I can't say that to "Double Agent" that one sucks. Edit: For clarity, I meant the PC version only. It seems that the older versions have good reviews on them and watching the gameplays, I can say that might be true. Going to try it out. I appreciate all the people that told this to me.
@@JustJustKen Agree, but The Chaos Theory and Blacklist were fantastic games, at their time. And I would replay Blacklist again, but unfortunately, it's unavailable in the PS store.
@@JustJustKen which version did you played? ONLY the ps2 & xbox1 versions were good - because these are completely different games than the pc, ps3 and xbox 360 versions
Sleeping Dogs has to be my top one. Very under rated game. Didnt sell that well which causes the studio to shut down. What a shame. Closest good GTA game thats not GTA
10 Okami 0:32 9 Kingdoms of Amalur 2:36 8 Alpha Protocol 4:31 7 Alan Wake 6:13 6 Guardians of the Galaxy 7:54 5 Splinter Cell Blacklist 9:43 4 Spec Ops: The Line 11:58 3 Alien Isolation 13:47 2 Beyond Good and Evil 14:51 1 Immortals of Aveum 16:03
One of the very few games that I genuinely believe is underrated and actively promote to this day. I avoided it for years because I hate driving games outside of GTA, and man was I disappointed in myself for passing on this game so long. I had a blast 100%ing it
The Saboteur. Not just a game that sold poorly, but bafflingly, was reviewed poorly, despite being a better Assassin's Creed game than most actual Assassin's Creed games
I enjoyed the saboteur, but it was more of a tps than a stealth game. I don't remember the stealth being particulary good or one of the saboteur's stronger gameplay features.
@@redfoxsports4749 well it looks like they decided that further investing in DEI makes no sense and changed course. They will probably start earning money again.
Because sleeping dogs didn't pull in enough gross revenue to cover their losses on other crummy games, they deemed it a failure, despite the fact it really is awesome.
I skipped this one because I believed the reviewers. Picked it up later and damn I enjoyed it. Just remember most reviewers are earning a check and have a boss. Get some attention and show you are Relevant. Screw those people who are kicking code for hours to support their families
YES, SUPER SLEPT ON!!! I bought it around its launch but I legit only saw a trailer of it 2 weeks before launch and bought it just out of curiosity and if it connected to Fury Road. I was PLEASANTLY SURPRISED, a very well done open world game. An INSTANT CLASSIC!!!
@@RonnieMyers777I couldn't disagree more. I tried it on console and it was horrendous with a controller. I think that's part of the reason it's had a resurgence. The game just doesn't play well at all on controller but it's a solid 8/10 game on kb&m.
I tried it twice and couldn't get into it. I recently picked it up on a huge sale on PC and am going to try it again. Although, unlike this other guy, I won't be playing it with a K/M and acting like that makes it better. You know, because I'm not insane lol
Jade Empire deserves to be here. Just played through it recently for the first time and loved it. It's a great example of how good Bioware used to be. Highly recommend everyone play it. Sunset Overdrive is another one.
It remains among my favourite games. I found it in a bargain bin for around £1 in 2007ish. Best £1 ever spent in gaming! I love the main theme too. Great piece of music.
Agreed. Apparently part of the problem was that it had the same name as an older title so people were expecting a completely different game, but it was amazing!
Blacklist was a criminally underrated game. I still play it sometimes. Obviously, we all missed Michael Ironside, but what they did for the reboot worked. Getting to play Splinter Cell as a co-op story was fantastic too. They should make another one like this one and add an online feature similar to Hitman where people can create their own levels. Do that and lean more towards the Ghost and Panther modes of the game. If you haven't played it, download it and play it through. Totally worth it.
DUDES THANK YOU Ōkami is such a gem! I had it on the PS2, couldn't finish it because someone scratched the disk, then bought it again on PSN and finished it on the PS3 years later. Loved every minute of it
Went into this fully expecting Okami and I'm happy to know it's the first one mentioned. Playing it and beating Orochi only to realize that there was a whole-ass other 80% of the game to be played was wild! The touch of fighting along with Shiranui is a game mechanic that needs to be done more. Okami was really ahead of its time.
It is insane that Spec Ops: The Line never got more love. It is one of the best 3rd person military shooters ever made. The ending alone is one of the best video game endings I've ever seen and a real big holy shit moment.
For me, it's one of the greatest games of all time. The Level Design Complimenting The Art Design of The space Station Talos I combined with the insane Replayability that the game offers just makes it even more of an underappreciated masterpiece. The Weapons and the Powers were also quite creatively curated and introduced.
I wouldn't say that. Ads were everywhere for that game leading up to its release, and even if the marketing was done better, I think it still would've flopped. The issue with Prey is that you can't really express the great parts about it in a quick surface level trailer. The game is obviously fantastic, but at a glance it's just going to be stuck looking like an incredibly generic shooter with aliens. That aside, the game was aggressively mid at launch if you factor in the bugs and absolutely HORRIFIC loading times, especially on console.
@@ssshjsssj5033 I thing that's one of many issues why the game didn't sell well. Immersive Simulators have always been that one particular genre of video games that the majority of people can't get into for some reason that I do not understand. Also, the trailers did show us and filled us in about the different powers, ways and tools that we would be having at our disposal for playing the game our way depending upon our play style and yes, as you said, people who got into it thinking it would be a satisfying first person shooter just set themselves up for a disappointment because the game is a far cry from being just a generic FPS title. Though I wish, this game would have had a sequel as the ending definitely hints towards it. The start of the game is slightly slow but exquisitely picks up the pace and the optimization was smooth as butter on PC but it was busted on consoles like you said until it was patched and worked upon.
Days gone not being on this list, hell not being top 5 is criminal. Days gone was excellent and a sequel would slap. Still hoping it comes to PC and sony reconsiders it.
Spec Ops: The Line was just a freaking completely unexpected experience that I still think about to this day after just the two back-to-back play throughs after it first released. Really needed a follow up.
Bro, Spec Ops is GREAT!!! That shit pulled me in and didn’t let go until the end. Some of the decisions you had to make were some of the most messed up shit and it progressively made me question my decisions. I LOVED EVERY MINUTE!!!
If you go into Spec Ops: The Line knowing it's NOT a COD clone you will find a gem of a game. The story is Hollywood A Game quality. Amazing story, better than ok game.
Mirror's Edge deserved to be on the list. Short, but solid game with a unique colorful art style back when everything was buried in a sepia filter, and proved that first person view platforming can work.
Game was amazing. The art style, free running, sound track, all stellar. I will admit the combat was poor, but you weren't supposed to be a supersoldier, so it made some sense. Still have the yellow runners bag I got for pre-ordering.
@@thedarkemissary It wasn't a sequel, but no, Mirror's Edge got cult status, it didn't sell well. The reboot happened because Dice was passionate and their pitch for an open world was ticking the right boxes at EA. I personally think Catalyst is only slightly better than the original in some areas, but better than a masterpiece is high praise 😅
I think the problem with Immortals of Aveum is it's basically a first person shooter, and I don't know, for me the fantasy of playing a mage with style is being able to see all the gestures, flapping robes and hair, the sparks and all effects around, selling the magnitude of their power. And no imagery I watch about this game shows me that to be honest.
