Hatorade
A nice asshole.
You know what took me a really long to realize is a very overrated game tho?
EverQuest
See now that is just crazy talk, EQ still grabs me every year or so.
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You know what took me a really long to realize is a very overrated game tho?
EverQuest
Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Especially when combined with marijuana or alcohol. The fact that the combat happens slow enough that you can spend most of the time pretending it's a chatroom with flashy colors is one of the biggest pluses to most people. And just yeah after 24 years in Norrath I realllllllly do not have the patience to autoattack in the same place for 5 minutes while listening to autists screech in guild chat and ruin my immersion.See now that is just crazy talk, EQ still grabs me every year or so.
It is a fun game, but it is just too long. It wears out it's welcome earlier than it's conclusion (although the ever-credit level was a surprise).Over-rated - Path of Exile. It's just a bloated mess that isn't fun.
Under-rated - Guardians of the Galaxy. Game launched with some massive save problems and other technical issues. It started as kind of a hot mess. They fixed all those issues. The game is just fun. The story is pretty good. The quips back and forth are amusing. The music is top notch. When Iron Maiden came on in the middle of that flight scene I got sucked right in. If you haven't played it, get it on sale. It's worth the 15 hours to complete.
I remember taking turns at my friends house playing Jett Motto. Butterfinger clan for life.I played g police. The timed missions were brutal. It was not an easy game and it suffered from low draw distance and everything having dark textures.
It was different enough to keep me playing. I don't think I ever beat it though.
Also for underrated from the PS1 era: Jet motto. And jet motto 2. But maybe not, I think there were a billion copies of those games floating around. Hard to remember how games were viewed at the time.
It was the jankiest game ever, but holy crap was it fun.
And also also: Syndicate Wars. That game was amazing for the time.
100% both of these. I'd kill for a non-ubisoft splintercell remake of PT/Chaos Theory and even Double agent for the MP - Double agent died on PC so fast on MP because there was a fun bug with the stupid P2P lobbies that if any of the clients loaded slower than the hosts, the game would assume the host ended the session. Took them 2 months to apply a fix and the community gave up and went back to CT after that.Overrated - Halo. I remember friends saying I must buy an Xbox to play Halo. So, I did just that and was thinking to myself “None of my friends have ever played a shooter on PC”. There isn’t anything above or beyond. It’s not shit. It’s just a common shooter among thousands of shooters
Multiplayer Underrated: Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow. It required strategy and was awesome cat and mouse. Most didn’t seem to play it because they actually had to learn a new way to play besides dragging everything in sight.
I’ve been playing this game for weeks recently and can’t believe I haven’t mentioned it until now:
Greatest Heavyweights for Sega Genesis
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Super underrated game. Likely because of Super Punchout being available roughly a year later and, in my opinion, probably because kids were more into team based sports games on Genesis.
This was the (much improved) follow up to Evander Holyfield’s Real Deal boxing. It uses the same sprites for the boxers and now you could play as, in addition to Holyfield; Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Floyd Patterson, Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier and Larry Holmes.
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Ali and Marciano were akin to using cheat codes with Ali being lightning fast, even faster than a create a boxer with max speed, and Marciano had insane power and stamina regeneration(my friend and I discovered that Marciano was narrowly better due to Ali losing speed as he took body shots).
Finally, the games career mode allowed you to make your own boxer to fight your way through 30 opponents before fighting the world champion “Mike Dixon.” After which, you had to defeat the 8 greatest heavyweights to earn the title of the Greatest.
One final note: due to a memory issue, I think, the referee at the end of the fight would take the same color pattern of one of the boxers randomly, resulting in hilarity like this:
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“Gee, you think the ref is biased?”
Game still holds up really well today. it’s far more like an actual boxing game than the Punchout series, which in my opinion is more of a pattern recognition game(but still a great series.) If you can get a physical copy or emulate it, please give it a shot.
I do agree with this take. I think it was Oblivion..? That I played, where I snuck into this one house that had all this glass armor in it and I was like level 3 or something stupid. I save scummed it until I had all of that gear stolen and I was far enough away from the area that I was no longer in danger. Not only that, I could equip it. I mean c'mon, its Glass Armor .. roughly a lvl 30 gear set in Skyrim terms. Knowing that no matter where or what you do in the entire game, you will only get armor thats level appropriate or lower is really kind of depressing. But I played and enjoyed Skyrim for the mini-stories each quest had, not really much else.It's the itemization. There's a huge world to explore and you never find any good loot in it.
Two Underrated arcade games:
Spider-Man: The Video Game by Sega (Arcade)
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Fun beat ‘em up that sometimes transitions to a platform style shooter. Big colorful sprites and characters plus utilized most of Spider-Man’s rogues gallery and even had Dr. Doom as the penultimate boss.
Captain America and the Avengers by Data East (Arcade)
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Straight beat ‘em up with a couple of shooting sections. Nice graphics and again used tons of villains, including a Sentinel robot and Juggernaut for some reason.
These were both excellent games if you were a fan of comics in the early 90s. Both were available in 4 player cabinets so you and all your nerd friends could play together.
I call them underrated due to being less memorable than most Capcom beat ‘em ups that were available at the time. But they’re still very fun in their own right and definitely worth your time to emulate if you want to give them a shot.