GE writes: Have you ever wondered, “What games did I miss while I was reading all those chat boxes in FF7?” Maybe you were too busy shooting people in Call of Duty? Well, I’ve got you covered. Here are my top 5 hidden gems in video gaming.
Update: It's official. Breath of Fire IV is available now on GOG.
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GOG just uploaded a cryptic post with the silhouette of a character sprite and it looks a lot like Ryu from Breath of Fire IV.
Because GOG personally put the effort in to make the PC version playable on modern PCs, Capcom had little to no part in this remaster. If there's enough demand, we might get a BOF collection later. Just like Eiyuden got us the Suikoden 1/2, Armed Fantasia got us Wild Arms 1 and 2 on PS4/PS5, and I guess Ratatan got us the Patapon collection (although 1 and 2 were already available as PS classics).
GOG quietly released Breath of Fire IV exclusively on GOG, making the cult-classic JRPG natively playable on modern PCs for the first time.
I wish Capcom would just release a Breath of Fire 3 & 4 HD Collection already. I would buy it day one.
This franchise needs to come back. So many classics still yet untapped in decades. I would love a remake of 2 or 3.
Bought this in a heartbeat, I hope this shows Capcom we still want Breath of Fire, and hopefully GOG gets us BOF3.
There are a bunch of amazing video game genres. A genre that is loved by many is JRPGs. So, let's talk about 10 JRPGs that deserve a remake.
Throw in Arc the Lad, Grandia, Legend of Legaia, Galarians, Xenosaga, Ar Tonelico.
I would even settle for these games being brought to modern consoles.
Personally, I prefer to buy all the "remasters" of classic games on Switch so I can play them @work and on the bus.
I haven't played Parasite Eve since the 90's and I'd love to again!
For how many Resident Evil games there are, its almost criminal there hasnt been a new Dino Crisis.
Dino crisis was really good, but the direction of the third one was painful and quite hard, not bad just a tough game that took the fun out of the series.
Seriously, guy? Literally everybody has heard about all of those! I wouldn't call any of them hidden or unknown, especially Dino Crisis and Breath of Fire.
You wanna play some hidden gems? Assuming we're only talking about games from the 5th generation, try one of these:
- Shinrei Jusatsushi Taromaru - Saturn (only released in Japan/ extremely low print run)
- Hyper Duel - Saturn (only released in Japan/low print run)
- Gunners Heaven / Rapid Reload - PS1 (Japan and PAL region)
- Cyberbots - PS1, Saturn (only released in Japan)
- Incredible Crisis - PS1 (probably the most well known out of all the titles I've mentioned, but underappreciated!)
Wish I knew about a few hidden gems for N64, but I'm not that familiar with the system, since didn't get it until the end of it's life-cycle and only played the more popular titles.
There are tons of incredible lesser known titles out there, and as you might already have noticed; a lot of them never left Japan. The language barrier isn't a problem in most games from that era, unless it's an RPG or text-heavy game of course!