I think this opinion could be more common if they would've have put out a remaster. It has everything that City has, but features a better story and better boss fights.
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What's the most underrated third person game in your opinion that is perfectly playable today?
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NightmareFarm
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City felt like a complete slog to me for some reason.
For me, the story took a huge dive when it started to focus on the Talia/Ras stuff. It doesn't feel like it fits the game. I think it would've been tighter if the whole thing was just masterminded by Hugo Strange.
Dr.Morris79
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NightmareFarm
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Yeah especially the section where you start flying in this illusion desert area. Felt very weird and unfitting.
Werewolf Jones
Gold Member
Vanquish and Max Payne 3 were the two best third person shooters of the 360/PS3 gen. On God.
Laptop1991
Member
The Saboteur, although when i tried to replay it using origin's it wouldn't work lol, haven't tried since.
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Hayabusa83
Banned
Warhammer 40K Space Marine.
Heimdall_Xtreme
Jim Ryan Fanclub's #1 Member
Vanquish
Guardians of the galaxy
Binary Domain
Alpha protocol
Max payne 3
Guardians of the galaxy
Binary Domain
Alpha protocol
Max payne 3
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Heimdall_Xtreme
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Danji
Kat is beloved for us.
It's Sony's fault for not showing it at E3 and showing an Alpha teaser for Days gone.
People are already getting to know kat more
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I keep getting tempted to buy this for my PS3. Played it for a bit back when it came out, but never finished it.
I liked a lot about it, but just... Never felt compelled to finish it.
Laptop1991
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Yeah i didn't finish it either, years ago now, but it was a good game with a good setting and atmosphere, i might try and download it again, have to use that EA app!, hopefully it will work this time lol.
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Hypereides
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I dunno man, the studio behind it were supposedly in the early stages of an even more ambitious follow-up. Unfortunately, the original didn't manage to generate enough revenue to convince SE it was worth pursueing. So, it was shut down early on.
AFAIK most of the original team disbanded and some left the industry shortly after.
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adamosmaki
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Sleeping dogs. Calling it gta clone undersells the game. Combat and story are far better than any gta game and the world despite been smaller it feels more alive and captures hong Kong vibe perfectly
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Punished Miku
Gold Member
Quantum Break
EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
Biomutant proved to be underrated, assassins creed Valhalla is up and away the best assassins creed historical game of the three, Kena is another good download.
RAIDEN1
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So that's what I mean, I can't see some of the original team banding together to create a spin-off, much less a sequel....the only chance of a semi-sequel is if someone brought out a mod or something...
kvltus lvlzvs
Banned
I was having a perfectly fine weekend, and then you went and reminded me.25+ years later and there's still nothing comparable to the uniqueness of these 3
kvltus lvlzvs
Banned
Kill.switch on the PS2. Extremely influential in the genre - it was more or less the proto cover shooter.
01011001
Banned
25+ years later and there's still nothing comparable to the uniqueness of these 3
fuck you! I wanted to post those!
semiconscious
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from last gen: the sinking city. which i feel is the deadly premonition of last gen...
Project 2501
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Vampyr is very underrated. It is so fun and wonderfully atmospheric. I 100% agree with this choice.
swaffles23
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Enslaved Odyssey to the West
Danjin44
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isn’t that game FPS?
Shifty1897
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It's Vanquish.
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Second this. Playing it for the first time in 2023 and it holds up well. Mechanics, level design, enemy types, characters, story, a damn near perfect game so far.
Sad that the multi-player is dead but wasn't expecting to see any matches anyways.
My fault yes it is.
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therealmoonface
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Ryse: Son of Rome, a sequel without the baggage of being a reformed Kinect title could have been something incredible.
Efren is G.O.A.T.
Member
The first 3 Splinter Cell
Gobjuduck
Banned
- Tomb Raider 2013, Rise of the Tomb Raider, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
The trilogy is fantastic, and they don’t get enough credit.
- Alice madness returns
Really solid game, it’s a bit long at parts but it does a lot of interesting stuff throughout.
