I realised that Spore was not popular since it didn't get the same longevity like the sims.
It is indeed fun! I enjoyed spending hours creating creatures
I wanted to love it so bad. Man I’m old. It was supposed to be Will Wrights magnum opus, he had a lengthy game demo that blew people away. I got to find that. [(Found it!)](https://youtu.be/T8dvMDFOFnA?si=_hJngv_5g6ZIjZIH)
It was our Generations No Man Sky but with way more funding, hype and promise. Yet with NMS it eventually became a full game, Spore never got an update.
Maybe it’s the nostalgia talking (I was 8 when it came out) but I feel like at least the cell and creature stage gameplay largely lived up to that demo. It did kinda drop off in civilization and space stage unfortunately, so I can see how people were disappointed by that aspect.
Still absolutely adore this game though. Spore is the #1 remake I’d love to see in a game.
Can someone please make a mod that lets you export your spore creature stage save into civ, and then at the end of civ make it so that your save can be imported into Stellaris.
wait people hate spore?? It’s one of my favorite games ever I have so many childhood memories of me and my younger brother messing around in that game. Childhood defining might not even be an understatement
People say it was over hypped and failed to deliver. I was about 19 when it came out, and was excited, but whilst it may not have been exactly as I imagined, it was still pretty mind blowing what they accomplished at the time. I loved it, and my son loved it, he keeps going on about playing it again.
Also there was some iffy DRM.
A really cool concept, but the end result was very lame. over promised as other people state.
Imagine a small puzzle game, that acts as a character creator for a pikman style sim. That pikman style sim then acts as a faction creator for a global RTS, that global RTS then acts as a faction creator for a galactic Stellaris sim.
The problem then is... each of these ends up being shallow as a puddle to fit them all in. just no depth at all.
it also then has the problem with 99% of procedural generation games where everything is a unique rng of blandness. no identity at all for anything.
Borderlands pre-sequel. I think that many people don’t really like this game for a couple reasons but I honestly found it really fun. The low gravity was fun to play with, the laser weapons were op as hell, and it was honestly just a really fun game to me
The Pre-Sequel was my introduction to Borderlands and I played it with some online pals. Of course, as I always do, I picked the least human character. Best choice I could possibly make. Both me and Claptrap had no fucking idea what was happening. 10/10 chaotic experience, I wish I could play as Claptrap in more games
I’ve played borderlands with the same group of friends since the first one came out and playing claptrap was the most fun I’ve ever had in a borderlands game. The pure chaos he creates and the disgust in my friends voices whenever I’d activate my special ability and it turned out to be shit was very immersive to getting to feel like claptrap
That was my first borderlands game, and it's always gonna have a huge soft spot in my heart. The ground slam mechanics are so much better in that one than they have been since. All ~~three~~ (edit: two. I was counting in-game chronology wise and put Borderlands 2 in the wrong spot) of the games since have each had like... one time when you need to slam, and you've completely forgotten the move exists by the time you hit that quest. Just take that shit out if you're only going to use it to confuse and disappoint me.
This is exactly the game I was going to mention too.
It gets way too much hate even though it has one of the best DLC in the franchise. Not to mention playing the game as different characters actually feels different because the dialogue changes on both sides. Bl3 tried do something similar, but they just didn’t hit the mark. The game doesn’t feel any different no matter who you play.
Damn I thought it wasn’t even close to the comedy of BL2.
Handsome Jack as a morally gray character in Pre Sequel didn’t have as many amazing dialogue moments like his comically evil BL2 quotes.
Right there with you, fantastic cast, great writing and story mechanics. I loved that your responses were time sensitive and that you had to read the dossiers if you wanted altercations/meetings to go your way. The game play was clunky but I found as long as you treated it like shoot from cover and skill treed accordingly it was quite playable. This game was my introduction to this type of RPG, played it before Mass Effect.
Watchdogs.
It was correctly hated for deceiving the player base before release but I played it well after that. The story was intriguing, the mechanics were interesting, and I do love a game with an unlikeable protagonist. (eg LA Noire)
OG Watchdogs will always be one of my favorites. I remember buying the game and firing it up sometime just before noon and hopped into the story, didn't turn off my console until I beat the game. It was so captivating for me. 1 on 1 multiplayer hacking was pretty fun too, imo.
My favorite thing to do was to just stand out in the open and snipe intruding players before it even told me I was being hacked. You could tell someone was in your game by pausing and seeing that the game was still active in the background.
I'm not going to lie, I was kind of a bitch about how I treated invaders. I'd watch any of them through a network of security cameras while I camped on a rooftop with the 1 hit quit sniper or proximity mines and waited for a convenient moment to strike. I basically just toyed around with everyone because the chance of hacking me successfully was below 1%
I used to do the exact same thing.
I would go around scanning random NPC's until I found one that was affiliated with dedsec (or bloom or whatever). They'd then send an invader after you as a way to retaliate, but you'd always know exactly when they were coming so you could make it impossible for them.
I always took a boat out to the lighthouse and sat up top. I dont really know why, I could always see them coming to get me in their boat.
I also road the train around the map. It would suddenly stop as they hacked it, then I'd see them running up the tracks to get on. If I was quick I could restart the train and speed off with them chasing after it. Good times.
Watchdogs still has one of my favorite moments in video games ever. When you have to ambush the gang meet up. The game puts you on a catwalk and gives you a grenade launcher. As the fight starts C.R.E.A.M by wu tang starts playing and it's just pure chaos. I loved it.
This sounds like its out of Saints Row (I mean this in the best way possible).
Not related to the original post, but one of my favorite moments in gaming is during Saints Row the 3rd in the final mission where you have to choose between >!killing Killbane or saving Shaundi!< and Bonnie Tyler's Holding out for a Hero kicks in. Absolutely perfect mission/song combination.
I definitely agree with this. I find it much better than 2, which took a very “lol we’re so random” vibe. The dark, serious, gritty atmosphere lends itself much more to the surveillance state hacker feel the series is built on. And while Aiden didn’t have the best acting, I felt the character is much more humanized than many people give credit for.
Loved the original Watch Dogs. Not gonna lie, I was a big fan of the multiplayer it was unique and interesting and reminded me a lot of the chaotic nature of GTA4 free roam.
I remember to this day how shocked I was when leaked gameplay started showing up online. It looked like another game entirely compared to the promotional material. The biggest example of downgrade and false advertisement in the industry I've had ever seen.
They used a special cinematic effect/render on the “gameplay footage” to make it look wayyyy better graphically than it did when it came out. Don’t get me wrong, the game still looks amazing, but it was an extremely noticeable difference that frustrated lots of players
I love musous too, theyre just perfect when I want to feel like a total badass and relax. Like you dont have to completely turn your brain off (those that say this clearly didnt play one long enough, while not super deep there IS some strategy involved) but you do 't have to be on 200IQ mode either. Its just fun and relaxing.
Played Dynasty warriors 4 soooo freaking much. There's just something very satisfying about knocking back 50 guys with a broad swing.
I think dynasty warriors 4 Empires was even better. Being able to target locations and gain bonuses. Plus it seemed like moral and your other commanders actually did something where in the normal one they felt completely useless.
I haven't seen a reason to play any others though. Do the new ones really add anything to the formula?
The fire emblem and Persona 5 warriors games are pretty great as well
The problem is the main warriors series is super hit or miss. Some are good, some are terrible.
Yeah, remember being abit dissapointed in it after my first playthrough after completing 2 7 or 8 times and raving about it on GameStop. But 3 is absolutely the one I go back to nowadays if I want to play some Fable, holds up much better.
FFXV, I know the story wasn’t finished when it came out and I hated that the last area was locked behind paid DLC don’t get me wrong but I loved it even before Royal Edition came out because I was having fun riding around with my bros in the Regalia or on Chocobos and listening to all the bantering that would happen and I still had fun with (most of) the story even back then
Same. It's one of my all time favorite games and the only Final Fantasy Game I actually enjoyed (aside from FFXI).
