What's the most underrated game franchise(s)?

[The Guru]

Harvest Moon. Stardew Valley took the whole lane

 

[Kairi Irving]

Destroy All Humans


One of the greatest games i never got to play

 

[Thanos]

Harvest Moon
Yakuza
Onimusha

 

[Mr. Manhattan]

Powerstone

 

[Huda2daf]

Rainbow six

I would have said payday but they bullshyt with the updates for consoles

 

[Blankthawtz]

i would sell both my kids to the black market for a DS4 release date......

 

[qwasi]

I would usually say Persona but I don't know if that's true anymore.

The Persona Franchise (not individual games) has never been underrated.

castlevania lords of shadows

LOS was rather enjoyable to new gamers into Castlevania and ok - decent for those seasoned in it. It had a critic score of 85/100 & user score 8/10. This is with the lackslusture story.

Dead Space

 

[42 Monks]

The Tales of series deserves as much as love as the other big name JRPG brands out there, moreso if you look at recent quality.

Starcraft and Diablo don't get enough respect either. One held down the entire RTS genre and the other turned point and click adventure into the loot/coop experience that damn near every game is copies these days.

Like someone else said, Rainbox Six been doing it since N64 I don't necessarily like all of their games, but I love that they never stray too far from their roots. You won't see a Rainbox Six Zombies any time soon, no matter how fun or crazy it could be.

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

Imma throw some dumb shyt in here.....Virtua Tennis.

I mean it's basically Pong with some grunting and fancy shorts but still fun when playing against other people.

What happened to Knockout Kings/Fight Night? Been a minute since we had a good boxing game....

 

[llt23]

Ace Attorney.... a GBA series that I never heard of until the OG Nintendo DS. Lot of gamers never tried the series....some of the best stuff you will ever play.

 

[Address_Unknown]

The Darkstalkers series. So many iconic characters within a tight fighting system that gets virtually no love from the fakkits at Capcom who keep fukking up and pumping out more Street fighter garbage, since they clearly fukking that series up as well from the sound of things.

Also, Shock Troopers.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Shawty and the easy mouse

When you freeze and he comes out to dance with you

Frida >>>>>> Shorty. She reminded me of a Fly Girl from In Living Color.

Man, I used to love battling Shorty with Frida, though. Battling Heat was another good one, too.​

 

[How Sway?]

gears of war

 

[Jixson]

The Adventures of Lolo

 

[DonkeyPuncher718]

Streets Of Rage
Def Jam FFNY
Contra as a franchise should be right there next to Mario, Sonic COD etc

Konami as a Company OWNS THIS THREAD