Underrated/Overrated games

[James Donaldson]

Serious Sam: BFE is a rather solid FPS shooter with plenty of sections where a large horde of enemies charge at you. I think it's rather Under-rated but I can't tell how well it's done in Steam sales.

[Toxxyc]

I don't know bro. I love the AC series but this game just didn't seem to grab me. I think i will need to give it another run hoping that it is decent now that I have games a bit more.

Don't think about the game. Just bomb. I don't know why, but I'm starting to LOVE these fairly braindead games a lot these days. Saboteur, Duke Nukem Forever, Overlord (craving to install again and this time finish this game), etc. Don't know why, maybe because I don't like thinking too much in games these days. I enjoy a chilled gaming environment. Still, Saboteur is solid fun. Not very hard, yeah I know, but fun. Ending is fairly predictable and not too wow, leaves a hole or two in the plot but it's fun nonetheless. Should the game deserve more credit? Probably, yes. Few things are as fun as riddling a street with a CRAPLOAD of bombs, taking a sniper rifle and shooting Nazis from the rooftop above the bombs and waiting for a whole army of them to arrive. Then you shoot one of the piles of TNT and BOOM! - chain-reaction-chievo!

[James Donaldson]

Overlord isn't really "brain-dead" the whole story comes together at the end and the final fight in particular was the final boss dropping one liners that explain everything that happened. If you think about it afterwards, Overlord had one of the best plot-twists OF ALL TIME.

[NecroWolf]

Is that a GT520M? If so, it's a very weak card, and will explain the issues you have with running the game. You will probably need to scale back as far as possible - lowest resolution, settings and DX9, as can be seen here.

GeForce recommends the GT220 card alone, which is about the same as your GT520MX (mobile cards are always pretty weak). Also, taking a look here you'd see that the your GPU isn't really catered for in the "gaming" section even by NVidia, and that's because it wasn't really made to run games. It's a card just to have a graphics accelerator and to take the strain off the CPU, which is why it performs VERY badly in the gaming department, specially with a demanding game like Metro 2033. You should've taken a look at the system requirements before buying man... :(

The weird thing is that I've played games that looked better than it without any problems. Max Payne 3, LA Noire, Crysis 2, Shogun 2 and a few others run perfectly on medium(except Crysis, obviously). Shogun 2 and max Payne even run with some settings on high. When I saw the requirements, it seemed to me that it would work. Also, considering the fact that it was made in 2010, it seemed like it wouldn't be too much of an issue. This PC has only ever made me love my PS3 more *sigh*.

Back to the topic at hand!

Super Mario Galaxy! I just don't get it. I genuinely don't see the appeal of this game. It just looks like same old, same old mario. I've seen one of my friends play it and I just wasn't impressed. Meh

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The weird thing is that I've played games that looked better than it without any problems. Max Payne 3, LA Noire, Crysis 2, Shogun 2 and a few others run perfectly on medium(except Crysis, obviously). Shogun 2 and max Payne even run with some settings on high. When I saw the requirements, it seemed to me that it would work. Also, considering the fact that it was made in 2010, it seemed like it wouldn't be too much of an issue. This PC has only ever made me love my PS3 more *sigh*.

Unfortunately, Metro 2033 is still probably the most demanding game out there in terms of performance requirements. If I remember correctly, it has antialiasing built into the game by default, with no way to disable it.