Yes, its that kind of thread again...
Doing it because I'm wondering what people's opinions and ideas are about certain games that get a bad rep from most people, but for some reason you like it and play it quite a lot.
I'll start with...
Fallout 4
I get why the game is hated. Not much roleplaying, with a huge missed oportunity with the dialogue. They not bothering with giving answers that would fit the factions, like becoming all "maxsony" like a true BoS member or just being a sarcastic asshole and not having the game lock itself out because only the right answer is good, was a huge blow to the game imo, along with the special and perk system being too simplified.
Yet, I still love it way too much. Why do people hate it so much? I don't believe it deserves as much hate as it does. It seems to get the kind of hate that people sometimes rate objectively good games with 0/10 because "they didn't like X's toes", except its more than a few people hating on the game that way.
It isn't great. It certainly isn't a New Vegas, but it isn't THAT bad either, right?
Deus Ex Mankind Divided
Haven't really played much of this yet but it was pretty fun. Why do people hate it though? Is it just because of the DLC fiasco before the game was even released?
Max Payne 3
Starbound, I guess
A lot of people would say that it's a lesser Terraria (and I agree for the most part), but I absolutely love the sandbox aspect of the game. I honestly don't care much about the story since I just kinda make up my own anyway, and I find it very fun with a bunch of mods and a couple of like-minded friends. Idk, I just like killing time by colonizing a bunch of planets and building random shit.
Same here. Max Payne 3 is my favorite in the series too gameplay wise. Euphoria physics and the gunplay overall is just too enjoyable.
2 and Kane & Lynch 1 as well. While they're pretty standard third person shooters, the settings, characters and setpieces are a great romp to go through. Especially in co-op. Fragile Alliance as well is a neat concept for a multiplayer mode.
Other games for me would be Lost Planet 2. As someone who loves Monster Hunter, a Metal Slug-like 3D Monster Hunter with guns and bugs is great fun. Especially in a full group co-op. The levels and visuals overall looks really good as well even today.
Homefront: The Revolution is heavily flawed and does get dull fast, but I think it's a nice looking Far Cry clone set in an urban environment. Good fun in short bursts.
Mafia 3. It launched badly and the takeover of territories is super repetitive. But the gunplay is really satisfying and the story is great.
Mafia III
Although love/hate is probably more accurate. I've played through it about 4 times (basically once every three months or so since it came out) and there's plenty of things that I hate about it, from the repetitive missions, how the game tends to force you into cars that aren't very fun to drive like trucks or vehicles that are super fragile, nothing happens when you shoot dead bodies, and it just feels unfinished. Playing this at launch was such a letdown. There was no vehicle customization, no changing Lincoln's outfit, no races, nothing. Sure, they've added a bunch of new features since then, but a lot of it is stuff cribbed straight from GTAV.
But, I still really enjoy coming back to it. They nailed the late 60s vibe, the story is engaging as hell, it's pretty good looking most of the time and the gunplay is pretty damn fun and feels super responsive.
It's just a shame that it becomes a grind.
I was 15 hours into Mafia 3 and I couldn't believe that I had barely even scratched the surface of it. It's fun for a while but it gets so repetitive it's absurd. Couldn't even get myself to finish it
I really, really enjoyed playing DmC but only ever heard bad things about it
Hatred was actually a lot of fun, and the devs fixed practically every complaint I had about it in the first few months.
Far Cry 2 (this is sort of skirting the line because it is practically a cult classic nowadays) was by far the best in the series
Empire Earth 2 is suprisingly solid (but nothing compared to its prequel) and I quite enjoyed it.
Atlas Reactor, criminally underrated.
Wildstar too. Though I haven't played it in a long time.
Way too many, most of them obscure despite being popular brand years ago, but still got more fun that modern games can't provide, both AAA and indie (so much hope in indie market but nobody do some genres for some reasons).
Fallout Tactics - I have soft spot for tactical games and this was just fun, plus cozy animations and sounds.
Might&Magic IX - worst M&M game, still fun to train your team, gather XPs, looting dungeons etc. To some degree - M&M X Legacy too.
Wizards&Warriors - huge b**ch to run on modern OS but still great adventure.
People really hated Deathwing but I love its whole atmosphere and pace.
