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Fun fact: Richard Guy, one of Azrael's Tear's designers/artists, also worked on Battlespire. It's all connected!!!!!!11
I thought of this as well. Would be my vote, but ultimately I just need to give it to LBA2 - Twinsen's Odyssey. Possibly the single greatest action adventure game ever made and the biggest review on Youtube has 28k views.
At least this has 57k views:
My God I love this game so much.
I actually thought - and still do - that it looked pretty awesome.There are actually quite a few in my book:-
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri. If I had to pick just one, this would be it. An excellent squad shooter mech sim (more like iron man suit actually) from Looking Glass studios. It did get some critical acclaim but it was a huge project that didn't sell well enough. Mind you, it's possible that they spent time and energy on the FMV that they should have spent on further refining the gameplay and optimization (although now in retrospect, the FMV is quite charming). But I think as a pixellated game with heavy system requirements for the time, it just arrived in the wrong time frame, when everyone was going crazy about Quake, Voodoo 3-d, etc.
Pretty much. I'm lazy and only use 1% of my brain power in games, and I could complete most encounters just by circle-strafing. The game is kind of a waste, honestly.
- Gameplay. There was a lot of wondrous complexity to TN, but it just happened to cancel itself out pretty neatly to the point where you could win most battles using ingenious strategy of running backwards and firing particle beam while splashing with GL/RL/MBA/MBC.
Pretty much. I'm lazy and only use 1% of my brain power in games, and I could complete most encounters just by circle-strafing. The game is kind of a waste, honestly.
- Gameplay. There was a lot of wondrous complexity to TN, but it just happened to cancel itself out pretty neatly to the point where you could win most battles using ingenious strategy of running backwards and firing particle beam while splashing with GL/RL/MBA/MBC.
There's a reason why most of the '90s ones are forgotten, they're just not that good. The 1990 one, if you can get it to run, is buggy, difficult to control and not that fun playing it the normal way. The Wolf-clones are just bad and the final batch just aren't that interesting beyond the surprisingly modern control scheme.Honorable mention to Bethesda's early Terminator shooters. Solid games, but again, system reqs somewhat foreclosed major success (given the franchise). (IIRC you actually had to have a Matrox Millennium - the top 2-d card at the time - to play it without jumping through an unconscionable number of DOS hoops. IIRC I actually learned my "gamer's DOS" skills getting the second game to work on my brand spanking new Pentium 90 with generic 2-d card.)
There's a reason why most of the '90s ones are forgotten, they're just not that good. The 1990 one, if you can get it to run, is buggy, difficult to control and not that fun playing it the normal way. The Wolf-clones are just bad and the final batch just aren't that interesting beyond the surprisingly modern control scheme.Honorable mention to Bethesda's early Terminator shooters. Solid games, but again, system reqs somewhat foreclosed major success (given the franchise). (IIRC you actually had to have a Matrox Millennium - the top 2-d card at the time - to play it without jumping through an unconscionable number of DOS hoops. IIRC I actually learned my "gamer's DOS" skills getting the second game to work on my brand spanking new Pentium 90 with generic 2-d card.)
Severance: Blade of Darkness
Excellent action game with great fighting mechanics. It has lots of Sumerian mythology influences, deadly traps, bosses and you can sever enemies limbs and thrash them with it. You can play as four heroes, so don't worry about replay value.
Harvester is evil. But of course the cucktard is going to recommend it.Harvester. It's a bit janky and the entire Lodge segment was bad, but one of those rare adventure games that made me feel uncomfortable.
What's with the furry avatar?Harvester is evil. But of course the cucktard is going to recommend it.Harvester. It's a bit janky and the entire Lodge segment was bad, but one of those rare adventure games that made me feel uncomfortable.
Quake III is better so not underrated, just not as good.Actually, seeing your username makes me want to change my vote.
It's Unreal. 100% Unreal.
It was so far ahead of its time that like half of games out today still use its graphics engine and no shitlennial modern "gamers" even remember it. Some might remember Unreal Tournament but even then they're usually talking about the 2003 version, not the OG.