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Arius Dion on 23 November 2009
gansito said:
Arius Dion said:
For me I'd have to say Metroid Prime 3 is an underappreciated game..I thought it was incredible.

its the best nintendo game on the wii

I'd definitely call it the best single player experience on the system.



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Lostplanet22 on 23 November 2009

So you are the famous Rocketpig? First thread I see from you and I like it.

Yeah I am in the team of people who enjoyed it and loved it.

One thing I want to add that you didn't talked about in your OP...

The music! Star Breeze is doing a god job in it (like in Riddick's games).

The subway theme for an example made me cry...Especially after that scene with his gf...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWdSYlLHA74&feature=related

Action moments (song):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRF_BLQ5SQ8&feature=related


Can I also add that The Darkness comics are underappreciated aswell?

And oh yeah this made me sad aswell:

 

-In an e-mail from Top Cow, it is stated that should a Darkness sequel be made, the decision to create one lies with 2K Games. -In July of 2009 it was confirmed that The Darkness 2 is in production. No details about the game were released at that time.[11] The game will not be developed by Starbreeze, but instead a studio that has yet to be named.[



 

Munkeh111 on 23 November 2009
KylieDog said:
Hmm, underappreciated games...


CoD: WaW - Yeah it sold loads but it reviewed worse than MW and are still to this day people who claim it is crap, that MW is better and yet say it copies everything MW does in the same sentance. It had great VA in the game and the online modes far surpassed MW, the co-op campaign with all the DeathCard tweaks and the hugely popular Nazi Zombie mode are far too overlooked.

Prince of Persia - This game was amazing to look at and had great voice acting and story to go with it. Also had a great smooth flowing combo system. Only downside to it was the lack of challenge.

Silent Hill Homecoming - Actually a really great survival horror game. Only thing really missing was challenging puzzles. The story and visualisation of enemies was easily on par with past games, surpasing most of them on the visual imagery front. Suffers from the stigma of the two previous Silent Hill games being terrible and ignorant people who didn't bother to educate themslves on SH history/lore complaining why Pyramid Head makes an appearance.


Disaster Day of Crisis - Great game, better than 90% of Wii releases. No one bought it, almost no one talks about it. The game did a lot of things and it did them well though.

PoP with great voice acting? Those voices were completely wrong, why was Nathan Drake walking around Persia? (well it is because he voiced Desmond in AC, so they already knew him)



pastro243 on 23 November 2009

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Munkeh111 on 23 November 2009
KylieDog said:
Munkeh111 said:

PoP with great voice acting? Those voices were completely wrong, why was Nathan Drake walking around Persia? (well it is because he voiced Desmond in AC, so they already knew him)

Yeah, it was great VA.  If the accent was appropiate is another thing altogether, but unless you want subtitles and Persian language these sorts of arguments fall flat.

Some sort of accent, the American everyman does not really fit the role of lost prince, in fact, I can quote Nolan North on this one (from his recent interview with OPM UK):

I personally thought the characters should have some kind of accent, and I think a lot of the people I worked closely with on that felt that way too. But that's what they wanted. That was one of the ones where I actually said, "you know, I Just don't see this American voice out of this guy."



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Munkeh111 on 23 November 2009
KylieDog said:
It is set in ancient Persia, I don't see ENGLISH coming out of that guy.

That's not the point. When I feel to my death, I wasn't shouting at the Prince for dying, I was shouting at Nate for dying (because all my deaths are the PS3's fault not mine). It is like the situation with the Assassin's Creeds, now that Ezio sounds Italian, you really understand him as a character much more, and care for him more, whereas Altair did not have much of a personality. Of course he should be speaking English, but with some sort of accent, something to make him seem like a distant traveller, not just some American guy who has turned up in Persia



SnesTea on 23 November 2009

Definitely Zack & Wiki. My sig back in the day read in all caps "BUY ZACK & WIKI OR GBALLZACK WILL RAPE YOUR SOUL". It was so huge that sig limits were introduced.

That's right, we have sig limits because of me.



Mr Khan on 23 November 2009

NiGHTS 2: Journey of Dreams, i would say. It's horrible how the game did both sales-wise and hype-wise (given that some Wii games that sold poorly are still well appreciated, like Zack and Wiki). I feel that the game captures the beauty of the original quite well, at least for the flying missions. See, they used the same engine for flight missions and ground missions, and what looked beautiful in flight (because of the large, sweeping environments), looked horrible on the ground, up close and static.



Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.

Riachu on 23 November 2009
coolbeans said:
Munkeh111 said:
KylieDog said:
It is set in ancient Persia, I don't see ENGLISH coming out of that guy.

That's not the point. When I feel to my death, I wasn't shouting at the Prince for dying, I was shouting at Nate for dying (because all my deaths are the PS3's fault not mine). It is like the situation with the Assassin's Creeds, now that Ezio sounds Italian, you really understand him as a character much more, and care for him more, whereas Altair did not have much of a personality. Of course he should be speaking English, but with some sort of accent, something to make him seem like a distant traveller, not just some American guy who has turned up in Persia

While that is true in a certain sense, it's not unknown for people to not have accents of where they've been raised.  Heck my dad doesn't even have a northern accent and he was born and raised in Minnesota.  I wouldn't blame lack of personality on Altiar for not having an accent, but the writers not giving him a story like Ezio has except through handheld games and some random comics. 

It's no secret that Altiar wasn't exactly likeable or didn't have much of a personality.  Even the developers released there mistake and made sure Ezio was a likeable and well developed character.  Altiar assassined Templars purely because it was the only way he could gain his previous status back.  Ezio becomes an assassin because he is driven by wanting to avenge his father and brothers' deaths.  Quiz: who would make a more interesting character, a character whose actions are done for no reason other than to fit the needs of the story or a charcter whose actions are driven by his emotions?  I think you can guess which one is right.



 

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rapsuperstar31 on 23 November 2009

Tales of Symphonia 2 DOTNW, horrible reviews and lots of people hate it because they played the first hour of it and quit (due to the main character being annoying initially), but once you got a few hours in, it was easily the best rpg I've played in the last year!! Folklore would be a close 2nd as far as games that have not sold well enough!