"10 RPGs That Bombed At Launch But Became Cult Classics"

Of the games in this list, I've played Fallout: New Vegas, EarthBound, Pathologic, Alpha Protocol, and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. So, I'll do a mini-review of each of those, just for the hell of it.

• Fallout: New Vegas - I've never finished this, but I've played a pretty long way into it. And... it's 3D Fallout. It's pretty cool. I'd say that it's somewhat better than Fallout 3 (which I did complete, unlike New Vegas), so I'm not really sure why I've never actually finished it. Not sure if it's better than Fallout 4, given that I've yet to really play far enough into Fallout 4 in the couple of times I've tried it to be able to make a determination, but... the fact that that's even the case maybe answers the question all on its own. I'd say that New Vegas is probably closer in spirit to the original, sprite-based, isometric Fallout games made by Black Isle than the others are, which makes sense given that it was made by a lot of the guys who made those, too.
• EarthBound - Well, I've said a fair bit about this one in the past, so I'll just recap two of the most important (to me, personally) things here. This is my favorite game on the SNES and definitely my favorite RPG on the SNES. That's not to say that it's the best game and RPG on the SNES, mind you, just that it's my favorite. I didn't find out about EarthBound via the usual ads in magazines and such, which were pretty crappy when I did eventually see them. No, I first found out about it when I wrote a letter to Nintendo of America as a kid (one of several such that I wrote), shortly before it came out, saying that I'd just recently gotten a SNES and asking what cool games were coming out, and the person who replied to me talked about (to paraphrase, since I no longer have the original letters, sadly) "a new RPG that takes place in the modern day, where you can use items like baseball bats and ATM cards." I bought EarthBound at a local mom-and-pop game store (back when those things still existed) on day one of its release, and I never once regretted it. Also, I actually worked with Phil Sandhop for a time, when I lived in WA. So that was pretty cool, too.
• Pathologic - I've never really been able to get into this one. It's rather dark and also unforgiving in its gameplay. I've tried both the original version and the remake. It seems like it would be cool, if I could just get past the difficulty wall. Alas.
• Alpha Protocol - Hmm... well... I remember next to nothing about this one, probably because I barely played it for more than an hour or three, over a decade ago. Seemed vaguely interesting, but apparently not enough so that I played it for more than an hour or three. *shrug*
• Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines - I played and completed Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption, and I will say that Bloodlines is a superior game to that, for a variety of reasons. While Redemption is a sort of 3D, third person, party-based, turn-based RPG, from what I recall of it, Bloodlines is a first person-based, adventure/RPG/action game, neither party-based nor turn-based. However, though I finished Redemption, I've never completed Bloodlines, mainly due to the fact that I didn't have the fan patches/restoration stuff at the time, and I simply haven't bothered yet to try it with those. Gonna have to do that one of these days.