The underrated game thread

[grunge782]

Anybody have some favorite ps2 games that never got as much notice as you thought it should?

For me there will always be a special place in my heart for Smugglers Run 2. Something is just too fun about driving offroad so freely, jumping hills and generally pissing off the cops . Story is crap, but at least the music is pretty good.

So what games are your personal ps2 favorites that you see gets little mention in the public light?

[yoshi314]

underrated is kind of hard to define.

for me that would be

okami - because the game was great but did not sell well
blood will tell - nice hack and slash game with creative power up system.
ico - no need to explain, i hope.
shinobi and nightshade - comparable in difficulty to ninja gaiden, but very fun to play
sky gunners - awesome shooter. love it.
front mission 4 on ps2 apparently didnt' sell well outside of japan, so 5th part was only japanese ;/

these are the ones i play, like and know that they don't have a big following.

[Meelo]

For me it's got to be,

Mr Mosquito (just try it)
Shadow of Memories (Konami game about trying to stop your own death.)
Zone of the Enders 1 and 2 (over shadowed by MGS, personally I think ZOE is better.)

[yoshi314]

For me it's got to be,

Mr Mosquito (just try it)
Shadow of Memories (Konami game about trying to stop your own death.)
Zone of the Enders 1 and 2 (over shadowed by MGS, personally I think ZOE is better.)

i recently got into zoe2. neat. i suspect zoe1 is disappointing as people claim, though.

[ps2dragon]

underrated is kind of hard to define.

for me that would be

okami - because the game was great but did not sell well
blood will tell - nice hack and slash game with creative power up system.
ico - no need to explain, i hope.
shinobi and nightshade - comparable in difficulty to ninja gaiden, but very fun to play
sky gunners - awesome shooter. love it.
front mission 4 on ps2 apparently didnt' sell well outside of japan, so 5th part was only japanese ;/

these are the ones i play, like and know that they don't have a big following.

Cool, I guess we have a similar interest in games, since Blood Will Tell and Front Mission were two of my favorite games for the PS2. I also liked the others, just haven't played Sky Gunners yet. By the way in case you weren't already aware, there was an English patch of Front Mission 5 released, check my post here: http://psx-scene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=63345 (Front Mission 5: Scars of the War (English Translation Completed)).

[yoshi314]

i also think ff12 is a bit underrated. it's a popular game, but many people dislike/hate it.

people claim it's not a real final fantasy game, while i find it to be the best of the series - the gambit system deals with all the boring fights and the voice acting is one of the best. also, something about this game feels like vagrant story - that adds some extra appeal to it.

i think the same can be said about metal gear solid 2 - people hate playing as raiden. (after seeing him in mgs4, they are eating their words )

[Smeemi]

XIII

Amazing game, shame there was no sequel.

[Meelo]

i recently got into zoe2. neat. i suspect zoe1 is disappointing as people claim, though.

I actually like ZOE1 alot one of my favourite games, even though I love both ZOE games, I played them back to back at the beginning of the year for about the fifth time and would actually say I prefer the first, except for 1 little annoying bit.

[captfinally917]

Shadow of Rome from Capcom. Good bloody fun and some neat (if a bit frustrating) stealth parts ala MGS.

[Sload02]

tales of the abyss - awesome rpg and way better than, for example, overrated ffx. every rpg fan should have played this