Joystick Division: Game popularity is hardly an indicator of quality. It has been said that 10% of video game titles make up 90% of the industry's gross revenue, but many of those best-sellers land among the gaming elite because of celebrity endorsements, multi-million dollar marketing campaigns, and simple name recognition, and not because they are remarkable gaming experiences.
And throughout history, many notable games have failed to meet expectations commercially, but have blown away critics and the fans who work hard to discover them. This is a tribute to those games. We've researched sales figures and matched them against their critical reception, as well as our own personal opinions. And despite the video game industry's notoriously poor accounting and publishing of budgets and revenues, we feel that these games are irrefutably underachievers, despite being brilliant entries in the long canon of video games.
Double Fine Productions’ masterful Psychonauts turns 20 and it’s still as insightful today as it was back when it was new.
The early 2000s was a crazy, weird time of defeating dystopias with karate, sending texts via Microsoft Excel, and ignoring your pets so you could look at jpegs of pets. As its adverts might have suggested, the PlayStation 2 was no stranger to getting a little bit freaky either.
..that article /list is only scratching on the surface of the weirdness on ps2. There are way more obscure games on that console.
I would go alone with SOME on this list but a few arent even exclusive.. in fact the PS2 version of GIANTS is an after-thought and considered bastardized compared to the PC version.
The free visual upgrade for the PC version of Killer7 appears to have added AI upscaled cutscenes and textures.
very great list .. :/ sad about game devs, games were and are masterpieces ... especially Psychonauts, BG&E, Okami,Eternal darkness, REZ, Killer 7 ..didn't play others...
they need to be re-released again in HD so devs could bring more gamers and release sequels! :)