Phaseknox Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 The following are good last gen games that I feel were overlooked (alphabetical order): Alice: Madness Returns Genre: Third person action/adventure/platformer Theme: Twisted nightmare Design: Linear Alpha Protocol Genre: Third person action RPG Theme: Espionage Design: Semi-open Binary Domain Genre: Third person shooter Theme: Sci-fi Design: Linear Blades of Time Genre: Third person action/adventure/hack-and-slash Theme: Dark fantasy Design: Linear The Bourne Conspiracy Genre: Third person action/shooter Theme: Spy Design: Linear Captain America: Super Soldier Genre: Third person action adventure Theme: Superhero Design: Semi-open The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena Genre: First person action/adventure/shooter Theme: Dark sci-fi Design: Semi-open Dante's Inferno Genre: Third person action Theme: Hell Design: Linear Dark Sector Genre: Third person action/shooter Theme: Super soldier Design: Linear Deadfall Adventures Genre: First person action/adventure/shooter Theme: Classic adventure Design: Linear Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga Genre: Third person action RPG Theme: High fantasy Design: Semi-open Dragon's Dogma Genre: Third person action JRPG Theme: Medieval fantasy Design: Open world Driver: San Francisco Genre: Vehicle action/racing Theme: Modern city Design: Open world Dungeon Siege III Genre: Isometric view action RPG Theme: Medieval fantasy Design: Semi-open Enchanted Arms Genre: Third person turn-based JRPG Theme: Fantasy sci-fi Design: Semi-open Enslaved: Odyssey to the West Genre: Third person action adventure Theme: Fantasy sci-fi Design: Linear Eternal Sonata Genre: Third person action JRPG Theme: Fantasy Design: Semi-open The First Templar Genre: Third person action/adventure/hack-and-slash Theme: Biblical Design: Linear Golden Axe: Beast Rider Genre: Third person action/adventure/hack-and-slash Theme: Dark fantasy Design: Linear Hitman: Absolution Genre: Third person action/stealth Theme: Assassin Design: Semi-open Infinite Undiscovery Genre: Third person action JRPG Theme: Fantasy Design: Semi-open Kameo: Elements of Power Genre: Third person action adventure Theme: Fantasy Design: Semi-open Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Genre: Third person action RPG Theme: High fantasy Design: Open world Legendary Genre: First person shooter Theme: Horror Design: Linear Lollipop Chainsaw Genre: Third person action Theme: Zombies Design: Linear The Lord of the Rings: War in the North Genre: Third person action/adventure/hack-and-slash Theme: Medieval fantasy Design: Linear Lost Odyssey Genre: Third person turn-based JRPG Theme: Fantasy sci-fi Design: Semi-open Lost Planet 3 Genre: Third person action/adventure/shooter Theme: Sci-fi Design: Semi-open Magna Carta 2 Genre: Third person action JRPG Theme: Fantasy sci-fi Design: Semi-open Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom Genre: Third person action/adventure/puzzle Theme: Fantasy Design: Linear Mercenaries 2: World in Flames Genre: Third person action/adventure/shooter Theme: Military Design: Open world Mirror's Edge Genre: First person action/platformer Theme: Sci-fi Design: Linear Nier Genre: Third person action adventure Theme: Fantasy sci-fi Design: Semi-open Red Faction: Guerrilla Genre: Third person action/adventure/shooter Theme: Sci-fi Design: Open world Remember Me Genre: Third person action adventure Theme: Sci-fi Design: Linear Risen Genre: Third person action RPG Theme: Island adventure Design: Open world Risen 2: Dark Waters Genre: Third person action RPG Theme: Pirates Design: Open world Rise of the Argonauts Genre: Third person action adventure Theme: Greek mythology Design: Semi-open The Saboteur Genre: Third person action adventure Theme: World War II Design: Open world Sacred 2: Fallen Angel Genre: Isometric view action RPG Theme: Fantasy Design: Open world Saw Genre: Third person survival horror/puzzle Theme: Horror Design: Linear Saw II: Flesh and Blood Genre: Third person survival horror/puzzle Theme: Horror Design: Linear Shadows of the Damned Genre: Third person action/shooter Theme: Horror Design: Linear Singularity Genre: First person shooter Theme: Sci-fi Design: Linear Sleeping Dogs Genre: Third person action adventure Theme: Modern Hong Kong Design: Open world Spec Ops: The Line Genre: Third person shooter Theme: Military Design: Linear Syndicate Genre: First person shooter Theme: Sci-fi Design: Linear Tales of Vesperia Genre: Third person action JRPG Theme: Fantasy Design: Semi-open TimeShift Genre: First person shooter Theme: Sci-fi Design: Linear Velvet Assassin Genre: Third person action/stealth Theme: World War II Design: Linear Wet Genre: Third person action/shooter Theme: Grindhouse Design: Linear X-Men Origins: Wolverine Genre: Third person action/hack-and-slash Theme: Superhero Design: Linear 007: Quantum of Solace Genre: First person shooter Theme: Spy Design: Linear Are there any good last gen games that you feel were overlooked? 