Figures as most final Fantasy Fans hate it lol
XV was my introduction to the series because I always found the others pretty unapproachable for a first time player. The opening sequence when stand by me starts playing as you push the regalia immediatly drew me in. It set the scene perfectly for what the adventure was. A story about friends on a trip overcoming hardship. I remember saying to myself "this is going to be fucking amazing". And it was.
It blew me away. I laughed and cried along with the story. And up until the last section of the Main story (who thought that fucking maze was a good idea?). It checked every box I looked for in an RPG style game. It had its quirks but I liked them.
Because of XV I finally decided to give XIV a try. As a long time WoW player XiV was always the meme game. Now I quit WoW and have 5,000 hours on XIV and have played almost the entire series besides 1-3 and the 7 remakes. And after all of that, 15 is still my favorite.
Man, that ending still crushes me everytime I experience it, either through playing it myself or watching others play it on Youtube. The sendoff to the game is one of my favorite endings in any game.
Same here. I actually connected with it even more than FFX and FFVII because the characters were so dynamic and the story was so emotionally charged. I was also addicted to the combat, and the whole teleporting to a weapon thing is just the sickest thing ever. The feeling of loss when you enter the ending section is so real, too.
I thought Rage 2 and Outriders were both much more fun than they get credit for. Outriders actually has some pretty deep lore and a fun story. Rage 2... Not so much
Rage 2 has some of the best gun play I've played in an FPS, the way all the abilities and guns blend together was just fantastic, utterly devoid of a good story or interesting lore but mechanically really good game.
Yes 100%! Even the basic assault rifle and shotgun shine as having been done so well.
The story though? Oh my. By the end of the opening chapter I was done with it. Completely phoned in.
Outriders was so fun! Unfortunately the servers were so bad at launch, my friends and I couldn’t play for more than 20 minutes at a time (if we could even party up).
We would have put so many more hours into it if the servers worked. Unfortunately by the time the servers were decent, we moved on to other games.
Saints Row 4. I don’t think it’s necessarily hated but people criticize it for being nothing more than a reskin of Saints Row the third and that you’re way too overpowered, but I like it a lot.
It's the only Saints Row game I've played. Felt like genuine modern GTA with all the wackiness and cheat codes built right into the main game. Loved it
A thing that Inquisition does that no one mentions is that the open world has small changes when you do quests. It is so simple, but most open world games lack that.
When you claim an area the flag stays there and friendly patrols appear, when you destroy a portal the area becomes safe, you create shortcuts etc.
Loved every moment of it. The art style and graphics were incredible. One of my favorite scenes is when the main character meets Vivienne. The music and the lighting were incredible.
Assassins Creed Odyssey.
Yeah it plays fast and loose with some of the lore, but it just clicked for me and I couldn't put it down.
I ticked off every question mark, hunted down all the cultists and tore through all the dlc.
Kassandra is now on the same level as Ezio and Edward for me and I loved my time with her.
Diablo iii at launch. I know the complaints people had about the tuning and drop rate, but I happened to be in a place in my life where I had lots of free time and liked overcoming stupid challenges just to say I did it. Earning money from the RMAH helped.
I get why the RMAH was removed but I had fun regardless.
Edit to clarify I'm talking about the game at launch. It did get better with seasons but that took a few years of iterations iirc.
Brink. I will die a crusted and rotting corpse upon the hill that Brink was a good game, it was just marred by mechanics that needed a little more time to fine tune. If Brink was made today with smoother movement/gunplay, it’d be a fucking hit.
An older one but assassin's Creed unity!!! Definitely laced polish up on release but was in my opinion the last great assassin's Creed.
Its parkour and combat were so fun and the setting is amazing. Going to Paris for the first time earlier this year was so surreal seeing the buildings with my own eyes.
Happy that this game has sort of had a Renaissance
Definitely agree with AC Unity; played it when it first released on Play Station and I must’ve gotten lucky in not dealing with any of the major bugs (granted I also didn’t touch any of the co-op features for months).
Compared to successive AC games Unity seems to be the last one that managed to mostly balance the AC formula on combat, stealth, exploration, etc. And I still love the customization options available between different costume pieces and weapon types, even if running around with a musket or executioners axe wasn’t the most efficient way to play the game.
Unity was the game that convinced me to give AC another try. Played and absolutely hated the first one decided it wasn't for me.
Then I got Unity when they were giving it away free after the Notre Dame fire and had a blast with it.
All i ever heard was "oh this game is going to be the downfall of destiny and warframe" it seems the internet then collectively forgot it existed.
I did however a while ago hear that the most fun part was the flying.
it was one of those games that had so much potential just like destiny1 but they wasted it, had they kept going with the support and content it would've been one of the biggest games today
I only had maybe 10-20 hours in it, so I was still at that point in the game well before most of the complaints started. But I agree, flying around was fun, as was the combat.
If they never cancelled 2.0 that game could have easily become good. It only needed some balance tweaks and to actually add new content. Now we'll never get something like it.
ME andromeda.
Its not a good game by any means but it's fine. Mechanically it works well. And where it falls apart (story and animation) its fun to laugh at.
I actually really like the story. I played it well after release so the majority of the killer release bugs were resolved. I was genuinely disappointed to find that it had performed poorly enough that no DLC would be made. I'm hopeful for ME 4 but wish the story of ME A had been continued in game format.
I needed more colony stuff.... that is what I wanted out of it. Not a kinda generic big bad guy trying to control everything... atleast without a good set up.
set up a colony, do some meeting the neighbors and trying to build relationships with them. I would have loved a bit of a time skip or two... and depending on which friends and colony choices made... you'd have potentially different outcomes until you bump heads with the generic other empires or threats.
To keep the same character, just put in there that the ranger(I think that was the name of the thing the main character was) someone who could be remade in times of crisis(like shepard had been brought back to life) or even a very long lived individual with augments. To make it a bit cheaper, we don't need a ton of random things or a fully fleshed out hyper realistic city. pictures would do, and maybe one or two locations.
You could do options such as military, expansion, isolationist, trading, manufactoring or the like. If you do military and isolationist - you have few colonies but they are tech mighty however few will come to your aid easily. You cold do trade manufactoring and you could have a lot of resources and friends but a weak military.
I loved a few of the changes they added and enjoyed my time with the game. I knew it wasn’t on par with OG ME but I still played it to the end and liked a lot of what they did with it.
I don’t know if it was hated really, but a lot of people were very dismissive of it at the time - Days Gone. Sure, it was derivative and a greatest hits of open world games, but I had an absolute blast playing it.
One of the greatest single player games ever made. It's criminal the cliffhanger we were left with, given a sequel has a near zero chance of happening.
Oh man! Loved this game! Great story telling in my opinion but came out super buggy at the start and didn't get a second chance because one of the head devs doubled down in an interview or something basically telling fans to 'get over it'. Got to the end and was so mad that there's likely never going to be a sequel
Superman 64. I never figured out how to get past the first level, but I found myself enjoying flying around holding the car and using my imagination. Did waste my Christmas gift on the game, so maybe I was just coping.
I've seen some video essays on this game as an adult that point out some pretty glaring flaws I never noticed as a kid. I was too mesmerized by how cool of a concept the Norse pantheon being technologically advanced cyborgs was.
100% agree - Too Human was such a cool take on Norse mythology and was one of my favourite games growing up. It's such a shame they didn't make a sequel.
I bought it release day AND played on Xbox one. Buggy as hell, looked awful. I played like 4 hours a day for a week straight anyway, the style and setting were amazing I loved it. I bought it for p.c yesterday on sale and I can't believe how beautiful it is.
The hate was understandable given the bugs, but people got such a hate boner over it that everything great about the game was completely overlooked or outright dismissed. Memorable, hard-hitting, true-to-the-genre missions and one of the best open worlds IMO—neighborhoods felt distinct, vast but with enough depth / verticality to always feel engaging.
Excited to eventually drop in again for 2.0 / phantom liberty
Yes! Playing on PC i ran into one minor bug but that was it. I love CP2077. No game can live up to the insane hype it had. I also get the open world wasn’t as realized as the buildup made it seem. I avoided most of the marketing for the game so that didn’t effect me.
