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[Seanspeed]

I haven't played enough current gen games to say its definitively the most underrated, but its certainly one of the most prominent underrated titles in recent times for me.

I mean, I truly think it stands among the great survival horror games ever made. RE4 was brilliant, but TEW took the RE4-ish action gameplay and encounters and made them a lot more interesting and fun, while also being more challenging and satisfying. It also had great pacing and was loaded with memorable level after memorable level. And of course the art style and atmosphere was very good as well.

GOTY for me last year, tied with Divinity Original sin. Hugely surprising.

Its a huge shame this game was a mess on consoles because there really is a fantastic game there underneath.

 

[Grady]

Most over rated game this gen so far is dragon age. Just finished it on hard difficulty and found it rather boring. Rpgs are my Favorite genre. They advertised the story was 50 hours, but 40 of it was just trying to get power to advance the story. Exploration was uneventful. Enjoyed Evil Within much more.

 

[the TMO]

10 years ago maybe.

 

[VaultBoy101]

Oh god, absolutely not. If anything it's overrated (by players, not critics who rightfully gave it below-average scores in most cases).

 

[fuetilo]

I didnt like this game

 

[leng jai]

Most underrated? Nope.
That belongs to Wolfenstien.

Not really, that game ended up being overrated at least on this forum.

 

[SuperStiltzkin]

Most over rated game this gen so far is dragon age. Just finished it on hard difficulty and found it rather boring. Rpgs are my Favorite genre. They advertised the story was 50 hours, but 40 of it was just trying to get power to advance the story. Exploration was uneventful. Enjoyed Evil Within much more.

Guess you couldn't find a Dragon Age Inquisition thread huh?

 

[cleveridea]

Yeah...couldnt get into this game. The FOV is terrible on PS4 version its like looking through binoculars.

I kept it given how many good reviews there were in the hope it gets better, but I was disappointed with it. And the framerate in the opening area is incredibly bad. It gets better later on framerate wise but I would really like a FOV slider.

 

[Hibiki Kurosawa]

Yeah it is underrated. It's really well designed, which I don't see mentioned enough, and very enjoyable.

 

[Markitron]

Not really, that game ended up being overrated at least on this forum.

Agreed. Wolfenstein an OK/good game, but some people on GAF go on like it's Half Life 3 (although everyone ignored Resistance 3 which is actually as close as we will get to Half Life 3 for a long time)

 

[Grady]

Guess you couldn't find a Dragon Age Inquisition thread huh?

Shut it, why do you care. Just finished Dragon Age 15 minutes ago and its still on my mind. Just drawing a comparison because Dragon Age won multiple GOTY awards and i think Evil Within is the better game. So yes, i feel its underrated.

 

[DedValve]

Amazing artstyle and phenomenal ammo layout balance but other than that no. It's not very fun to play, frustrating at times and framerate drops randomly.

I'm on chapter 11 and I don't know if I want to continue. At least I got to see the Sunflower Field scene. My god that looked so beautiful.

 

[Resident4t.]

Nope, it's a thoroughly inconsistent game. It's the worst thing I played last year despite being the thing I was most excited for.
It's even more disappointing because it's a Shinji Mikami game. The core gameplay in his games is always solid regardless of how the rest of it turns out. TEW is just a giant mess all around.

 

[gafneo]

Evil Within is better than the Last of Us.

 

[Poodlestrike]

Nope. That title belongs to either Wolfenstein or Sunset Overdrive.

 

[loaf of bread]

Evil Within is better than the Last of Us.

ha, good one.

OT: That title belongs to Alien Isolation if I had to say, Evil Within was ok to good at best.

 

[hugocésar]

I had a lot of problems with it. It's definitely one of my biggest disappointments in recent memory, it being Mikami and all.

Also, hey everyone! I've been browsing the site for a while but just realized that I've been accepted. Very happy to finally be here.

 

[Mr. Tibbs]

Not really, that game ended up being overrated at least on this forum.

Agreed. All the hype made me revisit the game and I still came away feeling it's nowhere near as good as others make it out to be. Wolfy played like a Remedy game without the charm.

 

[Brutuspedia]

Alien Isolation still the most underrated game of this gen, it beats The Evil Within in everything, but it's not signed by Mikami, so...

Agreed. Wolfenstein an OK/good game, but some people on GAF go on like it's Half Life 3 (although everyone ignored Resistance 3 which is actually as close as we will get to Half Life 3 for a long time)

good call

 

[DedValve]

ha, good one.

OT: That title belongs to Alien Isolation if I had to say, Evil Within was ok to good at best.

I agree entirely. While Alien had some glaring pacing problems the mechanics where amazing and the game was just so damn fun but I've barely seen any threads about it here or heard much from it after the initial launch praise which is a damn shame.

At least it won Gaf Horror game of the year but it's definitely on of my favorite games of last year and easily the best surprise game I played. Had no idea it would be that good.

 

[family_guy]

I'm about to finish it today. Can't say I'd want to play this again. The most infuriating thing is the character can't run more than 5 seconds without acting like he's going to have a heart attack.

