Criminally Underrated

[ModernDaySpyridon]

Name a game that you love that many other people seem to love to hate on and tell us why you love it so.

For me it's Prince of Persia Warrior Within.

I don't get why everybody hated it so much!

I know the attitude put some people off, as did the soundtrack, but seriously, I just laughed that off and enjoyed one of the best games I have ever played.

The level design was superb, better than any other game I have ever seen, and the fact that you would go through the same area in different time periods and they would feel completely different was a great achievement.

The combat was so much better that PoP: The Sands of Time, I can't even begin. The variety was amazing. Some people seemed to not like it because it wasn't more like the combat system for Ninja Gaiden, but WW is a platformer at heart, and for it to have such a robust combat system was great.

Finally, the story was absolutely top-notch, with plenty of twists and turns, and a time travel element that actually made sense.

All in all, a great game..and I don't care what anyone else thinks.

 

[willard3]

The original 5 Tomb Raider games.

 

[WhirlwindMonk]

I suppose the closest for me is Final Fantasy IX. I've never met people who hated it, but I've met people who just didn't like it as much as the others, yet it's my favorite. I love fantasy settings, which is one of the things I didn't like about VII. Great game, but I'll take a more traditional fantasy-ish world over an alternate present day world any time. Plus, I think the characters are awesome, and even though the ability system didn't allow for the ridiculous amounts of power that VII, VIII, and X had, I still like it a lot.

 

[SUNSTONE]

The original 5 Tomb Raider games.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzmyAv5n7LE

 

[willard3]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzmyAv5n7LE

*waves away link* Pah, I don't need silly videos to tell me what the unwashed masses think about the glory that is Tomb Raider. [/acting]

I liked that video. Gotta love reenactments of problems like that.
Hopefully there's one for Halo as well.

 

[GabrielAaron]

Thief: Deadly Shadows for Xbox and PC


Sam Fisher, who? Garrett is the man.

-Gabriel

 

[aca_rev55]

Name a game that you love that many other people seem to love to hate on and tell us why you love it so.

For me it's Prince of Persia Warrior Within.

I don't get why everybody hated it so much!

I know the attitude put some people off, as did the soundtrack, but seriously, I just laughed that off and enjoyed one of the best games I have ever played.

The level design was superb, better than any other game I have ever seen, and the fact that you would go through the same area in different time periods and they would feel completely different was a great achievement.

The combat was so much better that PoP: The Sands of Time, I can't even begin. The variety was amazing. Some people seemed to not like it because it wasn't more like the combat system for Ninja Gaiden, but WW is a platformer at heart, and for it to have such a robust combat system was great.

Finally, the story was absolutely top-notch, with plenty of twists and turns, and a time travel element that actually made sense.

All in all, a great game..and I don't care what anyone else thinks.

Wow, you know what? I feel exactly the same way about that game... I love it!

And for the record... I think the soundtrack is cool!