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The following are good last gen games that I feel were overlooked (alphabetical order):

 

Alice: Madness Returns

Genre: Third person action/adventure/platformer

Theme: Twisted nightmare

Design: Linear

 

Alpha Protocol

Genre: Third person action RPG

Theme: Espionage

Design: Semi-open

 

Binary Domain

Genre: Third person shooter

Theme: Sci-fi

Design: Linear

 

Blades of Time

Genre: Third person action/adventure/hack-and-slash

Theme: Dark fantasy

Design: Linear

 

The Bourne Conspiracy

Genre: Third person action/shooter

Theme: Spy

Design: Linear

 

Captain America: Super Soldier

Genre: Third person action adventure

Theme: Superhero

Design: Semi-open 

 

The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena

Genre: First person action/adventure/shooter

Theme: Dark sci-fi

Design: Semi-open

 

Dante's Inferno

Genre: Third person action

Theme: Hell

Design: Linear

 

Dark Sector

Genre: Third person action/shooter

Theme: Super soldier

Design: Linear

 

Deadfall Adventures

Genre: First person action/adventure/shooter

Theme: Classic adventure

Design: Linear

 

Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga

Genre: Third person action RPG

Theme: High fantasy

Design: Semi-open

 

Dragon's Dogma

Genre: Third person action JRPG

Theme: Medieval fantasy

Design: Open world

 

Driver: San Francisco

Genre: Vehicle action/racing

Theme: Modern city

Design: Open world

 

Dungeon Siege III

Genre: Isometric view action RPG

Theme: Medieval fantasy

Design: Semi-open

 

Enchanted Arms

Genre: Third person turn-based JRPG

Theme: Fantasy sci-fi

Design: Semi-open

 

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

Genre: Third person action adventure

Theme: Fantasy sci-fi

Design: Linear

 

Eternal Sonata

Genre: Third person action JRPG

Theme: Fantasy

Design: Semi-open

 

The First Templar

Genre: Third person action/adventure/hack-and-slash

Theme: Biblical

Design: Linear

 

Golden Axe: Beast Rider

Genre: Third person action/adventure/hack-and-slash

Theme: Dark fantasy

Design: Linear

 

Hitman: Absolution

Genre: Third person action/stealth

Theme: Assassin

Design: Semi-open

 

Infinite Undiscovery

Genre: Third person action JRPG

Theme: Fantasy

Design: Semi-open

 

Kameo: Elements of Power

Genre: Third person action adventure

Theme: Fantasy

Design: Semi-open

 

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

Genre: Third person action RPG

Theme: High fantasy

Design: Open world

 

Legendary

Genre: First person shooter

Theme: Horror

Design: Linear

 

Lollipop Chainsaw

Genre: Third person action

Theme: Zombies

Design: Linear

 

The Lord of the Rings: War in the North

Genre: Third person action/adventure/hack-and-slash

Theme: Medieval fantasy

Design: Linear

 

Lost Odyssey

Genre: Third person turn-based JRPG

Theme: Fantasy sci-fi

Design: Semi-open

 

Lost Planet 3

Genre: Third person action/adventure/shooter

Theme: Sci-fi

Design: Semi-open

 

Magna Carta 2

Genre: Third person action JRPG

Theme: Fantasy sci-fi

Design: Semi-open

 

Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom

Genre: Third person action/adventure/puzzle

Theme: Fantasy

Design: Linear

 

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames

Genre: Third person action/adventure/shooter

Theme: Military

Design: Open world

 

Mirror's Edge

Genre: First person action/platformer

Theme: Sci-fi

Design: Linear

 

Nier

Genre: Third person action adventure

Theme: Fantasy sci-fi

Design: Semi-open

 

Red Faction: Guerrilla

Genre: Third person action/adventure/shooter

Theme: Sci-fi

Design: Open world

 

Remember Me

Genre: Third person action adventure

Theme: Sci-fi

Design: Linear

 

Risen

Genre: Third person action RPG

Theme: Island adventure

Design: Open world

 

Risen 2: Dark Waters

Genre: Third person action RPG

Theme: Pirates

Design: Open world

 