 

[besiktas1]

Not my kind of game. Came out of lurking. Took me 12 hrs and 94 deaths. No good for me. Trial and error instant deaths really got stale.

 

[Rogue_Ledr]

Well it's certainly the second most divisive other than Destiny.

People who knows how to play survival horror games generally love it, people who don't well... Don't.

I was really let down by it to be perfectly honest. So no, it is definitely NOT overrated.

 

[SuperStiltzkin]

Shut it, why do you care. Just finished Dragon Age 15 minutes ago and its still on my mind. Just drawing a comparison because Dragon Age won multiple GOTY awards and i think Evil Within is the better game. So yes, i feel its underrated.

I just found your post funny because you said more about Dragon Age than TEW completely unprovoked.

 

[Seanspeed]

Evil Within is better than the Last of Us.

No joke, I agree. I think TLOU has a higher quality presentation level obviously, but The Evil Within is a more interesting and fun game to actually play. Not that TLOU is bad here, but TEW is particularly notable for this.

 

[F0rneus]

No joke, I agree.

So do I. I quit TLoU Remastered very early on as I found it's gameplay quite sterile. Now the story and presentation were fantastic but it didn't grab me in any way.

 

[Dragon1893]

Didn't realize the game was so divise. Oh well, still looking forward to playing it when I get my new gpu, shouldn't be hard to find it for 10 euros in the near future.

 

[swazzyswess]

Not even close.

It may be the most overrated game among those who like it a lot though.

 

[Subpar Scrub]

Most underrated? Nope.
That belongs to Wolfenstien.

.

 

[Seanspeed]

I agree entirely. While Alien had some glaring pacing problems the mechanics where amazing and the game was just so damn fun but I've barely seen any threads about it here or heard much from it after the initial launch praise which is a damn shame.

At least it won Gaf Horror game of the year but it's definitely on of my favorite games of last year and easily the best surprise game I played. Had no idea it would be that good.

I really thought Alien was going to be more my type of game. And while Alien is terrifying, one of the scariest games ever made, with a fantastic retro atmosphere, its just not terribly engaging on a mechanical level, nor is there really much diversity in what you do. I still need to go back and finish it, but I was surprised to find that TEW, while not as downright terrifying, was much more of a 'cant put it down' sort of game.

Didn't realize the game was so divise. Oh well, still looking forward to playing it when I get my new gpu, shouldn't be hard to find it for 10 euros in the near future.

If you're playing it on PC, you've already won half the battle.

 

[Ossom]

Nope. I thought it was average. The difficulty spikes in places making the game frustrating and not rewarding or challenging as it should be.

I moved it to easy for the sake of just finishing it, but some of the insta-kill moments just pissed me off. I'm not saying it was too hard just that the balance was way off. I also found an abundance of ammo, until one part where I had to shoot enemies an places not reachable by foot to be able to progress, after which there was then a mini-boss soon, who was very tricky with little no ammo.

 

[BackBackPunch]

No joke, I agree. I think TLOU has a higher quality presentation level obviously, but The Evil Within is a more interesting and fun game to actually play. Not that TLOU is bad here, but TEW is particularly notable for this.

What part of Evil Within is more interesting and fun? I don't understand this. The story in Evil Within is paltry at best, the voice acting is horrendous, the gameplay is a trial-and-error instadeath marathon...and that's not even taking the poor engine performance into account.

Honestly, I don't understand all the love for this game. I keep trying to get into it, but I can't find many redeeming qualities.

 

[F0rneus]

Dammit Seanspeed, you just ruined our "soulmate-ism". I thought that Alien Isolation was one of the greatest games ever made. Oh well...Still love you dawg!

 

[v1ncelis]

It's not underrated actually it's a bit overrated at least here on GAF. Technical mess with bland characters and horrible performance on consoles at launch. People were shitting on Unity for it's terrible launch but this game somehow managed to get free pass. I was expecting more from Mikami since RE4 is still one of the greatest games ever created.

 

[swazzyswess]

What part of Evil Within is more interesting and fun? I don't understand this. The story in Evil Within is paltry at best, the voice acting is horrendous, the gameplay is a trial-and-error instadeath marathon...and that's not even taking the poor engine performance into account.

Honestly, I don't understand all the love for this game. I keep trying to get into it, but I can't find many redeeming qualities.

he's just trying to be contrarian. TLOU is better than TEW in every single aspect, except unintentionally hilarious running animations.

 

[Markitron]

I really thought Alien was going to be more my type of game. And while Alien is terrifying, one of the scariest games ever made, with a fantastic retro atmosphere, its just not terribly engaging on a mechanical level, nor is there really much diversity in what you do. I still need to go back and finish it, but I was surprised to find that TEW, while not as downright terrifying, was much more of a 'cant put it down' sort of game.


If you're playing it on PC, you've already won half the battle.

I played them back to back and my opinion is the complete opposite of yours. Almost every gameplay feature of TEW was done far better in TLOU and RE4, aside from the fire system I didn't find anything interesting about it's gameplay mechanics.

 

[Animator]

It is my biggest regret of 2014. Thank god I bought it on PS4 instead of PC like I originally planned so I could sell it and recover some of the cost.

