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Games you like that no one else does

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  • 07-05-2008 2:30pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭


    I'm not ashamed to say that I used to love Body Harvest on the N64 back in the day :D

    I swear, it was the closest thing to a 3d sandbox game before GTA3 came out.

    None of my buddies understood when I'd go on about it! It had everything!
    You travel back in time with a cool futuristic suit, fight really big alien bugs, drive vehicles, big open spaced levels (that you do, admittedly get funneled through).

    What's your favourite unappreciated game?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,346 ✭✭✭✭KdjaCL


    Your off your head :eek:

    Body Harvest is one of the greatest games ever made and is GTA 3 daddy.

    DMA Design are now called Rockstar.


    That game was awesome.


    kdjac


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭chamlis


    Yeah i'm saying I liked it.

    My buddies never understood why though.


  • Registered Users Posts: 925 ✭✭✭KoKane


    Rolo to the rescue


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,987 ✭✭✭Auvers


    Rings Of Power on the megadrive, I remember reading crappy reviews of it at the time, but I picked it up pre owned and remember it being a fantastic RPG that didn't sell very well, for some bizarre reason


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,995 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    Hello Kitty Island Adventure.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 18,707 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    Rez.
    I don't know a single gamer IRL who actually understands it on my level -- they all just think it's... boring :(

    Oh well, more synesthesia for me! :D


    Anyone play Little Big Adventure 2? Great adventure game, that.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,687 ✭✭✭tHE vAGGABOND


    Rez is on pretty much every "PS2 games you must own" list...

    [its out on Live Arcade BTW - in case you did not know]


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,478 ✭✭✭Bubs101


    Wayne Gretzky hockey 98 on the 64. Brilliant Brilliant game tha no body understood


  • Registered Users Posts: 15,815 ✭✭✭✭po0k


    Flashpoint (relative to most of Ireland at least)


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭L31mr0d


    Pro Tennis Tour on the Amstrad GX4000... absolutely loved that game. Guess nobody else loved it because nobody else played it :(

    Also I loved Star Wars: Republic Commandos, its up there as one of my favorite games of all time yet it received a horrible reception and few people actually liked it. I think it came out in between Battlefront and Battlefront 2 so got overlooked by most people waiting for Battlefront 2.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,393 ✭✭✭jonski


    Crimson Skies


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    Somehow doubt that I'll ever meet another person IRL who actually gets why Ouendan! is one of my favourite games of all time.
    Tried explaining it to a mate once, but couldn't quite sell the idea of a quirky rhythm based game with male cheerleaders to him:p


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,460 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    K.O.Kiki wrote: »
    Rez.
    I don't know a single gamer IRL who actually understands it on my level -- they all just think it's... boring :(

    What.. really? Everyone I talk to about it (admittedly I know very few who have actually played it) seem to love it. Fantastic experience. Waited years to get to play it, and when I finally downloaded the HD version I understood the fuss immediatedly.
    tman wrote: »
    Somehow doubt that I'll ever meet another person IRL who actually gets why Ouendan! is one of my favourite games of all time.
    Tried explaining it to a mate once, but couldn't quite sell the idea of a quirky rhythm based game with male cheerleaders to him:p

    Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan is basically videogame drugs. It is possibly the most stupidly fun experience around. Its crazy Japanese game making at its finest. Again, have only heard positive things, although I am the only person I know who has played it in any depth. My Japanophile friends have loved what they have seen though.

    Not really too many games I like that others don't... I have heard alot of negativity about King Kong lately though, which I think is the best movie adaptation in years.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,557 ✭✭✭savemejebus


    Cold Fear on the xbox - no one else i've ever met rated it but i thought it was a quite decent but short resident evil rip off - and gianna sisters on the C64


  • Registered Users Posts: 863 ✭✭✭Jilm


    Dark Messiah of Might & Magic on the PC


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭mawk


    L31mr0d wrote: »
    Also I loved Star Wars: Republic Commandos, its up there as one of my favorite games of all time yet it received a horrible reception and few people actually liked it. I think it came out in between Battlefront and Battlefront 2 so got overlooked by most people waiting for Battlefront 2.


    yeah, great game. Total annihilation, might be the best rts ever, but its kinda old so people refuse to play it.