It gets more flashy the further you get in the game and the more you unlock. You get actual spells outside of your "guns." Playing through it rn. Nothing great but still decent turn off your brain fun.
The problem is pretty much the entire game with the exception of the graphic , it's on par with other garbage games like saints row reboot, suicide squad, forspoken, redfall so on, absolutely atrocious story and characters i wanted to forget it existed as fast as possible
Beyond Good & Evil is in my top 10 favorite games of all time, an absolutely underrated game. Highly recommend checking out the 20th anniversary edition that just released if you haven’t played it.
The best part of it was how you got to change classes whenever you got bored of your current one. And yet, each class felt distinctly different. This was the issue I had with Mass Effect Andromeda. You could change classes, but they all felt interchangeable.
@@TheOldMan-75 You are missing only some halfway-adorable romance scenes. If those are a big draw for you, try the game out (if you can do so for free.) If they aren't, save yourself the finite seconds you have on this Earth.
A friend suggested the game to me when i expressed disappointment with Skyrim (high expectations due to word of mouth but many admitted to me that it's an average game made better by mods). I was instantly pulled in to it in comparison to Skyrim. Poured in so so so many hours into it, the environment, the quests, story, i loved them all.
I love Kingdoms of Amalur. It's one of my favorite games of all time. I bought the remaster as soon as it released on Steam. Glad to see other people appreciate it as well.
Yeah man With Tango Gameworks closed we'll never be able to get anything close to Evil Within in the near future so atleast those 2 games deserve to be mentioned.
@@Bhavesh_verma Not sure if masterpiece is the right word, but it was definitely very well done. The unlockable node system for the behavior tree on the AI was very brilliant. The behind the scenes tricks the devs used to get it to appear to be super smart was very sly.
Guardians of the Galaxy was a joy to play. I love the characterizations we got for the Guardians. Also, Splinter Cell: Blacklist was fine, but honestly, Conviction is still my favorite in the franchise.
Vanquish! VANQUISH!! Damn near NOBODY talks about this game anymore, despite coming from the already-cited Platinum games and Shinji Mikami. Freakin' AWESOME fast-paced shooter that still holds up and never got it's due. Vanquish! V A N Q U I S H!!!!!!!
More underrated games: - Mad Max (many people don't even know that game) - Remnant (the first game was really underrated) - Watch Dogs + mod packs of 2023/2024 (the new mod packs make this game absolutely amazing and beautiful) - Prey (the 2017 game; one of the best Singleplayer RPGs with heavily underrated sells) - Returnal (beautiful rouguelite with Souls elements but many people never played it) - The Ascent (great Cyberpunk game with awesome mechanics and a cool story, underwhelming sales)
Enslaved Odyssey too the West will always be the game that was a massive commercial failure but was phenomenal. It is my favorite game of the generation hands down. So glad it got a PC release. I adore that game.
I can't say enough how this channel has just blown me away from Jake and Falcon to the editing to the fact that we get a new video every day to the endlessly entertaining content. This is just one of the best channels on this platform.
Splinter cell blacklist is the closest thing we have to a john wick game in terms of combat. The fluid movement, takedowns, executions via the mark and execute function is just sooooo cool and satisfying. Its a shame this didnt take off more. So underrated.
Prey should have definitely been on this list. Probably the biggest discrepancy between a game's quality and its sales. It makes me incredibly sad that immersive sims are so underappreciated.
Amalur didnt cause the studio to fail, it was made by a third party. 38 Studios was working on an mmo set in the amalur universe (but like centuries apart). The mmo was in development first, amalur was an attempt to generate revenue as they kept working. The money spent on the mmo is what caused all the problems.
* a brilliant blend i got into Splinter Cell because of Conviction and i still love that game but i recognize it's an action game first and foremost and a stealth game second. i could never get into the other ones, but Blacklist did a superb job of bridging that gap between the two gameplay styles. Of course we missed Rasczak's voice but the man was going through cancer at the time. i also think that Conviction had a much better story than Blacklist, but Blacklist is by far the better game.
I'd argue that Double Agent (Ps2 version) had tons of Chaos Theory DNA and that Blacklist by virtue of borrowing from DA had that Chaos Theory element too. Blacklist is so much game too, people often overlook just how much bloody content you got from that 1 game, eventhough the DLC was cancelled. Do NOT regret that Collector's Edition pre-order, so good.
I like Pandora Tomorrows story more but overall the Blacklist gameplay was so damn good that it probably is the second best one. All of the games offer something, kind of like how the Hitman series went along.
If y'all haven't played Spec Ops The Line... You NEED TO PLAY IT. best military shooter story of all time. It's fun enough but man, once you finally put two and two together your mind will absolutely be blown, a truly brilliant way of telling a story of the mind of a soldier who's seen some sheeet
I was surprised and shocked that Okami was the first entry; that's one of MY favorite games. I owned it on PS2 and bought the HD remaster for PS4; it's a life-long keeper for me.
Its so tragic that its been over 10 years since a splinter cell game. Use to be one of the best video games out. That whole era of good ass tom clancy games is gone and its so sad. Ghost recon future soldier and all the ones before it were great games too.
@@halfkoreanhalfamazing Agreed, aside from Charlie's stupid missions and 2 points in the game where you are forced to be detected, Blacklist is everything I wanted from a modern entry in the franchise. It's got non-lethal options, all the old gadgets plus the cool new ones from Conviction, tons and tons of animations for takedowns, shootable lights, body carrying/hiding, lots of customisation to play how you want, a really well written political espionage story with a fantastic villain, and of course, perfectionist difficulty 😌
The franchise was actually pretty successful. It got 6 games (4 mainline, 2 spin offs) and an anime. That's pretty good. It just didn't land in the states.
I think it's been mentioned a few times on this channel on "underrated/overlooked gems" type videos, so I guess they're just covering games they haven't talked about before... But I agree, Mad Max was seriously good fun. Even though it doesn't do anything revolutionary, and follows the standard open-world gameplay loop, somehow it was just addictive as hell and very atmospheric.
Outriders comes to mind. One of my favorite looter shooters of all time. One of the few games I actively grinded in and enjoyed it. Had a couple of game breaking bugs early on that tarnished its reputation, but I think its a massively underrated game. Really hope they make a sequel.
To me, there was too much repetiton. It became boring fairly quickly to me, I didn't have the feeling of making actual progress, because it took FOREVER to level up the last few ascension- and apocalypse tiers. Changes to loot drops also jsut made it worse for me. Played it for quite a long time, but ultimately just started yawning after playing one round.. so I quit. Also, game was unplayable for me on PS4, PS5 didn't really improve that. On PC, it was a lot of fun, until it became too repetitve for me.