 

[Gnome Scat]

Nope, that title belongs to Wolfenstein.

 

[Rhazer Fusion]

Yeah, I would say Evil Within in underrated which isn't surprising at all to me. Not sure why people are holding it's technical problems against it when there are games with more "game breaking" technical problems that get praised much more.

Yeah Wolfenstein is underrated. One of the best FPS's I've played in a long time. Excellent campaign imo.

 

[F0rneus]

As part of the minority who loved TEW, let me say one thing...Shadow Warrior annihilates Wolfenstein. Now that's an oldschool FPS with attitude.

 

[leng jai]

I agree entirely. While Alien had some glaring pacing problems the mechanics where amazing and the game was just so damn fun but I've barely seen any threads about it here or heard much from it after the initial launch praise which is a damn shame.

At least it won Gaf Horror game of the year but it's definitely on of my favorite games of last year and easily the best surprise game I played. Had no idea it would be that good.

To be fair Alien Isolation is an extremely niche premise that a lot of people wouldn't have enjoyed it regardless of execution. From what I read here most people who played it thought it was great.

 

[Pilgrimzero]

I'm only halfway through it but it's better than I thought it would be, though I do have gripes, such as being put in situations where I have to be lucky due to a lack of ammo.

As for the story, I don't get the gripes, I may be wrong but I think it all takes place in the main guys head. He's crazy. It works.

And I agree that this game is very trial and error until you get passed it on your 5th death in that area. Annoying but not enough to make me quit. As i said I am having fun.

 

[Seanspeed]

What part of Evil Within is more interesting and fun? I don't understand this. The story in Evil Within is paltry at best, the voice acting is horrendous, the gameplay is a trial-and-error instadeath marathon...and that's not even taking the poor engine performance into account.

Honestly, I don't understand all the love for this game. I keep trying to get into it, but I can't find many redeeming qualities.

Well for one, story and voice acting aren't really factors in what I consider 'interesting and fun'. Maybe these things are important for you to be able to enjoy a game, but as somebody who grew up playing games that never had any voice acting whatsoever and where story was just there to put a general context to your actions, these things have very little bearing on how much I enjoy a game, much less how 'interesting and fun' I actually find it to play.

As for calling it a trial and error instadeath-athon, well, that's a massive exaggeration and a sign this probably wont be a terribly reasoned conversation, but lets just say that the wide variety of effective and satisfying weapons and tactics available to you, along with a nice variety of enemies(something I felt was very lacking in TLOU) and enemy encounters, made for a very thrilling gameplay experience. And it was scarier than TLOU, which is a positive in my book.

And in terms of performance, I played it at an enjoyable 60fps. I had no problem there, though I know it did suck on consoles.

he's just trying to be contrarian.

No, I'm not. :/

Its crazy how some people just make up things in their mind to dismiss opinions they don't like to hear.

 

[PaperFlame]

Evil within was amazing, I love the controls and most of the game ideas for it.

I'm playing resident evil 4 for the first time because I heard its better but so far I'm not finding it that interesting. The controls are really killing it for me, but I only played 2 hours of it, I'm pretty sure its going to pick up eventually.

 

[semiconscious]

I killed the chainsaw guy in the village and never turned it on again, it just wasn't fun to me. Technically it was god awful too.

or to me. from early on, starting with that first chainsaw appearance, the game just felt tremendously uninspired & derivative. hung with it till i realized i simply wasn't enjoying it, & didn't really care what the hell happened...

very disappointing...

 

[Loakum]

nah, if any game was underrated last year, it was Alien Isolation. That game was great!!!

 

[JoduanER2]

Played through the 60fps version (lol) on PC with no bars recently. I thought it was great, and the visuals were pretty impressive. I definitely would consider it a lot better than what I've seen the press give it. I thought the story was pretty messy, with even the

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unlockable model viewer

leaving you with extreme loose ends on a particular character or two, while others had more of the story explained throughout their descriptions.

Still, that shouldn't be where you're getting chunks of the story from.

I thought the game was refreshingly challenging, although that might be my doing for refusing to use the crossbow. And stubbornly upgrading weapons that get next to no ammo.

It was the pretty looking inventory management simulator I was looking for (not joking). I thought the gunplay was satisfying, particularly headshots.

My guess is that people that played the pc version had a MUCH better experience than the ones who played the PS4/XONE versions.

 

[SlasherJPC]

I'm with Seanspeed. Alien is no doubt THE Alien experience but it's ultimately shallow in design in a lot of ways and the pacing and variety is severely lacking. Still good though.

 

[Bayo2GOTY]

Yes it is, it's far too difficult a game for gamers(including most of this website, and reviewers) who are used to spoon-feed gaming from titles like the last of us, and uncharted, and journey to be appreciated. Not surprising really...

 

[atomiksuperinsan]

no. it has one of the worst storytelling i have ever seen from a video game. you're constantly thrown around places to another with no context whatsoever. and from one point you just don't care what is going on around you. there are 3-4 characters that you encounter throughout the game and they randomly comes and goes without any kind of sense.

gameplay was alright. it has some moments but after all its just a forgettable game and i am very disappointed.