    &

    ....sega bass fishing..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    K.O.Kiki wrote: »
    Anyone play Little Big Adventure 2? Great adventure game, that.

    I had the first one and loved it so much. I gave it to a friend to play, he looked at it and thought it was gay. I told him to play it and he loved it to bits. Such a great game.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,661 ✭✭✭✭Helix


    earth defence force 2017


  • Registered Users Posts: 715 ✭✭✭littlejp


    Amplitude on PS2. Without this game there'd be no Guitar Hero.

    "What's going on Mekon, you told me that your on so baby your on......." :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    Hello Kitty Island Adventure.

    Yourself and Butters so.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 163 ✭✭-annex-


    po0k wrote: »
    Flashpoint (relative to most of Ireland at least)

    +1
    Started playing it again last Christmas and all the trees were Christmas trees, genius!
    Such a great game.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭chamlis


    Cold Fear on the xbox - no one else i've ever met rated it but i thought it was a quite decent but short resident evil rip off - and gianna sisters on the C64

    Ooh I quite liked Cold Fear as well actually :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 741 ✭✭✭Chumpski


    Not really too many games I like that others don't... I have heard alot of negativity about King Kong lately though, which I think is the best movie adaptation in years.

    Yeah, agree with you on that. It is probably the only good movie to game adaption ever released. I think the PSP, DS and 360 versions were poor so that might be why its regarded poorly by most gamers. It was short and a little easy but the gameplay and atmosphere it created was brilliant.

    Its a pity that game and movie studios in the meantime didnt pick up on the close relationship Ubisoft and Peter Jackson had in developing the game. As far as i know the game and movie were made together at the same time. Peter Jackson even had a game in mind before he made the movie.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,478 ✭✭✭Bubs101


    Helix wrote: »
    earth defence force 2017

    Very popular game, everybody who's played it loves it


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,287 ✭✭✭joe_chicken


    L31mr0d wrote: »
    Also I loved Star Wars: Republic Commandos, its up there as one of my favorite games of all time yet it received a horrible reception and few people actually liked it.

    Loved that game, best control of AI allies in an FPS I've ever experienced.

    Beats the pants off the mechanism in Half Life anyway.

    Not a very deep game, but a very enjoyable FPS.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,943 ✭✭✭Burning Eclipse


    Mission Impossible on the N64.

    Also, a lot of people here are listing out games their friends didn't like, but have huge followings and respect...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭0ubliette


    Turok 360 :o


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭L31mr0d


    Loved that game, best control of AI allies in an FPS I've ever experienced.

    Yeah, I haven't played a team based AI FPS since that has such a good AI system. Even if you didn't tell your team what to do they'd take up defensive positions.

    The voice acting was very good also, they had the guy who did the voice of Jango Fett as the voice of the lead Commando.

    What I hated was they ended on a cliffhanger, but because it didn't sell well they canned the sequel and now I'll never find out how the story ended :(


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,965 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    po0k wrote: »
    Flashpoint (relative to most of Ireland at least)
    I dunno man, I loved that game as did a good chunk of my mates.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 11,393 ✭✭✭✭Vegeta


    L31mr0d wrote: »
    Also I loved Star Wars: Republic Commandos, its up there as one of my favorite games of all time yet it received a horrible reception and few people actually liked it. I think it came out in between Battlefront and Battlefront 2 so got overlooked by most people waiting for Battlefront 2.

    This was on the xbox yeah, great great game. Loved this to bits. The squad work was class.

    Jesus I feel like getting that out now and playing it or getting my friends to play it.


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