My friends quit playing 3 weeks in. They tend to play games for a week and switch to another one (they're never even good) so I don't even play with my friends anymore lol. Mfs never hit 20 hours in anything
1. Immortals of Aveum 2. Beyond good and evil 3. Alien: Isolation 4. A 5. Splinter Cell 6. Guardians of The Galaxy 7. Alan Wake 8. Alpha Protocol 9. Kingdom of Amalur 10. Okami Okami should be #1 on this list. It was phenomenal.
I have to assume "Psi-ops: the mindgate conspiracy" didn't sell well because it never got a sequel, and that's a real shame. Psi-ops made much better use of psychic powers and physics than "control" and Psi-ops came out on the original xbox. The physics were amazing, and you could freaking tk surf man! You could hurl yourself at super speed all over the map, and that's on top of the other powers and abilities you got. Pyrokinesis, mind control, astral projection, you got way better guns, you could drive. it was awesome.
Gotta sell the first one to get a sequel. Doubt that has anything to do with it. I really liked it though because of everything you just mentioned. Shame really, most of these games were awesome! Especially Alpha Protocol!!
Blacklist is the only Splinter’s Cell game I have ever played. It was a rough start because the stealth mechanics were unforgiving. Repeated failures led to me getting better eventually, and when I beat the game for the first time, I felt I was ready to be a special agent in real life…you know, plotting a stealth route, where to hide and when to body roll while just walking around 😂. I thought it was the greatest stealth game and didn’t know why there was no follow up…it remains to be one of the few games I played through multiple times because I really enjoy the experience.
People do want new and original IP. They just don't want it to come out at the same time as their anticipated sequels, remakes, reboots, or remasters. The problem might be that the amount of people looking for a "new" or novel experience just isn't a large enough demographic to support it.
Actually, the issue is that when new ip's come out, they have zero creativity that games from years ago had. This is due to multiplatform development. Yes, it's nice to have the game on all systems, but creating a game for 3 systems is the same as making the games 3 separate times all at the same time. So, to make this possible, you have to give up on what made older games good in order to deliver that experience. All the remastered games were originally games that came out on one system. That means teams could master how to create games for that one system and focus more time on creativity in the games. Like naughty dogs, for example, pretty much every game they released has been a top game as they only had to make the games for Playstation only.
Worst thing a publisher can do with a brand new IP is release it in the run up to Christmas, when it's going to have to compete with all the established AAA franchises that drop at the same time... Put it out during the quieter part of the year and it might actually get noticed and played. I've lost count of the times good games got completely ignored because they came out the same week, or even the same day as some big AAA blockbuster. If they'd just delayed the launch by 6 months it might have been a big hit.
Jade Empire could have also made this list. It was such a good game, real time combat rpg with multiple fighting styles and a morality and romance system on par with fable. I was always so angry that it never got a sequel
First, wow, I’m actually shocked that Alien Isolation “undersold” in any context. Second, Sleeping Dogs definitely could have taken someone’s place on this list. Super underrated and definitely deserved a sequel.
I enjoyed Kingdoms of Amalur, there were however far too many side quests it felt like nobody in the world did anything for themselves and stood around hoping some adventurer would wander by. Spec Ops: The Line was great it was easily one of the best games I played, I liked Alpha Protocol too.
I really want another Spec Ops, but remember an interview where the main game director (I forget the position title, idc lol) said something along the *lines* of “I’d rather drag my balls through a trail of broken glass than attempt another game”, lmfao.
Before watching I'ma say sleeping dogs. That game was amazing. A way better open world crime game than any GTA game in my opinion. Sadly it didn't sell super well.
I heard people don't like the target-marking mechanic that allows rapid kills, which they said makes the game not challenging. But I do kind of like the change in Sam Fisher, no longer being a lapdog and all. Not to mention, he's more violent here too.
The Sabateur, Sleeping Dogs and Brutal Legend. Did Battle for Middle Earth II not sell well because that game was great. Definitely deserved a follow up. That was the last rts game I ever played and that was decades ago smh.
Fun fact about sleeping dogs (I fell down a google rabbit hole) sleeping dogs originated as a sequel to true crime NYC but when that IP went dormant after true crime NYC (which also deserves to be be on this list) underperformed it was later revived by a new dev and became sleeping dogs.
I played Beyond Good & Evil in 2006. This game was way ahead of its time. You could capture photos of creatures and locations, and participate in speed boat races as minigames. It was a great adventurous game!
Guardians of the Galaxy is such a fun game. Also, Kingdoms of Amalur is one amazing game. Over 100hrs first playthrough, not a game for impatient gamers. It's a game you live in and simply enjoy. Very good list.
"Spec Ops. the line" Was delisted from Steam. All because 2k did not want to pay right for a single tiny musical piece on the main menu. One of the most unique games out there can't be bought, because for 2K saving a bit of money is more important than preserving a piece or art.
The issue with Kingdom of Amalur was that it released alongside Mass Effect 3(well, a couple weeks b4) and a new unheard of rpg that got next to no marketing could never compete with the highly anticipated release of the finale of the the most popular RPG series of the era. Mass Effect 3 got all the coverage and dominated commercials at the time. Hell, I remember not even knowing about it until months after release.
Alpha Protocol needs a Sequel That was the system that needed to be kept and improved not abandoned. There was and is nothing like this stealth genre. totally unique. Hope people play and push this game for xbox and obsidian to have another look.
Games like Alpha Protocol are 100% up my alley and I remember enjoying it but also being very upset the whole time I played it. I wanted the game to be good and show what the genre could do but it was a clunky mess that precluded its goal.
I remember getting Alan Wake for $10 on a Steam sale not too long after it came out. I really enjoyed it and never heard anyone talk about it. Same thing happened with Mass Effect 1.
Alien Isolation was a MASTERPIECE! Criminally underrated. Every two or three years, I feel the urge to play through it again. If you haven't played Alien Isolation, and you love survival horror, you don't truly love the genre unless you've at least picked up and played the game. It's a crying shame it didn't receive the attention it deserved.
Jake: 2023 was an absolutely packed year for gaming! So many amazing games! Also Jake everytime the packed lineup of 2023 is mentioned: Like...y'know Baldur's Gate 3 and.....I could go on.
Oddworld soulstorm was great, sadly not many people know about this series its a shame that the game hasnt been bought a lot, it has quality graphics. Im kinda worried on what might happen to oddworld inhabitants
I forgot about Oddworld: Soulstorm until you had mentioned it. That is a game that has been on my list to buy, but always forgot about it....Thanks for the reminder!!
This is the problem with today's "our investors demand huge returns on their investment every quarter despite that not being how investments work and it being too unrealistic" mindset. It's killing businesses and good ideas.
Who else misses Splinter Cell? I replayed them all last year and every one holds up
I can't say that to "Double Agent" that one sucks.
Edit: For clarity, I meant the PC version only. It seems that the older versions have good reviews on them and watching the gameplays, I can say that might be true. Going to try it out. I appreciate all the people that told this to me.
