Day 17 – Most underrated game?
Anna:
I am gonna break another lance for Dream Daddy here. Yes it’s a visual novel/dating sim and therefore not super mainstream. And yes, it actually got some media attention when it came out – but even that was very limited to quite specific media. Honestly I would rec this game to almost anyone. It is heartwarming, funny, very well written and had a good story. It is trans-inclusive and deals sensibly with several lgbt issues across the board.
And come on, at some point you have a bragging contest about who has the better kid that is literally happening in game in form of a Pokemon battle. Do I really need to say more?
Julie:
I’m tempted to say “Dragon Age 2” because the reeeeeeally excellent story is often swept under the rug due to their problems with combat and repetition of landscape or Mass Effect Andromeda because of the really undeserved negative press (especially compated to DAI’s undeserved praise) but I really want to bring in some diversity 😉
Can I name a genre rather than a specific game? Then I’d say Visual Novels. I never heard of them before Anna recommended some and now there are at least two I wouldn’t want to miss. Both are still in production (Guenevere and 7KPP) but have brilliant writing, depth and characters.
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I go with an oldie.
Lionheart – This 2D-RPG from end of 90ies had one of the greatest settings of all time. 15th century mixed with magic, demons and ghosts because Richard Lionheart accidently opened a portal and since then he and Saladin tried to stop the chaos they brought over the world.
This sounds very cheesy, but BlackIsle (the guys behind Fallout1 & 2) really did their homework. They took tons of historic figures and restructured their biography to fit the games alternate storyline. So you meet DaVinci, Galilei, save the Ghost of JeanD’Arc, settle conflicts with Trolls in the alps, help/avoid the spanish armada to conquer england (the only country that strictly forbids magic usage).
This game had so much potential and only a few flaws. The main one was that the divergent system of battle, interaction and diplomacy got very unbalanced in the last third. So unlike in Fallout 1&2 where you can talk your way out of nearly everything, here you have many hard fights where there is no other way than use hardcore swords and sorcery.
But beside all of this, the game did really very well. I would compare it with the actuall Divinity Original Sin2.
Well, I’ll be boring and nominate Dragon Age 2 and Mass Effect Andromeda for the most underrated games. Both deserved better, from the developers and the fans.
Although DA2 DID get single player DLCs… [/salty]
I really don’t know that many games outside of the Bethesda/BioWare RPGs. And I don’t care to.
And I already own Fallout: New Vegas, of course. 😉
Yay, thank you so much for Dragons Dogma, I really wanted to play it 🙂 <3 I am really looking forward to it.
One day late and off the record, but I had to share this VERY underrated and underestimated game: Message Quest. So cute and so funny! Unfortunately a little short. But cute! And the stained glass window art-style is something I have never seen before, beautiful. (In case you want to take a look, here’s the link on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/408280/Message_Quest/ )
Thihihi, this looks adorable!