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Nokt Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Catherine - I've never really played a dating sim or visual novels or anything like that. Just not my type of games, but I found Catherine to be a lot of fun. The puzzles were a lot of fun and kept a good tension (especially when the baby is chasing you). The morality options between Catherine and Katherine were interesting to me and kept me invested. The OST has some jams too, which is never a bad thing. I dunno how it ranks in the world of Sims, but Catherine was just enough to keep me interested while not going overboard. Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena - I feel like Chronicles of Riddick has a pretty good cult following and that applies to Escape from Butcher Bay too. Dark Athena probably doesn't add anything fantastic outside of the upgraded Escape from Butcher Bay. Just seems like the game never hit mainstream success, despite being a really fun game. Naruto: Rise of a Ninja & Broken Bond - As with Catherine, I'm not huge into A: fighting games and B: Naruto. However this is such an interesting game, it has this weird mesh between a fighting game and a 3D platformer with some RPG sprinkled in. Any combat within the game is a pretty standard fighting game. There is some RPG elements within fighting to help you get stronger to progress through the story. Anything outside of combat is a 3D platformer. Like you can do some ninja races or ramen deliveries, both of which I think are timed. As well as collectibles scattered around Konoha. Konoha is also a pretty big map as well as some light exploration in the other areas you go to on missions, but they aren't nearly as big if I remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spawn_of_Apathy Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 4 hours ago, Phaseknox said: Are there any good last gen games that you feel were overlooked? I think you got them all 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XxEvil AshxX Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Looking at a lot of those games, its sad how few linear action games there are nowadays. I wish B-tier games would make a comeback. Tired of indies just making pixel art side scrollers and free-to-play battle royales. Make a good third person shooter or action game, give it 8 or 9 stages and sell it for $20 or $25 and i'm buying that shit all day long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 13 minutes ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said: I think you got them all Classic Phaseknox list where he lists 50 games of varying quality and says they are overlooked / underrated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Kameo Overlord 1 & 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShreddieMercury Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Great list! Eurogamer has a feature called "The Double-A Team" that covers a lot of the same ground. Namely, lots of mid-budget action games that had interesting or fun mechanics. It would be worth taking a look at that as well. https://www.eurogamer.net/archive/double-a-team Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 4 hours ago, Nokt said: Catherine - I've never really played a dating sim or visual novels or anything like that. Just not my type of games, but I found Catherine to be a lot of fun. The puzzles were a lot of fun and kept a good tension (especially when the baby is chasing you). The morality options between Catherine and Katherine were interesting to me and kept me invested. The OST has some jams too, which is never a bad thing. I dunno how it ranks in the world of Sims, but Catherine was just enough to keep me interested while not going overboard. Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena - I feel like Chronicles of Riddick has a pretty good cult following and that applies to Escape from Butcher Bay too. Dark Athena probably doesn't add anything fantastic outside of the upgraded Escape from Butcher Bay. Just seems like the game never hit mainstream success, despite being a really fun game. Naruto: Rise of a Ninja & Broken Bond - As with Catherine, I'm not huge into A: fighting games and B: Naruto. However this is such an interesting game, it has this weird mesh between a fighting game and a 3D platformer with some RPG sprinkled in. Any combat within the game is a pretty standard fighting game. There is some RPG elements within fighting to help you get stronger to progress through the story. Anything outside of combat is a 3D platformer. Like you can do some ninja races or ramen deliveries, both of which I think are timed. As well as collectibles scattered around Konoha. Konoha is also a pretty big map as well as some light exploration in the other areas you go to on missions, but they aren't nearly as big if I remember. Catherine is pretty huge. They have Catherine tournaments at Evo like every year and it was popular enough to get a PC port and a re-issue with extra characters (then also got blasted for transphobia) Dark Athena I agree was overlooked but I think