@@JustJustKen Agree, but The Chaos Theory and Blacklist were fantastic games, at their time. And I would replay Blacklist again, but unfortunately, it's unavailable in the PS store.
I enjoyed most of the series, double agent aside. Blacklist is still very fun and revisit that game time to time
@@JustJustKen which version did you played? ONLY the ps2 & xbox1 versions were good - because these are completely different games than the pc, ps3 and xbox 360 versions
As much as I love them I really don't think the first two hold up
Sleeping Dogs has to be my top one. Very under rated game. Didnt sell that well which causes the studio to shut down. What a shame. Closest good GTA game thats not GTA
yea totally, love that game
Saints Row 1 and 2 lol.
Bought it for like $2 on GOG a couple months ago. Solid
itsgood butnotamazing, saints row1 and 2 is better
It's closer to The Warriors then GTA.
10 Okami 0:32
9 Kingdoms of Amalur 2:36
8 Alpha Protocol 4:31
7 Alan Wake 6:13
6 Guardians of the Galaxy 7:54
5 Splinter Cell Blacklist 9:43
4 Spec Ops: The Line 11:58
3 Alien Isolation 13:47
2 Beyond Good and Evil 14:51
1 Immortals of Aveum 16:03
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Dammit Jake this was a perfect opportunity to talk about one of your favourite games Mad Max.
I'm shocked he missed any opportunity for that.
I thought it was Falcon that really goes off on that game?
I really did enjoy that game even though it had it's fair share of flaws, I genuinely want that team to get a shot to make another mad max game
One of the very few games that I genuinely believe is underrated and actively promote to this day. I avoided it for years because I hate driving games outside of GTA, and man was I disappointed in myself for passing on this game so long. I had a blast 100%ing it
"what a game, what a lovely game"
Ubisoft: “You guys like Sam Fisher?!?!?!”
Fans: “YEAH!!!!!!!! WE LIKED BLACKLIST WE WANT TO SEE HIM AGAIN!”
Ubisoft: “well….fuck you”
I mean, it's Ubisoft.
"Here's a single player game. It's needlessly online. We're shutting down the servers and taking the DLC with us"
They're literally bringing Splinter Cell back and making a remake of the first game. The amount of people who aren't aware of this is astounding
@@jimmythegamer2231 cool your jets Jimmy
lol
"you like splinter cell? good because we will only give you skins and other bullshit related to it in our future games hurr durr"
The Saboteur.
Not just a game that sold poorly, but bafflingly, was reviewed poorly, despite being a better Assassin's Creed game than most actual Assassin's Creed games
This! Loved it
One of my favourite games
oh wow this brings back memories, played it growing up and it was honestly slept on. solid game!
I enjoyed the saboteur, but it was more of a tps than a stealth game. I don't remember the stealth being particulary good or one of the saboteur's stronger gameplay features.
Just found out about it and bought it on PC. It's great.
Square-Enix expects every game to fund a small country
Or at least make a decent profit…
@@redfoxsports4749 well it looks like they decided that further investing in DEI makes no sense and changed course. They will probably start earning money again.
Or at least investors are expecting this
Because sleeping dogs didn't pull in enough gross revenue to cover their losses on other crummy games, they deemed it a failure, despite the fact it really is awesome.
@@redfoxsports4749tends to happen when you take 200+mil to make a game and than only release it on one console like they have been doing
Mad Max is also pretty slept on.
I skipped this one because I believed the reviewers. Picked it up later and damn I enjoyed it. Just remember most reviewers are earning a check and have a boss. Get some attention and show you are Relevant. Screw those people who are kicking code for hours to support their families
Instead of watching reviews or reading them. Just watch a vid of someone playing it and decide
YES, SUPER SLEPT ON!!! I bought it around its launch but I legit only saw a trailer of it 2 weeks before launch and bought it just out of curiosity and if it connected to Fury Road. I was PLEASANTLY SURPRISED, a very well done open world game. An INSTANT CLASSIC!!!
Played recently, mechanically good but otherwise aged poorly. Needs remaster
I think it started great, almost like a survival game then it turned into a grind
Days Gone was criminally underrated. Played it recently on PC and it has risen to my top 5. 10/10!
Days Gone sold well. Sold better than most games that has gotten a sequel. Something more happen behind the scenes hence why we didn't get a sequel
Its even better on ps5
@@RonnieMyers777I couldn't disagree more. I tried it on console and it was horrendous with a controller. I think that's part of the reason it's had a resurgence. The game just doesn't play well at all on controller but it's a solid 8/10 game on kb&m.
I tried it twice and couldn't get into it.
I recently picked it up on a huge sale on PC and am going to try it again.
Although, unlike this other guy, I won't be playing it with a K/M and acting like that makes it better.
You know, because I'm not insane lol
@shalashaska9946 what? There are zero issues with it on controller. TF you talking about? 10/10
Jade Empire deserves to be here. Just played through it recently for the first time and loved it. It's a great example of how good Bioware used to be. Highly recommend everyone play it.
Sunset Overdrive is another one.
Jade Empire is so goood!
It deserves a sequel!
Yo that was my shit it was only on Xbox at the time masterpiece
@@JeppeS782 the truth
It remains among my favourite games. I found it in a bargain bin for around £1 in 2007ish. Best £1 ever spent in gaming! I love the main theme too. Great piece of music.
I think JE initially sold well at that time around 500,000 copies
Prey from 2017 is one of the most underrated video games of all time. Don't think it met sales expectations
Yup and we're never getting a sequel 😭😭
Agreed. Apparently part of the problem was that it had the same name as an older title so people were expecting a completely different game, but it was amazing!
I loved Prey but it was too long for its own good. I eventually got bored because it wouldn't end lol
@@abraxis59 Both Preys didn't do good.
I just replayed it with the dlc and let me tell you, its one of the best games I’ve played. Everything about it is erfect
Blacklist was a criminally underrated game. I still play it sometimes. Obviously, we all missed Michael Ironside, but what they did for the reboot worked. Getting to play Splinter Cell as a co-op story was fantastic too. They should make another one like this one and add an online feature similar to Hitman where people can create their own levels. Do that and lean more towards the Ghost and Panther modes of the game. If you haven't played it, download it and play it through. Totally worth it.
Splinter Cell Blacklist was so slept on. It's one of my all-time favorite games
DUDES THANK YOU Ōkami is such a gem! I had it on the PS2, couldn't finish it because someone scratched the disk, then bought it again on PSN and finished it on the PS3 years later. Loved every minute of it
It's wild because that's one I'd never even heard of and it's right up my alley. It still looks good even today.
Glad you got to Finish it. Such a great game with many memorable moments. Love that game
Went into this fully expecting Okami and I'm happy to know it's the first one mentioned. Playing it and beating Orochi only to realize that there was a whole-ass other 80% of the game to be played was wild! The touch of fighting along with Shiranui is a game mechanic that needs to be done more. Okami was really ahead of its time.