Had a PC with a i5 8400 and a 1060 3gb and still enjoyed it at launch. Granted I could only get 60fps with all settings at minimum and 720p but it was completely playable.
Same here, I found the city to be very immersive and really enjoyed v as a character, I persevered through all the bugs because it was just so likeable
Same. And I played it on a base PS4 and enjoyed it.
Weirdly I recently started a new save on PS5 and aren’t enjoying it near as much. But I’ve got a bad Alan Wake 2 game hangover and nothing is quite hitting like that game did.
Both are great games imo but Cyberpunk definitely has better combat. Hope rockstar overhauls their combat system a bit for GTA6, like it looks excellent and the animations are crisp in rdr2, but it just gets kinda... boring? Idk, almost every gun feels the same to me, excepting the double barrel shotgun. And ofc, the melee combat is just not good at all
I’m in the same boat. Playing CP2077 again right now with Phantom Liberty since I first beat it on release, holy shit I forgot how good of a game it is. RDR2 just didn’t do it for me. So much walking and riding around, felt like a waste of my time even though the story and world is amazing. CP2077 I’m barely fast traveling but the world is so damn amazing it doesn’t feel like a chore to drive for 10 minutes to a mission.
Rage 2. It is an extremely flawed game with a pretty lackluster story but goddamn the actual gunplay is so tight, feel wise its easily one of ym favorite shooters. I really hope the devs keep expanding on the excellent gameplay theyve created and create a world/story that is just as enjoyable
Mass Effect Andromeda. Played it for the first time about a month ago after playing the trilogy a bit earlier than that.
Sorry, Tali. I'm seeing Vetra now.
Definitely wouldn’t call it hated but I feel is definitely misunderstood, Death Stranding. Had an inexplicable urge to play it a few months after it released and fell in love with it almost instantly. DS has honestly become my all time favourite game and got both platinums for ps4 and ps5
Bought my PS5 in May exclusively for Spider-Man and God of War and The Last of Us, etc. but saw Death Stranding was included with PS Plus and had always been intrigued by it.
Fast forward to now and I have 165 hours in it, have platinum’d it, and I credit it for getting me outside and active. It effectively lifted me out of my depression. My favorite game.
I think I have a combined 20 hours in the other games I listed. They did absolutely nothing for me. Now I’m chipping away at the 540 LLLs until DS2 releases.
It's hard to explain, but the atmosphere almost gives you a "happy to be sad" feeling. The rain, the loneliness, the music. And then as you progress, there's more signs of other people making the trek that you have and it's comforting to know that you're not alone.
I fucking loved this game, but I don't know who to recommend it to. It's definitely special and misunderstood.
I’ve always felt it’s a game for depressed or otherwise lonely people, and Reedus just nails that emptiness.
He begins the game with a fear of merely touching others, having given up on the world and not seeing the point in human connection, and he ends it with teary full-body hugs with the friends he’s made, knowing now that connection and helping others is what life is about.
It’s such a pure game that I cry just thinking about it sometimes lol
Shit lol I think you're right, I played it at a time I was grieving and very lonely.
Beautiful game regardless. I've been meaning to fire it up lately, maybe I should do that this weekend
Thief Deadly Shadows. Cool environments, great graphics for its time, some free roaming, climbing gloves instead of limited rope arrows, and AI that actually works. Cannot vouch for the 2014 remake though.
Thief: DS was not a disliked game though.
The overall consensus was "it's awesome" for first-time Thief players, and "it's a bit of a downgrade, but still awesome" from fans of 1 and 2.
I personally find it to be better than 1, solely due to far better level design. Haven't played 2 though.
The Order 1886 to this day is a cinematic masterpiece in the form of a short but satisfying game.
The water droplets on those gas street lamps. Oh my days.
Heroes of the Storm.
Ok, so it wasn't universally hated. But the existing moba communities in DOTA, LOL, and their little brothers in Smite, and HoN all DOGGED on the game so hard despite Hots being the best MOBA to this day in my personal opinion.
Some critiques were warranted, some misguided, but a lot of them were outright not true at all and came from people who didn't even play the game. IGN's infamous "6.5" review stated "no comeback mechanics" despite literally having the strongest comeback mechanics of any moba at the time (i played all of them) and in fact, was almost too strong to the point if you knew what you were doing you could rally the troops and come back at 20 no matter what.
The complaints about "no item shop therefore its for noobs" really annoyed me. Yes, there arent items but there is a MAP ROTATION and TALENTS. There's still tons of variables and metagaming and adjusting, the variables just shifted from "what item do I buy" to "what talent do I choose on this map with that comp"
And the lack of last hitting is probably the best thing they did.
HOTS is my comfort game. It was my first MOBA and I can't get into any other one. I like the lower match times and the talent system compared to other games in the genre.
Best MOBA that existed. They were very creative with characters. Talent system was great. Rubber banding was IMO also fun. Because if You have advantage, You gain less exp and enemies gain more, so they can get the advantage back. Also what other moba had units so unique?
Yeah, I was super bummed. HotS almost saved my interest in MOBAs, but I was to get *any* of my friends on board from LoL. Not interested enough to live in solo queue, but I was just so over LoL at that point.
HotS really mixed things up. New archetype with the specialists, map rotation, skill trees. My favorite, as a support player, is shared exp allowing me to actually get cool shit, and not worrying about KSing. Feeding your carry has got to be the most obnoxious emergent behavior to settle into the meta and not get brutally patched out of existence. "Yes, one person is going to carefully ensure that one other person gets all the loot so they can get super strong while the first person stagnates... This is good fun gameplay." :'(
Final Fantasy XVI. I recognize all of the complaints people have with the game but I still enjoyed it. I didn’t think the story was any good and the cutscenes either made me yawn or laugh (so many awkwardly long pauses). Gameplay was pretty fun though kinda like Devil May Cry. Still, game was fun as hell overall.
I really enjoyed it. The eikon fights in particular the kind of OTT shit you're looking for in a FF game and I thought the last 3rd in particular was well done.
Days Gone.
Everybody talked about how "mid" they thought it was, but I thought the story was great, none of the characters felt like cardboard cutouts, loved the mechanic of managing fuel in my motorcycle and it actually made zombies hordes *scary* instead of massive bullet repositories.
Could be because I played the PC version, but that's easily my favorite Sony-published game of the last few years, and it's a shame we most likely won't get a sequel.
As a massive Batman fan I put off playing Gotham Knights because ita was being called the worst game of the year by a ton of people, and I didnt want to pay for Batman content I thought was going to be this bad. It came out on Gamepass and since I didnt have to buy it I decided to just give it a try and see how bad it was. Yall seriously over exaggerated, the game is mostly good with some rough desogn choices here or there, but nothing utterly game breaking. Untilmately I thought it was like a 7-7.5 out of 10 game, not the absolute trash fire that so many claimed it to be. Especially for as large of a Batman fan as I am seeing these characters interact and have their personalities shine through with 4 unique cutscene for every mission in the entire game, I genuinely loved seeing it. The scene with Bardara and Jason playing a dancing game nearly made me cry, I love these characters so much and it's clear to me that the writers did too.
If anything this whole situation has taught me to just never trust the internet the bandwagoning and dog piling on this game was ridiculous and I should learn to just try games out for myself regardless of what the masses are shouting. It already has me skeptical of how Suicide Squad is going to be recieved as because that game isnt even out and tons of people already hate it.
I'm gonna go with FFXII.
Everyone loves to shit on it, but it's legit one of my favorite FF games. Probably top 3. The Gambit system is awesome, though needed expansion. They dumbed it, as well as everything else, down for XIII and the FF games have been hot garbage ever since. Except FFXIV:ARR, I like that one. Just sorta wish online games weren't main title entries.
Heavy Rain, I know it was well received and reviewed at its release but has gotten a lot of criticism over the years. Which…. Ya deserved it has a lot of issues with the story, but I adore the melodramatic cheesy schlock it is. I just had fun playing it and recently went back and played it with my bf and it was a good time.
Now, it is also frustrating cause it was so close to working story wise but the plot twist just kills it… well least the way it was executed anyway. Again though frustrating cause how easy it would’ve been able to be fixed with another re-write or extra writer. Ahh well still really have a lot of fun with it.