Rise of the Argonauts

Genre: Third person action adventure

Theme: Greek mythology

Design: Semi-open

 

The Saboteur

Genre: Third person action adventure

Theme: World War II

Design: Open world

 

Sacred 2: Fallen Angel

Genre: Isometric view action RPG

Theme: Fantasy

Design: Open world

 

Saw

Genre: Third person survival horror/puzzle

Theme: Horror

Design: Linear

 

Saw II: Flesh and Blood

Genre: Third person survival horror/puzzle

Theme: Horror

Design: Linear

 

Shadows of the Damned

Genre: Third person action/shooter

Theme: Horror

Design: Linear

 

Singularity

Genre: First person shooter

Theme: Sci-fi

Design: Linear

 

Sleeping Dogs

Genre: Third person action adventure

Theme: Modern Hong Kong

Design: Open world

 

Spec Ops: The Line

Genre: Third person shooter

Theme: Military

Design: Linear

 

Syndicate

Genre: First person shooter

Theme: Sci-fi

Design: Linear

 

Tales of Vesperia

Genre: Third person action JRPG

Theme: Fantasy

Design: Semi-open

 

TimeShift

Genre: First person shooter

Theme: Sci-fi

Design: Linear

 

Velvet Assassin

Genre: Third person action/stealth

Theme: World War II

Design: Linear

 

Wet

Genre: Third person action/shooter

Theme: Grindhouse

Design: Linear

 

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Genre: Third person action/hack-and-slash

Theme: Superhero

Design: Linear

 

007: Quantum of Solace

Genre: First person shooter

Theme: Spy

Design: Linear

 

Are there any good last gen games that you feel were overlooked?

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Catherine - I've never really played a dating sim or visual novels or anything like that. Just not my type of games, but I found Catherine to be a lot of fun. The puzzles were a lot of fun and kept a good tension (especially when the baby is chasing you). The morality options between Catherine and Katherine were interesting to me and kept me invested. The OST has some jams too, which is never a bad thing. I dunno how it ranks in the world of Sims, but Catherine was just enough to keep me interested while not going overboard.

 

Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena - I feel like Chronicles of Riddick has a pretty good cult following and that applies to Escape from Butcher Bay too. Dark Athena probably doesn't add anything fantastic outside of the upgraded Escape from Butcher Bay. Just seems like the game never hit mainstream success, despite being a really fun game.

 

Naruto: Rise of a Ninja & Broken Bond - As with Catherine, I'm not huge into A: fighting games and B: Naruto. However this is such an interesting game, it has this weird mesh between a fighting game and a 3D platformer with some RPG sprinkled in. Any combat within the game is a pretty standard fighting game. There is some RPG elements within fighting to help you get stronger to progress through the story. Anything outside of combat is a 3D platformer. Like you can do some ninja races or ramen deliveries, both of which I think are timed. As well as collectibles scattered around Konoha. Konoha is also a pretty big map as well as some light exploration in the other areas you go to on missions, but they aren't nearly as big if I remember.

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Looking at a lot of those games, its sad how few linear action games there are nowadays.

 

I wish B-tier games would make a comeback. Tired of indies just making pixel art side scrollers and free-to-play battle royales. 

 

Make a good third person shooter or action game, give it 8 or 9 stages and sell it for $20 or $25 and i'm buying that shit all day long.

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4 hours ago, Nokt said:

Catherine - I've never really played a dating sim or visual novels or anything like that. Just not my type of games, but I found Catherine to be a lot of fun. The puzzles were a lot of fun and kept a good tension (especially when the baby is chasing you). The morality options between Catherine and Katherine were interesting to me and kept me invested. The OST has some jams too, which is never a bad thing. I dunno how it ranks in the world of Sims, but Catherine was just enough to keep me interested while not going overboard.

 

Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena - I feel like Chronicles of Riddick has a pretty good cult following and that applies to Escape from Butcher Bay too. Dark Athena probably doesn't add anything fantastic outside of the upgraded Escape from Butcher Bay. Just seems like the game never hit mainstream success, despite being a really fun game.