I'm sad Marvel's guardians of the galaxy didn't sell well. I loved the game. I really want a sequel
That game was great. Definitely want a sequel
@@That1L3goGuy same
It was so good. Short, but great.
Chris Pratt was cheesy enough to be Star-Lord. The voice actor in the game is 100% mature cheddar 😅
Thanks for reminding me i bought it on steam and never played it yet.
It is insane that Spec Ops: The Line never got more love. It is one of the best 3rd person military shooters ever made. The ending alone is one of the best video game endings I've ever seen and a real big holy shit moment.
Titanfall 2 “ Am I a joke to you?”
That's what I'm saying
Titanfall 2 keeps top selling on steam, if anything it’s overrated as hell
Ikr. It flops at launch, and people are picking it up after Apexlegends dropped. Still sad to this day we may never get Titanfall 3.
Was waiting for Jake to mention it in the list. Still play it to this day it’s just so much fun
@@Pilgrimetro overrated? TF 2 is the best Fps on the market
#1 is Prey 2017. Easily the most underrated game of all time. Marketing team did an awful job, one of the greatest games of all time sold just a few.
saw this comment before I even watched the video and I completely agree.
For me, it's one of the greatest games of all time. The Level Design Complimenting The Art Design of The space Station Talos I combined with the insane Replayability that the game offers just makes it even more of an underappreciated masterpiece. The Weapons and the Powers were also quite creatively curated and introduced.
I wouldn't say that. Ads were everywhere for that game leading up to its release, and even if the marketing was done better, I think it still would've flopped. The issue with Prey is that you can't really express the great parts about it in a quick surface level trailer. The game is obviously fantastic, but at a glance it's just going to be stuck looking like an incredibly generic shooter with aliens.
That aside, the game was aggressively mid at launch if you factor in the bugs and absolutely HORRIFIC loading times, especially on console.
@@ssshjsssj5033 I thing that's one of many issues why the game didn't sell well. Immersive Simulators have always been that one particular genre of video games that the majority of people can't get into for some reason that I do not understand. Also, the trailers did show us and filled us in about the different powers, ways and tools that we would be having at our disposal for playing the game our way depending upon our play style and yes, as you said, people who got into it thinking it would be a satisfying first person shooter just set themselves up for a disappointment because the game is a far cry from being just a generic FPS title. Though I wish, this game would have had a sequel as the ending definitely hints towards it. The start of the game is slightly slow but exquisitely picks up the pace and the optimization was smooth as butter on PC but it was busted on consoles like you said until it was patched and worked upon.
Or maybe you’re just extremely biased.. the game was okay
Alpha Protocol was such an underrated gem, genuinely one of my favorite games growing up
Days gone not being on this list, hell not being top 5 is criminal. Days gone was excellent and a sequel would slap. Still hoping it comes to PC and sony reconsiders it.
Days gone got a release on the pc :)
been out on pc for quite a few years now, great mod community and a really solid PC port.
& bend was workin on a seqaul but sony axed it man f#€k sony
@@cornelscheible485 damn I forgot it did. Welp guess there really is no hope for a sequel.
@@NoahSteelyee glad it's getting mod support, highly underrated among the Sony exclusives.
Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus. I will stand by this game as being underrated and underappreciated (based on sales).
Sadly, this list could've had way more than 10 entries.
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Yeah, it's sort of surprising to not see channel favorites like Mad Max and Marvel's Midnight Suns on the list.
Max Payne 3 for a part 2 @@gameranxTV
@@gameranxTV Gameranx again ignoring the whole Deus Ex franchise as usual 😒
@@ericsap6099I think the game sold well
Spec Ops: The Line was just a freaking completely unexpected experience that I still think about to this day after just the two back-to-back play throughs after it first released. Really needed a follow up.
Bro, Spec Ops is GREAT!!! That shit pulled me in and didn’t let go until the end. Some of the decisions you had to make were some of the most messed up shit and it progressively made me question my decisions. I LOVED EVERY MINUTE!!!
@@AngieCarr it made me question myself as human and how strong my morals really are. That is one hell of a thing for an FPS to pull off.
@@StacheTBBut it's not an FPS, it's a TPS. (Third Person Shooter)
I prefer third person games to first person ones myself.
Spec Ops probably wouldn't have gotten a direct sequel anyway, after all, it was based on Joseph Conrad's Hearts of Darkness aka Apocalypse Now
It's solid but became incredibly overrated after the fact. It's story and gameplay are not THAT good
If you go into Spec Ops: The Line knowing it's NOT a COD clone you will find a gem of a game. The story is Hollywood A Game quality. Amazing story, better than ok game.
FOR REAL. THE TWISTS ARE INSANE
Mirror's Edge deserved to be on the list. Short, but solid game with a unique colorful art style back when everything was buried in a sepia filter, and proved that first person view platforming can work.
Game was amazing. The art style, free running, sound track, all stellar. I will admit the combat was poor, but you weren't supposed to be a supersoldier, so it made some sense. Still have the yellow runners bag I got for pre-ordering.
Sold so well, they made a sequel. What are you talking about?
@@thedarkemissary It wasn't a sequel, but no, Mirror's Edge got cult status, it didn't sell well. The reboot happened because Dice was passionate and their pitch for an open world was ticking the right boxes at EA. I personally think Catalyst is only slightly better than the original in some areas, but better than a masterpiece is high praise 😅
I think the problem with Immortals of Aveum is it's basically a first person shooter, and I don't know, for me the fantasy of playing a mage with style is being able to see all the gestures, flapping robes and hair, the sparks and all effects around, selling the magnitude of their power. And no imagery I watch about this game shows me that to be honest.
It gets more flashy the further you get in the game and the more you unlock. You get actual spells outside of your "guns." Playing through it rn. Nothing great but still decent turn off your brain fun.
@@ModestPavement Cool, I guess I'll give it a try some day.
It's on Game Pass/EA Play. I had bought it when it was on sale for like $8 a month after its release.
The problem is pretty much the entire game with the exception of the graphic , it's on par with other garbage games like saints row reboot, suicide squad, forspoken, redfall so on, absolutely atrocious story and characters i wanted to forget it existed as fast as possible
@NoroGameplays I agree with the story aspect but the gameplay is significantly better than any of the games you mentioned.
Beyond Good & Evil is in my top 10 favorite games of all time, an absolutely underrated game. Highly recommend checking out the 20th anniversary edition that just released if you haven’t played it.
Ooh, I have the original, which I claimed for free during Ubisoft's 30th anniversary.
Just bought it after digital foundry's video on it
It's a shame it wasn't plugged in this video because it's fresh out of the oven, too.
Kingdoms of Amalur was really a fun gem. Played it years after its release and still had a blast for like 100 hours.
The best part of it was how you got to change classes whenever you got bored of your current one. And yet, each class felt distinctly different. This was the issue I had with Mass Effect Andromeda. You could change classes, but they all felt interchangeable.
@@antonyduhamel1166 I've played through the ME trilogy 4 times. Never even tried Andromeda.