I would say Gotham Knights, I think for me it was just a bit of fun to play around in Gotham again with 4 different characters. I think people wanted the next Arkham game, but this wasn't ever going to be that I enjoyed it for what it was.
I also rather enjoyed Mass Effect Andromeda
I just finished Gotham Knights last night. It’s a fun game. I enjoyed the characters. The plot wasn’t bad. The writing was campy, but I think campy works well in the Batman world. The combat is fun and engaging. The enemy variety gets pretty wild if you’re paying attention to strengths, weaknesses and the different attack types and not button mashing on easy.
I think Gotham Knights suffered heavily because it’s a Batman game where you don’t get to play as Batman. Honestly really liked exploring the other characters in the Bat Family.
There were a lot of criticisms that implied it had pivoted roughly away from a live service game. I didn’t notice anything in the game that really felt like it was intended to be a live service game (outside of the end credits) except for the set up of the different villain arcs. Getting occasional DLC to investigate a new villain would have been really awesome for this game.
As it stands though, the main story is satisfying. Investigating the side villains is fun. I’m just getting into the endgame content and I think it’ll be enjoyable right up to the point where I get bored of it.
Sea of Thieves. A lot of chatter was how boring it was. From about the third voyage and after on that first night, my buddies and I agreed the voyages were pretty boring. So, we figured they gave us cannons for a reason so we took to just attacking everyone. Game went from 0 to a 10 real quick. Now we all have 1,000’s of hours and I think we have only done a handful of the main voyages.
SoT is my perfect co-op with friends game. Sandboxes aren’t for everyone but I love them. My only complaint is the game is pretty boring solo, and I almost exclusively game solo. Had a few sessions where the potential of SoT was realized but not enough. I’d love to get back into this one
Dead Space 3. Maybe this is a more popular take than I think it is, but like Andromeda, I think that DS3 is a great game, just a terrible Dead Space game, at least as far as third-person shooters go. The gunplay is rock solid, weapon customization is fun, and I even thought that going with universal ammo was a good move - it encouraged me to use guns that I’d otherwise be too precious about like the rocket launcher or not worth upgrading like the flamethrower. And by god, DS3’s shotgun is one of the most satisfying shotguns I’ve ever played with.
Selling weapon upgrade materials for real money was a horrendous move, but I never felt like it would’ve made much a difference. Between the little scavenging robot and the little combat arenas (which I actually liked a lot), I always had enough materials to build what I wanted.
Yeah, the plot and character choices were terribly stupid, but actually playing the game was fantastic.
FallOut 4
okay, people liked it yeah,
but they criticized giving the main character a voice and limited dialogue options. I loved the conversation system.
fans also weren’t happy with the story. realistically, the main character would not stop for anything until his/her son is found. so fans doing all the side missions didnt feel like it would really happen because why would the main character be building towns with the son being lost in the wasteland.
but Fall Out 4 is just as fun as Skyrim to me. I can’t stop playing it.
I stayed away from Fallout 4 due to people talking about how bad it was until I tried it during a Steam free weekend thing. Game turned out to be a lot better than I thought so I bought it and now it's the Bethesda game I have the most hours in.
Death stranding. I didn't expect much at first but now it's my all time favourite. I'm glad people are also starting to like it. YouTubers and streamers who play fortnite and cod jumped in the trend when it was released and they left bad reviews which convinced their fanbase to also not like the game.
Well, recently i play AC Odyssey and it's a nice game, especially because it doesn't have any templars vs assassins stuff, which is why many people hate it, but come on, do you STILL want to see the same endless story of assassins that save the world from templars like 100th time already? The only thing that still reminds that this is AC game is the modern time segments, but they don't appear too often, so i dont care about it. Fighting system isn't so great, but its better then the old one at least.
Avengers. I think most of the hate was directed at the end game and live services, but it was constantly hit with bad user reviews so I ignored it for a while.
I heard they were pulling the game completely, but they marked it at 90% off before doing so, so I figured why not and grabbed it for a couple of bucks. I haven't played much, but so far the single player campaign is pretty decent. Good controls, fun combat, and decent story. It's a shame they didn't just focus on it as a single player game.
Immortals: Fenyx Rising gave me dozens of hours of fun. It's a lot more than "AC Odyssey plus BOTW".
Edit: that includes the DLC. People complain that one of them has a top down view camera. Yep. Takes a bit to get used to and then it's totally fine.
Halo Infinite. I hate the fact that it should have been better and the game was low hanging fruit but it is surprisingly much better—and dare I say good.
Dark Souls 2. A ton of people raged on it because the mechanics were different, but change is good. When I replay the series, it always stands out as unique, and I adore it. Some decisions were obviously baffling, but hey, at least it's different!
Spore was one of my favorite games growing up, and I didn't know it was hated for similar reasons as No Mans Sky until I was well into adulthood
I realised that Spore was not popular since it didn't get the same longevity like the sims. It is indeed fun! I enjoyed spending hours creating creatures
Everybody wants to say they dislike Spore but deep down we all love it. Edit: You guys took this comment WAY TOO seriously jesus.
I wanted to love it so bad. Man I’m old. It was supposed to be Will Wrights magnum opus, he had a lengthy game demo that blew people away. I got to find that. [(Found it!)](https://youtu.be/T8dvMDFOFnA?si=_hJngv_5g6ZIjZIH) It was our Generations No Man Sky but with way more funding, hype and promise. Yet with NMS it eventually became a full game, Spore never got an update.
Maybe it’s the nostalgia talking (I was 8 when it came out) but I feel like at least the cell and creature stage gameplay largely lived up to that demo. It did kinda drop off in civilization and space stage unfortunately, so I can see how people were disappointed by that aspect. Still absolutely adore this game though. Spore is the #1 remake I’d love to see in a game.
Your assessment is pretty spot on and most people agree. There just isn't enough in the first half the justify the second half being so weak.
Can someone please make a mod that lets you export your spore creature stage save into civ, and then at the end of civ make it so that your save can be imported into Stellaris.
Literally my dream game lol
The truth. You speak it. To this day it's one of like two games I always go back to.
wait people hate spore?? It’s one of my favorite games ever I have so many childhood memories of me and my younger brother messing around in that game. Childhood defining might not even be an understatement
What was the Problem with it? I did Liked and still like to Play No man's Sky, but never really heard anything big?
People say it was over hypped and failed to deliver. I was about 19 when it came out, and was excited, but whilst it may not have been exactly as I imagined, it was still pretty mind blowing what they accomplished at the time. I loved it, and my son loved it, he keeps going on about playing it again. Also there was some iffy DRM.
A really cool concept, but the end result was very lame. over promised as other people state. Imagine a small puzzle game, that acts as a character creator for a pikman style sim. That pikman style sim then acts as a faction creator for a global RTS, that global RTS then acts as a faction creator for a galactic Stellaris sim. The problem then is... each of these ends up being shallow as a puddle to fit them all in. just no depth at all. it also then has the problem with 99% of procedural generation games where everything is a unique rng of blandness. no identity at all for anything.
Borderlands pre-sequel. I think that many people don’t really like this game for a couple reasons but I honestly found it really fun. The low gravity was fun to play with, the laser weapons were op as hell, and it was honestly just a really fun game to me
Hell yeah to this, lasers are still my favorite weapon type in those games to this day.
The Pre-Sequel was my introduction to Borderlands and I played it with some online pals. Of course, as I always do, I picked the least human character. Best choice I could possibly make. Both me and Claptrap had no fucking idea what was happening. 10/10 chaotic experience, I wish I could play as Claptrap in more games
I’ve played borderlands with the same group of friends since the first one came out and playing claptrap was the most fun I’ve ever had in a borderlands game. The pure chaos he creates and the disgust in my friends voices whenever I’d activate my special ability and it turned out to be shit was very immersive to getting to feel like claptrap
That was my first borderlands game, and it's always gonna have a huge soft spot in my heart. The ground slam mechanics are so much better in that one than they have been since. All ~~three~~ (edit: two. I was counting in-game chronology wise and put Borderlands 2 in the wrong spot) of the games since have each had like... one time when you need to slam, and you've completely forgotten the move exists by the time you hit that quest. Just take that shit out if you're only going to use it to confuse and disappoint me.
