[G0atmaster]

I just got back into BZ1 today.  How do you make it worse with a mouse?

Oh, and I guess I'm sorta confusing underrated games with under-sold/marketed games.  Silly me.

Well, yeah, Escape Velocity was a game, which in a lot of ways was just like a 2D version of Freelancer, with a totally different story (series of stories, actually).  I loved it a lot better than I liked Freelancer, which is pretty much 2D in a 3D world anyway.

[Cobra]

I said it plays BETTER with a mouse.

[Ulala]

Not sure about Republic Commando, but Savage comes to my mind.

[TrashMan]

OUTCAST...Nuff said.

[tifi]

heh, some memories in here.

anyone remember Ascendancy?

[Unknown Target]

There was this game where you were a space marine or something, and had to fight these insects, but the cool thing was that you had this nifty jetpack and different armor classes...it was 3rd person. Great game, just cant' remember the name of it for the life of me.

[phatosealpha]

Did it involve a lot of strange humor, alien with big heads, blue skinned space babes and a giant named Kabuto?

[G0atmaster]

lol  yeah that was a wierd game.  Fun, though.  And it did kinda combine strategy/shooter.  Except for the kabuto.  With him, you just smash stuff and eat things.

[Snail]

FreeSpace 2.

It was excellent but few even know about it.

[Mefustae]

FreeSpace 2.

It was excellent but few even know about it.

Again, there's a difference between 'underrated' and not selling well.

[jr2]

How were D1 & DII rated?  I think D3 wasn't all that bad, either... don't know why it flopped.

[CP5670]

They were all rated highly in general. The first two games sold pretty well too, from what I remember.

[Cyker]

Underrated, as in didn't do as well as they deserved games:

System Shock 2 (If it had done better, LGS would still be here!)
Project Eden (One of the last decent 4-player co-op FPs-style games. Actually its more like a 3D version of Lost Vikings set in the future...)
Armed and Dangerous (It's basically Giants: Citizen Kabuto, only sicker, funnier and harder! )
BattleZone (It's an RTS crossed with an FPS with vehicles!! So ahead of its time... Driving a hover-tank has never been so fun, and someone needs to port the RAVE GUN!! to FS2... Only thing that comes close is BZ2, but that's nowhere near as good, although the community fixes make the game a LOT better)
Tribes: Vengence (Actually, this sucked compared to Tribes 1 and 2, but the storyline was pretty epic)
Anachronox (Plays like Squaresoft RPG; Damned funny. IMHO the best game that Ion Storm made)
Planescape:Torment (Buggiest piece of crap I've ever played, but the game is just so damned epic... and deep...)

[CP5670]

I actually liked BZ2 better, despite its clunky graphics/physics engine. They cleaned up many of the interface issues in the first game and units generally seemed to be balanced out better.

[Sarafan]

Tribes: Vengence (Actually, this sucked compared to Tribes 1 and 2, but the storyline was pretty epic)

Oh, Tribes:V! I really liked the singleplayer storyline  although I think they could've gone further, the problem with the game was that it was too much focused on the multiplayer.

[Scooby_Doo]

Two come to mind right now.... Undying and Wheel of Time.

[StarSlayer]

the Journeyman Project series was always a favorite of mine.  One of the old point and click adventure games with lots of puzzles and impressive graphics

Basically you played as Agent 5 of the Temporal Security Agency and had to make sure people didn't FUBAR the time line.  The plots were usually deep, and had plenty of quirky humor.

[Rand al Thor]

Wheel of Time and Battlezone were pretty good. BZ always annoyed me on the more difficult skill levels though. It was clearly a case of ramping up enemy hitpoints because the AI couldn't get tougher. I mean on the hardest setting unless you had a flash cannon it was impossible to kill more than one tank without an ammo reload.

[brozozo]

I could never get past the sixth U.S. mission, and I don't think I ever attempted to tackle the Soviet campaign.

[CP5670]

the Journeyman Project series was always a favorite of mine.  One of the old point and click adventure games with lots of puzzles and impressive graphics

Basically you played as Agent 5 of the Temporal Security Agency and had to make sure people didn't FUBAR the time line.  The plots were usually deep, and had plenty of quirky humor.

I have had the Mac version of that game (the first one) for a long time, but have never been able to play it. My ancient Mac is too old to run it at a reasonable speed and the Basilisk emulator also runs it too slowly.