What games can be considered as "cult classics"...

What games can be considered as "cult classics"? Like movies have cult classics like the Big Lebowski and the Shaun of the Dead, but what games fit into the same category?
I think Dead Rising is a pretty good example

i'd say Halo 3 is a cult classic, that or Reach

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Any game with a small but dedicated fanbase

Earthbound is an example

Those would probably just be remembered as standard classics.

ODST seems more in line to be considered a cult classic

Hmpt

FANTASTIC

*whew*

Would Tribes count in that regard?

God Hand? I only ever see people praise it here on Sup Forums.

No Man's Sky
Titanfall 2
Dark Souls 2
Binary Domain
E.Y.E.
Battleborn

Is it just me or does almost every Capcom series outside of Street Fighter and Megaman fit into it?
>Darkstalkers
>Dead Rising
>Devil May Cry
>Ghost's n Goblins
>Dragon's Dogma

Oh.

Viewtiful Joe
Shenmue
Zone of the Enders
Ico
Eternal Darkness
Beyond Good & Evil
Vanquish
Mirror's Edge

Gooood

Capcom used to be legit godlike, man.

Infitinite mode got those noises locked in my head

Hewwo

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Chuck not doing that was the nail to dead risings coffin

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Powerstone
God Hand
Advance wars ;_;

R-rise of the Argonauts

>something, typically a movie or book, that is popular or fashionable among a particular group or section of society

Undertale
Demon's Souls
LoZ Link's Awakening
Hotline Miami
Left 4 Dead
Read Dead Revolver
Fallout New Vegas
SSB Melee
Street Fighter 3rd Strike or whatever
GTA San Andreas

Here's a question for discussion though, if something is a sequel can it be cult? The defining aspect is a tight knit super dedicated fan base that usually isn't too big, but if something is a sequel in a (relatively) popular series that has a continued following is it cult, or just the series sitting on its laurels with its best piece? Ther term 'classic' to me means it has to be at least separated by some degree or unique, but even in my list there's shit like NV that I think qualifies even though it's part of a longer series.

Killing off the hot asian chick was by far the worst

Deadly premonition
Jet Set Radio Future
The Warriors
Killer is Dead

mien negar

Golden Sun
Baten Kaitos
God Hand
FNAF
Patapon
The World Ends with You
Tactics Ogre: Let us Cling Together
Majora's Mask

These are all games that I think had strong followings on release, but the fanbase over the years has really shrunk down to diehards. Seems that way when they come up in discussion anyway.

With no access to erotica shots.... doomed from the start. Thanks capcom USA!!!

Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
Mirror's Edge
Beyond Good and Evil
SiN
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series
Okami
American McGee's Alice/Alice Madness Returns
Grim Fandango
E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy
Gothic series
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
LIMBO
Alan Wake
Deus Ex
Psychonauts
Valkyria Chronicles
Killing Floor
Conker's Bad Fur Day
Fatal Frame
Pathologic
System Shock 2
Oddworld
Serious Sam
Hitman (up to and including Blood Money)
Thief (up to and including Deadly Shadows)
Shadow Man
Star Wars: Jedi Knight series
Alpha Protocol
Lost Planet

Deus Ex
VtMB
Suikoden series
Rogue Galaxy
Front Mission 3
Shadow Hearts series
Alundra

I could go on and on but most PS1 and PS2 JRPGs fit that description.

Both Kane & Lynch games are cult classics, whether you like it or not.

Planescape: Torment
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
Arx Fatalis
Anachronox

I just want more ZOE

:(

Kane and Lynch were boss ass games.

>Link's Awakening
>cult classic

What? That one of the most popular games not just out of Zelda but for the gameboy in general.

No?

Clutch as fuck

Wind Waker

People hated it when it was released but over time more and more people realized just how charming and unique it was

Life is Strange.

Absolutely not.

Xenogears

There are plenty of sequels that pretty much defined the game and are better remembered. You usually see it when there's a generation gap between games and then the third never comes out.