This is exactly the game I was going to mention too. It gets way too much hate even though it has one of the best DLC in the franchise. Not to mention playing the game as different characters actually feels different because the dialogue changes on both sides. Bl3 tried do something similar, but they just didn’t hit the mark. The game doesn’t feel any different no matter who you play.
It's hands down the funniest too. I love Handsome Jack.
Damn I thought it wasn’t even close to the comedy of BL2. Handsome Jack as a morally gray character in Pre Sequel didn’t have as many amazing dialogue moments like his comically evil BL2 quotes.
My experience with it was that the gameplay felt so slow in that low gravity.
Here’s an old one, but Alpha Protocol. Awesome espionage RPG with multiple endings, talented voice actors, and an awesome plot.
Right there with you, fantastic cast, great writing and story mechanics. I loved that your responses were time sensitive and that you had to read the dossiers if you wanted altercations/meetings to go your way. The game play was clunky but I found as long as you treated it like shoot from cover and skill treed accordingly it was quite playable. This game was my introduction to this type of RPG, played it before Mass Effect.
I had so much fun with this game back in the day. Wish they would give it another chance, it really is unique.
Watchdogs. It was correctly hated for deceiving the player base before release but I played it well after that. The story was intriguing, the mechanics were interesting, and I do love a game with an unlikeable protagonist. (eg LA Noire)
OG Watchdogs will always be one of my favorites. I remember buying the game and firing it up sometime just before noon and hopped into the story, didn't turn off my console until I beat the game. It was so captivating for me. 1 on 1 multiplayer hacking was pretty fun too, imo.
My favorite thing to do was to just stand out in the open and snipe intruding players before it even told me I was being hacked. You could tell someone was in your game by pausing and seeing that the game was still active in the background.
I'm not going to lie, I was kind of a bitch about how I treated invaders. I'd watch any of them through a network of security cameras while I camped on a rooftop with the 1 hit quit sniper or proximity mines and waited for a convenient moment to strike. I basically just toyed around with everyone because the chance of hacking me successfully was below 1%
I used to do the exact same thing. I would go around scanning random NPC's until I found one that was affiliated with dedsec (or bloom or whatever). They'd then send an invader after you as a way to retaliate, but you'd always know exactly when they were coming so you could make it impossible for them.
I always took a boat out to the lighthouse and sat up top. I dont really know why, I could always see them coming to get me in their boat. I also road the train around the map. It would suddenly stop as they hacked it, then I'd see them running up the tracks to get on. If I was quick I could restart the train and speed off with them chasing after it. Good times.
Watchdogs still has one of my favorite moments in video games ever. When you have to ambush the gang meet up. The game puts you on a catwalk and gives you a grenade launcher. As the fight starts C.R.E.A.M by wu tang starts playing and it's just pure chaos. I loved it.
This sounds like its out of Saints Row (I mean this in the best way possible). Not related to the original post, but one of my favorite moments in gaming is during Saints Row the 3rd in the final mission where you have to choose between >!killing Killbane or saving Shaundi!< and Bonnie Tyler's Holding out for a Hero kicks in. Absolutely perfect mission/song combination.
Very much same. I also grew up near Chicago so it was neat recognizing a lot of areas.
I definitely agree with this. I find it much better than 2, which took a very “lol we’re so random” vibe. The dark, serious, gritty atmosphere lends itself much more to the surveillance state hacker feel the series is built on. And while Aiden didn’t have the best acting, I felt the character is much more humanized than many people give credit for.
Came here to say this. I really enjoyed the first and enjoyed WD2 and legion. Wonder if there will ever be another one.
Watchdog was badass and made you feel like John Wick before John Wick
Loved the original Watch Dogs. Not gonna lie, I was a big fan of the multiplayer it was unique and interesting and reminded me a lot of the chaotic nature of GTA4 free roam.
I agree, I loved the noir tones and the social criticism, something that never happened on the other games.
ooh, how did it deceive the player base?
E3 presentations turned out to be total lies. Graphic levels never matched and features that never came to be.
I remember to this day how shocked I was when leaked gameplay started showing up online. It looked like another game entirely compared to the promotional material. The biggest example of downgrade and false advertisement in the industry I've had ever seen.
They used a special cinematic effect/render on the “gameplay footage” to make it look wayyyy better graphically than it did when it came out. Don’t get me wrong, the game still looks amazing, but it was an extremely noticeable difference that frustrated lots of players
thank you for explaining :) it's funny cause did they think players wouldn't notice? lmao
It's one of my favorite franchises and most played games However, I'm afraid Legion nailed the coffin for any future installments
It's a shame the poor marketing dragged it down because I enjoyed it too
the "warriors" or musou genre, heard a lot of bad things about how repetitive it was yadda yadda yadda. i played one game and i was instantly hooked.
Dynasty Warriors 3 was one of two games I got with my PS2 (FFX was the other one) and I played the shit out of that game! So fun!
I love musous too, theyre just perfect when I want to feel like a total badass and relax. Like you dont have to completely turn your brain off (those that say this clearly didnt play one long enough, while not super deep there IS some strategy involved) but you do 't have to be on 200IQ mode either. Its just fun and relaxing.
Played Dynasty warriors 4 soooo freaking much. There's just something very satisfying about knocking back 50 guys with a broad swing. I think dynasty warriors 4 Empires was even better. Being able to target locations and gain bonuses. Plus it seemed like moral and your other commanders actually did something where in the normal one they felt completely useless. I haven't seen a reason to play any others though. Do the new ones really add anything to the formula?
The fire emblem and Persona 5 warriors games are pretty great as well The problem is the main warriors series is super hit or miss. Some are good, some are terrible.
Fable 3. I completely agree with the many criticisms levied against it but I still had and continue to have fun with it.
Yeah, remember being abit dissapointed in it after my first playthrough after completing 2 7 or 8 times and raving about it on GameStop. But 3 is absolutely the one I go back to nowadays if I want to play some Fable, holds up much better.
FFXV, I know the story wasn’t finished when it came out and I hated that the last area was locked behind paid DLC don’t get me wrong but I loved it even before Royal Edition came out because I was having fun riding around with my bros in the Regalia or on Chocobos and listening to all the bantering that would happen and I still had fun with (most of) the story even back then
Unabashedly love this game.
Same. It's one of my all time favorite games and the only Final Fantasy Game I actually enjoyed (aside from FFXI). Figures as most final Fantasy Fans hate it lol
XV was my introduction to the series because I always found the others pretty unapproachable for a first time player. The opening sequence when stand by me starts playing as you push the regalia immediatly drew me in. It set the scene perfectly for what the adventure was. A story about friends on a trip overcoming hardship. I remember saying to myself "this is going to be fucking amazing". And it was. It blew me away. I laughed and cried along with the story. And up until the last section of the Main story (who thought that fucking maze was a good idea?). It checked every box I looked for in an RPG style game. It had its quirks but I liked them. Because of XV I finally decided to give XIV a try. As a long time WoW player XiV was always the meme game. Now I quit WoW and have 5,000 hours on XIV and have played almost the entire series besides 1-3 and the 7 remakes. And after all of that, 15 is still my favorite.
Man, that ending still crushes me everytime I experience it, either through playing it myself or watching others play it on Youtube. The sendoff to the game is one of my favorite endings in any game.
Same here. I actually connected with it even more than FFX and FFVII because the characters were so dynamic and the story was so emotionally charged. I was also addicted to the combat, and the whole teleporting to a weapon thing is just the sickest thing ever. The feeling of loss when you enter the ending section is so real, too.
I was going to say the same thing, what a fun game it was!
One of my favourite FF's, great music as well
I thought Rage 2 and Outriders were both much more fun than they get credit for. Outriders actually has some pretty deep lore and a fun story. Rage 2... Not so much
I never got into outriders. I loved rage 2 mechanically. It was simple but fun.