- Astral Chain
The game rocks. Along isometric platinum games wonderful 101 and recently Bayonetta origins. It’s a shame they don’t get the praise they desrve.
- Trials of Mana
Really slept on remake, it’s oozing with charm and plays very well. Should be played on PC with 120 fps, it plays so smoothly.
The trilogy is fantastic, and they don’t get enough credit.
- Alice madness returns
Really solid game, it’s a bit long at parts but it does a lot of interesting stuff throughout.
- Astral Chain
The game rocks. Along isometric platinum games wonderful 101 and recently Bayonetta origins. It’s a shame they don’t get the praise they desrve.
- Trials of Mana
Really slept on remake, it’s oozing with charm and plays very well. Should be played on PC with 120 fps, it plays so smoothly.
Melchiah
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Let It Die
Unfortunately, it was falsely accused of being pay-to-win. Every single one of those accusers just proved they hadn't upgraded their gear, or paid attention to strengths and weaknesses of each enemy faction. There's basically upgrade check every 10 floors, along with a change of enemy faction. You're obviously going to have a hard time if you just try to rush through the game with a low level gear, and use weapons that enemies have a high resistance against.
Unfortunately, it was falsely accused of being pay-to-win. Every single one of those accusers just proved they hadn't upgraded their gear, or paid attention to strengths and weaknesses of each enemy faction. There's basically upgrade check every 10 floors, along with a change of enemy faction. You're obviously going to have a hard time if you just try to rush through the game with a low level gear, and use weapons that enemies have a high resistance against.
Mediocre Arachno-Lad
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Wish this Bungie game blew up instead of Halo back in the day.
crackajack
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GR1 was okayish, maybe the motion controls on a handheld were more intuitive, can't remember exactly, but that was imho already the Knack of the system, actually overhyped and overappreciated, by naturally only very few people, cause Vita. GR2 was much worse, it felt like I had stick drift and lag combined. Never experienced so terrible camera controls in any game ever. I constantly was figthing against the camera, always spinning around to find enemies, but autoadjust always showing me walls, turning everything upside down all the time for no helpful reason or getting stuck in every possible corner, shooting almost always past enemies when attacking, then turning around way too slow, but otherwise way too fickle to properly center on a target, "aiming" was anyway more or less looking at the arrows and hoping you see the actual target too once in a while, autoaim targeted practically always the far end in the depth or even behind objects instead of the nearest thing. Just having a lock-on system (maybe some minor auto leveling too) and the game might have been at least tolerable. I mean "shooting" stuff at least worked with autoaim quite okay, even though objects constantly were thrown at obstacles for some stupid reason but it was probably necessary for some of the challenges and much easier than trying to do it how the premise of the game promises the gameplay to be. Having pervy missions and making the main character a "superblond" bimbo, did imho not help either. I mean there is Fat Princess which is actually not at all body shaming but could be attacked for whatever and than there is this cheap infantile garbage which should not be greenlit by a major company because it was maybe a fit in the 90s.
What I find most weird is that Sony Japan must have known that they have not been among the best studios of Sony for a while and Asobi was probably halfway finished with Rescue Mission, i.e. the game which was probably best in VR class until HL Alyx, and the old team still managed to just do this crap which was imho rightfully a failure as most of what they did the years prior. They had some smaller games that were alright but the studio somehow never migrated beyond PS2 era and was maybe the only japanese studio that never improved while other major studios certainly also struggled through PS3 times.
The visual design was alright, despite pop ins and bad view distance for collectibles and the soundtrack too, but god damn the game/creative director should have been replaced and the studio might have been saved.
Played it recently, so it is fresh in my annoyed mind. Sorry to miss the thread premise by a million miles.
My initial thought. Not super duper crazy good, but a game that needs a sequel asap.
Drizzlehell
Banned
While it's true that it had impressive visuals for its time, the gameplay in this thing is just awful. Even the remake version that they released several years ago is barely playable. The movement is so slow and the controls are just awful, I quit it out of pure boredom and frustration. It boggles my mind that it's so highly rated on Steam, must be nostalgia or something.
