I can only think of Darkstone and Crusaders of Might & Magic

Clive Barker's Jericho. The beginning of the game was pretty bland but it gets much more interesting very quickly. I loved the character swapping, monster design and the story.

King Kong and Small Soldiers as movie tie-in games gave a bad impression from the outset, but were both surprisingly good. King Kong in particular stuck me as a pretty unique FPS.

Predator: Concrete Jungle got poor reviews so I went in expecting a disaster; turns out it was my favorite Predator game to date, even more so than AVP2 (the predator part, at least). I could be remembering it more fondly than I should, though.

Story About My Uncle looked pretty uninteresting from the start yet I really liked its simple first person platforming gameplay. The ending is pretty lame though.

Why not blame both the shitty practice and suckers that buy into them

They're pretty important I guess. I don't play games under 60 with some exceptions.

It does look different in a bad way but it deserves the benefit of the doubt considering how good of a reinvention RE4 was.

Quake 1 is my favorite of the three, but the most accomplished has to be Quake 3. It's probably the greatest competitive video game of all time, with the highest skill ceiling ever.

From what I've played in the past eight to nine years it's definitely not as good as it can or could be, and honestly it's very frustrating to see a new game fail to surpass or even match an older one most of the time. Having said that, I feel times are about to change for the better.

That trailer really is incredible. In fact, it's so good that it's arguably one of the main reasons for Skyrim's success.

Either Simple Templeman as Kain or Michael Bell as Raziel.
No performance I've heard before or since has ever topped it, including those mentioned here

This, many times on multiple systems.
Near-perfect game.