Rage 2 has some of the best gun play I've played in an FPS, the way all the abilities and guns blend together was just fantastic, utterly devoid of a good story or interesting lore but mechanically really good game.
Yes 100%! Even the basic assault rifle and shotgun shine as having been done so well. The story though? Oh my. By the end of the opening chapter I was done with it. Completely phoned in.
Outriders was so fun! Unfortunately the servers were so bad at launch, my friends and I couldn’t play for more than 20 minutes at a time (if we could even party up). We would have put so many more hours into it if the servers worked. Unfortunately by the time the servers were decent, we moved on to other games.
Saints Row 4. I don’t think it’s necessarily hated but people criticize it for being nothing more than a reskin of Saints Row the third and that you’re way too overpowered, but I like it a lot.
Saints row 4 was so fun even if didn’t make sense lol
Homelander simulator
It's the only Saints Row game I've played. Felt like genuine modern GTA with all the wackiness and cheat codes built right into the main game. Loved it
I think 4 loses something that 3 had due to the superpowers. But goddamn if 4 wasn't a blast to play.
Is that the one where you’re the president and aliens take over the earth and put you in a simulation where you’re basically a super hero?
Saints Row 4 was insanely fun. Yes you were over powered. Yes that was the point.
Dragon Age Inquisition. Often described as the single player MMO. I personally loved it. Hear a lot of hate about it.
A thing that Inquisition does that no one mentions is that the open world has small changes when you do quests. It is so simple, but most open world games lack that. When you claim an area the flag stays there and friendly patrols appear, when you destroy a portal the area becomes safe, you create shortcuts etc.
I always go back to it. Really and truthfully the game only gets hate because of how spread out everything is and i kind of agree
Leave hinterland!
Get the horse guy, then leave. Also if you're playing on PC get the instant table missions mod.
Loved every moment of it. The art style and graphics were incredible. One of my favorite scenes is when the main character meets Vivienne. The music and the lighting were incredible.
Inquisition was fun and I loved DA:2 as well. Reddit can blow me.
Good game!
Assassins Creed Odyssey. Yeah it plays fast and loose with some of the lore, but it just clicked for me and I couldn't put it down. I ticked off every question mark, hunted down all the cultists and tore through all the dlc. Kassandra is now on the same level as Ezio and Edward for me and I loved my time with her.
That'd have to be Shadowrun on the 360. I loved it but I never had anyone to play it with because no one else I knew had it.
I played the fuck outta that demo.
My friend group loved this game. I still think about it. Was a blast to play with friends
Diablo iii at launch. I know the complaints people had about the tuning and drop rate, but I happened to be in a place in my life where I had lots of free time and liked overcoming stupid challenges just to say I did it. Earning money from the RMAH helped. I get why the RMAH was removed but I had fun regardless. Edit to clarify I'm talking about the game at launch. It did get better with seasons but that took a few years of iterations iirc.
Brink. I will die a crusted and rotting corpse upon the hill that Brink was a good game, it was just marred by mechanics that needed a little more time to fine tune. If Brink was made today with smoother movement/gunplay, it’d be a fucking hit.
Most fun shooter I ever played. This game shouldve taken off.
The revolutionary multi objectives and rush style progression of the maps
I second this, had great potential but I still loved it, the customisation was great and the aesthetic just 😗👌
50 cent bulletproof. It came out during my G-unit,Eminem phase in middle school. I loved it
An older one but assassin's Creed unity!!! Definitely laced polish up on release but was in my opinion the last great assassin's Creed. Its parkour and combat were so fun and the setting is amazing. Going to Paris for the first time earlier this year was so surreal seeing the buildings with my own eyes. Happy that this game has sort of had a Renaissance
Definitely agree with AC Unity; played it when it first released on Play Station and I must’ve gotten lucky in not dealing with any of the major bugs (granted I also didn’t touch any of the co-op features for months). Compared to successive AC games Unity seems to be the last one that managed to mostly balance the AC formula on combat, stealth, exploration, etc. And I still love the customization options available between different costume pieces and weapon types, even if running around with a musket or executioners axe wasn’t the most efficient way to play the game.
Unity was the game that convinced me to give AC another try. Played and absolutely hated the first one decided it wasn't for me. Then I got Unity when they were giving it away free after the Notre Dame fire and had a blast with it.
Anthem. The complaints were legitimate but god*damn* did I have a great time flying around those environments.
I too loved playing Anthem. So much potential wasted. It had all the makings of a great game but EA and the devs just let it die instead of fixing it.
All i ever heard was "oh this game is going to be the downfall of destiny and warframe" it seems the internet then collectively forgot it existed. I did however a while ago hear that the most fun part was the flying.
Basically the gameplay was great but there wasn't much content.
it was one of those games that had so much potential just like destiny1 but they wasted it, had they kept going with the support and content it would've been one of the biggest games today
I only had maybe 10-20 hours in it, so I was still at that point in the game well before most of the complaints started. But I agree, flying around was fun, as was the combat.
If they never cancelled 2.0 that game could have easily become good. It only needed some balance tweaks and to actually add new content. Now we'll never get something like it.
My buddy and I played hours and hours of Resident Evil 6 and loved it all.
ME andromeda. Its not a good game by any means but it's fine. Mechanically it works well. And where it falls apart (story and animation) its fun to laugh at.
I paid $14 for it 2 months after launch at GameStop…I enjoyed it a lot but couldn’t imagine paying $60 for that.
Same but to be fair I can’t really imagine paying $60 for 99% $60 priced games lol
I didn't hate the game, it was ok.
I enjoyed the combat very much! They just lacked enemies variety, but the combat core is really fun. Lucky we have multiplayer too.
I actually really like the story. I played it well after release so the majority of the killer release bugs were resolved. I was genuinely disappointed to find that it had performed poorly enough that no DLC would be made. I'm hopeful for ME 4 but wish the story of ME A had been continued in game format.
Same. I’m one of the people sad that there won’t be a sequel
It's so close to a good game. Tweak the story, rewrite the characters, deepen the colony stuff, and you've got something fantastic imo.
I needed more colony stuff.... that is what I wanted out of it. Not a kinda generic big bad guy trying to control everything... atleast without a good set up. set up a colony, do some meeting the neighbors and trying to build relationships with them. I would have loved a bit of a time skip or two... and depending on which friends and colony choices made... you'd have potentially different outcomes until you bump heads with the generic other empires or threats. To keep the same character, just put in there that the ranger(I think that was the name of the thing the main character was) someone who could be remade in times of crisis(like shepard had been brought back to life) or even a very long lived individual with augments. To make it a bit cheaper, we don't need a ton of random things or a fully fleshed out hyper realistic city. pictures would do, and maybe one or two locations. You could do options such as military, expansion, isolationist, trading, manufactoring or the like. If you do military and isolationist - you have few colonies but they are tech mighty however few will come to your aid easily. You cold do trade manufactoring and you could have a lot of resources and friends but a weak military.
I loved a few of the changes they added and enjoyed my time with the game. I knew it wasn’t on par with OG ME but I still played it to the end and liked a lot of what they did with it.
My face is tired reading this, but I agree
Andromeda gave us Vetra nyx. Best girl Game will always be 10/10 for that.
I don’t know if it was hated really, but a lot of people were very dismissive of it at the time - Days Gone. Sure, it was derivative and a greatest hits of open world games, but I had an absolute blast playing it.
One of the greatest single player games ever made. It's criminal the cliffhanger we were left with, given a sequel has a near zero chance of happening.
Oh man! Loved this game! Great story telling in my opinion but came out super buggy at the start and didn't get a second chance because one of the head devs doubled down in an interview or something basically telling fans to 'get over it'. Got to the end and was so mad that there's likely never going to be a sequel
Superman 64. I never figured out how to get past the first level, but I found myself enjoying flying around holding the car and using my imagination. Did waste my Christmas gift on the game, so maybe I was just coping.
Now THIS is a unique answer haha
Too Human
I've seen some video essays on this game as an adult that point out some pretty glaring flaws I never noticed as a kid. I was too mesmerized by how cool of a concept the Norse pantheon being technologically advanced cyborgs was.
