A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?
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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.
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I really enjoyed Mass Effect: Andromeda.
I really wish this had been one for me, but I've never been able to make it more than halfway through despite a few good faith attempts. I am really glad you had a great time with it, though!
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Indigo Prophecy
Played it when it originally released in the US and I loved it as a pre-teen who had no fucking idea what was happening in the story.
Came to find out no one had any clue what was happening in the story regardless and people thought the game was a mess.
I loved this one, too. Super weird story, but I was hooked. I didn't even object to what I sort of remember as a deus ex machina kind of ending. Seemed fittingly weird for the vibe.
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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.
Deus Ex: Invisible War, and Dragon Age 2.
I liked them both. Not as good as Deus Ex 1 or DA:O, but I enjoyed and finished playthroughs of both games.
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Deus Ex: Invisible War, and Dragon Age 2.
I liked them both. Not as good as Deus Ex 1 or DA:O, but I enjoyed and finished playthroughs of both games.
I enjoyed Dragon Age 2 as well. It's just that it's an action movie to Origins' House of the Dragon. It's just different genres.
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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 can't think of any that I wasn't fully aware of the criticism.
But I did play No Man's Sky, Cyberpunk 2077, and Fallout 76 for hundreds of hours each right at launch and enjoyed every moment without significant issues, despite being fully aware of all the hate being thrown at them at the time.
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I enjoyed Outer Worlds. Tons of criticism online, but I liked it.
I enjoyed the hell out of that game. My only complaint was that the loot lacked variety, and it was a bit more on rails than what I think of as a proper open world RPG.
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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.
Enter the Matrix, I loved the slowmo effects and the fights, the first hallway scene felt like it was straight from the movie. Using the computer terminal to unlock stuff felt magical.
Only later I learned that Path of Neo was supposed to be a better Matrix game while Enter the Matrix was universally panned. And I’ve played it too, but didn’t get as much enjoyment out of it, it just didn’t have as much soul -
Final Fantasy 8. I loved it but apparently I was in the minority.
I also loved FF8. I'd be more interested in a remake of that one than 7 tbh.
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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.I've probably talked more about XV than any other supposedly bad game, so maybe I've developed some sort of Stockholm Syndrome. But for an objectively pretty bad game I enjoyed parts of it and it did elicit emotions out of me at times.
The game has many problems, but maybe the biggest is the huge overambitious "multi-media experience" they attempted. The game itself suffers because its content is spread so thin as it's stretched out over a movie and a comic and the DLCs and I don't remember what else. An anime? Even the Royal Edition still suffers for not integrating the DLCs, and it's kind of awkward to have to stop playing at the appropriate times to go so the DLCs for the maximum impact. And even then the planned Lunafreya DLC would have added so much to the story, but they never got around to that as the game flopped (in large parts because crucial story elements were scheduled for fucking DLCs instead of included in the game!)
I do agree that the combat is fun, and they did have a really good vibe going with the bros and the road trip. There are some really nice heartfelt moments where the game shines. And the fishing minigame is absolute top drawer, one of the best in gaming. But ultimately I look at it as a huge pile of wasted potential.
Absolutely gorgeous music though, some really powerful leitmotif work like Sunset Waltz/Valse di Fantastica and Ardyns themes.
