it was one of the largest and most complex RPGs out there at the time. It was amazing what they were able to fit on two disks - Starflight was big, but Deathlord rivalled it for sheer scale.

loss4words writes...

i'm beginning to think no-one in this thread understands this difference between 'old' and 'underrated'.

Well of course there is a blooming difference; games can be considered old, yet also underrated as well.

Total Annihilation is a classic case. This game was a RTS revolution. It offered true LoS, 3D maps and units, a damn excellent soundtrack, a physics system, an interface that allowed for pausing and queuing of commands, a combat system that was not based on the proposterous rock-papper-scissors system still used by most RTS games today, and probably a bunch of other things I can't remember.

Despite the innovation and the game going on to gain critical praise and industry awards, it was largely overshadowed by Warcraft and Command and Conquer. I recall reading that Total Annihilation failed to reached number one in the weekly charts which, coincidentally, Total Annihilation: Kingdoms (another underrated game :D) managed to reach.

Magic Carpet's history is also quite similar. The game was revolutionary; an original setting coupled with a compelling plot (admittedly more so in Magic Carpet II), dynamic music and an out of this world particle system (meteor spell baby!) in a full 3D world that even featured real-time terrain deformation! This was back in the mid-90s.

However it was overshadowed that year by a little game called 'Doom'.

This factor and a culmination of several others (eg. perhaps too ahead of its time and required a kickarse rig as a result) lead to Magic Carpet not being a commercial success as expected.

You know loss4words, my reply to you made me realise how much I miss companies like Bullfrog, Origin Systems, Microprose, Spectrum Holobyte, LucasArts (adventure games and X-wing/Tiefighter era), Looking Glass Studios, Black Isle Studios...I thought they would go on forever. They were passionate about making games and valued innovation and pushing the envelope in meaningful ways. *shuffles off in depression*

Cafeman writes...

Aw yeah. Props to the old school. Back before Portal was the industry's golden child, it was an interactive novel. Quite a decent one, too!

I was a huge text-based adventure junkie and an avid reader back then, and Portal not only fed my cravings but also offered graphics as well :) Also, how's this for old school? I had the C64 version!

Oh, for those who are slightly confused, here's a link to the subject of our nerdish discussion: www.mobygames.com/game/portal

Cafeman writes...

My vote's for Deathlord. Quite underrated, and yet it was one of the largest and most complex RPGs out there at the time. It was amazing what they were able to fit on two disks - Starflight was big, but Deathlord rivalled it for sheer scale.

I remember Deathlord ... I remember it confused the hell out of me with all the Japanese terms for the monsters, spells, equipment and stuff. I ended up playing Ultima instead and learning how to read druidic runes - yeah the irony :)

aunaturalantony writes...

The best game ever invented was in like 1991: Jones in the fast lane by sierra. Absolutely awsome game.

Is that that board game style one? Where you had to get a career and stuff? If so, I remember that game and god it was funny. Definitely worth the mention, hilarious stuff!

LOTR BFME II was underrated imo, I thought it was awesome.

Lord Panda writes...

Total Annihilation is a classic case. This game was a RTS revolution.

oh completely. i guess it's difficult for me to see it as underrated because every gamer i've ever known has absolutely loved it.

Magic Carpet's history is also quite similar.

i absolutely adored this game. i used to sit at home and play it for hours and hours on end, what an amazing concept for its time. i think if someone remade this today, exactly as it was with shiny graphics, i would buy it in a heartbeat and no-one would see me for weeks. the WHOOSH noise when you did your speed boost thing is burned into my head forever and i still laugh when i hear that sample pop up in TV and movies today.

You know loss4words, my reply to you made me realise how much I miss companies like Bullfrog, Origin Systems, Microprose, Spectrum Holobyte, LucasArts (adventure games and X-wing/Tiefighter era), Looking Glass Studios, Black Isle Studios...I thought they would go on forever.

oh i completely agree. i loved full throttle, x-wing and tie fighter took so so so many hours. i still remember the first time i beat the x-wing mission where you had to destroy the matrix of laser mines. i was so unbelievably excited. and then tie fighter with its gauraud (sp?) shading, graphics were unbelievable! at last i was living the dream haha. i used to love microprose simulations (specifically, B17 and F19) as well .. it'd be difficult to launch a proper adventure game in today's marketplace. i don't even think that with an amazing story it could be done successfully .. that makes me a little bit sad too :(

i still remember being shocked at the end of police quest 3 when you finally shot the bad guy, the multiple paths and endings of kings quest 6 when you finally get into the castle, the sheer random weirdness of space quest 3 and how long i spent playing the super chicken game in the diner. maybe i'd actually play pc games still if there was some of that available - something that meant more to you than twitch-reflex shooting of nameless, faceless enemies?

(well, faceless after you blow their face off)

Chrisn0iT writes...

LOTR BFME II was underrated imo, I thought it was awesome.

The game had so much potential and could have been a lot better :) The whole emotion system was just for show, the game featured meh-ish SP and MP maps (Minas Tirith and Helm's Deep done properly would have rocked!), the rock-paper-scissor system was in full-force, default population limits were constricting, character creation wasn't as extensive as I would have liked, and it felt that it didn't push the genre forward at all. It was a solid game - don't get me wrong - but unfortunately easily forgettable. I did like the flanking system though :)

loss4words writes...

magic carpet ... i think if someone remade this today, exactly as it was with shiny graphics, i

Top game and way ahead of its time.

Imagine this remade on the wii with the wii fit balance board as part of the control mechanism..

Stalker - I'd have waited for them to fin