Unreal Tournament, the one that was abandoned in favor of Fortnite (eugh). Like sure it would never be a big hit like Fortnite, Arena Shooters are out of fashion after all, but Epic didn’t even give it a chance for starters, they basically just rushed it out the door with a skeleton crew, no budget whatsoever and were begging for community members to do free work on the game for them. In retrospect the game was doomed to fail from day one.

MechCommander 1 and 2

Psi-ops. That game where you play a psychic special forces guy, fighting against other psychic special forces people, who were apparently your former coworkers or some shit. The ending was a setup for the sequel, but sequel never happened, now I will never know what the story was!

Oni by Bungie West. Ran circles around the Tomb Raider franchise. If it did not get caught up between Bungie West selling off to Microsoft, and an IP mess between Microsoft-owned Bungie, Take-Two and Rockstar, this would have been one of the greatest titles ever. Oni community and mod scene is still alive, 20 years later.

Oni was the basis for Halo and GTA’s open world system. And its release had to be rushed without multiplayer and a few bosses and levels. Still one of the greatest titles that can be played. Aced the third person hybrid gun-handheld combat system. There is no cyberpunk game of this level made to this date, and there are very few to begin with.

If there is one game out there that I think deserves a second chance, it is definitely Alpha Protocol. This game came out in 2010 and was created by Obsidian Entertainment, the makers behind Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas. This was the first-of-its-kind ‘espionage RPG’ with a truly, wholly unique dialogue system that has truly never been replicated since. Unlike mainstream RPGs of the time, you pick from several different ‘tones’ to speak in, in which gives the game hundreds of outcomes and dozens of endings. For example, according to Raycevick in a recent video, love interest can snipe you after a boss fight, poorly-treated damzels can attack you in the dead of night, contracts you’re hired to kill can be baited into their demise through dialogue, and a whole host of other things.

The problem is that Alpha Protocol was lambasted by critics due to its incredibly buggy launch state and unpolished graphics. It never met the sales requirements that SEGA was expecting from it, and so, a few years ago, the game was pulled from all storefronts, never to be played again - until now. That’s right. Thanks to the legends over at GOG for their incredible work, Alpha Protocol is back on sale, complete with achievements, localization, modern compatibility, and cloud saves. All without any form of DRM. But, the bugs in the game are still present to this day even in the GOG version, and so you might end up finding some humorous bugs and glitches.

Source: Making a Game Last Forever

Giants: Citizen Kabuto

Recently replayed Yakuza & it very much held up

theres a great little pvp wargame sim from the sega genesis era called ‘Herzog Zwei’

it was perfect in its simplicity. deserves a reboot.

Mass Effect Andromeda, the middle of that game dragged, but the first third was pretty good and the last third was amazing, but most people didn’t stick through the boring middle to get there. I really wish it got dlc and sequels, I wanted to see where that story went.

Not forgotten or obscure but… Assassin’s creed 3. Yeah the main character sucks but I love the missions and map. Also has just the right amount of pirate like missions (in 4 is too much). I don’t understand why people loved 4 so much the story of that game sucks lol and the villains are so forgettable.

Soul Reaver

My whole family loved these games.

Later, I realized Amy Hennig worked on these at Crystal Dynamics before leaving for Naughty Dog where she worked on the Uncharted Series.

Dragon Valor for Psx.

Guild Wars 1

Lugaru and Overgrowth.

Blinx the time swipper, haven’t seen any other game trying to play with time like that.

Oh, and crimson skies.