The weapons in that game also feel sooo satisfying to use.
i unironically really enjoy ricochet and wish that people would play it and not laugh in my face when i suggest it
Condemned 2: Bloodshot
Manhunt 2
Alien Vs Predator (2010)
Deadly Tide
Murdered: Soul Suspect
Back To The Future: The Game
Singularity
MP3 was unpopular?
Despite the PC port of GTAIV being a train wreck it was still a lot of fun when it worked properly
I like gta3 the most. Might be nostalgia, but something about it, the city ans the radio that feels more homely.
Deus Ex: Invisible Wars. It was my first experience with any kind of Deus Ex games and yeah, the loading times, ammo system and general story is pretty hot garbage, but the environment and atmosphere was so cool, plus just doing the dumbest shit to get through areas, like throwing a body to block burning laser arrays so I can walk past, etc. I should try the original sometime...
Hotel Dusk: room 215/Last Window: the secret of cape west
When I went to a gamestore and asked if they had Last Window, they didn't even know what it was. They still had it in stock though.
Enjoyed Deus Ex: IW a hell of a lot. I actually completed it on OG Xbox back in the day. I know a lot of the enviornments were significantly smaller than the original, but I remember finding a lot of the levels really comfy and lived in. I like that the memory limitations worked in their favour (Well, at least to me).
The Surge ended up getting shit for the combat being a tad bit clunky and the third boss being mind-breakingly difficult, but it started growing on me for some reason, to the point where I ended up beating it three times over.
About DE - MD
I think the problem was optimisation and ending
or lack of them, to be precise
and Denuvo hate fest did the rest of the sale impact?
About FO4
that hate is nothing compared to FO3 one, where old Fallouts fans were enraged.
About game itself - it's ok if you like to explore, shoot and kill stuff. But everything else - dialogs, story, characters etc. is bad. Other RPGs did that better with worse sales and that might angered some folks.
the first Evil Within, all the way. janky, rushed, often astonishingly poorly-designed - nonetheless has some of my favorite gameplay, difficulty, atmosphere, environments and aesthetic.
also the actual main game sucks, but The Mercenaries in Resident Evil 6 is really great and not enough people talk about it
Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (and to a lesser extent, 1). While it's not as deep as the previous ones, and the story and the locale are somewhat boring, the gunplay is really fun, the coop is great and customizing your weapons and armor gives the game a nice incentive to keep playing and gun down bad guns in order to unlock more stuff to play with.
Oh fuck yeah bud
Mafia 3 was a surprise for me, I should reinstall it and sesh it again. I loved the period, story, and gunplay, but like others have said, it's "broken record" the game.
Battlefront 2015 I dug quite a bit actually. Lots of fun with homies, the sound design was amazing, and the worlds felt authentic. Shame it had such an ugly business model. I didn't buy the Battlefront 2, but my friend gave me his copy and I hardly play it. Doesn't feel right.
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
I don't love the game but I really liked the story as it developed, especially the twist that you're actually playing as an Etherial who has merged with/possessed Carver. The level design and enemies leave something to be desired for sure, and the game goes from 0 to 1,000 way too quickly, but I thought it was a fun game and it actually had some good characters. The alien you capture was especially good IMO.
Fallout 4
I think Fallout 4 is hands down a better game than Fallout 3 in every way. The art style isn't variations of shit brown and porridge grey, the companion characters are actually interesting, the city is far more interesting than Fallout 3's Super Mutant hive, and the factions actually have reasons for their actions. Not particularly well written reasons but better than "The battle to push the button first" from Fallout 3. Fallout 4 doesn't use the SPECIAL system very well, and the perk system isn't what I hoped it would be, but Fallout 3 didn't use the SPECIAL system well either and Fallout 3's perks are mostly fucking boring stat upgrades.
All that said, fuck radiant quests. They're just boring.
My, and everyone elses problem, was that the game didnt hold up well in any way. Its old, basically.
Darkspore wasn't bad at all if you take it for what it was, a casual Diablo clone. I also loved to death the art, effects and atmosphere the game had.
Too bad I won't ever experience that again because it was always-online and EA killed it.
A Cat in the Hat PS2 game. It was hard and until this day I haven't 100% it since one level has something hidden I can't find.
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Amnesia A Machine For Pigs
The Saboteur. The game was janky but goddamn the atmosphere was amazing.
GTA Online. I play it with a small group of friends on empty servers, there's fun to be had
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