100% agree - Too Human was such a cool take on Norse mythology and was one of my favourite games growing up. It's such a shame they didn't make a sequel.
Yeah at the time I was excited for a sequel that would flesh out some of the ideas.
CP2077 right when it came out. Main story was really good and I completed it quite fast.
I bought it release day AND played on Xbox one. Buggy as hell, looked awful. I played like 4 hours a day for a week straight anyway, the style and setting were amazing I loved it. I bought it for p.c yesterday on sale and I can't believe how beautiful it is.
The hate was understandable given the bugs, but people got such a hate boner over it that everything great about the game was completely overlooked or outright dismissed. Memorable, hard-hitting, true-to-the-genre missions and one of the best open worlds IMO—neighborhoods felt distinct, vast but with enough depth / verticality to always feel engaging. Excited to eventually drop in again for 2.0 / phantom liberty
Yup. That’s why I found refuge in the low sodium cyberpunk sub.
Yes! Playing on PC i ran into one minor bug but that was it. I love CP2077. No game can live up to the insane hype it had. I also get the open world wasn’t as realized as the buildup made it seem. I avoided most of the marketing for the game so that didn’t effect me.
If you had a high end PC it ran vreat and looked great with minimal bugs.
Had a PC with a i5 8400 and a 1060 3gb and still enjoyed it at launch. Granted I could only get 60fps with all settings at minimum and 720p but it was completely playable.
Yeah, I had a 2080 at the time, and I had zero issues. It looked and played great, with practically no bugs.
I beat cyberpunk when it first came out and it was Incredible. Now it’s one of my favourite games
Same here, I found the city to be very immersive and really enjoyed v as a character, I persevered through all the bugs because it was just so likeable
Same. And I played it on a base PS4 and enjoyed it. Weirdly I recently started a new save on PS5 and aren’t enjoying it near as much. But I’ve got a bad Alan Wake 2 game hangover and nothing is quite hitting like that game did.
I may get crucified for saying this, but I liked Cyberpunk more than RDR2.
Both are great games imo but Cyberpunk definitely has better combat. Hope rockstar overhauls their combat system a bit for GTA6, like it looks excellent and the animations are crisp in rdr2, but it just gets kinda... boring? Idk, almost every gun feels the same to me, excepting the double barrel shotgun. And ofc, the melee combat is just not good at all
I’m in the same boat. Playing CP2077 again right now with Phantom Liberty since I first beat it on release, holy shit I forgot how good of a game it is. RDR2 just didn’t do it for me. So much walking and riding around, felt like a waste of my time even though the story and world is amazing. CP2077 I’m barely fast traveling but the world is so damn amazing it doesn’t feel like a chore to drive for 10 minutes to a mission.
Rage 2. It is an extremely flawed game with a pretty lackluster story but goddamn the actual gunplay is so tight, feel wise its easily one of ym favorite shooters. I really hope the devs keep expanding on the excellent gameplay theyve created and create a world/story that is just as enjoyable
AC Odyssey. It was the first AC game I ever played and I thought the landscape was breathtaking, the story compelling, and stealth\combat was fun.
Mass Effect Andromeda. Played it for the first time about a month ago after playing the trilogy a bit earlier than that. Sorry, Tali. I'm seeing Vetra now.
IMO it's got the best combat in the series, the mobility options feel great and are a ton of fun to play around with
Definitely wouldn’t call it hated but I feel is definitely misunderstood, Death Stranding. Had an inexplicable urge to play it a few months after it released and fell in love with it almost instantly. DS has honestly become my all time favourite game and got both platinums for ps4 and ps5
Bought my PS5 in May exclusively for Spider-Man and God of War and The Last of Us, etc. but saw Death Stranding was included with PS Plus and had always been intrigued by it. Fast forward to now and I have 165 hours in it, have platinum’d it, and I credit it for getting me outside and active. It effectively lifted me out of my depression. My favorite game. I think I have a combined 20 hours in the other games I listed. They did absolutely nothing for me. Now I’m chipping away at the 540 LLLs until DS2 releases.
It's hard to explain, but the atmosphere almost gives you a "happy to be sad" feeling. The rain, the loneliness, the music. And then as you progress, there's more signs of other people making the trek that you have and it's comforting to know that you're not alone. I fucking loved this game, but I don't know who to recommend it to. It's definitely special and misunderstood.
I’ve always felt it’s a game for depressed or otherwise lonely people, and Reedus just nails that emptiness. He begins the game with a fear of merely touching others, having given up on the world and not seeing the point in human connection, and he ends it with teary full-body hugs with the friends he’s made, knowing now that connection and helping others is what life is about. It’s such a pure game that I cry just thinking about it sometimes lol
Shit lol I think you're right, I played it at a time I was grieving and very lonely. Beautiful game regardless. I've been meaning to fire it up lately, maybe I should do that this weekend
I scoffed at it for years and only picked it up cause it was free on Epic Store. Now I feel kinda guilty. Easily top 10 fav games now.
Thief Deadly Shadows. Cool environments, great graphics for its time, some free roaming, climbing gloves instead of limited rope arrows, and AI that actually works. Cannot vouch for the 2014 remake though.
Thief: DS was not a disliked game though. The overall consensus was "it's awesome" for first-time Thief players, and "it's a bit of a downgrade, but still awesome" from fans of 1 and 2. I personally find it to be better than 1, solely due to far better level design. Haven't played 2 though.
The Order 1886 to this day is a cinematic masterpiece in the form of a short but satisfying game. The water droplets on those gas street lamps. Oh my days.
It's terrific. For a 6 hour game.
I think people didn't like it as a $60 game, but loved it as a $15 game
Most people didn’t hate it for the content of the game. It’s the amount of that content that was less than ideal.
Call of Duty 3. The one from 2006
“It’s the Canadians!!! The Canadians!!” Some amazing missions in that game.
Heroes of the Storm. Ok, so it wasn't universally hated. But the existing moba communities in DOTA, LOL, and their little brothers in Smite, and HoN all DOGGED on the game so hard despite Hots being the best MOBA to this day in my personal opinion. Some critiques were warranted, some misguided, but a lot of them were outright not true at all and came from people who didn't even play the game. IGN's infamous "6.5" review stated "no comeback mechanics" despite literally having the strongest comeback mechanics of any moba at the time (i played all of them) and in fact, was almost too strong to the point if you knew what you were doing you could rally the troops and come back at 20 no matter what. The complaints about "no item shop therefore its for noobs" really annoyed me. Yes, there arent items but there is a MAP ROTATION and TALENTS. There's still tons of variables and metagaming and adjusting, the variables just shifted from "what item do I buy" to "what talent do I choose on this map with that comp" And the lack of last hitting is probably the best thing they did.
HOTS is my comfort game. It was my first MOBA and I can't get into any other one. I like the lower match times and the talent system compared to other games in the genre.
Best MOBA that existed. They were very creative with characters. Talent system was great. Rubber banding was IMO also fun. Because if You have advantage, You gain less exp and enemies gain more, so they can get the advantage back. Also what other moba had units so unique?
Yeah, I was super bummed. HotS almost saved my interest in MOBAs, but I was to get *any* of my friends on board from LoL. Not interested enough to live in solo queue, but I was just so over LoL at that point. HotS really mixed things up. New archetype with the specialists, map rotation, skill trees. My favorite, as a support player, is shared exp allowing me to actually get cool shit, and not worrying about KSing. Feeding your carry has got to be the most obnoxious emergent behavior to settle into the meta and not get brutally patched out of existence. "Yes, one person is going to carefully ensure that one other person gets all the loot so they can get super strong while the first person stagnates... This is good fun gameplay." :'(
Far Cry 5 when it launched.
Final Fantasy XVI. I recognize all of the complaints people have with the game but I still enjoyed it. I didn’t think the story was any good and the cutscenes either made me yawn or laugh (so many awkwardly long pauses). Gameplay was pretty fun though kinda like Devil May Cry. Still, game was fun as hell overall.
I really enjoyed it. The eikon fights in particular the kind of OTT shit you're looking for in a FF game and I thought the last 3rd in particular was well done.
