@ Ibanez, for the record, I wasn’t snapping the whip on you, bro. hehe. 
To everyone that wants Second Sight
Oh, and before I forget,
Dark Cloud 1 & 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWTH5UMjnxA&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB3CesQW3wQ
Both are seriously underrated RPG’s for the PS2.
I’m surprised Chrono Cross hasn’t been mentioned yet, vastly overshadowed by Chrono Trigger, but still a great game in it’s own right.
Also, on the topic of Squenix games, A Vagrant Story.
I’m not sure about VS… The game was made so well, and the various systems were great, but I hated the environments, and, well… It just got boring.
Omicron: The Nomad Soul (Dreamcast)
Vector Man (Sega Genesis)
ICO (PS2)
Zone of the Enders (PS2)
That is all… thank you…
@ Soup, did you play it at the time of release? I remember being thoroughly impressed by the game on the old PS1. In retrospect I can agree with you on the environments though (though I almost think they were made that way deliberately, often very maze like with similar scenery).
Blue Shift. 'Nuff said.
I agree with you there. That reminds me, I gotta buy a copy of Blue Shift later. I’m gonna lick it.
@ Brother_Shrike
Really?
I think BS could have used a bit more to it. It was cool for what it was, and actually did better things with Xen than Half-Life, but all in all it felt lacking, even for an expansion campaign.
P.S. are you a Dan Simmons fan?
MY FREAKING GOD NO!
sorry. that’s like the 50th time on this forum that someone’s asked me if I got my username from Shrike from whatever scifi novel he wrote. It’s from the totally badass 40K character.
https://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Kayvaan_Shrike
and a pic of the model (kinda bad paint job, but shows the epicness of it)
and a drawing:
Back to the topic at hand:
While yes, it was really short, what was there was great. Excellent locales (maintenance tunnels, huge water place, TRAINYARD, and the excellent sequence end quest thingy, all stand out as superb) It didn’t add much new stuff, in fact it had fewer weapons than the original, but
a) Op4 seemed to me like Gearbox felt the need to slap some new weapons on to make it feel different, plus I didn’t really feel the need for Race X (it’d be so amazing if they had just had regular xen aliens, so the events of Op4 and BS could be considered more canon)
and
b)Barney’s a security guard, so it seems more fitting for him to be carrying more standard weaponry (if you can consider a laser guided rocket launcher standard weaponry)
Don’t get me wrong, I loved Op4 as well, but I thought that BS preserved the original feeling of BM more than Op4 did. It was short, but well made, with interesting action throughout.
Oh man, don’t be dissing The Shrike of the Hyperion Omnibus series, that was exceptionally badass as well. All the same, very cool indeed.
I definitely agree with your summary of the flaws of Op4, most especially with regards to Race-X. I did appreciate what they were trying to do with the next stage of headcrab zombie though, that was kind of cool, they also got the boss fights right (I felt Valve dropped the ball on the two that were in Half-Life, not counting Gargantua as a boss).
I would have appreciated BS a little more if it was -more- about trying to help more scientists to escape (doesn’t necessarily have to be about getting them all to the end where they teleport out of the Facility) but just getting them to a certain point and they point you on your way to the next area type deal. They did this to a degree, but I think there should have been a bit more to it.
All in all though, I know I’m being overly critical of BS
Shrike from Hyperion (fan art rendition)
I agree, helping scientists more would have been epic. And the Op4 boss fight was epic as well (both the end fight and the garbage monster thingy)
I also agree about the nihilanth boss fight, but are you seriously dissing the tentacle fight? that was one of my favorite chapters of the game!
Ehhh, I wouldn’t call it a fight so much as series of events leading to the destruction of the tentacles. Don’t get me wrong, I love the Blast Pit Chapter.
I was referring to Gonarch and Nihilanth.
Ah gotcha. I would agree with that.
Tentacle sucked cock. So did Blue Shit. Not in any way underrated.
It was fun, ergo good game.
It was poorly rated, but a good game, ergo underrated.
At time of release, I’m sure that there wasn’t enough content to make it worth the asking price, and I would agree with you. But at $5 a pop, there’s no way that it’s overpriced.
Sum WWII gaymz that wur kool an undurayted
-Secret Weapons Over Normandy-Really solid flight-sim.
-POW-U escape Nazis.
-Silent Storm-Original Fallout with ragdolls, Nazis, and a shitload of power-armor.