I concur, it was short but fun. Nice graphics, good settings, though somewhat forgettable as well.

Oh yeah, I thought that was a fun one as well. Definitely a little rough around the edges, but I felt I more than got my money's worth.

I'll have to add Risen to my list as well. I really enjoyed that one and before I bought it, most reviews I read were poor to mediocre.

I'm a SaGa fan, but I don't consider them to be bad games at all.

Well, Romancing Saga 1 and SaGa Frontier are super super unfinished, and I guess to an extent Romancing SaGa 3 but the unfinished parts are a lot less noticeable.

Oh wait, I really enjoyed Earthworm Jim: Menace 2 the Galaxy and completed it 100%. That game was pretty bad and didn't have the weird humor the series was known for. When I started playing Mutant Mudds recently all the token collecting reminded me of Menace 2 the Galaxy. >_>

This Blade Warrior: http://hol.abime.net/138/review

Its scores are good!

That name sounds very familiar. It probably was the demo, because there was definitely only one area. My memories of it are all tied up with my memories of Lords of the Realm, so I think we probably got the demo for free with LotR.

It was a lot of fun, wasn't it? Now I'm feeling the urge to go hunt it down and challenge people to matches again. :D

I'll add Ultima 8. I loved it :P

Mmm, yah, I should have looked at those, a bit better received than I recall at the time of its release. Though back in those days a score in the 70s could often be bad, as many magazines wouldn't go too low for fear of ticking off the game publishers*. Still, it's nice to see it was appreciated more than I thought, especially as it is the great ancestor of all those silhouette adventure games that are so popular now.

* The exception being Amiga Power, my favorite Amiga magazine. They stood up for games that other mags didn't appreciate, such as Exile, and fearlessly panned others. Naturally I also disagreed with them on some of their reviews (re: Eye of Horus), and with them being British, footie games/management sims were always ranked higher than anyone in their right mind would do. ;)

Makes sense since both games were published by Sierra.

And yeah, it was indeed an amazing game, sadly barely anyone knows it and it also had a mediocre reception when it was released. I've beaten the whole single player campaign, beaten all cooperative missions with a friend (I think SP + Coop is like 200 missions in total) and we've also smashed in our faces a zillion times in deathmatch - it was like friggin' 2D Unreal! I tried installing it recently but sadly the old Sierra installers don't work on Windows 7. Will have to try some stuff to get it working. I'm SO hoping that we'll get a GOG release of the game eventually.

Interesting. I grew up with the German magazine Amiga Joker (later followed by PC Joker) and IIRC most of their scores were pretty darn low, I remember barely a single game that got a 90+ score - maybe Battle Isle was among them. Also many true classics everyone remembers now got low ratings there. Yeah, German games journalism wasn't EVER good. <.<

If I recall, Amiga Joker followed in Amiga Power's wake, once the "we never give games bad ratings" ice was well and truly broken. But not having read German gaming mags, I could be easily mistaken.

There are also a good deal of cultural differences at work, and it may be that German (and British) reviewers were more inclined towards honesty and candor. Many American game review magazines of the time seemed eager to fellate the publishers. At least, such are my memories in this regards, though they could be coloured by the fact that I often didn't care for the big-name releases many were drooling over, and loved the independent games some reviewers didn't seem to bother examining properly because the publisher wasn't a major player.

Man, if Hunter Hunted is a bad game I don't want to play good games! I still say "begin mission" when starting something important today !

So fun! Local Co-op is the way to play games (online is for weak!)

I don't think I absolutely [i]loved[/]i any games that got panned, in a "my favorite game ever" way, but some that I've enjoyed...

Silent Hill 4--It tried new things, and largely fell on its face, but I had a good time with this game. I liked the story (although not the storytelling info-dump).

Dragon Age 2--I admit to most of the problems people have with this game, but I like the characters, and I like a fantasy story that isn't "Save the world."

Two Worlds--Almost everything about this game was bad, but I'd just wander around the world, exploring for hours. Good times.

Rule of Rose is bad bad bad but I love horror games and I managed to find something to enjoy in it anyway.

Hmm. Looks like I'm going to have to give this game a try again. I've still got the disc nearby.

Try it. It's not unplayable but still gets crazy fast even in general gameplay. The perfect opposite of bullet time.

Unfortunately, the game isn't working. I just installed it, started it up... and it crashed my computer. Twice. Looks like I'll have to miss out.

Ken's Labyrinth on PC.
It is an awful game but back in the day..my computer didn't ran much games.
I only had the shareware Version but still...played it for ours.

You can download the full version from Ken Silvermans(the guy who made the Build Engine and other impressive stuff) Page:
http://www.advsys.net/ken/klab.htm

A video for the curious:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYT87Erjdbo