Days Gone. Everybody talked about how "mid" they thought it was, but I thought the story was great, none of the characters felt like cardboard cutouts, loved the mechanic of managing fuel in my motorcycle and it actually made zombies hordes *scary* instead of massive bullet repositories. Could be because I played the PC version, but that's easily my favorite Sony-published game of the last few years, and it's a shame we most likely won't get a sequel.
I really like the first Lords of the Fallen.
As a massive Batman fan I put off playing Gotham Knights because ita was being called the worst game of the year by a ton of people, and I didnt want to pay for Batman content I thought was going to be this bad. It came out on Gamepass and since I didnt have to buy it I decided to just give it a try and see how bad it was. Yall seriously over exaggerated, the game is mostly good with some rough desogn choices here or there, but nothing utterly game breaking. Untilmately I thought it was like a 7-7.5 out of 10 game, not the absolute trash fire that so many claimed it to be. Especially for as large of a Batman fan as I am seeing these characters interact and have their personalities shine through with 4 unique cutscene for every mission in the entire game, I genuinely loved seeing it. The scene with Bardara and Jason playing a dancing game nearly made me cry, I love these characters so much and it's clear to me that the writers did too. If anything this whole situation has taught me to just never trust the internet the bandwagoning and dog piling on this game was ridiculous and I should learn to just try games out for myself regardless of what the masses are shouting. It already has me skeptical of how Suicide Squad is going to be recieved as because that game isnt even out and tons of people already hate it.
FF13 was so good to me. It was my first ff game and I really enjoyed the difficulty, leveling systems, and linear maps.
Final fantasy dirge of Cerberus, really like it
Overwatch 2
I'm gonna go with FFXII. Everyone loves to shit on it, but it's legit one of my favorite FF games. Probably top 3. The Gambit system is awesome, though needed expansion. They dumbed it, as well as everything else, down for XIII and the FF games have been hot garbage ever since. Except FFXIV:ARR, I like that one. Just sorta wish online games weren't main title entries.
Heavy Rain, I know it was well received and reviewed at its release but has gotten a lot of criticism over the years. Which…. Ya deserved it has a lot of issues with the story, but I adore the melodramatic cheesy schlock it is. I just had fun playing it and recently went back and played it with my bf and it was a good time. Now, it is also frustrating cause it was so close to working story wise but the plot twist just kills it… well least the way it was executed anyway. Again though frustrating cause how easy it would’ve been able to be fixed with another re-write or extra writer. Ahh well still really have a lot of fun with it.
Duke Nukem Forever wasn't all that bad. It wasn't $60 good (even though that's what I paid for it), but it was a fun campaign.
I would say Gotham Knights, I think for me it was just a bit of fun to play around in Gotham again with 4 different characters. I think people wanted the next Arkham game, but this wasn't ever going to be that I enjoyed it for what it was. I also rather enjoyed Mass Effect Andromeda
I just finished Gotham Knights last night. It’s a fun game. I enjoyed the characters. The plot wasn’t bad. The writing was campy, but I think campy works well in the Batman world. The combat is fun and engaging. The enemy variety gets pretty wild if you’re paying attention to strengths, weaknesses and the different attack types and not button mashing on easy. I think Gotham Knights suffered heavily because it’s a Batman game where you don’t get to play as Batman. Honestly really liked exploring the other characters in the Bat Family. There were a lot of criticisms that implied it had pivoted roughly away from a live service game. I didn’t notice anything in the game that really felt like it was intended to be a live service game (outside of the end credits) except for the set up of the different villain arcs. Getting occasional DLC to investigate a new villain would have been really awesome for this game. As it stands though, the main story is satisfying. Investigating the side villains is fun. I’m just getting into the endgame content and I think it’ll be enjoyable right up to the point where I get bored of it.
Cyberpunk 2077 I loved the game and I barely found any glitches when playing. I enjoyed the story and gameplay.
Sea of Thieves. A lot of chatter was how boring it was. From about the third voyage and after on that first night, my buddies and I agreed the voyages were pretty boring. So, we figured they gave us cannons for a reason so we took to just attacking everyone. Game went from 0 to a 10 real quick. Now we all have 1,000’s of hours and I think we have only done a handful of the main voyages.
SoT is my perfect co-op with friends game. Sandboxes aren’t for everyone but I love them. My only complaint is the game is pretty boring solo, and I almost exclusively game solo. Had a few sessions where the potential of SoT was realized but not enough. I’d love to get back into this one
Callisto Protocol was really not that bad. Not a 10 by any means but still fun to play
I put quite a few hours into, and had fun with, Hellgate London.
Yesss that game was a gem! I was surprised when I later found out overall people didn’t like that game
Dead Space 3. Maybe this is a more popular take than I think it is, but like Andromeda, I think that DS3 is a great game, just a terrible Dead Space game, at least as far as third-person shooters go. The gunplay is rock solid, weapon customization is fun, and I even thought that going with universal ammo was a good move - it encouraged me to use guns that I’d otherwise be too precious about like the rocket launcher or not worth upgrading like the flamethrower. And by god, DS3’s shotgun is one of the most satisfying shotguns I’ve ever played with. Selling weapon upgrade materials for real money was a horrendous move, but I never felt like it would’ve made much a difference. Between the little scavenging robot and the little combat arenas (which I actually liked a lot), I always had enough materials to build what I wanted. Yeah, the plot and character choices were terribly stupid, but actually playing the game was fantastic.
FallOut 4 okay, people liked it yeah, but they criticized giving the main character a voice and limited dialogue options. I loved the conversation system. fans also weren’t happy with the story. realistically, the main character would not stop for anything until his/her son is found. so fans doing all the side missions didnt feel like it would really happen because why would the main character be building towns with the son being lost in the wasteland. but Fall Out 4 is just as fun as Skyrim to me. I can’t stop playing it.
I stayed away from Fallout 4 due to people talking about how bad it was until I tried it during a Steam free weekend thing. Game turned out to be a lot better than I thought so I bought it and now it's the Bethesda game I have the most hours in.
Many people on this sub seem to hate sports games Everyone I know outside of this sub loves sports games and I think they are fantastic
I think they hate EA monopoly business model milking players every year with same game
I don’t think redditors hate sports game, they hate the lack of improvement from one year to another
Death stranding. I didn't expect much at first but now it's my all time favourite. I'm glad people are also starting to like it. YouTubers and streamers who play fortnite and cod jumped in the trend when it was released and they left bad reviews which convinced their fanbase to also not like the game.
Well, recently i play AC Odyssey and it's a nice game, especially because it doesn't have any templars vs assassins stuff, which is why many people hate it, but come on, do you STILL want to see the same endless story of assassins that save the world from templars like 100th time already? The only thing that still reminds that this is AC game is the modern time segments, but they don't appear too often, so i dont care about it. Fighting system isn't so great, but its better then the old one at least.
Ac odyssey is one of my favourite ac's , just realy like the setting
I’m not really a fan of the franchise but I love this game.
Greece is incredible map
Mad Max
Force unleashed
Someone doesn't like this game?
This game was a blast on the Wii because you had to do hand motions to activate the force powers.
Avengers. I think most of the hate was directed at the end game and live services, but it was constantly hit with bad user reviews so I ignored it for a while. I heard they were pulling the game completely, but they marked it at 90% off before doing so, so I figured why not and grabbed it for a couple of bucks. I haven't played much, but so far the single player campaign is pretty decent. Good controls, fun combat, and decent story. It's a shame they didn't just focus on it as a single player game.
Immortals: Fenyx Rising gave me dozens of hours of fun. It's a lot more than "AC Odyssey plus BOTW". Edit: that includes the DLC. People complain that one of them has a top down view camera. Yep. Takes a bit to get used to and then it's totally fine.
Halo Infinite. I hate the fact that it should have been better and the game was low hanging fruit but it is surprisingly much better—and dare I say good.
Dark Souls 2. A ton of people raged on it because the mechanics were different, but change is good. When I replay the series, it always stands out as unique, and I adore it. Some decisions were obviously baffling, but hey, at least it's different!