Dubious Honors

Best Game No One Played

When you step back and take a look at which games become best-sellers and which games don't, it's often a pretty sobering experience. Time and time again, awesome games are completely ignored at retail while less-deserving games are snatched up by eager customers who are oblivious to the far superior game sitting on that same shelf. Once again, this year had a number of memorable, engaging games that were left collecting dust, and this award is meant to recognize those underappreciated gems.

Editorial Nominees

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20 Comments

  • MasterDalton

    Posted Jan 1, 2010 7:06 am GMT

    On-rails.

  • sambob530

    Posted Dec 24, 2009 11:04 am GMT

    Cryostasis

  • Tomrock101

    Posted Dec 23, 2009 6:19 pm GMT

    Supercar Challenge.

  • Nuggetol

    Posted Dec 23, 2009 6:37 am GMT

    @BenBenBen93: Most of those games sold less than 200k
    @STARS_Splinter: What are you talking about Ninja Blade was a great game -.- like a slightly worse version of Devil May Cry

  • STARS_Splinter

    Posted Dec 23, 2009 5:02 am GMT

    Was expecting that to be Cryostasis, given its showings earlier. Shocked!

    But seriously, Ninja Blade is not a good game.

  • BenBenBen93

    Posted Dec 22, 2009 2:01 pm GMT

    surly to got its china town wars here less than 200k sold far less than the million expected

  • linkyshinks

    Posted Dec 20, 2009 7:11 am GMT

    Muramasa on Wii easily, that game is awesome yet very few know about it.

  • brendanhunt1

    Posted Dec 20, 2009 5:26 am GMT

    im surprised chinatown wars isn't on here

  • wez_316

    Posted Dec 19, 2009 2:36 pm GMT

    I've actually played 6 of the games listed in this

  • efc91

    Posted Dec 19, 2009 1:17 am GMT

    cant vote

  • Quofan

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 3:40 pm GMT

    Boy and His Blob or Muramasa

  • gbrading Site moderator

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 1:52 pm GMT

    A Boy and His Blob; a game with a dedicated hug button.

  • wwefanforlife

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 1:32 pm GMT

    My vote goes to Big Bang Mini it was good game shame no DS owners seem to notice how great and how addictive it actually is.

  • webby1

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 11:49 am GMT

    @Simba13

    Well it depends who you see as "serious gamers" the real hardcore guys own every console and will play quite a lot of Wii/DS games maybe not in comparison to other consoles/PC. But yea I do agree that games like Dead Space would have sold better on other consoles but then the gameplay would have probably been different. There are some great DS too but there is a ton of casual crap that covers it up. Fire Emblem anyone? Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor? Knights in the Nightmare?

  • Simba13

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 10:07 am GMT

    I get the feeling that relatively speaking, the sales of the games depends on the formats? I doubt a "serious gamer" would bother playing anything on a WII or a DS? There are also more 360's around, so of course more customers!
    I may be wrong but I would bet money that Dead Space Extraction would have sold much better on the 360 or PS3, just on the strength of the name, as a follow on or addon to the original game maybe?

  • English-Lion

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 9:18 am GMT

    I vote for Big Bang Mini it looks like a good game to play on

  • viper_najem

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 5:01 am GMT

    Cryostasis: The Sleep of Reason. No one played this because they're all afraid of a limbless kitten. What morons...

  • DanteKilla

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 4:07 am GMT

    well if no ones played them, how can we vote?Oo

  • Joeker96

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 3:31 am GMT

    Muramasa anyday, just stunning. The best game never played since Okami.

  • JustPlainLucas

    Posted Dec 17, 2009 9:47 pm GMT

    Big Bang Mini! That game was so fun and NO ONE has heard of it!

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    Dubious Honors
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    Genre Awards
  • Dec 24
    Platform Awards
  • Dec 25
    Game of the Year

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