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A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?

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  • flamingos@feddit.ukF [email protected]

    Fallout 3. The criticism is absolutely fair*, but it was the first RPG I ever played and I'm still very fond of it.

    * I never got the 'metros are hard to navigate' criticism, I never had that issues. Most of them are pretty linear.

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    FO3 is my favorite Fallout (haven't played 4 or 76 yet).

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    • none_dc@lemmy.worldN [email protected]

      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.

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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.

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        Bro what people didn't like DK64? I spent a large chunk of my childhood getting 100% in that game. Lanky Kong was my boy.

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          Super Mario Sunshine. I thought it was just hard as a kid. Come to learn it’s fucking broken.

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          Wait, people hate it? I still do nostalgia playthroughs occasionally, one of my favs for GC.

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            A lot of people didn't like Assassins Creed Odyssey, but I loved it. Only AC I've played since 2.

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            I think that might be part of it. For a lot of people, it was that the formula was old and tired. I know Odyssey did fairly well, but it's still just an AC game

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            • none_dc@lemmy.worldN [email protected]

              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.

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              This is an oldie, but Lords of the Realm II. I loved the first two, but had trouble with the third and ended up giving up, assuming it was a me problem.

              Nope, the community pretty much unanimously hates it. It's not a terrible game per se, it's just very different from the first two, throwing out everything most people liked about the predecessors and not exactly succeeding at the new mechanics.

              I've decided to build my own take on the best parts of all three, we'll see if I ever finish it.

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                Can confirm, several hundred hours in and I have like, 3 usable jets with missiles. And I deliberately rushed the shortest tech line to get them faster. And Im basically permanent premium.

                How the fuck is a free player meant to do it

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                That's the neat part, you aren't! Gaijin 100% expects you to pay to get to top tier.

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                • flamingos@feddit.ukF [email protected]

                  Fallout 3. The criticism is absolutely fair*, but it was the first RPG I ever played and I'm still very fond of it.

                  * I never got the 'metros are hard to navigate' criticism, I never had that issues. Most of them are pretty linear.

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                  I lived in D.C. when I played it. Between that and it being the first of its kind in the series, none of the others come remotely close for me.

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                  • none_dc@lemmy.worldN [email protected]

                    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.

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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...)

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                    • none_dc@lemmy.worldN [email protected]

                      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.

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                      I spent a lot of time playing Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts alone and online with friends. A lot of people I've talked to view it negatively and are surprised when I say it was one of my favorite 360 titles. It's one of the main reasons I want to try out Xbox 360 emulation.

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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.

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                        Oh man I loved that game as a teen but I had to give up somewhere near the end cuz I was in a sneaking section that I tried for hours but kept failing. I ended up dropping the game and just reading the story online. Up until then, it was a really fun game though.

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                        • die4ever@retrolemmy.comD [email protected]

                          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...)

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                          Ah, a comrade SA1 enjoyer 🤝

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                            Do you mean Thief: Deadly Shadows? That was the 3rd game in the series, and from what I understand it was pretty well received. The orphanage level alone is so highly regarded that it has its own Wikipedia page.

                            Now the 2014 reboot, just titled Thief, that was so poorly received the it basically killed the series. It might have been a decent game, but it was not a good Thief game.

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                            The best (only good?) part of Thief 2014 was the asylum level. The devs should have just made a horror game from start to finish instead of the watered down Dishonored that we got.

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                              Ah, a comrade SA1 enjoyer 🤝

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                              and off topic, but why the hell do the SA2 treasure hunting stages only do radar for the "next piece"?? SA1 has the radar active for all 3 pieces, so there's way less back and forth

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                                FO3 is my favorite Fallout (haven't played 4 or 76 yet).

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                                Have you played 1, 2, or New Vegas?

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                                  I’m a die hard Diablo 1-2 fan (thousands of hours in D2) and I liked D3 well enough but maybe put in 250 hours… skipped D4 entirely and I have zero regrets hahaha

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                                  I'm waiting for PoE2.

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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.

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                                    I made a post not all that long ago about Lords of the Fallen after discovering it myself, only to find that nobody else seemed to like it as much as I did (which, fair; it's probably why I hadn't heard of it until recently).

                                    It's not as good as a Fromsoft game, or Lies of P, but, to me anyway, it's like the 2nd best soulslike that isn't a Fromsoft game. The major disappointments are minimal enemy variety, and the story is just kinda shit. The highlights are the combat and build variety, and unique aspects like tying item descriptions to your actual skills so you can't read some descriptions unless you invest in "knowledge" of it. It just sucks that you don't really get much from it because, again, the story is kinda shit.

                                    Also it's the only non Fromsoft soulslike I've played that has PvP. I got into Dark Souls and the rest because of the invasion system more than anything else, so LOTF having that was a big plus for me.

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                                      and off topic, but why the hell do the SA2 treasure hunting stages only do radar for the "next piece"?? SA1 has the radar active for all 3 pieces, so there's way less back and forth

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                                      I bet it was to artificially increase the difficulty of those levels, if not, I can't explain why. It is the single detail that makes the Knuckles/Rouge levels less enjoyable.

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                                        Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

                                        People only ever talk about Final Fantasy Tactics and dismiss any of the other games. However, going by the original release, Tactics Advance is by far my favorite. It's my favorite GBA game and at least in my Top 25 JRPGs, despite having played almost nothing else for the past 20 years. I like many of the things the game gets criticized for.

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                                        Probably my favourite gameboy game across all generations

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                                        • ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.comR [email protected]

                                          This is the one where we bully our little brother into going back to the world where he can't walk, right? 😛

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                                          That's the one! We can also bully him with snowballs in the opening scene, if we want to.

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