@@TheOldMan-75 You are missing only some halfway-adorable romance scenes. If those are a big draw for you, try the game out (if you can do so for free.) If they aren't, save yourself the finite seconds you have on this Earth.
A friend suggested the game to me when i expressed disappointment with Skyrim (high expectations due to word of mouth but many admitted to me that it's an average game made better by mods).
I was instantly pulled in to it in comparison to Skyrim. Poured in so so so many hours into it, the environment, the quests, story, i loved them all.
@@LadyBern Yeah, Bethesda doesn't make games. They make big maps and mod tools.
I still like to play Curt Schilling’s Kingdoms of Amalur once in a while. More so since the remaster.
I love Kingdoms of Amalur. It's one of my favorite games of all time. I bought the remaster as soon as it released on Steam. Glad to see other people appreciate it as well.
I loved that game, but the spider queen broke it for me.
I liked Amalur but it wasn’t an all-time great for me.
lol, Curt Schilling.
100%!!!!
I still play Splinter Cell: Conviction. Absolutely incredible game that changed stealth games forever.
I can add Evil Within series, Dead Space Remake and much more to this list, I think Evil Within deserves to be in the list.
Yeah man With Tango Gameworks closed we'll never be able to get anything close to Evil Within in the near future so atleast those 2 games deserve to be mentioned.
Dead Space Remake was fantastic
I believe the first Evil Within sold pretty well. But the second one didn't.
My favorite game of all time was evil within. Horror movies or games couldn’t scare me except that one
Evil Within 1 is one of my favorite games ever. It's amazing. I didn't like 2.
Alien Isolation still hurts, i blame IGN and Gamespot for that one. Unforgivable
Twats clearly played it on easy
Really unforgivable, AI was masterpiece 10/10 game with negligible flaws
@@Bhavesh_verma Not sure if masterpiece is the right word, but it was definitely very well done. The unlockable node system for the behavior tree on the AI was very brilliant. The behind the scenes tricks the devs used to get it to appear to be super smart was very sly.
@@jazzyjswift it was great, most memorable game of all time. I wish it had a little bit more action
Blame Colonial Marines, it’s why I never gave another Alien game a chance. Too much butthurt to get over. One day I’ll go back and play it 🤷♂️
Guardians of the Galaxy was a joy to play. I love the characterizations we got for the Guardians. Also, Splinter Cell: Blacklist was fine, but honestly, Conviction is still my favorite in the franchise.
Vanquish! VANQUISH!! Damn near NOBODY talks about this game anymore, despite coming from the already-cited Platinum games and Shinji Mikami. Freakin' AWESOME fast-paced shooter that still holds up and never got it's due. Vanquish! V A N Q U I S H!!!!!!!
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I second this vanquish was a phenomenal game!
Vanquish was FANTASTIC.
@@CHIEF_420so you go to the comments to make fun if anybody make a comment. Thats sad bro
This. Came here specifically for Spec Ops: The Line and Vanquish
Spec Ops: The Line is still one of my favorite games to this day. That story is just amazing
That ending man....depends on the one you choose but what a game i'm happy i discovered it young
More underrated games:
- Mad Max (many people don't even know that game)
- Remnant (the first game was really underrated)
- Watch Dogs + mod packs of 2023/2024 (the new mod packs make this game absolutely amazing and beautiful)
- Prey (the 2017 game; one of the best Singleplayer RPGs with heavily underrated sells)
- Returnal (beautiful rouguelite with Souls elements but many people never played it)
- The Ascent (great Cyberpunk game with awesome mechanics and a cool story, underwhelming sales)
Enslaved Odyssey too the West will always be the game that was a massive commercial failure but was phenomenal. It is my favorite game of the generation hands down. So glad it got a PC release. I adore that game.
I came to the comments to say the exact same thing lol. One of my favorite story games honestly and the world is beautiful
Loved this game as well
I can't say enough how this channel has just blown me away from Jake and Falcon to the editing to the fact that we get a new video every day to the endlessly entertaining content. This is just one of the best channels on this platform.
Some of my personal Game of the Years are on this list:
2012 Spec Ops: The Line
2021 Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
Splinter cell blacklist is the closest thing we have to a john wick game in terms of combat. The fluid movement, takedowns, executions via the mark and execute function is just sooooo cool and satisfying. Its a shame this didnt take off more. So underrated.
yup
Nah conviction was the John wick game
But blacklist was really good
once I heard Alpha Protocol was back on steam on this video, I immediately went to steam to find, its still not available
It’s on GOG at least
@@standzigyou bloody legend
I'm so glad I was able to get it while it was still on steam. I'll occasionally reinstall it and play through. Such an underrated gem
@@dean170you're lucky, steam keys for it go for anywhere from $70 to $100 right now
Lmao I did the same shit, I paused this video instantly to check
Prey should have definitely been on this list. Probably the biggest discrepancy between a game's quality and its sales. It makes me incredibly sad that immersive sims are so underappreciated.
Amalur didnt cause the studio to fail, it was made by a third party. 38 Studios was working on an mmo set in the amalur universe (but like centuries apart). The mmo was in development first, amalur was an attempt to generate revenue as they kept working. The money spent on the mmo is what caused all the problems.
Right. Project Copernicus. Amalur was like the only bright spot in that massive taxpayer money sink.
Blacklist was a weird blend of Conviction and Double Agent that made an incredible Splinter Cell game that is the best one next to Chaos Theory.
* a brilliant blend
i got into Splinter Cell because of Conviction and i still love that game but i recognize it's an action game first and foremost and a stealth game second.
i could never get into the other ones, but Blacklist did a superb job of bridging that gap between the two gameplay styles.
Of course we missed Rasczak's voice but the man was going through cancer at the time.
i also think that Conviction had a much better story than Blacklist, but Blacklist is by far the better game.
I'd argue that Double Agent (Ps2 version) had tons of Chaos Theory DNA and that Blacklist by virtue of borrowing from DA had that Chaos Theory element too.
Blacklist is so much game too, people often overlook just how much bloody content you got from that 1 game, eventhough the DLC was cancelled. Do NOT regret that Collector's Edition pre-order, so good.
I like Pandora Tomorrows story more but overall the Blacklist gameplay was so damn good that it probably is the second best one. All of the games offer something, kind of like how the Hitman series went along.
@@andrewpharr33 Yes!
If y'all haven't played Spec Ops The Line... You NEED TO PLAY IT. best military shooter story of all time. It's fun enough but man, once you finally put two and two together your mind will absolutely be blown, a truly brilliant way of telling a story of the mind of a soldier who's seen some sheeet
Alan wake and splinter cell were insane back in the day don’t know how lots of these games flew under the radar 🥲
Yeah Alan wake is a great game
Shoutout to fake splinter cell syphon filter too
Edit: actually syphon filter came out first 🙃
iirc, SC Conviction is the one that torpedoed the franchise, and Blacklist was too little too late.
@@Boss_Fight_Index_muki conviction was probably my favorite one, I wish more people got to experience it back then.