No Zelda came can be considered a cult classic

Nier
Drakengard
Solatorobo: Red the Hunter
Infinite Space
Most of those are just "classics" not "cult classics"

How has nobody mentioned the Drakengard/Neir series? It's the definition of cult classic

>genuinely sub-par game?
check
>has one or two somewhat redeeming facets?
check
>small but dedicated fanbase?
check

ok

*Grabs by throat* Back the fuck off?

No?

This.

*Stabs in balls* I said back the fuck off???

No?

Cult classics promise nothing but deliver massively. They also have a decent fanbase filled with diehard fans
Only EYE really fits that

I've been playing Killer 7 and Pathologic lately.

Those probably count.

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>How to trigger a fighting game faster than you can say Super Smash Brothers

Divine taste in PS2 games, Allow me to share my own.

Enjoy the ZoE pachinko

Gaming does not have cult classics.

Why? Because most popular games are always divided into different consoles and user base, so not everybody could enjoy then.

The closest we have to a Cult Classic is the first 3 Mario Brothers and Gen 1 Pokemin games because literally, everybody played then

>Games that were absolutely shit upon at release.

I regret nothing.

>I don't know what a cult classic is

Kotor 1 was too popular to be considered a "cult classic"

Baldur's Gate 2
Fallout 2
Planescape: Torment
HoMM 3

Old PC games are weird, are the ones that are still popular today considered Cult Classics? I would think that Ur-Quan Masters would definitely be considered one, though on the other hand the game was insanely popular (For an ancient PC game). And Would MoO 2 qualify as a Cult Classic? What About Jedi Knight?

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Mount and Blade Warband
VtMB
FNV

Yeah

Battle Network series
Pokemon series
Deus Ex
FEAR

Goooooooood

I've literally never played a pokemon game, not counting pokemon go.

They just don't seem that interesting to me. Neither did Go but it was a reason to get out of the house without dying out of boredom

None.
Game (or anything else) can be either classic (widely acclaimed) or cult (loved by specific group).
Term ,,cult cassic'' is condradicting itself.

I'd say it has too many sequels. It's a full blow franchise at this point.

Binary Domain. Fuck everyone who missed out on it.

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>jehuty will never help another pilot out of an impossible situation again
The future turned out to be pretty fucking shit user.

What is vidya kino?

Gothic
Stalker SoC
Morrowind
Thief
Minecraft
Baldur's Gate
Planescape Torment
HoMM 3
Counter Strike

Anyone there?

>Minecraft
>Second best selling game of all time, universally praised, merch in fucking Gamestop
>Cult

Deadly Premonition

>You will never find the hidden Korean portal to Narnia

Why even live?

Not exaggerating but the Half Life series.

Shadow of the colossus?

Well it does have a dedicated community of people who played it for years and never got bored, and still play and experiment with it, try to build even more impressive things (hell someone even built a working computer in Minecraft), make videos etc. And all that despite the fact that the game exists for years already and can hardly be called anything new

Everyone I've met who likes it, loves it.
Easily one of my favorites desu, but I could understand the criticism.

Probably not popular enough to be even a cult classic tho

What defines a cult classic?

I assume it's stuff that's good, but slipped under the radar for "GOTY" tier shit that normal people like.

viewtiful joe
okami
anything by clover
natural selection

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Yeah mang. I wish 2 kept the high body count.

this

Cult classics don't get sequels

Demon's Souls was before the series got so big
Dorf Fortress maybe
Dragons Dogma may had been before pc release

I was going to say Psychonauts but someone already said it. I think Monkey Island would qualify as well.

I think Dink Smallwood fits the bill.

Fallout 1-2
Diablo 2
Quake 3
arcanum

*unzips dick* well I warned you kiddo

This
Just like those movies you mentioned, I think DR1 is 10/10 but many fucking hate it because they're to impatient IMO

Soul Nomad
>disregarded at every turn by it's own developer despite being one of their best games
>very few people actually know about it due to that, universally they all like it
>every other game by the dev has multiple ports, Soul Nomad has zero ports
It's the very definition of a diamond in the rough.

Hell yeah

This is the first game in this thread I havent heard of