it has something to do with the publisher. You can't even get a copy on PC anymore unless you find a physical copy somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 The Non-1st party Nintendo Wii line-up. No one’s even brought up that console’s games yet. Muramasa, Sin & Punushment 2, Lost Wind series, Klonoa remake, A Boy and His Blob remake, Trama Center trilogy, Red Steel 2, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, Sonic Colors, Tatsunoko vs Capcom, No More Heroes series, Last Story, Zack & Wiki, several horror light-gun games (RE, Dead Space, House of the Dead), etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nokt Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 8 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said: Catherine is pretty huge. They have Catherine tournaments at Evo like every year and it was popular enough to get a PC port and a re-issue with extra characters (then also got blasted for transphobia) Dark Athena I agree was overlooked but I think it has something to do with the publisher. You can't even get a copy on PC anymore unless you find a physical copy somewhere. It took Catherine 6 years to reach 1 million sold copies. I’ll have to double check but it sold something like 160k copies it’s first week. It was a success for Altus, but it definitely wasn’t big at first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 3 minutes ago, Nokt said: It took Catherine 6 years to reach 1 million sold copies. I’ll have to double check but it sold something like 160k copies it’s first week. It was a success for Altus, but it definitely wasn’t big at first. I got it day one with the art book Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 I sold my collector's edition of Catherine a couple years ago. All in all, this looks like a typical Phaseknox list. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5timechamp Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 9 hours ago, crispy4000 said: The Non-1st party Nintendo Wii line-up. No one’s even brought up that console’s games yet. Muramasa, Sin & Punushment 2, Lost Wind series, Klonoa remake, A Boy and His Blob remake, Trama Center trilogy, Red Steel 2, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, Sonic Colors, Tatsunoko vs Capcom, No More Heroes series, Last Story, Zack & Wiki, several horror light-gun games (RE, Dead Space, House of the Dead), etc. Goldeneye 007, Little Kings Story, and Mad World were among my low recognition favorites Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nokt Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 Resistance series on the PS3 was a fun series. Definitely doesn't ever really get talked about Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dre801 Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 With more polish, Alpha Protocol could have been pretty awesome. With all its warts, I still liked it; wish they'd try again with the concept. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phaseknox Posted April 6, 2020 Author Share Posted April 6, 2020 On 4/5/2020 at 4:29 AM, Nokt said: Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena I knew that I was forgetting something. On 4/5/2020 at 4:29 AM, Nokt said: Naruto: Rise of a Ninja & Broken Bond Thanks for bringing this game to my attention. I thought that it was just another Naruto fighting game (which I'm not into), but knowing that it's a 3D platformer with RPG elements interests me. On 4/5/2020 at 6:49 AM, XxEvil AshxX said: Looking at a lot of those games, its sad how few linear action games there are nowadays. I wish B-tier games would make a comeback. Tired of indies just making pixel art side scrollers and free-to-play battle royales. Make a good third person shooter or action game, give it 8 or 9 stages and sell it for $20 or $25 and i'm buying that shit all day long. I agree. This gen has definitely seen a lot less B-tier games compared to previous gens. I'm not really into old school style 2D pixel art platformers these days because I played an overabundance of them while growing up, and I don't need every bigger budget game to be a 100+ hour open world experience. On 4/5/2020 at 7:00 AM, Spork3245 said: Kameo Another one that I forgot. On 4/5/2020 at 7:05 AM, ShreddieMercuryRising said: Great list! Eurogamer has a feature called "The Double-A Team" that covers a lot of the same ground. Namely, lots of mid-budget action games that had interesting or fun mechanics. It would be worth taking a look at that as well. https://www.eurogamer.net/archive/double-a-team Thanks, I will definitely check it out. 21 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said: All in all, this looks like a typical Phaseknox list. Because it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chakoo Posted April 7, 2020 Share Posted April 7, 2020 Puppeteer I also would have said Yakuza 4 & 5 but those just recently got ports to PS4 and Yakuza is much more popular than it was on PS3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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