Alan Wake 2 is incredible
Psychonauts. Did you know Psychonauts didn't even ship 100,000 copies in North America by the end of 2005?
I got it as a Christmas present for ps2 and slept on it for a good 2 years. Such an underrated, trippy game.
I was surprised and shocked that Okami was the first entry; that's one of MY favorite games. I owned it on PS2 and bought the HD remaster for PS4; it's a life-long keeper for me.
Then theres Okamidennnn
Guardians of the Galaxy is so underrated. It was one of the most fun games I’ve played in the past five years.
I really loved this game. Played it by chance on PS plus and it was amazing.
Its so tragic that its been over 10 years since a splinter cell game. Use to be one of the best video games out. That whole era of good ass tom clancy games is gone and its so sad. Ghost recon future soldier and all the ones before it were great games too.
Blacklist is still pretty fun, minus the fact the saves don't go to the cloud. Had to start all over after uninstalling the game
@@halfkoreanhalfamazing Agreed, aside from Charlie's stupid missions and 2 points in the game where you are forced to be detected, Blacklist is everything I wanted from a modern entry in the franchise. It's got non-lethal options, all the old gadgets plus the cool new ones from Conviction, tons and tons of animations for takedowns, shootable lights, body carrying/hiding, lots of customisation to play how you want, a really well written political espionage story with a fantastic villain, and of course, perfectionist difficulty 😌
Adding Valkyria Chronicles to this list. It eventually got its due diligence but still deserves more love.
Yep. When 4 blew up a lot of people went back and finally played the previous games. Thankfully.
@@DefinitelyNotBender 4 was great too, not sure what the hell they were thinking with Revolution though.
@marquislexi it's a shame Valkyria Chronicles 3 never released outside of Japan or got an official English localization, that really sucks
The franchise was actually pretty successful. It got 6 games (4 mainline, 2 spin offs) and an anime. That's pretty good. It just didn't land in the states.
The first game is amazing! 4th was decent.
I wish they would remake or re-master Spec Ops, loved that game. Loved all Splinter Cell games.
It's criminal the Mad Max video game isn't here on this list! That is peak Mad Max game that defines it's genre
Ikr some of these games are ass I was hoping to see Mad Max lol
I think it's been mentioned a few times on this channel on "underrated/overlooked gems" type videos, so I guess they're just covering games they haven't talked about before...
But I agree, Mad Max was seriously good fun. Even though it doesn't do anything revolutionary, and follows the standard open-world gameplay loop, somehow it was just addictive as hell and very atmospheric.
Outriders comes to mind. One of my favorite looter shooters of all time. One of the few games I actively grinded in and enjoyed it. Had a couple of game breaking bugs early on that tarnished its reputation, but I think its a massively underrated game. Really hope they make a sequel.
Being online only and the inability to pause the game didnt help matters.
To me, there was too much repetiton. It became boring fairly quickly to me, I didn't have the feeling of making actual progress, because it took FOREVER to level up the last few ascension- and apocalypse tiers.
Changes to loot drops also jsut made it worse for me. Played it for quite a long time, but ultimately just started yawning after playing one round.. so I quit.
Also, game was unplayable for me on PS4, PS5 didn't really improve that. On PC, it was a lot of fun, until it became too repetitve for me.
My friends quit playing 3 weeks in. They tend to play games for a week and switch to another one (they're never even good) so I don't even play with my friends anymore lol. Mfs never hit 20 hours in anything
Spec Ops The Line can no longer be purchased as far as I know. Music licences expired.
The fact that the choices you made actually mattered in alpha protocol made the game fun even past the flaws!
Obsidian is Goated when it comes to decision based games.
@@Lord_Phoenix95They were for sure not so much now in days.
Immortals of Aveum chopped its own balls off. The publisher released it between Armored Core 6 and Baldur's gate 3. Dead in the water.
The game is bad
Having a forgettable name hasn't exactly helped them either.
Not to mention the story. You have generic main character with Blue magic, Red magic, and Green magic... 🤯
@@williamyoung9401 I like this game, it may be generic in some point but overall really fun to play.
1. Immortals of Aveum
2. Beyond good and evil
3. Alien: Isolation
4. A
5. Splinter Cell
6. Guardians of The Galaxy
7. Alan Wake
8. Alpha Protocol
9. Kingdom of Amalur
10. Okami
Okami should be #1 on this list. It was phenomenal.
where is spec ops: the line
@@abdullahetait’s where 4 should be he put A.
I have to assume "Psi-ops: the mindgate conspiracy" didn't sell well because it never got a sequel, and that's a real shame. Psi-ops made much better use of psychic powers and physics than "control" and Psi-ops came out on the original xbox. The physics were amazing, and you could freaking tk surf man! You could hurl yourself at super speed all over the map, and that's on top of the other powers and abilities you got. Pyrokinesis, mind control, astral projection, you got way better guns, you could drive. it was awesome.
Psi-Ops is awesome! Really ahead of its time. I bet it would be a hit if released today.
Gotta sell the first one to get a sequel. Doubt that has anything to do with it. I really liked it though because of everything you just mentioned. Shame really, most of these games were awesome!
Especially Alpha Protocol!!
One of my favourite games 😥
Legendary game
A japanese publisher at the time was workin on a seqaul then a much biger japan publisher bought the company & axed the game😢
Blacklist is the only Splinter’s Cell game I have ever played. It was a rough start because the stealth mechanics were unforgiving. Repeated failures led to me getting better eventually, and when I beat the game for the first time, I felt I was ready to be a special agent in real life…you know, plotting a stealth route, where to hide and when to body roll while just walking around 😂. I thought it was the greatest stealth game and didn’t know why there was no follow up…it remains to be one of the few games I played through multiple times because I really enjoy the experience.
Spec ops The Line was really great. Plus, Nolan North. Impossible not to like.
People do want new and original IP. They just don't want it to come out at the same time as their anticipated sequels, remakes, reboots, or remasters.
The problem might be that the amount of people looking for a "new" or novel experience just isn't a large enough demographic to support it.
Especially when reviews come out and say the new IP is not as good as .
that aveum game looks rad but it reeks of sbi so its a hard pass
Actually, the issue is that when new ip's come out, they have zero creativity that games from years ago had. This is due to multiplatform development. Yes, it's nice to have the game on all systems, but creating a game for 3 systems is the same as making the games 3 separate times all at the same time. So, to make this possible, you have to give up on what made older games good in order to deliver that experience. All the remastered games were originally games that came out on one system. That means teams could master how to create games for that one system and focus more time on creativity in the games. Like naughty dogs, for example, pretty much every game they released has been a top game as they only had to make the games for Playstation only.
@@Jbig1430huh what do you know
Exclusivity does have its perks.
Worst thing a publisher can do with a brand new IP is release it in the run up to Christmas, when it's going to have to compete with all the established AAA franchises that drop at the same time... Put it out during the quieter part of the year and it might actually get noticed and played.
