There's a lot of games on this thread that certainly aren't underrated.
That's how all of these threads go. You ask people for their favorite underrated/hidden gems and they start telling you about AAA titles that got an 80+ metascore and a **** ton of advertizing.
Maybe not underrated given its 9/10 scores from critics and rave reviews from the fanbase, but under-appreciated with a small fanbase, since it sold
less than 500,000 copies worldwide. That's a heart-breaker.
It's making its way through the internet as a cult classic:
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. A psychological thriller from the Gamecube with a neat twist, the sanity meter. The sanity effects were killer. You'd walk into a room and find yourself on the ceiling, or sinking into the floor, or shrinking, or growing, or your limbs might pop off, or maybe some bugs will crawl around on the screen, or the screen will just "shut off".
More frequently you'll hear people screaming in the background and the walls and ceilings may bleed as you walk by.
And no, I don't care that 10~ years later Amnesia came along and used this shtick. I love Frictional, but I hated the weird, distorted visual effects that happened when you went insane. :v
Also, seriously, the
Warlock games are great if you want a fantasy version of Civilization that focuses a bit more on the combat and exploration than negotiating with your peers and micro-managing your cities.
You can fly a purple ****ing dragon into combat and summon Unicorns of Destruction from a temple. D:
I can't believe all the hate Warlock 2 gets for releasing as a full game instead of DLC? Seriously. If it HAD just been another DLC tacked on, people would have complained that they didn't just release a more polished, less buggy/more stable sequel with all the previous DLCs in the base game... and then some new content to justify the new release.
Oh wait. They did that. By releasing Warlock 2.
Which, by the by, 2 is cheaper at full price than the first Warlock is. The first is the complete edition, sure, but 2 has all the same features and it's more stable. Why are people complaining?!?
