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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Dark horse games

So there's me working away at work doing watever it is i do for a living and an idea for a blog topic springs to my mind. Dark horse games, basically what games have come out over the past few years which have received minimal hype if any at all and once released turn out to be a quality title.

My example would be Batman: Arkham Asylum - very little hype, no massive marketing shananagins just a game that oozes quality.

My one for the future has gotta be Alien vs Predator. Has anyone been keeping tabs on this game at all? Release date has just been announced for Feb 10th

So anyways, time to hand it over to you guys...
Posted by at 5:11 AM

13 comments:

  1. brjahuDecember 10, 2009 at 6:59 AM

    Anyone remember a little game called Battlefield: 1943?

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  2. AmateriaDecember 10, 2009 at 7:53 AM

    Braid. It ended up getting fairly well known, due to the story of it's development getting reported just about everywhere, and the massive ego of Jonathan Blow, but it still landed in my top 10 all time, and helped me scratch a serious itch I was having.

    3N3MY, how was Mechinarium? Did you end up playing it?

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  3. BootcamperzDecember 10, 2009 at 11:58 AM

    Borderlands!

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  4. JuniperRedDecember 10, 2009 at 1:08 PM

    Dawn of Discovery...

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  5. brjahuDecember 10, 2009 at 1:35 PM

    Modern Warfare 2

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  6. I 3N3MY IDecember 10, 2009 at 4:55 PM

    The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (those of you that know me well enough saw that one coming) and The Darkness (another amazing game by Starbreeze that never got it's fair shake...Mike Patton is KING!).

    Tetris.

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  7. AmateriaDecember 10, 2009 at 5:58 PM

    Pong.

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  8. sKatChUKDecember 10, 2009 at 7:05 PM

    Bru = total doosh....nothing else needs to be said

    Emeny - loving that shout for Riddick, it's on the list of games i want to complete but waiting to get for cheap.

    Amateria - yes Braid again on the list of must play thru's

    Bru = doooooooooooosh oh did i mention that already

    Boarderlands is a good shout and i'm surprised Enemy didnt call that one already....

    another one for me is Mirrors Edge and Dead Space

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  9. I 3N3MY IDecember 11, 2009 at 9:33 AM

    skatch: Mirrors Edge and Dead Space are AMAZING!

    I guess this list kind of reminds me of brjahu's great games no one else ever played so I'm throwing Metal Arms: Glitch in the System back out there.

    I'm playing Machinarium (PC) right now and it's pretty astonishing.

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  10. brjahuDecember 11, 2009 at 12:03 PM

    Would Portal count? I, the gaming news freak, didnt hear much about that specifically prior to release.

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  11. AmateriaDecember 12, 2009 at 1:02 PM

    I knew about Portal. It blew my mind and when I found out it was making it to the Orange Box collection (an amazing game that still holds the trophy for the most mediocre box art) I flipped out.

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  12. JuniperRedDecember 12, 2009 at 2:22 PM

    wait... somebody else is playing a PC game... can't be...

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  13. I 3N3MY IDecember 13, 2009 at 4:36 PM

    Juniper: I hate you. Luckily the game requires nothing fancy out of my PC.

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