I've lost count of the times good games got completely ignored because they came out the same week, or even the same day as some big AAA blockbuster. If they'd just delayed the launch by 6 months it might have been a big hit.
Splinter Cell Black List was awesome. I miss this series.
Agree. Immortal of aveum was suprisingly fun and good game. Hope more people give it a go
Jade Empire could have also made this list. It was such a good game, real time combat rpg with multiple fighting styles and a morality and romance system on par with fable. I was always so angry that it never got a sequel
First, wow, I’m actually shocked that Alien Isolation “undersold” in any context. Second, Sleeping Dogs definitely could have taken someone’s place on this list. Super underrated and definitely deserved a sequel.
Sleeping Dogs was amazing. Great combat, solid soundtrack, and actually had a good story unlike a lot of open world games.
I enjoyed Kingdoms of Amalur, there were however far too many side quests it felt like nobody in the world did anything for themselves and stood around hoping some adventurer would wander by. Spec Ops: The Line was great it was easily one of the best games I played, I liked Alpha Protocol too.
Okami was such a great fkn game back in the PS2 days.
Its probably ONE of the best games of all time, still.
I agree
I bought soooo many versions of that game. I alone should have made it profitable. It’s genius even now
Alpha Protocol was such a step in the right direction for a brand new IP
Mad Max and Sunset Overdrive were the first 2 on my mind loved them both so much wish they did well enough for sequels
I really want another Spec Ops, but remember an interview where the main game director (I forget the position title, idc lol) said something along the *lines* of “I’d rather drag my balls through a trail of broken glass than attempt another game”, lmfao.
Any kind of direct sequel would cheapen the title. Sometimes a classic is a classic because it stands alone.
@@antonyduhamel1166 100%
Before watching I'ma say sleeping dogs. That game was amazing. A way better open world crime game than any GTA game in my opinion. Sadly it didn't sell super well.
Splinter cell mentioned is crazy, not heard about this great game in a long time. Conviction was the best IMO
I heard people don't like the target-marking mechanic that allows rapid kills, which they said makes the game not challenging.
But I do kind of like the change in Sam Fisher, no longer being a lapdog and all. Not to mention, he's more violent here too.
16:03 You lost me with that one. How was it good?
The Sabateur, Sleeping Dogs and Brutal Legend. Did Battle for Middle Earth II not sell well because that game was great. Definitely deserved a follow up. That was the last rts game I ever played and that was decades ago smh.
Yeah loved that LoTRs RTS .. such a hidden treat! The whole LoTR time was a great part of my life! 👍🏻
This guy knows 🤠👈🏻
Fun fact about sleeping dogs (I fell down a google rabbit hole) sleeping dogs originated as a sequel to true crime NYC but when that IP went dormant after true crime NYC (which also deserves to be be on this list) underperformed it was later revived by a new dev and became sleeping dogs.
Sleeping Dogs was brilliant.
Would love a Saboteur remaster
I played Beyond Good & Evil in 2006. This game was way ahead of its time. You could capture photos of creatures and locations, and participate in speed boat races as minigames. It was a great adventurous game!
Guardians of the Galaxy is such a fun game. Also, Kingdoms of Amalur is one amazing game. Over 100hrs first playthrough, not a game for impatient gamers. It's a game you live in and simply enjoy. Very good list.
i played kingdoms of amalur and it was FANTASTIC, especialy the chakrams combat. great game!
"Spec Ops. the line" Was delisted from Steam. All because 2k did not want to pay right for a single tiny musical piece on the main menu.
One of the most unique games out there can't be bought, because for 2K saving a bit of money is more important than preserving a piece or art.
Not sure if it's on the list, but the fact that Earthbound was considered a financial failure blows me away! What an incredible and influential game
So good. It was 80$ new when it came out and it was worth it.
OKAMI WAS THE GOAT
The issue with Kingdom of Amalur was that it released alongside Mass Effect 3(well, a couple weeks b4) and a new unheard of rpg that got next to no marketing could never compete with the highly anticipated release of the finale of the the most popular RPG series of the era. Mass Effect 3 got all the coverage and dominated commercials at the time. Hell, I remember not even knowing about it until months after release.
Alpha Protocol needs a Sequel
That was the system that needed to be kept and improved not abandoned. There was and is nothing like this stealth genre. totally unique.
Hope people play and push this game for xbox and obsidian to have another look.
Games like Alpha Protocol are 100% up my alley and I remember enjoying it but also being very upset the whole time I played it. I wanted the game to be good and show what the genre could do but it was a clunky mess that precluded its goal.
You guys should post a top 10 most major updates to video games
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I remember getting Alan Wake for $10 on a Steam sale not too long after it came out. I really enjoyed it and never heard anyone talk about it. Same thing happened with Mass Effect 1.
I never even knew Alan Wake was underperforming. I loved it as soon as I started it and it’s still one of my top 5 games of all time.
Saw the title and already knew Spec Ops was incoming.
Game is a tragedy being that good while failing so hard.
Okami is loved by many people, i've just never met any of them.
Splinter cell blacklist multiplayer was THE SHIT.
Also ghost recon future soldier was lit
These are probably a couple of the last good games ubisoft ever made
Immortal Of Aveum shows why big budget new IP is dead... simply way too risky...
New ip part was good, i was excited to play but story was too bad. New ips require great ideas and implementation
Big budget means higher expectations.
Hidden and dangerous 2 is the goat of underrated and under sold games
There are many Games like Arcanum, Vampire Bloodlines but i agree H&D 2 is such a great Game.
Just imagine a modern version of that.
Alien Isolation was a MASTERPIECE! Criminally underrated. Every two or three years, I feel the urge to play through it again. If you haven't played Alien Isolation, and you love survival horror, you don't truly love the genre unless you've at least picked up and played the game. It's a crying shame it didn't receive the attention it deserved.
The most underrated games to me are The Secret of Evermore and The Suffering.
Never heard of either. Hm.
Suffering was brutally awesome
Jake: 2023 was an absolutely packed year for gaming! So many amazing games!
Also Jake everytime the packed lineup of 2023 is mentioned: Like...y'know Baldur's Gate 3 and.....I could go on.
Oddworld soulstorm was great, sadly not many people know about this series its a shame that the game hasnt been bought a lot, it has quality graphics. Im kinda worried on what might happen to oddworld inhabitants
I forgot about Oddworld: Soulstorm until you had mentioned it. That is a game that has been on my list to buy, but always forgot about it....Thanks for the reminder!!
A New Splinter Cell Game Would Feed Families
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Specs ops the line, is one of my all time favorite games. That napalm sequence has stuck with me all these years.
I feel like bullet storm belongs to this list.
Expected Prey (2017) to be on this list.
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This is the problem with today's "our investors demand huge returns on their investment every quarter despite that not being how investments work and it being too unrealistic" mindset. It's killing businesses and good ideas.
Am I the only one thinking conviction was the best splinter cell?
Great gameplay and story, but it alienated fans by forcing action over stealth.
Blacklist improved very much on the gameplay front.