 

Naruto: Rise of a Ninja & Broken Bond - As with Catherine, I'm not huge into A: fighting games and B: Naruto. However this is such an interesting game, it has this weird mesh between a fighting game and a 3D platformer with some RPG sprinkled in. Any combat within the game is a pretty standard fighting game. There is some RPG elements within fighting to help you get stronger to progress through the story. Anything outside of combat is a 3D platformer. Like you can do some ninja races or ramen deliveries, both of which I think are timed. As well as collectibles scattered around Konoha. Konoha is also a pretty big map as well as some light exploration in the other areas you go to on missions, but they aren't nearly as big if I remember.

 

Catherine is pretty huge. They have Catherine tournaments at Evo like every year and it was popular enough to get a PC port and a re-issue with extra characters (then also got blasted for transphobia)

 

Dark Athena I agree was overlooked but I think it has something to do with the publisher. You can't even get a copy on PC anymore unless you find a physical copy somewhere.

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The Non-1st party Nintendo Wii line-up.  No one’s even brought up that console’s games yet.

 

Muramasa, Sin & Punushment 2, Lost Wind series, Klonoa remake, A Boy and His Blob remake, Trama Center trilogy, Red Steel 2, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, Sonic Colors, Tatsunoko vs Capcom, No More Heroes series, Last Story, Zack & Wiki, several horror light-gun games (RE, Dead Space, House of the Dead), etc.

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8 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

Catherine is pretty huge. They have Catherine tournaments at Evo like every year and it was popular enough to get a PC port and a re-issue with extra characters (then also got blasted for transphobia)

 

Dark Athena I agree was overlooked but I think it has something to do with the publisher. You can't even get a copy on PC anymore unless you find a physical copy somewhere.

It took Catherine 6 years to reach 1 million sold copies. I’ll have to double check but it sold something like 160k copies it’s first week. It was a success for Altus, but it definitely wasn’t big at first.

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9 hours ago, crispy4000 said:

The Non-1st party Nintendo Wii line-up.  No one’s even brought up that console’s games yet.

 

Muramasa, Sin & Punushment 2, Lost Wind series, Klonoa remake, A Boy and His Blob remake, Trama Center trilogy, Red Steel 2, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, Sonic Colors, Tatsunoko vs Capcom, No More Heroes series, Last Story, Zack & Wiki, several horror light-gun games (RE, Dead Space, House of the Dead), etc.

 

Goldeneye 007, Little Kings Story, and Mad World were among my low recognition favorites

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On ‎4‎/‎5‎/‎2020 at 4:29 AM, Nokt said:

Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena

I knew that I was forgetting something.

On ‎4‎/‎5‎/‎2020 at 4:29 AM, Nokt said:

Naruto: Rise of a Ninja & Broken Bond

Thanks for bringing this game to my attention. I thought that it was just another Naruto fighting game (which I'm not into), but knowing that it's a 3D platformer with RPG elements interests me.

On ‎4‎/‎5‎/‎2020 at 6:49 AM, XxEvil AshxX said:

Looking at a lot of those games, its sad how few linear action games there are nowadays.

 

I wish B-tier games would make a comeback. Tired of indies just making pixel art side scrollers and free-to-play battle royales. 

 

Make a good third person shooter or action game, give it 8 or 9 stages and sell it for $20 or $25 and i'm buying that shit all day long.

I agree. This gen has definitely seen a lot less B-tier games compared to previous gens. I'm not really into old school style 2D pixel art platformers these days because I played an overabundance of them while growing up, and I don't need every bigger budget game to be a 100+ hour open world experience.

On ‎4‎/‎5‎/‎2020 at 7:00 AM, Spork3245 said:

Kameo

Another one that I forgot.

On ‎4‎/‎5‎/‎2020 at 7:05 AM, ShreddieMercuryRising said:

Great list!  Eurogamer has a feature called "The Double-A Team" that covers a lot of the same ground.  Namely, lots of mid-budget action games that had interesting or fun mechanics.  It would be worth taking a look at that as well.

 

https://www.eurogamer.net/archive/double-a-team

Thanks, I will definitely check it out.

21 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

All in all, this looks like a typical Phaseknox list.

Because it is. :p

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