A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?
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Sonic Adventure 1. I love the hub worlds and how the stories of the different characters intertwine in the shared areas. And I love the variety of characters and being able to freely choose which one to advance (unlike Sonic Adventure 2...)
I didn't know this one wasn't well received until just now. To me it's one of the few good 3D sonics. The plot, stage design, intersecting stories with varied play styles. All of that made it feel like playing in a full world.
That being said, I'm hit or miss on sonic in general, so maybe I like it for not being a traditional sonic game.
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Might and Magic 6-8. Thought it's the best game ever during my childhood. Turns out it was pretty bad. Still like it (nostalgy)
7 and 8 maybe, but I lived under the impression that 6 was critically acclaimed and also very popular.
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Two Worlds 1-2
There are tons of youtubers making joke videos about these games, but against all the jank I alway found them both enjoyable and even I dare say good games. The magic system in particular was amazing.Finally, someone else who remembers these games! They weren't as polished or impressive as others, but they were fun and had lots of challenges.
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I'm talking about games that you still like but you had no idea were criticized so much.
The perfect example for me is Sonic Unleashed.
I admit that the game has its bad things, but I would have never imagined that it was so hated at the time... Although, that could be extended to the entire Sonic franchise, since for many years I was not aware at all of that "Sonic was never good", "Sonic had a rough transition to 3D" nonsense.
I enjoyed Outer Worlds. Tons of criticism online, but I liked it.
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I'm talking about games that you still like but you had no idea were criticized so much.
The perfect example for me is Sonic Unleashed.
I admit that the game has its bad things, but I would have never imagined that it was so hated at the time... Although, that could be extended to the entire Sonic franchise, since for many years I was not aware at all of that "Sonic was never good", "Sonic had a rough transition to 3D" nonsense.
Final Fantasy XV. (I just played the Royal Edition with all DLCs, I don't know how the Base Game was without the extra stuff)
Man I love that game, I love the Characters, the Lore, the cinematics, the movie, the anime, the world, the gameplay.
The Gameplay is soooo fucking fun, switching between Characters, switching between weapons with Noctis. The Animations are beautiful.
I'm probably one of the only people on earth that is happy that we left the open World after a while and the game is more on rails. Because the Moment the Story is getting interesting, the pacing is way better. -
FF8 has been going through a bit of a resurgence lately where it does seem to be getting a fair amount of praise. It used to get slated though.
It still feels fresh.
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I enjoyed Outer Worlds. Tons of criticism online, but I liked it.
Me too, didn't even know people thought it was a bad game until recently. Honestly I don't get why, I wasn't expecting anything different from what I got, there were definitely some dialogues that made me chuckle, and a lot of storylines were very tongue in cheek, and while gameplay was nothing to write home about neither is fallout and this was sold as "fallout in space", and definitely delivered on that.
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I don't let other people influence my tastes.
I make my own opinions
You might be the first human to actually do that.
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The game became that shitshow because Warner Bros execs got pissed that a "no-name" yuropeean company got the rights to make a licensed Superman game (because they were the only company that bothered to bid), so they did a lot of time-wasting requests to the developers.
https://www.retrojunk.com/a/C1CKNP9rjC/the-story-behind-superman-64
This. Check out the leaked beta on YouTube. It's looks significantly better than the finished product
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Personally the movement mechanics and the tropical overworld were amazing in this game.
While the water jetpack may seem like a gimmick, I thought it really changed the platforming in a good way.
Additionally, I'm a sucker for a good overworld and the amount of things you can unlock or discover in delphino plaza turns it into its own sort of level.
There is definitely some jank and padding (blue coins) in the game, but it holds up better than Mario 64 in my opinion (just due to the camera issues IN Mario 64).
Camera issues in Mario 64 are fixed by playing the decomp / homebrew versions that have free camera control. It's how I first played and 100%d it.
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The first Call of Duty game I played was Ghosts, and it may have coloured my perception of what the series is about. Bombastic popcorn munching action that goes in one ear and straight out of the other. I was like "eeeeh it's okay". After playing some older ones I was like "well I'm sure it was groundbreaking at the time". (Hm. Did I ever finish MW2? And I think I put Black Ops 2 on hold after the first mission. Loved Advanced Warfare tho!)
wrote last edited by [email protected]I hated ghosts but also enjoyed the bots that learned from actual players so they would behave like how players online would....and you would get XP too
Soon I saw them corner camp or even dropshot.
I cannot believe (actually I can since bots can't monetize) that the idea of playing against bots where they would get smarter was never used again
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I don't let other people influence my tastes.
I make my own opinions
It's more likely that you are just not aware of the influence others have on you. Which is fine, a lot of that stuff is subconscious.
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I'm talking about games that you still like but you had no idea were criticized so much.
The perfect example for me is Sonic Unleashed.
I admit that the game has its bad things, but I would have never imagined that it was so hated at the time... Although, that could be extended to the entire Sonic franchise, since for many years I was not aware at all of that "Sonic was never good", "Sonic had a rough transition to 3D" nonsense.
Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex
Some YouTube analysis about it really broke the magic for me -
This. Check out the leaked beta on YouTube. It's looks significantly better than the finished product
That looks fun.
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That looks fun.
I know right?? What a damn shame WB fucked Titus over like that
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I enjoyed Outer Worlds. Tons of criticism online, but I liked it.
It still has a 9/10 on Steam despite all the flak it took. I think it's a classic. To me it's similar to the backlash to Fallout 4 from purists, which I also feel is a classic game
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Two Worlds 1-2
There are tons of youtubers making joke videos about these games, but against all the jank I alway found them both enjoyable and even I dare say good games. The magic system in particular was amazing.Harold Faltermeyer made some nice music for the game. Opala is still stuck in my head.
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Not going to lie, I like it quite a bit more than New Vegas. I understand several criticisms that people have, but 3 was by far the better experience for me.
Same here. NV was pretty boring to me while FO3 was actually fun.
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I enjoyed Outer Worlds. Tons of criticism online, but I liked it.
Agreed. I thought it was a competently made game, even if not groundbreaking or best in class for shooting. I think people's expectations are often their biggest obstacle to enjoyment.
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I don't let other people influence my tastes.
I make my own opinions
So you are both a liar and semi-literate.
